As it got late, Sean, who was under the moonlight, could only knock on the door, and finally stepped into the house in the angry and distressed eyes of the old lady, took off his hat and coat rack with one hand, put the cane together, and honestly moved to the sofa to wait for Anna's inquiry.

"I didn't go home last night because I was in the hospital?" asked Anna, who had closed the door, interrogating Sean with a cold face.

"Hmm. ”

"How?" said Anna, looking at Sean with a scrutinizing gaze, then grabbing her bandaged left hand and fumbling with it.

"It's just a simple conflict with the subject of the investigation. ”

Looking at Sean with his head buried, Anna's heart swelled with anger and scolded: "Simple conflict, can you dislocate your left hand and fracture your right hand? ”

At this time, Sean could only raise his head and look directly at Anna, even if he endured the wind and frost all year round, he could not leave too many traces on his beautiful face, only a few wrinkles that had precipitated the years, and his blue eyes were full of worry without gloom, and his long golden hair was still shiny, but he had dyed a little gray hair.

Looking at this adoptive mother who gave him all his affection, Sean couldn't help but feel sour, after all, he always worried her like a child who didn't grow up, and whispered: "I'm sorry, Anna, for worrying you." ”

"Sean, I know you have a lot of secrets in your heart, you are kind by nature and want to do everything well, in fact, you should learn to give up, because sometimes it seems that if you want to get both, the more you can't get anything, but no matter what choice you make, you will always be my pride. ”

After saying that, Anna gently hugged Sean, she never regarded Sean as a substitute for her own child, because Sean was her last ray of light in the darkness.

"I understand, Anna, but I can't..."

"So you're not mature enough..."Halfway through speaking, Anna obviously felt a slight tremor in Sean in her arms, and subconsciously patted him on the back, and instantly understood, "My big boy, you don't seem to have anything to tell me?"

"I was scratched on my back by a piece of glass. As he spoke, Sean took off his coat and waistcoat, and lifted his shirt to reveal his sturdy back wrapped in gauze.

While lifting the gauze to check the wound, Anna teased, "Then why didn't you tell me about the clothes?"

"You can find that too?"

"I picked out all your clothes, and the clothes were given by Sheriff Vivien?"

Sean looked at Anna with a strange smile and was about to explain, "It's because..."

"Needless to say, Mr. Monks came to visit yesterday evening, but since you were not there and left immediately, he told me a lot of things, and that Sheriff Vivien is a good girl. After saying that, Anna left Shaun, who was half-naked, and moved to the basement that Sean jokingly called the "magic laboratory".

After a while, Anna came out of the basement again, holding a cup that was still steaming, and at the same time, the air was filled with a bitter smell of herbs.

"Drink it up. ”

Looking at the dark green unknown liquid, Sean subconsciously asked, "Can you add some sugar?"

"You either drink it or I'll feed you. ”

Another fanatic.

As a last resort, Sean could only sigh, close his eyes, and after drinking the potion with a bitter face, he immediately covered his mouth and got up to go to the restaurant, crawled on the table and scooped a spoonful of sugar with a spoon before he felt that the bitterness in his mouth and stomach was slightly relieved.

As for why Anna disagreed with Sean's request to add sugar, it was not because sugar would destroy the effectiveness of the potion, but for the followers of the goddess of life, every herb is a gift from the goddess, and no matter how it is concocted, it cannot destroy the original taste of the herb, which is disrespectful to the goddess for believers.

Sean, who had eaten another spoonful of sugar, then returned to the living room and complained to Anna on the sofa: "This time it feels much more bitter than before." ”

Anna learned to drink her own green soothing tea elegantly, and said slowly: "On the basis of the original, I deliberately added muscle-growing grass and black leaves, which can speed up the healing of your bones and wounds, but the taste is a little more unpleasant. ”

"You can't come up with it on the fly. Sean, who was already bitter-faced, instantly felt a churn in his stomach when he heard it.

"It's okay, after all, when I first treated you, I was reading a book while experimenting, and generally speaking, people can't die. ”

Thank you to the goddess for keeping me alive, for Anna's irresponsible words, Sean couldn't help but praise the goddess of life in his mind, at this moment he really felt how difficult it was to live.

"By the way, Anna, the potion you concocted this time can't be any worse, after all, the scars on your body are the proof of a man. ”

"I should have put you on top of half a disfigured face, and you'd have to take this medicine for at least a week before the wound heals. ”

"Don't you..."Obviously feeling Anna's displeasure, Sean could only whisper begging for mercy, "Doesn't Anna have a potion that can instantly heal external injuries?"

"Yes, but I can't do it. ”

"Because of magic, isn't it?"

Hearing the word magic, Sean obviously noticed that Anna's pupils shrank, and it was obvious that she knew something, until then Sean thought about it, remembering that the potion that Anna had been taking herself was more unreasonable, at least it shouldn't just be configured by a peasant woman who believed in the goddess of life.

"Magic, Sean, you don't want to hear me tell fairy tales, do you? ”

Sensing Anna's concealment, Sean couldn't continue to ask anything, so he nodded and sat up to get dressed.

However, I don't know if it was the magic problem that I talked about before, which aroused Anna's vigilance, and at a glance she noticed the change in the talisman around the neck of Sean, who was dressing, and immediately said seriously: "What's the matter with your talisman, show me." ”

Sean, who wanted to refuse, looked at Anna's undoubted expression, so he could only stiffen his head, take off the metallic amulet around his neck and hand it to Anna.

Anna took the talisman handed over by Sean with both hands, glared at him fiercely, then held the talisman in her hand, put her hands together, crossed her fingers and clenched it, and prayed in a low voice:

"Merciful Goddess of Life,

Guardian of the Earth,

The nurturing of life,

The Divine Mother who created all things,

Thank you for giving God the power to fight evil,

...”

Soon after finishing her prayer, Anna asked in a stern tone: "Sean, if you still think of me as your mother, please tell me the truth, what happened to you yesterday." ”

"Anna, it's really just a simple investigation into an accident. ”

"You can't fool me, although you look good at disguise, but the talisman doesn't lie, and if you have encountered something that does not conform to natural common sense, in fact, I know no less than you, and I even know that someone has given you a sum of money to keep it secret. ”

"Rich..."

"Well, you say, I'll listen to your reasons for lying to me. ”

Knowing that he couldn't deceive Anna, Sean could only speak: "Okay, I have to start over with you." ”

Sean then tells Anna about his encounter with Vivien, his fight with Terry, and finally his meeting with Elf, which was appropriately cut down, after all, he was afraid of Anna's worries.

"So are you ready to join them?" Looking at Sean who nodded, Anna couldn't help but sigh and said, "Sean, I just hope you don't regret your choice. ”

"It's my choice. This time Sean didn't have any laughter and said solemnly.

"Hey, do you know why I didn't talk to you about your nominal adoptive father and brother?" Under Sean's puzzled gaze, Anna picked up the teacup, her eyes flashed with memories, and said, "My husband is a rude but well-mannered police officer, a rough but careful father, an irritable but gentle husband, I thought I would live this life happily." ”

"But fate played a joke on me again, when I was twenty-three years old, a man dressed in black with a silver pistol, 500 gold eagle coins and a medallion told me that my husband died to protect the city, and that he was a true hero... But for me I lost my husband, and for my ten-year-old son, I lost my father. ”

Speaking of this, Anna could no longer hide her sad look, tears flowed unconsciously, stopped Sean, who was about to comfort herself, and said again: "Later, my son grew up, and he joined that organization when he longed for his father, and then when I was thirty-five years old, my son also disappeared, and the same man in black gave me more gold eagle coins than before, and said the same thing, but what about me..."

Anna couldn't say the rest of the words anymore, now she couldn't cry, Sean, who had never seen this strong old lady so sad, subconsciously held Anna in her arms, still wet her clothes with her sad tears.

After crying for a while, Anna, who relieved her emotions, gently patted Sean's shoulder and said softly: "I'm fine, Sean, they will always be my pride." ”

"Anna, I..."

Before Sean could finish speaking, Anna shook her head, stroked his forehead and said, "Sean, follow your heart, I am not a shackle that binds you, and you are also my eternal pride." ”