Chapter 50 Ethan was caught skipping school and going to the amusement park...
Ethan was awakened by a loud knocking on the door. When he groggily opened his eyes, the knocking had stopped and replaced by the sound of a key unlocking the door.
Ethan looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the door had been opened by a man, who was none other than Turnas, who looked unwell.
Ethan's mind was still foggy from just waking up, and he couldn't understand why Turner looked so bad, since he had seemed quite calm when the meeting ended.
Turnas strode in, circled Ethan, and only breathed a sigh of relief after noticing any unusual wounds on his body.
"Did you not go to school properly today?" Turner asked the bewildered Ethan.
Ethan scratched his head: "Yes, it's happening."
"After the monster was defeated, the school held another meeting to have the instructors confirm the students' safety. Someone said that you disappeared before the monster had fully entered the area of Kagerou City."
Turner will never forget that moment of urgency.
After the battle, he rarely wanted to check if Ethan was injured. In such a monster attack, injuries were not necessarily caused by the monster; they could also be caused by accidentally tripping or stepping on something during the evacuation, or even by a stampede that could kill someone.
Although he organized several simulated evacuation drills for the residents of his city after becoming a guardian, no one can say for sure whether an accident will happen.
So he wanted to check on Ethan's safety, but before he even arrived at the school, the school contacted him urgently, informing him that Ethan was missing and hadn't returned to school.
Turner immediately thought of 100 ways Ethan could die unexpectedly and began searching for him. When he was halfway through searching the school area, he suddenly wondered if Ethan had already gone home. So, on a whim, he went back to look for Ethan, only to find him sleeping!
“I did go…” Ethan said weakly.
Turner sensed something was wrong. Ethan had been skipping school for a while now, otherwise how come no one noticed him during the retreat? Did he leave through some kind of passage?
If he was walking back from school when the monster attacked, that would be too dangerous. The buses had all stopped running, so it's unlikely, right? Seeing that Ethan didn't seem nervous or scared at all, Turner guessed that Ethan had skipped school a long time ago, and his friend Stella had covered for him. Ethan's story didn't even match up.
Ethan was indeed sweating quite a bit.
He didn't expect the school to hold a meeting to check if any students were injured or if everyone was present. He hadn't even remembered that the person he had given to the students at the school was just an ordinary person like himself.
The man in that memory wasn't the Guardian, so the magic couldn't create a suitable reason, leaving a flaw and making it impossible to explain why he was at home.
Oh no, what if Turner thinks he's still one of his people? Even though it doesn't really matter what he thinks, it's just bad impressions! My impressions are ruined!
"Your most foreseeable future right now is studying," Turner said, his anger subsiding somewhat as he saw Ethan was unharmed. He earnestly urged Ethan to study.
Ethan, of course, resorted to his usual deceptive tactics, his eyes sincere yet ashamed, stammering and promising that it would never happen again.
Turner, realizing Ethan was fooling him: "..."
Never mind, he'll make time to check if Ethan is attending school properly.
Turner let Ethan off the hook for the time being, and Ethan thought he had succeeded in fooling him and was a little happy.
But soon, Ethan discovered that Turner hadn't gotten away with it... because Turner started checking his attendance, went to the school and found him absent, and then bombarded him with messages.
Ethan, who was also battling a mountain of work, thought: "..."
Ethan rushed back, changed his clothes at the apartment, and soon after he returned, Turner arrived.
That speed! It must have flown here! It's too fast.
“Your friend Stella said you went to the restroom,” Tenas said quietly. “I also asked the student in front of you, and he said you went to eat. The student behind you said you fell and hurt yourself and went to the infirmary.”
Ethan: "QAQ"
Why does magic assign different reasons to everyone?
“This will not be repeated,” Turner said.
Turner really hoped that Ethan could find a good job to support himself after his studies, and that he would never again be in such a terrible situation as before, being a vulnerable person and being used as a tool to make money. He couldn't support Ethan forever.
It's one thing to provide financial assistance until someone is in their twenties, but if Ethan is in his thirties or forties, when most people have already become parents or even have grandchildren, and still can't earn money to support himself, then Turner has nothing to say.
Turner checked his attendance more than once or twice; he checked it for more than 20 days a month. Ethan just played a game with him to see who arrived first.
That period was truly unbearable. Ethan had a ton of work to do and had to stay on his guard so the other party wouldn't find out he hadn't been to class.
Fortunately, Turner never caught him missing class again. Ethan narrowly escaped several times, and Turner gradually reduced the number of times he checked whether Ethan had attended class.
Turner discovered that Ethan was indeed paying attention in class, so he decided to take Ethan out for a day, letting him buy whatever he wanted as a reward.
Girls should be taken out to play and broaden their horizons. Everyone has a desire to buy things to some extent. He can take Ethan to eat at his favorite restaurants, or even accompany this girl who had a tragic childhood to the amusement park for a whole day. Even if Ethan wants to go on a shopping spree, whether it's buying a lot of snacks or a lot of bags, clothes, shoes, etc., he can do it.
This is a reward for Ethan finally paying attention in class recently, Turner, the friend of women, couldn't help but think.
After hearing Turner's boastful speech, Ethan, whose files were piled up high enough to drown three of himself, outwardly expressed surprise, wondering if he could handle it and if it would be too much trouble. Inwardly, however, he was already on the verge of a breakdown.
Ethan: I've never seen you so enthusiastic before. Please, I'm begging you, let me go back to work. Forget about taking me shopping, eating out, or buying me bags. If all else fails, I can even buy you a few bags, men's or women's bags.
Ethan wanted to refuse, but Turner thought Ethan was just being polite to avoid troubling him, so he ignored Ethan's refusal and, just like when he took him away from the mission, decisively took him out.
With no other option, Ethan could only stuff some of the documents into his personal storage space, then take them out to glance at them whenever Turner wasn't looking, and then put them away before Turner noticed. When talking to Turner, he could even multitask, analyzing the documents he had just scanned in his mind and coming up with the most appropriate solutions.
The first place Turner took Ethan to was an amusement park.
Perhaps feeling that Ethan's childhood was too tragic and that he must have never been able to experience amusement parks, they wanted to take Ethan on a proper trip.
Turner first let him sit on the carousel and then stood next to him to take pictures.
Ethan felt extremely awkward. He was surrounded by a large group of children who looked to be around five years old, with one or two round eyes curiously observing the older children in the group who were clearly more mature than them.
"Brother, did you come with Dad too?" the little girl sitting next to Ethan asked curiously.
"Jessica's a big idiot!" The boy in front of the girl turned around and shouted, "That's the older sister!"
"No! It's the older brother!" The little girl named Jessica insisted on her opinion: "Sonic is the big idiot! He can't even tell the difference between an older brother and an older sister!"
Ethan: "..."
Then the two children started arguing. As they passed by, Turner kindly reminded them, "It's the older sister."
Ethan: "..."
The two kids stopped arguing, and Sonic stood tall like a victorious rooster, while Jessica was somewhat discouraged.
"Then, brother... sister, is that blond guy your dad?" the little girl Jessica asked, grabbing at the other points.
Ethan: "???" Does Turner look that old?
Just as the carousel completed its first rotation, Tenas, who happened to hear those words, thought: "???" Him? Does he look like a father? Although he's old enough to be a father, he's not quite the type to have a child as big as Ethan!
Sonic shook his head: "We're brothers, aren't we?"
“They don’t look alike. Their hair and eyes are different.” Jessica said seriously, “My dad does that too. He holds up a camera and smiles like an idiot while taking pictures of me. Even though that uncle wasn’t smiling, it felt like flowers were floating around him.”
Sonic fell into deep thought.
Turnas felt as if he had been struck by another arrow to the heart. He was not physically injured, but he felt that his heart was wounded.
His smile was just normal. What's wrong with him smiling? What's wrong with having Ethan smile with him during filming and capturing a beautiful moment? It's his first time sponsoring someone, and he wants to do his best in every aspect, leaving no regrets, and successfully nurture the other person into a good person. What's wrong with that?
Moreover, at most, Turner could only think about the future. Ethan was already capable of standing on his own. When they recalled the beginning, could he confidently say that he was a good older brother or a benefactor?
"No, no, he's only twenty-two, and I'll be an adult in a few years," Ethan quickly explained for Turners. "He's a kind person who sponsored my schooling; you can just treat him like my older brother." By the way, when will this carousel end? It's so unbearable.
"You mean..." Jessica and Sonic's expressions were complicated: "Your sponsor, a man, and you, a minor girl, went out alone together and he was happy to take pictures of you?"
I don't know much about this, so I'm not sure if some people can get away with bad things through "funding," and it's easy for them to be suspected of being dishonest.
Ethan, who grew up in Starfallman and had never seen anyone fund Starfallman Nix, asked, "Is there a problem?"
Turner, the first sponsor, was unfamiliar with this matter, and since Nadia was a girl and boys were being sponsored, he had forgotten to discuss this with Turner. Winter: "Is there a problem?"
The children hesitated, but eventually shut up, and the carousel ended soon after.
Before leaving, Jessica slipped something into Ethan's hand as she passed by.
Ethan looked at her strangely, and Jessica whispered, "If you need legal help, please contact my mom. My mom and I will help you."
What a good child, but it's unnecessary.
Turnas, who heard everything clearly from below the stage: "..."
So, does he really look like someone with ill intentions? Even though he was wearing a hat, mask, and sunglasses, wasn't that because he was afraid someone would recognize him and surround him?
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The author says: Younger children may not have such a clear understanding of relationships. [For example, when I was three years old, I asked my aunt if her father was not home. [Actually, it was my aunt's husband.] My mother still laughs at me about this. At that time, my understanding of men was that they were other people's fathers, and I also thought that the older sister came first and then the younger brother.
My nose feels like it's been smeared with cement, like a common cold. To be honest, I took some fever reducers yesterday, and I haven't felt chilled all day, so I probably don't have a fever. They're so effective I don't want to take any more medicine, not even dexamethasone.
Happy Dragon Boat Festival everyone! The secret will be revealed in the next chapter or the one after that! I've already updated in my usual spot, just relaxing.
There's not much to write about Turners; it's just that after being caught skipping class and fighting, he carefully tries to get back before the other person, pretending he didn't run off. It's annoying that the initial setup was that, besides the magician teammates, Turners was Ethan's very close friend. It feels a bit like they're not really close friends anymore, more like a father figure. [Last year when I was working on the gender-swapped world, they were the kind of best sisters who would go shopping together.]
If the identity is known
Turner: Call me dad [just kidding]
Ethan: Call me bro. I don't have a dad. I don't need that kind of thing. My dad is dead.
Turner: [Poor thing] I deserve to die.
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