In a small stretch of horse walking on the west side of the Songlan Ranch, Eko was looking at a red horse with a hesitant expression. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThe horse's coat was shiny, his neck was slightly lowered, and his big docile eyes were looking at Ekko, as if he didn't quite understand what the man in front of him was worried about.

"Is it really necessary for me to learn horsemanship?" asked Eko in a negotiable tone to Duti, who was standing next to him. Right now, his titular sister was urging him to get on the horse with her eyes.

"Of course!" replied Duti with an affirmative expression.

"The farmer's son can't even ride a horse. Are you afraid of horses?"

Ekor shook her head. He was not afraid of horses, but he tried to avoid riding. If he could not avoid it, he often rode with others and sat behind him so as not to touch anything that dreaded him. But if he had to learn horsemanship, he would have to pull the reins, step on the stirrups, and kick the horse in the belly...... The problem is, he'd never tried it, he hadn't even thought about it.

"Since you're not afraid of horses, what are you hesitating about?"

Dudy stepped forward, and she gently stroked the neck of the red horse. I saw that the horse shook his ears very pleasantly, as if he was enjoying the favor of the little master.

"This lady is the best-grumpy one on the ranch. Even a child who can't step on a stirrup can climb up its head while it is grazing. Dudi diligently recommended to Ikko.

"Just ride with confidence!"

She patted her chest and made a promise, and this enthusiastic persuasion finally made Ekor compromise.

Isn't it just a pretending horseback to jog a few laps? Ekor thought.

"Then I'll give it a try. He took a deep breath and said to Duti. After speaking, he gritted his teeth and turned over and sat on the back of the horse.

In a few moments, the docile mare carried Eko around the pasture. The red horse walked evenly and steadily, but the way Eko clutched the reins was surprisingly stiff. His over-nervous performance made Doudi laugh out loud. But the girl only laughed twice, and then put away her cheerful expression in a panic.

"Good ride! Relax your shoulders a little more and look ahead. ”

Dudi put her hands on her mouth and reminded Ekco as she encouraged her. But none of the words she said reached Eko's heart, just like the series of expressions she had just now, which Eko hadn't noticed at all.

At this moment, Ekko's slightly dilated pupils were only imprinted with the reins connecting the head and the mouth. He forced himself to use the harness, and as a result, these things grew bigger and bigger in his head.

Ekko's breathing rhythm was completely out of order, and a shred of reason told him that he was on the verge of collapse, but his body was out of control. He felt his whole heart sink and fall to the bottom. Gradually, he heard voices that weren't there.

"Look at this stubborn little white horse!"

"me! I'll let you lick it off, you pointy-eared!"

"As I said before, this pony likes to go a little deeper. ”

"Hahahahaha......"

Echo snapped off the reins as if he had been burned, his neck shrunk and his body trembled. Standing not far away, Dudi saw that his behavior was getting stranger and stranger, and suddenly recalled all kinds of abnormal behaviors when he was recuperating in isolation.

He wanted to escape. 】

Echo leaned over and tried to get away from the horse, but he seemed to have forgotten that his feet were still in the stirrups. After a chaotic struggle, he finally pulled out one leg, and the whole person immediately fell down, while the other leg was still hanging from the stirrups.

[He felt that he could not escape. 】

Jujube Red Horse stopped, looking back at the stupid man, and Eko's whole body remained upside down on her head and feet as if she was frozen.

"Innocent blue, like whose eyes. Ekor muttered, who had been out of the nightmare for a while.

A string of hurried footsteps rang out, and Duti ran towards him......

Later on, Eko sat alone on the fence of the pasture, stunned. The moose kept in the pen would sometimes approach him curiously and sniff the stranger, while Eco would give two soft "go" and then fall back into memory.

In the morning, at Duti's suggestion, he accidentally touched the forbidden zone of his memory—one of the bad things that happened at the age of seventeen. Without that experience, he might have been as mute as Ola.

"Seventeen......," Ikor muttered with a frown.

That year, Kruli opened the bud for him. This incident caused him to suffer from aphasia, and his status in the guild was immediately reduced to the bottom, and several people tossed him around as a silent person who could not speak for most of the year, until he played too much. Speaking of which, it was also at that time that he heard the real reason why he was mutilated by the instructor at the age of seven, and his malfunctioning throat let out a heart-rending cry for survival, and the aphasia was so good, and the voice magically summoned Cruley and six corpses......

Ekor smoothed her hair with a wry smile, forcing himself not to think about Durstaing's past. What should worry him now is his poor mental condition.

Strange to say, since learning that his spirit was different, Siddle's family suddenly treated him well. They paid attention to him as if they were a pearl, and did not dare to laugh, and often stopped talking so as not to touch any of his fragile nerves.

He didn't want to disappoint the family, but some of the scars were buried too deeply, and I was afraid that he would not be able to get rid of them for the rest of his life.

Ekor sighed in frustration. He heard footsteps behind him, but he didn't bother to turn back. After a while, there was a tap on his shoulder, and he turned his head in feigned surprise, only to see Monte looking at him worriedly.

Ekko's mouth was wide open, and she didn't know what to call him for a moment. Should I just call him Monte, or should I call him my father? It's a hard choice.

"You look a little better than you used to. Monte said.

Ekor nodded. This is true at all, but I don't know how long the current state will last.

"May I ask you why you're so afraid of riding?" Monte asked, resting his hand on the nearby fence and looking at Eako.

After a brief silence, Eko began to spit out words mechanically.

"Because of the things that should be put on the horse, I was put on the body without pulling ......"

Before he could finish his sentence, Monte hurriedly stopped.

"Son, if there's something you don't want to say. You can take the topic away or simply refuse to answer, you have the right to do that. Well, I mean, this is not where you used to be. ”

"Talking about it?" Ekor was stunned for a moment, no one had ever taught him that. The way he learned in the guild was that unless he was ordered to shut up, he should be answered, no matter how embarrassing the questions. Because there is no shame in an assassin like him.

But that's not the case with the children of this family......

"For example...... I heard that I was very sick for a while. What was I like then? was it vicious?" Ekor asked tentatively, having no reflection of a part of his past.

"Oh, you've learned to use questions to deflect questions. Monte smiled.

"You were so obedient that you were even afraid of us. As soon as Liz and Dooddy get close to you, you shiver and dodge, and finally you probably can't dodge, so you simply crouch on the ground with your head in your hands. ”

"That's right...... That sounds really stupid. Ekor shook her head a little amusedly.

"Does Ekor often avoid questions like that? I'm talking about your own son. ”

Stunned, he pondered for a moment and said, "That kid is very good at playing this hand, and he likes to be more showy than you." ”

Ekko's brow furrowed, and Monte's words didn't sound very real.

"He really likes to be in the limelight, otherwise how could he have run away to D'Sting without knowing whether he is alive or dead?" Monte explained.

Before Ekor could analyze the meaning of the words, Monte abruptly changed the subject.

"I heard that the gang of peers in the Hub Society are not happy to practice swords with you?"

Ekor nodded. He's going to know something very different from the academic stuff. The swordsmanship of those men had a clear set of moves and footwork, but the swordsmanship he had learned from Kruli was only a dogma - to seize the opponent's momentary loophole and attack the point.

It wasn't that he didn't want to imitate the style of his compatriots so that the practice would be like an ordinary exercise, but his right hand, which was used to killing people, always unconsciously used his assassination technique.

"I don't know the rules very well, so I always finish the practice in a few clicks. Ekor involuntarily smiled wryly.

"You can try to start over with your left hand, we have a set of tricks that work well for you. Monte suggested.

Ekor nodded a little confused. He can't get rid of everything in the past, but learning something new might be able to cover up his unbearable true face?