The Divine Hunter Chapter 21: Brothers

The hornbeam trees in the yard began to lose their leaves again, and the yellow-green leaves were flying all over the sky. A group of children chased the leaves and played and played, and the sound of joy filled the whole school.

Not far from the classroom door, Roy was leaning against the mottled wall, looking at the half-five-pointed star on his left sleeve in a daze, frowning and out of tune with his surroundings.

"Roy, I was in a bad mood yesterday, so I didn't stay after school." Vivien suddenly walked up to him with an apologetic look on her pretty face, "When the afternoon class is over, can I help you review?"

Roy nodded, his face still tense, and his mind was not on her words at all.

"By the way, Teacher Cardell asked you to go to the second floor to find her."

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"How do you feel after staying in school for a while? Are you used to getting along with other children? What do you think of the classroom environment? Is there anything that needs improvement?" Kadell put his hands on his desk and looked at He looked at Roy, who was sitting on the chair opposite him, with encouraging eyes.

The deep nasolabial folds made her look more like she was being interrogated.

"I think everything is pretty good." Roy answered truthfully, "I am especially grateful to Teacher Vivien for her careful guidance. Without her, my progress would not have been so fast."

"Vivien is a lovable and good teacher. Everyone in the school doesn't love her. If she didn't have to spend a lot of energy taking care of her parents, she would do even better."

"By the way, Teacher Cardell, I have a question," Roy paused, "Does Teacher Vivien have a biological brother?"

Kadel shook his head, "Vivien has no brothers or sisters. He only has an alcoholic father and a delirious mother. Both of them cannot work and rely on her to support them. It is also for this reason that Vivien Never got married."

Roy was even more confused. That was not what Vivien told him yesterday.

"I thought she had a biological brother and thought of me as that guy, that's why she cared so much about me."

Kadel shook his head and looked serious, "Roy, Vivien has been assisting me in handling school affairs since ten years ago. I treat her as my own daughter and know everything about her. I confirm that she has no brothers or sisters. She cares about every student. Because you just came to school, she pays more attention to you."

Roy stopped asking questions and seemed to accept the result.

Kadel smiled and patted his head. Several adolescent boys in the school had a crush on the young and beautiful Vivien, imagining that the beautiful teacher would treat them differently. She thinks Roy is one of them.

"Speaking of which, Roy, you have great potential. You can complete more than two months of other students' courses in half a month, and you are smarter than 64 other children. Maybe in a few years, you will become a card-carrying student. Outstanding graduates of Dell House, the teacher will draw a portrait of you personally, so that your honor will be preserved in the school forever and encourage those who come after you."

Kadel opened the drawer in front of his desk and took out several framed portraits to show Roy. The lifelike oil paintings are all filled with slightly green faces of teenage boys and girls.

And when Roy's eyes passed over one of them, he suddenly froze.

"Helheim, graduated on December 20, 1259."

It was the face of a young boy, about thirteen or fourteen years old, with black hair and faint freckles between his nose. He looked ordinary. It was easy for people to ignore him in a crowd. exist. But there is an ugly scar as long as an index finger under his right eye, which is impressive.

Roy was sure he had seen him before, but couldn't remember where he was for the moment.

"Where do the outstanding graduates go to work?"

Kadel looked very proud when he heard this, "Teacher still has some energy in Aedirn. They are all talents that can be made, but they still need to be polished. So I recommended them to other cities, such as Leiria and There are also Livia, Upper Posada, Lower Posada, and the capital Vengerberg. Most of them are engaged in writing-related work, becoming historical researchers, transcribers, librarians..."

Roy pretended to look longing and longing, but in his heart he felt that Kadel was lying. The purpose of this school to train students seems not that simple.

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After school, Vivien was explaining several vocabulary words with complex structures to Roy, when a sloppy middle-aged man with a bloated figure suddenly broke in.

His face was full of flesh, his shirt was dark brown with wine stains and food residue, his hair was messy and lumpy, and there was a layer of grease that had not been washed for who knows how many days, exuding a musty smell. . The whole person was as depressed as a beggar.

" Vivien, why didn't you go home yesterday? Give me money quickly... I want to drink!"

Vivien quietly pulled Roy behind her and stood in front of her. Her pretty face was tight and she said coldly, "I don't have any money to give you."

"Damn girl, where did you use the money? Don't you know how to leave some to honor your father?" The middle-aged man frowned into a deep "Sichuan" and grinned with a mouth full of jagged yellow teeth, bah He spat thick phlegm in front of her with a sound, "You must take the money home tomorrow, or you will know the consequences!" He said a harsh word with a threatening look on his face, and then turned around and left with a curse.

"Is he your father?" Roy looked at the livid Vivien and asked carefully,

"Yes, his name is Bob, my father." Vivien said quietly, "Isn't it scary?"

Roy hesitated, he couldn't blame other people's elders. "You do this when you're drunk."

"Don't worry, you can scold him, I don't mind. This guy has never been sober, and has never cared about anyone in the family... He starts drinking as soon as he opens his eyes, and he must be drunk when he closes his eyes." Fei Wen Qiao's face was all numb, and her tone was helpless with a hint of ridicule.

Whoever encounters such an alcoholic father will be unlucky for eight lifetimes.

"Bob has never fulfilled his duties as a father, and even ignored his son when he disappeared."

His son? Vivien's biological brother? The person who has been denied by Kadel and does not exist.

Roy looked at Vivien again, and his eyes became strange.

"Sister Vivien, what's going on? How about telling me about it?" In order to strengthen his persuasion, Roy further said, "I once stayed with a master demon hunter for a period of time. To be precise, , my teacher is a witcher of the Viper School. He taught me how to deal with unusual troubles and difficulties. Maybe he can help you."

"Are you serious?" The woman raised her eyebrows, her beautiful eyes questioning, "As far as I know, your eye color and shape are different from those of those powerful demon hunters."

"Because I am still an apprentice and have not yet passed the Green Grass Trial... My body is no different from that of ordinary people." Roy told the other party some of his experiences following the demon hunter.

Vivien thought for a moment.

"Okay, Roy, I believe you. Although I don't know why a witcher apprentice wants to work in the herbal shop in the market, but since you are willing to listen to me, you have experience in that area, tell me It’s okay with you. At least you won’t just think of me as a lunatic like ordinary people?”

"It's incredible to say that even I don't know what that brother looks like, how old he is, and where he is?" Vivien smiled self-deprecatingly, with a complicated expression on her pretty face, and even she felt that This is ridiculous.

"When I first announced this fact to others, everyone around me thought I was crazy. Whether it was the respected Principal Cardell or the group of cute and naughty students, no one had ever seen my brother. No one remembers... I once had a brother."

"I tried to prove to that drunkard that he still had a biological son, and showed him the clothes of the extra boy at home! But he scolded me for having an illegitimate child outside. As for my mother, she didn't listen at all. Understand my words. Later I understood that if I continued to spread the word, everyone would probably think that I was possessed by the devil and have me burned at the stake to be purified. Since then, I have kept this matter in my heart and just treated everything as normal. . It has been about two years now, and I have never mentioned it to anyone else." Vivien fell into a brief silence.

Roy's doubts became more serious, "Teacher Vivien, this is strange, no one remembers him at all. How can you be so sure that you have such a relative?"

"Because I have evidence... As I said just now, I found some boys' clothes from home... If they weren't burned by the drunkard, I can let you see." Vivien's beautiful eyes There was a flash of regret, and then it turned into determination, obviously believing in this idea, "In addition, since I started working with Principal Cardell, I have a habit of writing an article every half a month or a month. A diary to record impressive things. Random encounters at school, at home, and on the street. I recorded them for a whole ten years."

“I occasionally look through these diaries. I have very high standards for myself and dream of one day becoming a person as respected and loved by everyone as Principal Cardell..., so I often read through those records. , correct my inappropriate words and deeds."

"Sister Vivien, you have actually done it. Everyone in the school likes you. And the parents of those children." Roy said sincerely. He felt that the woman in front of him put too much pressure on him.

"It's still far away." Vivien shook her head, staring into the air with her beautiful eyes, and said in a daze, "When I was flipping through my diary the year before last, I found some strange records——"

Viwen paused and suddenly emphasized her tone~IndoMTL.com~Besides me, the drunkard, and my poor mother, there is a fourth person in the family! ”

Roy shrank his neck, feeling like he was listening to a ghost story.

Vivien took off the silver necklace from her chest, pinched it gently, opened the square pendant, took out a small piece of crumpled paper, unfolded it and laid it flat, about the size of a palm, with a rough The simple lines depict two people, one tall and one short, holding hands. On the left is a tall woman, and on the right is a boy with a cute blush on his cheeks.

The two people have bright smiles and affectionate expressions, and they are obviously a pair of siblings.

"Later I found a bunch of boys' clothes at home, the sizes were obviously much smaller than that of the drunkard. Plus, there was an inexplicable extra painting in the pendant. I'm sure I originally had one. It's my brother's, I just don't know why, I really can't remember it." Vivien's pretty face showed a puzzled and crazy expression, and she continued after a while.

"This feeling was particularly strong when I helped you out in the slums that day. I know that you and him must have many similarities."

"Although I don't know what he looks like, my feeling tells me that he does exist."

This can explain Vivien's surprisingly good attitude towards Roy when they met for the first time.

But Roy always felt that something was wrong, so he decided to follow what the other party said and find out.

"Sister Vivien, I would like to ask, can you let me see that part of the diary?"

"If you want to read it, of course it's no problem. If there are words you don't know, I can explain them to you," Vivien said carefully with a tight face, "But don't publicize the content before you have definite evidence. Get out. This is for your own good, understand?"