Me! Cleaner!.

Chapter 74: Mystery of Life and Promise

"Ah."

Although it was a little strange to have only three people in the family photo, Leon, who had seen other photos of himself and his parents, did not think too much about this photo. He just asked casually:

"When was this photo taken? Why are you the only one in the family photo and not the three of us?"

"It was just a mistake by the photo studio."

Seeing that Leon didn't think much about it, Anna couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, and then answered as steadily as possible:
“When we were taking the photo, the previous family had just left, and the person collecting the backdrop dropped the family portrait sign, so this photo was taken.

Although my mother was a little dissatisfied and wanted them to remove the sign and take another photo, my father liked my mother's smile in the photo very much, and the people in the photo studio were willing to charge only half the price, so he just made do with it and kept it."

"So this is ah……"

After nodding with a look of realization, Leon lay on the bed and hissed, then said nonchalantly:

"What about the three of us? Why were you the only one there at the time?"

"Because Melanie and the others were born the following year, and this photo was originally taken for me."

Anna opened the photo album and looked through it, then took out a photo with the same background and handed it over, then said with a smile:

"It was a community school exam, and your grades were the lowest in the school, but I got first place. My mother asked me what gift I wanted, and I said I wanted a photo as a souvenir.

Look, the badge on my chest was given to the top student at the time. Although I wanted to take the photo with you, you were upset and said that your grades were not good. You refused to take the photo with us. In the end, we had no choice but to take the photo with only us. "

"Ah...was I this stubborn when I was a kid?"

Hearing about his childhood embarrassment, Leon, who had no relevant memory, scratched his head, looked up at Anna's expression, and said a little embarrassedly:
"Then you wouldn't be disappointed at that time, right?"

"No, because I did it on purpose."

After giving Leon a wicked smile, the sickly girl said with a smile:

“When we were little, you always liked to snatch things from me, even my dolls. But you ran faster than me, jumped higher than me, were stronger than me, and even ate more than me. I hated you so much.

Luckily, you were very naughty at the time and your grades were always very poor. I was at least a little better than you, so I took that opportunity to make you really angry, which is why you got upset and didn’t want to take pictures with me.”

"You really have been holding grudges since you were a child."

After shaking his head speechlessly, Leon, who was lying on the bed, waved his hand to chase him away and said:

"Okay, now that you've finished applying the ointment, go back to bed. We have to get up early tomorrow!"

"Then I'll go back. Be careful when you sleep and don't hurt yourself."

You knew it would hurt, but you still hit me so hard!
"I know, I know!"

After giving her a blank look like his sister, Leon turned his head to look at the small window of the second bedroom, and asked casually with his back to the door:
"By the way, are you sure my birthday is correct?"

? ! ! !
After hearing Leon's question, Anna, who was about to leave, trembled all over, and then said softly without turning her head:

"How could it be wrong? Why did you suddenly think of asking this?"

"It's nothing, actually. I just met a fortune teller who is said to be very accurate."

Lying on the bed, Leon narrowed his eyes, then yawned and said, “She asked about my birthday and made some random calculations, but none of the calculations were accurate. She probably felt embarrassed, so she insisted that the birthday I told her was wrong… Haha, it’s like she can’t walk steadily on three legs, but she has to complain about the uneven road. Isn’t that funny?”

"That depends on whether you paid or not."

Hearing that Leon was just asking casually, Anna, who was relieved, regained her composure and replied with a smile: “If you didn’t pay, then she’s funny, if you paid, then you’re funny~”

"Go away, go away, I think you're the funny one! It's so late, go back to bed!"

After displaying his "eldest brother's authority" and chasing away the younger sister who had teased him, Leon couldn't help but frown when he saw Anna, who was relieved and hurriedly pushed the door open and left, reflected in the small window.

Although Anna concealed it well, something unnatural still appeared.

It might not be noticeable to others, but to Leon, who had lived with her day and night for several months and had endured hell together for two years, these unnatural places were too obvious.

She's hiding something from me...

According to Anna's personality, after seeing the photo fall, she would probably just say "Oh, how come it fell." instead of saying such a big thing. Later, she even stopped packing her luggage and sat on the edge of the bed, as if she was deliberately giving herself the opportunity to ask questions.

Also, judging from her appearance in the photo, this happened at least seven or eight years ago, or even longer. But after hearing my question, she didn't even bother to recall the process and just gave a direct answer.

In just a few words, he recounted everything that had happened that year. Everything was explained so seamlessly that there was almost no room for doubt, as if it had been rehearsed countless times beforehand.

When I asked about her birthday later, her obviously shocked expression reflected in the small window directly confirmed my judgment.

Just as the Black Goat said, the probability of the Lord of the Starry Sky making a mistake was almost zero, so the day he went to the water conservancy company was indeed his birthday.

Anna's strange behavior proved that she must know something, but for some reason, she didn't want to tell him the truth, and even made up a lie in advance...

Faced with these pieces of evidence that were about to come out, Leon, who had experienced all kinds of melodramatic plots in his previous life, almost instantly came up with a natural guess.

So…I was adopted?
After this rather clichéd thought came to his mind, Leon, with an extremely complicated mood, immediately got out of bed, tiptoed to the packed luggage, took out the old photo album and started flipping through it.

However, after looking at the old photos for a while, Leon turned his head and looked at the small window again. Looking at the reflection, which had the same black hair as his father's and the handsome eyebrows and eyes that were very similar to his mother's, he couldn't help but feel puzzled for a moment.

Even if the child I adopted wasn't a stranger but a cousin's, it's unlikely that he would have characteristics of both sides, right? Am I overthinking this?

……

With a lot of unresolved confusion in his mind, Leon tossed and turned until the second half of the night, and only managed to fall asleep for a short while.

When it was just dawn, although he was far from getting enough sleep, he was awakened by Anna. After learning that the carriage had arrived, Leon had to get up in a daze, carried his luggage and walked to the entrance of Veterans Lane.

After forcing himself to stuff his luggage into the cargo box and telling the driver of the coach he had rented in advance the location, Lyon, who had only slept for more than an hour, got into the four-person carriage carrying his equally drowsy younger brother and sister.

Anna, who followed him into the carriage, looked at him, who was so sleepy that he couldn't even open his eyes, and couldn't help but complain angrily and amusedly:

"Brother! Didn't you go to bed early yesterday? Why are you so sleepy now?"

"Yesterday... haha... my mind was a bit confused last night... I barely slept in the first half of the night... well... let me rest for a while..."

His body tilted to the side as the carriage swayed, and after leaning on the somewhat flustered Anna's shoulder, Leon, who was indeed extremely sleepy, squinted his eyes, and with three points of temptation and twelve thousand points of seriousness, he whispered in her ear:
"Don't worry... I don't have to ask about anything you don't want to talk about.

Also, you can actually rely on me as I rely on you... I promise you, no matter what happens in the future, you will always be my sister."

(End of this chapter)