Mystery: Who has seen my brother?

Chapter 23 The war is coming
In the early morning, soft sunlight flowed in from the window and gently brushed the boy's face.

Ouroboros' eyelashes trembled slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes. He turned sideways to glance at Medici. The little boy was completely covered in the quilt, with only a few strands of red hair left outside.

The young man tiptoed out of bed and looked up to see a gap in the quilt. A red eye was staring at him through the gap.

"Are you going to get up?" Ouroboros asked.

"What are you getting up for?" Medici asked, blinking his red eyes.

"Wash up and cook."

The little boy put his hand down, and a gap in the quilt was blocked. He could no longer see the red eye, but he could hear the boy's voice coming from under the quilt, "No."

Ouroboros didn't say anything. After folding his quilt, he gently opened the door and left.

A while after Ouroboros left, the quilt on the bed rose and fell twice, and then a little red-haired boy crawled out from it.

Medici looked at the closed door, looked away, stood on the bed, folded his quilt, changed out of his pajamas, and then got out of bed with his short legs.

"squeak-"

When Ouroboros heard the slight sound of his door opening, he was a little confused as to why Medici got up but did not ask anything.

Medici stood next to Ouroboros, watching the young man preparing breakfast on his own.

After washing up, the little boy ran to the kitchen, tiptoed to pick up the basket of vegetables on the table, put it at his feet, then squatted down and began to pick vegetables.

Ouroboros glanced at the little boy squatting on the ground. As if noticing his gaze, Medici turned around and said, "This is accommodation fee. How can I live and eat for free?"

"Can't?" Ouroboros asked doubtfully. He had been living in Eve's house for a long time, eating and drinking for free.

"Of course," Medici said, throwing the vegetable roots into the trash can and brushing the dirt off his hands. "But I don't want to owe anyone a favor, especially in this way. Speaking of which, Eve isn't awake yet? Sleep isn't even necessary for angels, and yet she's still lying in bed."

"Eve said this would help maintain His humanity."

"Ha," Medici scoffed, "Is it his nature to stay in bed?" It was originally a joke, but Ouroboros took it seriously. After thinking carefully for a while, he nodded and said, "I think so."

"Pfft," Medici was amused. He handed the vegetables he had picked to Ouroboros and said, "I'll go wake him up." Then he turned around and ran towards Eve's room with his short legs.

"Button-"

"Get up." A sleepy voice came from the room. Even with Medici's keen senses, he could hear the slight noise of the bed, as if the person inside turned over. Then there was no movement, and the breathing of the people in the room returned to a steady and long state.

He fell asleep again.

"Bang bang—" Medici slammed the door twice. "You can't sleep as well as a pig. Get up quickly."

"Get up, get up." Eve's sleepy voice came from the house again, and then Medici heard light footsteps approaching him.

The door was opened.

Eve yawned, wearing pajamas and with messy hair, leaning against the door frame in a very unpresentable manner, and complained: "Why get up so early? Be careful not to grow tall, kid." After that, she closed the door, and the rustling sound of clothes could be heard in the room.

Medici didn't care about this. Angels don't need sleep at all, let alone it affecting their body growth.

After a while, the door of Eve's room was opened again. The girl came out of the room neatly dressed, stretched, and went to wash up.

By the time she finished washing up, breakfast was almost ready.

"Ouroboros doesn't have to go to the choir today," Eve said as she sat on a chair, "and probably won't have to in the future either."

Ouroboros looked at Him in confusion, as if asking why.

Eve explained, "Because you were transferred to the army, you don't have to go to the choir until the war is over, but you usually have to go to the newly occupied areas to clean up the remaining enemies."

Ouroboros nodded.

Medici looked at Ouroboros, then at Eve, and said, "I want to go too."

"Yeah." The girl nodded, agreeing much more readily this time than before. "Does this count as your first time watching a match?"

"Of course—" Eve glanced at Medici's expectant and happy eyes, and said in a long voice, "Not really."

Medici's face immediately turned from sunny to cloudy.

"Real war is much more brutal than this, with blood and flesh flying everywhere, corpses strewn across the ground. It would scare a child to tears even from eight hundred miles away." Eve patted Medici's shoulder earnestly and said, "I'm doing this for your mental health."

"Tsk," Medici said disdainfully, "Put away your useless pity and stop treating me like an ordinary child."

Eve was silent. It was precisely because He was not an ordinary child that He tried His best to treat Him as an ordinary child.

It was only after becoming an angel that Eve truly witnessed the horror of divinity.

"Yes, yes, Your Highness Medici," Eve said perfunctorily, "Hurry up and eat."

Ouroboros didn't understand the ways of the world and couldn't read people's expressions, but he had an almost terrifying intuition, and now his intuition told him that something was wrong with Eve, as if she was sad and helpless.

The young man looked at him with some worry. Eve seemed to notice his gaze and turned around to give him her usual smile.

Ouroboros hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not ask.

"Medici is doing the dishes today."

"I'm not even as tall as the pool."

"Our Highness Medici is no ordinary child. This height should be no problem for him."

"Ha, you're not going to take revenge for what happened just now, are you? How stingy." Medici complained but still cleaned up the dishes obediently, holding the dishes in one hand and pulling the chair with the other, and walked towards the kitchen.

After Medici finished washing the dishes, Eve brought the two of them to the newly occupied area.

The newly occupied area is actually Eve's hometown, the location of the village destroyed by the magic wolves.

This place is on the edge of the area ruled by the Wolf of Destruction, and it is also the first piece of divine territory occupied by Mikhail.

Because of the destructive wolf's mighty passage through this place, many creatures have died. The few that escaped could not escape the wolf's sharp claws.

Due to the massive reduction in food, the demon wolves that had been wandering here left one after another. The Demon Wolf of Destruction would not manage the area under its jurisdiction, or perhaps because it did not care about this marginal area at all and had no intention of sending troops to guard it, so the attack was extremely easy at the time, and it had already been taken when Eve learned the news.

"You two will follow the patrol team outside the city to hunt down the remaining enemies," Eve said, pointing to the newly built city wall. "I'll watch over you there."

This land is very fertile, while the areas under Mikhail's rule, especially the areas occupied in the early days, have many barren places. So after conquering this land, Saslir ordered people to build cities and reclaim wasteland.

Eve stood on the city wall and watched two figures, one red and one silver, moving around with the patrol team outside the city.

Soon the red figure broke away from the team and ran around on the plain, very conspicuous.

It seems that He is enjoying it very much.

He is truly a born "conqueror".

Medici galloped across the plains, killing the enemy until it was gradually dark and torches were lit at the city gates, then He returned.

Returning to the unfinished city-state, Medici saw Ouroboros and Eve sitting by a fire eating barbecue.

The little boy stepped through the crowd, ran over, and sat down next to Eve. He took the barbecue the girl handed to him and took a big bite.

"Medici," Eve looked at Medici and said, "Let's do this today for the first time."

Medici raised his eyebrows and said, "Finally I've faced the reality. I'm not an ordinary child."

"No," Eve said, looking down at the little boy, "your epic war is coming."

(End of this chapter)