Travel through the city of orcs

The quiet place, surrounded by solemn pines and cypresses, is the last home of most of the residents of Topa Town, and Claude's Daddy is also buried here.

Aubrey looked at the tombstone engraved with the name of the love of his life, and didn't speak for a long time.

And Claude was standing aside. He looked at Aubrey who couldn't hide his sadness, and then looked at his Daddy's tombstone. He was also full of emotions. I don't know if Daddy would know what he had been missing. That person came to see him, I wonder if he will be happy?

After standing for a long time, Aubrey took out something from his bosom, then squatted down, and used his hands to dig the ground behind Bernie's tombstone, and finally buried the thing in the soil before solidifying it.

"This is?" Claude, who was watching from the side, looked surprised, because what Aubrey buried was a piece of faith.

Aubrey put his hands on the place where the letter was buried, and after a while, he stood up staggeringly. Seeing this, Claude hurried up to support Aubrey.

Aubrey leaned on Claude to stand firm, raised his head and smiled at Claude weakly, "It's really old, I can't even stand still."

Claude pursed his lips, "Did you just bury Xinpei?"

Hearing Claude's question, Aubrey still had a smile on his face, "Yes, it's a letter, my letter to Bernie."

"How is this possible? Then your current partner..." Before Claude could finish his sentence, Aubrey left Claude's support, walked to Bernie's tombstone and rubbed it lightly, with a look of being lost in memories look.

"I promised Bernie too many things, but I did too little, too little. This one, I always hope to be able to do it no matter what, although it seems a bit too late now." Aubrey bowed his head and smiled Laughing, "I don't know if he will blame me for coming too late, maybe not, my Bernie is always so understanding, sometimes I think, it's okay to blame me even once? Just once is fine..."

Seeing Aubrey like this, Claude pursed his lips and walked towards the door. He thought, whether it was Aubrey or Bernie, they both wanted some alone time.

Noticing Claude's movement, Aubrey smiled, and simply leaned against Bernie's tombstone, as if they were sitting and chatting when they were dating each other many years ago.

"Bernie, it's been too long, we haven't seen each other for too long, but even after such a long time, your appearance is still so clear and vivid in my heart. Why can't you persist a little longer? Persevere until we meet again When we met? Are you using this method to take revenge on me? To take revenge on my indecision, my cowardice?" Speaking of which, Aubrey couldn't help touching the cold tombstone again, There was a smile on his face that was as mischievous as before, "But it's okay, we will meet soon, and I will have countless time to make up for you at that time, you know, you can't really treat me Angry to the end. You know, I used to see you being so entangled by me that you couldn’t help but forgive me, and I always thought you were so cute like that..."

Those memories about each other came back to Aubrey's mind, his pale face had a different kind of brilliance, Aubrey glanced at Claude standing at the gate of the cemetery, his eyes were a little relieved, " You have educated our child very well, brave, intelligent, responsible, and an excellent orc. I am so sorry, how much I wish to be with you and wait for you to give birth to him, how I wish to watch us with you When my child grows up, how much I wish I could teach him how to hunt, how I wish I could teach him the little tricks of courting females, yes, just like how I courted you back then, in fact, those tricks are not bad, right?" said Here, Aubrey's eyes dimmed again, "It's a pity that I didn't accompany you. It's tiring to let you shoulder all the responsibilities alone? I know this, but I can't do anything. Whenever this time, I I hate myself so much, and occasionally I think, if you hadn't met me back then, maybe your life would have been different, maybe you would be much happier, much happier, right?"

Aubrey paused for a moment and continued, "But I am such a selfish person. Even so, I still pray to the gods to let me meet you again in the next life. But, I hope that in the next life, we are just an ordinary couple. Don't face the burdensome responsibilities that separate us from each other, just live a normal life every day, and only worry about the trivial things. For example, you can complain that the game I shot today is not good enough, and I will occasionally I think your baked food is too salty, and we can still worry about why our child is so mischievous every day, and why he doesn't find a female to mate with and raise the next generation when he reaches his age. When we are too old to walk, let's sit in the yard together to bask in the sun and talk about our past, what do you think..."

The answer to Aubrey was only silence. Aubrey wanted to laugh, but he felt extremely sad. This noble man finally cried like a child who lost his most precious treasure.

Claude, who was standing far away on the other side, heard the sobbing sound from the autumn wind, and looked at the man with his head lowered and leaning against the tombstone with shrugging shoulders, and couldn't help but get red eyes.

Claude helped Aubrey, who seemed to have lost all his energy, and walked back in silence.

"How are you?" Finally Aubrey broke the silence with a hoarse voice.

"Yeah." Claude responded.

"I'm sorry, I haven't been by your side for such a long time." Aubrey looked at the tall Claude beside him, and said apologetically.

"It's all over." Claude said sullenly, after thinking for a while, he asked again, "Uncle Sam and Uncle Wilbur, are you sending them?"

"Well," Aubrey didn't expect Claude to ask this suddenly, nodded, and explained his original intention to Claude, "The situation was very complicated at that time, I couldn't let your Daddy be alone like this Strange town life, but I can't do anything with great fanfare, because sometimes, being too eye-catching is a danger to him. I sent Sam and Wilbur, but I couldn't let them take care of him directly Bernie attracts attention. Except when life and death are in danger, the rest of the time, they are just neighbors with a better relationship with Bernie. Because of this, Bernie has to rely on himself to support his family. I know his hard work, but There's nothing I can do..."

"Is power that important? Why did you give up the relationship between each other so easily?" Claude interrupted Aubrey. He has always been unable to understand the relationship between Bernie and Aubrey. Since we are in love, why not be together?Wouldn't the world work without Aubrey?

"Power is not important, but the lives of the people are important," Aubrey looked at Claude, as if seeing the young self who questioned his father with anger in his eyes, and now, he has spent 20 years figuring this out. The reason is, "There is nothing wrong with falling in love, but love should not be piled on top of hundreds of dead bodies. At that time, I also questioned your grandfather, my father. I will always remember him at that time Look at my eyes, and what he said to me, he said, you are far less mature than Bernie, and you are not as far-reaching as Bernie. To be honest, I resented your grandpa at the time, but it was not until later that I finally understood what he meant. The meaning of what I said. In that period of strange and turbulent waves, if I choose to be with your Daddy desperately, our Black Panther family will face the disaster of genocide. Yes, with my ability, I can take your Daddy to live in a town far away from the main city, but whether it's me or Bernie, can we live with peace of mind in the future? I can't do it, and even more can't be as kind as your Daddy. "

Aubrey walked up to Claude and looked directly at him, "There is nothing wrong with love, but I can't choose my birth, so I have to take the corresponding responsibility for my identity."

That night, Claude slept on the bed, looking at the bright moon outside the window in a trance.

"Are you okay?" Cheng Chi, who also went to bed after washing, held Claude's hand in the mattress and asked softly.

"Huh?" Claude, who was pulled back from his thoughts by Cheng Chi, turned his head to look at Cheng Chi who was full of concern, and nodded, "Well, I'm fine."

"I think Mr. Aubrey is not in good spirits. Is it because of the cold wind blowing in the cemetery today?" Cheng Chi was a little worried when he thought of Aubrey, who was in low spirits and had no blood on his face after returning from the cemetery. asked.

"Should...it's okay." Claude's answer was so uncertain, because everything from Aubrey's speech and behavior revealed the reality that his body was getting worse. Claude also thought about whether it was just Because of this last moment, Aubrey forced himself to come to Topa Town?

"Today, at Daddy's place, are you okay?" Cheng Chi hesitated, but still asked, because Cheng Chi felt that there was a strange atmosphere between the two who returned home from the cemetery, as if they wanted to get closer to each other , but retreated.

"Well..." Claude held Cheng Chi in his arms, and slowly told what happened in the cemetery today, what Aubrey said, and at the end, Claude said, "I don't know What kind of attitude should I use to face him now, I can't forget the difficult years that Daddy went through, but I also remember the expression of no regrets when talking about Daddy on the eve of Daddy's departure..."

Cheng Chi leaned in Claude's arms and listened quietly to him talking about his own thoughts, his own contradictions, and his own hesitation. It was not until Claude stopped that Cheng Chi said softly, "In my hometown, there is a saying , called 'children want to support but not relatives', which means that when children want to support their elders, the elders can't wait to leave. Now, we know that Daddy has never regretted it, and we also know that Mr. Aubrey has always done his best I tried my best to protect Daddy and you. Daddy has left, and Mr. Aubrey's physical condition is not optimistic. Whether it is for himself or for Daddy, I think we should all take our responsibilities Come on, let Mr. Aubrey live happily, happily, don't you? Don't make us regret and regret in the future, okay?"

After breakfast the next day, Claude wiped his mouth, coughed lightly and said to Aubrey who was sitting in the upper seat, "Dad, the weather is fine today, shall I go for a walk with you later?"

When Aubrey heard the first two words of Claude, he stopped the movements in his hands, as if he was a little stunned.

"Okay, Dad?" Looking at Aubrey who was stunned, Claude asked again.

"Of, of course." Aubrey regained his senses, suppressing some sore eye sockets, and replied with a trembling smile.

And Cheng Chi, who was sitting on the side, looked at the bright sunshine outside the window with a smile. It is indeed a good weather, isn't it?