Chapter Fifty-Three: The True Tongue Master
He nodded and disappeared into the night sky. Leaving me alone, leaning against the wall, slowly sighing... I'm so tired, I don't know why, but suddenly everything feels empty. Everything in front of me is dark, except for the dim streetlights and the stones reflecting the light.
People in the dark... ...if you are in the dark, how should you find your way... Just like me now, how can I find my father, and where is the road to where my father is? I don't know, I don't know any of these things.
What a weird ability! Haha, I never thought that such an ability really existed in the world. It can control the behavior, language and even thoughts of living things. It's just like a beast tamer training animals!!! Wait... wait a minute! Training animals!!!!!
A flash of lightning in my mind, memories like a rewinding tape rapidly retreating backwards... Training animals... Why is there a strange memory existing in my brain?! Whose scene is it, whose memory is it!!!??
It was over a decade ago, before I entered the mountains to learn martial arts from Old Man Xuan... It was also around that time when Mito had just moved next door to our house. My mom asked me to accompany Mito to the park and on the way back, Mito accidentally stepped on a dog's tail and got chased by it (Author: This is one of the reasons why Mito can attract stray dogs and cats - not intentionally stepping on them, but rather being destined to step on them due to bad luck)... At that time, I wasn't very familiar with Mito, and before we left the house, my mom only lightly told me to take good care of him without asking me to help chase the dog away. So I just stood at the corner of the street, watching Mito run around in distress... and secretly laughing to myself, what a silly kid.
Suddenly, Yumi made a turn and ran onto the highway. The dog was still chasing after her relentlessly. I couldn't bear to watch anymore and stood up straight to hurry over and help her. Just at that moment, a car came driving from the other direction out of nowhere! My nerves tensed up instantly, and my conditioned reflex let out a loud shout: "Yumi!!!!!!!!!! Car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (Author's note: Actually, the car was still quite far away, but I overreacted a bit.)
Yoshino heard my shout and naturally turned his head towards me, at which point the dog behind him jumped up coolly, opened its bloody mouth and bit down on him!
Oh no! I was so scared that I almost closed my eyes...
At this time, I heard my mother's shout from behind me: "STOP!!!!!!!!!!"
Before I could even close my eyes, the dog that was originally going to bite me suddenly froze and fell from mid-air with a thud, crashing onto the ground.
Then my mom rushed past me like a gust of wind and quickly ran to the stunned Mito's side, hugging him: "It's okay now, it's okay now, nothing will happen again... really, really nothing like this will ever happen again."
The car that was still at a distance slowed down and stopped, the driver rolled down the window and cursed: "Are you crazy sitting in the middle of the road! Are your brains stupid or what?!"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, we're leaving right away." Mom picked up a stunned Yumi and brought her in front of me. For the first time, she raised her hand and slapped me hard on the face!
"Didn't I tell you to take good care of him?! Why did something like this still happen?! What if he gets hurt?! What if he's bitten by a dog?!"
It was the first time... really the first time. At that time, it was the first time Mom truly lost her temper... for this child who was originally a stranger to her, she lost her temper for the first time.
It was that time, I witnessed the power of words... Yes, a true master of words, if I'm not mistaken, my mother should also be one, only at that time I was too young and couldn't think clearly about what happened back then... I just thought... Mom loved Misan more than her own child.
