Me? The director of the Asylum of All Heavens!

Chapter 20 Jinx's Past
"Damn it, Hilko actually plans to dump Shimmer into Piltover! I must report this to Madam Gilaman as soon as possible. But now, let's get back to the topic of Jinx. I want to know how she went from an innocent little girl to a ruthless female devil under Hilko's command. This is related to the safety of my eldest daughter, and I can't afford to be careless." Lin Zizhi sat up straight and put on a serious attitude.

“Jinx…” Babette sighed heavily.

"Although I don't want to admit it, Hilco didn't just use her. Maybe he intended to use her at the beginning. But now they are like father and daughter. This is why I dare not tell Wei the truth. She is a poor child. I watched her fall into the abyss step by step, but I stood by and watched, and never extended a helping hand to her. I owe them too much. Even if I die, I will not be able to face Fandel again."

Babette's tears fell slowly, smudging her shoddy smoky makeup.

……

On the other side, raindrops fell along the window sill, and the lights in the house were on, bright and warm.

The heavy rain in Piltover obscured the last rays of the setting sun, causing night to fall earlier than usual.

Outside the Gilaman mansion, Jinx hid behind a tree and watched Vi and Caitlyn's family having dinner.

The sumptuous meals and the warm mansion hurt Jinx's broken heart all the time.

She was drenched in the rain like a stray dog ​​drowned in the water, lying alone outside the window and spying on other people's happiness.

【See, she's happier without you! 】

The auditory hallucinations in his mind reappeared, along with the phantom of his childhood playmate Milo, which continued to expand.

【She and Caitlin are like family! 】

Every time Milo's shadow grows bigger and clearer, it means that Jinx's negative emotions are suppressing her reason.

[That Caitlin seems to have taken your place! ]

"No!"

Jinx punched the tree trunk beside her. There has never been a moment when she hated Caitlyn more than now.

Stimulated by this scene, she tried hard to recall the past that she had long forgotten.

The noise of auditory hallucinations pricked her nerves. Jinx covered her ears and hummed a nursery rhyme from her childhood to try to calm herself, just like she did on the bridge yesterday.

At the same time, she also tried to find proof in her memories that Wei could be happy with her.

"Friends on the other side of the creek..."

Jinx hummed the nursery rhyme her mother taught her, and her headache actually eased.

Jinx slowly opened her eyes. The mansion of the Gilaman family was distorted and deformed, and gradually turned into the warm home of her childhood in her eyes.

She even saw herself and her sister playing as children in the hut of less than ten square meters. They played with pillows and the walls were covered with their childhood graffiti.

Yes, even though they were poor at that time, they still lived happily.

【You are a disaster! 】

The next moment, the illusion was again covered by the moment when Wei abandoned her.

She had seen this scene countless times. She saw Wei whipping herself severely in the ruins ravaged by flames, pinching her cheeks and scolding herself in the most vicious tone for being a scourge.

"Please warm my hands..."

She closed her eyes in pain, humming a nursery rhyme, and the scene in the sea of ​​fire disappeared. When she opened her eyes, she still saw the cozy cottage in her hallucination, with tiny flames dancing in the fireplace.

People in Dicheng don’t have enough money to buy firewood in winter, so the flames are all burned by some branches picked up by the two sisters.

However, at dinner time, my mother would prepare an extra bowl of hot thick soup to reward my father who had worked hard all day in the mine.

Jinx remembered that they had also sat together and had dinner happily like Caitlyn's family.

Suddenly the scene flashed and in Jinx's hallucination, only her childhood self and Wei Gu were left sitting at the small dining table.

"I have lost everything..."

Jinx trembled and raised the volume of her humming. She rubbed her eyes that were wet from the rain and tried hard to take another look at the appearance of her dead parents.

"Please... show some kindness..."

She choked up and hummed a nursery rhyme. She was too young at that time and had long forgotten what her parents looked like over the years. Even in her hallucinations, she could not see their faces clearly.

"Even if it's just one cent..."

The illusion disappeared, and Jinx saw Wei and Caitlyn's family finished their sumptuous dinner and were about to leave.

The leftovers on the table were all delicacies that I could never have dreamed of when I was a kid. "It's also a priceless friendship..."

Caitlin!
Law enforcement officer, Piltover noble, senator's daughter, and sister's girlfriend, each identity is so glaring.

"Don't worry, I'm not jealous..."

They seemed to live in parallel worlds, leading completely different lives even though they were separated by a river.

"You have a towering building..."

Jinx knew from a young age that she was inferior to others, and she never felt that there was anything wrong with it.

Until she met Xierko. He told her that the children of Zaun were never inferior to the people of Piltover. The root cause of all this was the endless greed of the people of Piltover and their exploitation of the people of Bottom City without empathy.

He taught Jinx what freedom and equality are.

The children of Zaun deserve more than a few poisoned ditches.

"I live in an alley..."

He told Jinxpi about the crimes of the people of the city, including the real reason for the death of her parents.

Yes, the misfortune of childhood came so suddenly. The mine where my father worked was closed by the council of Piltover. They did not intend to solve the problem of mine collapse, but just tried to evade it.

As winter turned to spring, the father, who had lost his source of livelihood, had no choice but to hold demonstrations, but it was of no use.

Later, he and his mother participated in protests organized by Vandell and Hilco.

They rushed to the bridgehead in a rage, and the protest turned into a violent clash. The law enforcement officers in the upper city sent more people, and they didn't care about the harm caused to the people in the lower city by their violent law enforcement.

"Friend, come to the river..."

The violent conflict lasted for a long time, and the two children were so hungry that they had to go out to look for their parents.

"have a look……"

Jinx's humming stopped abruptly, and at this moment she seemed to overlap with the childhood Bobo.

That was the first time in her life that she faced death, and the one who killed their parents was the Piltover law enforcement officer who regarded human life as worthless.

In her vision, hallucinations and reality intertwined, and Caitlin gradually became identical to the image of the lawman who killed her parents.

"No, what really killed them was the corruption and greed of the Piltover Council and the arrogance and pride of the people of Upper City."

The illusion changed again, and Jinx saw the scene where Hilco brought her to the Twin Cities Bridge to commemorate his parents.

Hilco squatted in front of the photo wall filled with flowers and lights and lit the candles himself. He took the timid Baobao and stood in front of the bridge pillar engraved with photos, pointed at the row of photos and said sincerely:
"Your parents are Zaun's heroes. I remember them, and I remember every Zaun who rushed to the bridge. Some of them fought for their ideals, some fought to seek justice from Piltover, and some just wanted to keep their young children from going hungry. Each of them came with their own beliefs, and no one regretted it until they died. But unfortunately, we failed."

It seemed that Hilco was thinking of some old friends. He showed a rare gentle expression and gently stroked one of the photos.

Baobao wanted to take a look at the photo, but Hilco deliberately blocked his view.

Hilco dusted himself off and stood up.

"Listen, kid. Failure is not terrible. What is terrible is losing the confidence and motivation to resist. Fandel was once our leader, but he was broken by this failure."

"Vandel failed your parents' ideals and betrayed us. After that defeat, I realized that if you want to defeat a powerful enemy, you must do everything you can to become the embodiment of their fear."

Hilco extended his hand to the young Bakugo: "Do you want to become stronger? So strong that no one can take away our important people?"

When she was a child, she was powerless to do anything about the death of her parents, but this time, she would never allow anyone to take her sister away from her!

Jinx's eyes turned red, and she and the little Bakugo held the hand of Hirko in the illusion.

"Put aside your doubts, Jinx, and become the embodiment of fear in your enemies."

……

A second before leaving the restaurant, Wei stopped inexplicably and looked out the window as if possessed by a mysterious force.

But Jinx was no longer there.

"What's wrong? Wei?" Caitlin grabbed her hand.

"I just think it's a pity to leave all this food like this. It reminds me of the days when Baobao and I didn't have enough to eat when we were little. Forget it, it's nothing. Let's go!" Wei shook her head, turned around and left the restaurant with Caitlin.

(End of this chapter)