Chapter 493: Chapter 326: Sibling Bond_2
"But I must say, she’s a good leader, but not a good person."
Hibell questioned sharply, "What gives you the right to say that?!"
Troy clenched his fists and retorted angrily, "If she were a good person, she would never have allowed a ten-year-old to use the ’Azure Wolf Blood Code,’ a highly dangerous thing!"
Hibell bit her lower lip tightly and only released it after a long time, saying in a deep voice, "I’ve told you many times, I requested the Azure Wolf Blood Code myself, it has nothing to do with her."
Troy’s face was filled with resentment as he said angrily, "It doesn’t matter, but if she really cared about you, she should have stopped you at least!"
"If she had just shaken her head that year, even if she let you stop using the blood code to fight on the front lines, you wouldn’t be suffering from ’Blood Code Dissociation Syndrome’ today!"
Hibell fell silent, her gaze both angry and helpless, just quietly watching Troy.
After venting, Troy’s emotions calmed down a bit. He held his forehead and spoke softly, "I have never hated the boss; we’ve fought side by side for so long, and I respect her a lot, but she is really too far away from us."
"What she carries in her heart is the wolf attack, the entire frontier, and that great objective..."
"She doesn’t have much space in her heart for an insignificant individual, not much space for you."
"It’s not that she doesn’t want to, but standing in her position, she can’t, she isn’t able to... do you understand what I’m saying?!"
Hibell, upon hearing this, seemed somewhat desolate in her gaze.
Evidently, she was well aware of what Troy was saying.
But soon, that dejected look was replaced by determination: "Whether she has me in her heart or not, it’s not important to me. I just need to be able to look up to her back."
"Troy, don’t forget, if not for Big Sister, you and I would just be lowly goods in the hands of human traffickers. Maybe I’d be shut in some perverted cellar as a slave, and you’d be left with your organs removed to rot in the streets."
"She saved us from Hell, gave us the dignity to become humans again, and a new life. Just for this, it’s not too much how we repay her."
Troy sighed lightly, looking deeply into Hibell’s eyes and said, "I understand everything you said, but you also need to know, I’m your brother, and you’re my only family in this world."
"To me, nothing compares to you; dignity or repaying kindness, they all come after you. I just want to see you doing well."
Hibell’s face crinkled, rubbing her arms and said, "You’re being neurotic... suddenly saying something so cheesy..."
Troy looked helpless: "People always say sisters are cute, I think it’s mostly people who don’t have sisters imagining. Look at you, if you weren’t scolding me, you’d be disliking me, hey... sometimes, can’t you just be nice and act a little spoiled to me?"
Hibell thought for a moment, suddenly linked arms with Troy and blinked her big eyes, using a cute tone to say, "Onii-chan, daisuki~"
Troy’s eyes went dark: "Forget it, pretend I didn’t say anything, you’re making me nauseous."
"Look at you~" Hibell laughed, playfully kicking his butt.
There’s no overnight grudge between family, let alone the recent matter not even counting as a grudge, just a small quarrel—after it was over, they left it behind, lightening the mood considerably.
Troy didn’t bring up the troubling matters again, pointing to a low building not far away: "That’s the last household on this street, let’s go, finish early and head to the next street."
Hibell looked at the rusty sign on the building, murmuring the words on it: "Ping’an Clinic... oh, I know this place, heard there’s a quirky Old Deng here, who doesn’t charge for treating injuries."
Troy tapped her on the back, scolding: "There aren’t many good people like him on the frontier, mind your manners instead of calling him Old Deng."
"Oh, I know, nobody’s around, I was just saying." Hibell coughed lightly, walking over to knock on Ping’an Clinic’s door.
The door soon opened, Gordon peeked out shakily: "Who are you?"
Hibell said bluntly, "Sir, do you have acquaintances in the Inner City or elsewhere? If so, pack up and leave, don’t stay in this frontier."
Gordon, confused, asked, "What’s going on here?"
Hibell explained with the usual excuse: "We, the wolves, are about to commence a full-scale war with Crow’s Nest and the Ashen Gang. It’ll be brutal, and you’re not safe here, hurry and pack up to take refuge somewhere far away."
Gordon looked at the people evacuating on the distant street, muttering, "This is strange... there’s never been a precedent for a frontier group evacuating civilians before the fight... What are you wolves planning?"
Hibell laughed: "Oh, a doctor talking to me about how a group should operate? I’ve been fighting with Big Sister here for ten years; who’s more familiar with the frontier, you or me?"
Gordon chuckled, "You’re familiar, you’re familiar."
Hibell urged, "Isn’t that it, hurry up, pack up, I’ll help you if your hands aren’t steady."
Gordon shook his head, "You should go elsewhere, I’m not leaving. If a war really breaks out, there will certainly be many casualties; they will need me then."
Such a righteous statement left Hibell momentarily speechless on how to persuade him further.
Troy quickly responded, continuing, "No need, we wolves have doctors, we don’t need outsiders’ help. This battle isn’t like usual; when it escalates, things will get chaotic, and you might get involved and perish here, hurry and leave."
Gordon continued to shake his head, readying to close the door: "Frontier doctors are scarce, there’s no such thing as too many. It’s okay, don’t mind me, go evacuate others."
Troy furrowed his brows, blocking the door, his tone becoming firm: "Sir, don’t be stubborn, leave when we tell you to, it’s for your own good."
Gordon replied helplessly, "Kids, I’m too old to want to move again, please stop persuading."
While Gordon and Troy were in a back-and-forth tug-of-war, Hibell’s heavy voice came: "Not leaving, huh? Old Deng, wait here."
She walked to a nearby spot, picked up a brick, and coldly said to Gordon: "See this palm-sized brick?"
Gordon glanced at her cautiously, "What... you’re gonna hit someone?"
Hibell chuckled, suddenly raising the brick, then...
"Thunk" she smashed the brick against her forehead.
The brick shattered into several pieces, scattering all over.
Troy and Gordon were both dumbstruck.
Troy asked blankly, "What are you doing?"
Hibell wiped the brick dust off her forehead, picked up another brick, glaring at Gordon threateningly, "Leaving or not? If not, I’ll keep smashing! You, as a doctor, can’t just watch someone get hurt because of you, right?"
Seeing Hibell about to smash another brick onto her forehead, Gordon suddenly came back to his senses, quickly heading inside, "What kind of kid are you? Never seen someone as disruptive as you... Ah, I’ll pack up right away, stop hurting yourself."
As Gordon went back inside, Hibell didn’t forget to shout, "Remember, take what you’ll need, don’t come back until the battle’s over, or I’ll perform forehead brick smashing outside your clinic every day!"
Troy was both exasperated and amused, wiping Hibell’s head clean of dust, gazing at the red mark and scolding her worriedly, "Are you stupid?! Who persuades people like you?!"
Hibell stole a laugh like a thieving cat: "I’ve heard about this old man from the brothers, he’s kind-hearted, seeing people injured hurts him like it’s on himself. My tactic worked, as expected."
Troy listened, torn between laughter and tears: "You’re 20 now, sister, my grown-up girl, yet you act like a child every day, I’m really at a loss."
Hibell giggled: "Stop complaining, as an Extraordinary Being at my level, smashing bricks on my forehead is nothing, it doesn’t even hurt. If everyone were this easy to persuade, I’d do it all day."
While saying this, she looked at the evacuating crowd in the distance and said wistfully, "If possible, I really wish Su Mo were just kidding us, but if what he says is true, the more people we persuade to leave, the more frontier comrades we save."
