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On the stone streets of Ciro Village, Avril Lavigne, pale and tired, hurried to a stone house with a round vault with a basket on her shoulder. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Inside the room, on two wooden beds, Ota and Aina lay respectively, Aina's wife Yuna, who was gently lifting the cloth on Aina's body, and a foul smell suddenly spread.

Aina's right side of his chest was still suffocating, his blood-soaked muscles were unusually white, the flesh of the wound rolled over to reveal the bones underneath, and in the hot early autumn, there were even tiny maggot buds crawling in the flesh.

With tears in her eyes, Yuna picked them off one by one with a thin bamboo skewer, then took the mashed herbs from Avril and slowly applied them.

Avril stood beside Otta's bed and slowly squatted down, stroking Otta's thin little face, gently brushing his long brown hair covering his eyes, and looking at his long eyelashes for a moment.

It's been ten days, and Orta hasn't woken up for ten days since he fell.

"Otta, wake up quickly, okay with your mother, you are a good boy, don't scare your mother, do you remember what you said? You said you want to be a great knight, a great knight will not be intimidated by any enemies and diseases, right......"

At this moment, there was a "aggressive" sound outside the house, and then Mondello, whose left arm was mutilated and wrapped in a medicinal cloth, walked in with a limp leg and a cane.

Avril quickly wiped away her tears, nodded at him and said, "Thank you Mondello, thank you for saving my brother Aina." ”

Mondello also had some scars on his face, which, like his lameness, had been bruised while rescuing Aina. At this time, he reluctantly smiled and replied, "Yes, yes, Brother Aina has saved me many times." ”

Then his eyes fell on Ota and he asked with concern, "How is Ota doing? Still haven't woken up?"

Avril shook her head in pain.

Mondello sighed, then cheered up and said, "Ota will be fine, I'm sure of that." He was a strong and brave child, and he survived the most dangerous moments, and he would not fall at this time......"

Orta had been dreaming of a black skeleton trying to gnaw at his head, and a black, barbed tongue swept through his jagged teeth, trying to devour his brain.

And his head emitted a soft white glow, swallowing out a black tongue that would coalesce whenever it came closer, like a sharp, sharp spear poking through it, making it bloody.

After holding on like this, I don't know how long it took, the black skeleton gradually shrank, the color of the tongue gradually dimmed, and the interval between attacks on him became longer and longer, and his movements became sluggish.

Finally, one day, the black skeleton looked small and weak in front of the white light, so the white light suddenly swept up, enveloping it in one fell swoop, and then there was a continuous "snort" sound. As a puff of black smoke cleared from the light, a delicate skeleton as white as jade and the size of a dragon's eye was revealed.

The soft white light seemed to have found a treasure and rushed into it, and then, the white jade-like skeleton emitted a hazy light, like a peerless treasure.

"Look, Otta, what's going on?" Yuna's anxious voice sounded behind Avril, and Avril and Mondello, who were talking, hurriedly looked over.

Wisps of black air wafted from Otta's ears, nostrils, and mouth, and then a hazy white light flashed on his forehead, which disappeared in the blink of an eye, as fast as if he were dazzled.

"Mom," Ota opened his eyes, and his mother's emaciated, pale face immediately caught his eye.

"Orta," Avril pounced, tears welling up in her eyes.

"Good boy, I knew you were good. Mondello waved his hand excitedly, but he threw his cane out, and he immediately sat down on the ground with a "whoop", and then laughed.

"Ota scared mom to death...... Avril held Otta's head in both hands and kissed him several times on the head.

"Mom, don't do that, Aunt Yuna is looking at it......" Ota muttered quietly, her face flushing.

......

When Ota woke up, almost everyone was alarmed, and Leo, Faye, and the Demon Slayer came to visit, especially Feye, who blamed himself for having an accident under his nose and hated himself for not taking good care of him.

At this time, Ota woke up and finally let him go to a heart disease, and affectionately hugged Ota and put it on his face, and Ota with a hard stubble on his face screamed, causing everyone to laugh.

It's just that everyone is a little sad after seeing Aina, Aina's injuries are so serious that he hasn't woken up yet, his breath is very weak, and he has been rescued by Mondello and Leo for eight days, and he has been hanging on his life with broth.

Ota sat on the bed with a slight anxiety, and in the eyes of people thought that he was worried about his uncle's injury, so he was not suspicious.

In fact, it was not, he was hesitant at this time, whether to use the beast language that appeared in his mind inexplicably in front of everyone, and mobilize the white light in his mind with a more strange posture to make his uncle Aina wake up.

Speaking beast language, but also with strange postures, showing a special ability that the human race has not mastered to instantly wake up a person, this... Will they see me as a monster, or will they think I've become an orc?" Ota worried.

No, if a mother sees her son become an orc or a monster, she will die of sadness. I can't let anyone know this secret, I don't want to be seen as a monster.

Orta decided to hide it, and at the same time decided to wake up Uncle Aina at night when no one was around.

After Ota woke up, he found that there were some inexplicable changes in his body, his ears and eyes were secondary, and the most important thing was that there were many inexplicable things in his head, or memories.

When he was by the river, he was about to take out the black-robed witch's orb with a dagger, but a black gas suddenly shot out from the bone staff in his hand and burrowed into his body, and then it was the scene in the dream.

Orta didn't know what he had been through, and he didn't dare to say it for fear that people would see him as a monster or a mutated orc, so he could only hold it in his heart and wait for the future to slowly find out the reason.

Now that the decision had been made, Ota reassured, said hello to everyone, and walked out of the hut on his own, wandering around the village.

"Brother Ota, you're finally awake, Sister Ellie and I are getting ready to see you......"

At the entrance of the village, Ota heard Iron Man's loud voice and quickly turned around to look. Iron Man was trotting with his cousin Ellie, followed by a big hug.

"Tetsuo, you're not hurt, how is your mother?" asked Orta after the hug.

Tie Nan was stunned, and then said with palpitations: "I almost died, fortunately, Uncle Aina's demon team came in time, otherwise I really don't dare to think that there are still a few survivors in our village, my mother is fine, but she was frightened, and she hasn't recovered until now." ”

Ota patted him on the shoulder, "Iron Man, take care of your mother and spend more time with her." ”

His words made Tetsuo stunned, and he looked at Ota with a strange expression, "Why do you talk weirdly? Aren't your injuries healed?"

As soon as he asked, Ota also felt a change in himself, perhaps because he was immortalized by the demon, or because of the unspeakable secret in his heart, in short, he felt that his state of mind suddenly matured.

Ota smiled and said without much explanation: "Iron man, take more time to spend with your mother, not only you, but also me, don't let yourself regret it." ”

Iron Man nodded thoughtfully, Ota turned to look at his sister Ellie and laughed, this girl, every time she sees herself like this, she never speaks first, but after she has greeted her, she is not idle.

This is a beautiful little girl, with the same blue eyes as her uncle, fiery red hair and elf's strange smile very much like her mother Yuna, and from her eyebrows, you can see Uncle Aina's perseverance and determination, and of course, more cunning.

"Ellie. Horta called her name and spread her arms, waiting for her to throw herself into her arms as before. It was a warm memory of childhood, and it was an expression of the affection between brothers and sisters, and Ota liked to hold her like this, that innocent little slug.

But this time it failed, and Ellie pouted and shook her head, and did not speak.

Ota tried to make himself smile brighter, and said, "Don't you miss your brother?

Then he nodded confidently and opened his arms again, "Come on, my lovely sister Ellie, come to my brother." ”

Ellie looked at him with a sly smile, showing two rows of snow-white teeth, and suddenly said, "Can you protect me for the rest of my life?" If I could, I would worry about you, otherwise, I wouldn't worry about you." ”

Ota said without thinking about it: "Of course, it is my brother's responsibility to protect Ellie, let alone for a lifetime, even in the next life, Ota will not frown." ”

Iron Man stared blankly at Ellie behind Otta, scratching his head.

Elle then choked her nose and nodded, "It's pretty much the same," after speaking, she slowly walked over and symbolically hugged Otta, winked and said, "Don't forget what you said today, otherwise I will ignore you for the rest of my life." ”

"Ahh Ota put her arm around Elle and smiled softly, it feels good to have family around, what should I do if one day my secret is revealed? I don't want to lose it all......

Orta thought of these at this time, and couldn't help but cherish them even more.

Tie Nan was only stunned for a moment, then ran up and hugged Otta's waist and said, "Brother Otta, I have been your follower since I was a child, so we are brothers who are closer than brothers, and I will protect Sister Aina with you in the future, okay?"

Before Ota could say 'yes', Elle stepped on the iron man, pulled back and pouted, "Who wants you to protect me? After speaking, he left with a heavy face.

Orta touched his chest, and just now he felt Ellie's bulging breasts, and then he understood why Ellie didn't rush into his arms as unscrupulously as before.

Ota shook her head slightly, and smiled secretly in her heart: "Ellie is fifteen and a half years old, and she is a big girl......

"Iron man, come with me, I want to know what you're going to do next. Out-of-the-village Orta said.

Tetsuo glanced back at Ellie's back, and then took two steps to catch up with Otta.