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Chapter 389: Riven's Syndrome

Pete was pushed around and played with by three senior students, stumbling and falling like a rag doll.

"Beat him!"

Webby, a senior with a freckled face and a fat face, was laughing and pushing Pete.

"Push him! Push him out!"

"Push him! Push him! Push him!"

The other two laughed and agreed.

"Hey, what are you guys doing?!"

Mark saw the three people's rude behavior, put his bicycle aside, and stepped forward to stop the group.

Seeing Mark stand up, Webby stopped pushing Pete and looked at him unhappily.

"Mark Padrick?"

He knew Mark was from Padrick's family.

Having run a farm in Smallville for many years, Peter's influence in the town is undeniable.

Coupled with Azu and Rocky's "bad reputation", many nearby thugs did not dare to approach the farm, nor did they dare to provoke Peter's family.

Webby recognized Mark's identity at a glance.

Although he felt a little unhappy when he saw the other party stand up to stop him, he did not dare to do anything.

"This is none of your business, Mark, go away!"

"Pete is my friend, and I won't let you bully him."

Mark stood in front of Pete and said firmly.

"You know what he did? He threw my newspaper into the water."

Webby pointed at Pete and said, "You want to stand up for him? Kid, then pay the compensation. Ten dollars."

When Peter heard that the other party wanted Mark to pay ten dollars in compensation, he immediately became anxious. "I have already apologized to you, and that newspaper is not that expensive. I am willing to compensate you with an identical newspaper, but you disagreed and threw my newspaper away."

After listening to Pete, Mark said to Webby and the other two, "I don't have ten dollars, and I don't believe anyone will agree to your excessive demands."

"So you just want to go against us, kid?"

Webby, who was humiliated by Mark, became angry and embarrassed.

Regardless of Mark's identity, he reached out and grabbed Mark.
When Mark saw the other party attacking him, he immediately dodged to the side.

Webby's attack missed, and he shouted to his two companions, "Catch this guy!"

After hearing Webby's roar, the two men recovered from their daze and immediately pounced on Mark.

"Boom!"

Mark dodged left and right, and although he was able to deal with the opponent thanks to his agility, he soon fell into a disadvantage.

With a "bang", Webby punched the captured Mark in the face.

Mark was hit and staggered backwards, feeling the world in front of him spinning.

"Step aside!"

After punching Mark, the panting Webby shouted at Mark, who was standing in front of Pete and refusing to fall down despite being dizzy.

"No!"

Covering his painful nose, facing the fists of the three men, Mark shook his head and said firmly: "Never!"

Even though he would get beaten, as a friend, he would never abandon Pete.

Webby glared at him angrily, "You think you can protect your friends?"

Mark panted slightly and replied: "Of course, because I have more powerful weapons than you!"

"Weapons? What weapons?"

"Courage! People like you who only know how to bully those weaker than you have no courage at all!"

"Very good, I'm going to beat the crap out of you."

Webby was ridiculed by Mark and walked towards him angrily.

But the next moment, the aggressive Weibi suddenly heard a faint voice.

"whee."

Although the tone was serious, it was followed by a chuckle, like a child trying not to hold back his laughter.

Webby looked into the distance in confusion and found a clown standing there.

The clown has messy orange hair, and the smiling face painted on his white face is red, not orange, and his eyes are a strange bright silver.

It was wearing a baggy clown costume with big orange pompom buttons and cartoon gloves on its hands.

Webby stared blankly at the clown who suddenly appeared.

He suddenly thought of the recently popular movie called "IT".

He had secretly gone to the cinema to watch it once before and was quite scared.

Now seeing the same scary clown as in the movie, his hands and feet suddenly became numb and he dared not move.

"Webby," the clown said as he walked up to him, "take a balloon. Just one."

After saying that, the clown handed him a handful of balloons.

"Balloons float," said the clown with his scarlet mouth, "everything floats, and soon you and your friends will float too."

"No, no, no!"

The terrified Webby heard the clown's words, shook his head desperately and backed away.

With a "bang", he felt as if his back hit something.

When he looked back, he found that it was the clown who had been standing behind him at some point.

"Webby, come float with us."

The clown opened his big red mouth and pointed with his white-gloved hand at the base of a nearby tree. Balloons were piled under the tree, against the tree, not dozens or hundreds, but thousands, red, blue, green, and yellow, as if grinning at him.

"No!"

Webby screamed in fear and ran away.

"Boom!"

Under the shocked gazes of Webby's two friends, Webby suddenly screamed and ran away for some unknown reason.

In a panic, Webby bumped heavily into a nearby rusty mailbox and was knocked unconscious with a bang.

After being stunned for a moment, the two of them quickly ran over to check on Webby's condition.

Mark and Pete, who had no idea what was going on, looked at each other.

"What happened?"

Pete asked, stuttering.

He only saw that Webby, who was about to punch Mark, suddenly stopped and then rushed towards the mailbox like crazy.

"do not know."

Mark shook his head.

He looked in the direction of his farm and a purple shadow flashed by.

noon.

"Riven."

At Padrick Farm, Peter, who had just returned from the town government, stopped Raven who was about to go upstairs.

The taller Raven wore a lavender baseball sweatshirt and had short blue hair.

After half a year, Riven grew taller than Mark. She had been on the farm for less than a year, but she looked the same size as a four or five-year-old girl from other families.

Girls in other people's families change a lot as they grow up, but his own daughter has changed so much in less than a year, from a baby into a little girl. Peter feels that life seems to pass by in the blink of an eye.

My daughter and son are growing up, and I am one year older.

Touching his face which had not changed at all and had no wrinkles, Peter wanted to express his feeling about the shortness of life.

But when I touched the smooth skin, I suddenly felt nothing.

There is no way, this is the "pain" of longevity, not being able to feel the sadness of passing time.

Peter thought somewhat "sadly".

"Dad, is something wrong?"

Raven blinked and asked Peter in an innocent tone.

"I heard Webby hit his head on the mailbox and was knocked unconscious."

Peter coughed, put down the newspaper he had just taken out of the mailbox, and asked Raven, "He said he saw something scary."

Raven walked down the stairs, continuing to blink her innocent eyes at him, "Dad, what is scary?"

"Like a clown with balloons."

Peter pinched Raven's fair face, who was still pretending to be stupid, and said, "I remember when I took Star-Lord to the movies a few days ago, a little girl sneaked into the theater. The name of the movie was IT."

"And the little girl secretly watched the entire movie."

Peter said as he picked up the guilty Raven.

"The girl who secretly watched the movie that was only for adults and older children is called Raven Padrick. Now I am holding her in my arms. Does she have anything else to say?"

What she did a few days ago was exposed by Peter. Raven looked at him in surprise, "Dad, you know?"

She thought Peter didn't notice her when she was secretly watching the horror movie.

"Of course, do you think Dad is a fool?"

"Okay, I admit my mistake, Dad. I shouldn't have sneaked into the cinema and watched the clown. But I heard from Clark that John also liked watching horror movies when he was a child, and he secretly collected many DVDs."

Riven moved Azu out.

Peter fell into silence for a moment after hearing this.

Clark is such a big mouth that he really can't keep any secrets.

"Azu is not someone you should learn from."

Peter scratched Raven's nose. "Let's put the horror movie thing aside. What do you want to tell me about Webby being scared and bumping into the mailbox?"

Seeing Peter's serious eyes, Raven lowered her head, "I'm sorry, Dad. I just want to protect Mark."

"I promised my father before that I would always protect the weak."

Peter was stunned when he heard Raven say this.

He remembered that half a year ago, on the night he picked up Mark, Raven did say this to him.

He had already forgotten it, but he didn't expect Riven to still remember it.

"So, you saw Webby bullying Mark, so you used magic to create hallucinations about the Joker in his mind?"

Peter remembered that Raven had used this trick in her previous life. Her soul entered another person's body and caused the other person to fall into infinite pain and fear.

Even the Flash was traumatized by her move.

"Yes, Dad, I want that guy to get a little punished."

Although she didn't like Mark at first, the reason was that he stole her father's attention, so Raven didn't really hate him.

After half a year of getting along, although she did not completely get rid of her dislike for Mark, she also developed feelings for this younger brother.

So when she saw Mark being bullied, she would stand up immediately.

"Because I'm a big sister, I won't let Mark be bullied."

Raven blinked her purple eyes and looked into Peter's eyes, "Most importantly, Dad, I don't want you to be sad. If Mark really got beaten up by those guys, you would definitely be unhappy, Dad."

"I just don't want to see you unhappy, Dad."

(End of this chapter)