When Chen Mo looked at his fingers, Victor couldn't help but clench his hands, instinctively wanting to hide his distinctive nails.
Although Victor usually comes across as a bit unruly and decisive in his actions, in fact he has always had a deep sense of inferiority in his heart.
The reason is his distinctive sharp nails.
Ordinary people's nails are very thin, only about one millimeter thick, and their width is generally about one centimeter. However, Victor's nails are half a centimeter thick, and much narrower than normal people, almost as wide.
Half a centimeter, and the color is not as transparent as others, showing the pinkish white of the flesh below, but a shiny brownish-yellow color, and the overall look is very ugly, like a deformity.
Moreover, his nails grow very fast, and ordinary people need to trim them every few days, but he has to trim them almost every day, otherwise his nails will soon grow long and sharp, looking like the claws of those ferocious beasts.
His father Thomas disliked him because of this and often called him a monster and abused and beat him at every turn.
Others always looked at him with a strange look in their eyes. Many people privately said that he was the child of a beast, or even a monster.
Among all the people around him, only James never disliked him, never looked at him strangely, and treated him as a friend.
So even though he didn't know that James was his biological brother before, he still cared about James very much, accompanying and taking care of him when he was sick, and standing up to protect him when others bullied him.
However, his nails have always been a worry in his heart, making him feel inferior and always behaved coldly and withdrawn when facing other people. In fact, he just didn't want to be hurt by other people's strange eyes, so he chose to become cold and tough.
Use your strongest side to face the people and eyes of the outside world.
Feeling Chen Mo's eyes falling on his hands, Victor instinctively clenched his fists and hid his nails, but the pride in his heart still prevented him from putting his hands behind his back.
If clenching your fists means defense, then putting your hands behind your back means escaping and weakness in his opinion. He wants to be strong and he doesn't allow himself to show his weak side!
Hearing Chen Mo ask if this was his ability, Victor couldn't help but feel a little confused. He didn't understand why Chen Mo asked such a question.
Although he was unwilling to mention his nails to anyone and had never discussed it with anyone before, he still raised his head when asked by his savior and pretended to be relaxed.
"No sir, they're just deformities."
Although he wanted to pretend to be relaxed and show no concern, while saying these words, Victor could not help clenching his fists. Obviously, his heart was not as calm as he showed.
When Chen Mo heard his answer, he shook his head slightly and spoke slowly in his low and majestic voice.
"No, they are not deformities, but your innate abilities, the same extraordinary abilities as your brother!"
Chen Mo's tone was extremely certain, and there seemed to be some kind of magic in his deep voice that made people feel convinced.
If someone else said this to him, Victor would definitely think that the other person was mocking him, but when this sentence came out of Chen Mo's mouth, he couldn't help but want to believe it.
My own extraordinary abilities?
Victor stretched out his hands and looked at his hard, thick, and extremely sharp "ugly" nails.
However, although he felt that Chen Mo was not joking or deliberately sarcastic and humiliating him, and he wanted to believe what he said, Victor still couldn't help but feel doubtful as he looked at his nails.
These nails are as ugly as the claws of a beast. They don't look like they have any abilities. The long bone spurs protruding from James' fists can pierce the body and kill people. What about his claws? Scratch people?
Seeing the tangled expression on Victor's face, Chen Mo easily guessed his thoughts. He also hoped that his nails were not deformities as others said, but a powerful special ability like James, but he didn't.
I really can’t imagine what use these “ugly” nails can be used for.
"Have you ever seen a brown bear in the forest?"
Victor nodded lightly. Although he was young, he was not as frail and sick as James. He rarely went out. Because his father Thomas was very bad to him and often beat and scolded him. His strange nails made other people uncomfortable.
He was willing to play with him, so since he was a child, Victor would often run into the forest alone, where he felt free, carefree, and unrestrained. He didn't have to worry about other people's opinions, and no one would laugh at him.
He has seen various animals in the forest. In addition to reindeer and goats, which are not too threatening, he has also encountered ferocious predators such as gray wolves and brown bears, but he managed to escape them all.
So when Chen Mo mentioned brown bears, Victor immediately remembered the scene when he met brown bears in the forest. These huge beasts had long claws and fangs, and were extremely ferocious. He just saw them from a distance and didn't dare to go back.
He moved even slightly closer, quickly and quietly retreated a distance, then turned around and ran away.
"The claws of brown bears can leave deep wounds on their prey, even on thick tree trunks."
Listening to Chen Mo's words, Victor couldn't help but remember that he often saw animal scratches on the trunks of some big trees in the forest.
The thick bark on the tree trunk was directly peeled off, revealing a large area of bare tree trunk below, and leaving several deep scratches on the hard wood. He had thought at that time that if the claws were caught on a person's body
What will happen.
"In my hometown, there is a powerful beast that lives in the mountains and forests. The tiger, we call it the king of beasts, is the most powerful creature in the forest. Their claws are not as long as brown bears, but they are longer than brown bears.
They are sharper and more powerful. When hunting, their claws can easily scratch the body and belly of the prey, and pierce the internal organs. If they catch a person, they can kill him with just one claw!"
Originally, the sharp claws of the brown bear had already made Victor's eyes shine, and the sharp tiger claws described by Chen Mo made him yearn for it even more.
If his claws could reach the level of tiger claws, then their power would indeed be no worse than James's bone spurs.
"Your claws are also very sharp. It will not be a problem to cut through human skin. As long as the strength is enough, you can pierce muscles, pierce the enemy's body, and claw their internal organs into pieces!"