Amsterdam, airport.

In the midst of the noisy crowd, a man and a woman were carrying suitcases to the airport.

"Why do you suddenly want to go to Boston to see your daughter?"

While the two were walking, Wendy asked Roberts with a little confusion, after the supermarket, Roberts suddenly said that he wanted to visit his daughter in Boston, although Roberts vaguely said that he missed his daughter, but Wendy understood Roberts's character, which was by no means a real reason.

He has always been worried about causing trouble for his daughter, and usually only sneaks to Boston every Christmas to reunite with his daughter for the night, and the rest of the time Wendy takes care of her, because Wendy is not a combatant, only in charge of logistics and intelligence, and her actions are not as noticeable as Roberts's.

However, in the face of Wendy's question, Roberts said vaguely.

"If Bruni could have come to the United States, there's a good chance that Boston would be where he would stay, and I'd like to meet my daughter. ”

In front of Roberts, Wendy glanced at him deeply, with something inexplicable in her eyes, Roberts was sure that her partner saw something, but in the end she didn't say anything, just nodded.

"Alright then, as you wish, let's go to Boston...... Someone who doesn't lie. ”

As she spoke, she walked into the airport with her suitcase, and behind her, Roberts didn't know how to explain it for a while, opened her mouth, and finally chose to catch up.

......

A few days later, Boston.

Surrounded by tall buildings, riding in Wendy's red convertible sports car, the scenery around you is flying by.

"How many cars do you have, and how much does the monastic earn?"

Glancing at the logo, which seemed to be Porsche's, Roberts vaguely remembered where he had seen an advertisement for this car, which seemed to be quoted for more than $2 million or how much.

"I'm not like somebody, I can feed and feed my family, but I still have to take care of a girl, how can I not think of a way to make money? ”

A faint voice came, and through the rearview mirror, although he couldn't see the face under the sunglasses clearly, Roberts could vaguely feel a trace of dissatisfaction.

She was upset that she had lied to her.

Although she didn't ask much, the cooperation between the two has always been that Roberts is in charge of the battle and Wendy is in charge of intelligence and logistics, and Wendy is far better than Roberts in terms of delicate thinking and observation.

She could feel Roberts' deliberate concealment of herself.

But she wouldn't argue and argue anything, as she had done in the past, to assist Roberts and never cause trouble for him, but that didn't mean she wouldn't be angry, and she would express her displeasure to Roberts in her own way.

Roberts wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to say it for a while.

Could it be that he was defensive of someone because of her words? Roberts himself could not understand why he chose to believe that person's words at that time, because he was worried about his daughter's prejudgment, or because of some other reason?

He didn't know.

"Be careful with Wendy, don't trust her. ”

The warning, as clear as if it had just happened, Roberts didn't understand why, but the man who called himself "Uberto Bruni" did.

But when he heard that sentence, Roberts's heart was unexpectedly not up and down, not surprised at all, as if this was the ......

Some kind of forgotten fact......

"Hmmm......"

In a trance, his head began to ache inexplicably, which made Roberts's thoughts pause.

He snorted and covered his head with his hands, his mind dizzy, and the inexplicable pain made it difficult for him to organize his thoughts.

His eyes began to darken, his hands and feet trembled unconsciously, and the surging sound of blood vessels sounded clearly in his ears...... In just a few seconds, this man, who had been trained since he was a child, who had fought all kinds of dark creatures for more than decades, and was not afraid of torture, was already oozing a fine layer of sweat on his forehead.

And Wendy, who was sitting in the driver's seat, also noticed Roberts's abnormality, and she reacted immediately.

“...... Headache...... Another seizure ......"

Roberts couldn't hear what Wendy was saying, and his brain was dizzy, and he could only vaguely feel the helplessness in the sound in his ears, the pills in his mouth that were then panicked by the soft hands, and the sense of disorganized space when he rampage with the car on the road......

Ten minutes later, Roberts was sitting on a seat in the center park, his head up and drinking mineral water, while Wendy sat next to him.

"Oh God, what a ...... Scared the hell out of me, after all these years, I thought you were fine. ”

Looking at Roberts beside her, her face was a little scared.

"I haven't committed it for almost ten years, who knew that it would suddenly happen......"

Roberts looked at the mineral water bottle in his hand and nodded.

"Yes, it's been more than ten years......"

Wendy said with deep feeling, and suddenly she stopped in the middle of her sentence.

Roberts noticed this, and he looked up, only to see Wendy secretly paying attention to his expression, and his face was still a little uneasy and apprehensive.

He shook his head, unexpectedly comforting Wendy.

"It's okay...... It's already in the past. ”

After looking at Roberts and confirming that he was indeed not angry, Wendy's original hanging heart gradually let go, in her impression, as long as she discussed related matters in the past, Roberts would become extremely silent, so that she tried not to mention this kind of thing again.

But she didn't notice that Roberts' hand holding the mineral water was quietly clenching, and there was unspeakable melancholy in his eyes......

Yes, it's been more than ten years, and it's time to let go.

He muttered in his heart.

More than a decade ago, Roberts married Betty, a British-American whom he met, and had a daughter. As a result, shortly after the birth of their daughter, the vampire clan, who got the news out of nowhere, suddenly attacked the secret residence of the two.

Roberts, who arrived in a hurry, managed to lead his wife and daughter to escape after a desperate fight with the vampire, but his newly married wife, Betty, died of her injuries, and only her daughter Joan survived......

After that, Roberts fell seriously ill, and even suffered from an inexplicable headache, and he couldn't find anything wrong with the doctor. This is also the reason why Roberts almost retired back then, because no one would want a mercenary who would have a headache at any time.

At that time, Wendy was only 16 years old, but he had already been his partner for several years with his excellent intelligence, and he had also witnessed the decline of a high-spirited warrior. In Roberts's most depraved moments, she always believed that the former "Iron Heart" would eventually rise again, and it was in these years that the former "Iron Heart" had a tendency to regain its former reputation.

"I don't know how Joan is now, it's rare to see each other a few times, the last time it seems to be two years ago, timid, looks timid......"

Roberts thought to himself.

"Then let's go to the clinic later, you wait here for a while, I'll contact the private clinic in Boston." ”

Seeing that Roberts was indeed fine, Wendy's face also smiled.

Since the park doesn't allow phone calls for quiet reasons, Wendy turns away to find a place to make phone calls, while Roberts leans back on a bench and closes his eyes.

Leaning back on the bench, beside the trees, and feeling the touch of the sun on his face, Roberts enjoyed this rare peaceful time......

"Boom!"

Suddenly, he felt something make a noise next to him.

When I opened my eyes, I saw that not far away, a few girls in fashionable clothes and smoky makeup were throwing pebbles in their direction for fun.

"Hey, homeless people aren't welcome here!"

In Roberts' sight, one of the girls held a baseball bat on her shoulder, and the boyish-looking girl in smoky makeup raised her head and said defiantly.

In all fairness, her appearance is quite delicate, and her youthful temperament and vitality are undoubtedly revealed in her body, but it is only the clumsy inferior smoky makeup that destroys that youthful temperament.

Vagabond?

Roberts looked at her in astonishment, then looked left and right, and there was really no one else, before he had to admit that she was talking about herself.

Am I like a tramp?

He felt a sense of absurdity in his heart, but he didn't realize that his bearded and unkept appearance did indeed look like a homeless man sleeping on the street, but Roberts didn't bother to pay attention to it, and continued to close his eyes.

Seeing that Roberts was ignoring her, the girl who seemed to be the leader immediately became angry, stepped forward, and raised her baseball bat to swing it down.

But the baseball bat was not towards the person, but towards the bench next to her, and it was clear that she was just trying to scare Roberts.

But suddenly, those eyes opened, and there was a cold and dead silence in the cold pupils.

"Fuck off, don't bother me. ”

The voice resounded in her ears, calm and terrifying, and even her heartbeat suddenly stopped, making her original downward movement stagnate, and she stopped in the air.

Seeing the girl stop, Roberts continued to close his eyes.

He wasn't worried about what the girl would continue to do, and if he couldn't even scare a little girl, he wouldn't be "Roberts with an iron heart".

"Big sister, what's wrong......"

A few girls not far away didn't see this scene, they just saw the eldest sister rushing over angrily, and then stopped inexplicably.

"You wait, wait for my eldest sister to come, and see how she cleans you up......"

It seemed that she couldn't get off the stage in front of a few little sisters, and the girl with smoky makeup was angry and angry, but that cold look successfully scared her, but she didn't dare to do anything more, so she had to shout while taking a few little sisters away.

Roberts scoffed at such rhetoric, and he even wondered if the little girl really had the guts to come back.

Then, within a few minutes, I heard a sudden sound of a motorcycle in my ears, and then a crisp female voice.

"Who dares to bully me? ”

Listening to that voice, Roberts faintly felt ...... Why is it familiar?

When I opened my eyes, I saw more than a dozen girls riding motorcycles rampant in the park, and when they got out of the car, some people took out baseball bats from the back seat.

The girl in the lead looked seventeen or eighteen years old, with thick smoky makeup on her face, long red hair, a black and white off-the-shoulder shirt, and a tattoo on her neck.

Beside her, the boyish girl was whispering something in her ear and pointing in Roberts' direction.

And when Roberts looked at her, she finally saw Roberts, and then, her face showed a look of surprise inexplicably, as if she had seen a prehistoric dinosaur.

"Joan, it's him who bullied ......"

The girl was trying to add some fuel to her fire, when she suddenly heard a loud voice.

"Dad......"

Looking at the eldest sister who was standing inexplicably in front of her, and subconsciously hid the baseball bat in her hand behind her and whispered, she couldn't help but turn her head to look.

I saw that the "homeless man" was looking at the eldest sister in front of him, and his face gradually became more and more difficult to look at, and even vaguely showed anger.

Roberts looked at his daughter, Joan, in front of him, and suddenly he felt as if his headache was about to happen again......