It was a rather young elf with short, messy black hair and somewhat ominous crimson pupils.
He looks like he is only seven or eight years old...but if converted into human years, he should be several dozen years old.
...No wonder.
Before, Russell was still thinking that as a kidnapped child, he was too calm.
He didn't cry or run around, he just stood quietly and motionless, making it easier for Russell to operate.
Russell thought he was frightened and couldn't move... He comforted him specially.
But if it is an elf, that would make sense.
Young elves are calmer and calmer than adult humans - this is not surprising.
"I'll pretend I didn't hear anything."
The youngest son looked at the inferior, suddenly spoke, and made a cold and childish voice: "This is a thank you for not doing that in the end."
Russell looked back at the inferior in surprise.
But he soon realized something -
If Russell guessed correctly, he probably said something like "it's better to abandon this child".
Then, he was probably scolded back by Delphinium...
In Russell's view, a bad person is a person who is extremely calm - even calm to the point of being a little neurotic.
Although this sounds a bit strange to say, this is indeed how Russell felt.
The inferior person is like a frozen lake in late winter, heavy and quiet. But if you walk on it, you will feel inexplicable fear... It is a kind of lake that will suddenly collapse and fall if you don't know how much it can withstand it.
fear.
From a rational point of view, if the variable Russell is eliminated...then killing the child before Delphinium arrives and transporting him horizontally in an aerial vehicle to an uninhabited place for explosion is the most cost-effective plan.
If you put yourself in Russell's shoes, he would choose this way.
But compared to pure rationality...the inferior ones also have a strange "ideal fanaticism".
Russell didn't know how to describe this feeling.
The feeling given to him by the inferior is like "always angry".
Angry at the world, angry at others, angry at himself - but at the same time, the inferior always suppresses this all-destroying anger with reason, and does not reveal it at all. He is strict with himself and others...
He seems to believe in an extreme and harsh "justice."
This kind of justice allows him to remain unafraid when facing elves, directors, or life-and-death crises.
——But he will choose to compromise.
Just as he will work in Tianen Group as a "corporate dog" that he disdains; he hates "heroes" like Russell, but is willing to endure this disgust and work with him; just as he faces this coming from
When the madman from the "veil of ignorance" threatens with blackmail, he chooses to succumb to the other party's rules of the game; when he plans to sacrifice the child to end it all, he chooses to give up his idea because of Delphinium's order.
He knew that this would make the other party worse, but he still couldn't ignore the victim in front of him.
This strange sense of contradiction... gave Russell a vague intuition.
The bad guy doesn't seem to want to be someone. He doesn't have that kind of persistence - the heart that can ignore obstacles and go on a rampage to break everything. That's why he compromises.
He sincerely wants to "not be someone".
He has a deep hatred and a clear old enemy - the more the other person does it, the less he does it; the more the other person thinks it is right, the more he thinks it is wrong. His life is like a mirror, perfect
He reflected the other person, and spent his whole life trying his best to deny it.
Through the inferior, Russell seems to even be able to profile that person:
That should be an elf director, a superior who can sacrifice anyone in front of him at will, a hypocrite who is good at pretending and never shows his indifference, a cold-blooded person who looks down on others from the bottom of his heart and does not respect the weak.
person.
A bad person hates that person from the bottom of his heart, so he doesn't want to be that person.
Russell remained silent on the sidelines, observing the inferiors intently.
"……Thank you so much."
Faced with the young elf's promise, the inferior man was silent for a while and whispered gratefully.
Obviously, the inferior person also thinks that his previous idea was wrong.
Sacrifice one person to save others——
This decision gave Russell a certain sense of "just partner", but it made the inferior not hesitate to burn his hands with cigarette butts to remember this mistake.
——It is not based on morality or law.
It's more like he speculated that "someone might do the same thing", so he regretted his subconscious indifferent and rational behavior to the point of heartache.
Moreover, Russell observed that...the inferior had no hostility toward the young elf.
This is not reasonable.
Generally speaking, when the hatred for elves is as deep as that of a bad person, and when you see an elf son who is still young and unable to resist him, this hatred should rise to tyranny - this is a very common situation.
Revenge.
But the bad guy will not do this. Although he hates elves very much, there is no hostility, murderous intention or disgust in his eyes towards this young elf in the form of a child.
Because his anger does not involve others.
"Here we would like to ask how you were kidnapped and brought here... Do you have any relevant memories?"
The inferior asked businesslikely.
But he also knew that there was no answer to this question.
Regardless of the two previous kidnappings, those children lost their memories of the previous period...
Why did this young elf appear here? Matters involving elves are matters that the Executive Department is not allowed to investigate and has no right to interfere with.
"You don't need to worry about this matter, I will handle it myself."
The young elf reiterated: "This matter ends here. You don't need to pursue the person who kidnapped me here."
"But……"
"I will send a letter to the board of directors of Tianen Group later. I will be grateful to you for saving me, let them pay you based on the success of the mission, calculate your performance...and declare that all responsibility for this incident belongs to myself.
"——After that, all matters related to these people will be transferred to my hands, and I will send people to deal with them. Is this okay? You don't have to fight these vicious people, and you can go about other tasks."
The young elf raised his head and looked at the inferior with a gentle but unquestionable smile.
This is the transaction process for transferring cases from Tianen Group to other "Big Seven".
If he handles it like this...then even if he encounters this group of people again, no matter what happens, it will no longer be the responsibility of the bad guys. Instead, they will be counted as "fugitives from other islands" and the local execution will be notified.
The Ministry dispatched a mobile team to arrest him.
but……
Even so...if the inferior really sees the other person again, will he ignore it like this?
Russell frowned slightly and thought to himself.
"Can we get to know each other?"
Seeing the inferior fell into silence again, the newly kidnapped young elf shrugged and turned to look at Russell: "After all, you just saved my life."
The little boy, who looked to be only seven or eight years old, looked at Russell with eyes as deep and shiny as high-end red wine, full of curiosity.
After he finished speaking, he bowed politely to Russell: "My name is Tovatus, and I belong to Taoyuan Trading Company. The fate I bear is 'discord'."
"……destiny?"
Russell was a little confused when he heard this word.
Tovatus was stunned for a moment.
But the youngest son then smiled kindly: "Ah, it doesn't matter if you don't know. It's not a good thing worth mentioning."
Although it looks like a human being in the first or second grade of elementary school.
However, they are more polite than adults, and behave calmly with a certain degree of advance and retreat, but they can make people feel a strange sense of detachment.
Although he is a young son, his eyes are no longer pure, but have become dark.
"My name is Russell, I don't have a code name yet."
"Why not take one?"
"Mainly because I haven't thought about it yet."
Russell said calmly: "It would be very troublesome to change the code name, so I would rather not take it first."
"Are you the type who prefers to get it right in one step rather than trying things out in the dark?"
"...That's true."
Russell thought for a moment and nodded.
Even he himself only realized this trait of his own at this time.
"But I still suggest you get a code name as soon as possible."
The young elf made a suggestion: "If you tell others your real name at will, it will give people the illusion that 'I am very close to you.' This will make it easy for people to lose track of the distance between you and you, and it will easily hurt you."
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"I'll consider it."
A very reasonable suggestion. Russell nodded repeatedly.
"How about it, do you want to come with me? I will no longer work to death for the mediocre Tianen Group...but I can touch the truth and get in touch with something more noble."
Right in front of the inferior, the elf digs into the corner openly.
In fact, Russell was a little moved.
But his rationality told him that all crows in the world are as black as crows. It doesn't make much difference where he changes jobs... but it will make him have fewer choices in the future.
And who can be sure that this is not a deliberate attempt to test yourself?
"Ah, no need."
Russell refused: "I decided to come to Happy Island because of my mother's last words. I don't plan to leave until I understand what I can really do."
"That's such a shame."
The young elf said meaningfully.
Afterwards, he easily changed the topic and started chatting with Russell cheerfully.
The inferior one remained silent on the side, standing motionless like a wax figure.
They had just chatted for a while when Delphinium had already arrived at the scene.