Chapter 17: Mother
It turns out that otaku are creatures that tend to be more emotional than rational. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info And when they feel emotionally shocked, they often choose to retreat into their own nest for a while - just like Ian now.
Even he didn't know how he returned home after being filled with anger that day, rushing back and forth among the demons and slaughtering wantonly.
The memory of that time was blank......
All Ian knew was that when he woke up again, he was already lying on the cot in his room, and it was already noon the next day.
Still reluctant to get up, the boy lay on his back on the bed, he raised his right hand and stared at it for a long time, his mind seemed to return to the moment when he killed for the first time yesterday.
Obviously, I made the most correct choice, why is it so difficult for me to let go?
Obviously she did the most cruel thing, why did she say to herself that she was very gentle?
He couldn't imagine that from a world with a perfect legal system, other time-travelers were as insipid about killing people as if they were eating and drinking. This law-abiding, kind and cowardly young man was indeed as Fei'er said, and although he seemed calm and reliable at that time, he was probably even worse than Camilla......
"Ian, how long are you going to lie down?" the mother, who couldn't stand her son who was lazy in bed, knocked on the door outside Ian's room.
This pulled Ian's thoughts back, and the boy shook his head and whispered self-deprecatingly, "I've done everything, I've killed everything, what are you still pretending to be at this time......?
He patted his cheeks with both hands to make himself more sober: "Mom, I'll get up right away!"
"Really, it's time to have lunch. The mother complained.
"Huh?" Ian suddenly reacted, "Mom, didn't you go to the store at noon?"
"I'm not open today. ”
"Why?"
"It's not because when you kid came back yesterday, he looked like a dead man!"
A warm current welled up in his heart, Ian got up gently, put on the new clothes that his mother had put on the side of the bed at some point, and opened the door: "Sorry, Mom, I was too tired yesterday and ..... before I knew it."
"Okay, don't lie to me, who do you think you gave birth to?" The mother standing outside the door saw that her boy was finally willing to come out, and pointed his head with her right index finger, and her tone suddenly softened: "Yesterday, something bad happened, right?"
"Nope. ”
"Really?"
"Not really!"
"If you don't want to say it, forget it. Yelena turned her head and sighed, her own kid really likes dead ducks with hard mouths, who is this character like?
"Mom, do you have anything to eat?" After his mind stopped thinking nonsense, Ian noticed that hunger rushed up.
"It's on the table, I was going to get you up for lunch. ”
Hearing his mother's words, Ian ran into the restaurant with a cigarette, and when he saw that the table was full of dishes that suited his taste, he knew that this must have been specially prepared by his mother, who was aware of his frustration.
The original otaku suddenly felt a burst of happiness: "Haha, sure enough, my mother loves me the most!"
"Don't flatten your mouth, go wash first!Also, drink this, the previous medicine has arrived!" Seeing her own kid's small appearance, Elena had a headache. She handed over a potion, then pushed Ian into the bathroom.
"Yes, Mother!"
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Ian stood in front of the sink, and in the mirror was a handsome young man with black hair and black eyes.
The half-length hair is draped vertically, a pair of sword eyebrows are straight and slightly oblique, the eyes are slightly slender, with a straight nose and slightly thin lips, the whole face looks handsome and attractive, but also reveals a faint sense of majesty and distance.
If it was in the previous life, this would undoubtedly be a handsome face that is very in line with the aesthetics of the Chinese people. However, in this world, when he thinks that he is almost unaccosted in school, Ian feels that perhaps the aesthetic concepts of the two worlds are different.
"Sure enough, the color changed back. Looking at himself in the mirror with black hair and black eyes, a wry smile crossed the corner of Ian's mouth: "I always feel like I'm pretending to be my fugitive." ”
Although his mother has always claimed that he is a mixed race between sinners and ordinary citizens, Ian has inherited the black hair and black eyes that belong only to sinners. Fortunately, his mother, who was also a criminal, was a very clever apothecary and invented a camouflage potion that could change the color of their hair and pupils for a period of time, allowing the two to live as ordinary citizens of the Empire. Otherwise, it would not be easy for a couple of orphans and widows of sinners to survive in this world.
"Is it racist?"
With such a taunt, Ian drank the potion in his hand. Then he quietly looked at the young man's hair and pupils in the mirror, and they turned silver and blue at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The effects of this camouflage potion can last up to a month, and it seems that only one's mother can make it. At the same time, out of her attachment to a certain man, she created a camouflage potion that could only transform hair and eyes into silver white and pale blue.
The boy washed up briefly, walked into the dining room, sat down in his usual chair, picked up his knife and fork, and began to enjoy the rare special dishes.
Looking at the big and colorful appearance of her young man, Yelena's heart suddenly relaxed a lot. Ian came home yesterday with such a pale face that she couldn't sleep well all night last night, and today she didn't even have a subsistence pharmacy.
"Ian. She sat down across the table and picked up the same knife and fork: "I know you have something on your mind, and I won't force you to say it now, but when you want to say it, you must tell your mother." ”
After a pause, Ian nodded, and replied vaguely "um", but in his heart he thought that even if he killed himself, he probably wouldn't be able to take the initiative to say it.
Unless he wants to scare his mother, who lives in a society governed by the rule of law, how can he say something like "I killed someone".
"Mom, you won't be opening the store today anyway, I'll go shopping with you in the afternoon." In an attempt to divert his mother's attention, Ian diverted the subject.
"Oh, that's a good idea, you're going to start school tomorrow, so you should have something to prepare when you have time this afternoon. Elena smiled as if she saw Ian's thoughts: "However, why do you suddenly want to go shopping with me today?"
"Of course, I think that the number of times I have accompanied my mother in the past is too little, and I want to be filial to my mother!" said the original otaku with a sudden raise of eyebrows, and said in a very exaggerated and funny way.
"Really?" said Yelena with a smile.
"Of course it's true!" Ian nodded with the utmost affirmation.
"So......" Elena narrowed her eyes and said with a smile along the way, "Let's go buy you clothes!"
"Well, why, why clothes? Aren't there so many other things I can buy?"
Ian immediately felt like a slap in the face, he actually forgot his mother's obsession with dressing him, and the fear of being used as a fitting rack by his mother in the past came back to his heart.
"Because you're going to start school tomorrow, of course you'll have to wear new clothes!" Seeing Ian's face turn pale, Elena's eyes narrowed more and more.
"Isn't there a school uniform?" Ian clung to the last straw.
"How can that kind of thing reflect our family's Ian's good figure?" Although it can't be seen from the outside, Yelena, as a mother, knows that her son has an excellent figure.
"But on the first day of school, ......," the teenager tried to resist with the school rules.
"It's okay, Erica said yesterday when she came to buy potions that Ian can wear whatever clothes to school. ”
The boy who lost his excuse suddenly wilted: "Why do strange things always happen when I don't know." ”
"So, since Ian brought it up yourself, then accept your fate. ”
"Yes~~~"
The boy replied in an extremely bitter tone.
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After lunch, the two went out after hurriedly packing up their plates.
As is customary, Elena takes Ian out in a big circle, passing in front of the "neighbors" who mistake the two for siblings, before heading to the high street. And whenever he sees his mother's childlike behavior, Ian often tries his best to cooperate while laughing secretly, staging a scene of sister and brother traveling.
For more than 50 years, the Northern Regions, the smallest of the five major human domains and only one city, have completely transformed from a purely military fortress and a frontline base into a prosperous commercial city. Walking down the bustling commercial streets of the lower northern region, Ian couldn't see what this military fortress used to look like.
The teenager was dragged by his mother to run back and forth in various clothing stores, playing the role of fitting racks and shelves. Although he was obviously suffering from "suffering", when he saw his mother's elated expression, he faintly felt that it was worth it.
It's also worth it to fight the demons outside the circle.
Humanity uses a wall and a magic circle to separate the prosperous world they have created from the calamity, naively believing that as long as they do not see the calamity, then the calamity no longer exists.
But no matter how strong the walls are, they will eventually collapse, and no matter how powerful the magic circle is, it will fail one day. When these are lost, when calamity comes, can these people who are still drunk and dreaming in the vain and prosperous world really be able to bear the weight of calamity?
At dusk, looking up at the towering wall to the north, a bad premonition rose in Ian's heart.
I'm afraid there won't be too many good days like this.