On Audu's eighth birthday, his father bought him a puppy.
It was a very small puppy, shy and reserved. Audu took good care of it for two weeks, treating it as his best friend and naming it Mr. Beard.
But one day he discovered that his partner, Mr. Beard, began to frequently scatter dog food all over the floor - it was boiled quinoa mixed with leftover dried fruits and minced fish. It was difficult to clean and would be missed if you were not careful. , rotten and smelly.
"You are the one who wants to keep this dog. Like a man, take your responsibility!"
The father yelled angrily, twitching his nose to express his anger at the stench of the messy kennel.
As a child, Audu could only silently clean the puppy's kennel in the yard, but day after day, Mr. Beard seemed to suddenly become disobedient, making a mess almost every time in his food bowl.
So Audu kept an eye on it. After feeding Mr. Beard again, he quietly closed the door and hid, wanting to see why Mr. Beard made such a mess.
Then he saw the culprit, which was a big crow flapping its wings from outside the yard, flying down and pecking at the wheat seeds again and again, flying up and down again, making a mess in Mr. Beard's food bowl.
"Go! Go!"
Odu rushed out and drove away the crow. The big bird circled for several weeks and finally flew away from the doghouse.
He followed him out of curiosity, and saw the crow's nest next to the chimney of a house not far away. There were still flightless birds waiting to be fed, as if they were waiting for their mother to bring them back. The food comes the same.
Audu suddenly became happy. He ran home, secretly took out a decorative bowl that he didn't usually use for eating, added some millet, picked out the quinoa in Mr. Beard's bowl, and carefully put the bowl and bowl away. Come together.
He waited under the sun for a day, and finally, at sunset, the big crow came back.
It shook its small head, looked around Mr. Beard curiously, then carefully landed on the ground, and obediently stuck its head into the small bowl to eat.
"Very good!"
Little Odu cheered excitedly in his heart, so that the little crow would not starve, and Mr. Beard's food bowl would not be a mess.
"Odu?"
His mother's voice came from the house, which was a signal for him to come in for dinner. Odu immediately patted his pants and ran into the house.
"Odu, have you seen that bowl in your father's collection?"
The mother, who was wearing an apron, opened the cupboard and rummaged around - it was the bowl that His Holiness the Pope had used when distributing Holy Communion at the last High Mass. It was carefully placed in the cupboard and would not be used normally.
"Ah I--"
Audu was about to say something when he looked up and saw his father walking into the room with a gloomy look on his face.
…………
"That's it?"
Audu's father shook his hand and massaged his wrist tiredly.
Little Audu's pants were taken off halfway, his buttocks were beaten purple, and fine blood stains oozed out. There were a few bruises on his face, and the nosebleeds solidified on his lips.
His mother bit her lip, with infinite distress in her eyes, but she could only watch her husband teach her son in fear.
"I-I will clean that bowl, I promise, I promise!"
Audu's words were intermittent, his throat was stretched like a broken bellows, and uncontrollable crying sounds leaked out from time to time.
His father gave a meaningful and somewhat disappointed look, sighed, and shook his head.
"That's not it."
"That's not why I hit you."
"You don't even know where you are wrong, you are so self-righteous!"
In Audu's eyes, his father, who was as tall as a mountain, stood up and kicked away the bowl next to Mr. Beard's kennel so casually.
"This is your dog, this is your home. Are you so welcoming to outsiders who snatch your dog's food?"
The father's voice increased in vain, startling Audu:
"Did I raise you to be such a coward!"
A flapping sound came at an inappropriate time, and Odu looked up in despair. The crow landed on the railing behind his father, tilting his head slightly in confusion.
"Gah!"
The father's big hand pinched the crow like a flash of lightning. He picked up a sack with his right hand, stuffed the fluttering bird into it, tied a knot, and threw it in front of Odu.
"Kill it and protect your dog!"
The sack fluttered horribly and strangely. Tears burst out of little Odu's eyes, and he could no longer stop crying.
"Dear, how about..."
Just as the mother was about to speak, the father raised his hand majestically: "Shut up, I'm teaching him how to be a man!"
He turned his head and gritted his teeth and looked at Audu: "Bring a stone and knock it to death!"
Amid whimpering and roaring, Odu held up a stone tremblingly.
one time.
Two times.
Three times.
Tears fell down his young face, and the bloody sack in front of him became silent.
The father snorted angrily, turned around and walked into the house:
"Come in and eat!"
"My dear, you still want to go..."
"I still have to be on duty. It's really hard to find a free time. I haven't even eaten!"
"H-I'm sorry, can I put it in a lunch box for you?"
"No, tell Odu that tomorrow I will see him pluck the feathers off the bird, bleed it, and make a pot of soup for us."
The father put on his coat and said coldly before leaving:
"The son I raise must not be a coward."
………………
midnight.
Audu got up from the bed with a dull expression. It was difficult for him to fall asleep tonight. All he could think about was the sight of the bleeding sack that stopped moving.
A sound woke him up, and the sound came from Mr. Beard's courtyard. Audu put on his coat and quietly walked out.
"Crack, snap."
There was an ominous sound, and then Mr. Beard suddenly began to bark sharply.
"Woof! Woof woof!"
Its bark was painful and struggling. Odu was stunned and hurriedly opened the door.
What greeted him was an extremely shrill scream of a crow, and he saw the damaged cloth bag that had been pecked open, the crow that was half-clothed in the cloth bag but not completely dead, and the black feathers scattered on the ground.
"Gah——!!"
"Gah——!!"
The crows shrieked, shrouded in blood-stained tattered sacks, and danced and fluttered like death around Mr. Beard.
Mr. Beard barked hard. Its underage body was not even as long as a crow's wings. In its eyes, the bloody bird was attacking like a terrifying monster.
Then came darkness.
"Woof——!!"
"Gah——!!"
The noisy cries of the two animals tore Audu's ears together. In front of his eyes, the dying crow suddenly pounced on Mr. Beard, and dug its sickle-like beak into its eye socket!
"Gah-gah-gah-!!!"
"Ouch! Ouch!"
Mr. Beard's cry suddenly became sharp because of the pain. Amidst the heart-rending screams and roars of the two animals, Odu suddenly saw the dying crow, holding the freshly picked, bloody crow in its claws. Mr. Beard’s eyeballs!
"quack!"
"Ouch——!"
"Did I raise you to be such a coward!"
The various mixed painful noises were like a jigsaw, cutting through Audu's nerves involuntarily. He felt the sharp pain deep in his nerves from a trance, and wished he could bite the roots of his teeth completely.
Blood.
Pillars of blood gushed out from his nose and eyes. Amidst the huge and violent noise, Audu gritted his teeth and looked to the sky with resentment and unwillingness.
"puff!"
The sweet blood sprayed from his mouth covered the inside of his faceplate and slowly dripped down. Audu's knees suddenly lost strength and he knelt down amidst the hellish barking of dogs and the neighing of crows.
In the air in his sight, the expressionless Tantai Ming glanced at the defeated Temperance Knights.
Like a high-altitude god, cold and indifferent.
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