Chapter 144: Coming of Age Ceremony in the Orphanage
Pask quietly looked at the pattern of fragmented squares on the ceiling in his peripheral vision, while Lehman lay on the table and said nothing.
Just let the silence and late night erode the chaotic room, looking for their own thoughts...
It wasn't until there was a knock on the door that Catherine's gentle reminder outside the door broke the silence in the air.
"Pask, I think you're almost ready to come out."
Pask leaned back on his chair, looking lazily at Lehman who raised his head in confusion and responded
"I understand, you go over first, I will bring little Lehman here."
Catherine: "Okay."
Lehman: "Uncle Pask is going to??"
Pask stood up and took a deep breath. His relaxed and comfortable smile covered up the confusion on his face. He walked over to Lehman and patted his head.
"Let's go, you'll know when you get there."
Lehman narrowed his eyes slightly and turned around to look at Pask who was walking towards the door and suddenly stopped him.
"Uncle Pask...so have I convinced you..."
He sighed softly, turned around and looked at the young man bathed in candlelight and said calmly
"I'm very happy and surprised by what you said, Lehman. To be honest, I didn't think about the miracle you mentioned. This is indeed a very charming proposal. Just calm down and you will find that it is too ideal.
.It’s like it doesn’t exist in this world...people can’t be changed with just one or two words, Lehman.”
Lehman's eyes flashed but he understood the reason. In fact, there was a reason why he stopped his hysteria just now. He unconsciously realized this, the reality that he could not feel in the academy, and the oppression and discrimination.
The real helplessness of the reader.
That is the true price and the illusory end relative to it.
Pask looked at Lehman's struggling expression, chuckled, sighed again, leaned over and flicked his forehead
"Let's go, Lehman. Maybe after tonight, you will understand more deeply what I want to protect."
After saying that, without stopping any longer, he and Lehman turned around, opened the door, and headed towards the restaurant.
.............
Under the cover of night, there were no more children playing in the corridor. Only the cold night wind shuttled through the narrow night. Until the two of them walked through the ward area, Catherine and Mais came to greet them from the room.
They arrived at Pask and blocked their way.
Catherine gently pushed Max's back and brought him to Lehman.
Max: "Lehman...Thank you for saving me. But...I don't understand. I...still don't understand, why?"
Lehman smiled and said: "Do you need any other reason to save your family? Max, you are my family from beginning to end, aren't you?"
Max: "But... you always look down on me, just like everyone else. They will just look at you and tell me to give up, it's impossible... Am I really such a failure... Lehman.
”
Catherine looked at Pask and raised his head slightly to signal him something, but Pask just smiled and gave the hesitant Lehman a gentle push.
Lehman looked at the confusion in Mais's eyes, recalled what Catherine said not long ago in his mind, and said calmly.
"Mais, the reason why I am still alive in the orphanage is because my former family locked me in a small cabinet when they were in the most danger, and then used their blood to save my life.
.Because of my weakness.
I just want to be them, and I don’t want you to be them too. This is a bloody road, and you shouldn’t embark on it... Even though you can’t see anything in the closet, you are still alive, right?
..........I just hope you can live."
Max watched as Lehman only let a drop of tears fall, and then restrained its tendency to collapse. He opened his mouth tremblingly but closed it again. After taking a deep breath, he just said sarcastically
"Hmph! I'm glad you can't do it! Because I will go down this bloodiest road myself, and I won't let you be the only hero! That's my... our place."
Lehman looked at Mais, and an image flashed in his mind. The moonlight in a dark room quietly melted the curtains and invaded a corner of the room at this moment.
He knew that the weirdness in Max's body might not agree with such a boring reconciliation, but this might be enough for now. At least Max had a reason to fight against it.
That's enough.
Lehman said with a smile
"Of course, Max."
Pask looked at the two reconciled people but didn't know whether he should treat them as children anymore. He just sighed and heard Catherine's words.
"I'm glad you can explain it clearly, my children.
Okay, let’s keep walking.”
After saying that, the four of them walked towards the restaurant again and came to its door.
The peripheral vision streamed out from the crack in the door, and even from the door he could hear the laughter of the children in the room. Lehman raised his head and glanced at Pask's eyes, and saw the thousands of thoughts flashing in his eyes, but Lehman
There is indeed a bit of sadness in his eyes.
Because he understands that a cruel and gentle person can also be painful and contradictory.
While Lehman sighed softly, Catherine knocked on the door.
Brad's serious "whisper" came from the room, telling the children to get ready. Then he walked to the door with forceful steps, coughed twice and said solemnly
"Do you believe in miracles?"
Pask couldn't help but chuckle.
"I believe."
Brad coughed again and said in a thicker voice
"Can you name them?"
Catherine and Brad laughed together: "Sullivan, Ivan, Ike...Rhodes."
Brad nodded thoughtfully
"Well~~~ That's very correct, but I think you have missed something, that is, the protagonists who will advance tonight! Lehman and Max, who are about to complete their coming-of-age ceremony."
After speaking, he slowly opened the door, and the light of the kerosene lamp in the room shone on the four of them. Brad bent down towards Lehman and Max and stretched out his hands, winking at them and teasing them in a low voice
"I'm glad that there are only two people today instead of four. Otherwise, if I were carried in by you, I would look very funny."
But as soon as Brad finished saying this, he felt the wind under his feet began to unsteadily usurp his balance back and forth, and looked at Pask speechlessly.
"Don't be like that, Pask."
But Pask ignored Brad's words, and Katherine also added with a smile
"Who told you that you don't treat us as human beings? I'm really sad."
Pask: "Did you hear that? Sister Catherine has spoken, but you can't blame me."
After saying that, a gust of wind rose up instantly, breaking Brad's balance and causing him to fly into the air. The four of them caught Brad's body in a tacit understanding. The children did not cover up and rushed towards Brad with loud cheers.
De, carried him into this final coronation ceremony.
.............
The cheers in the room passed through the thin walls of the orphanage, mocking the ruthless night.
Thiessen sat on a tree not far from the orphanage, not caring about the biting wind in the middle of the night, looking at the faintly glowing magic circle on the roof.
Waiting for this "meaningless" farce to come to an end.
