[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

The afternoon wind whizzed past, and the girl's snow-white skirt was like a wind lotus raised high.

"How come..." Emma stared blankly at the woman standing not far away. Her black hair was combed back, and she still had the familiar smile on her face, but it was as hard as a statue of a cast iron instructor. ,?"……Mother?"

Why is Isabella here?

Isabella smiled, and turned off the pocket watch in her hand.When she raised her head again, her mother's look no longer flashed on her face, replaced by a snake's eyes: "There is no outsider here. Good afternoon, everyone. Ten years, we are the first time to use breeding and food The identity of the child met."

She got it!

Emma clenched her fists behind her back, and Isabella continued, "Don't get me wrong,? I have never done any harm to you. I will teach you as much as I can. Let you live in dreamy happiness and love." Grown up,? Not because of the rules of the ghost, but because I love you,? I love all the children in this orphanage, so I want you to give up."

Emma whispered: “…What to give up?”

"I don't want to make you suffer,? I don't want you to have hope and then despair. So stop resisting,? There are only ghosts outside,? There is no human society,? There is no way out,? You can only grow up in this 'Fantasy Island' Big." Isabella smiled and stretched out her hand, "Come on, Emma,? Let's go back,? Go back to the big warm house, eat delicious meals, and play with your younger brothers and sisters wantonly , live a happy life without worrying about anything.”

Emma looked at that hand, the woman's slender fingers were covered with rough calluses, and there were deep or shallow scars.It was a pair of mother's hands.But what flashed through Emma's mind was Connie's dead face. Her big loose eyes were staring at the sky blankly, and her skin was as pale as if the blood had drained from her whole body.But she also saw her own soul, the young Emma just clinging to Isabella's back, her light green eyes shooting heartbreakingly.

Sure enough... I really can't forgive my mother.Unforgivable collaborating with a ghost and dedicating her friends to the ghost's mother.

but.There was a voice in her heart that was always saying, but...

"...But mother is also a food child." Emma looked at her deeply and said, "Mom, you watch your child grow up and be eaten by ghosts. Is this kind of life happy?"

"Emma, ​​inside the walls of the farm is heaven, but outside the walls is hell, I beat countless people to be a mother, surrounded by innocent children, living in a fairytale place. We can only eat children like this -"

"There is no 'only this way'! Seeing your raised child being eaten by ghosts, don't you feel angry in your heart? You didn't report to the ghost even if you knew we were going to escape, you wanted to do your best for us You don't want us to go to the wall even if you extend your life for a year, because the ghost will probably see a child on the wall, so you have to hand us over." Emma looked up at her, water Green eyes gleaming in the sun, "At the end of the day, Mom, you love us, you love us like your own children. It's impossible for a mother to watch a beloved child being eaten and not be angry!"

She stretched out her hand to Isabella, a little girl under the age of 12, who seemed to be jumping with bright, sun-like rays of light: "I thought about it, we have fallen into the trap of the ghost because we hate each other. It's not each other, it's the ghosts, you are just bound by them, mother, break free from all this, let's live together!"

She thought about it and talked to Jack.Jack didn't give him a positive answer, but said to her: "Emma, ​​when you want to fight something, the first and most important question you should spend the most time thinking about is, 'Who is the enemy? are friends'."

That's right, mom, she shouldn't be an enemy!

"You can't do it."

"We have a solution, Mom! We can remove the things on your body, whether it's a transmitter, a chip, or a bomb/bomb. We can take you away and go to the human world together!"

Isabella was silent for a while, and then looked coldly at the arm that was looking at him: "Emma, ​​you are too naive. In this kind of place, beautiful words can't save anyone, and the outside world is not a fairy tale , your 'justice', 'kindness' and 'understanding' will only bring pain to more people."

She rejected Emma's hand, turned to Norman, and said in a bitter, gentle, absinthe-like tone: "I came here today to congratulate you, Norman, the notification from the headquarters has been Release, your time is up."

Jack was sitting in the studio, taking off the oil painting on the drawing board, when suddenly he heard a loud noise, and his door was kicked open heavily by Lei.Ray was emotional and out of breath, but still remembered to lock the door cautiously before yelling at Jack: "Didn't you say that they can all go to the human world? Why is Norman going to be shipped?!"

"Norman is going to be shipped?" Jack pondered for a while, "Is it Queen Regula Varima?"

"Who?"

"Queen Regula Varima, the queen who stands at the apex of this world, the daughter of the king who promised "Him" in the previous generation, is now the actual ruler of the society of ghosts. Since she was a child, she regarded herself very highly and demanded too much. I never thought that she would Greedy enough to do something to 'His' sacrifice." Jack turned his attention to his painting indifferently.

"You promised to..."

"You guys are really good at making trouble. That's the ghost of the royal family. It's different from the lowly ghosts in charge of the farm and the five major families. I don't really want to affect the royal family." Jack shook his head without even looking at him, "Unless you can Give me something more interesting."

Lei Dingly stared at this tall, thin, devil-like man, before speaking: "Isabella is my mother."

"I know she's your mother." Jack was uninterested.

"It's not that simple. She gave birth to me 11 years ago. We all know it. I am her son and she is my mother. But even then she will ship me, send me To be food at the ghost's table, I had to be her shepherd dog to survive, Isabella is such a cold-blooded, self-absorbed woman. Emma is wrong, she is just a 'breeder', not a 'mother' '." Ray said dryly, "Is this fun enough?"

Jack's hand hanging in mid-air stopped, and he turned his head to look at Lei. This boy under 11 years old was thin and short. He squeezed his lips tightly, and his front teeth secretly bit the flesh between his lips, as if in pain. It's like giving him strength.Undoubtedly, the confession of his heart pained him, so he tilted his head unnaturally, looking at a stain on the floor.

This is a cursed life.he thought.

Suffering from hyperamnesia and having memories of his infancy, Lei knew from the very beginning that this was not an orphanage, but a farm. They were not orphans, but food.

But he can't change anything.

When he was young, he had nightmares night after night, and the sleep time was constantly squeezed and stretched. In the half-dream and half-awake, only the faces of deformed ghosts followed closely like a curse.At that time, only friends and mothers could barely comfort her. Isabella was awakened by his screams, and she gently sat on the edge of the bed to coax him to sleep. Her mother’s embrace, touch and whispers were so gentle, and the candlelight Isabella is like Mary holding Jesus.

Isabella is his mother.Everyone in the orphanage called her mother, but only he knew that Isabella was his real mother.He admits that Isabella once gave him illusory comfort. Without those sincere tenderness, Lei would not be able to spend his childhood normally, and his brain would not be able to develop healthily and normally.But these comforts dissipated when he was six years old, as if his mother had been holding his hand and left, he fell alone on the cold floor, until then he really realized that the gravitational force of reality turned out to be so heavy.

——"Mom, I know the truth about the orphanage, why did you give birth to me?"

——"For me to survive... Ray."

At that time, Isabella was not on Ray's side.

Even if Ray is her biological son.

Struggling in hell, giving up dignity, betraying friends, even abandoning blood relatives, just to survive.

To keep Norman and Emma alive.

Jack looked at him and raised his eyebrows with interest: "Even so, you want Isabella to go to the human world with them?"

"No," Ray said, "but it's Emma's wish, and it's hard for Emma and Norman to take care of all the kids, which requires mom to leave with them"

"What about your own wish?"

"I have no wishes."

"I don't think it's 'no wish', it's that you don't want to live."

Lei was silent for a moment: "So what."

After hearing this, Jack didn't make any comments, just sighed, raised his head and looked around the room, and finally his eyes stopped on the wardrobe on the side of the room, he clapped his hands, and said to the wardrobe: "Okay, you all heard, Come out."

Before Lei could be surprised, the closed cabinet door was pushed open from the inside, and the two people he was most familiar with jumped out of it.Norman and Emma, ​​they are squeezed in the middle of a pile of messy clothes, because there is so little space, they have to stick to each other, their hands and feet are entangled, and their hair is out of shape.Emma jumped out from the corner of the cabinet and threw herself on Ray.Before she could speak, Lei spoke angrily, with the shame of having his little secret revealed, "Jack! You don't keep secrets!"

Jack slowly picked up a cup of scented tea: "No, they just paid a little price and asked to hide in the cabinet for a while. I really like heroes, but since we are friends, I will bear it together. People are disgusting."