Chapter 31 – Chapter 31 the Heirs
The two old men smiled for a long time, recalling their childhood.
Then Demeter said.
“Sorry. It must be hard to grant your brother’s last wish.”
“Okay. Thank you for being by my side all my life.”
And Demeter looked at Geoffrey’s face and said.
“I didn’t know you cared for the youngest that much.”
“I didn’t know either. At first, I wanted to completely pass on what I had achieved throughout my life to the next generation. But thinking that I can grow it further makes me greedy. Also, thinking that my child can do that makes me more affectionate. I must be old too.”
“It is every parent’s dream that their children do well.”
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A few days later, Demeter went to see Jason practicing.
He was training hard in the outbuildings he was using for training.
He had set up a dense bamboo stick in the yard and was throwing a dagger at it.
It’s not easy.
Also to hit the target. And to land enough blows on the target.
Chin. Chin.
However, this child was successful in throwing daggers and hitting targets within a few days.
And for a rogue to throw a dagger, strength wasn’t what mattered.
Often a warrior carries and throws several daggers to attack enemies from a distance.
They throw it with the intention of crushing the enemy with force.
But thieves shouldn’t be like that.
The thief had to look at the enemy’s weakness and deal maximum damage with the least amount of force to the weak spot.
The thieves, unaware of this, threw their daggers with force.
But Jason was different.
He relaxed and threw the dagger like someone trying to get a hang of it.
He was practicing subtracting useless force rather than giving force.
‘Sensei has a solid foundation, but it’s probably not at that level?’
I glanced at Spea.
According to Demeter, he is a skilled thief.
However, there are many things that are lacking in the superman’s view.
I don’t have the capacity to teach Jason like that.
Then there was only one thing left.
It was that the young master figured it out on his own and was training.
Hooked
And finally, the cover-up was activated.
The dagger was driven into the dense bamboo up to the handle.
If it had been hit in the head, it would have been an attack that would pierce the brain.
Jason quickly fired a few more daggers as if he wasn’t going to forget this feeling.
As if that feeling remained in his fingertips, more and more daggers were inserted into the bamboo.
Jason wrung his dagger in his hand to capture what he had realized, carving the sensation into his head.
When he finished his training, Demeter spoke to him.
“Young master. It looks like you’ve already completed one of my homework assignments.”
“Ah, Demeter. No. It is not fully usable yet.”
“For thieves, sense is important. The most basic of all, the more you develop your senses, the better you can use them.”
“I will keep that in mind.”
After talking with Jason, Demeter seemed to understand why Geoffrey cares for Jason.
It wasn’t just because of talent and hard work.
This kid instinctively knew how to make adults feel good.
And when Demeter was looking at Jason, Jason was looking at Demeter too.
The only two superhumans in this family.
If you win Demeter’s heart, it will help you a lot to have this family.
But Demeter was as mysterious as Geoffrey.
He only received orders from the head of the house and only the head of the household knew what he was doing.
A person who participates in all the big and small matters of the family, but does not give an opinion.
Even so, the one who can’t ignore anyone.
“This is Demeter. Just call me uncle In private, I also call the head of the household my older brother.”
“Yes, Uncle.”
Demeter smiled.
Jason was definitely different from the other kids.
The other children of the head of the family regarded Demeter as a subordinate of the head of the family, even though he was a superhuman.
But Jason was treating Demeter wholeheartedly.
Of course, that was because he was in a similar position to Demeter as number 3 when he was a Korean gangster.
Demeter didn’t know that.
He said, “I heard you practice every day. His hands are also very scarred.”
Jason’s hand was wrapped in bandages.
The bandage was soaked with blood.
“You use a healing potion, so why are you only wearing a bandage?”
“It’s just that the leather is damaged. You can’t spend money on useless things. And don’t you have calluses on your hands to hold the dagger better?”
“Haha. Did you hear that from another adventurer?”
Demeter knew that too.
If you swing the dagger tens of thousands of times and get calluses on your hand, it feels like the dagger you normally use is sticking to your hand by itself.
Then, even in a situation where the strength in the grip was weak, he could wield the dagger well.
There was even a story that a certain young nobleman these days said that it was ugly to have calluses on his hands, and that he would remove the calluses and apply a healing potion to them.
Especially many women did.
It was a funny story.
Jason then led Demeter to the table next to the training room, feeling Demeter’s admiration in his eyes.
“I’m sorry you’ve come a long way. I didn’t finish all my uncle’s homework.”
“No. You are doing it fast enough.”
And Jason had Spia bring his tea and refreshments.
“Then let’s have a cup of tea.”
Jason has already done a lot of research on Demeter.
Working as an assassin, he was suspicious of everything.
That’s why he never opened up about his family and never drank with others.
Because he thinks he never knows when he might be attacked.
The only person he drank with was Geoffrey Gazoo.
So Demeter enjoyed tea and refreshments.
“Maybe.”
The old man and the boy shared tea.
And we ate tea together.
Demeter had never been served a cup of tea by any of Geoffrey’s children.
He asked what he was curious about.
“Why are you being so nice to me? Did you hear anything from the head of the household?”
It was a natural suspicion.
All the other children thought of him as a subordinate, but if only one person reacted differently, I couldn’t help but wonder what the head of the family had said.
And Jason looked at Jeffrey and said.
“No. When I look at Uncle Demeter, I don’t feel like a stranger for some reason.”
“Isn’t it like everyone else?”
“No matter how much we are like father and brother, in the end, we are strangers. A father cares for his uncle as if he were his own brother, but no one else. I know your heart.”
It was sincere.
Jason was the No. 3 of the old school when he was Cho Gyu-chan.
And he was acutely aware of how he was treated in the Gussi line.
Demeter will be no different.
Demeter was taken aback.
You could tell by looking into the child’s eyes.
This child truly understood her own predicament.
She understood with her heart, not with her head.
“How on earth?”
“Ahaha.”
For a moment, Jason realized that he had made a mistake.
He made such a mistake when he met and talked to someone similar to his previous life.
He quickly made an excuse.
“No. Aren’t I similar? My mother is the youngest of my father’s wives. No one considers my mother, me and my sister to be the real Wolf family.”
In the end, only those with power were recognized as members of the Wolf family, and those without power were considered remnants.
Fortunately, Demeter thought Jason had a point.
“It’s interesting.”
“Uncle. What’s interesting?”
“It’s interesting that there is someone other than the head of household who understands my heart.”
Jason shut his mouth to avoid adding to his slip of the tongue.
Instead, Demeter continued her words.
“If you live long enough. He meets countless people, but finds it extremely difficult to meet someone like him. Fortunately, I met a few such people.”
“I wish I could meet a lot of people like that.”
This too was sincere.
In his past life, he thought that the leader of the rescue team was such a person.
And many of his younger siblings who followed him were such people.
Gu Ho-yeon betrayed herself, and the younger siblings who followed her must have had a bad end.
In this life he didn’t want to.
“But meeting such a person is not easy. So the head of the family acted differently.”
“How?”
“I have no choice but to know my own heart.”
“It is difficult.”
“Everyone made themselves afraid. Everyone should look at the head of the household and act according to his heart.”
It was a scary story.
“Then, wouldn’t there be no one left around?”
“Yes. I have. A few companions from my adventurer days.”
“I must be lonely.”
Demeter couldn’t help laughing.
This little child was pitying the owner of the Wolf family, whom everyone feared.
“I should do better.”
Jason originally had no interest in Jeffrey.
He regarded it as a being that had to be exploited only to gain power.
Because his father was indifferent to him.
But now the father was pouring infinite affection on himself.
Besides, I was guessing one by one why my father acted like that.
He was a poor, lonely old man.
“There is a reason why the head of the family likes the youngest son.”
