West's Summer [Comprehensive English and American]

Knight Kowen now felt that inviting West to the tavern was the most correct decision he had ever made in his life, bar none.

It was a pity that after the Battle of Mount Button half a year ago, he learned from Arthur that the young man was seriously injured and fell off the cliff.Although his usual communication with West was limited to meeting-molesting-being beaten-stopping for a few minutes-molesting-being beaten by Merlin, in this fixed endless loop.If you really want to talk about it, it is naturally impossible to be more sad than the little manservant and the old doctor.But it is rare to meet such a person with his appetite, and Gao Wen still feels a little bit regretful... and it is precisely because of this that when they and his party picked up West from the forest again, he really hoped that he could Take the initiative to express your joy - for example, really invite him to the tavern to relax, instead of just making up a reason to trick people into paying yourself the bill like before.

Probably also understands the indescribable mood of the knight.Although he felt that Gao Wen's bloody temper was actually intended to make a joke of himself, West thought about it, and agreed very readily.And the moment he stepped into the tavern, he was forcefully pulled away from Merlin, pressed onto the wine table, and forced to drink two full glasses of mead before giving up.

"To our brave boys."

He raised his wine glass and raised it in the direction of West.Gao Wen looked around at the Knights of the Round Table and smiled loudly.

"To our brave boy! To Camelot!!"

They all echoed loudly.At this time, no matter whether they knew West or not, and whether they had friendship with him or not, all these knights laughed and raised their wine glasses.For them, perhaps this is just a toast commonly used on the wine table, a different form of cheers... As long as they can drink wine, they can even toast the whole of Britain.

"So, you don't have to worry about this kind of thing."

He took a sip of the mead in his glass.Merlin raised his eyelids, stared directly at the indescribably complex expression on the face of the opposite boy, and spoke so calmly:

"They also paid tribute to Leon's beard stubble, Gaius' medicine box, and my saliva bag... After all, they are a group of guys whose brains are not as developed as their limbs. If you see them too much, you can't help but doubt Kame. Why hasn't Lott fallen into Morgana's hands yet..."

"Hey, it's not fair for you to say that, little manservant."

He took two more glasses of mead from the bartender and stuffed them into the hands of the bewildered West.Gao Wen, who had just walked back to them, shrugged his shoulders, and compared his fists to Merlin jokingly:

"A body as skinny as a chick like yours can't withstand a few punches from me... At least, those girls prefer our muscles instead of your naked ribs."

"Who said that! I obviously received a love letter from a girl too!" His face turned red to the base of his ears, and the black-haired mage secretly glanced at the young man next to him who was suddenly choked by this sentence, and thought hard. To save face for yourself: "Just a few days ago, I found it in Arthur's lunch, under the roast chicken, and there is a camellia just picked!!"

"..."

Merlin, do you seriously think that a normal girl would hide love letters in that kind of place?

Almost biting his tongue, West quickly picked up his glass and took a sip of wine, hoping to hide the twisted corners of his mouth.

And this was far from the thing that stunned him the most——

"Ah, you mean the note that Sir Dagnett asked me to deliver?"

Originally, Gao Wen brought up this topic to provoke Meilin, but when he really said it, he was unexpectedly calm about it.The manservant who squinted and stared blankly at the spot, who thought he would hear some rare revelations, yawned lightly, and lost interest all of a sudden:

"I didn't find you that day, so I put it where you can definitely see it... Oh, don't be discouraged by this, Merlin, there are not a few guys in the knight order who have this hobby, and Dagnet riding a knight is the most restrained among them." The most discerning one - being able to be spotted by him shows that you are quite attractive."

"..." Mei Linsheng Wu Kelian closed his eyes.

"Oh, of course, Serena is actually very popular in this respect. When you passed by the training ground that day, Ales and Bedivere saw you so much that they dropped their swords."

After a pause, it seemed that he remembered something funny, Gao Wen winked slyly at the brown-haired boy, and whispered to his ear mysteriously:

"I'm telling you this for the sake of my friends. If you're looking for a boyfriend, Becky is actually more innocent and dedicated. However, if you want a partner with good, um, skills, I heard that Adair seems to be more experienced... Or, Serena, do you prefer three people together?"

... play threesome?

"puff--"

Stunned by Gao Wen's wild thought realm, West sprayed the knight's face with a sip of wine.

……

So, at the end of the day, the deeply irritated boy and the mage sat in a corner without saying a word, drinking for most of the night.

Because he has a good capacity for alcohol, and he has developed a habit of drinking only three points when he has been out alone all year round. In addition, the degree of mead itself is not very high, West actually does not feel much discomfort.On the other hand, Merlin, I don't know why he seldom drinks alcohol, but after three cups of mead, he was already terribly drunk... He didn't expect this guy to drink so badly, and the young man who couldn't wake up his companion shook his head helplessly , began to be a little troubled, how would he get the delirious mage back.

But fortunately, not long after, Gaius, who couldn't wait for Merlin and West at home for a long time, came to the tavern to find someone, and successfully helped solve the problem.

"How could he drink like this?"

After a lot of effort, he and West carried the dazed mage back to the hut.The old doctor thumped his waist, glanced at the young man not far away who was also rubbing his shoulders with a bitter face, sighed helplessly, grabbed the medicine box and began to dispense hangover medicine for Merlin.

"Probably... I have a little doubt about the meaning of my recent life."

The corner of his mouth twitched, and he sat at the table and kept stuffing oranges into his mouth in order to suppress the smell of alcohol all over his body.Naturally, it was impossible for West to tell the truth to Gaius—otherwise, Gao Wen and the knight who dared to catch Merlin's attention would die under the poison of the court doctor in a few minutes—so he could only choose the one who was closest to the truth. Explain prevarication.

"What a young man."

Although I still didn't quite understand it, I didn't continue to ask.Gaius muttered dissatisfiedly, threw the prepared potion into the boy's arms, and waved his hand, asking West to take the mage back to their room to rest.

——To be honest, although he doesn't hold much alcohol, Merlin's wine taste is pretty good... At least, he hasn't done anything like using magic to throw everyone close to him, or rushing out to hug everyone he meets. People who arrive yell "I'm a magician" or something.

Helping the mage to find the position of the bed and sit down, he didn't care who the picture belonged to.West stood by the bed, pulled out the cap of the glass bottle in his hand, and handed it to Merlin accurately: "Drink it."

"Oh." The mage responded obediently, and the mage took the potion with his hazy eyes open.Although he spilled some on the front of his shirt due to shaking hands, but in the end, he poured most of it down anyway.

"Here." Obediently put the bottle back into West's hand.Probably because the bitter taste of the potion he drank just now remained in his mouth, Merlin blinked, stretched out his hand and gently grabbed the corner of the boy's clothes, his tone was full of obvious grievances: "Serena..."

"What's the matter?" I was about to put the glass bottle back on the table, but I had to give up because I was caught by the corner of my clothes.West turned around helplessly, followed Merlin's strength and took two steps forward, groping for his shoulder: "Merlin? What do you want?"

"want you."

Answered simply and without hesitation.The black-haired mage moved his legs, trying to stand up in this position, but his center of gravity was unstable because he was holding West too close, and he staggered and fell to the small bed behind him, grabbing the boy's hand but Still did not let go.

"Merlin!"

Caught off guard, he fell on the bed with the drunk.Because he was afraid that his weight would be on Merlin, West had to turn sideways in mid-air to avoid the mage, but his arm accidentally hit the hard bed board.The pain made him tremble, and when he came back to his senses, Merlin took the opportunity to tightly clasp his waist and hugged him into his arms, making each other's bodies close together without even a single gap.

"Merlin?"

His back stiffened for a moment.Because of the height difference, his forehead can just touch the mage's chin, and as long as he raises his head a little, he can touch the soft lips like flower petals... Feeling the warm breath blowing on the skin, with The faint scent of mead spread from the center of the eyebrows to the corners of the mouth.West took a deep breath, and in the endless darkness, he couldn't help but start to tremble.

Feeling the warm exhalation blowing on the skin, with the slight scent of mead spreading from the center of the eyebrows to the corners of the mouth.West took a deep breath, and in the endless darkness, he couldn't help but start to tremble.

——He seemed to have never felt someone's existence so clearly.

I don't know if the smell of alcohol in the air played a role, the young man thought drowsily, and his chest was suffocated and tight as if he lacked oxygen.In the years that have been long enough for a person, apart from the persistence that has long been engraved in his bones, he actually seldom actively seeks anything other than himself.Most of the time, he just walks through every sunrise and moonset alone, and every round of four seasons, just like a hermit with a lantern. Compared with looking for eternal silence in solitude, it is actually more like a change of direction self-exile.

Never in his life so far had he seemed to have lived for himself.Charles' ideal, x-men's goal, Yi Laizhe's hatred, Adelaide's memory...these imprints belonging to others are imprinted in every corner of West's will, like maggots attached to the bone, urging him to stumble Go forward, gray and white all the way.

Professor X once expressed very clear concerns about West's state. At first, the main reason why he wanted to adopt his son to study in Oxford was to hope that the boy could truly find his own life.Wester Xavier has a long life that ordinary people never dare to expect. The endless years have given him enough time to explore the mysteries of this world one by one, and to do things that ordinary people cannot do in their lifetime; but at the same time, That also comes from the fair and cruel curse of fate - when a hundred years later, everything in the beginning is different, and there is no Charles in this world who can give him emotional sustenance, and there is no Yi Laizhe who can spur him Moving forward, then, what will become of such a lost and empty West?

It's nothing more than choosing the eternal sleep of liberation again.

And this time, there will be no Adelaide who can pull him back from the cliff of loneliness.

But now, he met Merlin.

Nothing to do with missions, nothing to do with revenge, nothing to do with any particular person or thing.Twice he was forced to fall into this time and space thousands of years ago, and was found by mages in the forest twice.If this was just an accident by the wrong hands of fate, then when everything returns to the right track, West feels that he may not be able to wipe out this slightly naive, but loyal, intelligent and reliable boy from the bottom of his heart. go.

and so……

The breath that brushed the corner of his mouth gradually became slow and long, with the scent of green grass that had always existed on Mei Lin's body, and it magnified infinitely in the darkness.West remained silent like this for a long, long time, until the night was dark and the moon was shining outside the window, and the insects in the grass were singing together, he finally sighed, turned his face slightly, and let himself sink into the room with mead and wine. In the silent dream of peppermint.

But what the boy will never know is that the moment his breathing became calm, the mage he thought was unconscious from drunk slowly opened his eyes, the eyes were so bright that they seemed to reflect the starlight in the entire night sky.

He looked at him, the corners of his mouth slightly curved into a small arc.

Quiet, clear, bitter, and gentle.