Tides: Years of Dawn

"So you know that idiot can't leave?!"

When Tristan interrupted the conversation, he and Gareth went outside to smoke a cigarette and have a private chat, Gareth asked a little uncomfortably, "You know that you didn't tell me, it's no wonder your kidney not good."

Tristan took a bitter puff of his cigarette, and wanted to sit on the porch, thinking that the distance between the two of them would allow the conversation between the two of them to be heard by the powerful beast inside, so he beckoned Gareth to come with him In the front yard, I just sat down on the floor.

"I don't fucking know." Tristan replied with two deep breaths, frowning.

"Then she asked you just now if it was for medicine, and you—"

"I'm just pretending I know, I don't fucking understand the mess behind it."

"Then... do you think what she said is true?" Gareth rubbed the cigarette but didn't light it.

The amount of information he has now received is too much for him, and if Tristan doesn't know anything about it, he has no clue.

He needs Tristan's judgment and choice.

He could hear the meaning in the woman's words, and secretly felt that maybe he really wasn't that normal.The woman said that this batch of beasts were all unstable, and even if they hadn't shown symptoms of madness for decades, no one could tell which day they would go berserk due to some unknown stimulus.

Gareth is a ///timed///bomb///bomb that could blow up Tristan at any moment.It's like a woman who has followed her master for so many years, and finally still bites as she says.

So in the end, Tristan was right when he called him so often, and Gareth was really out of his mind.When he transforms into the form of a beast, his past memories will be sealed. In layman's terms, Gareth is a white-eyed wolf, even if it takes decades to raise him, he can't get used to it.

And Gareth didn't want Tristan to take such a big risk.

Even though he probably didn't know anything when he became a beast, but now with human psychology and thinking mode, he doesn't want to hurt Tristan, let alone have any potential to hurt him.

So when Tristan asked him, "Do you think I should look for that folk remedy for you too," Gareth said with absolute certainty—"Yeah, yes."

But the medicine does not mean that it is available. Although the woman said that she has received the medicine treatment and the effect is remarkable, and her husband is also the holder of the medicine, but it happens—"My husband went back to the sea people's island by boat , he didn’t come back on schedule, I think he’s in danger.”

That's right, that's the woman's quid pro quo.

A woman needs to ask Tristan and Gareth to help her get her husband back.If he is really in danger, rescue him.After all, only her husband knew where the potion was hidden. If her husband was not found, they would have lost everything along the way.

"Is... is she really helping us?" Gareth asked a second time.

Still Tristan couldn't answer.Although in terms of emotional tendencies, women do have the possibility to help them, and they also fully stated that they will take care of the master and servant of the Leopard family.

In the final analysis, what she hated was the land wizard who transformed her into her later appearance, hated the actions of the spider family who drove her and her master to extinction, and hated the unfair fate of being raised as a beast despite being a human being.In that sense, she was on Gareth's side.

She said that she didn't want to see any beasts repeat the same mistakes she had made. The reason why her husband helped her was because they had the blood of the sea people in this group of beasts, and the leader who once loyal to the jellyfish believed that they could Through the potion, you can truly become a fellow seaman, and fight against land wizards together.

"Do you know what Sea People are?" Tristan asked.

Gareth thought for a while, and answered—"Uh...a fisherman living by the sea?"

"No." Tristan's eyes turned cold, but just as Gareth was waiting for him to continue explaining, Tristan just opened his mouth and closed it again.Instead, there was an inexplicable rhetorical question - "So, you think you should...go for that shit drug?"

Gareth hesitated after hearing this.He could see Tristan's fear, but he didn't know what the other person was afraid of.

He didn't know much about the wizarding world at first, he was a villain himself, and he followed Tristan to kill people and rob people as long as he could remember, so he wasn't afraid of any villains in the human world.

But if Tristan was the mentor who led him on the way of the hunter, then if Tristan was worried, he had to be worried.

It's just—"If I don't, there's always the possibility that I'll go berserk, right?"

For 20 years Tristan thought it would be impossible, but today all his judgments were shaken by a woman who was also a beast.He knew what Gareth was worried about. Although he didn't think it was a necessary and sufficient condition for taking risks, Gareth would never be so stupid as to believe his negation.

Tristan put his arms around Gareth's shoulders, "You should believe that I have the ability to protect myself, to force the cub."

Tristan suddenly felt guilty.It's just that he didn't expect that Gareth also felt guilty.

And this hug made Gareth feel that when Tristan couldn't make choices and arrangements, maybe he should try to make a decision alone.

That night, after the idiot master's injury stabilized, the woman arranged a room for the two hunters.

Gareth found the woman alone while taking a shower.

"I haven't asked your name yet." Gareth knocked on the door of the woman's room with a towel wrapped around his lower body.

The woman threw him a light brown robe to put on, "Sunny day."

Seeing Gareth in a daze, the woman had no choice but to explain, "I'm not like you. I have followed the name given to you by the spider family. My name was given by the master later."

Gareth nodded, put on his robe and sat down.

The woman sat on the bed opposite him, pointing to the box on the table, indicating that there were cigarettes inside.

After hesitating for a while, Gareth also finished his cigarette before opening his mouth cautiously—"You...can you tell me how to find your husband? I want...to go by myself."

"You are a beast. You can easily run away without your master around. If you are caught, you will be finished." The woman dusted off the cigarette ash and narrowed her eyes. "The good result is that you will be killed directly, and the bad result may Wash away your memory, the memory in your brain is gone, but the memory in your body is still there, they will let you hunt your master with biological instinct."

"...I won't be caught," Gareth argued softly, "I...I'm strong."

"I know you are strong, but Tristan must have never told you that the stronger the beast, the less stable it is." The woman said, "That's why our group was ordered to be wiped out."

"No... Tristan is in command on weekdays, and I charge forward. My combat power may be stronger than Tristan, so I... I can handle it." Gareth squeezed the butt of his cigarette tangledly, and he said this I have no confidence in myself.

The woman stared at the crushed cigarette butt, and chuckled, "You mean your master is not willing to take risks."

"Of course not," Gareth quickly vetoed.He can guarantee that if he says he wants it, Tristan will take him with him even if he is a mother.But this is not what he wants, "Yes... I don't want him to take risks."

The woman understands that this is the animal's dependence on the master's instinct.

No matter what the owner looks like, whether it is the same sex or the opposite sex, the beast will have an obsession almost infatuated with the owner.She did the same with Yin Tian back then, so that when she bit Yin Tian to death, she felt that the sky was falling.

"You are loving him," said the woman.

But this sounded awkward, Gareth frowned suspiciously, "Why do you say I am... right now?"

"Because when you receive drug treatment and become a real person or sea dweller, this emotion will disappear." The woman said lightly, "But it's not your fault, this is the gene that must have been added when the beast was developed. Imprisonment. It is more conducive to the obedience of animals to their masters and the establishment of unbreakable loyalty."

But once it is redeemed by the potion, the confinement that exists in the animal's body will disappear.After becoming complete and independent, you will look at your master and your emotions towards him from a new and equal perspective.

"After my husband treated me, I began to realize that I was just grateful for the cloudy sky, very strong gratitude," the woman explained, "but not the relationship that developed between me and my husband afterwards, not love."

Gareth understood for a while, and asked probingly—"You mean...I want to take risks for him now because I'm 'forced' to love him because I'm imprisoned by genes?"

"Yes." The woman confirmed.

Gareth immediately denied—"No, I did it voluntarily. He has been with me since I was a child, he protected me, raised and taught me, he... he is very good to me, he is—"

"A person who has never seen the light does not know that he is in darkness," the woman interrupted him, putting out the cigarette butt at his feet. "A person who has not been complete cannot know his own incompleteness."

That was the strongest feeling the woman had felt in five years, and she was sure it would be the same after Gareth.

"The reason why I didn't tell Tristan this is because once I told him, he would no longer be willing to let you accept redemption."

The woman smiled, inexplicably, Gareth didn't see deceit and malice from this smile, but felt a kind of sincerity that he rarely saw on Tristan's face—"So I think the choice should be yours In my hand, I think... this is a crucial step in turning a beast into a human."

From the moment she identified Gareth, she marveled at the brute's humanity.She affirms Tristan's efforts and sacrifices, but she also knows that this limitation cannot lead to a truly perfect result on her own.

So when Gareth came to her alone and told her of his independent decision, she was both surprised and delighted.This proves that Gareth is more whole than he appears, and that wholeness deserves her help.

"I will draw you a map. With the map, you can find the route to the islands where the sea people live. You are very close to the people. If you successfully find my husband and rescue him, I believe he will help you. Complete the last step of becoming a human." The woman gave her own response.

This is the result Gareth wanted, but when he took the simple map and stuffed it in the insole, and was about to leave the room, he turned around again, not knowing whether to say it to himself or to the woman Listening to emphasize again - "But... But I really feel that I really like Tristan."

"Say this sentence after you accept 'salvation'. Only then will this sentence be convincing." The woman slightly raised the corners of her mouth and forced a smile.

TBC