I have become stronger, but also shorter [comprehensive]

"... Hug, sorry, what did you just... say?"

"Big Brother, didn't you hear clearly? Oh, I said, Big Brother, you are Brother Eric's apprentice, don't you [also] like him?"

is not it--

also--

like--

……

The expression of the black-haired boy was still bright.

In addition to the spotless purity in the big eyes, there is a more clean and pollution-free serious search.

That's right, there's no flaw at all.

Not kidding, or trying to be funny, Kim is asking this question from the bottom of his heart, because he really feels that way.

"Cough cough cough cough!!!"

Hong Jiaodong let out an earth-shattering cough, and was only half a breath away from being choked to death.

"Oh, big brother! Are you all right?"

"I - no - you, I..."

After a full 10 minutes of slowing down, Hong Jiaodong recovered and was able to say a complete sentence: "Jin——you, why do you ask such a question?!"

"Huh? Am I asking the wrong question? Or is it inconvenient for Big Brother to answer?"

"of course……"

"It's okay, brother ran away quietly ten minutes ago, don't worry about him hearing it, it doesn't matter if it's not convenient for you to tell me."

"..."

Hong Jiaodong organized his thoughts.

He decided to go straight to the point: "I want to know, what is the basis for your question?"

This is much scarier than the situation when I heard Andva say to himself, "It's a pity that Eric is not a girl".

The young and promising genius Hong Jiao Dong, with deep roots and deep roots, can guarantee with his own personality that he has absolutely no intention of embarking on the road of rebellion.

He felt that he still liked girls... No, that's not the point.

— Eric.

——Still a child who hasn’t grown up! ! !

Not to mention that if this deep-rooted idea is leaked out, even if the scorched boy is really not interested in the teacher at all, he will be caught and beaten.

That's right, even now that he has deeply understood Eric's strength.

Hong Jiaodong, as well as all members of Class A of the first year of Xiongying High School, including him, firmly believe that:

Their teacher/"big brother" Eric is just a gifted elementary school student who skipped a grade to go to high school... Ah no, just a respectable and cute little boy.

If you have feelings for children, isn't that a child lover?What a joke, this is absolutely impossible!

Hong Jiaodong conveyed his affirmation so resolutely.

"Huh? That's right."

Jin blinked and blinked, showing regret (?) and a look of stupefaction.

"It turns out that there are no rules. I think too much. Well, I'm sorry!"

Hong Jiaodong: "Law? What kind of law?"

Jin: "Brother Jiao Dong doesn't know?"

--perhaps.

--Maybe.

--perhaps.

The real pit that the natural black boy dug unconsciously is here.

The pure and innocent Hong Jiaodong still doesn't know what kind of terrifying abyss he is about to step into, and he will never return.

Jin put down the game controller: "Brother Eric has another apprentice, do you know, brother?"

Hong Jiaodong: "Now I know."

Jin: "Oh, when I met Big Brother, I went with him by the way and met Big Brother, your senior brother. Why not 'see'? Hahaha, because I can't see it at all."

Hong Jiaodong: "...Can't you see?"

"Well, he died thousands of years ago, and only the ghost is there."

"Hey?"

"He is a very powerful pharaoh, but he is not very lucky. He proposed to my elder brother and was severely rejected."

"what?"

"Big Brother Jiao Dong really won't propose to Big Brother in the future?"

"Eh? Huh? No—no, absolutely not, no way!!!!"

"I see."

"..."

"Want to hear the details? It seems that you really want to hear."

"..."

"Hey, let's continue playing the game."

"……and many more."

Silence, used to cover up the torrent that almost churned through the embankment in the dark.

Hong Jiaodong has never been involved in gossip, after all, his original character was still a cold and proud genius who didn't fit in.

But to drag Eric's blessing—no, to be implicated by Eric.

From a certain day on, he was so implicated that he was often overwhelmed by the girls in the class, and was forced to listen to the girls' chirping discussions and emotional gossip.

At this time, it is a conditioned reflex.

But it cannot be denied that there is his own inexplicable strong desire to explore.

"Can you tell me, what exactly happened?"

at last.

Hong Jiaodong let go of all the weights on his heart, and felt suddenly relaxed, as if his heart suddenly opened up, he took the initiative to ask.

It was at this afternoon that the clouds receded and exposed a large area of ​​bright sunlight, and Eric saw it, so he left the two little devils and ran out to bask in the sun by himself.

——Crack, click... click!

This is the once tenacious and unyielding three views of a certain boy, the crisp sound of being smashed into pieces by the hammer.

What the kid duo said that afternoon is still untestable.

In short, when Eric came back and was about to throw his apprentice back, he was suddenly taken aback by his apprentice's appearance that seemed to have lost his soul.

There is nothing wrong with the Hong Jiaodong boy on the surface, just like usual.

But he-

Eric: "..."

this kid.Was it difficult to be beaten by Jin, and lost to autism?

It's no wonder that Eric has such doubts, because the state of Hong Jiaodong at this time really seems to have activated the self-closing mode:

His eyes were empty, his eyes were dull, as if there was only an empty shell without a soul left in place.

His soul has already flown to another world, if he doesn't want to communicate, he can't come back.

"... What did you do?"

Eric asked the younger brother.

The little brother was also very surprised: "No, I didn't do anything, isn't that a normal thing?"

It just so happened that Eric didn't notice the second half of Jin's sentence.

Some things that would make 90.00% of people find it unbelievable, in Jin's view, are very normal things, there is nothing strange about it, and it doesn't matter if you share it with the big brother Jiao Dong who is not an outsider.

This further shows that Jin Fulishi is really not an ordinary person, and he will definitely make great achievements in the future.

Missing the opportunity to discover the truth, Eric only felt strange.

He still thought it was Jin who caused the trouble, and he must have used the game to stun Hong Jiaodong, who didn't often play these things, otherwise there was no other explanation except this.

"Well."

what happened.

He actually felt a little, a little bit sorry.

It is only natural for apprentices to share their worries with their teachers, and there is nothing to say.

But, being pulled over by the teacher to drive the ducks to the shelves, and finally being bullied by the teacher's younger brother...

Eric suddenly remembered that he left his apprentice, Hong Jiaodong, and left, and he hadn't cared about him for a long time.

The apprentice hasn't expressed any dissatisfaction to him yet, and he doesn't seem to want to accuse him of being irresponsible.

but.

Once the thought of "I'm sorry" takes root in my heart, no matter how irritable I am, don't try to drive it away easily.

Unless you do something, do something that can make you feel a little "better"-compensation?No, this is called a special subsidy from the teacher!

If it was "compensation", wouldn't it be his fault that he would die!

Therefore, now it is time to find some subsidies for the disciple who is still standing in a daze, so that he will not think wildly.

"Idiot, really, now, hold out your hand."

"..."

Hong Jiaodong couldn't react, so he didn't reach out in time.

Eric: "Stupid."

He directly grabbed the silly disciple's left hand, stuffed something into the young man's palm, and then closed the young man's five fingers together, forcibly making a fist.

After doing this, it is considered satisfactory to let the disciple go.

Followed by.

"Okay, you can go back."

——The attitude is still so simple and rude!

In a daze, Hong Jiaodong was taken back, and Eric didn't say it was about time, so he stayed for dinner.

The whole process from stuffing things to sending Hong Jiao Dong back and then coming back by himself did not take more than 2 minutes.

However, when Eric came back without changing his expression, the first thing he saw was the smiling face of the new younger brother for unknown reasons.

"What are you laughing at, did something funny happen?"

The silver-haired boy glanced over.

"It's not a funny thing, but well—" The little ghost, who is sometimes quite unpredictable, smiled brightly, without half a concealment.

Jin Chong didn't know why, so the elder brother bent his eyes: "I just think, elder brother, you are really a good person, especially——cute?"

Eric: "Huh? Want to get spanked?"

"I'm telling the truth, but if my brother doesn't want to hear it, I won't say it."

Jin changed the subject very naturally.

"Brother Jiao Dong is also a capable person, right? He seems to have been training very hard recently."

"Yes, on their side, ability is called 'personality'... How do I know if he's working hard or not, and I don't keep an eye on him every day."

"That's right~ Ah, Big Brother Saitama seems to be back!"

Not long after, there was movement at the door, and it was Saitama, who was off work, opening the door with vegetables.

There is nothing worth mentioning about the follow-up here, it is nothing more than a lively meal, the two best friends in the world bicker every day, and decide to visit Saiki Kusuo later.

Shift perspective to another world.

The boy who was thrown back to his room at home was still standing there.

I stood there for a long time.

"……Hey."

It seems that Hong Jiaodong has just reluctantly absorbed an extremely large amount of information, and even integrated the broken worldview.

He's still... well, a bit stuck around the corner.

Both reason and emotion tell him that he needs to find someone to confide in his confusion about this matter, otherwise his mentality may not be adjusted in time.

Because he was caught off guard all of a sudden, he knew too many unbelievable "truths".

It's hard to digest one piece alone, not to mention so much shocking news at once.Thanks to Hong Jiaodong, it's still uncertain whether he can survive until now if he changes someone else.

It is necessary to confide in someone, but it must be determined first in the frozen and chaotic thoughts, this person must be reliable and familiar.

He was still hesitating whether to tell all these things... Thinking about it or not, this is Eric's privacy and cannot be said.

Just to say it vaguely, it should be... okay?

Please forgive a 15-year-old boy who encountered this kind of thing for the first time, and inevitably showed his panic that was about to fade.

Hong Jiaodong calmed down a little bit.

There is no need to be too entangled in the candidate for the narration and the solicitation of opinions. The first thing he thought of was that person, Izuku Midoriya.

When Mr. Lugu and him were doing internships in the workplace, because the internship locations were close to each other, the relationship between the teachers was good, and they had been in contact for quite a long time.

The two were both suffering brothers and sisters who were exploited by the teacher. After sharing weal and woe, they naturally forged a deeper friendship than other students in the class.

Moreover, Izuku's character is very delicate.

Hong Jiaodong felt that if it was Green Valley, he would definitely be able to give a reply that would make him calmer.

So, that's it.

The youth with no change of color on the surface took out his mobile phone, seemingly calm, but under the influence of a mess of thoughts, his fingers flashed like phantoms.

He chose to consult by email.

Select a contact, edit text, send - all in one go.

Because it was almost to the point where he sent it directly without even looking carefully.

After doing this, Hong Jiaodong felt that he had recovered more, and his heart was a little smoother.

Waiting to sit down and drink water.

"Buzz!"

"Buzz!"

Bang Jiaodong: "!"

Suddenly, the mobile phone he had just placed on the table vibrated violently, and nothing else, it was all new emails that were delivered in his mailbox in an instant.

There were more than twenty buzzing sounds, and they all came out almost at the same time, showing the eagerness of the sender.

Hong Jiaodong: "?"

For some reason, some kind of premonition that seemed to be not good emerged in my heart, crowding out the previous relief.

He picked up his phone and looked at it.

Skipping over the latest news that was about to overwhelm his mailbox, Hongjiao Dong clicked on his development mailbox, and glanced at the message he had just sent to Izuku Lvgu...

Uh.

Ok? !

The content originally envisaged by the teenager should be like this:

[Green Valley, do you have the idea of ​​dating Eric just because you can't defeat him? 】

However, the actual content of the email that came into view was this:

[Green Valley, are you (missed in a trance) Eric (still missed) dating...? 】

Hong Jiaodong (surprised): "What?!"

It's not the scariest.

The key point that will make people see clearly at a glance, and then suddenly wake up and break out in a cold sweat, is on the recipient column.

It should have been: [sendto: Lvgu Dejiu].

However, what you see:

The content of the email is as above.

sendto: everyone.

"..."

"........."

In a moment of trance and shaking hands, Mr. Hong made the biggest mistake in his life, which was to send a message that should have been privately sent to a specific person to all the staff with email addresses.

And, also—

【boom? ? ? ! ! !what did you say?What did you say?What?That guy from Green Valley, and Eric who has disappeared for so long, isn't it? ? ! ! 】

【My god, what did I see? Am I dreaming? Is it a hallucination from being overworked——】

[Wooooowah!What the hell is this? ?Hey, do you know something eight... No, what do you know that we don't know, tell me quickly! 】

The vanguard who blasted his inbox were all explosive replies similar to these.

Today happens to be a day off.

Everyone in Class A of the first year saw this group email during the break, and they were stupid and dumbfounded. In short, after being stupid and dumb, they will definitely explode in the end.

Hong Jiaodong: "This..."

It seems that there is no way to start...

Except for the previous wave of bombs, when he was about to explain one by one, he happened to receive a genuine bomb.

An explosive boy who did not want to be named actually replied.

Although he only replied one sentence:

[Boom and freeze! ! !Are you fucking sick! ! ! ! ! 】

Hong Jiaodong: "...I'm not, I don't."

It happened just in time, the reply from Izuku Midoriya, who was supposed to be the only recipient, finally arrived.

[Jun Hong ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! ! ! 】

Hong Jiaodong was in a complicated mood: [Sorry, Lugu, I missed a few words, and I accidentally typed it into a group post. The original sentence should be xxxxx. 】

On the other side, Izuku was in a more complicated mood: [No, this, is there too much omission... The meaning is completely misunderstood. 】

When I received the email and opened it to take a look, Izuku Midoriya happened to be going up the stairs.

Because of that glance, Izuku Lvgu didn't step on his foot firmly, and rolled down from the top of the stairs with his mobile phone on the spot. After rolling for an unknown number of laps, he hit the sofa in the living room and barely stopped .

When he finally stood up clutching his badly injured back, picked up the phone, and replied with trembling hands, he just missed the outburst period after the other students were stunned.

[Leave everything else alone, let's sort it out from the beginning... After Eric left without saying goodbye, Mr. Hong, did you still meet him?What happened to him?Otherwise, Mr. Hong, you wouldn't be so flustered. 】

【Hmm... Green Valley, I'm sorry...】

[It's okay, it's okay. 】

Izuku Lvgu comforted Hong-kun with a good temper, but his brain turned rapidly, thinking in his heart that something quite troublesome must have happened, so troublesome that it would make Hong-kun make two mistakes in a row.

There hasn't been a reply yet, maybe it's considering the language and thinking about how to say it.

On this side, Midoriya Izuku raised his heart slightly, hesitated for a moment, and decided to pass on his thoughts first.

[If it's convenient—well, I mean, if you can share these contents with everyone after Mr. Hong's judgment, can you talk about them in our class group? 】

In just a few minutes, he thought a lot about it.

[After the allforone incident ended, Eric did not come back, and only asked Olmert to tell us that he was going to travel elsewhere.I think, not only me, Mr. Hong, but also other people in the class, although they know that he will not be in danger if he goes far away, they still can't help but worry about him...]

【Everyone is very worried about him and wants to know how he is doing.So, this is what I thought——]

【If Mr. Hong knows his situation, it doesn't matter at all. We really want to know where he went, whether he is in trouble or something... Ah, of course!This is completely wishful thinking on my part, if it's too hard to be human, you don't need to worry about me! ! ! 】

I couldn't help it for a while, so I babbled one paragraph after another.

As expected, Izuku Lvgu still felt that this was not good, and it would definitely embarrass Mr. Hong.

Thinking of this, he was about to type out another paragraph, embarrassingly telling Mr. Hong not to pay attention to his speech above, and then turned the topic back to what Hong Jiaodong originally wanted to ask.

"Om."

A new message has arrived.

The person who sent it was Hong Jiaodong.

There is only one sentence in it, and nothing important is missing.

Hong Jiaodong also changed his mind after he slowly calmed down and thought about it for a long time.

He belatedly realized that he couldn't hide this matter, at least not the part that didn't involve privacy.

He also couldn't rely on the fact that after Eric left, everyone was still joking and making noises. It was time to train and rest. It seemed that nothing was wrong, so he directly judged that they didn't need the news.

Although, in fact, there is only one sentence to say.

But this short sentence was enough for everyone to let go of the boulder that was always pressing in their hearts, and to be freed from the uneasiness that they didn't want to show.

The boy's temper was not very good. When he first met, he was cold and arrogant, and he didn't like to talk to others.

Afterwards, the brats who were thick-skinned and not afraid of the cold wind swarmed up and clinged to him. The boy's temper seemed not to be softened much, but the most essential change appeared.

He wants to protect them, except that he can beat people, other guys who come to find fault are looking for death.

Everyone in Class A of the first year knows this.

Perhaps it is for this reason that the image of the silver-haired boy with a hard mouth and a soft heart (often tempted by sweets) is so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people that even if people know that his true identity is a mystery and that he can beat "allforone" to death with bare hands, they still cannot see him as a An iconic hero like All Might.

Idols are used to worship and look up to, and there will be more or less a sense of distance.

So, Eric is different.

Of course they also respect him, this is a tribute to the strong man whose strength gap is so big that they can't catch up at all.

But "respect" can also be put together with "love".

They are companions, they are friends, and they have a deep, deep bond, from the very beginning.

Therefore, Eric left, although the most reasonable explanation can be obtained intellectually:

[Eric wants to give them a chance to grow up on their own. If they stay here all the time, they will definitely not be able to achieve this goal, so they can only leave. 】

However, logically... I still can't help but think, why did he leave?Obviously we were all together.

Are you angry at the slander of the TV show?

Was it hurt by the words of people who didn't believe him?

If this is the case, what should we do? At least let them speak for him with righteous indignation.

For some reason, everyone in Class A doesn't show their anxiety, but the loss in their hearts is common.

They need a certain message to break this layer of restraint.

——It was with this in mind that Hong Jiaodong solemnly replied to Izuku Lvgu, and he fully agreed with the proposal.

So, while the mail is still flashing.

In the class group that has been silent for a long time, it seems that no one has spoken for a long time, a cool guy who rarely speaks, but is a big news when he speaks:

[Eric went to another world, I don't know his experience, but I think he's pretty good. 】

……

A dead silence.

However, not without waves.

This sentence made everyone in various places stay for a long, long time——it caused a thousand waves.

【What! ! !Different world? ? ?Depend on!That's great! 】

[As expected of Brother Eric, this is a plot that only exists in comics—wait a minute, so he really left us behind and ran outside to play by himself?Too much woo woo woo! 】

[I can't do it anymore, I'm so envious, Eric didn't tell us, I'm going to make a fuss! 】

The lively scene reappeared, and for a while, everyone had to vent their anger.

Until now, Hong Jiaodong breathed a sigh of relief for no reason.

He was going to say something later.

But, before that.

Suddenly, someone said: [So, Mr. Hong, Eric met you today? 】

[Yes, but I only played the game for half a day, and then I was stuffed with something...]

【...Really, that's right. 】

【What's wrong? 】

The person who spoke was the class monitor, so Iida-kun, who had read the files of all the students in the class, was silent for a while before typing the next sentence.

[If I remember correctly... Today is your birthday, Mr. Hong. 】

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