I was transported from Lobotomy Corporation to another world.

In a forest, there was a wooden cabin where four people lived: a woodcutter/stepmother, and a brother and sister.

Because of poverty and the impending starvation, the woodcutter's stepmother harbored malicious intentions and decided to have the woodcutter abandon his two children in the wilderness.

The woodcutter was very reluctant, but it was better for four people to starve to death than for two, so he finally agreed with great difficulty.

The two siblings had overheard everything from next door, and the older brother came up with a plan.

On the way to chop wood the next morning, the woodcutter took his brother and sister along, and the brother kept throwing pebbles on the road as they walked.

Holding his younger sister's hand with his right hand, he carefully dropped the pebbles from his pocket with his left.

The woodcutter called the brother and sister to wait somewhere while he went to chop wood.

After the woodcutter had been gone for a while, the sound of chopping wood could be heard again.

Actually, it was a small device made by a woodcutter, using wood and some rope, a device that could produce the sound of chopping wood.

The two siblings gradually fell asleep to the sound of chopping wood. When they woke up again, it was already afternoon. The younger sister panicked, while the older brother followed the pebble he had dropped home.

When the two siblings returned home, their stepmother scolded them for being too late. The woodcutter wept, already regretting his actions and no longer wanting to abandon the two children.

But this idea only lasted for two weeks or a few days; the reality of not having enough to eat at home remained.

Under his stepmother's influence, the woodcutter agreed to abandon the two children again.

To prevent her brother from going out to collect stones in the middle of the night, the stepmother locked all the doors.

The brother and sister overheard everything. The brother wanted to go outside to collect stones, but the door was locked...

the next morning

The stepmother simply gave each of the two siblings a small piece of bread, and then took them to the forest.

The older brother broke the bread in his hand into small pieces and threw them on the ground, dropping pieces every few steps.

Once they were almost at home, the stepmother told them to stay there while she went to work.

The older brother had run out of bread, so the younger sister shared a small portion of her bread with him.

Their stepmother left, and the two siblings fell asleep because they had walked a long way.

When they woke up again, it was already night. The older brother led his younger sister to try and find the bread they had scattered along the way.

But they couldn't find it no matter what they did, even after searching all night. In reality, the bread along the way had already been eaten by the birds in the trees.

I searched from night until morning, and then spent the entire day searching to get home.

I endured the hunger and slept for another day, and then the third day arrived.

Just as the two were feeling thirsty and hungry, they saw a white bird singing on a branch.

The two siblings were attracted, but the white bird seemed to fly away halfway through its song.

The two siblings chased after a flying white bird, and then saw a candy house in the distance.

The exterior is made of chocolate pancakes, various cookies, and sweets.

The two siblings each grabbed a large biscuit and started eating it. The witch who owned the house heard the noise came out and saw the two siblings.

The witch warmly welcomed the two siblings, inviting them inside and offering them not only food but also a comfortable bed.

The brother and sister followed the witch and found two comfortable beds, and then stayed at the witch's house for the next few days.

I initially thought the witch was a good person, but in reality, she was a wicked woman who ate children. She fed and clothed the siblings simply to fatten them up.

But the witch's eyesight wasn't very good, and whenever she reached out to check if the two siblings had anything to eat...

Another person standing nearby would then take out a wooden stick and carefully hand it to the witch.

The witch touched the wooden stick and thought that if she still hadn't gained weight, she would give up.

As time passed, the witch could no longer bear it and decided to eat the two siblings today.

The two siblings used a little trick to deceive the witch, and the younger sister kicked the witch into the oven.

The witch was then burned alive, and the two siblings, carrying the gold and silver treasures from the house, left and found the woodcutter's home.

The stepmother was dead, and the woodcutter embraced his two children who were carrying money home, weeping with joy.

This is a really long story...

This is the original version; some of the settings are really illogical.

So what kind of story did Red experience?

The town was experiencing famine, and people were unable to afford to raise their children.

Many people trick their children into buying candy, but actually intend to throw it in the trash.

These two pairs of siblings were actually the same; they used the same scam and ended up in the same dump.

Because the famine had become so severe that cannibalism had taken place, the parents, in their last vestige of reason, did not want to eat their own child.

Out of sight, out of mind, so she wanted to abandon the child. She figured that as long as the child wasn't around, she wouldn't starve to the point of being unable to resist eating her own child.

But how long can a child survive if they're lost? In a garbage dump, they'll either starve to death or be eaten by other children.

A brutal, bloody, and stinking battle scene might attract a child's natural attraction to sugar.

It's also possible that their parents lured them to the garbage dump with candy and then abandoned them there.

Rumors have spread in the garbage dump that there's a candy house there. The children, unsure whether it's true or not, all believe there really is a candy house.

The battle became even more intense and bloody, and the two abandoned siblings, having come into contact with the failed potion created by the alchemist...

The two siblings underwent a physical transformation and became more ruthless, ultimately becoming the two victors in the battle royale.

They then found the so-called candy house, which turned out to be just an abandoned, ordinary, dilapidated house.

But inside lived a female mage, who had been abandoned—or rather, discarded.

This house was the resting place she had finally found, and the two siblings believed that an evil witch lived inside.

So they killed and ate the female mage, then went into the so-called candy house and used plates, pieces of wood, or some furniture as candy.

Eat these so-called candies... If a new child comes along, they'll go out and get some dessert.

Red closed the fairy tale book; he had never read it before.

Fortunately, the fairy tale book contained the original story, and Red quickly flipped through it and roughly understood the plot.

Red, as if possessed, walked out of the house to see if there were any bread crumbs on the road.

Unfortunately, Red found no breadcrumbs; all he could hear were the birds chirping on the junkyard floor.

Reed returned to the house and looked at the mess it was in.

In a corner of the house, there were still some severely mauled children's corpses piled up.

Red looked at the fairy tale book in his hands, and then read a fairy tale based on his own experiences.

Red discovers two things in common between the two different versions of the fairy tale: Red only sees three words in this particular fairy tale book.

[Poverty] [Famine] [Cannibalism]

Both the original and modified versions contain the words "poverty" and "famine."

In the original story, the stepmother and the woodcutter abandoned the child due to poverty and food shortages.

In this modified version, due to a severe famine in the town, the protagonist chooses to abandon the children in a garbage dump using a lie about candy.

Famine occurs only if there is poverty, so both versions include poverty and famine.

And cannibalism: In the original version, the witches ate people; in the modified version, the famine was so severe that people resorted to cannibalism.

Red was born in a back alley and keenly observed these three words.

Red sighed, but it was unclear for whom he was sighing—for the two pairs of siblings? Or for this so-called fairy tale?

Unbeknownst to Red, he had put the fairy tale book into his backpack.

Looking at the dilapidated house, he decided to search it...