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"Norman... is Cole's orc?" Heather asked in a daze.

The orc next to him nodded and replied, "Yes." Then he looked back at Norman and said, "Norman likes Cole very much."

"I like it very much." Silently chanting these four words, Heather's face completely sank, and she was listless, as if she had lost her soul.

On the way back, he bumped into Cole.

"Heather, are you injured?" Cole looked at Heather's swaying walking posture and stepped forward worriedly.

Looking at Cole, Heather's eyes shrank for a moment, then she tilted her head and replied in a low voice, "Yes."

"Why listless?" Cole asked curiously.

"It's nothing, I'm fine..." He lowered his head dejectedly, and wanted to say something else to change his mood, but he remembered the affectionate appearance of Norman and Cole just now, and was too sad to speak.

Seeing Heather so depressed, Cole said kindly: "Your feet hurt, do you want me to take you home?"

After all, I will go to help.

"I don't need your help!" Heather yelled, flung Cole's arm away, and took two steps back. Say, "Yeah, I'm sorry...I just..."

However, before he finished speaking, Heather fled away, leaving only Cole who was puzzled on the spot.

That night, Heather came to Tyson's house.

"He has a partner." This was the first sentence they said when they met, and Heather's eyes were blank, and she was very depressed.

"I know." Gently fiddled with the bonfire in front of him, Tyson squinted at Heather behind him, and replied lightly.

"Then why did you ask me to get close to Norman? Why didn't you tell me?" Heather asked, clasping her hands tightly, her eyes full of blame.

But Tyson smiled unhurriedly, glanced at Heather, and said, "Because I'm the same as you."

"Same?" Heather frowned.

"They're all after what they want."

A dancing flame, slow but hot.

After thinking about it in confusion, after looking at each other for a while, it suddenly dawned on Heather, who looked at Tyson in disbelief, and said in surprise, "You mean..."

Curved lips, closed eyes, chuckled, all in silence.

The atmosphere fell silent. After a while, Heather calmed down, clenched her fists, slowly raised her eyes to look at Tyson, and carefully asked, "What do you want me to do?"

Tyson smiled, looked directly at Heather, and said, "It's very simple, first of all you have to let Cole know that you like Norman."

"...But." Let Cole know?Heather hesitated.

"This is the only way." Tyson turned his head and stared quietly at the quiet bonfire, "If Cole doesn't give up, you will never get Norman."

──If Cole doesn't give up, you'll never get Norman.

Affected by this sentence, he couldn't sleep for several days, and he has been hesitating whether to follow Tyson's words.

He didn't really want to hurt Cole, but he really liked Norman.

Moreover, with the passage of time, this feeling of liking has not diminished, but has become more and more intense, especially when he accidentally saw Norman passing by, he felt a tightness in his chest, as if he was being suppressed by something. ,can not breath.

Anxious, very anxious.

So three days later, despite feeling a little guilty, Heather went to find Cole.

Of course, he was still hesitating, standing at the door for a long, long time, and finally got up the courage to knock on the door.

"Heather?" Cole was a little surprised.

With flickering eyes, Heather laughed dryly, rubbed her nose, and said hesitantly, "I...I...I'm here..."

"What's wrong?" Cole asked, looking at Heather's expression.

"I, I... I'll come..." He couldn't speak for a long time, and then suddenly closed his eyes, Heather said loudly, "I, I...I want to learn how to weave baskets from you!"

"Eh?"

Realizing that she was talking nonsense, Heather gritted her teeth, intending to make mistakes, so she begged: "Yes! I want to learn basket weaving from you, please teach me!"

Seeing that Heather was so enthusiastic, he thought he was fine, so Cole nodded in agreement.

Seeing Cole's calm face, Heather entered the door with some hesitation.

Just as they took out the white vines and started weaving, before the two could speak, Berg came to visit with the child.

"Berg, Ryan, you are here." Cole smiled and got up to greet him.

Berg walked into the room with a grin, looking familiar, Ryan didn't admit it, and immediately threw himself into Cole's arms and rubbed back and forth, making Cole laugh out loud, and then Berg found Looking at Heather who was sitting in the room, she looked at Cole in surprise, and asked in a low voice, "Is he the new female?"

Nodding, Cole then introduced Berg to meet Heather, introduced: "This is Heather," and then looked at Heather, "This is Berg."

Heather seemed a little reserved, but Berg extended his hand very generously to show his friendliness. Berg smiled and said, "I know you, Heather from the seaside tribe, everyone says you are beautiful!"

Blushing at the words, Heather shook her head lightly, and said to Berg, "How can there be..."

Seemingly a shy child, Berg stopped teasing Heather, turned around and asked Cole, "Why didn't you see your Palanch?"

While tidying up the white vine in his hand, Cole replied, "He went out with Norman."

"Hey!" Berg yelled, "Going out with Norman? Didn't Norman often bully him?!"

Cole laughed, and said, "I've told Norman that he won't bully Palanch outside, and besides..." Cole frowned and swept his wrist, "Palanche It's time to learn how to hunt, too."

"That's right, it's time to get old, hmph, you must become stronger and learn to protect yourself so that you won't be bullied by people like Qin!" Speaking of Qin, Berg still hated his teeth, but due to a little use With a little effort, Ryan, who was covered in his arms, cried out uncomfortably, and directly turned into a little bear.

Berg quickly let go and put Ryan down, and said apologetically, "Ah, Ryan, I'm sorry."

However, Ryan arched his head into Cole's arms.

Curled softly into his arms by the chubby body, Cole smiled wryly, stretched out his hand and scratched Ryan's head, the little bear groaned comfortably, and then exposed his belly, while Berg at the side became even more depressed, staring at Ryan's head. My son pouted and said in dissatisfaction: "This brat has forgotten who gave birth to him, right?"

"It's nothing like that, he was just scared." Cole rubbed the little bear's head, and then returned it to Berg. Before leaving, the little bear still nibbled on Cole's finger.

Seeing this, Berg rubbed his son helplessly, then pouted sourly and said, "But he really likes you, he ignores me every time he comes here..."

"No matter how much you like others, it's not as important as your own parents." Cole looked at the little bear that was already lying comfortably on Berg's lap, and couldn't help smiling. "For Ryan, you are irreplaceable."

Berg's heart warmed when he said that, and then he couldn't help leaning forward and asked, "Hey, I said... Cole will have a baby sometime."

As soon as the fingertips stopped, Cole froze, then lowered his head and gave a wry smile.

Also stunned was Heather, who had been listening to the conversation between the two. After hearing Berg's proposal, his heart suddenly tightened. Can't help crying out in pain.

"What's wrong? Got stuck?" Cole hurried over to look.

"It's okay... just a small injury." Covering her fingers, Heather shook her head, expressing that she was fine, but Cole still insisted on helping Heather apply the medicine. After a while, looking at Kele who was concentrating on bandaging himself Cole, Heather swallowed, and asked in a low voice, "That, that, Cole..."

"Huh?" Cole looked up.

Shocked, she looked away, and after thinking about it, she turned her head again, and Heather asked, "Cole, I heard you've been with Norman for a long time?"

"Yes." Colton replied softly after a moment.

"Why don't you have any children yet?"

"..."

"It's because they just got married." Berg on the side took the conversation, squinted and said with a smile, "I've heard about them from Ley."

"Ley?" Heather wondered.

Nodding, Berg smiled cheerfully: "He is my neighbor, the son of Podoka, the pharmacist in the village. Simon and I often visit his house. Hehe, I used to hear him talk about Cole and Norman. Now Yes, but..."

"But what?" Heather asked.

"But he's always been preoccupied recently." Berg shrugged, "I don't know what's going on."

"...Is that so?" Cole, who had been silent all this time, finally responded softly, then lowered his head, and continued to help Heather with the wound, without talking about anything else.

After the dressing was done, it was getting late, Berg and Heather left together, but before leaving, Heather said that he wanted to continue studying tomorrow, and Cole did not refuse.After sending the two away, when he returned to the room, he sighed. Cole lowered his head silently, opened his cuffs, and the bulging veins had already extended to his wrists.

There are still five days until the Fire Dance Festival, I hope... can last until that day.

In order to maintain a normal state without being noticed, Cole must release the beast blood for a period of time every day to relieve the severe pain caused by resisting beastization, so every night, Cole always goes out for a "walk" alone, even Nuo Man was also not allowed to accompany him out.

Of course, Norman was very dissatisfied with this, but Cole was very persistent, so he could only endure it. In comparison, Palanch seemed much calmer.

Right now, Cole's body has been difficult to maintain a human form for a long time. Even in the daytime, he did not transform into a beast, but the beast blood in his body was like a flood, corroding his internal organs like a fire. He knew that this was because he had been taking red fruit It hurts a lot, but he has been enduring it.

In order to complete the agreement with Norman.

There are still five days left, and he must persist until the Fire Dance Festival to fulfill Norman's wish.

After that...he will disappear, and go to a place that no one knows before he still has reason and before he hurts others.

It was Cole's plan, and the only thing he could do.

And this plan, only one person knows, that is Ley.

Painfully recovering from the animal state, the bone hurts as if it had been broken. In order to maintain the original appearance, Cole has been suppressing this force, so that Cole has to suffer great pain every time he recovers, and he is eroded by the red fruit. The rationality makes it extremely difficult to choose rationally and instinctively, and makes every time you go through this process more tormented.

The same is true today.

"You can actually choose not to return to your original state, so you don't have to suffer so much." Ley handed over the red fruit, leaned against the big tree behind, squinted at the person in front of him, and lowered his eyes lightly.

"It doesn't matter, my body anyway... I hope Norman will never know about it." With a deep and slightly hoarse voice, he took over the red fruit, and the crystal clear sweat made the honey-colored skin exposed to the air and the slender and shapely body appear. Especially sexy, the long dark hair is like the night, and the blood-colored red eyes make the speaker appear evil and charming.

"I don't understand." Ley frowned, "If you do this, he will still be in pain."

"At least it will be less, isn't it." Chi Tong raised lightly, stared at Ley calmly, and slowly stood up tall, looking at Ley's eye level, "Otherwise you wouldn't have been helping me find the red fruit."

"I..." After a pause, Ley turned his back to Cole, "It's not for him."

"Anyway, thank you for helping me find the red fruit." Cole nodded and said weakly.

"..."

Turning his back to Cole, Ley lowered his eyes, closed his eyes, and after a while, before Cole ate the red fruit, Ley couldn't help but turned around and grabbed Cole's wrist, and said loudly: "Wait a minute! "

"Ley?"

"Forcibly degenerating will only make the next attack more painful." Ley held his fingers tightly, frowning, with a complicated look in his golden eyes, "You will be in pain, I'm not joking."

Cole smiled bleakly and said, "I know."

"Cole!"

"Thank you, Ley." Cole shook his head, "but I have no choice."

"No choice?" Grabbing Cole's hand even harder, Ley's voice couldn't help becoming louder, even angry, "What do you mean no choice? You're dying for a stupid promise! I don't understand, Noah Is Man's wish really that important to you? So important that you are willing to die?!"

The tone was cold, but the angry golden pupils were full of sadness. ?