The village was in an uproar. When the great river king had shown itself after decades of inactivity, obviously even the faraway village had seen this with how large this monster was.
After this, as the residents were starting to panic, suddenly this massive monster was cut in half. As it was quite far away, the people had hard time seeing what had actually happened. But a few people with good and very keen eyesight had noticed this super strong monster getting bisected with their own eyes.
So quickly, the villagers got together and held a discussion. During this, they found out that five children from the village were missing.
Then by interrogating another child who was friends with the missing ones and had not went to play with them today because he needed to help his mother out, the leaders of the village found out that these naughty children were actually going to the riverside to play with a ridiculous excuse.
