Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 422 7. Merlin's Guest

This secret taught Matt's old man to be strong.

At least in terms of fighting, he is no weaker than Merlin, and his pure swordsmanship may have surpassed Merlin.

He was able to completely block the sword dance, which also proved that his reaction speed and physical strength were far beyond ordinary people. Unfortunately, facing Merlin who didn't follow the routine and had the help of the black mist, this old man was still defeated.

"Don't hurt him, Merlin."

Matt "heard" the battle in its entirety. After the old man was bound by the black mist, Matt begged:

"He's been helping me."

"help you?"

Merlin put away his half-sword, he said to Matt:

"If you want to learn these fighting skills, you can come to me. You should know that I am also good at fighting. In my heart, you have always been a very wise child, but why are you so reckless this time?"

"Do you know who he is? Do you know his name? Most importantly, do you know his purpose in approaching you?"

Matt was speechless after Merlin asked a series of questions. He stretched out his hand and rubbed the kid's head. He said:

"Look, you don't really know anything, Matt."

Merlin says:

"You are doing a very dangerous thing, playing with a dangerous beast, just because it is kind doesn't mean it won't stick out its claws and tear you apart..."

He looked back at the old man who was bound and unable to move by the black mist, and said:

"A weapon master, it's rare. Let me ask you again, what are you doing in New York? What's the purpose of being close to Matt?"

"I just don't want to see this kid's talent go to waste."

The old man trapped in the air finally spoke, and he said in a hoarse and low voice:

"He was guarding a treasure and couldn't open it. He lost his light, but was given a more precious gift. I was just opening it for him."

"That's Matt's business!"

Merlin says:

"Whether you want to fight, whether you want to learn to fight, or whether you want to unlock your potential are all things for this child to decide. When will you stubborn bastards understand that there are many ways to spend a person's life... don't Use your distorted outlook on life to influence my children!"

"He agreed to it himself."

The old man said:

"I asked him and he confirmed it."

"He's just a kid!"

Merlin says:

"What does he know? Are you a child too? Don't you know how dangerous the superhuman world is? You bastard, you try to drag this child into that world..."

Merlin stretched out his hand, and a cloud of mist danced into a sharp flying knife in his hand. He said sinisterly:

"Maybe, I should kill you here."

"do not want!"

Matt spread his arms out in front of the old man, and he said:

"Merlin, don't...you told me that he saved me. People should learn to repay their kindness."

"How did he save you?"

Merlin says:

"Tell me everything."

"A few months ago, on my way to the church, I encountered a shootout between Russian gangsters and Irish gangsters. When the police arrived, I was held hostage by those bastards. It was Stick who jumped in through the window and knocked out the gunmen. saved me."

Matt says:

"He, like me, is a blind man with super hearing. I was curious about how he used this kind of hearing, so I asked him for advice. He was unwilling to teach me. Later, I found him several times, and he Agreed."

"Is that so?"

Merlin glanced at Matt, and then at the silent old man Stick. He was silent for a moment, then waved away the Shadow Throwing Knife, and said to the old man in front of him:

"Then maybe I should thank you for saving my child."

"Swish"

The entangled black mist dissipated at this moment, and the mysterious stick rolled in the air and landed steadily on the ground.

He picked up his broken knife, "looked" at Merlin, and said:

"I will leave... With a swordsman like you by his side, if he wants to learn, he can follow you."

"You'd better leave."

Merlin said with a tone of warning:

"I don't want to see you around Matt again. You're a troubled man. I can see that right away. I don't want you to involve Matt in your troubles. This kid's life is miserable enough gone."

Stick nodded, he "looked" at Matt, then quietly retreated into the darkness, and quickly disappeared into the warehouse.

After confirming that the old man left, Merlin looked back at Matt, he sighed, knelt down, and said to Matt:

"Why are you studying this? Don't you want to be a lawyer? A lawyer can't use a knife... Lawyers' mouths are the sharpest knives in the world."

"I want to find those who killed my father."

Matt said frankly to Merlin:

"I'm going to find them..."

"and then?"

Merlin asked:

"And what are you going to do? Hit them with your stick? Like they killed your father, and you kill them yourself? No, that's not right, Matt."

"It's easy to get blood on your hands, but it's hard to wash that blood off. Retaliation begets new retaliation, and it goes round and round, and you get everyone around you involved in it all."

He said earnestly to the child in front of him:

"Listen to me, you have to believe that there are still rules and order in this world. You can become a lawyer and be a part of this rule. Use the power of rules to send bad people to prison and let them get the punishment they deserve. I Believe that you can do it, that you can find a way to get revenge without getting your hands dirty."

"But what if it can't be done?"

Matt said softly:

"In the past few months, I have heard many things...Merlin, the boarding school is next to the court, I have heard a lot...the darkness hidden under the law, there are always some people who cannot be punished by the law, they Loopholes are always found in the law, they are powerful, they go unpunished."

"Then tell me."

Merlin patted Matt on the shoulder, and he said:

"Bad people are bad people, wrong things are wrong things, they may find loopholes in the rules, but as long as they have evil secrets, they should be punished."

"I can punish them, I can send them to prison, so that they will never come out for the rest of their lives... This is the game of hunter and prey. If you become a good enough lawyer in the future, I believe, you will eventually be able to Send those criminals where they belong, I never doubted that."

Merlin stood up, took out his pocket watch and looked at it, he said:

"I hope you can also believe in your own future and ability. You don't need to rely on violence to solve the problem. That is the worst way."

"Okay, let's go home, otherwise Elsa will worry. Also, don't mix with people of unknown origin like Stick in the future... This is not a good thing."

"Um"

Matt nodded. He didn't refute anymore, but followed Merlin and left the warehouse.

After they went home, Merlin didn't tell the others about these things. He kept Matt's secret. Everyone has their own secrets, and secrets should be well protected.

The next day, in the waiting room of the airport, Eric, wearing a denim suit and sunglasses, was waiting for his girlfriend. He quickly saw such a beautiful figure in the crowd.

Compared with the jerky attitude a few years ago, Charlie, a girl who is about to graduate, has become a real big girl.

She was wearing a very fashionable light blue skirt, wearing sunglasses, and carrying a handbag. She walked like a model with full aura.

"Eric, you're not going to..."

Charlie walked up to Eric, she wanted to ask Eric about going home, but before she finished speaking, Eric hugged her face to face.

He hugged him tightly, and Charlie also felt the change in Eric's temperament. She didn't ask any more questions, but patted Eric on the back, and she said:

"What's wrong? Just like a child."

"It's nothing."

Eric buried his head on Charlie's shoulder and said softly:

"I just, miss you... all of a sudden, Charlie, after you graduate... let's get married, I want to have my own family, my own kids, my own life."

"Okay."

Charlie brushed her curly hair and said:

"As long as Merlin agrees...he is the guardian of the two of us in theory."

"He will agree."

Eric helped Charlie take the handbag. The two walked out of the airport and got into Merlin's car. While driving to Aunt May's house in Queens, Eric handed a ring to Charlie. He said:

"Take this with you, it will protect you when I'm not around."

"Yo, the ring."

Charlie took the heavy ring, looked at it in her hand, and then complained to Eric:

"When you gave me the ring, didn't you have any ceremony? Isn't this too casual?"

"It's not a wedding ring..."

Eric says:

"Oh, by the way, I got a new identity these days...Although it may not be used in North America, maybe in a few years, you will be the wife of the Prince of Wakanda."

"what?"

Charlie's eyes widened, and she asked in a daze:

"What is the prince's wife? What are you talking about?"

"me."

Eric pointed to himself and said:

"My brother promised me that after he succeeds to the throne, he will return my father's title to me... My father is the prince of Wakanda, and there are several manors in Wakanda. Of course, it's just a reputation It’s just a title, not any real power, and besides, we won’t live there forever.”

"It was so sudden."

Charlie frowned and said:

"Wait, you're the prince...do I have a crown then? Princes have crowns too, right?"

"Well, Wakanda doesn't wear crowns."

Eric says:

"But if you want, I can use the vibranium on hand to order one for you... T'Challa said that the vibranium is at my disposal. It is worth more than any diamond."

"forget it."

Charlie snorted. She stretched out her five fingers, looked at the ring on her finger, and said:

"It's too heavy, I don't want it, it's good to live life so easily."

"Yeah, it's good to live a relaxed life."

Eric agreed, and then concentrated on driving. After more than 30 minutes, they returned to May's house. When Charlie opened the door, a group of people were singing happy birthday to little Peter.

Lorna and Ruiwen wore clown's pointed hats, and they lay on the sofa lazily, occupying the entire sofa in a dominating posture, like kings in their own territory.

But it was put on a very festive red dress, which looked a little funny.

Merlin is hugging little Peter, May and Elsa with round glasses are preparing cake and lunch, Matt and Daisy are cleaning the table, and the Johnson couple who are invited to come sit on chairs and chat with the increasingly blessed Ben God, they watched this scene with smiles on their faces.

Ah, this is what home and family feel like.

Eric shrugged, reconfirming that this was the life he wanted.

The prince and all, and all those political fights involving his father, let them go to hell!

"very nice."

Charlie put down her bag, rolled up her sleeves, and prepared to join the birthday party in front of her.

Beside her, Eric snorted, and he said:

"Yes, that's great."

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After Eric's matter was over, Merlin returned to his daily work again. There were only a few days before the radical mutant clean-up operation was about to start. He had to make sure everything was ready at the last minute.

On the weekend of the next week after Little Peter's birthday party, when Merlin was about to go to work, someone knocked on his door suddenly.

Merlin stepped forward, opened the door, and saw a black girl in a casual shirt and shorts, carrying a big bag, wearing sunglasses, with a few bags at her feet standing in front of him.

"Suri?"

Merlin looked at the uninvited princess of Wakanda in surprise, and asked suspiciously:

"What are you doing here? And what about these salutes? Are you having a runaway? Where's your brother?"

"Ah, Mr. Merlin."

Princess Su Rui opened her arms with excitement, and she said to Merlin:

"I'm an adult, I'm out to travel..."

"For the next five years, I'm going to do my Ph.D. at Columbia University. I've got to find a place to live, and it's not too conspicuous. I don't want to reveal my identity. That would be troublesome."

"So after much deliberation, I decided to live with you, and my cousin is also here, right?"

The ghostly and intelligent princess patted Merlin's shoulder familiarly, and she said:

"Don't worry, I'll pay the rent... Also, can you bring the salute in for me?"

(End of this chapter)