The blurry window, water mist and rough glass material made it difficult to see what was going on behind him, but the man's eyes could see through the blur and clearly see the real scene behind him.
It was a boy holding a pitchfork in his hand and a cloth bag in his arms, waiting quietly behind the window on the other side.
The boy stared out the window at the street. He looked calm. He had many wounds on his body, and the bandage on his head was still bleeding. The smell of blood came from it.
After a brief look, the old knight understood that this child had obviously been abused at home, and now he couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to fight the parents who abused him.
It was such a common scene. He couldn't help but shake his head.
The wanderings during his more than ten years of wanted life, and the scenes he had seen on the northern front in the past, were more tragic than what he saw today. And he had also seen many similar scenes and counter-attacks in the factory cities along the western coast.
Second-rate.
This is the epitome of this era, the embodiment of the era he fought against in the past but failed in the end.
Domestic violence...
Children are the future of the empire, how can we treat them like this? Even let them resist alone.
This desperate effort will almost always fail. After all, how can a child defeat an adult in terms of violence?
If it were him in the past, he would definitely have taught the scumbag parent a lesson without even thinking about it. Then he would have taken out his sword and ordered the local officials or nobles to reflect on themselves and think about why there was such a thing in their territory and territory.
This kind of thing happens.
As for this child, he would probably take him back to an orphanage in the imperial capital, or arrange him to enter an apprenticeship camp of his own knights. After all, a child who has the courage to resist adult violence is worthy of his efforts 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 on his own in this frontier port, especially since he will bear the reputation of killing his blood relatives.
And with his current wanted status, it is impossible for him to bring a child with him, which would be even more harmful to the other party.
"Dead end."
The old knight sighed. He planned to leave, but he still stayed here.
He made up his mind to secretly help the other party when the time came.
No matter what, he doesn't want to see a child die today... As for the future, let's wait until the future.
Who knows if some miracle will happen?
But.
What happened next was obviously beyond the old knight's imagination.
As the sun set, a lame man with a gloomy face and a swaying figure returned towards the old house. The boy by the window clenched the pitchfork and cloth bag in his hands, and then went to the corridor to prepare.
It's about to begin. The old knight thought so. Maybe it's time for him to take action soon.
But that moment never came.
"Wha...what?!"
Hidden outside the window, the old knight who originally planned to take action was shocked to see the boy from the White People using sneak attacks and sleeping powder to easily knock down the man who was obviously addicted to mushrooms, and then tied the man to a bed with a puzzling skill.
The fish was tied tightly on the table.
He thought to himself that even though he was not that skilled in his craft...of course he had never had to tie someone up, he could just break the limbs and remove the joints.
After finishing these things, the boy drank some water and rested for a while.
The next step is sharpening the knife.
Sharpening a knife is a process that makes the knife sharper and makes people determined. The old knight can know that the boy who was relieved after solving the man calmed down again with the action of sharpening the knife.
He has made up his mind.
When the man woke up, he was struggling and seemed to want to speak, but because his mouth was stuffed with linen, he couldn't say a word no matter what.
But the boy just watched all of this indifferently, and then spoke out, making the other party even more crazy, and even became frightened to the point of losing control, and then he simply drew the knife.
"Decisive!"
He saw the boy take action and kill the man. Until this moment, the old knight couldn't help but admire: "What a young man!"
If in the past, he would have even been tempted to let the other person become his knight apprentice. Such a good and decisive person would be hard to find even among military families and frontier nobles. He never expected to find one in this remote port.
But now...he is a little worried.
After the murder, had the boy already thought about what to do with himself?
Killing with a moment of passion, courage and wisdom can indeed succeed, but disposing of the body is always difficult, far better than killing a person.
With the boy's physical strength, it would be difficult to take the body completely out of the city and bury it. 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 Port. Leaving too many traces will
It's easy to spot.
Not to mention, there are no adults at home, which may not be any better for a seven or eight-year-old boy than being abused every day.
"What on earth would you do?"
The man stood outside the window, holding his breath, half heavy and half expectantly waiting for the boy's next move.
Before waiting for the "change" to occur along the coast, such an unexpected incident was enough to make him stop and observe.
However, the scene inside the house once again shocked the old knight.
He opened his eyes wide and saw that the boy in the room had rested for a while and ignored the body that was gradually stiffening.
The boy turned around, took out the stored fire from the brazier, lit the fire, poured water into the pot, took out the dried meat and fish...
Astonishingly, he started cooking in front of the dead man!
In front of a corpse that has just died, you can cook meat, light a fire and grill fish, and eat it with relish.
This kind of psychological quality may not be a big deal to a veteran, but to an eight or nine-year-old boy, it is enough to raise eyebrows.
"Psychic."
At this moment, the old knight had already seen the little bits of fluorescence in his eyes, and he couldn't help stroking his hands: "This quality..."
In the boy's eyes, the water-colored pupils were shining slightly with a warm light. It was not the reflection of moonlight, but the light coming from the inside of the soul, which was the most representative feature of psykers.
This quality can no longer be expressed by 'excellence'.
Even in aristocratic families whose parents are psykers, they stimulate the fetus with psionic energy from the beginning of pregnancy. With such superior family conditions, it is not 100% that the child will become a psyker when he grows up, and the awakening rate does not exceed 100%.
thirty.
In the final analysis, psionic power requires extremely high willpower. Except for those who have awakened psionic power at birth and are born as the "Chosen Ones", all acquired psykers have willpower and tenacity above ordinary people. This is
Key points.
"It is not an accident that you can successfully resist and kill your abusive parents."
Staring 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 finished eating and recovered his strength for a while, he began to clean up the scene, arrange the bodies, and open the windows for ventilation to disperse the smell of blood.
Immediately afterwards, the boy went inside, touched his younger brother's face and fed him porridge.
The old knight heard the boy's low murmur, words that revealed firmness and determination to protect his loved ones.
He is a good boy. He thought so.
After settling his brother, the boy with white hair and blue eyes dragged the body out, while the old man with gray-brown eyes wore a navy blue robe, and the two walked in clear shadows.
The knight followed the moonlight quietly behind the boy.
Since he was wanted by the empire more than ten years ago and has been in exile incognito, he has experienced countless attacks and hunts, but this is the first time he has tracked down a child under ten years old.