You don't even want to call me godfather

"who is it!"

Koshe ran towards the direction where the red figure disappeared, pulling out his pistol.

"boom!"

The alley entrance was not far from him, and he arrived there in a few seconds. He fired a shot directly into the alley.

The other party stopped running. She originally wanted to climb up to the roof from the wall, but after hearing the gunshots, she quickly turned around and pulled out two knives and held them in her hands.

The faint moonlight shone into the alley, and Koshe could vaguely see the man's appearance.

"little girl?"

What shocked him was that the person who had been secretly monitoring him was just a girl who looked about thirteen or fourteen years old.

He has silver-gray hair and wears a red cotton jacket. One ear sticks out from under the hood, twitching from time to time.

"Red, I don't want to fight you."

The girl who called herself Hong held the knife vigilantly, with a coldness in her eyes that was not suitable for her age, as if she would not be moved at all even if Koshe was killed now.

She was just like a well-trained killer, and Hong's temperament reminded Koshe of something.

He remembered something Lappland had reminded him of when he met her in Jill's bar a few days ago.

"Wolf hunter?"

Koshe asked tentatively.

After hearing this word, Hong quickly took a step back, lowered his body, and made preparations to rush forward at any time.

"Red, it's the Wolf Hunter. Red, I don't want to fight you."

But she did not take the next step. Instead, she generously admitted her identity and repeated what she had just said.

"I don't understand. If you are really a wolf hunter, why didn't you attack me in so many previous opportunities? Instead, you hid in the dark and watched?"

Koshe lowered the muzzle of the gun. He did not want to alarm the wolf hunter in front of him. Even though she was just a girl, she was definitely not an easy character to deal with.

"Hong, I am ordered by 'Grandma' to observe you." Seeing Koshe lowered the gun, Hong still did not relax at all, but she also responded obediently, "Hong, I am asked to protect Koshe Karst."

"It's Cascade," Koshe corrected Hong's mistake, but he was now completely confused. "I don't understand. I am somewhat aware of my identity. Since the 'grandmother' you mentioned sent out wolf hunters, she should have killed me, her godson, so how could she protect me?"

"Hong, I don't know. Hong, I don't understand. Hong is just following orders," she said, and her tight steps gradually relaxed. She continued, "Hong likes the smell of you. It's very similar to 'Grandma'. Moreover, Hong wants to touch your tail."

After saying this, Koshei noticed that Hong's eyes were always on his slightly wagging tail.

But why the tail?

He didn't think there was anything special about his tail that could attract a wolf hunter.

"Answer my question," after confirming that the other party did not intend to kill him, Koshei lowered his gun-holding hand to his side, blocking his tail, and asked, "Who is 'Grandma', and why did she order you to protect me?"

"Hong, you can't tell me. Hong, you can't say it. This is also grandma's order. Hong, you can't disobey."

Without Koshei's wagging tail, Hong's mood became noticeably lower, and even the tone of his voice became a little lower.

"Well, let's make a deal," Jianhong was reluctant to reveal the news, so Koshei offered her a condition, "If you tell me the identity of my 'grandmother', I'll let you touch my tail."

"Really?" Hong suddenly became excited, even her eyes seemed to be shining. She took a few steps forward, but stopped and hesitated, "But... Grandma's order..."

"Feel free to touch it."

Hong was silent. She was caught in a mental struggle between her grandmother and her tail, and for a moment she was unable to make a choice.

Looking at Hong's performance, Koshe sighed, put away his pistol and walked towards Hong.

After all, he is still a child.

Looking at Koshei walking towards her, Hong did not run away, nor did she attack, because she could feel that there was no dangerous aura from Koshei.

"Who on earth is 'Grandma'?" Koshe stretched out his hand and touched Hong's hood, and Hong's exposed ear trembled. He flipped the hood down, looked at the childishness on Hong's face, shook his head and said, "She actually trained such a child to become a killer, a wolf hunter. Why on earth did 'Grandma' do such a thing?"

"Hong, I don't understand what you are talking about," Hong had a puzzled expression on her face, "'Grandma' is a very good person. She picked me up from the garbage dump, gave me food, and taught me how to survive and how to fight. Hong is willing to do everything for Grandma."

"What if, 'Grandma' orders you to die?"

"Die? Hong doesn't know the concept of death, but Hong doesn't want to die, because then she won't be able to see 'Grandma'. Hong doesn't like being alone. Hong doesn't want to leave 'Grandma'."

The words that came out of Hong's mouth were calm, but they brought a great shock to Koshei.

The girl in front of me has been completely brainwashed and turned into a killing tool. She doesn't even have the most basic common sense, and there is a high possibility that she has never received any education.

What is the most important thing in life?

Not money, not power, not food, and not God.

But it is the right education.

He didn't know how many wolf hunters 'Grandma' had trained in Syracuse, and how many of them were children like Hong.

At an age when they should be studying in school and having fun with friends, they are holding weapons, hiding in the darkness, looking for opportunities to kill their targets.

The scars of Syracuse were deeply engraved into the foundations of the country during years of family struggles.

Even if there is no 'grandmother' and no wolf hunter, there will be people who will replace them, follow the law of cause and effect, and do what they should do.

Perhaps he should talk to his father about this topic.

Koshe thought so.

……

"I am back."

After returning to the mansion, as soon as he entered the door, Koshei said to the inside of the house.

"Welcome back, brother, why are you so..."

When Destiny heard Koshe's voice, he quickly came out of the room and jumped down the stairs, but he was suddenly choked in the middle of his words.

"Hong, I like it here. This place has the smell that Hong likes."

Hong followed Koshei obediently. She put on her hood again, revealing one ear, and looked around the mansion. Finally, her eyes fell on Destiny.

"!" Destiny rushed to Hong at a speed Koshe had never seen before, turned around and asked him in surprise, "Brother... Brother... this child is..."

"Ah, I found it on the road. It seems like it has nowhere to go, so I brought it back."

Koshe answered while changing into his slippers.

"De——"

"What a cute child! My name is Destiny, what's your name?"

Hong looked at her and was about to say something, but was interrupted by Destiny in an exaggerated tone. She grabbed Hong's shoulders and kept signaling with her eyes not to reveal that she knew her.

"Hong, Hong's name is Hong," Hong was a little confused. She looked at Destiny, not really understanding, "Sister Destiny is not with Hong--"

"Brother!" Seeing that Hong still didn't understand what she meant, Destiny got anxious and quickly covered Hong's words with a louder voice, "Mom called today!"

"Mother?" Koshe said, tying his tie. "She hasn't contacted me for a long time. Why did she suddenly call me today?"

"I don't know either. It seems like there is something that needs my brother to deal with."

"Is that so? I'm going to visit my father tomorrow, so I'd like to say hello to my mother."

"Then brother, hurry up and get ready!" Destiny let go of Hong's shoulders and pushed Koshe to the stairs. "How can we meet our father and mother without preparation?"

"Eh...does this require any preparation in advance?"

Although he was somewhat suspicious of Destiny's unusual attitude, Koshei still went up the stairs.

"By the way, since you like Red so much, Destiny, then Red will be given to you tonight. It just so happens that you are both girls."

"Don't worry, bro! I'll take good care of her!"

Only after Koshe went upstairs did Destiny breathe a sigh of relief.

She turned around and looked at him, completely unaware that she had almost made a mistake and with an innocent blushing face, and rubbed her forehead with a headache.

"Hong, what orders did 'Grandma' give you that made you come here?"

Looking at Hong, the girl with the same identity as her, Destiny asked seriously.

Chapter 18 Red's Mission

"So...why are you in my room?"

Looking at Hong who was sitting obediently by the window, Koshe asked helplessly.

He just returned to the room, changed his clothes, hung the outfit he wore during the day neatly on the hanger and put it in the closet. Then he turned around and saw Hong already sitting there.

"Red, ordered by 'Grandma' to protect Koshei."

"No... I mean, shouldn't you be at Destiny's place? And I remember the door of my room was locked, so how did you get in?"

To be honest, Koshei felt it was a bit difficult to talk to such a child.

"There," Hong pointed to the half-open window and said, "Sister Destiny went back alone and looked a little angry."

"Angry?" Koshe thought for a moment. He probably couldn't get rid of this red, so he simply pointed at the bed and said, "Forget it, you stay there tonight."

"Huh?" A puzzled expression appeared on Hong's face again, "Hong, I don't understand."

"Bed, bed, just stay on that bed tonight."

"What about Koshei?"

"I sleep on the floor or sit on a chair for the night."

After saying this, Koshei opened the closet and rummaged through the sheets.

"Speaking of which, Red, do you know why Destiny is angry?"

"..."

"red?"

Seeing that Hong didn't respond, Koshe turned his head, only to see Hong lying on the bed in a daze, her whole body slumped over.

"red?"

"Is this the bed..." Hong was lying on the bed, her eyes narrowed in comfort, "Hong, I've never felt this before. Hong, I really like the soft feeling."

Looking at Hong's appearance, Koshe felt not only whether he should laugh or feel distressed. This child had never even slept in a proper bed, so how had she survived all these years?

"Do you like it? If you like, then sleep there. I'll just summarize what happened recently tonight."

After Koshe had arranged everything for Hong, he pulled a chair over and sat down in front of the desk.

He took out a piece of white paper from a stack of papers on the table, dipped his pen in ink, and began to organize his thoughts.

"Lappland, killed a family cadre."

He started from the very beginning of the recent series of events and wrote down all the relevant events he encountered on paper.

But after he had been writing for a few minutes, his pen stopped.

Looking at the neat words on the paper, Koshe scratched his hair in annoyance, then crossed out the words at random.

He turned the paper over and started writing again.

"The Cascade family took advantage of the government chaos to eliminate the Laplande family, the Texas family and most other families in order to achieve the goal of centralizing power."

Yes, perhaps due to mixed emotions, he subconsciously forgot about this matter, but since he chose to list Lappland's revenge, he should not escape.

As he wrote, he muttered to himself.

She was completely unaware of what was happening and was lying on the bed beside her, listening with her eyes open.

……

"Uh……"

The biting cold wind blew on Koshe through the open stained glass window.

He shook his body, slowly straightened up, and relaxed his spine which was a little sore from being bent for a long time.

"Did you fall asleep last night?"

He looked at the paper with a mess of handwriting because he fell asleep in the middle of writing last night, and then looked at the bed.

Hong is no longer on the bed. It seems that she has left?