Late at night, after handling his wife's affairs at the funeral home, Mobius's father returned home and noticed that something seemed different.
A man's sixth sense told him something must have happened. He opened the cabinet where he kept his firearms, quietly loaded a gun, and cautiously made his way to Mobius's room.
He wasn't afraid of burglars stealing things, but he was afraid of something happening to Mobius.
Click—
The door to Mobius's room opened quietly, and the barrel of a black gun appeared first, followed by her father's stern and nervous face.
Only after seeing that it was just Mobius in the bed did her father let out a sigh of relief.
As long as Mobius was okay, that was all that mattered. As for this house... the only thing of value left was the house itself. He couldn't care less about any burglars or robbers...
Hiding behind the door, Ryn contemplated whether he should go out and greet Mobius's dad. But judging from the current atmosphere, if he dared to step out, Mobius's dad would definitely dare to shoot...
Mobius's father sat by her bedside, gently stroking her hair. Looking at his sleeping daughter, he was consumed by deep self-blame.
Parents are the true love, the child is the accident... Everything in the house was sold off to pay for medical bills after the child's mother got sick.
He couldn't provide his child with a healthy environment to grow up in, nor could he give her a parent's love... Both he and the child's mother were unfit parents...
After a long while, Mobius's father finally picked up the gun and left the bedside.
After he left, Ryn waited a few more minutes to make sure Mobius's dad wouldn't come back, then opened the window, preparing to jump out.
Jump out the window and escape through the back, to avoid running into her dad at the front door.
But as soon as Ryn landed, he looked up and saw her dad right in front of him, holding a gun and checking his own backyard...
Click, the gun was loaded.
"You son of a bitch, explain to me what you did to Mobius!"
Mobius's dad pressed the gun directly against Ryn's forehead, demanding to know if he had done anything to Mobius.
"Uncle, don't! I'm on your side!"
Ryn first raised his hands, but then felt that wasn't right, as raising your hands in the West could still get you shot. So he reversed his grip on the gun barrel and quickly reached out to block her dad's finger from pulling the trigger.
"Don't worry, uncle... we're really just ordinary friends!"
"Ordinary friends?"
Mobius's dad was so amused by Ryn's answer that he laughed. A man and a young girl alone in a room for a whole night, and the girl is still fast asleep...
"Ordinary friends don't spend the middle of the night in someone's bedroom... you damn lolicon, go to hell!"
Mobius's dad unleashed his fatherly divine strength, directly pushing past Ryn's fingers and pulling the trigger. For this scum, only emptying the entire magazine into him could quench the rage in his heart.
Poof—
As her dad pulled the trigger, a cute little red flower popped out of the gun's muzzle...
Mobius's dad was stunned for a moment, quickly checking if he had grabbed the wrong gun. After confirming it was the right one, he fired at Ryn a few more times, and without exception, several small flowers popped out.
Ryn put a finger to his lips, making a hushing gesture at Mobius's dad, while his other hand pointed towards Mobius's room, signaling for him to be quiet and not wake Mobius.
If Ryn hadn't said anything, it would have been fine, but his words only made Mobius's dad even angrier. His face turned livid with rage, and he raised his hand to smash Ryn with the gun's stock.
"Really... I already said we're just ordinary friends..."
Ryn caught the gun stock as Mobius's dad brought it down, then snatched it from his hand with a reverse grip. With a slight squeeze, he crushed it into a ball of scrap metal and threw it on the ground.
"We can talk things out properly, instead of resorting to violence!"
"You've already done *that* to my daughter! How old is she!" Mobius's father gritted his teeth in anger, wishing he could tear Ryn apart. But the lump of scrap metal on the ground made him hold back for the moment.
"No, man. Look at my handsome face. Do I look like some kind of perverted lolicon?"
"It's not like there aren't handsome-faced beasts out there. You say you're just ordinary friends, so how do you explain being in my daughter's room in the middle of the night!"
Ryn patted himself down, dusting off the dirt from his landing, then wrapped his arm around Mobius's dad's shoulder like a good friend.
"Come on, let's go inside and I'll explain everything properly."
Then Ryn dragged the stiff Mobius's father back into his house and skillfully went into the kitchen to pour him a cup of hot tea.
Sitting on the sofa, Mobius's father held the tea and fell into deep thought. He recalled how Ryn had skillfully opened the door to his own home, skillfully entered the kitchen to pour him tea, and skillfully walked into Mobius's room...
The more he thought about it, the more his face turned ashen and grim.
"Ahem, actually, this is my first time visiting Mobius's house."
"Heh..."
Then, in the time it took Mobius's father to smoke a cigarette, Ryn explained everything from how he met Mobius, to how he acted as her guide into the world of science, helping her step by step to acquire knowledge that was once beyond her reach, and to ascend to the throne of the strongest in biology (not yet, but it's only a matter of time~).
Finally, he explained that today Mobius had learned of her mother's death, how sad and grief-stricken she was. She was walking alone in the rain, with no one to confide in.
He was from the lab team and had noticed Mobius was gone without taking leave, so he had specifically come over to check on her, and then had accidentally found her fainted with a fever in the rainy night.
He was definitely not some stalker following an elementary schooler, then sneaking into her house when no one was home and doing certain indescribable things to her.
After hearing about what had happened to Mobius during this time, her father sat on the sofa in silence, lost in thought.
The story was short; the events of two years could be brushed aside with a laugh in the time it takes to smoke a cigarette.
But how to accept and understand it, Mobius's father silently smoked through a whole pack of cigarettes.
He really was an unfit father... Mobius had always been unwilling to go to school, and he thought it was because she didn't like studying... he never expected it was because the other students disliked and bullied her...
She left early and came back late every day. He thought Mobius had gone astray and given up on herself, but he never imagined she had already entered the highest institution of learning for advanced studies...
Ryn quietly left, leaving Mobius's father to reflect on his own.
He also transferred a sum of money into his account to help him pay off the loans he had taken out to treat Mobius's mother's illness.
Judging from their house, they used to be quite wealthy... but one illness left them with nothing but a house and two people...
Well, this money can be considered an investment in Mobius. When she becomes successful in the future, she can pay it back double~
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