Tides: Years of Dawn

That night, Crewe slept in Gawain's arms for the first time.

During the whole process of entering the room from the door, his tentacles did not relax for a moment, they were tightly wrapped around Gawain's back, and his head was pressed against the hot chest that still smelled of wine.

Gawain had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​letting Crewe sleep in his younger brother Lemarlock's room, so he could only wrap his arms around him vaguely, wrapped in the same quilt.

In fact, this is allowed in the Cracked Rock Islands, and it will not attract other people's comments.It's just that Gao Wen always felt that Crewe was too young, and such a close distance made him a little embarrassed.

But it seemed that Crewe was not embarrassed, he just pressed against Gawain's chest, regardless of the baggy pajamas, almost exposing Gawain's entire chest when he lay down.

At this moment, Gawain was almost awake from alcohol, he opened his eyes and looked over Crewe's head to the window porch opposite the bed.

The moonlight tonight is very good, the moonlight is clear and cold, cut into a neat square by the window porch, and spread flat on the table and the ground beside the bed.

Crewe didn't fall asleep either, and the purpose of his trip was not to sleep.Gao Wen's heartbeat was forcefully transmitted to his body one by one, while his whole body was icy cold.

After asking for a while what and why he was afraid, but Crewe didn't answer, Gawain stopped asking.He stroked Crewe's hair gently, smoothing out the messy strands from running.

After recovering, Crewe finally loosened his tentacles, slightly raised his head to look at Gawain, and asked, "Are you going to destroy me?"

Hearing this, Gao Wen was stunned for a moment, and asked back—"Abolish...what to abolish?"

"Destroy the support." Crue stared at Gawain with round eyes, and tugged at Gawain's pajamas with his fingers, "Eileenna said you would destroy me."

"I—" Gao Wen was about to refute, when he suddenly heard the name, he couldn't help but have some strange thoughts in his mind, and asked—"You mean your sister Elena?"

"She's not my sister, she...she's from a separate family." Crewe said, trying to deduct some points for Elena.

Gawain smiled, patted Crewe's head with a smile, and said - "She was joking with you."

Gao Wen really thought that Elena was joking, but this joke made Crewe take it seriously.So Crewe scurries to ask for proof, like a child asking his parents if there really was a monster that would eat him.

But Crewe was very serious, he tugged Gawain's pajamas again.

He wants Gao Wen to be serious, and realize that the real assistant has been threatened and intimidated—"This is not a joke, Elena said you don't like me, so you will abolish me, and then...then make her a Auxiliary."

As soon as these words came out, Gao Wen was even more confused. He thought he didn't hear clearly—"Who do you think will be the assistant?"

"Eileen said you'd let her replace me..." Crewe lied a little, he gritted his teeth and frowned.He lowered his eyes for a while, as if he was firming up some kind of conviction, and when he raised his head again, he thought he should tell a bigger lie——

"Eileen said that you... you actually hate me very much. You...you hate me as much as they do. You can't wait for me to die, so you don't have to dethrone me..."

Gao Wen was dumbfounded.

He saw the tears in Crewe's eyes, and he believed that this was not the effect of a simple joke.He was completely unfamiliar with Elena, and just met by chance tonight.Saru kept apologizing for Crewe's failure to show up, and even found various excuses for Crewe.

In fact, Gao Wen didn't need these reasons. If he didn't come, he didn't come. Crewe had his privileges at a young age, and Gao Wen wouldn't really hold grudges.

So he explained—"Of course I wouldn't make such an important decision just because you weren't here tonight, Crewe, since I've—"

"It's not that I didn't show up on purpose, nor did I leave without saying goodbye on purpose, it's... my brother locked me up at home, and he, he wouldn't let me go." Crewe hurriedly grabbed the words before Gawain finished speaking.

He had to let Gao Wen see that none of this was his responsibility, and all the responsibilities came from other sources.

"Why?" Gao Wen became serious, but he was also full of puzzles.

Crewe didn't answer immediately, he looked into Gawain's eyes for a moment, then grabbed the other's back with his tentacles again, and put his head on Gawain's chest.

"...Probably to give Elena a chance to get in touch with you." Crewe said in a low voice, sullenly.

After finishing speaking, he was also taken aback by what he said.

He didn't think that this was what he really thought, and he didn't even realize that he was telling and planting.But did he really inform and plant?It seems not again.

He just let the parties know the ins and outs of the matter, and the parties will have their own judgments.

Gawain understood, he paused for a moment while stroking Crewe's hair, then held Crewe's face in his hands, letting him look at him.

"What Elena said is not true." Gao Wen's face became serious, "I don't know if there is some misunderstanding, but Crewe, I will never abandon you."

"But Elena said so, and Rael said so—"

"I don't care what other people say to you, I know many people are puzzled by my establishment of you," Gao Wen frowned slightly, and sighed lightly, "I'm very young, and I'm not sure if that's true or not." The best decision. I just know that this is my responsibility after making the decision."

Crewe clenched his little fist, his eyes flickered for a moment, and then returned to Gawain's face, "You...you promise you won't abandon me...?"

"I promise," Gawain said with great certainty, "Now I can only swear to Sea God Leviathan and his master in front of you. But when you graduate, I will be in your family and mine. Before you, repeat this oath."

After finishing speaking, he lifted the hair on Crewe's forehead, and between the eyebrows, fell the first master's kiss to the assistant.

"Trust me, Crewe." Young Gawain said.

"You have nothing to be afraid of." The young Gawain said again.

Crewe nodded and did not pursue further.

Although Gawain was very young, Crewe knew that these words were worthy of trust.

Yes, as Rael said, Crewe is not as stupid as he looks.He can see the ins and outs of things with instinct, but because he has been suppressed, denied, and rejected for a long time, he is blinded by huge self-deception.

He is young, and all his ideas are not so firmly established as to be unshakable.So when everyone tells him that he is useless, he will doubt himself and deny himself.

But now, the ego no longer exists.Those oppressions were so strong that he lost them along with his ability to deceive himself.

After that, all that was left was instinct, the self-defense and protection mechanism that he thought had not gone through the brain, but had actually formed in the brain.

The ink was sprayed out before his brain could react, but blocked the enemy's pursuit for him.

At this moment, he was looking at the pitch-black ink field, he couldn't believe it was something he could do, but inexplicably, there was a small voice in his ear saying - he could do better .

TBC