Erin looked up at the stars in the sky. Summer nights should be extremely hot, but because Ton Town is located at the northern end of the continent, the summer climate is quite comfortable, especially the cool breeze blowing at night. Wind, this is a rare treat for Erin.
In the past, she would always use a ladder to climb to the roof of the woodshed, and then watch the stars while the wind blew. Sometimes she would go back to her room to sleep late at night, but sometimes she would fall asleep just by the wind. And whenever she fell asleep like this, she would often have a wonderful dream. The person in the dream suddenly appeared next to her, and then took her away from this place.
Today, she no longer has to experience such joy in her dreams, because that person has really come.
"The weather is really nice tonight, but you are injured, so don't stay here for too long." Regnar also climbed up the ladder and found a clean place next to Irene. Then sat down.
In fact, Irene still doesn't believe that Regnar has really found her. She raised her head and looked at Regnar. The milky white soft moonlight shone on her ugly face. Thanks to the scar, many people It was difficult to see Eileen's expression from her face, so it was impossible to guess her mood.
But these "many people" did not include Regna. After spending so many years with Irene, Regna could even see her mood from her eyes. At this time, Irene looked at her eyes with joy, touch, timidity and fear.
This is no wonder. After all, Irene has been separated from herself for such a long time and has suffered so much here. It is normal for Eileen to become more timid and afraid of herself.
Regnar came closer to Irene, smiled gently, and said softly: "You don't have to be afraid of me, Irene. I am Regnar. Although I have grown taller and changed, maybe my mentality and personality have also changed. There have been some changes, but I have always been your Regnar brother, and I will never change towards you. So, just be like before, don’t be afraid of me, okay?"
Irene looked at Regnar hesitantly. She was hugged tightly by Regnar when she just woke up. When she first realized it was him, Irene was very happy and excited.
However, she also heard from Regnar just now that he had killed all five robbers. The impression I have of Brother Regnar is that he is a naughty boy on the outside but gentle on the inside. He appears to be fearless but is actually a timid boy. When did he become able to kill someone so lightly
"Those robbers...were you really the one who killed them?" Irene asked timidly.
Regnar nodded and said softly: "Yes, because they hurt you."
Regnar gently pinched Irene's bandaged right hand, looked at the mutilated little hand wrapped in gauze with some pain, and then whispered: "Irene, I know I have changed a lot now, However, please believe that there are some things that I will never change. You are my first friend, and I once vowed to protect you and not be bullied by anyone. That bastard adoptive father of yours made me almost break my promise. , Now, I finally found you, but the first time I saw you was such a miserable scene, how could this not make me angry? Therefore, those idiots must be punished. "
"But..." Erin hesitated for a long time, and finally plucked up the courage to say, "That's five lives. You... you shouldn't kill."
Irene's voice was trembling. She didn't know if saying such words would make Regnar angry. If he got angry because of this and punished her again, that would be terrible! But she couldn't help but say it because she felt that what she said was right, and at the same time, she also wanted to confirm something through Regner's reaction. If Regnar is really angry because of this, then... this world is really too cruel.
However, to Eileen's expectation, Regnar did not feel the slightest bit angry because of her words. On the contrary, he became very happy because of this. He smiled and said, "It really hasn't changed at all! Eileen, you are still so kind-hearted."
"..." Eileen didn't know whether Regnar's words were sincere or whether he was laughing at her.
Regnar continued: "I know you may not agree with what I do, but it has now become my code of conduct, and it can indeed help me protect the people around me very effectively. So, it has become my code of conduct. , and I won’t change it. But I still ask for your forgiveness. I’m sorry, Eileen, I know that doing this may make you unhappy, but in order to protect you, I can only choose to do this. Can you forgive me? "
"I..." Erin looked at Regner's sincere expression, and her kind heart softened after all. She nodded gently and said "Yeah."
"Haha, I was fooled, I don't need your forgiveness!" Regnar suddenly said with a strange smile.
Irene was stunned. Regnar's words, expression and scene were so familiar to her. Every time Regnar and Irene joked and teased Irene, she would get angry and ignore Regnar. At this time, Regnar would put on a sincere look and apologize to Irene, and then the little half-elf girl would feel soft and nod to forgive Regnar. Immediately afterwards, Regnar would make a grimace and laugh at her again.
"Really...hasn't it changed?" Erin looked at Regna's smiling expression, and gradually her mood became better. She glanced at Regnar angrily, and then muttered as before: "Disgusting!"
"That's it!" Regnar was very surprised when he saw Irene's expression: "This is Irene, this is my Irene! Hahahaha! My Irene has not changed, my Irene is back !Ha ha ha ha!"
Irene looked at Regna grinning and smirking, and was unconsciously infected by his emotions, and she gradually started to giggle.
"It's really been too long." Regnar said suddenly after he finished laughing.
"What?" Irene was a little puzzled by Regnar's lackluster sentence.
"The two of us have been separated for too long." Regnar said, "At that time... what exactly happened?"
Irene looked up silently at the bright starry sky. The majestic summer wind blew her long silver-white hair. She quietly enjoyed the caress of nature, and then said softly: "I was picked up by my mother. of."
"I know." Regnar nodded. He had heard from Irene in the past that her coolie adoptive father actually had a wife. She was a hard-working and kind-hearted woman. Irene's character was probably influenced by that woman. At the same time, Irene also influenced Regnar later on.
"Later, mom... mom is gone." Irene said sadly: "Dad has always been very bad to me. In the end, he sold me to a gang."
With a woman taking care of her before, Irene's childhood was not a happy one, but it was still a happy one. But God was so cruel, and the woman died of an illness when Irene was seven or eight years old. Since then, the little half-elf girl has been living with her adoptive father.
Without the protection of a woman, Eileen's life instantly fell from the world into hell. Her adoptive father was alcoholic and violent. Irene was beaten black and blue by him many times. Later, the selfish man sold her to a human trafficker for a few gold coins.
"What happened next?" Regnar asked. He had asked the coolie about these things, but he didn't know what happened next.
"Later..." Irene thought for a while and then said: "Later, those people originally wanted to sell me... to that kind of place..."
"What?!" Regnar's eyes flashed sharply. Could it be that Irene had been sold to a brothel before? She was just a little girl in her early ten years at that time! If this is the case, then Regnar will have to find everyone, including the coolie, to settle the accounts.
"But no one wants me..." Erin smiled complicatedly. She touched her burned cheek and said, "Because of my face, no one wants me in that place..."
"..." Regnar was speechless. He didn't expect that what saved Irene in the end was her own ugliness...
"Then they had no choice but to sell me as a slave. But I was too small and thin, and no one wanted me. They almost killed me." Eileen continued, with a hint of fear in her tone. , it can be imagined that the situation at that time was much more critical than what she said now.
"Damn it!" Veins popped out on Regnar's forehead. These human traffickers were so abominable that they would kill innocent and weak lives just for a few gold coins. Fortunately, there was nothing serious about Irene at this time, otherwise Regnar would have driven all those people away even if he turned the entire Merindel upside down.
"But it was my boss who saved me later." Eileen said quickly.