Personality V: I will save everything

The crowd sharpened their knives at Jack, who was so frightened by their looks that he stepped back.

"Cold, cold, calm down, everyone, there is one more thing I haven't told you." Jack just wanted to delay time now.

"Say!!!" xN

"It's just..." Jack reached out and touched the door handle behind him while thinking of an excuse to delay.

Take advantage of it!

Run away through the door!

"Stop, Jack! Let's see if we don't skin you (╬◣w◢)!" xN

Hearing the roar from behind, Jack ran faster.

Jack ran faster and faster, not daring to stop, because if he stopped, he would be dead.

They must not be caught, because Jack still cherishes his life.

Suddenly, Jack suddenly thought of a good idea.

Jack used the cover of the crowd to run into a dark alley, activated his Kirigakure invisibility ability, and disappeared at the end of the alley.

"Fuck! Where did he go?!" Naib, who had lost Jack's location, yelled angrily.

"Separately search! I don't believe we can't catch him today!!!" Joseph waved his hand and asked everyone to disperse and search quickly.

"I found him, I must skin him!!!" Leo said, holding the sickle with both hands.

.........

Everyone separated to look for Jack.

Joseph and Leo were in charge of the residential area. Norton was in charge of various dark alleys. The rest were responsible for searching the streets and squares.

I have to dig deep to find Jack! ! !

…Half an hour later…

Norton frantically searched for Jack's voice in the alley.

His posture had the potential to tear down the entire alley.

Norton opened all the abandoned cardboard boxes, wooden boxes and wooden boards and looked for them carefully.

Although the sky is now a little dark and foggy, with a tendency to rain.

But Norton, who was blinded by anger, didn't care about this. He just wanted to find Jack and then skin him! ! !

With this belief, Norton still searched carefully in the alley.

until……

……one hour later……

It's completely dark,

It's not the kind of darkness when the sun goes down, but the kind of darkness when the sun is covered by thick clouds.

The weather now seems like it will rain heavily in the next second.

To be honest, Norton already wanted to go back a little bit.

Moreover, there are usually no street lights in small alleys like this. Now Norton was completely walking along the alley by touching the wall. He couldn't tell the difference between east, west and north at all.

Dark and damp, with musty-smelling walls and darkness that makes it difficult to see the way forward.

Norton's desire to go back became even stronger.

It's not that Norton is not angry anymore, he is still angry with Jack, but the biological instinct of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages forces him to leave this alley.

But the problem is...

"Where is the exit?" Norton whispered, touching the wall for direction.

Yes, the alley was winding and complicated, like a maze. In addition, the weather was gloomy and there was almost no light in the alley. Norton was completely lost.

"How am I going to get out?" Norton was already a little scared.

Logically speaking, miners like Norton who have worked in dark tunnels for a long time should not be afraid of the dark.

But this is different.

When I was working in the tunnel, I was surrounded by living people and people I knew.

But in such a dark alley, Norton can guarantee that if he yells, the only echo that will come back is Norton's own echo.

And there was no telling what kind of danger lurked in a dark alley like this. Someone might pounce at the next corner to cause trouble for Norton.

Norton was even starting to get nervous and could hear his own heartbeat.

"Help..." Norton muttered in a low voice. He didn't dare to yell out loud. No one knew whether the person attracted was a human or a ghost.

Sudden! ! !

"Ah!"x2

Norton tripped over something!

The pain from his body's heavy collision with the hard ground forced Norton to cry out.

But that's wrong. In that case, Norton would only scream once, so who would make the other one?

Norton quickly looked towards the place where he had just tripped.

The alley was pitch black, and it took a lot of effort for Norton to finally see what it was.

"Ah, I'm sorry kid, are you okay?" Norton could only barely tell that it was a human figure, and since he could trip over himself, he must not be tall and should be a child.

"..." I saw the man picking up something on the ground without raising his head.

Norton followed his gaze and looked to the ground, only to realize that when he fell, his wallet fell out and the gems inside were scattered all over the floor.

(This is the gem that Norton used to turn into "fool's gold.")

At this time, those gems were shining faintly in the faint light.

Norton looked at the child in front of him and sighed, but he did not mean to blame him. After all, living in such a dark alley, a gem could probably change the fate of their family.

but!

Although Norton can understand, he will never allow others to take his money.

"Hey! I told you this is my thing!" Norton shouted angrily while lifting the child up.

It wasn't until he lifted the child up that Norton discovered that what the child had picked up was not Norton's gems, but some berries that Norton had scattered on the ground during the collision.

"Put me down! You damn noble ghost!" A voice that was obviously not that of a child came into Norton's ears.

Norton subconsciously put down the person he was holding.

"Fuck you noble ghost, I don't care about your broken stones!" As soon as he was placed on the ground, the man immediately squatted down again, looking for the berries scattered in the alley, which he finally found in the suburbs. Found in the bushes.

In his eyes, those berries were more precious than those broken stones.

Although he doesn't understand what's so good about this kind of shiny broken stone? But he knew that if he went home with these stones, they would definitely be robbed by the homeless people. Then he and his brothers would be in danger, so he might as well take some berries back.

So he desperately searched for the berries that had just been scattered all over the ground with the help of the light in the alley that was so weak that it was almost negligible.

But no matter how hard he searched, the berries he finally found were less than one-third of the ones he just found.

The berries rolled everywhere, and most of them fell into the nearby sewers and cracks in the ground, making them impossible to pick up.

He was really angry. If he and his brothers saved some of the berries he finally picked up, they would barely be enough for two or three days, but now there is only such a small amount left, which is probably not enough for one day.

"You..." Suddenly a rumble of thunder interrupted what he wanted to say.

Then, after the thunder, it began to rain heavily.

Now he didn't have time to yell at the nobleman, he had to go home quickly. These berries will spoil quickly if they get wet from rain.

Seeing the figure running away in the rain, Norton decided to follow him and see where he would go.

On the one hand, it was because Norton wanted to find a place to hide from the rain. On the other hand, Norton finally met a living person in this alley and expected him to take him out of the alley.

...Three minutes later...

The man finally ran back to his home, but it was not so much a home as a temporary shelter built with a few branches, a rag, and a few boxes.

"I'm back, brothers, see what I found?" The man took out the nuts from his arms and handed them to his brothers.

"I'm sorry, brothers, I originally had more food, but it's because something happened in the alley just now, and now I only have this little left."

"It's okay, as long as you can come back safely." The other two brothers were very worried about this brother who went out to look for food, because people are not friendly to people like them, and it is God's blessing that he can come back safely. .

"Do you want me to stay here for the night?" A sudden voice came from above.

Norton put one hand on the rag that could barely keep out the rain, bent down and asked the three people under the rag.

"!!!"x3

But it was obvious that the three of them were wary of Norton, a guy dressed as an aristocrat who suddenly appeared.

"Oh, don't be nervous, gentlemen, I just accidentally got lost in the alley. Can I find a place to hide from the rain?" Norton said as gently as possible.

gentlemen?

No one has ever called us that, everyone just calls us freaks and monsters.

This is really the first time that someone calls us sir.

"Please come in. If you don't mind."

He said he was coming in, but Norton just leaned into the rag to prevent the rain from getting to him.

Just like that, the four people were relatively speechless inside.

……ten minutes later……

"Sir, aren't you cold like this?" One of them finally couldn't help but want to talk to Norton.

Norton was wearing his "Black Tulip" outfit, so he looked very thin. It was late autumn now, and the temperature was very cold.

But how could Norton feel cold?

"Don't worry, I'm not cold." Even though Norton said it, it was obvious that they didn't believe it.

Look at how thin this gentleman is wearing. His skin is even exposed to the air. In contrast, although our clothes are made of rags that others don’t want, at least Can cover all our skin.

"I'm really not cold because I'm a 'stone'." Norton looked at their expressions and said again.

In fact, the reason why Norton couldn't feel the cold was very simple, thanks to the ability of the manor owner.

Even if Norton wore only one layer of clothing on a snowy day, he would not feel the slightest bit cold.

But Norton's words had a different meaning in the ears of the three brothers.

"Oh, sir, you are so funny. What you said is really interesting. We would like to add him to our next performance, okay?" Yes, they just thought Norton didn't want them to worry, so they said Joking around, like they joke around each other not wanting to worry their brothers.

"Of course." This was nothing to Norton, it was just a sentence.

"Oh, thank you sir, you are so generous. Can I ask your name?" the three brothers asked happily.

"My name is Norton. Norton Campbell." Norton said truthfully. There is nothing to hide, right?

"Oh, thank you sir, our name is Will." The three brothers said in unison.

"Will? Are you just called Will? Are all three of them called Will?" Norton asked, pointing at the three of them.

Because just like Norton answered them, when exchanging names with people they meet for the first time, they always say their first name and last name together, unless... they don't have a last name.

"Yes, sir, our name will be Will." The three people said in unison.

The three brothers were really happy. They had been bullied in the circus before. They thought everyone in the world was like this. Unexpectedly, they met a gentle gentleman today.

And after that "gentle gentleman" Norton confirmed that the three of them had no last names, he felt a little embarrassed and wanted to change the topic, but unexpectedly he turned around and discovered something he was very familiar with.

"Where did this... come from?" Norton reached out and picked up something.

The three brothers looked closely and saw that it was a plate.

"Uh...that...sir...this is us..." The three brothers were a little embarrassed to say it, because they recognized what kind of plate it was. It was the plate they stole together when they stole food on the street.

"Is it stolen?" Norton's tone was a little unkind.

"..." None of the three brothers spoke, but they all lowered their heads guiltily, obviously acquiescing.

"..." Norton didn't speak either, but he was just too angry to speak.

Because he recognized that this plate was the one that was stolen when his donuts were stolen.

"So... you were the ones who stole it..." Although Norton's voice was very small, the four of them were crowded together, so it was still easily heard by the three brothers.

When the three brothers heard Norton say this, they broke out in cold sweat.

How should they explain to this "gentle gentleman" that he must hate them? After all, they stole his food.

Although Norton was very angry that his donuts were stolen by them.

But Norton felt that he was not qualified to blame them, because he often stole food from other miners when he was in the mining area, because if he didn't eat at that time, he would starve to death.

"...Are you hungry?" Norton asked after a long silence.

Hearing what Norton said, the three brothers immediately lowered their heads because they were really hungry, hungry and cold.

Norton looked up and saw that the rain was getting lighter.

"When the rain stops, I will take you to have a good meal."

"Really? Sir!" After hearing what Norton said, the three brothers immediately said in surprise.

They couldn't believe that this gentleman was so gentle and kind, and was willing to give them food even though he knew they were stealing.

"Of course, we will go when the rain stops." To be honest, Norton didn't understand why he did this.

but,

Looking at them, Norton remembered how he had been crawling around alone in the mining area.

At that time, I was caught stealing food and was beaten half to death by the people around me. I was constantly laughed at and insulted by them.

But at that time, I just simply wanted to live...

Maybe... Norton thought it was because he saw the shadow of his past in them.