Go back? There's no going back.

If you look carefully at this moment, you can find that there is a tiny gap on the edge of the cabinet door.

The scarred young man has been staying inside obediently until now.

Realizing this, even the expression on Su Wei's face gradually became a little confused.

He hid inside when the witch came before, and now that everyone else has left, he shows no signs of coming out.

——What on earth is this guy doing in there?

With this doubt in his mind, Su Wei slowly walked to the locker and opened the door.

Squeak.

The next second, with the sound of a door opening, Su Wei saw the scarred young man curled up in the closet.

However, what made him even more confused was that for some unknown reason, the other party was staring at him blankly.

In fact, perhaps because he was still distracted, after the cabinet door was opened by Su Wei, the scarred young man who was originally leaning against the cabinet door lost his balance briefly, and his whole body fell straight to the floor in front of him.

Then, with a "bang", the young man faced Su Wei and touched his head to the ground.

Seeing this scene, Su Wei blinked and was a little at a loss for a moment.

...Why do we perform such a great ceremony?

"you……"

Fortunately, I don’t know if it was because the knock on his head just now made him sober, but the scarred young man in front of him finally responded.

I saw him supporting himself with his hands, and his entire back half crawled out of the cabinet little by little.

But for some reason, after leaving the locker, the scarred young man did not stand up.

Instead, he just maintained his sitting position on the ground, looking up at Su Wei in front of him.

"You too... no, you are mother's... child?"

Under Su Wei's gaze, he was silent for a long time, and finally opened his mouth and asked in a murmuring tone.

After mustering up the courage to ask this question, the scarred young man stared at Su Wei's face with an extremely complicated look in his eyes.

Ever since he saw the entire conversation between his mother and Su Wei in the living room, the scarred young man's mind has been filled with the emotion of "unbelievable".

He finally realized why his mother had been so patient with this kid... and this guy named Su Wei.

His speculation was wrong.

The reason why Mother treated this man specially was not because of his special physique.

It's because of himself, because of who he is...

At this moment, the scarred young man's stagnant thoughts began to flow again bit by bit.

He looked up at Su Wei in front of him, and another scene suddenly emerged in his mind.

That was the scene he and his mother first encountered on the snow-covered street.

At that time, Mother looked like...she was looking for someone.

Even when she looked at him later and took him in, the look in his mother's eyes seemed more like she was looking at someone else than at him.

Although they were not completely consistent, the scarred young man had a strong premonition at this moment that the person his mother was looking for at that time was Su Wei in front of him.

It was only because she couldn't find him that her mother finally gave up and took him in.

Although the scarred young man never said this, he was actually very clear about it.

After all, if there was no special reason, he didn't think that he, who was worthless at that time, would be rescued by a passing witch.

...So, in a sense, in the eyes of his mother, he... is actually just a substitute for the person in front of him?

If it weren't for the existence of this person in front of him, he wouldn't even be taken in by his mother six years ago, let alone be alive until now...

He slowly opened his eyes, and after realizing this, the scarred young man looked at Su Wei in front of him with an increasingly complicated look.

So, he almost killed the person who indirectly saved his life when they first met?

...What kind of international joke is this?

"No, I'm not her child."

But at this moment, what made the scarred young man slightly stunned was that Su Wei in front of him denied his question.

"Unfortunately, my mother is just an ordinary middle-aged woman, and..."

Quietly watching the scarred young man in front of him who had a strange reaction, Su Wei reminded him: "Isn't it you who is her child?"

"..."

Hearing this, the scarred young man opened his eyes little by little.

Whether it was Su Wei's attitude after recognizing his mother, or his unusually calm reaction now, the expression on his face became even more confused.

"Now that you've rested for so long, you can continue usurping, right?"

However, Su Wei didn't have much time to care about what the scarred young man was thinking at the moment.

He was more concerned about whether the impurities in his body could be completely removed.

Even at this moment, considering that because of the delay of the Witch Lady just now, this scarred young man might have recovered to the point where he could fight him again, so when he opened his mouth to ask the other party, the magic elements around Su Wei had already twisted slightly, and the outline of a wind vortex formed again.

However, what surprised him was that, for some reason, the scarred young man no longer showed any resistance as he had before.

"...I understand. My body...has indeed almost recovered."

As if reminded by Su Wei, the scarred young man was silent for a moment, first lowered his head to check his body, then took a deep breath and said: "Usurpation, I can do it now."

After saying this, under Su Wei's dazed gaze, the scarred young man put his right thumb to his mouth, and then... bit his finger.

The finger, which had originally recovered, was bleeding again.

“Are we going to do it here this time?”

The scarred young man opened his mouth, looked up at Su Wei in front of him, and asked.

"……Um."

Seeing the other party's uncharacteristically honest reaction, Su Wei was half a beat slow to react.

“Let’s do it here.”

After a moment's silence, Su Wei, who seemed a little overwhelmed, nodded.

"Then please... no, I mean, wait a moment."

Seeing Su Wei nod, the scarred young man let out a long sigh and changed from a sitting position to a crawling position.

He took Suwei as the origin and carved runes one by one on the floor around him with his bleeding fingers.

"These are the runes for the usurpation array. If you are worried, you can go to the bedroom and compare them with the runes I carved last time after I finish drawing..."

While drawing with his head down, the scarred young man seemed to remember something and spoke to Su Wei without raising his head.

"..."

Hearing this, Su Wei was slightly startled.

Just now, he happened to think of the possibility of "Will this scarred young man take the opportunity to change to a more dangerous magic circle to deal with him this time?" As a result, the other party took the initiative to bring it up.

"Can't you just use the usurpation array you used last time?"

After a moment's silence, Su Wei thought of something and asked.

"Not very good."

The next second, the scarred young man who was drawing the talisman with his head down shook his head: "To usurp the operation of the magic circle, I need to consume my blood. The last magic circle has already used up all my blood. If I want to do it again, I can only prepare a new magic circle."

"……Yeah."

Hearing this, Su Wei nodded and said nothing more.

He just silently stared at the scarred young man in front of him with increasingly surprised eyes. He seemed to have become a completely different person.

A few minutes later.

The scarred young man moved very skillfully, and under Su Wei's gaze, he quickly completed carving the new usurpation rune stroke by stroke.

After drawing the last stroke, he raised his head and looked at Su Wei.

At this moment, the multiple blood losses in a short period of time seemed to make his already pale face even more terrifying.

"What are you still doing here?"

When their eyes met, the scarred young man twisted his eyebrows and looked at Su Wei: "Go to the bedroom and take a look."

"?"

Hearing this, Su Wei was stunned for a moment, then quickly thought of something. He instinctively turned his head to look at the bedroom beside him, and the expression on his face became increasingly strange.

After a short silence, under the inexplicably gloomy gaze of the scarred young man, he turned and walked to the bedroom door beside him and pushed it open.

"Ok?"

But soon, seeing the scarred young man who followed him into the bedroom and lay beside the bed to carefully examine the "dried" runes, Su Wei asked, "Aren't these runes you drew yourself? What are you checking now?"

“…I’m looking to see if there are any differences between this and the one I just drew.”

"Ah?"

……

After a while, they returned to the living room.

At this time, both Su Wei and the scarred young man had carefully compared the redrawn usurpation rune with the rune used last time.

Su Wei confirmed that the scarred young man did not have any bad intentions.

But what confused him was that after confirming that the magic circles were the same twice, the scarred young man in front of him seemed to breathe a sigh of relief for some reason.

"I'm about to start. If you don't feel any discomfort during this time, I advise you to stay in the center of the formation and don't move."

At this time, the scarred young man's cold reminder came to his ears, and Su Wei nodded: "Okay."

The next moment, he saw the scarred young man take a deep breath, his eyes fixed in vain: "Usurpation, start!"

In an instant, the runes carved with blood on the ground suddenly solidified, as if some kind of reaction had occurred, and began to make bursts of crackling sounds and emit white mist.

Then, as the reaction became more intense, the white excess light that had impressed Su Wei so deeply suddenly burst out from the magic circle.

As his entire body was enveloped by the scorching excess light, Su Wei clearly felt that the feeling of something beginning to be peeled off from his body reappeared.

Almost exactly the same as last time.

Su Wei's perception of the free elements around him still did not decline at all. He realized that something in his body that was not his physical constitution... was being taken away just like last time.

Like dust swept away by a broom.

"Is there any problem on your end?"

At this moment, Su Wei suddenly heard the scarred young man's intermittent questioning voice.

"...No problem, continue."

Hearing this, Su Wei immediately shook his head.

moment.

As the new round of usurpation ended, the excess light in the room dissipated bit by bit, and finally gathered into a golden fruit, quietly floating in front of the scarred young man.

"...I suggest you not to eat this stuff."

Su Wei was quite surprised at the cooperation of the scarred young man. Seeing that the scarred young man had already reached out to pick up the fruit, he was silent for a moment and then spoke up to remind him.

Now, feeling his body inexplicably becoming lighter again, he knew very well that the contents of the fruit were exactly the same as last time, impurities.

Although the amount will be much smaller than the last time, the symptoms that will appear on the scarred young man after eating it will probably still be very similar.

However, after hearing his suggestion, the scarred young man looked at him in surprise, then shook his head and said, "No, the medium for usurping the magic circle is my blood. Even if I do nothing, this fruit will eventually merge into my body—"

"Ah?"

Hearing this, Su Wei blinked and said subconsciously: "I remember that you ate it yourself last time."

"That was just a simple act... Don't you think it's more handsome to swallow the fruit yourself instead of waiting for it to slowly melt into your body?"

As if he had guessed that Su Wei would ask this, the scarred young man added: "Besides, if I take the initiative to eat it now, I can ensure that most of the dirt will be in my stomach and I can vomit it out again. The remaining small amount that returns to the blood will be easier to counteract through my self-healing ability..."

"..."