With a smile on his face, Simon politely waved goodbye to a couple who were chatting happily along the way, then walked off the train with his backpack in his arms, and squeezed his way out among the people getting on and off the train until he got out.
Standing on the platform, I stretched out my hand to wipe my sweat.
"As expected of a big city, there are so many people."
He took a deep breath and looked at the busy streets with people coming and going outside, holding his small bag, with a slightly confused look on his expression.
This period of time was as incredible as a dream to him.
Simon comes from a small town, a town with a lower level of development than Lucas. His father is a farmer and his mother works in a textile factory. In the words of many people, he is a country boy who has never seen the world.
, although he attended the only middle school in the town and was among the best.
Knowledge can change your destiny, as long as you can pay the tuition.
Unfortunately, there are four brothers in Simon's family. Two of his brothers dropped out of school before finishing middle school to help lighten the family's burden. Although Simon was able to finish middle school, his family had no plans to let him continue studying.
.
Unless you can get admitted to a top university like Teito University and receive a large scholarship, the tuition fees required for any university will be a large amount of money that is unacceptable to Simon's family.
Therefore, no matter how unwilling Simon is to learn, he still knows that his life is in a future that he can see at a glance. After finishing high school, he will find a good job or become an apprentice to help reduce the burden on his family and support his youngest brother in school.
In a few years, I will save enough money to marry a woman I don't hate and have children.
This is the life trajectory of most ordinary people. Perhaps everyone will be conceited when they are young, thinking that they are unique and capable of creating miracles, but in the end they will succumb to life, and the same is true for Simon.
If he hadn't gotten up in the middle of the night and sneaked into that remote library to read because he was eager to learn.
In the library, he saw with his own eyes that the protagonist of a ghost story that had been circulated in the school for a long time was easily solved, and then was thrown into a big mouth and chewed and swallowed, scaring him to the point of peeing in an instant.
.
Next, there was no doubt that he was discovered, but because he was so scared that he didn't even run away, he just watched the other person walking towards him, and then the other person asked him in a very gentle tone what he was doing out there in the middle of the night and what he was doing.
It's the mouth on the forehead.
Simon didn't know why he, who had always been timid, was not frightened and fainted. Instead, he stammered and answered the other party. He was here to study and prepare for next year's unified examination.
Although he didn't have the ability to get into Tokyo University, it didn't stop him from having such a dream.
What if I really pass the exam?
Then, things unfolded beyond Simon's expectation. The other party did not arrange him into a platter or make a mosaic like in the horror stories. Instead, he was accepted as an apprentice by the other party because of his attitude towards learning and knowledge.
And the other person also became his mentor.
So in confusion, Simon stepped into another world that he had never been exposed to before, a world that was terrifying and strange, completely different from what he had seen in countless fantasy novels.
He once thought he was lucky to have met his mentor. It was not until other apprentices appeared around the mentor and then slowly disappeared that he realized that perhaps on the contrary, being separated from the ordinary world was his greatest misfortune.
As the apprentices disappeared one by one, he began to panic, and developed a strong fear and wariness of his mentor. He felt that his mentor was like raising pigs, waiting for the moment to fatten them up, and then used that terrifying face to
Swallow it in one big mouthful.
Otherwise, it cannot be explained that every time the mentor takes his apprentice out to baptize and obtain the power of evil spirits, he always comes back alone and then looks for a new apprentice again.
Under this overwhelming pressure that almost made him collapse, he eagerly studied the knowledge taught by his mentor, secretly contacted other apprentices who sensed something was wrong, and planned to escape. They did not dare to call the police, let alone
Tell others because they know the horror of the mentor. No matter how many ordinary people there are, they are useless in front of him.
Finally, after the mentor took people away again, the other apprentices couldn't help but start to run away. Simon originally wanted to run away and had already taken action, but before leaving, he couldn't help but go back home and take a look.
His family, and then he found that none of the apprentices who said they were waiting for him, all left first.
And when the angry Simon left along the agreed route, he discovered the cold bodies of the apprentices on the roadside...
In the end, he obediently returned to his mentor. As always, the mentor seemed unaware of anything and still taught him with all his heart, and repeated the process of recruiting apprentices, baptizing them, and returning alone. Simon watched numbly as the apprentices around him came and went.
, lost count of how many people there were, and finally one day, the instructor called him.
A war is going on, which contains countless opportunities. As the mentor who values the apprentice the most, he finally failed to escape this time. There is another person who follows the mentor for baptism and has strong learning ability. It seems that he has experienced
There are many girls who are not mature enough for their age.
Unlike other apprentices, this girl came to her on her own initiative. Of course, in Simon's eyes, this was tantamount to seeking death.
And everything that happened next was also beyond Simon's expectation. It turned out that the mentor had never deceived them from beginning to end. He indeed took the apprentice out for baptism!
When the girl exploded in front of Simon, Simon suddenly realized that it was not much better than he thought.
The success rate of baptism is horribly low, and all apprentices who fail will have the same fate.
But Simon didn't dare to escape. He could only follow his mentor and face the final judgment, or a new life.
Maybe he will be the only lucky one?
Thinking like this, Simon involuntarily lowered his head and prayed to God, then hesitantly stepped forward and merged into the crowd.
It was his mentor who should have brought him to Camp City together, but some accidents happened along the way. The mentor left alone and asked Simon to go to Camp City to wait for him. Simon naturally obeyed and understood that no matter where he went, his mentor would be there.
There is always a way to find yourself.
"I hope my instructor won't think I'm running away..."
With some worry, he scanned the crowd, hoping to see a familiar figure, but found nothing. Instead, he saw a man with a sallow face staring at him. After being discovered, his eyes became a little flustered, and he quickly lowered his head and left.
It seems a little weird...
He hugged the bag on his chest tightly, and suddenly found a large number of people pouring out in front of him, squeezing in front of him.