A little over a month later, on the eve of Halloween in 2008.

Charles. Francis. Xavier opened his eyes, and the sunlight outside the window shone through the window screen, shining on his face, making it difficult for the professor to fall asleep again.

Besides, the elderly have less sense.

He sat up from the bed, washed with a cane, went to the bathroom, then walked to the closet and picked out a set of clothes for himself.

It's been a bit cold in New York lately, so the professor added a scarf to himself.

The professor's figure is still very good, although he has been in a wheelchair all these years, but due to healthy living habits, he still maintains a fairly good physical fitness in his old age.

He wears a blue-gray suit and a loose shirt with a scarf hanging around his neck and hanging low at his sides.

Coupled with a black, delicately shaped cane, this bald old man also has his own temperament.

Speaking of which, when the professor was young, he was a real swinger.

Although his career was repeatedly interrupted by the demon girl Ruiwen who was with him at the time, when the professor was in school, there were many little fans.

The professor walked out of the room with his cane, and he stood at the door of the next room, and as he had done for the past half a month, he reached out and knocked on the door, and said:

"Erik, are you up?"

"Nope! Leave me alone! ”

A slightly irritable voice came from the room, making the professor can't help but show a helpless expression.

He stood at the door, and as he continued to knock, he said:

"Get up quickly, don't sleep, your children will come to see you later."

"I told them not to come."

The voice in the house rang out again:

"I'm in a bad mood and don't want to see them... Hell, Charles! I'm in a nursing home, can't you let me clean up for a while? ”

"Okay, okay."

Professor Charles, who was on a cane, raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and shouted to the people in the house:

"Then you at least have to get up for breakfast, right? Look at the time, Raven is coming. ”

The people in the house stopped talking, and after a few moments, the sound of rustling and getting dressed sounded, and then the door opened, revealing the indifferent face of Magneto Eric.

He was transferred from the isolated prison half a month ago.

It was Merlin who personally approved it, and it was immoral to confine an incapacitated old man in a cell.

And he's been locked up in a remote island prison for years.

So Merlin sent him to a Green Park nursing home in New York, not entirely free, of course.

Eric has a monitor on his ankle and he can't leave the nursing home, where there are several agents dedicated to Magneto's incarceration.

Eric. Lancheel was initially happy with the transfer of incarceration, as it was much more comfortable to serve his sentence in a nursing home than in prison.

But the day after he moved here, he had a new neighbor.

Professor X Charles, who had just completed the soul-cutting operation, was also sent here by Merlin, and he didn't know if it was a bad taste, so Merlin specially arranged them together.

The old friends, who have been fighting each other for many years, started their retirement career in this new way.

They are all ordinary people now, and they are all incapable.

It's all old men, and they can't even raise their fists to fight.

"Let's go, let's eat."

The professor smiled at his old friend, and he patted Eric on the shoulder.

The latter snorted, ignored him, and walked out on his own.

Aside from his terrible background as Magneto, he's a pretty old man.

Magneto wears a black coat with a gray sweater underneath and an octagonal hat on his head, his pale hair neatly combed, and he also carries a cane.

The two old men walked slowly and talked.

Most of the time the professor was talking, Magneto was listening, occasionally retorting a few words, but most of the time, he was silent.

Years of incarceration have made Magneto accustomed to this kind of reticence.

Ten minutes later, the old friends were sitting in the garden of the Green Garden Nursing Home and playing chess.

This nursing home is almost one of the best nursing homes in New York, and there are many young and beautiful caregivers to help the elderly with their daily lives.

But neither Professor X nor Magneto needed their help, and they didn't dare to ask them to help... Once a young girl appears in their room, it can have very bad consequences.

There is a woman who neither of them can afford to mess with, and she has been taking care of them for half a month, and at the same time monitoring them.

"You're making a mistake!"

Eric held his cane in one hand and the queen's chess in the other, and proudly said to Charles, who was sitting opposite him:

"It's going to be a terrible failure!"

"Really?"

The professor was unimpressed, he watched his old friend move the queen's chess, and after the drop, a smile flashed on the professor's gentle face.

He calmly flicked another chess piece, and the situation on the chessboard was immediately turned upside down.

“check！”

The professor whispered.

Magneto's smug expression froze suddenly, and his eyes widened as he looked at the chessboard in front of him.

After a few minutes, he glared at his old friend, then threw the pieces in his hand on the chessboard, and said:

"It's boring..."

"You're still the same as before, Eric, and you're in a hurry to do anything."

The professor rearranged the chessboard and said slowly:

"You could have spotted that trap, but your desire to win blinded you, and you were willing to take risks, just like when we were young in Germany, you haven't changed at all."

"Are you mocking me? Charles. ”

Eric was on his cane, and he said in a cold voice:

"A man who was almost controlled and ruined the world, and the face said I... I heard that you fought with them on the moon? Almost killed Merlin with a magnetic field? ”

"That's in the past."

The professor apparently didn't want to reminisce about being manipulated by the onslaught, but Eric didn't give up.

The stubborn old man tapped his cane on the ground a few times, and he said dissatisfiedly:

"You've been fighting me for so many years, I thought you were firm enough, but look at you, Charles!"

"A split personality defeated you, you were too weak, much weaker than when you were younger, you really disappointed me."

"Eric!"

The professor whispered:

"Don't talk about that, can you play chess well?"

"Hmph."

Magneto snorted, but did not continue to say these things, he picked up a chess piece again, moved to a certain position on the chessboard, he stared at the chessboard, and said:

"But you're still alive... After going through such terrible things, you are still alive. I should perhaps thank Merlin and his friends. ”

"So, you're actually glad I saved my life, right?"

The professor smiled, his eyes full of the tenderness of sincere friendship, and he said:

"Are you feeling guilty? Erik, the onslaught was born because of you, are you using this way to say sorry to me? ”

"You want to be beautiful!"

Magneto glared at the professor, and he said in a cold tone:

"A coward who can be defeated by himself, and has the face to make me apologize?"

"If it weren't for the fact that you just had surgery, I would have picked up my cane and beaten you! As the leader of the mutant world, you're so unlucky! What a shame! ”

"Well, whatever you say."

The professor happily moved the chess pieces, and he said:

"I know you care about me, and I can't sense your mind anymore, but I can feel... Well, Raven is here. ”

The two old men looked up the next moment, and they saw a beautiful woman wearing a long black dress, beautiful long hair, sunglasses, and a scarf, carrying two lunch boxes into the garden.

That's Raven...

Witch.

She was also released, of course, it was she who took the initiative to receive the leech virus injection, in order to take care of these two old men who did not let her worry.

She would rather lose her strength.

"Did you take your medicine on time today?"

Raven sat beside the two old men, she took out her lunch box, distributed the prepared dishes to them, and while watching the two old men eat, she asked:

"Especially you, Eric, who have to take asthma medicine every day."

"I'm not a child."

Eric glared at Raven, and as he rolled up the pasta and put it in his mouth, he said:

"You still have a job, what's the point of running here every day."

"It's the same whether I go to work or not."

Raven, who looked to be in her 20s, took a lady's cigarette from her pocket, lit it, and puffed the smoke, she said:

"Anyway, Merlin arranged it, just so that I don't run around... The cautious guy. ”

"Understand him, Raven."

The professor took a spoon and stirred the fragrant soup, and he said to Raven:

"Merlin is also forced to do so, your reputation among mutants is too high, and because of your maverick in the past, you have provoked a lot of enemies, once it is known that you have lost your ability, then many people will come to seek revenge."

"Yes."

Eric also said worriedly:

"Charles and I are both ordinary people, and we can't even beat the street gangsters now..."

"We can't protect you anymore, you have to protect yourself, and honestly, I'd rather you stay in a remote prison than you show up like you do now..."

"At least no one will harm you there."

"I'm much better than you two, two old men who always think too much."

Raven snorted, and she said:

"I've lost my ability, but my martial arts are still there, I can protect myself, so don't think about it... Take good care of yourself here. ”

The Shapeshifter stretched out her hands and stroked Charles and Eric's cheeks, and she whispered:

"Well, look at you, you're all old..."

"But you're still young, Raven."

Professor Charles smiled and said:

"Don't waste time on the two of us, you can still enjoy your life, and maybe you can meet the man you like."

"I've met it a long time ago."

Raven snuffed out the cigarette butt, and she whispered:

"And it's two..."

"I'm much luckier than the average woman, and I don't want anything anymore."

The atmosphere between the three of them became quiet at this moment, and under the warm rays of the sun, the three old friends, whose relationship was very complicated and could not be described in 10,000 words, sat in the garden, eating and talking about the past.

It's wonderful...

It's so beautiful that you can't bear to bother it.

But there's always a bad guy.

Now, for example, after the two old men had finished eating, a slightly noisy voice sounded outside the garden:

"Old man! I've come to see you! ”

Hearing this, Magneto's expression immediately became gloomy.

Moments later, Pietro and Wanda in denim outfits walked in, Lorna following them.

Outside the garden, Merlin is talking to Crystal, and they don't bother with the reunion of a complicated family.

"Didn't I tell you not to come?"

With a gloomy face, Eric said to Pietro and Wanda:

"You shouldn't have anything to do with me, you have your own life to go to, the closer you get to me, the troubles of mine will find you..."

"Why are you so disobedient!"

"Then can we really leave our father in a nursing home and ignore it?"

Quicksilver is a young man who confronts his old father and says to Magneto:

"Maybe you're a son of a bastard who has abandoned his wife and children, but we're not."

"Pietro!"

Wanda glared at his brother fiercely, Pyro was still very afraid of his sister, he stood aside and didn't speak, but Magneto's expression also became a little sad.

Probably because of the loss of strength, he became a real old man, and once a person gets old, he becomes gentle and sensitive.

"Petero, Eric also had a hard time back then..."

Professor Charles tried to play the round, but was interrupted by Magneto's outstretched hand, who looked up and said to Wanda and Pietro:

"What happened back then, it was me who was wrong..."

"I'm a doom-ridden person, I chased extreme hatred too much when I was younger, I caused a lot of trouble, I tried to protect my loved ones, but every time it hurt the people I cherished."

He said to Wanda:

"I put you in Sokovia, I hope you won't be involved in my troubles, I'm always in trouble, I've lost Anja, I don't want to lose more."

"Including you, Lona."

Eric turned to look at his youngest daughter, and Lorna turned away from him.

Although she already knew her background from Wanda, Lorna had lived with Merlin for so many years, and she didn't have Magneto's place in her memory at all.

It's hard for her to admit that she has a father.

After all, she was heartbroken by her former adoptive parents.

Seeing that Magneto wanted to reach out and touch her hair, Lorna immediately took a step back.

The action brought Eric's outstretched hand to a halt.

"Ugh..."

Looking at Lorna's expression like a stranger, Magneto withdrew his hand in a lonely manner, he leaned on his cane, and whispered:

"It's all my own doing... Go away, and don't come to see me again. ”

"The past is gone."

Wanda crouched down, and she reached out and grabbed Magneto's cold fingers.

She looked at her old father, who, after becoming an ordinary person, had lost his magnetic body activation, and Magneto had not much time left.

"It's the present that matters, and the future..."

"Father, you still have time, and Lorna still has time... If you feel indebted to her, then maybe you should spend the rest of your time making it up to her. ”

Wanda beckoned to Lorna, the green-haired girl hesitated, and she glanced back at Merlin outside the garden, who nodded to Lorna with her hands in her pockets.

Reluctantly, she stepped forward, and she looked at Magneto.

Eric's eyes were a little moist, an expression that Magneto, who had been tough all his life, almost never revealed.

"Wanda is right, Erik, you still have time..."

Professor Charles also stood up, taking Lorna's hand in one hand, and then reaching out to his old friend, who gritted his teeth and let Charles put his hand on the back of Lorna's hand.

The fluctuation of the familiar magnetic force made Magneto take a deep breath, he wiped his eyes, and said to Lorna:

"I know you hate me, girl, but I know you have someone you want to protect."

"Do you crave power? Would you like to learn from me how to use your powers? I'll teach you if you want, we still have time..."

"Maybe not much, though."

Magneto is worthy of Magneto, and he can see Lorna's desire at a glance.

Lorna looked up at Magneto's power, she frowned and thought for a few seconds before nodding at Magneto.

"Well, I want to learn..."

"But don't try to trick me into calling you Daddy!"