Above The Sky

The blurry windows, mist and rough glass make it difficult to see what's behind, but the man's eyes can see the real scene behind him clearly through these blurs.

It was a boy with a pitchfork in his hand and a cloth bag in his arms, waiting quietly behind the other side window.

The boy stared at the street outside the window, his face was calm, there were many wounds on his body, and the bandage on his head was still bleeding, and the smell of blood came from it.

After a little look, the old knight could understand that this child was obviously subjected to domestic violence, and now he can't bear it anymore, and he wants to fight the parent who abused him desperately.

All too common scenario. He shook his head.

The wandering in his ten-year-wanted career and the scenes he has seen on the northern front line in the past are more tragic than what he has seen today, and he has also seen many similar scenes and counter-kills in factory cities along the western coast. Second-rate.

This is the epitome of this era, the era in which he fought and failed in the past.

domestic violence...

Children are the future of the empire, how can they be treated like this? Even let them fight alone.

Almost 100% of this kind of hard work will fail. After all, how can a child defeat an adult in violence?

If it was in the past, he would definitely have thought about it without even thinking about it. He would directly teach the scumbag parent a meal, then took out his saber and ordered the local officials or nobles to reflect on it and think about his jurisdiction and the reason why it was in the realm. This kind of thing happens.

As for this child, it would be a big deal to take him back to the orphanage in the imperial capital, or arrange it into the apprentice camp of his own knight order. After all, a child who has the courage to resist adult violence is worth his effort to cultivate.

However, the current self, and the current world...

The old man shook his head slightly.

Even if he kills the parent who abused the child, the child will not be able to survive in this frontier port by his own strength, especially since he will bear the notoriety of killing blood relatives.

And as he is now wanted, it is impossible to bring a child, which will harm the other party even more.

"Dead end."

The old knight sighed, he was going to leave, but he stopped here.

He made up his mind to help the other party secretly at that time.

In any case, he didn't want to see a child die today... As for the future, let's wait until the future.

Who knows if a miracle will happen?

But.

What happened next was obviously beyond the old knight's imagination.

As the sun went down, a gloomy, swaying lame man returned towards the old house. The boy by the window clenched the pitchfork and cloth bag in his hand, and went to the corridor to prepare.

to start. The old knight thought so. Maybe it's time for him to shoot.

But that moment did not come.

"What... what?!"

Hidden outside the window, the old knight who had planned to take action was horrified to see that the boy of the white people used sneak attack and sleeping powder to easily bring down the man who was obviously addicted to smoking mushrooms, and then tied the opponent to the point with an inexplicable skill. On the table of the fish, tied firmly.

He thought to himself, even his own craftsmanship is not so proficient... Of course, he never needs to tie people up, just break the hands and feet and remove the joints.

The boy took a sip of water after doing these things and rested for a while.

Next is the sharpening of the knife.

Sharpening the knife is a process of making the knife sharper and making one more determined. The old knight can know that the boy who was relieved by solving the man, with the action of sharpening the knife, his expression calmed down again.

He has made up his mind.

When the man woke up, he was struggling and seemed to want to speak, but because of the sackcloth in his mouth, he couldn't utter a word no matter what.

The boy just stared at all this indifferently, and then opened his mouth to speak, making the other party even more crazy, and even when he was afraid of incontinence, he simply pulled out the knife neatly.

"Decisive!"

Helplessly saw the boy take action and kill the man. Until this moment, the old knight could not help but exclaim: "Good seedling!"

If it was in the past, he would even be tempted to let the other party be his knight apprentice. Such a good seedling with decisive action would be hard to find even in military families and frontier aristocrats. I didn't expect to find one in this remote port.

And now... he was a little worried.

After the murder, has the boy figured out what to do with himself?

Killing with a moment of passion, courage and wisdom can indeed be successful, but disposing of a corpse is always more difficult than killing a person.

With the boy's physical strength, it is difficult to completely take the body out of the city and bury it, and if you want to cut the body, you must be careful not to leave too many traces and blood - there are many hunters in Harrison Harbor, leaving too much. Traces will be easily detected.

Not to mention, there are no adults at home. For a seven- or eight-year-old boy, it may not be any better than being abused every day.

"What exactly are you going to do?"

The man stood outside the window, holding his breath, half heavy, half expectantly waiting for the boy's next move.

Before waiting for the coastal 'mutation' to appear, such a sudden event was enough to stop him from observing.

However, the scene inside the house once again surprised the old knight.

He opened his eyes wide and saw that the boy in the room ignored the corpse that was gradually stiffening after a period of rest.

The boy turned around, took out the stored fire from the brazier, lit the fire, poured water into the pot, took out the jerky and fish...

Facing the dead man, he started to cook!

In front of a corpse that has just died of breath, he can cook meat in a pot, grill fish on fire, and eat with relish.

This kind of psychological quality may be nothing to a veteran, but for an eight or nine-year-old boy, it is enough to raise eyebrows.

"Psionicist."

At this moment, the old knight had already seen the little fluorescence in his eyes, and he couldn't help but stroke his hand: "This quality..."

In the boy's eyes, the water-colored pupils are slightly flickering with warm rays of light, which are not the reflection of moonlight, but the radiance from the inner side of the soul, which is the most representative feature of a psionicist.

This quality can no longer be described as "excellent".

Even a noble family whose parents are both psionicists has stimulated the fetus in the womb with psionic energy from the beginning of pregnancy. With such superior family conditions, it is not 100% to become a psionicist when they grow up, and the awakening rate does not exceed 100%. thirty.

In the final analysis, psionic energy has extremely high requirements on willpower. Except for the awakened psionic energy at birth, the natural 'chosen one', all acquired psionicists have willpower and tenacity above ordinary people. gist.

"It's no accident that you can successfully resist and kill your abusive parents."

Looking deeply at the boy in the room, the old knight was very interested in what he would do next.

It can be seen that after the boy had finished eating and regained his strength for a while, he began to clean up the scene, tidy up the corpse, open the window to breathe, and disperse the smell of blood.

Immediately afterwards, the boy went inside, stroked his younger brother's face, and fed him porridge.

The old knight heard the boy's whispers, those words that revealed firmness and determination to protect their loved ones.

- is a good boy. He thought so.

After the placement of his younger brother, the boy with white hair and blue eyes dragged the corpse out, while the old man with gray and brown eyes was wearing a navy blue robe, and the two walked in the clear shadow.

The knight followed the boy quietly along the moonlight.

Since he was wanted by the empire more than ten years ago and went into exile all the way incognito, he has experienced countless attacks and hunts, but it is the first time to track down a child under ten years old in turn.