Chapter 59 Father and Son
Looking at Xiaotie who was curled up in Min Saburo's arms with a somewhat frightened expression, Wolf was stunned.
Is my expression not friendly enough?
Thinking of this, the corners of his mouth trembled slightly and he forced himself into a smile.
"Well!"
"what…"
Xiaotie, who was originally curled up in his arms, was so scared when he saw the wolf's smile that his face turned pale. Then he kept arching towards his father's arms, wishing he could get into Min Saburo's chest.
After seeing the wolf's smile, Min Saburo couldn't help but let out a light exclamation, with a strange expression on his face, but he quickly realized that his expression was not polite.
"Ah, ahahaha...it's so late, Xiaotie should go back to sleep first."
As he said this, he gently put Xiaotie down in his arms, touched his head tenderly, and turned to the wolf and said.
"Please come in with me, Mr. Sekiro."
Seeing that his smile didn't work, a hint of embarrassment flashed across Wolf's originally calm eyes. Fortunately, Min Saburo came to the rescue in time to avoid the atmosphere becoming awkward.
"Um…"
With a light response, Wolf followed Min Saburo through the corridor of the house with six arms folded. When he passed Xiao Tie, who was hiding behind the door with half of his face exposed and looking at him timidly, he turned his head to avoid eye contact as much as possible.
Walking through the corridor, you will arrive at the center of the house, where there is a courtyard filled with mechanical parts.
call!
Panting, he put the En 10shiki on his back on the ground. Without even wiping the sweat off his face, Toshisaburo turned around and ran back into the house, leaving only one sentence behind.
"I'll go down and prepare some tea!"
"Do not…"
Wolf just stretched out his hand to ask Min Saburo to stop causing trouble, but the other party had already run out of his sight.
He slowly placed the six arms on the ground, then sat cross-legged on the aisle beside the courtyard, looking at the arms and torso of Yuichiro on the ground, and then at the arm armor prosthetic on his left hand.
Give it a try…
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"Sorry to have kept you waiting!"
Min Saburo walked out of the inner room carrying a tray of tea and oranges, and happily called out to Wolf, his new friend who was visiting his home for the first time. However, the scene in front of him frightened him so much that his hands shook and he almost spilled the tea.
"Mr. Sekiro, what are you doing?!"
I saw Wolf sitting cross-legged in the aisle, holding an arm of Yuan Yi Ling in his hand and observing it in front of his eyes. Next to him was the other arm that had been disassembled in half.
He quickly ran to the wolf, put down the tea, looked at Yuan Yi Ling Shi under him with heartache, moved his gaze to the wolf, opened his mouth but could not say a word.
"..."
Seeing Min Saburo's look, Wolf didn't dare to continue his research and quickly picked up the tools on the ground.
Click, click.
The next moment, under Toshisaburo's shocked gaze, the six arms were intactly reattached to Yoriichi's body by the wolf.
"Ah...ah..."
With eyes wide open and in shock, Toshisaburo crawled to Zero's side, touched the marks on the joints, and watched the broken wooden parts being replaced with new ones.
“Is Mr. Sekiro also a mechanical engineer?! And the connection technique and the precision of the parts carving are not something a beginner can do!”
Unlike Toshisaburo's excitement, Wolf's expression remained calm, and he only recalled in his mind the scene of watching the Buddhist sculptor repair and install the ninja prosthetic arm.
"…I'm just an expert at arm-type mechanisms…"
Hearing what the wolf said, Min Saburo did not continue to ask. He smiled faintly and sat casually next to the wolf. He picked up the tea beside him, blew away the hot steam and took a sip.
"Ha! It feels so good. I'm really happy to have met Mr. Sekiro today~"
Hearing this, Wolf turned his head and looked at Min Saburo beside him, a little dazed.
Is it really worth being happy to meet myself...
Seeing that the wolf didn't speak, Min Saburo was not embarrassed. He looked at the moon and continued to whisper to himself.
"This is the happiest day since... Hanako left..."
Hearing Min Saburo's obviously low tone, Wolf came back to his senses. He knew that what Min Saburo needed at the moment... was someone to talk to.
Then he asked in a low voice.
"...Hanako?"
"She is my wife... Xiaotie's mother. She passed away half a year ago..."
"..."
"Ha... a sudden serious illness... he left this world hastily without even a diagnosis..."
At this point, Min Saburo's eyes were already red, his eyes were wet, his fingers were trembling a little, and he picked up an orange, peeled it, and put it in his mouth.
Sour... too sour...
It was so sour that tears dripped down his face.
He broke a few pieces of the orange in his hand and handed them to the wolf.
“It’s very sour…”
The wolf took the orange and looked at Min Saburo, whose eyes were filled with tears as big as beans, and put the orange into his mouth.
Sweet and refreshing.
It seems that it is not the orange that brings sourness to people...
"...Xiaotie, does he know..."
Hearing the wolf's clumsy question, Min Saburo first smiled slightly and then answered the wolf's question.
"I see. He was by his mother's side when she left. He is a strong child. Even though he cried until he could hardly breathe, he still held Hanako's hand the whole time."
Speaking of this, he smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly.
"Unlike me, a useless father who was so scared that he didn't even dare to see Hanako for the last time..."
"He will definitely be able to pass on our ancestral mechanical skills!"
The wolf, who was about to pat Toshisaburo on the shoulder to comfort him, paused when he heard these words, and his tone obviously changed.
"What if... he doesn't have a talent for mechanical engineering?"
Neither of them noticed that the wolf's left hand clenched slightly.
As if he didn't hear the change in Wolf's tone, Toshisaburo held his chin and thought quietly, then sneered after a while.
Wolf frowned when he heard the laughter, but Toshisaburo smiled brightly at this moment.
"Sure enough, no matter how you think about it, even if Xiaotie doesn't have any talent, he is still my most beloved and important family member, my...son."
When Min Saburo uttered the last two words, Wolf's brows relaxed and the hand that had been hanging on Min Saburo's back finally fell.
Snapped.
"Come on...Toshisaburo!"
He was a little dazed by this sudden palm strike, but it seemed as if this palm strike had dispelled all the depression in his heart, and he felt relieved.
This seems to be... the first time Mr. Sekiro called me by my name.
Before he could react, the wolf waved his prosthetic arm and swung the grappling hook, which hooked onto the branches of a tree in the courtyard.
"…It's getting late…I'll leave first."
As soon as he finished speaking, the wolf flew out, reached the top of the tree, aimed at the giant tree in the distance, and used his prosthetic hand to fly over it, constantly shuttling through the forest.
"What a strange person... But... It doesn't matter! I feel like I'm already friends with Mr. Sekiro!"
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call!
There was a sound of breaking wind, and a figure landed outside the window of a room on the second floor of the hotel.
chap!
The window opened and a figure jumped into the house. It was the wolf that had just returned from the back mountain.
Sitting on the bed, Wolf recalled what Min Saburo had just said.
Even if he has no talent, he is still my most beloved son... What a good answer.
I felt inexplicably happy, as if I was feeling happy for Min Saburo or Xiao Tie.
It's just... I always feel like I forgot one thing...