Chapter 236 Chapter 236 You in the Past, Me Today
Li Hua had no idea what kind of intelligence exchange and release the Tennyson family had experienced. He was so exhausted that he went back to the room without changing his clothes and threw himself on the bed to catch up on his sleep. He was so confused that he didn't know what was going on.
When Li Hua finally had the strength and courage to get up from the bed and went downstairs to find something to eat, he found Benjamin and Jason sitting in the living room surrounded by many ice ghost cubs with several beautifully wrapped packages, their expressions solemn and silent.
"What's going on?" Li Hua asked. "Where did all these gifts come from? Are they celebrating Christmas early?"
"It's your gift." Benjamin's gaze fell on the void and he said, "My parents wanted to thank you for helping our family, so they prepared this specially."
"Wow! I'll definitely go thank them later."
Li Hua walked to the coffee table and found six gift boxes on it.
...Six?
There are two gift givers, but six gifts?
Li Hua: "There are six gift boxes here. Aren't they all mine?"
Jason also helped Benjamin a lot. According to the moral standards of the Tennyson family, they should not forget Jason.
Jason: "Yes, take it quickly, it's all yours."
Li Hua's eyes swept over Jason, who was unusually silent, and Benjamin, who had a strange expression on his face. His trap radar was beeping, and he asked, "Are you two planning to trap me again?"
"What are you talking about? Do I look like that kind of person?" Jason said righteously. "If I say it's yours, it's yours. Just keep it and that's it."
He simply personally received the Tennysons and their visit, and asked the invincible Kryptonian for help with his clairvoyance.
Li Hua carefully picked up a box and shook it cautiously: "Is this some kind of prank scare box you two made for me?"
Benjamin: "Hey! Am I the type to scare people with clown props?"
Li Hua said sternly, "But you were the one who drank the killer milkshake and then pretended to be calm and tricked your brothers into drinking it. Considering that these two behaviors are equally immoral, I have to be on guard."
Benjamin looked away.
"Yeah, you're right," Jason said. "But then you turned around and did the same thing and handed me that killer-sweet milkshake."
Li Hua looked away.
Benjamin and Jason both said so, so there was a high probability that there was something wrong with the gift, but it wouldn't be that serious.
Li Hua carefully touched the gift packaging and made sure there were no small electrodes on the edge of the box. Then he carefully unwrapped the gift, opened the box, and took out a Lolita dress with multiple lace trims from the gift box.
Li Hua:
He! Just! Knows!
......
The story begins this morning.
Benjamin did not return to the safe house last night, but spent it at his home with his parents.
But even if he said he'd "spent it," he was actually pretty exhausted. After sending the kids off and sending his uncle, aunt, and cousin home, he fell into bed and fell into a deep sleep, just like Li Hua and Jason next door.
At the breakfast table, Benjamin was furiously attacking his breakfast, about to completely destroy it, when his mother Sandra said, "Ben, I want you to know that your father and I love you. We will support your choice, so there is no need to hide it from us."
Benjamin, who just woke up and whose mind was full of food cravings:?
What am I hiding? How come I don’t know it myself?
His father, Carl, said: "I understand that we said some bad things to your friends before because we didn't know your secret identity and we misunderstood you. But that doesn't mean we really have any opinions about them. I understand that you and your friends are all good kids."
Benjamin chewed absentmindedly and swallowed the fried egg in his mouth. “Mom and Dad, what are you talking about? I don’t understand.”
Seeing his son like this, Karl sighed in his heart again.
It was indeed very rude to directly say to my son’s friends, “You are Ben’s bad friends,” and now with this incident...it is understandable that my son is worried.
But Karl didn't show it on his face: "Your two friends from another world have helped our family a lot, so your mother and I prepared some gifts as an apology and a token of gratitude. We hope to pay them a formal visit to thank them."
Benjamin wasn't the type to overthink things, especially when it came to his own parents. So he quickly put the previous question aside and asked, "Then let's go over there later!"
Jason was awake at this time, and he happened to be exercising in the living room. When he heard the knock on the door, he went to answer it.
After hearing the Tennysons' intentions, Jason felt a little embarrassed as he accepted the gift. "You don't have to be so formal. Li Hua and I both know there was a misunderstanding, and Ben has helped us a lot... But thank you for your kindness."
Benjamin was watching happily from the side when his mother stuffed two more gifts into his arms: "Your father and I have prepared gifts for you as well. Let's open them together."
"Really? Thanks, Mom and Dad!"
Benjamin gave his mother a hug and then ran to the coffee table to open the presents with Jason.
Then Benjamin took out a pink ruffled dress from the gift box, and Jason took out a gorgeous Lolita dress with several layers of lace from the gift box.
Jason and Benjamin: ???
What is this? What happened? Am I having a nightmare?
"We saw the footage of your battle that your grandfather posted in the family group."
Carl put his hand on his son's shoulder and spoke earnestly.
"Clothing style doesn't reflect a person's character. Mom and Dad support you and your friends' aesthetic tastes."
Jason: "...Ben, didn't you say your family doesn't have a family group?!"
"His grandfather created it yesterday because now that things have been talked about, we and Gwen's parents don't want to miss out on the children's growth."
Sandra said softly to Jason.
"We are not old-fashioned adults. You don't need to hide your hobbies in front of us. Just be brave and be yourself."
Carl said, "That's right, we Tennysons are very open-minded. As long as it doesn't hurt others or our personal interests, it's completely acceptable."
My son got pregnant out of wedlock and gave birth to fourteen children as a teenager. Compared to these, women's clothing is nothing.
The biggest problem now is not whether you can accept it, but that we cannot accept it!
Jason and Benjamin looked at each other and saw despair in each other's eyes.
"...Thank you for your support."
Jason placed the beautiful dress back into the box and took a deep breath.
"But the problem is, we're really not that open."
Jason couldn't help but think of the time when Benjamin and Li Hua dressed up as women to send him off to reunite with his family... Did they also feel the same social death and suffocation at that time!
No wonder Li Hua and Benjamin were so reserved at that time. Now that the boomerang had pierced Jason's knee, Jason deeply experienced the horror of social death when being misunderstood by his good friend's parents.
Is this the retribution for him being so focused on reuniting with his family that he forgot about his two friends who were dressed as women?
"Dad, Mom, we wear skirts not because we like to wear them, but because they add value."
Benjamin sadly explained to his parents why he and his friend dressed as women.
"Li Hua wears a skirt because his special ability is that the cuter he wears, the higher his attack and defense will be. Jason and I wear skirts because we use the magical girl transformation wand to borrow bonuses. We both have to do it out of necessity."
The only thing the clothes they wear can show is the pursuit of numbers and bonuses, without any obsession with clothing style!
"......Then Jason and I tried our best to persuade them and finally convinced them," Benjamin said. "It's a pity you weren't awake at that time, otherwise we could have had more people to share the firepower and social death with us."
"Actually, I think it's okay," Li Hua said. "After all, I'm the one who wears skirts the most among us. Now I'm a little desensitized to it."
He was performing the violent magic of scarecrow daddy in front of all the city residents. This kind of social death in a non-public setting was nothing to him.
Compared with the Tennysons' misunderstanding of their clothing aesthetics, Li Hua felt more regretful that these clothes were cute, but they were heavy and easy to get dirty, and were not suitable for wearing in battle, so they had to be put away.
"By the way, Gwen's parents and I are planning to have a celebration party. We've invited not only our family but also a lot of friends."
Benjamin said excitedly.
"It's a celebration of our family reunion, the reconciliation of our differences, our victory, and the addition of fourteen new members to our family... In short, it's a super lively party celebrating a ton of happy events. Li Hua, are you coming?"
Li Hua: "If your grandfather doesn't cook the special dishes, I'll go."
He really had a psychological trauma from that raw protein dish.
"Jason just said that too. You can rest assured that this won't happen. After all, we don't want to scare away the guests." Benjamin blinked. "Is it a deal then? I'll let you know when we've set the time and place."
Li Hua was playing with the Ice Ghost cub while browsing the food delivery platform and casually asked:
"Ben, aside from the big event that Dr. Mao Dun dragged us here for, there shouldn't be any other big events like Dr. Dong Wu using a drill to drill through the dimensional space or the Evolved Human War, right?"
Benjamin thought for a moment and said, "Probably not. Bellwood is usually very peaceful. We don't have to patrol at night, so we can have some free time."
Jason: "Considering what I've seen and heard recently, I have deep doubts about what you said."
After less than two weeks, they had already triggered countless dungeons. This efficiency was even greater than their previous time in Gotham and Blüdhaven.
Even so far, every copy is triggered and started in Bellwood. How terrifying is this efficiency?
Back when they were in the DC Universe, they were running all over the world, but they couldn't even grab a city!
Now it was finally Jason's turn to sigh——
Benjamin, there is definitely something wrong with your universe!
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Author's Note: Benjamin's rant about the DC Universe being wrong is in Chapter 95, and that's when the boomerang hits his head.
Li Hua: If you ask me, there’s something wrong with both of your universes.
No. 666: Shouldn’t it be Warner who’s wrong?
【Catch a bug once】
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