London, in an abandoned house.
No one has lived here for a long time, it is full of dust and there are rats, insects and ants everywhere.
Inside the fireplace, blue flames ignite automatically.
Then two people walked out.
However, since the fireplace was a little small, a body was thrown out.
Then Gauss and Lippi came out.
"mission completed."
Gauss immediately turned to look at Lippi. He was very professional and waited until it was completely safe before accepting the money.
Lippi's face darkened. He looked at Gauss with bright eyes and turned away, "I'll give it to you tomorrow."
"Tomorrow?" Gauss's face fell, and he said unhappily, "We agreed to pay when the task is completed."
"Pledge this first." Lippi sighed and handed the bloody blade to Gauss.
This person who insists on money doesn't give any face at all.
"I only give you time for the sake of my boss. This is mine as well, as interest."
As soon as Lippi took out the cigarette he had handy, Gauss snatched it away.
Lippi looked at his empty hands and murmured, "At least leave one for me."
A heavy smoker, he hadn't smoked in months.
"Tsk," Gauss glanced at him, "One hundred galleons."
"Are you robbing money?" Lippi was angry.
"Do you want love?" Gauss put the cigarette into his pocket and pretended to leave.
"One hundred galleons!" Lippi raised his hand with difficulty and said angrily, "Let's pay the bill together tomorrow."
"okay."
Gauss smiled and took out a cigarette and offered it with both hands.
It’s really just one.
Lippi took a deep breath and told himself that he could not burn bridges by crossing the river.
He put the cigarette to his mouth with trembling hands. Just as he was about to light it, a drop of rain hit the bridge of his nose.
Then the two of them looked up at the same time.
Gauss said in surprise: "I said there was no light where the light would come from."
There was a big hole in the ceiling, and the rain came quietly.
Lippi was convinced and stuffed the cigarette into his inner pocket.
The next second.
The rain fell heavily. .z.
Both of them became drowned rats.
Looking at each other in silence, Gauss said expressionlessly: "Let's make an agreement first, no returns."
Lippi: "..." I really want to kill you.
Lippi used Zombie Float to float the corpse, and he looked at Gauss who walked out of the door with him.
"Where are you going?"
"Me?" Gauss looked around, tightened his clothes and said, "Of course I'm going home."
Lippi nodded, he still wanted to find Old Batty.
The two parted ways.
Gauss watched Lippi leave and touched his empty pocket.
"Forget it, if you don't have money, you don't have money."
He walked alone at night.
Unlike the people around him who were in a hurry to avoid the rain, he walked slowly and leisurely in the rain, not in any hurry.
...
Zolide Home, London.
Gauss was standing outside when an old woman spotted him.
"who is it?"
The old woman was very alert.
Gauss went under the eaves and took off his hat.
"Oh, God, it's you," the old woman was full of surprise. She came to Gauss and confirmed, "Gass Ultramar."
"Do you still remember me?" Gauss said unexpectedly, "Mrs. Mei."
"Of course, I remember you. You were the best-behaved child here." Mrs. Mei said enthusiastically, "Come in, I've been wondering where you have been all these years."
"For God's sake, you didn't even take an umbrella."
Mrs. Mei was still the same as before, nagging non-stop and complaining about Gauss coming in the rain.
It's like Gauss being caught in the rain outside when he was a child, like that
The lessons are heartwarming.
He walked to the orphanage where he had been, a baby abandoned outside the monastery, and then to the Zolit Orphanage.
He didn't even know he was a wizard until he was eleven.
Mrs. May was kind to each of the children, even though more often than not they didn't have enough to eat.
This is a small welfare home, and the children inside are not those cute children.
Most of them are abandoned, defective children who are sent here only if they are not wanted by other orphanages.
Because these children are not destined to be adopted.
Gauss was an accident, and the monastery viewed him as ominous, as he was treated as a monster due to the magic he inadvertently performed.
He was tied up and subjected to an exorcism.
But he escaped and was picked up by Mrs. Mei outside.
Everything about this place made Gauss smile.
"I remember that Little Ear used to wet the bed during his nap, and he also had missing teeth. His mouth would be tightly closed when he smiled." Goss recalled his former friend.
"Gauss," Mrs. May said suddenly, "he is dead."
"Who?" Gauss was stunned.
Mrs. Mei said sadly: "Dunbar, he died in the room. He committed suicide."
Dunbar was missing teeth and his teeth were malformed. They named each other nicknames after the defects.
Gauss's smile disappeared, "Why?"
"Because of life," Mrs. Mei said, looking around, "the orphanage is on the verge of bankruptcy and the children don't have enough to eat. Dunbar works in the circus to reduce the burden on the orphanage, but he can't survive it."
As she spoke, Mrs. Mei began to cry.
These people all have physical disabilities, and normal jobs would hardly require them.
The only jobs that can take them are those with the lowest wages and the most menial jobs.
"A few months ago, a donation was sent to the orphanage. If it had been earlier, earlier..." the old woman burst into tears.
Under the dim light, Gauss was silent.
He raised his hand, and lightning flashed outside the window.
In a daze, he saw endless blood flowing on his hands.
Dirty, filthy.
He looked at Mrs. Mei blankly and silently put his hand down.
"It would have been better if it had been earlier." He muttered these words.
The departure of his friend made him feel complicated.
Mrs. Mei cried for a while. She wiped her tears, cheered herself up, and asked, "How are you now?"
She was afraid that Gauss would be as confused as Dunbar.
Gauss smiled and said, "I'm fine. I have a job and a family."
"Family? Are you married?" Mrs. Mei was surprised and said, "You never liked playing with children outside when you were a child. I was always worried about you."
"I'm fine," Gauss said seriously, "really."
Mrs. Mei was relieved.
Gauss stayed here for a long time, and by the time he left, pedestrians outside were almost invisible.
Only occasionally one or two people walked by.
He slowly walked into Scorpion Tail Alley.
He didn't look at the door number because he could walk to that place with his eyes closed.
No. 78 Xiewei Lane.
He stopped and looked at the black door.
The rain just hit him, and he didn't move, as if he was petrified.
"Amiya, it's time to sleep."
There was a sound coming from inside.
Gauss took a deep breath. He suppressed his complicated emotions and waited for nearly an hour.
He mustered up the courage and knocked on the door.
After a while, the door was opened.
It was a woman with short hair, and the other party was stunned when she saw Gauss.
"Snapped!"
Gauss's face was turned sideways, and there was a red slap mark on the left side of his face.
He stretched out his hand to touch it and said with a smile: "
Have you exercised recently? "
As soon as the words left his mouth, a second slap hit his right cheek.
The woman said in a low and angry voice: "I thought you were dead, but suddenly a large sum of money was sent to you."
"I thought I was going to die," Gauss sighed, "but God doesn't seem to let me see Lipia."
"Shut up!" The woman's eyes turned red, "You shouldn't have mentioned her."
"My sister, your wife."
"It was you, it was you who killed her!" the woman growled, "Do you remember? She was caught in the explosion just after giving birth to Amiya that day!"
"Yes, I remember, I remember everything." Gauss smiled bitterly, "I want to take a look at her."
"She is not a wizard!" the woman warned, "Don't bring your unresolved grievances into this home."
"I just want to see it," Goss begged. "Please, Jura."
Looking at the man in front of him, Zhu La still softened.
Gauss walked into the house very carefully.
He came to the second floor and gently opened the door a crack.
He saw his daughter.
She was exactly the same as her mother, except that her eyes were like hers.
This one glance is enough.
Gauss closed the door.
He looked at the girl's aunt and said, "Thank you."
Just as he was about to go out, Jura asked him to stop.
"Have you made enough, or are you just too tired to take risks?"
Jura took his hand. There was a touch of softness in the voice.
"Think about Amiya, think about..."
Goss said: "I still have some things, you know, people like me can't be with my family."
He looked at Jura and said gratefully: "I'm very grateful to you, Jura, for taking care of my daughter, but I can't harm her."
Jula paused when she reached her mouth.
That 'I didn't say a word.
The affection that filled his heart turned into the action of slamming the door shut.
Across the door, Zhu La's eyes were red.
She leaned against the door and said to herself, "You never saw me."
Is it just because I am one step slower than my sister?
Gauss left.
He is a fugitive and an outlaw.
He is also a father.
My daughter shouldn't touch the bloody hands.
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