Tides: Years of Dawn

The dormitory where Crewe was pushed was the one at the end of the corridor closest to the stairs.There are two ends of the corridor, and there are no students living in the dormitory at the end.According to Haimin, it was abandoned because it was easy to attract wandering spirits and undead.

The beds inside were all pushed to a corner, and a thick layer of dust fell on them.

Crewe was thrown directly on the ground, and the dust rose up as the robe fell to the ground.

Crewe didn't know what happened, so Dale slapped him and pulled his hair up.The drunkenness and fan blowing made his eyes full of stars, he could only vaguely see Dale's face, and heard a few words of indistinct swearing.

Then before he could respond, he slapped his face again. This time he heard what Dale said.

He said—"I told you, you were meant for both of us."

In fact, at the moment he heard this, Crewe was already stupid.

Perhaps at the age of 14, the sea crocodile could not prove anything by saying this sentence.But at the age of 17, he understood the sinister intention behind it.

He was scared, he put his hand on Dale's chest, and kept shaking his head, "I don't know what you want to do, but...but don't hurt me, I'm Gawain's assistant, and you know—"

He didn't finish the sentence because Dale slapped him a third time.

This slap was as powerful as a fist, causing Crewe's left ear to explode with a buzzing sound, and he fell to the ground again.

The corner of his mouth was bloody, and when he wiped it with his hand, the little blood was shocking.Immediately afterwards, his scalp felt another sharp pain, and Dale picked him up again, and pressed him hard against the same dusty desktop.

At this time, he heard the sound of the door opening and locking.

His heart sank—as expected, the two brothers would not act alone, and Geros followed closely behind.

Crewe wanted to cry, but he was shaking with fear.Under the control of the strong sea crocodile brothers, if he cannot cast spells, he is powerless to resist.

Geros asked his brother, "Where do we start?"

It is these words and Dell's next actions that confirm Crewe's guess.

That's right, Dale lifted Crewe's robes.

The moment the robe was lifted, Crewe's legs, which were rarely transformed, felt cold.The coolness penetrated from the skin, instantly enveloping his internal organs.

His tears came out in a flash, and he hurriedly scratched behind his back with his hands, grabbed Dale's arm, and cried for mercy-"You can't do this...I beg you, you can't do this! You will Convicted, you will, you will be eaten, you will be hanged on the bloodstone beach, you will..."

"No," Geros leaned forward with a smile, pinched Crewe's thigh vigorously, and said the most critical point of their daring to do this—"Don't forget, our father is still the lord, We have the priority to choose support. Even if Gao Wen speaks first, we can still grab it."

As he spoke, he pinched Crue's leg again, the pain made Crewe's scalp numb.

But it doesn't matter, he would rather the sea crocodile brothers beat him up.Those scars can be healed, and the tentacles that were bitten off by Leviathan have slowly grown back now.He can let the sea crocodile brothers cut them off again, and he is willing to use this method to satisfy the other party.

So he said this, he said, please, as long as you don't do this, you can do anything else.

He said let me go, don't hurt me, I won't say anything, it will always be a secret.

He cried and said, his tears ran hot all over his face, but none of that could move the sea crocodile.

There was also a surge of anger in their chests. The anger came from their families, from the school, from their incomprehensible loss of power, and from the indifference and alienation that suddenly surged towards them for no reason.

"No," Dale said after pulling the chain and stirring it a few times in his hand, "the method you said is not as interesting as what I think of now."

What happened later, Crewe's brain seemed to be broken.He felt that he had had a nightmare, an illusion that existed only in his mind after being drunk.

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Crewe didn't know if he passed out or was still awake.

He didn't know how he got out of the house, and how he walked out of Haicheng School all the way.His face is so dirty, his body is so dirty.

He was in pain, not just the part of his body that had been gouged, but also his heart.

He regained his half-human, half-octopus appearance and walked all the way to the beach.He jumped into the water, soaking his body in the rising waves.

But he still hurts.Pain inside the body, pain outside the body.

The two sea crocodile brothers left various bruises on his body, and some bloody things covered his long robe.Unseen by others, Crewe suffers every minute and every second.

Involuntarily, Crewe went deeper into the sea.

He submerged his tentacles in the sea water, then sank to his waist, then covered his chest, and finally his whole body got into the sea water, and slowly swam along the sea water.

Maybe this was the punishment he had for trying to poison Jade, or maybe it was the consequence he had to bear for interfering with the blood sacrifice.But if even he has to be punished, what about Saru, what about Elena, and Dell and Geros who have hurt countless people?Who will punish them again?

Crewe couldn't figure it out.

He couldn't cry in the sea, or he couldn't feel it when he cried.Sea water can help his wounds heal, and it can also provide cover for the rape he has suffered.

He needed these at the moment, and this was the only consolation he could find besides death.

So he didn't know how he got ashore again, to the cliff island in the north.

It was almost dawn, and the blue sky seemed to be covered with an indelible fog.

There were a few jellyfish girls playing on the seashore. I don’t know if they arrived too early or they played all night. Their cheerful laughter drifted along the sea breeze, and they were so happy that they were separated from Crewe by a completely different world.

Crewe walked on.

He didn't turn back into human legs, and he never wanted to change back into human legs.He even wanted to change his upper body back to the original shape of an octopus, so that he would not be seen as a human face.

But every time he changes back to his original shape, he will swell many times, and he will stretch his clothes.His school robes were torn like this, when he was severely reprimanded by Saru, so he mended them, and he has been wearing them since the fourth grade.

He didn't mean it, he felt sorry.

So - "I'm sorry, I was wrong. Please, I won't do it again."

His life was made up of these few simple words, but what did he get in return.

Just walking all the way, thinking all the way.

Until he came to the door of the sea monster's house in a daze, and Gawain happened to come out to take back Lemarlock who was still playing in the small pond in front of the door.

Gao Wen likes to wake up early and take Lemarlock to the beach for a little exercise before going into the house for breakfast.It was Lemarlock who saw Crewe first, and shouted at Crewe from a distance.

Gawain squinted his eyes and looked at it. After confirming that the other party was really Crewe, he handed Lemarlock to the servant, and he quickly walked up to him.

Gawain was stunned, and Krewe was in a panic at the moment.His face and body were covered with dirty mud, and his expression seemed to have lost his soul.

Crewe was also stunned, he didn't think of going to find Gawain, he hadn't been to Cliff Island much this year, he thought he had almost forgotten about Gawain.

What's more, he didn't want Gawain to see him now, because as long as Gawain asked "what's the matter", Crewe would not be able to hold back his tears, and wept even more embarrassingly.

Crewe cried quietly at first, only the tears kept flowing, and his tentacles curled up and unfolded.He kept wiping his eyes with the back of his hand.But there were so many tears that I could never stop.

Gawain was stunned for a while, then carefully hugged him.

Crewe trembled all over, but suddenly let go of his voice on Gawain's shoulder.

He cried out all the grievances and pains, all the missing, resentment, unwillingness and reluctance.

He was so tired, every day seemed exhausted.He fell on Gawain's shoulder, but he felt that he had stepped on a ball of cotton.He kept sinking, not knowing where the end point was.

And Gao Wen, who knew nothing, patted his back lightly and kept whispering in his ear, "It's all right... I'm here, don't be afraid, no one will bully you anymore."

No, Crewe shouted in his heart, it's not that no one bullied, but that the bullying was over.

Crewe's world completely collapsed on this day.

It was on that day that Crewe knew that he could no longer keep the last trace of happiness in his heart.

TBC

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This version is an abridged version that does not affect the plot, if you want to trigger the hidden level, you can see it in CP