God-level Demon Hunter

This time Vivien didn't answer. She glanced at the wall clock outside the door and changed the subject, "It's time, we should enter the classroom."

"Okay." Since the other party didn't want to mention it, Roy didn't want to expose the scar.But it was as if a thorn had been planted in his heart, and he had the desire to explore this matter.

In the evening, Vivien uncharacteristically did not retain him to continue his review after class, perhaps the conversation at noon touched her sensitive nerves.

……

Under the night, in the small warehouse next to the mill, a man and a woman on the haystack whispered in the light of the candle,

"Toya...do you remember the ten words I taught you yesterday?"

"Well, remember." Under the firelight, the hunchbacked girl wrinkled her nose, her small round face was tightly closed, and there was expectation and tension in her big black eyes.

"Then according to the usual practice, let me test you first, and write out the four words bread, fish, potatoes, and morning."

Hearing this, the girl lowered her head, lifted the hay on the ground, and held the poorly made charcoal pen tightly with her small hands full of chilblains and calluses. Then the trembling pen tip slid across the uneven ground, quickly outlining a row of crooked and crooked characters. Oblique characters.

"Well, not bad..." The black-haired boy praised while inspecting, "Tuoya, you are really smart, no, you are smarter than most people! Especially those little bastards who like to bully you, Those idiots have no right to laugh at you."

The hunchbacked girl blushed a little from his pale cheeks, "I... No, no. You taught me well, Roy, and all of this is due to you."

"Hold your head up, Toya, you should be more confident."

Hearing this encouragement, the girl couldn't help puffing out her chest and retracting her abdomen. Although the huge hunchback made her figure very weird, the corners of her face and mouth were slightly curved, showing a rare smile, although the smile was a little stiff because she hadn't smiled for a long time .

Roy's voice paused, "Did those little bastards come to harass you again during this time?"

"No."

"Remember what I said, if they dare to come again, you can use a broom to whip them hard. You can't just accept it all the time. This will only fuel their arrogance."

"You can't beat them alone, then wait for me to come back and find them together and beat them up."

Roy leaned close to her with harsh words, and their shoulders were pressed together.

After more than ten days of getting along, the girl has gotten used to normal contact, and she no longer reacts as violently as she did at the beginning.

"Let's put aside today's daily language, let's learn something new." Roy lifted the haystack, and wrote "Temeria", "Gooth Waylon", "Shanny" on the ground in sequence with a charcoal pen. Tokushima" and "Aretuza".

"Roy, who drew a five-pointed star on your sleeve, and it's only half drawn?" Toya's attention was attracted by a pattern on his left sleeve, and her eyes were full of curiosity.

Roy glanced at it, or rather, half of a dark pentagram painted in charcoal.He was lost in thought.

"I don't remember..." Roy thought hard for a while, then shook his head, "Probably a naughty kid from the Kadel House painted it on me secretly while I wasn't paying attention."

"Today, let's talk about Temeria, a country in the north of Aedirn. Temeria and Edsberg are separated by a Mahakam... Toya, you haven't thought about going to another country for a walk, travel .”

"Ah... I, can I?" The girl shook her body, her black eyes were full of fear and expectation, and she shook her head desperately, "No, it's been many years, I haven't left the mill, Temeria is too far away. I have to feed the chickens, water the flowers, and sweep the floor every day. Henk and Una won’t let me leave.”

"You just imagine it," Roy's index finger turned around his head, "it's impossible for the two of them to read the thoughts in your mind."

Toya's eyes gradually brightened.

Chapter 21 Brothers

The hornbeam tree in the yard began to shed its leaves again, and the yellow-green leaves were flying all over the sky. A group of children chased the leaves and played, and the whole school was filled with cheers.

Not far from the door of the classroom, Roy leaned against the mottled wall, staring at the half-pointed star on the left sleeve in a daze, frowning and out of place with the surroundings.

"Roy, I was in a bad mood yesterday, so I didn't stay after school." Vivien suddenly walked up to him with an apologetic face, "I'll review for you after the afternoon class is over?"

Roy nodded, his face still tense, and he wasn't paying attention to her words at all.

"By the way, Teacher Kadel asked you to find her on the second floor."

……

"How do you feel after you have been in school for a while? Are you still used to getting along with other children? What do you think of the classroom environment? Is there anything that needs to be improved?" Kadel put his hands on the desk and looked at the students sitting opposite him. Roy, who was on the chair, had encouraging eyes.

The deep nasolabial folds made her more like an interrogation.

"I think everything is pretty good." Roy replied truthfully, "I am especially grateful to Teacher Vivien for her careful guidance. Without her, my progress would not be so fast."

"Vivien is a lovely teacher, and everyone in the school loves her. If she didn't spend a lot of energy taking care of her parents, she would do even better."

"By the way, Mr. Cadell, I have a question." Roy paused, "Does Mr. Vivien have a brother?"

Cadell shook his head, "Vivien has no siblings, he only has an alcoholic father and a delirious mother. The two cannot work and rely on her for support. It is also for this reason that Vivien has never married .”

Roy was even more suspicious. That's not what Vivien told him yesterday.

"I thought she had a real brother who treated me like that guy, that's why she took such good care of me."

Cadell shook his head with a serious face, "Roy, Vivien has been assisting me with school affairs since ten years ago. I treat her like my own daughter and know everything about her. I confirm that she has no siblings. She cares about everyone. A student. Because you just came to school, you paid more attention."

Roy stopped asking, and seemed to accept the result.

Cadel smiled and patted him on the head. Several adolescent boys in the school had a crush on the young and beautiful Vivien, imagining that the beautiful teacher treated him differently.She thinks Roy is one of them.

"Speaking of which, Roy, you have great potential. You have completed the courses of other students for more than two months in half a month, and you are smarter than the other 64 children. Maybe in a few years, you will become the house of Cadelle When the time comes, the teacher will draw a portrait of you personally, so that your honor will be preserved in the school forever and encourage the latecomers."

Cadel opened the drawer in front of the desk, took out several framed portraits and showed them to Roy.The lifelike oil paintings are all the faces of young boys and girls in their teens.

And when Roy's eyes glanced over one of them, he suddenly froze.

"Helheim, graduated December 1259, 12."

It was the face of a young boy, about thirteen or fourteen years old, with black hair and a small freckle between the nose, which looked ordinary, and it was easy to ignore his existence in the crowd.But under his right eye there is an ugly scar the length of his index finger, which is impressive.

Roy was sure he had seen him before, but for a moment he couldn't remember exactly where.

"Where do outstanding graduates go to work?"

Kadel looked very proud when he heard the words, "The teacher still has some energy in Aden. They are all materials that can be made, but they need to be polished. So I recommended them to other cities, such as Leiria and Livia , There are also Upper Posada, Lower Posada, and the capital Van Gerberg. Most of them are engaged in writing-related work, becoming historical researchers, scribes, librarians..."

Roy put on a longing look, but he faintly felt that Cadel was lying.The purpose of this school to train students seems not so simple.

……

After school, Vivien was explaining some complex vocabulary to Roy when a bloated, slovenly middle-aged man suddenly barged in.

His face was full of flesh, his coat was dark brown, with wine stains and food residues, his hair was messy and pimpled, and there was a layer of greasy that hadn't been washed for an unknown number of days, exuding a musty smell.The whole person is as depressed as a beggar.

He slowly walked up to the two gods, turned his eyes around Roy suspiciously, then turned to the woman, spread his right hand towards her, and said with his tongue out, "Vivien, Why didn't you go home yesterday? Give me the money...I want to drink!"

Vivien quietly pulled Roy behind her, stood in front of her, and said coldly with a pretty face, "I don't have any money for you."

"Damn girl, where did you spend the money? Don't you know how to save some to honor your father?" The middle-aged man frowned deeply, grinned his big yellow teeth full of jagged teeth, and let out a bah sound. She spat thick phlegm in front of her, "I have to take the money home tomorrow, or you will know the consequences!" He threw down a harsh word with a threatening face, and then turned and left cursing.

"Is he your father?" Roy looked at Vivien's livid face and asked carefully,

"That's right, his name is Bob, my father." Vivien said quietly, "Isn't it scary?"

Roy hesitated, he couldn't accuse other people's elders. "It's only when you're drunk."

"Don't worry, you can scold him anyway, I don't mind. This guy has never been sober, and he has never cared about anyone in the family... He started drinking as soon as he opened his eyes, and he must be drunk when he closes his eyes." Vivien had a pretty face The whole body is numb, and the tone is helpless with a touch of sarcasm.

No matter who gets this kind of alcoholic father, it will be bad luck for eight lifetimes.

"Bob never fulfilled his duties as a father, even if his son disappeared."

his son?Vivien's real brother?The one who has been denied by Kadel, does not exist.

When Roy looked at Vivien again, his eyes became strange.

"Sister Vivien, what's going on? How about telling me?" Roy went further to strengthen his persuasion, "I once stayed with a master witcher for a while, to be exact, my The teacher is a demon hunter of the Viper School, and he taught me how to deal with unusual troubles and difficulties. Maybe he can help you."

"Are you serious?" The woman raised her willow eyebrows, her beautiful eyes were full of doubts, "As far as I know, the color and shape of your eyes are different from those of those supernatural demon hunters."

"Because I'm still an apprentice, I haven't passed the grass test yet... My body is no different from that of ordinary people." Roy told the other party some experiences of following the demon hunter.

Vivien thought for a moment.

"Okay, Roy, I believe you. Although I don't know why an apprentice witcher wants to work in the herb shop in the market, since you are willing to listen to me, you have experience in that area, so it's okay to tell you .At least you won't directly regard me as a lunatic like ordinary people?"

"It's unbelievable to say, even I don't know what that brother looks like, how old is he, and where is he?" Vivien smiled self-deprecatingly, the expression on her pretty face was very complicated, and even she felt that this was very strange. absurd.

"When I first announced this fact to others, everyone around me thought I was crazy, no matter whether it was the respected Principal Caddell or the group of cute and naughty students, no one had seen my brother, and no one Remember... I once had a brother."

"I tried to prove to that alcoholic that he still has a real son, and showed him the clothes of the extra boys at home! But he scolded me for having an illegitimate child outside, and as for my mother, she couldn't understand me at all .Later I realized that if I continued to preach, probably everyone would think that I was possessed by the devil and purify me by burning me at the stake. Since then, I have been hiding this matter in my heart, as long as everything is normal. So far probably It's been two years, and I haven't mentioned it to others." Vivien fell into a brief silence.

The doubts in Roy's heart became heavier, "Mr. Vivien, this is very strange. No one remembers him at all. How can you be so sure that you have such a relative?"

"Because I have evidence... As I said just now, I found some boys' clothes at home... If it wasn't all burned by that drunkard, I can show you." Vivien's beautiful eyes flashed Regrettably, he then became determined, obviously convinced of this idea, "Besides, since I started working with Principal Kadel, I have a habit of writing a diary every half a month or a month, recording Impressive things. School, home, chance encounters on the street. I recorded for a whole decade."

"Occasionally, I will look through these diaries. I have high demands on myself, and I dream that one day I can become a person who is respected and loved by everyone like Principal Kadell... So I often use those records to correct my mistakes. So proper words and deeds."

"Sister Vivien, in fact, you have already done it. Everyone in the school likes you. And the parents of those children." Roy said sincerely. He felt that the woman in front of him was putting too much pressure on him.

"It's still far away." Vivien shook her head, staring at the sky with her beautiful eyes, and said in a daze, "When I was flipping through the diary the year before last, I found some strange records—"

Vivien's voice paused, and her tone suddenly increased, "Besides me, that alcoholic, and my poor mother, there is a fourth person in the family!"

Roy shrank his neck, feeling like listening to a ghost story.

Vivien took off the silver necklace on her chest, pinched it lightly, opened the square pendant, took out a small piece of crumpled paper from inside, opened it and laid it flat, about the size of a palm, with a rough and simple The lines depict two people, one tall and one short, holding hands.On the left is a tall woman, and on the right is a boy with a lovely blush on his cheeks.

With bright smiles and intimate expressions, the two are obviously a pair of siblings.

"Later, I found a bunch of boy's clothes at home. The size was obviously much smaller than that of the alcoholic. In addition to this inexplicably extra painting in the pendant, I was sure that I had a younger brother. It’s just that I don’t know why, I really can’t remember it.” Vivien showed a puzzled and frantic expression on her pretty face, and continued after a while.

"This feeling was especially strong when I helped you out of the slum that day. I know that there must be many similarities between you and him."

"Although I don't know what he looks like, my feeling tells me that he does exist."

This can explain Vivien's surprisingly nice attitude towards Roy when they first met.

But Roy always felt that something was wrong, so he decided to follow the other party's words and find out.

"Sister Vivien, I would like to ask, can you let me see that part of the diary?"

"If you want to read it, of course there is no problem. If there are words you don't know, I can explain them to you," Vivien said cautiously with a tense face, "but don't spread the contents without definite evidence. This It's for your own good, understand?"

Chapter 22 Diary

Roy followed Vivien to the living room on the third floor of the school. When she stayed at the school at night, she would live in this room.And Principal Cadell, homeless students, the room is next door.But now it's empty.

The woman led him into the house. The inside of the house was much simpler and dilapidated than the outside. There were many cracks in the surrounding walls, and moldy black spots could be seen everywhere.

The furnishings in the house are simple, only a pair of tables and chairs, a wall clock, a pair of full-length mirrors, and a wooden bed covered with blankets... There is a large brown wooden box next to the inner wall.

After Vivien opened the wooden box with a key, she took out a stack of crumpled, yellow, low-quality paper, and then separated a small stack from it, spreading it out on the wooden table.

"After reading these diaries, you can understand a little bit, how I feel."

Roy nodded and began to read in silence. Vivien sat beside her, with a trace of tension in her beautiful eyes, explaining to him the words he had learned from time to time.

The handwriting on the paper was originally slender and beautiful, but the quill pen used to write it was the worst, and because of the poor quality of the ink, the handwriting stuck together from time to time and turned into a black and ugly mass, which greatly damaged the diary clean and aesthetically pleasing, but does not affect reading.

"April 1256, 5

Today the drunkard turned the house upside down, found no crowns, no money to buy wine, and the tavernkeeper wouldn't let him go on credit.He finally sobered up for a day, and the conscience that had been soaked by alcohol seemed to show a little sign of recovery.

It's like a dream scene!The four of us sat in the dark and dank cabin and celebrated my poor mother's birthday with a smoked fish.

Merciful Prophet Rebioda, please grant me mercy and bless our family to have such a birthday next year. "

A family of four?

Roy rubbed his eyes, wondering if he was wrong, Vivien, her alcoholic father, her delirious mother, and——

"You had guests at home at the time?" Roy glanced at Vivien, "Or was this a clerical error?"

"In my impression, no one was invited to my mother's birthday. To be more precise, since I can remember, no one came to the house except for the collectors of wine debts. As for the clerical error you mentioned," Vivien said. Qiaolian was very calm, "I have always been in charge of the arithmetic class of the Cadell House. If I can't tell the difference between three and four, then what face do I have left? Keep reading."

Roy held his temper and shifted his gaze to another diary entry, which was much shorter.

"April 1257, 1

He got into a fight with Miffin because Miffin called our father - the guy who came to school after school drunk and begged me for money and spitting shit in front of everyone was like Sparrow Gang The thugs and human traffickers are even more disgusting and annoying.

I agree with Miffin that the drunk is a total jerk. "

Roy was curious, who was this "he" referring to?Judging from the information revealed in the text, "he", like Vivien, also called that alcoholic his father, so it is indeed possible that he is Vivien's brother.

"April 1257, 8

Today, Principal Kadell, my most respected elder, talked to me. First of all, he affirmed my contribution to the school over the years, and then encouraged me to continue to work hard to train more outstanding students.My ultimate goal is to get an outstanding graduate into Oxenfurt University, a feat that even Principal Caddell has failed to accomplish!

Then, the principal mentioned to me about... and told me tactfully that I should take proper care of... As a family member, even if I ignore any student in the school, I shouldn't ignore him.That's when I suddenly realized that my alcoholic dad, befuddled mom, and I had all been unknowingly ignoring him... "

"Have you noticed?" Vivien's slender fingers suddenly touched a line in the diary, "There is something missing in this place."

"Yes, it's really strange." A trace of confusion flashed in Roy's eyes. "There are two places in this diary that have been vacated, talking about 'who'? Do you care about 'who'?"