Chapter 209: A Hundred-family meal, repaying the kindness of raising children
Night falls.
The stars were hidden behind the thick clouds, leaving only a faint moonlight, sprinkling on the quiet path.
Koris walked hurriedly in the dim light, with unspeakable anxiety and determination in his heart.
Her shadow was stretched out, forming a sharp contrast with the silence around her.
This road is rarely traveled.
"Hey"
Koris sighed, leaned against the wall helplessly, and looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar street.
“I have to sleep outside again.”
call!
At this moment, a sudden breeze blew.
Not far ahead, a figure slowly walked out from the swaying shadows of the trees.
It's Hope.
Under the moonlight, his eyes flashed with complex light, and their gazes met in the air. A subtle tension filled the air.
"Hope, you guy, why are you still here so late?"
Kolis' voice was pleasant, but it carried a subtle warning.
"I'm warning you, if you want to live, don't attack those two people."
"Oh!"
However, facing the threat from Chris, Hope just smiled lightly, with a hint of playfulness and unruliness in that smile.
"Oh? What do you mean by danger?"
"Are you afraid that I will be killed, or are you afraid that I will say something too much?"
"but"
Hope chuckled.
"Shouldn't you be concerned about your own business?"
"It's really hard for you. You are a person with poor directions, but you can guide me step by step to that hotel."
Hearing what Hope said, Kris' eyes moved slightly and he shook his head to deny it.
"I don't know what you are talking about"
"hehe"
Hope smiled faintly and said:
“Then let me put it another way.”
"What on earth did you intend to do by bringing the two of them to that hotel?"
"."
Koris looked back, his eyes fixed on Hope.
"I already said, I don't know what you are talking about"
Hope waved his hand, still with that indifferent smile on his face.
"I don't mean anything special, I just hope you can think twice before you act."
"Some people are not something you can calculate"
“There are some things we can’t do.”
Hope's tone suddenly softened.
But the power contained in it cannot be ignored. It was as if it was using its last bit of tenderness to try to pull Corliss back from the vortex that he was about to be caught in.
"So, give up!"
Hope suddenly put away his cynical expression and looked at Chris seriously.
"We can't deal with those crazy people"
"You already know that, don't you?"
"Even gold-level adventurers..."
"So!"
Suddenly, Hope's words were interrupted, and the originally calm Kris let out a heart-wrenching roar.
"Just let them do whatever they want in this town?!"
"do you know?!"
"Those people, those kids, are calling me in my mind all the time"
"Hey, sister, why didn't you save me?"
"But, but I can't do anything!"
Kelis suddenly squatted down, hugged his knees helplessly, tears flowing down uncontrollably.
"I'm just a normal guy who gets lost at home"
"I managed to gain a foothold among the adventurers by hiding my aura, but..."
“Other than that, I have nothing.”
"So, how about giving up?"
"what?"
Kelis looked up at Hope in disbelief and asked:
"Haven't you also seen that hellish scene on the altar?"
"Why, after seeing that scene, can you remain indifferent?"
"You know, what are you talking about?"
"Know"
Hope stared at Corliss and spoke.
"what?!"
Koris got up from the ground and grabbed Hope's collar angrily.
"You, how could you say such a thing!"
"We all came from an orphanage. If we don't do it, who else will?" "But, we are just ordinary adventurers."
Hope looked at Kris, a strange look flashed in his eyes, and he said sincerely:
“I don’t want you to get hurt again.”
"Haven't we done enough?"
"Not enough, to repay all those years of meals?"
Hope looked at Chris and spoke his true feelings.
"I don't want to die"
"you"
But just as Reese was about to speak, Hope interrupted him:
"Kelis, do you really consider yourself a member of this town?"
"Have you forgotten the disgusted looks these people gave us when we first arrived here?!"
"Just because they give us leftovers every day, you..."
"They just treat us like dogs—"
"shut up!"
Koris interrupted Hope.
"Even so, even so, their charity saved us, didn't it?"
“We grew up eating at various people’s homes”
"Can"
Hope lowered his eyes.
"At that time, we were the only two people eating together."
"Now, maybe there are too many adventurers and they don't need us anymore."
"but"
Hope clenched his fists, his face distorted.
"I still remember that the monsters invaded and used us as meat—"
"this is what we are supposed to do."
Koris interrupted Hope.
"Hope, we should not hate the people who feed us, but the people who don't feed us."
She raised her eyes and stared straight at Hope, as if trying to see something from his cowardly eyes.
The two stood in the moonlight, confronting each other, and silence spread between them.
Everything around seemed to be still, with only the occasional cry of night birds in the distance breaking the silence.
Snapped!
She let go.
"Is that so? Then just don't worry about it."
"What about you?"
"me!"
Kolis recalled the night when the fire burned.
"Hide and don't talk"
That's what her father told her.
"Xiao Ke, you hide here and don't come out"
This is what her mother told her.
"Xiao Ke, hide away, hide forever, don't let anyone find you"
Her brother told her so.
"me!"
Koris looked back, and his red eyes contained an extremely hard look.
“Enough of hiding”
The moonlight scattered, making Kris's blue hair sparkle with a faint blue and bright light.
"Really"
Hope clenched his fists and stared blankly at Corliss, who was so dazzling in the moonlight.
“So, I won’t hide anymore this time.”
The shadow obscured Hope's expression at the moment, and he nodded.
"Well, you have to be careful"
“Those people are a bunch of lunatics.”
They are a group of poor creatures living in the shadows and struggling desperately.
"You'd better go back quickly!"
Hope waved his hand and said indifferently.
"Humph, I know it without you telling me."
But Kelis ignored him and continued walking on his own.
Hope was left standing there in a daze, looking up at the moonlight and clenching his fists.
If only he were a little stronger.
But, this world.
There aren't so many ifs.
In the pitch-black night, dark shadows were walking towards Hope.
Shit, the next chapter has been censored (crying).
There is clearly nothing written.
(End of this chapter)