Chapter 314 Maria's Gift

"Player Super Justice ()"

That’s right… home is where family is.

Even if the memories of the past have been completely forgotten by oneself, even if the other party does not feel love at all...but the blood as a link still connects the hearts of the two.

Maria checked Annan for a long time.

She used her fingertips to confirm whether there were any scars on Annan's skin, pinched Annan's left shoulder and upper arm, and touched his back to confirm whether there was more or less flesh.

Annan was being manipulated like a doll, but he didn't show any impatience.

After Maria checked her whole body, she sighed deeply.

"Little Annan... has grown up.

She took a step back and murmured, "The same goes for the body, it's finally getting stronger."

Of course... When I left home, my strength was 7 and my constitution was 6. Now my strength is 15 points, and my constitution attribute has broken through 50, and I have entered the extraordinary realm.

Annan thought to himself.

Maria held Annan's hand that was not holding the scepter in both hands, carefully felt the muscles of Annan's fingertips with her fingertips, lowered her head and said softly, "It's hard to be outside alone, isn't it?"

"……fine."

Annan was silent for a moment before replying in a low voice.

Hard work is not very hard work.

"After all, I am not alone. I also have friends and people I can trust."

"...you have to choose your friends carefully."

Maria raised her head and repeated worryingly: "Some friends are meaningless. Bad friends will only drag you down, bring you down, and hurt you... You must choose your friends carefully, choose good friends. Choose those who can A friend who can keep up with you, who can help you, who can inspire you or who can supervise you.

"Don't think... that you can take everyone to a distant place. That would be too tiring..."

Maria's ice-blue pupils stared at Annan, as if staring intently at the whole world: "Although you are the Grand Duke now, there is no need to sacrifice your life for this country... Occasionally, you can still be selfish."

She spoke a very different language from Ivan and Dmitry.

Because for Maria, Annan is the most important person in the world.

Maria has a very obvious "level" for different people-how close to herself, what she can say, what kind of help and feedback she can give... If two friends quarrel, she should stand On which side, she has always had a very clear standard in her heart.

Even, not just friends.

For Maria, whether it is power, ability, mission, glory, family affection...all of these, in her heart, have extremely clear levels.

She is the one who truly has the heart of winter.

Perhaps because she is a relatively rare female descendant in the Lindong family, her signs of returning to her ancestors are more obvious-her personality, talent, and blood form are closer to the old grandmother.

Cold, rational, paternalistic...and sacrificial.

If there is no "Book of Skycart", she is undoubtedly the person with the strongest strength and will in the whole family.

In Maria's heart, Annan's "status" is very high.

Because Annan is Maria's closest relative...more than Dmitry.

This is common sense that has always existed in this world and this era, but is always deliberately ignored—that is, there must be a gap in the degree of intimacy between children of the same father and children of the same father. .

Even if it is whitewashed with "brotherhood", the gap between the bloodlines exists objectively.

The relationship between Maria and Dmitry is definitely not as close as that between her and Annan. Whether it's the age gap between her and Dmitri being too great, or the fact that they only have half the same blood.

Ordinary children might deliberately alienate Annan in order to make up for this objective emotional gap—in order to express to Dmitry that this "brotherly relationship is fair and equal."

It's like when a biological child of one's own family quarrels with the adopted son, they will favor the adopted son instead.

But Maria didn't do that at all.

From the very beginning, she realized that her feelings for Annan were stronger than for Dmitry. There is no attempt to cover up this, or to be balanced in order to show fairness... Her preference is not hidden, no matter who it is.

In fact, this is also one of the reasons why Annan was mainly taken care of by Maria when he grew up—this was Maria's strong request. Only five years older than Annan, she was able to participate in the action of raising his younger brother that Dmitry was in charge of, and she refused to intervene in everything she could do.

The effect is also remarkable.

Annan's innate wisdom was not shown to Maria and Dmitri at first. The one who knew about this was mainly Ivan...then the old grandmother, and then Vladimir.

Annan came into contact with "Ten Fingers" even earlier than Dmitry.

Before that, Dmitry had always thought that Annan was a "shy" person; while Maria thought that Annan was a "gentle" person.

This is actually because Annan is too lazy to go and play with the kid, and he doesn't want to throw face at this stubborn sister who is trying to take care of her.

Until Annan took Dmitri to bet against the rotten man...

His wisdom began to initially appear in the eyes of his brothers and sisters from then on.

It took a long time after that... Dmitry gradually got used to Annan's command and supervision, but Maria didn't finally learn from Ivan until Annan left home last year and erased her own memory. Jue knows everything.

Annan could also guess why Zhou Mu kept keeping Maria from himself. Her character is that Annan is above everything else... Maria will definitely not support her idea of ​​throwing away her memory to seek a heart of justice and conform to the Tao of Tianche.

——This is also the reason why Maria lost control of her emotions when she contacted Annan for the first time.

Annan originally thought that when he saw Maria after returning home... Maria would make more exciting moves. For example, give yourself a slap, or hug (hold Annan's) headache and cry, or make a fuss and ignore yourself.

The result was unexpected...

It's just a careful inspection of the whole body.

In fact, Annan was also able to understand Maria's thoughts.

After all, shortly after Annan was born, his and Maria's mother died.

She gave birth to a total of four children, Annan was the third - she died after giving birth to the fourth child. The second child and the fourth child died at the age of two and at the full moon respectively, and only Maria and Annan survived.

Maria watched her brothers be born and die, her mother die at a young age, and the father she now respects leaves them.

——In the real sense, Annan became Maria's closest relative. Every time he looked at Annan's face that was almost the same as his own, the feeling became more profound.

And after coming back this time.

Annan was finally different from her.

Whether it's the warm smile that makes people feel strange, the strange-colored pupils, the curse lines on the shoulders, the body that has become firm...

She shook her head vigorously, dispelling the images.

"I brought you a present, Annan."

Maria stretched out her hand, stood in front of her lips, and said seriously: "It is a gift that must never be told to Dmitry...and it must be very helpful for your current situation."

"... what is it?"

"it is this."

Saying that, Maria took out a paw from her bosom.

It's true [one paw]. Canine paws.

"It took me a lot of effort to finally dig it out from the wasteland of the Pillar of Poisonous Fern...

"The [nightmare coordinates] of that traitor Bella."