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?As soon as I got home, I saw Tyson who was helping Cole to build a tent. Norman's face darkened immediately. He rushed over and pulled Cole behind him, then turned around and turned his face to Tyson in front of him. Grinning his teeth in displeasure, he said angrily, "Why are you here?"

However, Tyson was not angry. He ignored the angry Norman and continued to help out. He said flatly, "Let me see if Cole needs help."

"Cole doesn't need your help." Norman replied immediately, taking a step forward, "It's enough to have me here."

Orcs have a keen sense of their enemies, whether they are powerful prey or other orcs who covet their sweetheart.

Tyson smiled faintly. Facing Norman's blatant hostility, he didn't take it seriously. Instead, he smiled and said to Cole: "This terrace has been set up. I'll go to the forest to collect some heather later. Protect it from moisture below, and you can dry the fruit here later."

Cole was very happy, and quickly nodded his thanks: "Thank you so much."

Some time ago, a sudden heavy rain washed away the previous balcony. Cole has been wanting to build a new one, but he has never been free. Unexpectedly, he was noticed by Tyson. Although he declined at first, he saw this new one. Cole is still very happy.

However, in Norman's eyes, the happy expression on Cole's face was like a thorn in his heart.

Norman clenched his fists, and when Tyson walked away, he remained silent, crouched alone under the waterfall, and began to process the prey he had caught.

This silence continued until Tyson returned.

However, Norman didn't lose his temper. He just kept silent, finished his food silently, and waited silently until it was dark when Tyson was about to leave. Then Norman slowly raised his head and said to Tyson, "I'll see you off."

With a slight flicker in his eyes, Tyson lowered his gaze and nodded slightly: "Okay."

As a result, the two of them didn't go far, and Tyson stopped and leaned quietly under the nearby tree. Under the setting sun, on his sharp bronze face, those dark black pupils, which were darker than Norman's, looked straight at him. Come over, the long black hair was tied on the head arbitrarily, Tyson folded his arms leisurely, and smiled: "What do you want to say."

Norman also stopped and stood a few steps away from Tyson, staring at him with his eyes fixed on him. After a long time, he finally opened his mouth and said, "He's mine."

"Hmph, I've noticed your mark." With an affirmative tone, Tyson raised his head slightly, glanced at Norman's chest with the last ray of sunset light, but chuckled softly, "But I I think he probably didn't promise you."

Norman's eyes were condensed, and the evil spirit around him gradually rose.

Tyson still didn't care, he slowly got up from the tree, stood up straight, faced Norman, withdrew his smile, and said seriously: "You heard it yesterday, he wants me to take you back, and then Leave here alone, if he liked you, would he say so?"

Norman clenched his fists, speechless.

"If you don't want him to leave, think of a way to bring him back." Tyson said.

"If he leaves, I'll go too." Norman held back for a long time before speaking.

Hearing this, Tyson sneered, lowered his eyes, and retorted coldly: "If he would agree, he wouldn't have said those things to me yesterday. I think the reason why Cole is still here is probably waiting for you to leave. Go back to the village, and even if he wants you to go with him, do you still want to see Cole suffer more from the journey?"

"I……"

Tyson's words reminded Norman of Cole's desperate efforts to survive for the two of them when he was a child. He still remembered that Cole always came back with injuries in order to find food for himself. He lost his life, but Cole never complained, no matter how painful or uncomfortable he would never cry in front of him, Cole would only smile at him, that kind of comforting, reassuring smile.

In fact, Norman knows very well that Cole is just trying to hold on, because if he breaks down, he may also break down.

Cole has been protecting himself, why doesn't he want Cole to live a stable life!

Norman was still in the memory, his hands trembling slightly, while Tyson stared at him who bowed his head silently, and said calmly: "I don't tell you all these years, you should know how difficult it is to live here, especially females, their bodies are originally He is weak, and it is a miracle that he can survive in this forest. If you are really good for him, you should not let him wander, or continue to stay in this dangerous place."

"The best way is to take him back." Tyson said without hesitation.

Raising his head in a daze, Norman thought for a while, but shook his head and said, "But Cole won't go back."

"How do you know if you don't try." Tyson stepped forward and patted Norman on the shoulder, "Maybe only you can persuade him to come back."

Raising his head and meeting Tyson's eyes, Norman looked at it for a while, then turned around, turned his back to Tyson and said slowly: "I will tell him." Then he took two steps and stopped again. Coming down and turning his head, Norman said clearly, "However, I will not give him up to anyone."

Then, the shadow disappeared into the jungle.

The evening wind passed through the branches, and Tyson faced the front covered by the branches and leaves, curled the corners of his lips, and said with a pointed smile: "Really."

Norman returned home soon.

At this time, Cole is processing the white vines collected this morning. This kind of white vines is extremely flexible and not easy to break. After simple stripping, the small ones can be used as threads, while the rest of the larger fibers can be made into ropes after weaving. , a basket, and shoes for hot weather.

Cole is making shoes for Norman.

After the rainy season, a lot of thorns grew in the forest, and Norman’s original shoes were damaged by the thorns. Because he was worried that Norman would hurt his feet, he went to collect the softest part of this white vine today. Remake a pair of shoes for Norman.

Seeing Norman come back, Cole raised his head and smiled: "You're back."

The smile under the firelight was clear and bright, dreamlike and unreal.

Norman was taken aback, nodded, walked in, and sat next to Cole.The body leans slightly.

"Is Tyson back?" Cole asked.

"Ah."

"I really want to thank him today." Cole lowered his head and continued knitting his shoes, and said softly, "I originally thought to fix the balcony by myself in two days, and then go to collect some wild fruits to dry for the winter, you know, here Winter always comes quickly."

The warm bonfire flickered on and off, and the faint yellow light of the fire reflected Cole's gentle side face. Norman still didn't speak, but just stretched out his hand to hold him in his arms, and leaned his head on his shoulder, rubbing against him.

"What's wrong?" Cole stopped what he was doing and asked Norman softly.

Norman has been silent today, which feels weird.

The firelight shone on the honey-colored skin, his arms tightened slightly, and Norman called out in a low voice: "Cole..."

"Ok?"

Turning his head and staring at each other, Norman's eyes were shining like stars, reflecting his own face.

Also, uneasy emotions.

Cole habitually reached out and touched Norman's head, but his hands were clasped backwards by Norman. The force was not tight, but they were firmly held together and could not be separated.

After a long time, Norman spoke, and he asked in a low voice, "Cole, what do you... plan for the future?"

Cole blinked and said, "The future?"

"Well, for example, where do you want to go, what do you want to do, or what wishes do you have?"

Norman's voice was so soft it was almost like a thin feather.

Facing his cautious question, Cole turned around and thought about it, his eyes fell on the shoe in his hand, he lowered his eyes slightly, gently scratched the edge of the shoe with his finger, and said, "I haven't thought about that carefully, But speaking of wishes... there is one."

Clenching his hands suddenly, Norman raised his head and asked, "What wish."

Faintly, Cole stared back at Norman's amber eyes, smiled and said, "I hope Norman can live a stable life in the future." There was an imperceptible bitterness in the smile, "For example... Get out of here and go back to the village."

"What about Cole?"

"Me?" Cole lowered his head, "Maybe I'll leave."

"Where are you going?" Norman choked up, narrowing his eyes slightly.

"……do not know."

He lowered his eyes and stopped working.

Norman snorted suddenly, his voice was extremely low, he looked directly into Cole's eyes, and said angrily: "So, Cole doesn't even know where he is going, so he wants me to leave?"

"..." I don't know how to answer.

"Is it right?" Norman suddenly jumped in front of him, grabbed Cole's shoulder and asked loudly.

After being silent for a while, Cole made up his mind, nodded, and replied in a calm voice as much as possible: "This is inevitable, we will be separated sooner or later."

"What is unavoidable?! Why do we have to separate!" Norman was extremely angry, grabbed Cole's hand tightly, and couldn't help shouting, "Is it your wish to separate from me?!"

of course not!

Although he wanted to say that, Cole remained silent.

It turned out that when Cole promised Tyson to talk to Norman first, Cole knew that Norman would be angry, but what he didn't expect was that when he personally said that he would let Norman go back, he felt a dull pain in his heart, as if he had been twisted by something. Like.

When being questioned by Norman, inexplicable sadness swept over, maybe because they didn't want to part, but they knew that this kind of thing was inevitable.

So, I can't say it.

But if you can't say it, it hurts even more.

Norman fixedly looked at Cole, and suddenly stretched out his hand to scratch the corner of Cole's eyes, saw the teardrops on his fingertips, calmed down his anger, but asked softly, "Since it's a wish, why do you want it?" crying?"

Only then did Cole realize that he was actually crying.

So he hurriedly pulled away the grasped hand and wiped the corners of his eyes. He turned around, avoiding Norman's sight, holding the pair of unfinished shoes tightly with both hands, his chest was aching, his nose was sore, but he Pretending to be cheerful, he said: "Yes, the fire suffocates the eyes, haha, really, the smudged eyes are very uncomfortable."

Even though he was laughing, his body was shaking uncontrollably.

Hugging Cole suddenly from behind, Norman tightened his arms, gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and asked, "You don't want me to leave, do you?"

"No, nothing! There's nothing to be reluctant about, Norman is not a child, and there is nothing to worry about now, so..." He desperately grabbed the pair of shoes to hold back his tears, and deliberately changed the subject, "By the way, I'm still thinking that after Norman leaves, I will travel and look around, but don't worry, when I come back, I will definitely bring you a lot of things."

"Why don't you take me?" Norman continued to ask angrily, "You know I'm willing to go anywhere with you!"

Hearing this, Cole was startled at first, but quickly realized that he shook his head and lowered his voice: "Because...it's not possible."?