Seeing that the sage in front of him seemed to be just a child not much older than himself, but it brought him a feeling of extreme danger, Mars watched him put back his gun and sword hilt, watched him walk towards the girl, and then relaxed.

He breathed a sigh of relief - is this the Sage? He is indeed a legendary figure.

But at least he left at this time. Thinking of this, Mars picked up the bowl again and drank the remaining delicious broth in one gulp.

Mars, who is hungry enough, will never miss any calories.

Hearing the girl's soft cry, Mars turned his head and saw a tall man with long ears holding her, who seemed to be his father, comforting him in a low voice.

He watched the man walk over with the child in his arms, watched the child whisper in her father's ear for a while, and then watched him put her down, and she walked up to him and handed over a card with her little hand.

A note and a key card.

"This is the address and key card that Uncle Sadajiro said. I think you are qualified to have it."

Mars took the note, glanced at the address on it, then crushed the paper with writing on it and swallowed it.

"Why did you swallow it?" The girl was a little confused.

"Dad said that some secrets should not be left in writing." Recalling what his father said, Mars wanted to cry, but he held it back in the end.

"...Yes, Uncle Sadajiro said so too." The sadness on the girl's face flashed, and she said goodbye to Mars and returned to her father's side.

Mars watched his father and daughter come to the door, watched him hold up an umbrella, and walked into the rain with her in his arms.

Is that man named Sadjiro...Mars thought so.

"My child, Mr. Ishikawa asked me to thank you for your help." The one-meter-two sage returned to Mars again. He put a chip card on the table: "There is a thank you money from Mr. Ishikawa on it.

, my stupid apprentice seems to have left his safe house to you..." At this point, the man looked Mars up and down: "Is there anything you want to say?"

"The apprentice you are talking about is Mr. Sadajiro... He said he has a mentor, is it you?" Mars asked with courage.

The sage in front of him frowned, then nodded: "Yes, he was once my psychic apprentice, but now he can only die in a foreign country as a rebellious official of the Eastern Kingdom, accused of kidnapping a thief.

"

Mars' eyes widened: "How could it be possible? The gentleman was seriously injured, but he still protected the girl. Even if he was about to die, he would entrust her to me and ask me to take her to find a way to survive... How could he

Maybe he's a kidnapper!" Mars didn't quite understand what happened to Sadjiro, but he really wanted to help the girl named Xiao Chun. Even at the moment when he came back to his senses, he wanted to find a way for her to survive.

"The child is ignorant, Sage, why do you want to explain it to him?" The blond man over there spoke, and Mars glared at him - although he definitely couldn't beat this guy, but now, Mars really felt that he

Talkative.

"The child also has the right to know the truth, even if he doesn't understand what the truth is." After the sage refuted, he turned to look at Mars: "This apprentice of mine kidnapped the little Chun you protected three days ago.

It's a fact, but it's also a fact that he died in that alley to protect Xiaochun. What happened in it is hard for you to understand now, and if you want to explain it, I'm afraid you won't have to wait until dawn."

Having said this, the old man sighed.

Mars recalled the gentleman and the relieved smile on his face when he handed the gun to him.

He still didn't believe that the gentleman could be a bad person: "Sir, Mr. Sadajiro, he is a psychic swordsman, right? Everyone says that psychic swordsmen are good people, and the swords in their hands are to protect innocent people.

The sword of goodness! He saved me from the killer!"

"Really...have you ever said that the sword in the hand of a psychic swordsman is a lightsaber with azure light?" the sage asked with a smile.

"Yes!" Mars replied matter-of-factly.

Then Mars saw the sage pick up the hilt of the sword, and then a red light appeared, then orange, then yellow.

Mars was stunned as he looked at the colorful lightsaber in the hands of the sage.

Putting away the lightsaber, the Sage looked serious: "You see, the color of the sword does not represent the behavior of the sword user, so children, don't mark a person's past and future just based on a casual relationship, Sadjiro

In your eyes, he is a good person, but in my opinion, his stupidity lies in his failure to see the reality clearly. He naively thought that the swords in the hands of him and his companions could cut through the darkness of that emerging country, but he did not think

However, why does darkness become darkness? The power of him and his companions is too small, so small that he shed all his blood for his ideals, but he cannot change anything because of a child's words."

After saying that, he turned around and prepared to leave.

Mars looked at the sage and said as if by mistake: "Sir!"

"What's wrong, kid?" The one-meter-two sage stopped when he heard this. He turned his head, showing a trace of doubt on his face, but he was still kind.

Mars looked at him and opened his hand: "I, I also want to become a psychic apprentice. Mr. Sadajiro said that becoming a psychic apprentice requires talent. I have the talent, you see."

Under Mars' efforts, small light balls danced at his fingertips.

"This doesn't mean anything, it's just a little trick." The damn golden retriever started again, which made Mars grin angrily.

Say one more word and I'll bite him to death!

"Child, why do you want to be my apprentice? Do you know what it takes to become my apprentice?" the sage asked with a smile.

Mal wiped the tip of his nose, looked at the sage and shook his head.

"Becoming my psychic apprentice, you will lose the opportunity to face the sun. Every apprentice in the Sage Tower has a bright appearance, but they will all become walkers in the darkness, just to let the innocent people on this land

Fortunately, child, if you embark on such a path, from now on, you may only be able to walk in the darkness, and your hands will be stained with endless blood, even if you live like Sadajiro, killing people in the middle of the night.

Aren't you afraid of such a future?" When the sage said the last question, the power of psychic energy made everyone around him almost unable to breathe.

Mars felt very uncomfortable, but thinking about that night, when his father ordered him to live before he died... Leopard Cub nodded vigorously: "I'm not afraid, I want to live! I want to make my father rest assured that I will be the same without him.

Can survive!"

"Really..." The sage in front of him nodded, and he looked at Mars: "What is your father's name?"

"Found!" A dwarf's loud voice echoed through the hall. In Mars' field of vision, a dwarf emerged from the darkness of the corridor holding a report sheet: "The father of the child has been found!"

Then he noticed that everyone was staring at him, so the big boss smiled shyly: "Okay, I will announce the answer. His father is Malai, a leader of the Dead Eye Group, who has been missing for half a year.

.”

When he heard about the disappearance, Mars' eyes turned red: "My father was beaten to death by them!"

"My child, your father, where were they beaten to death?" The old man who had brought Mars back here walked up to Mars.

"Pier 7, District 11." Mars will remember that pier until his death.

"It is indeed a place where the Dead Eye Group often operates, but Your Excellency, unless there is irrefutable evidence, the judge will not listen to the testimony of a nine-year-old child." The golden retriever stood up again.

"Shut up if you can't speak, you Kennedy boy." This time, the sage spoke up.

In Mars's eyes, the sage raised his left hand, the entire hall fell into silence, and the report in the dwarf's hand spontaneously ignited without wind.

I don’t know how long it took, but the hall came to life again. This time, no one seemed to notice him, and everyone started to do their own thing.

The sage looked at Mars: "Child, since you know that becoming a psychic apprentice requires talent, you must have heard it from Sadajiro, right? Now, I want to know that you don't have the courage to hold a sword.

"

"I can do it, sir, I said I want to live." Faced with this strange scene, Mars finally mustered up the courage to reply.

"It seems that a young life has found his own path. Come with me, child." The Sage nodded, and while turning around, he threw the lightsaber hilt in his hand into Mars' arms.

Li: "This is the path you chose, remember, don't regret it."

Mars caught the lightsaber hilt, threw it into his crotch bag, and then followed the adult towards the exit of the hall. When he was about to walk into the rain, a mechanical guard opened an umbrella for Mars.

"Thank you." Mars looked at the machine and expressed his gratitude, and then looked at his mentor. The young man clenched his fists.

As a cub, Mars' instinct will make Mars fear death, but he understands that if he does not become stronger, then every day will be like today's rainy night, and his life will become a bridge to happiness in the eyes of murderers and villains.

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Two million... After living for so long, I realized for the first time that I was so valuable.

A good person like Mr. Sadajiro, whose wounds burst out and died trying to save others, may only be encountered once in this life.

Therefore, in order to survive, you must become stronger and seize every opportunity to become stronger. Only by becoming stronger can you repay your father's blood debt.

This is what keeps Mars alive.
Chapter completed!