Sany's Tavern

"Sonny, don't take this task." Goyuri blocked the door like a child to prevent Sunny from leaving.

"That's impossible, Yuri." Ignoring his persuasion, Sanyi continued to pack his luggage for departure.

"You have accepted three missions this month. You should know the intensity of the mission of 'White Water'. Are you desperate?"

"If the boss refuses the order, it will affect the reputation of the tavern."

"This bunch of missions are so strange that I don't believe it's just a coincidence. Give me three days, Sonny, and I can find out what's wrong with these missions."

San Yi just smiled tolerantly, and the movement of cleaning up was not slow.

He has always been tolerant of Goyuri, the little mercenary who fled to him five years ago and was taken in by him.Maybe it's because Goyuri made him feel familiar. He likes this big boy with a cold appearance and a warm heart.

"Sonny, your injury is still not healed!" Goyuri finally couldn't take it anymore, and snatched his luggage.

"Okay, Yuri. Now you're like a granny telling her granddaughter not to marry a drunkard."

"That's like, I don't care. But you mustn't go."

"Goyuri Lu," San Yi suddenly turned serious.

Goyuri frowned, hid his luggage behind him, and stood upright.

"I'll give you five days to find connections between my clients over the two months, whether they went to the same restaurant or sat on the same chair."

Goyuri did not respond as usual. "The task of white water can be replaced by three red bartenders, one for me and one for 'Apple Burn' from Lin Town, let us do it for you."

"That's only two people, Yuri, what's wrong with your arithmetic."

"There's also that Kid Lotz, he's the former 'Bloody Kiss'."

Sunny lowered his eyes and remained silent.

"He... doesn't count. There's only one 'Bloody Kiss' bartender in the tavern, and he's not."

"Sonny, is there something wrong with him?"

"Don't doubt him." San Yi said softly, and pushed the door out.

Goyuri suddenly found that the luggage in his hand was gone.

"Sonny! Are you dying!"

"Be quiet, Yuri. If I let you go, then I will kill you—don't want your life." Sanyi didn't look back, and waved to Goyuri with his back, "Don't forget that I will give it to you task."

Three days later, Sanyi returned.But he dared not go through the gate, so he drove his horse around to the backyard.As soon as he entered the backyard, he fell straight off his horse.Throughout the night, no one found the tavern owner who was unconscious on the messy ground in the backyard. It was not until early the next morning that Kide came to the yard to find him.

"Sonny!" He never thought that there was a living person lying in such a small courtyard so early in the morning, and it was a small courtyard with few people. It took a long time for Kide to recognize that the person who fell on the ground was Sunny.Immediately, like cold water pouring on his head, he hurriedly went to help San Yi up.

"Hold on," he said.Sunny was still conscious, but had a fever.

"The gate... no... go around... the mission..." Muttering a mess of words, Kide carried him on his back and went up to the second floor through the back door.

This time happened to be the shift time of the tavern doctor, so Kide could only take some medicine tools and bandage San Yi himself.

[So you asked me to go to the backyard so early because of this! 】Kid said to the person on the other end of the earring communicator in a bad manner.

[This is a big deal.He has been drugged with hallucinogens, and now he will answer anything you ask him.Besides, if you saved him this time, his vigilance against you will definitely decrease. Didn't you suspect that he sent someone to watch you a few days ago? 】

idiot.Kide carefully separated the wound from the cloth.If hallucinogenic drugs could work Veritaserum on Sunny, he wouldn't be Sunny.

[Faslander, you can't bear it anymore? 】Seeing that Ke Ke didn't respond for a long time, the other end smiled heavily, a little crazy, 【You know, I will kill him! 】

Keide suddenly felt depressed.He wanted to end the call directly but hesitated due to the consequences of doing so last time.

[I know, but not now. ] Taking off the earrings, Kide stared at San Yi on the bed in a daze.

"Sang Yi, tell me, who is Lloyd Farslander?" Even knowing that there would be no answer, Ked still leaned into his ear and asked in a low voice.

"It's...me." San Yi frowned in a coma.

"No! You're not Lloyd Fasslander!" Ked controlled his anger, which was on the verge of eruption, barely under control. "Then who is Ced Loz."

He muttered, not asking for an answer.

San Yi didn't give him an answer, but after hearing the name, his expression softened for a moment.

It wasn't until Ked bandaged his wound that he suddenly realized that San Yi's physical condition was bad.

The ribs were broken once, there is a scar near the heart socket, there are faint dark circles under the eyes but the body is very strong-this is Ked's understanding of Sanyi seven years ago.However, the body in front of him now has sickly white skin, with wounds of various shades all over.

The most serious ones are the wounds on his waist and arms. The former has been injured for some time, but it has not been properly recuperated, and it keeps cracking repeatedly, oozing blood and pus; the wound on the arm is very new, like the claw marks of a flame dragon , the non-stop blood washed away the medicine powder that Sanyi handled himself... But these are not the most frightening things for Koid, because in this industry, he knows that these wounds are inevitable.What really made his heart twitch was the row of pinholes on Sanyi's arm.

Looking through his bedside table, wardrobe, bookcase...all the places where things might be hidden, Kide found a set of needles, a sedative for injection, and a large amount of sleeping pills.Slightly relieved, Kide originally thought he would dig out the drugs.

After putting the things back in place, Kide sat back beside Sanyi's bed.

Sunny had insomnia, Ked knew.Before he was 11 years old, he slept with Sanyi. At that time, Sanyi patted his head with a smile and said:

Kedi is my dream, even if I can't sleep, it doesn't matter.

But in the past seven years, Kedi abandoned him, and his "dream" betrayed him.Is his insomnia getting worse?So you can only rely on sleeping pills, or even direct injection of sedatives.

"Isn't there no one to take care of you these seven years?" He wanted to lean over and put his forehead on his scarred arm—just like seven years ago, but he suddenly woke up.

He got up slowly and left the room as if fleeing.

Once again, he gave up on San Yi.

Goyuri strictly abided by the agreement with Sanyi and returned on time on the fifth day of Sanyi's departure. At that time, Sanyi just woke up from a coma, and Ked was in his room.

The "White Water" task that has been rushing day by day has not bothered me recently.

"Sonny, what happened..." There was a sound of footsteps in the corridor, and Goyuri hurriedly came, but he opened the door carefully, only to see Ked sitting by Sunny's bed and peeling apples for him.

The apple skins are uniform in thickness and width, and they are piled up on the plate in a row.

"How do you..."

"Are you Sonny's follower? Do you know that Sonny has been sedated for a long time?"

Goyuri was very dissatisfied with the phrase "follower" at first, but was soon distracted by the second half of his sentence.

"Sonny..." He stared at Sunny in shock and suspicion.

San Yi smiled wryly, and a ball of cotton balls fell out of his ears.He picked it up and stuffed it back into his ear naturally.

One Ked has worn him out physically and mentally, and with the addition of Goyuri, he feels that the cotton ball should be replaced by a cork.

"Is it serious enough? Why didn't you tell me." Goyuri half-kneeled beside the bed, raised his head to look at Sang Yi, his voice trembling weakly, "Why don't you see a doctor! Why do you still use this kind of medicine?" Take the task with your body!"

"Yuri..."

"Don't quibble! I'm very angry now."

So San Yi really stopped talking, and just looked at him quietly with gentle but bitter eyes.

"Sonny... are you slowly killing yourself?"

Sunny smiled softly.

"Yuri, you should grow up."

"Crack." The crisp sound of the fruit knife being closed interrupted the air flow between the two.

"Sonny, don't use those medicines." Ked said, his tone unprecedentedly tough.

"But I can't sleep alone. A man dies if he doesn't sleep."

"I'll accompany you."

"I'll accompany you." Goyuri glanced at Ked lightly.

"No need, I know my own body very well, it won't last long." Sanyi took off the cotton in his ear, "If it wasn't for the work in the tavern, I would even try drugs."

"Sonny, you..." Goyuri's expression froze.Why did Sonny, who had never said such a thing, suddenly say so?Is he serious?

"Do you know what you're talking about, Sonny." Kide was also taken aback, but he didn't lose his mind, even though his reason had already yelled and forced him to yell - he had personally confirmed Sunny's body, so there is no way to refute his words.But is there any reason to harm yourself?

"Kid, there is no joy in my life. The two whites in my life, the only two whites, are gone. I know how long I have, but I don't intend to let me extinguish the flame to preserve a solidified shell. You will understand me, will you not?"

There is no difference between life and death with him.

The two whites in his life, his mother and... Kedi.

Kaid's heart suddenly trembled.He leaned over and kissed Sanyi's forehead lightly:

"Sorry, Sonny."

Then he left.

Go back to your own room next door and light a cigarette on the balcony.Kide looked at the sky in bewilderment.

【how is the progress? 】

【The task record you want has been found, your little lover was indeed killed by him.But that was eight years ago. 】

【Keep that record safe, I want it to be that man's requiem—by the way, how is your investigation going? 】

[Old members have been sent out of the tavern, so there is no way to check too much.He left no clues. 】

【He took over everything you should have, turned you into a murder weapon in the shadows, and destroyed your family. Do you still want to protect him? 】

[No, I didn't...] Kide stubbed out the cigarette butt, [Your one-sided words are too suspicious, I don't trust you. 】

[But you really don't have any memories of before you were eight years old!If it weren't for your blood composition to prove that your surname is Farslander, would you really plan to be a little Ked Loz all the time? 】

【…】

[You can look for old photos of the tavern, and you will find the address of Factory No. 01 on the back of a photo. Factory No. 01 is the factory that produces amnesiac medicine.That man is clearly abducting and brainwashing you to blackmail your father! 】

【How do you know so clearly? 】

【Your Sanyi ruined my angel, my future, everything about me, you ask me why I know so clearly? 】

【It's Pan Duolijie, you're only doing it for your lover's family's dowry! 】

【...Faslander, I don't want to tear myself apart with you yet.You should also calm down and think about who you want to protect! 】

This time, the other party was the first to withdraw in anger.

"Oh, who is it?" Kuid stared at his hand.

who?

The murderer who had lied to him for five years and destroyed his family.

Or the one who raised him for five years and taught him all the joys, sorrows and joys?

Its Pan Duolijie.The man who was supposed to take over a large dowry from his little lover—no, he should be respectfully called "fiancée"—and revive Duolijie's group should be mad when Sonny suddenly tore up his blank check.

Ked knows that the person who has nothing left will take revenge at all costs, and he himself is a hole card in that person's hand.If he gave up, that person was gone, and Sonny was safe.

but……

A cool wind blew in the sky, and the remaining snow on the eaves of someone's house fluttered past my eyes, dazzlingly white and sadly white.

This winter is coming to an end, and these patches of residual snow, whether they like it or not, will soon disappear.

The author has something to say:

This is a short article, there are about two chapters left~~~~~

I originally thought it would be too shabby to finish with only six chapters, and then I tried to distribute it, such as (1) and (2). . .As a result, I suddenly saw the integral formula. It turns out that 3000 words in a chapter is better-so I had to post it according to the original chapter-it is still very shabby (but there is no way, this story is so long)