The boy named 'Ryan' stood outside the kitchen, stare at himself with a stuffed animal in one hand and a white butter candle in the other.

Damn, what's wrong with me?" thought to himself Zachary, the lizardman. In the past, I would never have made such a fatal mistake, allowing people to get so close to each other without even noticing.

Crucially, the other party was a boy under the age of ten, not some skilled thieves or assassins.

It seemed that my dagger was not rusty, but it was much less vigilant than before, and he sighed, got up from his chair, and put himself into a stealth state.

If it had been before, in order to avoid leaking the news, he would have killed everyone in this house. But for now, he was only ready to leave here quietly.

Either way, those in the city-state of Muya will eventually catch up with them.

"You don't have to hide. The little boy went into the kitchen, "You're taller than my father, and I'm no bigger than your waist, so I'm not going to do anything to you." ”

Zachary paused, revealing his scaly body, and looked at the little boy with some curiosity, "You're not afraid of me." ”

"Being scared doesn't solve the problem. The boy rested the candle on the table, the toy on the chair, and glanced at Zachary's soup bowl again.

Then he brought a low, round wooden chair from the corner of the kitchen, "If you wanted to kill me and my parents, there would have been countless opportunities to do so." The little boy said.

"You saw me before?" said Zachary, surprised. Has my stealth skills regressed?

"I didn't see it, I could feel something staring at me. The little boy said, "Now that I think about it, it should be you." ”

This little guy's perception is quite keen, and it is not inferior to that of any seasoned adventurer. In the past, children with such special talents were occasionally born in the tribe. Humans call such children geniuses, while lizardmen call such children 'dependents of Laugzde'.

Zachary had also been a 'Laugerzid' before, but he didn't feel how much their evil lizard-man god cared for their people.

Immediately afterward, Zachary saw the little boy put the little round chair in front of the kitchen counter and stood on his feet. The little boy grabbed a spoon for scooping soup with his feet and scooped himself a small bowl of turnip cold soup. Then Zachary saw the boy put two slices of rye bread into the soup, just like himself, and sat down opposite him with the bowl in hand.

"Are you hungry?" Zachary the lizard asked rhetorically.

The little boy nodded, "I'm growing my body." "Sometimes I'll wake up hungry in the middle of the night and get up to eat a little more." My name is Ryan, what's your name?"

“...... Zachary. He admired the young boy's maturity and calmness.

"Won't you eat it?" the little boy Ryan looked at the bowl in front of Zachary, "This thing doesn't taste very good, but at least it can be full, although it can't be managed for long, but it's better than being hungry." ”

The lizardman sat back down in the chair across from the little boy, "Thank you." "It's enough to be fed.

"Are you a thief, trying to steal from my house?" asked the little boy curiously, as he ate.

"No, I'm not going to steal anything from your house. Zachary hurriedly denied. Immediately after, his tone was a little uncertain, "Hmm...... , maybe stealing a little food. I was just a little hungry like you, and then I heard your father on the way and his companion that your family was going to eat croquettes tonight, so I followed him in. ”

"Looks like you've been disappointed. The little boy shrugged his shoulders. "You're a fugitive?"

Surprised by the sharpness of the boy's mind, Zachary took a bite of the paste and nodded.

"Why?"

Why did you become a fugitive?" I killed several people, including one of my kind. Zachary replied.

After he said this, he saw the little boy's body tremble slightly, but then he forcibly held back. Adults may not have the courage and determination to do so. Again, Zachary expressed his appreciation.

"Why did you kill them?"

Zachary hesitated, "Those people killed me years ago...... , wife and children. He whispered. For some reason, he was tempted to confide in someone, even if the only audience was a child under the age of ten, "Although my fellow is not of the same race as mine, he knows the habits of our lizardmen. He found our hidden race and led a horde of humans to surround us. Most of the clansmen were killed, and the rest were captured. ”

"And you ran away?"

"No, I've been arrested too. A human nobleman saw that I could stealthily and that I was good at martial arts, so he captured me alive with a net. "And then, the nobleman wanted to ask the mage to help me......," he didn't know how to explain to a child, "to help me improve my intellect and correct some habitual problems." "But in the end, the mage didn't give me back to the human nobleman, I don't know why, and I don't want to know." ”

"Oh. The little boy looked a little puzzled, and didn't seem to understand too much. Even though he lived around the city-state of Muya, he was not exposed to these things at his age. "Do you hate those people?" asked the boy casually, "the man who killed your wife and children, the man who captured you, and the mage." He glanced at the doll on the chair next to him.

Zachary frowned, a little confused. He remembered that his former spouses liked to eat human livers the most, and his offspring that hatched in eggs knew to eat meat every day except for fights.

Although life in these tribes has only passed for seven or eight years, when I look back, it seems to be a lifetime past. Zachary had even forgotten what the mate looked like, and she didn't even have a clear impression of the one he had killed.

His union with her was only for the purpose of reproduction, or rather, all the activities of the whole tribe were for this sole purpose.

The lizardmen wished they could give an affirmative answer, but they couldn't say anything. He didn't think much of it at the time, just walked over silently. The fellow wanted to say hello, but his dagger cut the guy's throat.

Zachary had always thought that his purpose was to avenge his dead spouse and offspring, but after all these years, he rarely thought of them, and he never mourned their deaths.

"I don't know. Zachary muttered, "I just want to do that." "It's like that childish act of your father. I also felt like rebelling, or giving up something.

"I just feel like those people used to kill me for whatever purpose...... , wife and children, I should have killed them, didn't I, rightly so. I don't hate them, yes, not at all, but I should kill them, that's all. Zachary said.

"It's so profound, more esoteric than my father's love words to my mother. The little boy said. He ate all the mushy food in the bowl, "I'll leave the washing of the dishes to you, so you may feel better, be sure to wash it, or tomorrow my mother will criticize me." ”

When the little boy had finished speaking, he took the candle and the doll and yawned and walked up the stairs.

A weird child, Zachary smiled wryly. He finished his bowl and began to gently clean it up, ready to find a corner where no one was paying attention to it for a while.

Early the next morning, the door of the house was banged hard. The man who was woken up complained and asked, and opened the door.

Outside stood a muscular adventurer with a strange mechanical bird standing on his shoulder.

"Hello, I'm here to find someone. The adventurer said to the man, but his eyes looked over to where Zachary had been sneaking.

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