Orc Knight

After that, Ivan didn't say anything to the old priest, and Blair rushed over to pick him up and take him back to the cave where he stayed temporarily.

The two walked out of the old priest's cave, and Blair turned into a beast shape with a huff. His huge white body firmly blocked the wind and rain. Ivan walked under his wings, feeling the surging humidity around him, but his body was extremely dry. .

In the quiet night, a pair of green eyes flashed from time to time. They were the eyes of the vigilant wolves. After listening to the old priest's story about Gretel, Ivan felt a little restless. He raised his head and looked at Blair who was walking in front, and suddenly Softly, "Blair? What is your father like?"

"My father?"

Blair was taken aback for a moment, and following Ivan's question, he thought of his unfocused, unusually casual, but very reliable father, "He is a very good father."

"You know, my brother Rothschild is five years older than me. After my brother was born, my father was reluctant to have a child." Blair's golden eyes flashed memories, "So I was an accident."

Ivan raised his eyebrows, "Why do you say that?"

"Because he is the patriarch..." Blair said as a matter of course, "The patriarch's child is the most troublesome. If he is not careful, he will die early, and when he grows up, he will fight with each other and live very tiringly. That's why my mother-in-law once told me, My father originally planned to have only one child, and if unfortunately he died early, he would choose a backup patriarch from the clan."

Ivan was stunned, he thought of his father, the man who cruelly threw him directly into the knight training camp.

"But then my mother had me. According to the High Priest of Belia, my father was silent for one night when he heard the news, and the next day he vowed to turn the Rohan Valley into a paradise that never closes its doors. All of his allies have been cleaned up." Blair said proudly, "He said, I can't decide the birth of the child, but I can give him the best future."

After Ivan heard this, miraculously, the first night when he was leaving the family appeared in his mind.

That year, behind the gorgeous door, he tightly covered his mouth, curled up on the ground, not daring to make a sound.

——"Honey, Ivan is only five years old!!"

——"So what?! His magic talent is only average, but he is a genius in martial arts!! If he can enter the Holy Knight Order, if he can become a Holy Knight, then our family power can be further expanded! "

——"But even if Ivan is so young...we don't have any acquaintances in the knight order...we can't ask someone to take care of him..."

—— "Why take care of him?! If we take care of him, won't our purpose be revealed?!"

—— "...You mean, let him break in by himself?!"

--"good!"

—— "You... Do you know how many enemies you have inside the God Court?! Do you know how many dark creatures want to kill you?! In case they threaten you with Ivan..."

——"Just pretend that I don't have this son!"

- "What did you say?! He is my child!! How can you!?"

——"We have three children. Ivan went to the Holy Knights and there are two more. Karina is a good child. Well, I agree with that child's future marriage autonomy. How about it? Prime Minister Momet some time ago He also came to me and wanted to marry his grandson to our daughter Karina."

--"……you……"

——"Choose one, Ivan or Karina?"

——“…”

His mother didn't speak anymore, and the long silence deeply stimulated his five-year-old and weak heart.

Then his mother said, "Okay, I agree."

This sentence started his 18 years of painful life. During these 18 years, he walked alone in the dark, with slow steps and full of bitterness.

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"Ivan, what is your father like?"

Blair told a lot of stories about his father, but it was a pity that Ivan had been obsessed with his own affairs and didn't hear Blair's proud narration. Fortunately, he didn't hear it, otherwise he couldn't help it.

Can't help feeling jealous.

"Ivan?"

Ivan looked up, expressionless, "I don't have a father."

Blair was taken aback.

"He died with my mother when I was five years old." He suddenly quickened his pace and walked into the night of heavy rain. "I've always been alone."

"It's always been."

Blair stared blankly at Ivan's back, and suddenly his whole body became cold. He quickly changed into a human form and ran quickly, "Ivan? What's wrong?"

But I never thought that Ivan seemed to be walking in the rain, but his speed was very fast. In just a few seconds, Ivan's figure disappeared. Blair anxiously searched for him according to the contract between him and Ivan in his mind. .

He didn't dare to yell loudly. After all, the wolves around him were already asleep. The deep night was full of the sound of wind and rain. The fine gravel washed down by the water made the road rough and slippery. Blair didn't pay attention. , stepped on the ground, and his calf sank into a hole full of rainwater.

He smiled wryly, Blair recognized this small hole, which was left when he played with the cubs during the day, he quickly got his paws out, and continued to move forward persistently.

Run forward, run forward, if you accidentally bump into a tree, then go around, if you bump into a rock, then jump on it, turn over it, and keep going, when you encounter a pool of water formed by heavy rain, you will jump over it quickly , step on the ground and fall down the dirt slope, then roll down...

Blair didn't know how far he had gone, he only knew that if his speed was a little slower, Ivan would disappear within his sensing range, and if he didn't chase faster, Ivan would get drenched even more in the rain If he doesn't find him, maybe Ivan will disappear in his life and drift to nowhere.

Relying on a little bit of the keen intuition that only belongs to orcs that has been passed down from countless generations of ancestors, Blair pursued his own partner persistently, even paranoidly, and he kept firmly in mind the words of his inconspicuous father.

"You must not let go!"

"Ivan——!!!"

After running a few miles away from the wolf camp, Blair immediately called Ivan's name loudly. Unfortunately, the heavy rain poured down, and the voice was drowned out by the pouring rain. The surrounding was still pure black night, and Ivan's white could not be found.

Can not give up.

Blair took a deep breath, unexpectedly remembering the first time he was abandoned by Ivan.

At first, he wavered and went home listlessly. Fortunately, he chased him back immediately, and then Ivan accepted him, and even agreed to give him a chance. He had already decided to hold his hand for the rest of his life, so how could he give up now? !

"Ivan——!!!" Blair ran faster and faster, his face was full of determination, and his voice was hoarse, "Ivan—!"

"I knew you could hear me!!"

Blair dressed rough, "You've always been better than me...you can definitely hear me looking for you!"

"Come out for me!!"

Blair roared, the rain fell into his mouth, he accidentally choked and coughed violently.

"I will not give up!!"

He stretched out his hand to wipe the rain off his face, his golden eyes were frighteningly bright at night, "Ivan, what are you talking about?!"

"Even if you used to be alone...even if you don't have parents...even if you always rely on yourself...you still go down..."

Blair said loudly, "I'm very glad that you used to be alone, you don't have parents...otherwise...maybe I wouldn't have met you!!"

Sudden!Lightning flashed in the sky, and the rain became heavier.

"Look, maybe your unlucky life in the past was all because you wanted to meet me!" Blair said more and more, the more he didn't know what he was talking about. Yes, paranoid, simple, the stupid tiger who believes you will be with you, if you don't want it, wouldn't it be a loss?"

"So..." Blair slammed into a tree. Why are there so many trees in the damn grayback wolf camp?Didn't you say this is grass...

"So let me catch you!"

Blair rubbed his head, still slumped towards the point in his mind, and kept saying, "Ivan——!! I won't give up!"

"So please don't give up on yourself!!"

boom! !

Blair hit a huge rock this time, slipped and fell to the ground.

He struggled to get up, when suddenly he saw a long white coat out of the corner of his eyes.

"Ivan!!"

Ivan's face was astonishingly white, and those silver eyes were dazzling, like a ghost soaked in the night, or like a ghost that had wandered for thousands of years.

He quietly looked at the person in front of him without saying a word.

Blair finally stood up, and he said cautiously, "Ivan, why are you so well-mannered and suddenly angry?"

"It's the priest of the wolf clan who made you angry? No problem, I'll beat him up and help you out when you get back."

Ivan said quietly, "You are not as strong as me."

Blair smiled, "I know this, but as long as you are happy, I will do it~"

Ivan stopped talking again.

Blair reached out to hug Ivan, hesitated for a moment, and muttered, "Ivan, if you are unhappy, you have to go back and talk about it. You are all wet and you will get sick."

"My whole body is covered in mud and rain, that... I have turned into a beast shape, you still walk under my wings, but don't run away suddenly this time."

Ivan looked up at Blair, the voice that sounded silly in the past, now has a strange kind of warmth, these chattering turned into a spring water, melting Ivan's frozen heart in the past.

"...Ivan, did you hear what I just said?"

Blair said a lot, and found Ivan in a daze again, he said helplessly, "Ivan? What's wrong with you?"

Ivan shook his head, the rain fell across his pale face, like a glance of tears, taking away the sadness and anger, distortion and hatred hidden in it.

Crystal rain was streaming down his cheeks, and Ivan tilted his head slightly, "Did you know? My father sold me, and my mother sold me with another child's freedom as a bargaining chip. Blair, you in the future will Sell ​​me for other reasons?"

Blair was stunned when he heard the words, and then all his confusion turned into anger. He roared to the sky, "Who? Who is going to sell you?! Tell me! I'll kill him!!"

Ivan smiled slowly, with a desolate smile, "My father... But even so, the god I believe in is still imprisoning me, he said... he is your father, you should respect and love him, you should serve him He, you should respect him, you should obey him..."

"It's...a virtue..."

"The virtues of a knight..."

His smile was uglier than crying, "Blair, did I tell you... am I a knight?"

"But the last thing I want to do is knight..."

"What I hate will always be what I need to protect with my life. What I want to protect will always be erased by the people I believe in..."

"Blair, the ugly me, the humble me, the poor me, the distorted me, the hypocritical me... Are you really willing to stay with me and never give up?"

Ivan's voice was like broken glass, crystal clear and soft like floating clouds in the sky, passing away in a flash.

Blair grabbed Ivan's hand, with a solemn expression on his face, "Ivan, maybe you never know, you are my belief, if the so-called knights are here to protect you, then I am willing to be the knight who protects you. "

"Ivan, I swear."