The room was cozy and rich food was placed on the dining table. It seemed that Andrine had been preparing for this meal for a long time.
In addition to Amanda, whom he hadn't seen for a few days, Roger also saw a chubby little boy at the dining table.
Roger had seen a picture of Jack, Andrine's youngest son.
Amanda was so skinny that she almost lost her shape, and her originally bright red hair also lost its luster. She seemed to have stabilized her mood a lot. When she saw Roger coming in, she forced a smile on her face.
Roger nodded and said nothing. Some memories only time can erase.
"Eat first, it will be cold in a while."
Andrine sat on the main seat and prayed devoutly. The little chubby Jack pretended to be fooled, but Amanda was completely indifferent.
Obviously, she is not a believer.
"It's finally time to eat!"
Jack looked heartless, stuffing food into his mouth while looking at Roger curiously.
The atmosphere at the dinner table was very gloomy. There were too many facts that had happened recently. Except for Jack, everyone seemed preoccupied.
After finishing the steak on the plate, Andrine put down the knife and fork. She coughed lightly. Hearing the sound, Roger also put the tableware away, wiped the oil stains from the corners of his mouth and looked up at the other party.
"I want to announce something."
Andrine glanced at Roger, then glanced over Amanda and Jack.
"It's about Roger."
"I'm sorry Roger, I lied about some things before."
"In fact, we haven't found missing information that matches your identity in several surrounding towns and urban areas."
"Several days have passed and there is still no progress in the investigation."
She looked at Roger sympathetically.
"I don't know if your parents were in misfortune during the shipwreck." After hesitating for a while, Andrine didn't tell Roger that there had been no shipwrecks in the surrounding sea area in recent months.
Roger, a living person, seemed to emerge from the sea suddenly, and there were too many doubts about this matter.
"You are still young and don't have a guardian. According to the law, disaster orphans like you will be sent to community welfare homes, and you will not be able to live independently until you reach adulthood."
Andrine took Amanda's hand.
"Thank you, Roger, thank you for everything you did in the woods, without you, Amanda might...maybe never come back."
"I just did what I was supposed to do."
Roger responded politely.
"Like Greg said, you don't know someone character until you're in real danger."
"On the one hand, it's out of gratitude, and on the other hand, I like your character from the bottom of my heart in the past few days of communication."
"So..."
"Would you like to live with us?"
Roger was taken aback for a moment. He originally thought that the only way he could go was to go to the community welfare home. Can you hear what Andrine said?
"I submitted a foster care application, and in my situation, it should go through quickly, and you can live with us until your real family finds you."
At the dining table, Andrine reached out and drew a circle.
"Living together as a family."
"Do you want to?"
After she finished speaking, she held the hands of Amanda and Jack tightly, and looked at Roger nervously.
Seeing the sincerity in the female sheriff's eyes, Roger hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "It's my honor!"
It has been a while since he traveled to this world. He has experienced the struggle of Kant and witnessed the true feelings of the female Murloc. Although the time is short, the experience is quite rich.
Only in Andrine's place, he felt the peace of mind that he had not seen for a long time, as if he had returned to the ordinary world of his previous life.
"Welcome!"
Amanda grinned. Obviously, Andrine had communicated this news to her children in advance.
"Marvelous!"
"I finally have my own brother!"
But Little Jack seemed extremely excited, "Next time Benny dares to bully me again, you must help me out!"
He bluffed and said, but then looked at Roger with some worry, "Should you eat more, because you look too thin now, and Benny's brother is a big guy on the football team."
Roger smiled nonchalantly, "Don't worry, I can drive away even wild wolves!"
Roger's eyes swept over Amanda's face, and the latter folded her hands, "Don't even think about it, I must be older than you."
"Call me sister obediently."
It can be seen that she is also very happy to join Roger.
Amidst the playfulness of the crowd, a pleasant dinner came to an end.
After the meal, Andrine found Roger alone, and also proposed her next arrangement.
Through personal relationships, she plans to arrange for Roger to enter Bay Town High School. The high school here requires four years of study. Roger needs to be transferred from the second grade, while Amanda is in the third grade.
"Go to school?"
Roger was dumbfounded by this.
In addition to his previous life, he has been there for nearly 10 years, and he doesn't know what it feels like to sit in a classroom. He naturally subconsciously refuses such a thing.
Once he went to school, how would he have time to practice swordsmanship and improve his physique?
This is absolutely unacceptable to him.
But on this point, Andrine seemed extremely tough. What's the use of an ordinary person who doesn't study or go to university when he enters the society?
Roger is a face of wtf, but any of his struggles are useless. After some negotiations, Roger still applied for plenty of free time from Andrine under the premise of guaranteeing his grades.
As for grades?
Although Roger knew nothing about this unfamiliar education system, with the concentration potion, Roger think that in terms of learning, he can definitely be called a well-deserved master of learning.
If you think about it carefully, going to school is not completely useless. The systematic learning of botanical knowledge, the operating procedures of chemical experiments, and precise measurement methods are all obviously helpful to the research of alchemy potions.
In addition, there is corresponding history, geography and humanities knowledge, and the mystery is hidden in reality. Now he is full of curiosity about the unknown language recorded in the book of transformation.
If he could find some clues, then he would have a deeper understanding of the extraordinary power of this world.
What is the future of school? It would be more interesting to become a witcher and then a piling sorceress.
Hey? There seems to be something wrong. Why do I always think of pile drivers for such a pure person?
Is this an implicit effect?
Someone thought shamelessly.
As night fell, Roger climbed into bed early, and waited until the whole house could not hear a single sound, then he changed his clothes, quietly turned out of the room through the window, got on his bicycle, and ran away in a hurry.
But what Roger didn't know was that after he left, a tall figure stepped down from a car parked on the side of the street. He watched Roger's disappearing back in the distance, with a thoughtful expression on his face.
"It's so late, what are you going to do?"