My mother's love song

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A few weeks later, in a hospital ward in Guanbuzi City.

In the white space, there is a young woman sitting on a hospital bed.

Her hair was long and smooth and black, and her features were decent, but her complexion was sickly and her eyes were hollow.

Although there was no light in her pupils, the woman still turned her head and looked at the scenery outside the window.

Everyone in the hospital was accustomed to this condition of the woman, but no one paid any attention to her.

In fact, she has been doing this for more than 10 years.

She has been bedridden since she was a child, trapped in a cage called hospital and disease.

The woman's name is Wu Tiao Wuhui.

An ancient pureblood, the ancestors of the Wu Tiao family seemed to be experts in prayer, and their nature seemed to survive by cursing.

The surname Fujoh may be derived from Fujoh.

And Wujo Wuhui's family line will also be cut off in her generation.

Not long after she was hospitalized, her parents and younger brother died unexpectedly.

Later, it was said that her father's friend paid for her medical expenses.

Wujo Wuhui had never seen the man whose name was as hard to remember as the monk.

Today was a day like any other without any changes. Wujo Kirie's frail body was trembling slightly on the hospital bed.

At this moment, the door that no one should have visited was opened.

Although no footsteps could be heard, the visiting person had a strong presence.

The visitor was a young boy.

He has a thin physique and a frivolous and sunny expression on his face.

Wujo Kirie had observed many people in the hospital, but she had never seen anyone as unpredictable as him.

I'm afraid this person is someone I will never be able to understand.

Rhodes sat down beside the bed and took out an apple from his pocket. Then he began to peel the apple without saying anything.

It's like "Speaking of visiting the sick, the plot is about peeling apples, so I have to peel apples too!"

Three minutes later.

"Ah, that hurts! I cut my hand!"

Rhodes shouted while sucking his finger, and then he finally turned around and looked at Wu Tiao Wuhui.

The moment he looked at her, Wu Tiao Wuhui felt a terrifying sense of closure in her heart.

Even she, who was not afraid of death and was only worried about being confined here for the short remaining life, could feel the uneasiness of death from this young man.

"Human, would you like an apple?"

The brisk voice echoed in the ward.

Wujo Kirie slowly turned her face towards him.

Apple?

No matter how you look at it, it's just a prank. I wonder if some naughty elementary school student came from somewhere and wanted to play a trick on me by doing this.

If she were a normal person, she would definitely think so.

However, Wu Tiao Wuhui nodded inexplicably, took the apple and started to eat it in small bites.

The skin is as peeled as if it had been gnawed by a dog, she thought.

Rhode looked at her emotionless eating and said, "Wow... You actually just picked up the apple given by a stranger and ate it. Big sister, you are the type that men will toy with and throw on the street."

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Wujo Kirie started coughing because she was choked by the sour and sweet apple juice in her mouth.

Isn’t this the apple you gave me?

"Well, big sis, you can be thankful that you have a stupid brain this time."

The devil's work of giving forbidden fruit to mankind had been completed. Rhodes stood up from the bed and stretched.

"After eating this apple, your illness should be cured, and your eyes will be cured as well."

"!?"

Wujo Wuhui was shocked.

It wasn't because of what the boy said.

It wasn't because he discovered that he was almost blind.

Rather, there was a powerful magic shrouded in his words that transcended reality.

Make Wujo Kirie believe that everything he said is true.

As long as she eats the apple, she will be cured.

You can regain your freedom and realize your wishes

Go outside the ward and see the world with your own eyes.

"..."

Wu Tiao Wuhui believed it without a doubt and ate the apple cleanly.

Then the boy left.

Although he did not reveal his name until the very end, Wu Tiao Wu Hui was very clear about one thing.

The teenager did not have good intentions in his actions.

My life and death, my dreams meant nothing to him, and he didn't care.

That child must have a view of good and evil, as well as an understanding of death and life that I cannot understand.

But if that's the case, can we still be considered human beings?

Saving me must have been as insignificant to him as blowing away an ant that had fallen into the water.

Even so, Wu Tiao Wuhui's heart was still full of gratitude.

Even if this gratitude is worthless to the savior.

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After saying goodbye to Wu Tiao Wuhui, Rhodes walked slowly in the bright corridor of the hospital.

At a corner, he passed a tall man in a black coat.

The magician with a monk-like name, Araya Soren, who brushed shoulders with Rhodes, was concentrating on something at the moment.

About the other "chess piece used to awaken Ryougi Shiki's origin" that he had found.

Neither of them noticed the other.

The man stopped after they walked about ten steps.

He turned his head sharply and looked in the direction he had just come from with his poker face.

Soon, the man saw it.

With his hands in his trouser pockets, he stood straight in the crowd, facing the boy.

It was the person who had killed Shiratsumi Rio a few months ago, and he was looking at him with a provocative expression.

A flash of panic flashed across Araya Soren's face, and his eyebrows, which had not twitched for 200 years, began to twitch.

Then, the boy disappeared in the crowd of people in the hospital.

At this moment, the magician was finally sure.

"Sure enough...it was laughing at me."

Chapter 226 Sleeping with the Root Mom

After leaving Aozaki Touko's office, the group came to Ryougi's house.

It was getting dark, so Rhode decided to take Fujino to her house to spend the night.

The Ryougi family mansion is located on the outskirts of Guanbuzi City. Surrounded by bamboo forests, it was built according to the specifications of a samurai residence.

Just by walking on the ground, it is impossible to tell how big this mansion enclosed by high walls is.

It's impossible to properly grasp the scale of a building unless you take a plane and look down from the air.

The three of them walked along the bamboo forest trail that looked like a mountain road and entered the Liangyi family's mansion.

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After dinner, Rod walked down a long hallway with ultra-luxurious wooden floors that never creaked.

Fujino followed quietly behind him, keeping a distance of two steps like a little boy in the old days, and the two of them came to Shiki's bedroom.

"Ohmen kudasai!"

With the momentum of a warrior challenging a rival, Rhodes shouted as he opened the sliding door of the room.

"Noisy."

The moment Ryougi Shiki entered the room, she was moving from the mirror to the bedside.

A trace of panic could be seen in her expression.

Rhodes chuckled: Huh... this guy was just admiring himself in front of the mirror?

He didn't consider himself an outsider at all and sat down beside Ryougi Shiki's bed.

"Why didn't you go to the gym to watch my competition just now?"

Rhodes changed out of his daytime casual clothes and was now wearing a Taoist uniform. The beads of sweat on his neck showed that he had just exercised.

The Liangyi family has a dojo.

Many generations ago, a head of the Ryougi family found it too troublesome to hire a martial arts teacher, so he built his own dojo and studied swordsmanship at will. This system has been passed down to the present day, and this is how Ryougi Shiki mastered martial arts.

At the beginning of every month, the heir of the Ryougi family will compete with his master, Ryougi Shiki's father, using real swords.

Whether in terms of strength or physical fitness, Ryougi Shiki is no match for his father.

Ever since Rhodes started dating the Liangyi family, the head of the family would invite him to compete in swordsmanship every time he came here.

Rhode said with a smile: "It's your loss that you didn't get to see my gorgeous sword skills, which are known as the 'Young Lady Killer'. Fujino's face turned red just now."

“No… woo.”

Fujino, who was standing next to Rod, lowered her head shyly.

"What's so good about it? You defeated your father easily anyway."

Ryougi Shiki muttered, "How could I possibly beat you in a real sword fight."

No matter how powerful my father's swordsmanship is, he still belongs to the category of strong human beings.

But Rhodes has undoubtedly reached another realm.

After experiencing so many battles, he can now rely on his skills to protect himself even if he has a martial arts duel with Altria.

"It's not easy. After all, I have to consider your father's face, so I can't win too exaggeratedly. I have to win just in time and not let the other party notice that I'm letting you win."

Rhodes lay down on the bed and sighed, "It's very hard!"

"...It's really annoying to see you doing it with such ease."

The girl's current mood was not so much envy and jealousy of Rhodes' genius swordsmanship, but rather reluctance to stand shoulder to shoulder with him.