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The girl was delighted, but dared not touch the bird any further, fearing that she, as the child of the curse, would scare the bird away.
But the bird hopped and skipped, landing on the girl's hand.
"Chirp, chirp?"
"You...don't hate me?"
The girl smiled sweetly, a genuine smile from the heart, unlike the smiles she used to give to please others.
"Chirp chirp!" the bird responded to the girl.
"thanks, thanks!"
I like you too! I like you a lot!
"Great!!!"
A soda can came flying at me.
It hit the bird in the girl's hand.
In just a moment, the bird's life ended under that aluminum can.
The pure, innocent smile on the girl's face also vanished.
Wow, that was a perfect shot!
"The bird in the hands of the Cursed Child must also be a Gastrea!"
"Yes, yes, we've wiped out Gastrea!"
"Child of the Curse, what are you doing here? You're disgusting! Get out of our home!"
A large crowd gathered around, hurling insults at the girl and treating her like a monster.
These people would love nothing less than to tear a piece of flesh from the girl's body.
So of course they couldn't bear to see the girl give an innocent smile.
"why why……"
The girl felt her palms become sticky; it was the white bird's blood.
And there was the gradually cooling corpse of a white bird.
But she couldn't cry, because her eyes were already...
"why why……"
"...I am the one who is cursed...why did you hurt it..."
"As long as it hurts me, that's fine...why?"
The girl was talking to herself.
She didn't understand why other people were hurting the birds.
"Are you sad? You don't even deserve to be sad!"
A thug wearing a hat walked up; he was the man who had smashed the bird to death with a soda can.
"As children of the curse, we haven't driven you out of this city, and instead of being grateful, you're here being sad and complaining!"
"You cursed children deserve to die!"
Then the thug kicked the girl on the ground.
Two voices rang out at the same time, and then three more figures darted out from the crowd.
A handsome young man in a suit was accompanied by a little girl with pigtails; another man in a strange white uniform had a clean and neat appearance—he was Li Xiang.
The man in the suit immediately blocked the girl's path and shielded her behind him.
Li Xiang, on the other hand, kicked the thug away.
"Ouch...you bastard, what are you trying to do!"
The thug who fell to the ground clutched his chest, feeling as if his ribs had been broken, before being helped up by his companions.
"You..." The thug sized up Li Xiang, "You beast, why are you meddling in other people's business!"
However, Li Xiang's expression was stiff, as if he was trying hard to remain calm.
He simply walked slowly toward the thug and asked him, "Why are you bullying him?"
These words, laced with obvious anger, sent a chill down the spines of the thugs and everyone around them, making them feel as if they were about to be brutally beaten.
"That guy... is the cursed child!" The thug mustered his courage and pointed at the girl on the ground, "He'll kill everyone here!"
"How could she be the child of the curse?"
"You're talking nonsense!"
Li Xiang roared fiercely at the thugs.
This roar immediately sent the people around him packing.
"What? Is this guy crazy?"
"How dare they speak up for the cursed child? Are they out of their mind?"
"Hurry up, hurry up! Be careful, this madman might hit someone, or we'll be in trouble."
Those around him thought Li Xiang was crazy, so they quickly left.
They were afraid that madmen would hurt them.
When the group of thugs who had initially helped them saw the crowd disperse, they also showed expressions of fear.
"You...just wait for me!"
“…Let’s go!”
Then they ran away happily.
Li Xiang had no intention of chasing after this hoodlum; it wasn't worth it.
Instead, he turned around and looked at the boy who had stood up with him.
"Thank you for stepping forward earlier!"
"Huh? Oh...it's nothing!"
Rentaro Satomi paused for a moment.
He didn't expect the other person's first words to him to be thank you. What a strange person.
Then Li Xiang knelt down on one knee next to the girl.
"Are you OK!"
Looking at the girl kneeling on the ground, dirty and holding a dead white bird in her arms, Li Xiang felt extremely distressed and heartbroken.
The man in the suit is named Rentaro Satomi, and the girl with twin tails next to him is named Enju Aihara.
Rentaro and Aihara Enju also came over.
Rentaro recognized at a glance that the white-haired girl was a cursed child.
So he quickly inquired about the situation.
"What's wrong with your eyes? If you're a cursed child, you shouldn't be sick."
The white-haired girl couldn't see what was happening, but she could feel someone helping her in front of her.
And she is very gentle.
She stopped grieving and then reached out to untie the gauze wrapped around her eyes...
Chapter 52 The Light of Silas
The girl untied the gauze that was wrapped around her head and covering her eyes.
The eyes beneath the gauze were seen by the three people.
Seeing the scene before him, Aihara Enju clenched her fists, while Rentaro clicked his tongue and turned his head away in disbelief.
Only Li Xiang's expression froze, and his hands began to tremble.
He had never seen anything like this—utterly heinous!
"My eyes are filled with lead."
The little girl explained in a sweet, innocent voice, which was so beautiful, but Li Xiang felt as if his heart was being torn apart.
“My mother abandoned me; she hated my red eyes.”
Li Xiang looked at those eyes that should have been innocent and full of childlike wonder, but now they were filled with lead!
In his entire life, Li Xiang had never witnessed anything like this before; he was still young and naive...
Unable to hold back any longer, tears of grief and self-reproach streamed down her face.
Li Xiang immediately grabbed the girl and pulled her into his arms.
Tears fell like rain.
"Ah..."
The white-haired girl didn't understand what was going on, but she didn't resist Li Xiang's embrace.
"...Brother, are you crying?"
The white-haired girl heard Li Xiang crying and comforted him.
"...Yes, I'm crying."
"Why, brother, why are you crying?"
"Because... I saw something that made me cry, and I couldn't help but cry, because I am... incredibly sad right now."
The little girl gently patted Li Xiang's back to comfort him.
"Big brother, don't cry... Thank you for helping me just now. I'm very happy, so please don't cry anymore."
These innocent words made both Li Xiang and Ren Taro feel as if their hearts were being torn apart.
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