Homeschool Companion Feeding Guide

"...It's still unbelievable to say that last month, the Lone North Ice Field suddenly melted by 40.00% overnight..."

"Yeah... Could it be that the end of the world is coming? Those judges haven't come out to explain it until now..."

In Vengley’s campus, students can be seen discussing some irrelevant topics during the break as usual. For those things that they don’t have a personal experience, they always feel far away from themselves, just like chatting after dinner. No matter how important it is, it is not worth paying attention to. It is just used to pass the time. Maybe it will be completely forgotten after speaking. Most of them are innocuous topics, and sometimes it doesn’t hurt to listen to them.

But when Sawada Tsunayoshi came out of the chairman's office, he had no intention of listening to those.

The boy clenched his right hand tightly, just dazed, at a loss, walked forward with a blank face, and didn't even notice that he bumped into someone. The always polite child just kept walking forward without saying a word. go.

Until among the countless noisy discussions, a familiar pronunciation directly broke into his ears.

"Xanxus should be back soon, right? It's been a month since the exchange match ended..."

"Yeah, I've heard how beautiful he won the competition. He deserves to be the next one in our Pengel list..."

"—!!"

Hearing this, the boy suddenly started running without warning, without direction or destination, just blindly rampaging, running tirelessly.

Away from all crowds and hustle and bustle.

But even so, the conversation between the boy and the old man just now still hangs in his ears, and it has not dissipated for a long time.

【"Grandpa Jiudaimu, this is...?"

"...This is Vongola's ring, Mr. Gangji."

"Huh?! But, but shouldn't this be given to..."

"Gang Ji-jun, XANXUS... had some accidents. From today onwards, you are Peng Gelie, the only heir."

"Grandpa Jiudaimu... Today is April Fool's Day, right..."

"...Sorry, Tsunayoshi-kun..."]

Everything is so abrupt, like a nightmare that can be forgotten after waking up, people don't want to believe it.

……

"what--!"

Suddenly, he didn't know what he tripped over. Driven by inertia, the child fell forward in a rush.

It turned out that at some point, he had already run to this nameless mountain outside the school. To him, it was also the place he was most familiar with in the past month.

It was still some distance away from the high ground where he used to stay, but the child tried to support the ground several times, but he couldn't get up anyway.

There was a hot tingling sensation from the knee, and a faint sweet smell of blood wafted in the air.

I don't know how many times it fell down. The child weakly spread out the right palm he had been holding tightly before. In the palm lay half a ring quietly. The hard edge of the ring made a deep hole in the child's palm. imprint.

The boy lying on the ground silently looked at the ring in his hand, and when he realized it, tears were streaming down his face.

"xanxus..."

The child choked up and curled up helplessly. He slowly retracted the hand holding the ring and pressed it to his chest, trying his best, as if putting everything on it.

Countless withered red leaves spread out under the child's body, mixed with the smell of rotten and damp soil, filled with memories.

Flakes of snow are falling—winter is here.

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【It's so noisy...】In the numbness of the cold, XANXUS thought.

Whether it's the child's disordered heartbeat, or the intermittent crying.

Very noisy.

This was the first time a man heard a boy's voice; it was also the only voice he could hear in this dark and dark ice called despair.