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Arc 5 – Slag that Dark Sentinel
Chapter 125

Getting off the sofa, Leo came to Joey’s side. He squatted down but even then, he was still taller than Joey and Joey had to raise his head to look at him. The beast opposite him smiled and Joey heard him say, “Be good, you don’t need to call me uncle anymore. Call me father.”

Joey was stunned. He subconsciously looked at Chi Zhao on the other side of the room who stood there with pursed lips but didn’t make any attempts to stop him.

Joey tilted his head in thought for a while and was able to understand the situation, “Are you my stepfather now?”

Leo: “……”

Chi Zhao: “……”

Leo was silent for a few seconds. He turned his head and looked back at the culprit. Chi Zhao coughed lightly and guiltily looked away, pretending to appreciate the wallpaper.

 The lie may have been great for the moment but the explanation coming after that was difficult.

For something so troublesome, it was better to let Leo deal with it.

It look Leo a very long time to make Joey understand that he wasn’t Joey’s stepfather but his biological father. After understanding, Joey naturally asked a lot of questions such as why he only showed up now and why he and his dad weren’t’ married.

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Chi Zhao had long since ran away. He felt that the chairman who has dealt with all kinds of national issues with ease should probably be able to answer his son’s questions without much difficulty.

……..

When Leo went upstairs again, he looked a lot more haggard. Entering the bedroom, he glanced at Chi Zhao who was playing games while lying on the bed. The latter smiled brightly back at him without any guilty conscience.

“He acknowledged you?”

Speaking of this, Leo’s haggard face brightened somewhat, “Yeah, he called me father.”

The term father was still a little strange for Joey but fortunately he was still a child and didn’t think too much about it. Once his questions were all addressed, he was able to obediently call him father.

Blood relations couldn’t be faked. Compared to other strangers, Joey’s attitude towards Leo was already considered very enthusiastic. Now that he knew that he was his father, Joey didn’t feel any resistance and only found it a little strange. In the future, there would be one more person in the family. He would no longer be living alone with his father.

Chi Zhao knew how difficult Joey that child could be. He originally thought it would take several days or even months for Joey to accept Leo. He didn’t expect it to all be sorted within a few dozen minutes.

As expected of the father-son bond.

After thinking for a while, Chi Zhao turned over and sat up. He beckoned Leo, “Come here.”

Leo walked over and asked, “What is it?”

When he reached the bed, Chi Zhao grabbed his arm and made him sit down. He then reached out and held Leo’s head.

“Don’t move. Let me see.”

Knowing his intention, Leo’s eyes flashed, and he obediently closed his eyes.

The two foreheads were pressed together. Chi Zhao released a spiritual thread and carefully used it to explore Leo’s spiritual mind. Compared to five years ago, Leo’s spiritual mind hadn’t improved at all and was at an even a more terrible state. For him to survive until now, he must have been taking a lot of medicine and using strong self-control. If it was anyone else, that person would’ve been hospitalised long ago.

After Chi Zhao closed his eyes and shut off his vision, Leo’s spiritual state became more evident. Looking at the mess, Chi Zhao frowned. At the same time, the hands holding Leo’s head also subconsciously increased in strength.

It wasn’t enough strength to make Leo feel pain, but his honest feelings reached Leo’s heart.

He was feeling distressed.

He was feeling distressed for me.

Leo’s heart released happy bubbles. While a guide was soothing out a sentinel’s spiritual mind, there should not be any disturbances. Leo knew this but he couldn’t hold back.

He reached out and held Chi Zhao tightly. The sensation on his body made Chi Zhao’s spiritual movements pause for a moment but he quickly gathered up his concentration and ignored the disturbances in the outside world.

The spiritual mind was soothed by the warm threads and the wounds that had been slowly eating away at Leo healed at a rate that was visible to the naked eye. While a sentinel was experiencing this, it should feel very comfortable and that pleasant feeling would make them forget everything and become deeply immersed.

Leo however opened his eyes.

With his eyes half open, Chi Zhao’s figure was reflected in his eyes. If Chi Zhao opened his eyes and saw him now, he would be frightened by the strong and terrifying emotions in Leo’s eyes. He looked like a threatened beast. With red eyes, he was on guard against every unsafe factor that could take away the prey from his mouth.

Losing something and getting it back was the happiest feeling in the world, but it was also the most worrisome. There were too many dangers in this world. He wasn’t a god, and he couldn’t keep this person tied to his side forever. He may leave, others may take him away, accidents may also happen. There were too many uncertain factors that made it possible for him to lose him again….

Perhaps the soothing of his spiritual mind had made Leo lower his guard or perhaps it was because everything recently had been progressing smoothly, so smoothly that Leo found it unbelievable, some terrible thoughts hidden inside him had slowly revealed itself.

Those thoughts weren’t something that had only appeared today. It was just that Leo had pretended to be fine and managed to hide away all the violent and bloody thoughts, creating a stern and indifferent image for himself. This was what he wanted others to see but as for what he really was like, even he himself could hardly remember.

No one knew how upset he was when he woke up and saw the empty room that day; no one knew how much he wanted to destroy everything around him when he returned without success again and again, unable to find that person he was looking for; no one knew how much he wanted to cut off the heads of the others laughing happily with their partners so that they could never show him that infuriating sight again.

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He wasn’t a good person. He had always known this. But he wanted Chi Zhao to think that he was a good person.

After taking a deep breath, Leo closed his eyes again. His grip around Chi Zhao grew a little stronger, as if he wanted to sink him completely into his body. Chi Zhao gently nudged him with his knee, telling him to stop moving.

Chi Zhao was unaware of Leo’s thoughts just now. When he was done, Leo had returned to his usual gentle and calm look.

“You can stop taking medicine from now on. I will help you out three times a day. If you feel uncomfortable, come and find me immediately. Don’t try to endure it.”

Although Chi Zhao didn’t say anything about love, just those words alone were enough to make Leo happy for a whole lifetime.

Leo clearly didn’t expect Chi Zhao to say something like that. He kissed Chi Zhao with both some restraint and some excitement and said hoarsely, “Does this mean that you will no longer leave me?”

Chi Zhao would occasionally sense that Leo seemed to be insecure. He sighed inside and smiled, “Yeah.”

A sentinel’s emotions are typically quite restrained. Even though he felt like his heart was about to burst from happiness, what was revealed externally was just slight quivering of the eyelids. Leo’s hands were still on Chi Zhao’s arms. When he applied some force, Chi Zhao was easily picked up and placed onto his lap. With the two sitting so closely together, Chi Zhao suddenly felt that the situation was a little dangerous.

“No! Let me down. Joey is still outside!”

Hearing his words, Leo was stunned for a moment. After realising that Chi Zhao had misunderstood, he tightened his embrace around that man and lightly chuckled, “Don’t worry, I don’t plan on doing anything to you during the day.”

Chi Zhao: “…….” So you’re saying that you plan to do it at night?

Chi Zhao continued to struggle as he tried to break free from his grip but Leo only tightened his hold. He lowered his head and spoke in his ear, “What I want to say is, let’s get us registered tomorrow, okay?”

Chi Zhao’s struggling stopped instantly. After waiting for a few seconds and not hearing a response from the person in his arms, Leo pursed his lips and added, “After registering, it would be more convenient for Joey’s enrolment.”

Another three seconds passed. The person in his arms finally nodded and replied faintly, “I see, then let’s go register.”

A pleasant laugh sounded above his head.

With the advancements in science and technology, people’s lives have become much more convenient. After Leo gave the robot butler at home an order and, before the sky darkened, the robot butler had returned with his luggage.

Seeing Leo set his things out, the originally new but empty house instantly became crowded.

By the time everything was almost taken out, Chi Zhao looked at the several empty boxes on the ground and suddenly asked a question: “Why don’t Joey and I move to your place? Your place must be much bigger than this place here, right?”

Leo who was holding clothes that couldn’t be stored anywhere, “…….” Oh yeah, why didn’t they?

It was pointless saying it now though as he was almost finished unpacking. Today was the day the three of them officially start their life as a family. Leo cooked and made a table filled with delicious food but just as he sat down at the dinner table and before he could even take off his apron, Leo’s communicator sounded. The caller was his secretary.

Before Leo asked for leave, he had instructed the secretary not to call him unless it was something urgent. Seeing the contact name on the communicator, Leo frowned. He immediately stood up, walked to the kitchen and accepted the video call.

Before the secretary could speak, he was surprised by the sight of the chairman’s outfit.

As it turned out…..The almighty chairman also knew how to cook?!

Leo said grumpily, “What is it?”

Hurry up. His wife and child are still waiting for him to return and have dinner together.

The secretary immediately remembered the reason for his call, “Chairman, the extremist who was injured during the attack last time is about to die.”

During the last terrorist attack, most of the extremists had died and the ones who were still alive were arrested. Two however escaped. One was the leader at the time and the other had no particular status and his name couldn’t be found. He was likely just an ordinary member.

At that time, the extremists had asked for the hostages to be exchanged. Although these hostages were taken back after that incident, one was injured during the process. That person happened to be the one the extremists desperately wanted to save. Leo had asked the secretary to keep an eye on the situation at the hospital and to notify him as soon as possible when the man recovers.

But instead of recovering, after only a few days of no attention, that person was about to die.

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