An immature face, brown eyes full of complex emotions.

Anger, humiliation, fear...

At that time, the disabled soldier Max, or Mike Downs, was still a slightly thin boy.

He, Foley, Holly, and several other children from the downtown area were forced to stand against the wall.

This alleyway is facing the main road, and there are other people passing by on the roadway, but they simply ignore what happened at the entrance of the alleyway.

Standing in front of Mike and his partner were three tall men who had obviously developed first.

They were the notorious "Leslie Brothers" of Lower Town.

They grew up playing the role of "little villains" in local gangs, burning newsstands or robbing alcoholics. Occasionally help the gang do some disgusting things.

Mike Downs and others worked hard all day, and finally earned some steel coins by selling newspapers along the street and picking up cans, but they were about to be raided by the Leslie brothers again.

After being bullied, Mike, who could no longer bear it, was actually already prepared for this moment—he hid a switchblade in his bosom.

He had originally planned that if he ran into Brother Leslie again, for the sake of the guys behind him, and for himself, he would fight to the death with these strong-bodied beasts...

However, when he was really blocked at the entrance of the alley by them again, he couldn't raise his hand to reach for the switchblade in his arms...

The thinnest of the Leslie brothers, Toby Leslie, the one with the darkest eye, started searching them one by one.

When the trembling Holly was found, he had an obscene expression and his hands were not clean. Thanks to Mike squeezing Toby away, Holly did not continue to be humiliated.

Faced with all this, the girl who was originally withdrawn and withdrawn could only cover her mouth and cry softly.

Their hard-earned New Zealand cents were scooped up.

After searching Mike Downs's trouser pockets, the oldest of the Leslie, Tom Leslie, noticed that something was wrong with Mike's expression.

Under his instruction, Toby found the switchblade in the inner pocket of Mike's jacket.

Brother Leslie knew what Mike was thinking, threw the knife on the ground in front of him, and beat him up severely.

Most humiliating of all, they didn't take away his switchblade after they'd beaten Mike until he lay unconscious on the dusty alley floor.

Not only that, Leslie's eldest Tom, seems to find that Holly has grown up a bit.

He asked them to bring Holly to this alley tomorrow night, or they would kill them.

After Leslie and his gang left, Holly burst into tears in the alley.

When the companions dispersed and it slowly turned dark, Mike Downs was still sitting at the entrance of the alley, not wanting to go home.

On the one hand, that gambling father must still hang out in the underground casino, and he doesn't want to go back to that warm "home".

On the other hand, he could not accept his own cowardice in the face of the Leslie brothers at dusk.

When he was in the worst mood and was thinking about what to do tomorrow night, suddenly a person came over.

It was a big boy with blond hair and one corner of his mouth slightly curled up, as if smiling.

He walked to Mike's side, opened a small cylindrical iron can, took out a star-shaped biscuit from it, and handed it to Mike Downs: "My name is Peter Barry, I just moved to this road today. On the street, what's your name?"

Without taking the biscuit handed by the other party, Mike Downs didn't want to pay attention to this boy who suddenly appeared and seemed to be exuding optimism...

Looking at his clean shirt, Mike thought: These blissful idiots don't know the truth of life.

Not seeming to be offended by Mike's rudeness, Peter Barry sat on the ground opposite Mike. He leaned against the other wall at the entrance of the alley and said, "I've seen it all."

Mike asked a little sensitively: "What did you see?"

"I saw those big men searching you for money, I saw you with a knife...

"I also saw them threatening you and asking you to bring that girl named Holly out tomorrow night."

Mike Downs realized that the other party wanted to make fun of and humiliate himself, his blood was surging, he gritted his teeth and wanted to get up and leave.

"Really, what are you going to do?" asked Peter Barry.

Gu "I'm going to kill them!" Mike clenched the switchblade that was not used today, his eyes suddenly widened.

He secretly swore in his heart that there must be blood on the knife tomorrow night.

"I can help you." Peter said lightly.

People who have never met before even said that they want to help themselves. Mike thought the other party was joking.

Not knowing how to react for a while, Mike could only stand against the wall, slowly getting dizzy from standing up suddenly.

"Seriously, I can help you," he repeated.

"Why are you helping me?" Mike turned to the boy who seemed to be out of his mind, "Do you think this is fun?!"

Mike also stood up: "No, it's not fun.

"I just feel that if you want to change, you can only do it yourself-

"I will also hang out on this street in the future, and sooner or later I will have to resolve some unstable factors."

"It's better to do it sooner than later...

"Besides..." Peter said, stroking the neglected biscuit tin, "I admire you."

Mike sneered and was about to leave.

Peter Barry hurriedly said behind him: "You don't need to bring Holly out tomorrow, just come by yourself..."

"Tomorrow when you see the light, lie down on the wall!"

Mike, who didn't intend to trust the other party at all, endured the pain all over his body and limped away.

Only Peter Barry was left, looking at his funny back.

On the second night, Mike Downs, who had been thinking about his ending, waited in the alley with a determined face.

Standing beside him was Foley with a long face.

Mike asked him not to come, but he insisted.

His elongated face usually looks sad, but tonight it looks even more tragic.

Foley also had a murder weapon in his arms—whatever the outcome, they decided to end it with Brother Leslie tonight.

The night wind poured into the alley, and Mike and Foley saw the three tall figures approaching.

The dim light of the street elongated their figures, and they seemed even taller.

Although he had rehearsed it many times in his mind, Mike began to doubt his plan again.

He angrily thumped himself who flinched again~lightnovelpub.net~ and simply held the knife in his hand.

However, as the three Leslie brothers got closer, their breathing became more and more difficult—

They realize that even with a knife in their hands...

It might not be the three of Leslie who died tonight.

Seeming to have noticed Holly's absence, Tom Leslie looked mad, and he rushed over like a beast.

There is no doubt that Mike felt that the other party wanted to twist his neck.

The hand holding the knife kept shaking, and both he and Foley wanted to run away.

At this moment, they suddenly found that the light at the entrance of the alley was obscured.

The rumble sounded behind Leslie, and the five people in the alley looked over in surprise...

There is something big and dark, roaring from the alley!