[Comprehensive] Just a housekeeper

Matthew Hughes...

Mass Hughes, wake me up!

!

Hughes turned his head sharply, but there was no one behind him except the empty hall.

hum-

Something was wrong, Hughes frowned, inexplicably feeling a little dizzy around.

"dad?"

The daughter's voice made Hughes turn his head. In the kitchen, Alicia, who was pulling her mother's apron, was looking at herself with her head tilted.

"Alicia." Seeing his daughter, Hughes couldn't help but relax,

Hughes!

!

Hughes' pupils shrank suddenly. This voice was Roy...

Turning back suddenly, Hughes gritted his teeth and stared at the window that had turned yellow at some point.

Roy, Roy Mustang, by the way, my best friend, we made an appointment together, and I want to see how his true ideals can change this country.

I have to help... Roy.

"dad."

Hughes froze, and his lovely daughter walked out of the kitchen and stood behind him.

"Alicia, I'm sorry."

He didn't look back, he was afraid, afraid that if he looked at him a few more times, he really couldn't go back.

"Daddy, I'm going to work."

"Can't you stay?" Alicia reached out and grabbed the corner of Hughes's clothes, lowering her head and pointing her fingers in a depressed mood.Her favorite father is often unable to accompany her because of the so-called work. Although her mother is always there, she is still lonely and misses her father.

"Well, because Dad has an appointment with a friend." The clenched hands trembled because of the force, and the glasses on Hughes' face were reflective and white, covering his eyes.

He turned around, knelt down and hugged Alicia, feeling the soft and petite life and the warm temperature in his arms, and couldn't help but close his eyes tightly.

"Aili, Alicia, daddy's baby, you don't want daddy to be a bad daddy who doesn't keep his promise, do you? Dad has always been your hero." His voice was very close and steady but he was always calling his daughter's name Sometimes I can't help but shake my Adam's apple, and my voice trembles slightly.

"Hmm." Alicia nodded slightly with her head on Hughes' neck.

"Then dad must keep the agreement well, because dad is the best."

Pfft, Hughes laughed happily, the corners of his mouth raised, but tears leaked from the corners of his eyes, slid down his cheeks and seeped into his clothes, leaving some dark marks.

"Then dad is out~" Hughes opened his eyes and looked at Gracia, who was leaning against the kitchen doorframe and looking at them with a smile.

"Gracia, dear." Hughes stood up holding Alicia, staring blankly at his beautiful wife.

Seeing his silly appearance, Gracia's smile deepened. She walked over, stretched out her hands to brush Hughes' hair, and said softly, "Honey, be careful all the way."

This is what his wife would say every time he went out.

"Since this is your decision, of course we will support you." Gracia put down her hand and showed Hughes a smile similar to his.

"We are a family." She didn't hold back, even in a non-existent time and space, this phantom with the same consciousness as her wife was the same as Gracia who had been waiting for him for several years during the war, Love him, understand him, support him.

Gracia!Hughes gritted his teeth, the smile on his face could no longer be contained, he reached out and hugged his wife.

"I love you, honey," Gracia said softly.

"Me too, I love Mom and Dad the most." Alicia raised her head and pouted her mouth, wiping Hughes' tears with her fleshy little hands.

"Me too." Hughes burst into tears.

"I love you both here and for who you really are."

Alicia, Gracia...

The two people in his arms slowly lost their temperature, no, it wasn't that they lost their temperature, but that he lost the feeling of feeling the temperature.

goooo...

Lying in the darkness, Hughes felt a beam of white light coming from above his head. He opened his eyes in confusion, and stretched out his hand towards it.

Sorry Alicia...

Daddy is late...

In the white light, a small white figure stretched out his hand towards him, and Hughes instinctively caught it with his outstretched hand in the darkness, almost, his fingertips were less than a knuckle away from that hand Every time we are about to meet but always miss the distance, almost...

Hughes bit his lip and grabbed it with all his strength.

Soon!

Fingertips, he touched fingertips!

The moment he swung the air again, he slammed his backhand... and grabbed that hand.

However, in the next second, the little white hand shattered and disappeared, and he didn't catch anything again.

"Ahem!"

Hughes lying on the bed opened his eyes suddenly, panting heavily with his mouth open.

"Ari... Sia?"

His vision was hazy, Hughes' body was too tired, and he closed his eyes again uncontrollably. He felt that something was wrong with his whole body, as if he had a dream, a very happy, very happy dream, just like heaven .But he remembered that he was shot by a guy who turned into Second Lieutenant Maria,

Could it be that he is actually dead?

No, I'm dead, so where am I now?It can't be hell.After gradually waking up, Hughes still struggled to open his eyes, although he still felt sore all over.

It was so dark that Hughes almost thought that he had worked hard for a long time and hadn't actually opened his eyes yet.

But after staring for a long time, he finally saw that the darkness in front of him was different from the darkness with his eyes closed. The darkness in front of his eyes was black with no light. There are still some places where the color is different.

is the ceiling.

Hughes twitched the corner of his mouth, and was about to speak, but found that it was difficult for him to move his body, and even opening his mouth was very stiff, let alone turning his head and raising his hand.At the same time, due to the return of body consciousness, Hughes felt various sensations in his body one after another. His throat was thirsty, his limbs were numb, and his body was slightly cold... Although it was painful, it finally made him feel like he was still alive.

"Wake up, are you here?"

someone is coming!

When he felt the surrounding space suddenly brighten, Hughes heard someone on the other side of him push open the door and enter the room. He heard a strange voice, like a little girl.

"Yes, haven't woken up yet?" The girl's Nunuuo sounded again, patter, patter, footsteps, but at the same time as hearing the footsteps, a dragging sound also sounded, as if someone was walking What kind of bag was dragging, but listening carefully, there seemed to be some hard iron hooks on the bag, so that the sound of hard hooks scratching the ground occasionally appeared in the dragging sound.

Listening to the sound, Hughes felt that the child was already very close to him. The next second, a palm that was obviously a child was pressed against his cheek.

"Wake up, here we come."

The girl's voice rang in his ears, and he felt the girl put down her hand, turned and walked towards the door.

"Call, the doctor is here."

doctor?who is it?Hughes wanted to ask, but the sticky throat made him open his mouth but he couldn't make a sound.

"Ha! Cough!" His throat became more uncomfortable because of his reluctance, and Hughes, who couldn't help coughing, didn't wait long, and heard footsteps again from the direction the girl left.

"Are you awake?" came a man's voice

He was backlit, and the shadow of an adult was cast on Hughes' face. Hughes tried hard to see the face of the person coming, but his vision was really blurred when he just woke up, and he could only see Two figures that looked dark against the light.

The big black shadow walked up to him in a few steps, pulled his eyelids away, and shone with light.

Hughes instinctively wanted to close his eyes, when he heard the man whom the girl called a doctor say, "Most of his consciousness has recovered, and his body is slightly dehydrated normally."

As he said that, the man turned and left, and walked back after a while. This time Hughes felt his back being lifted up, and a cold iron was pressed to his lips.

"It's water."

As he said that, the man did not know what to do, and Hughes felt his mouth open automatically, and then the clear water flowed into his mouth, his throat was moistened, and his body swallowed instinctively, but he was almost choked because of his eagerness. .

The man was not in a hurry, and slowly fed it spoon by spoon. After feeding for a while, he stopped moving.

Hughes, who was leaning on him, fell into a deep sleep with a spoon in his mouth at some point.

When he woke up again, the room was brightly lit, and Hughes felt much better.

"ah."

Hughes turned his head sideways, and this time he finally saw the girl he felt when he just woke up.

It was a 'little girl' wearing a white coat, with long brown-red hair and blue eyes. She had fair skin on her arms and legs. She looked about as tall as a child of about 8 or 9 years old.

But it would be the best if it was just such an ordinary child!Hughes, who was taken aback, his pupils trembled slightly, and he looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief.

The body of the 'girl' looks like an ordinary person's body, but her face is that of a weird dog.And the dragging sound he heard before was because, in front of the girl, the body of another beast was exposed under the clothes.Compared with the human body, the beast's body is larger, with long limbs hanging down, and its claws dragging on the ground. It is dragged around with the girl's movements, like a large doll on its chest.

One head, but two bodies? !

"Hey, didn't I come to hell?" The corners of Hughes' eyes twitched, and he pulled the corners of his mouth reluctantly to make himself smile with a forced smile, showing his usual sense of humor, but he looked at the eyes without blinking A former half-human, half-beast girl.

The girl watching backed away a little scared.

"I'm very sorry, Lieutenant Colonel Hughes, for disappointing you. This is not hell, it's just an ordinary clinic." A hand patted the girl's shoulder. Behind the girl, in front of the door of the room, was Xi Chuan in a white coat. walked out.

Hughes froze for a moment, the person in front of him gave him a very familiar feeling, he must have seen it somewhere, but his still somewhat chaotic brain couldn't turn the corner for a while.

"I remember you, you are—um—" He squinted his eyes and searched hard for the memory, and soon remembered where he saw this man.

"Under Xichuan, Xichuan beat the enemy." Xichuan pushed his glasses and introduced himself calmly.

"Had a brief exchange with Lieutenant Colonel Hughes in Edward's ward."

"That's right, it's Xi Chuan!" I was about to say it!Hughes fully recognized him now, and he was relieved.An acquaintance, or the man Edward knew!Fortunately, it seems that he is still alive, probably rescued by this person.

Hughes glanced at the orc girl who came to Xi Chuan after Xi Chuan appeared and pulled the corner of his clothes.

Since he is Xi Chuan, this should be the girl Nina I met before who was turned into a synthetic beast by her father. She has changed so much.

As if aware of Hughes' gaze, Nina held Xi Chuan's clothes tightly, and then simply hid behind Xi Chuan without even showing her head.

Xi Chuan patted Nina's head with his lowered hand, telling her to relax.

After blinking, Hughes suddenly grinned, his eyes curled into a smirk: "Oh, I'm really sorry for the trouble, Mr. Xichuan, thank you, I don't know what happened, and it just happened like this all of a sudden, by the way, you know that I am now What's wrong? My body is numb, I feel really stiff, like a corpse. Hahahaha~"

If it weren't for the fact that he was still reluctant to move his body, he might have already bent over and slapped his head.

"I don't know what time it is now. My daughter is still waiting for me to come home. Do you know my daughter? Alicia~ she's super cute~ Do you want to see her? I knew you must want to see her, she ..."

"You have been comatose like a vegetable for a year and five months."

"What did you say!"

Hughes' face changed suddenly, and his brows furrowed. He tried his best to prop up his upper body, and shouted at Xi Chuan excitedly: "Central, what's the situation now? Artificial man, Roy, how are my wife and daughter doing!"

"They're all fine, so is Central." Xi Chuan frowned slightly, bowed his head and patted Nina's shoulder, Nina let go of her hand sensiblely, turned and left the room, before leaving, she glanced at Hughes, and then stared at him. Hughes, who was looking at Xichuan, didn't notice.

Stretching out a chair, Xi Chuan quickly walked to his bed and sat down, holding Hughes' shoulder with one hand, so that the hand that let him hang the water would not press down on the infusion tube at least, while speaking concisely and quickly Said to him: "I will tell you what you want to know, so don't move around, you can't move casually now. You have been in a coma for a year and 5 months, and your muscles have atrophied after a long time of inactivity. recovered, but the body is still unable to act immediately."

Seeing that Hughes had calmed down a little, Xi Chuan let go of his hand and continued: "That day, when I was leaving from Central City, I happened to pass by the public green space where you were killed. When I heard the sound passing by, I saw you lying on the ground alone. In the phone booth."

"I rescued you. Although I don't know what happened, but seeing that you, the lieutenant colonel, appeared there to make a phone call instead of calling at the military headquarters, I think you came out because you didn't want to be discovered by the military personnel. However, at that time I have something urgent to leave, and you are still in a coma. I didn't want the military to chase you, so I simply used alchemy to make a fake corpse for you and put it there to save you. You will wait until you are free. Then hand you over to Edward or Colonel Roy."

"Leaving from Central City, I'm going directly back to Gurrading. I'm taking a non-stop train on the way. I don't have time to contact your friends, but I informed Colonel Roy after I returned to Gurrading. He wrote back please I asked you to treat me at my side first, and at the same time hide your news for now."

Having said that, Xi Chuan reached out and took out a piece of letter paper from his bedside cabinet, and spread it out for Hughes to read.

"Colonel Roy didn't tell me much about the central government, but I heard from Colonel Roy that he didn't tell your family that you were still alive in order to prevent your family from being persecuted."

Looking at the familiar handwriting on the letter paper, Hughes' breathing slowed down, and he looked at the contents of the letter at a glance.

"Your family members are all very good, Mrs. Gracia and Alicia, apart from being sad because of you, there is nothing bad in life. Even because of your 'died in the line of duty', they were promoted For the widow of the brigadier general, she has been subsidized by the government in her life and enjoys all the conveniences."

That was great, Hughes let go of his sinking heart a lot, his tension eased, and his body collapsed on the bed.

It seems that he should be in the mood to listen to things about himself now, Xi Chuan slowed down his speech, and let go of the hand on his shoulder that would push him down at any time.

"You should know that I am a derivative alchemist, so you were very lucky to be revived by me a few seconds after your heart stopped beating. However, you may have faced your own death. Although the wound was healed, But you never woke up because of the lack of oxygen in your brain and your subconscious mind."

"Colonel Roy took time to visit you, but even if he kept calling you, you didn't wake up. It's a pity that it's not convenient for your wife to know, otherwise it would be more useful to let your wife and daughter come. .”

"No, we can't let them know." Hughes put his hands on his eyes with great effort, and said in a low voice, "It's too dangerous."

Hearing what Xi Chuan said, he was in a complicated mood, but thinking that he had found out about the war and the upper echelon when he was 'dying', the corners of his lips that were peaceful one second were immediately pursed the next second, and he was still struggling to want to sit up.

"Mr. Hughes, didn't you hear what I said just now?" Xi Chuan opened his eyes with some displeasure, and the hand next to him was eager to slash the disobedient 'patient' unconscious with a knife, making him obedient stand up.

"Your body has been lying there for more than a year, and the fatal wound has healed, but now it needs rehabilitation to allow you to use it as freely as before. Reluctantly it will only make you hurt again."

"I know." Hughes was sweating on his forehead, shaking his limbs desperately, trying to make them more obedient.

"Thank you, but I can't wait now, rehabilitation, right? I'm doing it now!"

"Also." He looked up with sweat all over his head, and smiled reluctantly at Xichuan and asked, "Do you have a phone at home? Sorry, I have something very urgent to use the phone." Hughes swallowed Swallowing, looking at Xi Chuan fixedly, Xi Chuan stopped the hand that was about to raise, and stopped in the air.

"not now."

Frowning tightly, Xi Chuan sighed: "I know who you want to call, but your existence is already a dead person. If I call him, I only have the military one, but the military's phone number is always It's being monitored."

"Don't expose your existence casually, especially when what you want to say is a very secret thing."

Hughes' actions were fixed there.

That's right, everything is not clear now, the enemy is in the dark, we are in the open, and his only advantage is that he is also in the dark, if even this advantage does not exist...

"Damn it!" He lowered his head bitterly.

"If you don't mind if there is something that is not secret, I can call and relay it for you." Xi Chuan closed his eyes, embraced his arms, and tapped his arm with his fingers.

"Or do you have an exclusive channel to notify him? Otherwise, I can also make a trip?"

"No."

Gritting his teeth, Hughes tried his best to change himself from a lying state to a half-kneeling sideways position.

"I have to tell Roy myself about this."

"..." Then you are really stubborn.

Xi Chuan stood up helplessly and planned to give this man a hand knife to let him rest for a while, but at this moment, a phone call came from outside the house, and Nina ran over at the same time.

"Doctor~" Nina leaned on the door frame, and when she saw Xi Chuan and Hughes kneeling on the bed, she shrank her head and whispered to Xi Chuan.

"Green is ringing."

Green is the phone.

Xi Chuan nodded: "I see, I'll be there right away."

"Also, that's a phone call, phone call, do you remember, Nina?"

"Telephone?" Nina tilted her head.

"That's right." Xi Chuan praised Nina a little, and stood up.

"She is Nina." Hughes who was behind him suddenly said.

"Did you make her look like this?"

Xi Chuan paused, then turned around: "Yes."

"She used to look like the beast on her previous body. I cultivated cells, body, and refined it to connect the artificial human body with her now. During this period of time, she has gotten used to this part of the human body. When she can speak more smoothly, my next step is to remove the original body in front of her, and then treat her so that she can survive with this human body."

Hughes~~~~ Hughes whistled, and turned to Xi Chuan in admiration: "You are really powerful. You are worthy of being the alchemist of derivatives. I heard from Edward that you are the No. 1 in physical refinement."

"..." The corners of Xi Chuan's eyes twitched. It's really embarrassing who first spread the nickname.

After blowing a wave of Xi Chuan (he thought it was), Hughes finally revealed his real purpose: "You are so powerful, you must be able to make me stand up soon, right?"

"Do you want to use alchemy? I heard that it seems to be ready in an instant."

Xi Chuan pushed his glasses, and didn't have the slightest intention to answer the conversation: "I'm sorry, Lieutenant Colonel Hughes, I'm going to answer the phone first, please wait for a while, and we will discuss the phone or physical problems later."

"Hey? Hello!"

Ignoring Hughes' call, Xi Chuan simply left the room, but he heard... bang!Snapped!huh huh huh~

"Ah, it hurts. Why is the bed so high?"

Xi Chuan: "..."

Reluctantly helping his forehead, Xi Chuan didn't go back to take care of the situation there, and left to answer the phone.

Nina, who was standing on the other side outside the door, looked at Xi Chuan's back, then at the door, hesitated for a moment, walked to the door, and quietly put her head in.

……

Before coming to the phone in the living room, Xi Chuan answered the phone that was still ringing.

"Hello, this is Xichuan Clinic, please dial 1 for registration appointment, please transfer to..."

"Hello Doctor, I'm Lisa, Lisa Hawkeye, may I ask if you are free recently?"

Xi Chuan got stuck, really talking about who is coming. He talked to Hughes on the phone just now, but now the person calling him is Lisa, Colonel Roy's assistant.

"Did something happen?"

"Yes doctor, we have a wounded person here and I want you to take a look."

The wounded... Xichuan raised his eyebrows.

"Did you go to the hospital? When was the injury? What was the condition? How serious was it?"

"I'm in the hospital right now, and the doctor there... said it can't be cured." Lisa on the phone bit her lips, and took a deep breath to keep her voice normal.

"The wounded is an adult male, not life-threatening, but he was stabbed in the spine and paralyzed his lower limbs. The time of injury was three days ago."

The spine was stabbed and the lower limbs were paralyzed.Xi Chuan thought for a while.

"I see, I will rush the plan here, and it will pass after a while."

"Thank you very much, Doctor, if you can, please come as soon as possible."

After hanging up the phone, Xi Chuan turned around and walked quickly to the room where Hughes was.

Walking into the room, Xi Chuan saw Hughes sitting on the ground, smiling silly and playing house with Nina.

The big and small man wears a few small cloth flowers on his head, and there is a mini teacup on the palm of his lap, how funny it is.However, what Xi Chuan cared about was, isn't this guy wearing his spare glasses?

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Chapter 100 is achieved, why was there so little yesterday, and why is it late tonight?For some people, the chapters he suddenly posted were short and the time was wrong. That's because...he was making big moves! The 6666 package is here!