Twin Cities: I am the man of many myths

Chapter 113 Li Ke's Gift

Zuan, the trench zone.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, a group of people stood outside the door, watching Isa push the door open, and then they all rushed towards her.

Isa first closed the door, holding a cup under her arm. She shook her head vigorously at everyone, then stretched out a hand and pushed them, making a gesture for them to step back.

"How is Jinx?" Hilco asked with concern.

Isa couldn't speak, she just nodded and then shook her head.

Wei sighed and said in a deep voice, "In the past three days, I only drank two sips of water and didn't eat anything."

"For the past three days, she has locked herself in her room and has not made any sound. The only person who can go in is Isa, but she won't eat the food Isa brings her. I call her outside the door, but she won't respond to me."

In three days, all the Zaun people had returned to Zaun from Piltover, and with the financial assistance of Piltover, Zaun, which was flooded, was being rebuilt.

Hilco has been particularly busy these days. It should be said that all the management of Zaun are busy, and Hilco is the busiest one. But even so, he still takes out an hour every day to come here to see Jinx and learn about Jinx's condition from Vi and Janna.

If it weren't for the goddess Janna who was always paying attention to Jinx and told them, Jinx did nothing in the room but lie on the bed.
Sleep and wake up, wake up and sleep,
The lights are off, the curtains are not drawn, I put myself in the darkness, but my breathing is steady
Without Janna's words, Hilco would really have sent people to break down the door and force his way in.

Rather than making Jinx hate him, Hilco was more afraid that Jinx would lose her mind and choose to commit suicide.

Jinx would do such a thing. When Wei was joking with Jinx before, Hilco was standing next to her carrying the snacks that Jinx bought.

Wei said at the time - "You cling to Li Ke so much, but if one day Li Ke dies and is no longer around, what will you do?"

Wei was joking, but Jinx's answer was serious. She looked at Wei at the time, blocked Wei's way, and said word by word: "I will die with him."

This is also what Hillco is most worried about now.

"Let her calm down for a while. If that doesn't work, ask Singed to prepare some nutrients and inject them into her while she sleeps." Hilco said in a deep voice.

Isa also left with the cup, with her head lowered, she walked silently towards her room.

Wei looked at her back, thought for a moment, and followed her.

After Li Ke died, the saddest person was Jinx, and the second was Isa.

Because overnight, everything Issa had was gone.

The brother who doted on and loved her was gone, and the sister she adored had become lifeless.

Isa's beautiful little world was destroyed.

So in Wei's view, Isa is really strong and a very good child.

She is carrying the family with her small body. When everyone comes, she is in a normal mood and smiles at everyone. But after everyone leaves and Wei and Isa are alone, she becomes silent and dazed.

This happened because Isa felt that her sister no longer had a brother, and she couldn't make her sister worry anymore. Isa wanted to show her good side in front of her sister so that her sister wouldn't worry about her.

Don't let my sister feel burdened.

Another two days passed. Today, Wei was waiting outside Jinx's door, and Ekko came with a group of sewer enforcers.

"What's wrong?" Wei walked up to Ike and asked.

Ike's expression was complicated. He glanced at the closed room and said, "It's a gift from the boss."

"Li Ke?"

"Yes, it's for Jinx. Today is her birthday."

Wei was stunned. Because she had been busy lately, she had forgotten that today was Jinx's birthday.

The door suddenly opened, Wei turned around, but couldn't see Jinx.

But everyone heard Jinx's voice.

"Give me."

She said hoarsely.

Wei looked at the pile of things that Ike brought. There were eleven boxes of different sizes, tied with beautiful blue bows.

She said, "You all go back, I'll take it in."

Ike nodded and asked people to put everything down.

Wei rolled up his sleeves and started moving.

One, then two, they moved it outside the door, and then a pair of white glowing hands reached out and took the box back.

Wei did not go in, but waited quietly outside after moving all the boxes.

Inside the house, a thin figure was unpacking boxes in the dark.

Jinx picked up one and looked down at it, then Jinx carefully opened the first box, which was only the size of a palm.

After opening it, there was a blue bow tie inside with a little pink in the middle, which was very beautiful. There was also a note next to it.

She picked up the note next to the bow tie -

[Jinx, you were taken away by Silk this year, so from this year on, I will celebrate your birthday with you. So, happy birthday, Jinx.

By the way, when you were little, I remember you envied the kids in Piltover and wanted a beautiful bow tie, and you even quarreled with Fandel for it, right? I chose for a long time in the market, and finally picked this bow tie, blue, very beautiful, just like you. 】

Jinx picked up the bow tie and put it on the bed.

She looked at the next box.

After opening it, it was still a piece of paper tied to a human-shaped doll.

[You should have grown your teeth by the age of nine, right? When you were a kid, you looked exactly like Isa when you smiled, both of you were missing teeth, haha, so ugly. This year, you made yourself a Wei doll, so I made one for you too. Making dolls is really hard, even if it doesn't look good, you have to keep it well for me. This is made by me, it's a limited edition doll for Li Ke! ]

The doll is not big, only about ten centimeters. The black circle on its head is hair, and its face is patched up, which really doesn't look good.

But Jinx held the doll tightly and said nothing for a long time. Then she opened the third box.

After opening it, there was a pair of beautiful blue princess shoes inside. The shoes were very small, a children's style, and Jinx couldn't wear them at all.

[Happy tenth birthday, Jinx. Throw away the dolls of Milo and Craig. I am just like you, I get jealous easily, so if you want to play with dolls, I will play the limited edition of Li Ke. If you think it is ugly, I will make another one on your nineteenth birthday. My craftsmanship will definitely improve in a year. How do you think? ]

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The fourth box and the fifth box represent Jinx at the age of eleven and twelve respectively.

On her eleventh birthday, Li Ke gave her a delicate little cake.

[Happy eleventh birthday, Jinx. Although I didn't make this cake myself, I taught Aunt Sheila how to make it, so it counts as something I made. I can't make it for you myself because of the shelf life issue. After all, I have a lot of things to do recently, and I have a lot of gifts to prepare for you.]

Jinx bent down, lowered her head, opened her mouth and took a bite of the cake.

Two tears fell on the cake. She raised her head and swallowed the cake with difficulty.

“So sweet.”

When she was twelve years old, Li Ke gave Jinx a bunch of beautiful paints. Judging from the styles, they were bought in Piltover and were very expensive.

[Happy 12th birthday, Jinx. You love painting so much that Hilco must have bought you a lot of paints. But it doesn’t matter. From now on, I will insure all the paints you use for painting. This year, I’m 14 years old and have started working at the docks. I have money.]

She gathered the paint boxes together, straightened up from her kneeling position, and placed the boxes on the small table.

Then, Jinx started unpacking the boxes again.

On her thirteenth birthday, Li Ke gave her a necklace as a gift.

The note asked her how she was doing at Hilco, and said that all girls liked necklaces, so she must like them too.

Jinx puts the necklace on.

On my fourteenth birthday, Li Ke gave me two bracelets.

On the note, Li Ke wrote that he also had one, the same model as Jinx's. But now, both bracelets were here.

Jinx continued to unpack the boxes, but her hands began to tremble. She slowly opened the remaining boxes, and each time she opened one, she would look at it for a long time.

The gift for my fifteenth birthday was a beautiful pistol with a blue body and an exaggerated shape, very much in the style of a blue-haired madman.

[I asked Victor to make a pistol for me. It was made based on your pistol. It can hold Hex Gems. It is more powerful than your previous pistol. If I make you unhappy one day, you can use this pistol to hit me, but you definitely won't, right?]

The gift for her sixteenth birthday was a pair of exquisite black boots. They felt very good to the touch, and there were a few iron plates on the shoes with her cartoon image on them, an exaggerated blue-haired monster girl with bared fangs and claws, and there was also a black-haired little man on the iron plate, holding a child.

[Happy sixteenth birthday, Jinx, your feet don't stink, they really don't stink, I promise, I look at your feet because I like your feet, um, my hobbies may be different from others? ]

Jinx put her shoes away and looked at her feet.

It was covered in blood and broken glass.

These days, she walked barefoot on the ground, and the broken glass on the ground pierced her feet, but she didn't care because she no longer felt the pain.

But now, looking at her own feet, she wanted to take out all the broken glass.

But she still looked at the next box.

After opening it, she found that it was a pocket watch that Li Ke gave her as a gift for her seventeenth birthday.

[Happy 17th birthday. We met in this year. To be honest, Jinx, I was quite scared of you at first. After all, you became crazy and all the people in Zaun were afraid of you. When you held me to sleep at night, I was shaking. Didn't you really notice? But Jinx, I have to admit that I slowly began to like you. The people in Piltover were right. I am a lunatic. Otherwise, how could I fall in love with a psychopath like you?]

Jinx opened her pocket watch, and inside was a photo of her and Li Ke. In the Fulgrim Tavern, Li Ke was sitting at the bar, and she was behind Li Ke, laughing and pointing with her finger. It was a photo that Ike took of the two of them.

Holding the pocket watch tightly, Jinx looked at the last box.

After opening the boxes, I found that the gift inside the largest box was the smallest.

Just a lipstick.

[Happy 18th birthday, Jinx. Zaun will get better and better in the future. This lipstick is my gift to you. This year, you finally grew up. I don’t have to put up with many things anymore. Get ready. When you see what you want to see, you will have to give birth to a little Li Ke for me. I don’t know if he will have blue hair or black hair, but please don’t let his hair be black and blue, because that’s too non-mainstream.]

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The room gradually became silent, with only the rustling sound, which was made by Jinx sorting the gifts.

Outside the door, Wei hadn't slept well in the past few days and leaned against the door, exhausted.

Sitting on the ground with her hands draped forward on her knees, Wei leaned her head back against the door and closed her eyes.

She was about to take a nap, but just as she closed her eyes and fell into a daze, Wei heard a hoarse voice from the door.

"elder sister."

Wei woke up instantly, got up and rolled over, putting her hand on the door, "Jinx, I'm here, I'm here! What's wrong, are you hungry? I'll go and heat it up for you."

"No, help me get some clothes." Jinx's voice came out weakly.

Wei nodded vigorously and responded loudly: "Okay, wait for me, I'll go now."

Vi ran into her room. The flood washed over Zaun and many things were destroyed. Vi's clothes were also new, bought from Piltover.

After rummaging through the boxes, she finally chose a pair of trousers, a black T-shirt, and a blue jacket.

With the clothes, Wei ran back to Jinx's door and patted it with her hand. She said, "Can I come in?"

"Ah."

Wei opened the door and saw darkness in the room. There were traces of dried water, broken glass, and pools of blood on the ground. Gift boxes were piled up in the corner, neatly arranged from large to small.

The bloodstains on the ground made Wei's heart ache. She began to adapt to the darkness of the house and looked at the bed in the room.

I saw a blue cat-ear hat on the small bookcase. There was a large wet spot in the center of the hat, and a pair of boots were placed next to the hat.

Then, there were some beautiful little things, paint, necklaces, a stopwatch, and a bite of cake.

Jinx was sitting on the bed, her blue hair spread out in a mess, covering the entire bed, even the corners of the bed were covered with Jinx's hair.

The dense blue spread out like a spider web, and she was sitting in the center, grabbing the hem of her clothes with both hands and starting to take off her clothes in front of Wei.

She threw the dirty clothes away, and Jinx stood up naked and walked towards Wei.

Wei lowered her head and looked at Jinx's belly, which was pale and her ribs were obviously protruding. Jinx was so thin that Wei felt a pain in her heart.

"Jinx"

"It's okay, sister. I'm fine now." Jinx looked at Wei. She was originally very fair, but when she was with Li Ke, she would eat a lot every day and go to bed early at night while holding Li Ke.

She is very white, but very healthy.

But now, after three days of not eating, her face turned pale, her cheeks were thin, and she had a creepy smile on her face.

But Wei couldn't laugh.

Jinx was smiling, but her smile was lifeless. There was no emotion in her eyes, and her eye sockets were dark. Her white eyelids were full of blue blood vessels, her blue pupils were cloudy, and the whites of her eyes were full of bloodshot.

"I'm going to take a shower first." She pushed open the door with her clothes and walked towards the bathroom.

Wei hurriedly followed.

Then, Wei waited outside the bathroom.

Biting her fingers, Wei didn't know how to persuade Jinx.

Persuade?

Li Ke sacrificed himself to save everyone and advised Jinx to forget him and let him go?

It's impossible because even Vi herself can't forget that scene. She has been tired these days, not only because of taking care of Jinx, but also because Vi is sad for Li Ke.

Now that Li Ke is gone, there will be no one in Zaun to argue with her, and she won't be able to have a delicious breakfast in the morning.

The sound of water could be heard in the shower room. Wei lowered her head and sighed, remaining silent.

Jinx let the hot water hit her body with her eyes closed and her head lowered. Her thin shoulders twitched and water kept flowing down her cheeks, but it was not known whether it was tears or hot water, mixed together and dripped to the ground.

Then she slowly raised her head and washed her cheeks.

When she opened her eyes, Jinx's eyes were red.

She began to rub her hair to clean the stains, washed herself, picked up the towel, and walked to the mirror. She looked at herself in the mirror.

“Jinx.”

She muttered to herself, putting her hands to the corners of her mouth, pulling her cheeks upwards with her fingers, revealing an ugly smile.

"Don't cry."

"Li Ke won't let you cry."

"So, this is the last time you cry."

"Right?"

Talking to herself in the mirror, her fingers became stronger and stronger, and her smile became more and more crazy.

"He wanted to make Zaun better and better, and he almost succeeded. He almost did it."

"Well now, it's your turn to do this. You can't go find him yet, Jinx. This is your gift for him."

“Smile, Jinx.”

"Please stop worrying him."

She was crying while smiling.

(End of this chapter)