In my coma, I began to snoop on other people's memories again.

I caught a glimpse of Bostetus, the mighty god of the sea, the man known as Poseidon, his thoughts, his memories, his life.

Young Bostetus walked down the stairs and stopped at the window of the big house, looking out at the dungeon, where soot fell from the sky again, on the roofs, on the ground, and on the trees, and everything was already dark, and now it was even worse.

It's like snow in ancient books, but Bostex understands that snow is white and soot is black. Snow turns into water, while soot doesn't disappear on its own.

Every year, a huge cinder pipe becomes clogged somewhere, causing the ash to leak, and the Sword and Shield Society repairs the hole, which also creates the coal ash weather unique to the dungeon.

In a big city like Pomzaar, this would not be the case. But over the "Coal Gate", the town where he lives, the Sword and Shield Society is unlikely to be well maintained.

His father and mother were arguing early in the morning.

The father shouted, "You should be grateful, slut!" If I hadn't eloped with you, you would have suffered with your family. ”

The mother cried, "I'd rather die with them, you bastard, you bastard!" ”

Coal Gate is a chaotic city, most of the people here are slaves, his father is an earl, his ancestors have been a big family in this town for generations, he and his mother met at the knight's academy, the two are in love, and the Helsing family does not agree. He eloped with her, escaped the Helsings, and returned to the Coal Gate.

The Helsing family is a family that supremacies the armed forces, and the parents spent a period of fear, and then, the Helsing family had an accident, and they were finally safe.

But safety does not equal happiness.

His father, who had been dominated by fear for too long, suddenly changed, and he gradually became grumpy, hooking up outside and fooling around with the young slaves in the village. When her mother learned of the tragic plight of her grandparents and siblings, she sighed and sullen all the time, which made her even more tired of her, and he began to speak to her in a vicious voice, and she would not hesitate to scold back.

No one knew where her mother came from, except for the servants at home, but they were all kind-hearted and would not talk nonsense to outsiders.

After the fight, the father left, and the mother found Bostetus.

She said, "My poor child. Then he hugged Bostetus and cried.

After crying, she will say, "Take up your sword and come out into the courtyard." ”

The smell of soot was still everywhere, and the air was still filled with dust. The mother coughed loudly and could not breathe for a while, and after a while she began to teach Bostex swordsmanship.

She is very strict and meticulous, and every movement must be done with precision and perfection. If Booz didn't do well, she hit him, scolded him, and made Booz remember with pain and shame.

Bostetus remembers that day, when his mother beat herself, she coughed while beating, she hit her hands very hard, her expression was fierce, and she scolded at the same time: "What a slut I am!" Why did you come to this place with this bastard? I'm cheap, and the seed I raise is also cheap, and this cheap breed still bleeds the blood of that bastard! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! ”

Booz knew she was drunk again.

But her strength became smaller and lighter, and her cough became heavier and worse.

Finally, Bostetus saw his mother lying on the ground, no longer coughing, motionless, blood running out of her nose and mouth.

She said her last words to Little Booz: "Forever.... Don't let them know you are.... Helsin. ”

Little Booz trembled and looked at the sky, the pipes leaked again, and soot fell from the sky, turning into black snow, turning into black mist, covering everything he knew.

....

At his mother's funeral, Booz Jr. saw his father's relatives, and they said, "What a pity." "Oh, Gambo, my heart is broken." The expressions are sadder than the other. But Bostex eavesdropped on their conversation, and they would say, "I knew that this woman of unknown origin would not live long." "Dead or not, Gambo can marry another one, after all, that woman didn't bring anything." "He can marry Miss Deva in the town next door, and her father is also a count, and he is powerful."

After all the relatives and friends were gone, Booz saw his father lying on his mother's grave and weeping silently.

That Miss Deva, the Count's daughter, was beautiful and young, but showed little Booz the greatest hostility and meanness a woman could show to any enemy. In her father's absence, she would sarcastically mock little Booz with all sorts of sharp and nasty words, make him do hard work, and even connived at her brother to humiliate Bostex in school.

Bostetus could resist, he had learned to read the blade, but his mother's last words prevented Bostetus from using force.

"Never let anyone know you're Helsing."

They tried to degrade Bostex and make his father disgusted with him, thus stripping Both of his inheritance. They found a very beautiful schoolgirl, seduced Bostetus, made him not want to be aggressive, made him crave her body, but never got it—unless he was willing to indulge in alcohol, addicted to drugs.

Bostex was easily fooled, and when he got drunk, he got the girl he wanted, which made him even more addicted.

They began to persuade Bostetus to use a medicine smuggled from the magic capital, greed, which was expensive and addictive.

Bostex would have become a complete addict, but that day, a man dressed in red appeared in front of him.

It was strange that this man was so conspicuously dressed and stood in front of everyone, but no one seemed to notice him except Bostetes. Much later, Bostex knew that this was an extremely rare telepathic blade.

The man in red fed Bostetus another medicine that freed him from drunkenness and addiction. He also took Bostets to see the truth, and when Bostets saw the girl he loved dearly lying under the covers with several of Deva's younger brothers, he cried.

The man in red said: "These idiots are also poor worms, they have sucked too much soot, they have diseases in their lungs, and they are thankful that they can live past the age of fifty, but they do not forget to destroy the lives of others."

You have two options. First, go up and kill them all, and put yourself in prison, ruining your future. Second, patience, when this has never happened, and use this as an opportunity to make yourself incredibly powerful. ”

Bostetus turned around and left.

The man in red led Bostex to the top of the coal mountain, and they looked higher, the hole in the coal pipeline, on the hill three kilometers high, where no one had ever been except the maintenance workers, who had gone up in coal-burning cars.

The man in red said, "Let's climb over there and look at the pipes." ”

Bostetus shook his head with a shudder.

"Are you scared?"

"My mother was choked to death by soot."

The man in red smiled: "Ah, what a perfect meaning, what an extreme coincidence." The world is so dark, so bloody, that even the snow has turned black. Child, this is the fate of the Helsings, we hunt down foreign objects in the darkness and cleanse ourselves from our sins with their blood, until we too become foreign objects. ”

Bostetus remembered his mother's last words, became vigilant, and asked, "Are you.... Is it Helsing? ”

"Yes."

The men in red were not as good as Bostex thought, at least they climbed hard, but there were a few times when little Booz was in distress and was rescued by the man in red.

When they came to the cave where the pipe was, condescendingly looking at the dungeon, little Booz asked, "Hersin.... It's not a big deal. ”

The man in red replied, "In essence, I am no longer Helsin, and you can think of me as a kind of 'earth evil'. There is an etheric suppressor that seals high-level demons in the Sword and Shield Society, and even I, even Ye Geli, don't want to risk this suppressor. ”

Bosi asked, "Who is Ye Geli?" ”

Man in Red: "My master and boss." ”

Booz Jr.: "Is she stronger than you?" ”

The man in red smiled, "No one is stronger than me, but because of the contract, I have to listen to her. Instead of wasting time on this topic, he pointed to the distance and said, "This is the highest place in the entire dungeon, and the closest to the ground." From here, you can see the lights of Bonza and the Imperial City all the way. ”

Even so, Booz felt that it was all ugly and deformed, like a man-made freak that people did not realize the weirdness of this freak and kept reinventing it. In this ridiculous world, only giant freaks can survive. And it's these many, many gigantic freaks that form this ridiculous world.

The man in red asked, "What do you think?" Bostethus? ”

Little Boss said, "You saved me, or I would have been a drunkard, a waste." I thought, I was like the whole dungeon, the whole Sword and Shield Society, I wasn't normal, something was wrong, but the place where I lived wasn't normal, something was wrong. I think... If you can save me, shouldn't I be able to save this place too? ”

The man in red said, "You are not seriously ill, so you can be cured, and you are the only one I can sav." Certain diseases, once spread throughout the human body, the entire ... The world, do you know how to save it? ”

Bostetus stared at the face of the man in red and shook his head silently.

The man in red said, "Your body will continue to heat up, to forty degrees Celsius, or even higher, and burn those toxins to death. ”

"But what if... If you burn too much, your body will not be able to stand it and will be burned to death, just like ... My mom was like that. ”

The man in red said, "Yes, that's also a way. If you are terminally ill, it is better to have a catastrophe, destroy everything, and start over. ”

Bostetus suddenly felt that everything under the mountain was small and fragile, and that if he slapped his hand down, with a snap, he could flatten everything and burn everything.

This was undoubtedly his delusion, but he felt that as long as the man in red was by his side, he could do it.

The man in red said, "I will teach you to read the blade, which is considered the inheritance of the family." You have that kind of talent, and there will always be weirdos like us in the Helsing family for generations, who are a cut above everyone else in the Sword and Shield Society, but more deviant than everyone else. Van Helsing, me, Hawke.... And you. Our blood will not be broken, and we will eventually leave our mark on this world. ”