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With weak limbs and a dizzy brain. Ryan woke up immediately and subconsciously felt a burning touch to distinguish the surroundings.
He had just been promoted to gold medal assassin, so the moment he forced himself to open his eyes, he was ready to be on constant alert around him.
The place that caught his attention was a single family's burning villa, familiar and foreign.
"Ryan! You're awake!" A grey-white-haired grandmother beside him was shocked and happy, and she screamed sadly while hugging him?.
Hah?
bang!
Ryan, who had never been close to someone for more than 20 years, pushed the grandmother roughly with his left hand subconsciously, and his right hand naturally touched his waist, where he was holding his life partner.
"Hah?" Ryan frowned, his waist was empty, and not even the combat belt necessary for trainers was there.
His eyes flashed with panic and fierceness, preparing to flee, but saw the old woman standing back up.
Hah?
Why is she... so tall?
"Ryan, I know you're also uncomfortable, but you can't go back, if you hate grandma..." Then, Grandma hugged him gently which stunned Ryan again.
Then he turned his head and looked at the burning villa, and the memories buried deep in his mind suddenly jumped out, and slowly overlapped with the situation in front of him.
Is this my house?
"Ryan, hiks hiks..." The grandmother hugged Ryan tighter, without explanation, and cried continuously.
Ryan tried to stretch his arms, a pair of small and tender white hands appeared in front of him, no scars left after doing the mission, and no calluses accumulated by various exercises.
Is it my hand?
Ryan suddenly realized,
Did he go back in time?!
But why?
Looking at the villa which had been mostly burnt down, there was no reason for him not to be flustered in this situation, the appearance of the parents in his memory was already hazy.
Trying to get away from the grandmother's embrace, Ryan searched through the memories scattered in his mind. The grandmother in front of him seemed to be his neighbor. His parents were businessmen with a small reputation in Saffron City. Due to them busy schedule, this grandmother who forgot her name has been taking care of him since childhood.
Back to the past, fire, and the comrades who have been with him for many years…
For a while, Ryan, who has very strong psychological qualities, remains confused and panicked.
Wait!
Dark Force!
Ryan closed his eyes and silently felt everything in his body. The stream of black energy silently mobilized, his opened eyes darkened in an instant, but quickly returned to normal.
"Hu" Ryan relaxed a little, Dark Force was still there, and even the intensity was exactly the same as before returning.
Wait, exactly the same?
Since this is the past, why has the Dark Force remained the same!
Ryan couldn't find a reason for a while, could only harbor doubts in his heart for the time being.
Moreover, the neighbour's grandmother's scolding was still continuously pouring into his ears, while when he used Dark Force, he vaguely discovered that there was still a trace of special energy left in the villa within the flames.
"Eh, Ryan, come back, there is danger!" The neighbor's grandma panicked to stop Ryan who was running towards the villa, but failed because of her old age, but this attracted the attention of more than one person. Upon seeing this, everyone moved and wanted to stop Ryan.
"I'm not going in!"
Since this incident, Ryan has not even been ten years old. He is keenly aware of the gap between himself and adults . So he drew closer to the villa and stopped.
No matter what else, Ryan mobilized Dark Force secretly from an angle that others couldn't see, and his eyes became pitch black again.
From Dark Force, Ryan clearly felt the familiar atmosphere of humiliation, and then gradually calmed down.
Ryan stepped forward again and wanted to feel it carefully. The people following him also stepped forward nervously, for fear that the little boy couldn't think of it and rushed into the fire.
Unfortunately, the residual energy was very weak, and Ryan couldn't feel it for a moment. He withdrew his Dark Power.
Before he could think deeply, he saw the people surrounding him, and he was slightly moved, But before returning to the past, he was just a murderer, so he didn't know how to thank him, without thinking he could only retreat silently and don't come close to the location of the fire.
"Ryan..." The neighbour's grandmother's grumbling sounded again. Ryan didn't say anything.
In other people's eyes, he couldn't stand the shock of losing his parents, but in fact, with twenty years of dark life, it was enough for him to quickly adapt to all of this in a short period of time, and now he was thinking of other things.
Was this fire caused by someone on purpose?
The special energy that Dark Force has just detected is Illusion!
The Dark Powers of the Dark Type are extremely sensitive to the energies of the six Attributes, Psychic Type, Darkness, Ghost, Bug, Fighting, and Fairy.
And the energy that remained just now caused an emotion of disgust, so it must have been left behind by a Dark, Psychic or Ghost Type Pokémon, who carried out the killing and burning silently!
Finally the firefighters arrived just as the other houses were about to catch fire, the firefighting team made up of a large number of Water-Type Pokémon started to work. The Water Gun, Hydro Pump, and other moves alternate in putting out fires.
The fire was quickly extinguished, four Golducks carried two stretchers from inside the villa, and the neighbor's grandmother quickly covered Ryan's eyes to prevent him from seeing this scene.
He did not reject the other party's kindness, but another aura that disgusted him slowly approached, around him, after his eyes opened, he silently looked at Officer Jenny who came very late. The underground life had made him especially sensitive to this kind of "amazing truth."
However, in the eyes of others at this time, he was just a child who knew nothing about the world, so he forcibly suppressed the disgust in his heart, he and Jenny looked at each other, through eyes that were still very clear.
"Sorry, the tree suddenly collapsed on the way here, sorry for the delay in the rescue!" Officer Jenny didn't know why, seeing Ryan's clear and slightly stubborn eyes, felt strange but she started to speak and explain.
Ryan lowered his head to prevent Jenny from seeing his dark eyes, he believed there must be a reason for his parents' death, regardless of past and present. However, Jenny didn't just come here to apologize, she didn't give himself any time to think, constantly talking about taking care of her affairs and future intentions.
"Ryan, in your current situation, I can help you live in an orphanage specially designated by the Alliance, complete your studies, and then take over the inheritance left by your parents when you become an adult. "
"Oke"
"Don't worry, we… huh.. it's good"
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(end of this chapter)