More than ten minutes later, Meilin put down the story book "The Little Prince" in her hand and looked at Laura who was already asleep. The girl was unexpectedly quiet when she fell asleep. She grabbed Meilin's hand tightly, as if she had found something that could make her feel at ease.

"If you have your own children, you will definitely be the best father in the world."

Logan leaned against Laura's room door and said to Merlin:

"It's really hard to imagine how you tell her a story. You'll be a secret agent who kills people without blinking and lets the aliens escape."

"I don't know if you are praising me or mocking me."

Merlin reached out to help Laura cover the quilt, and he whispered:

"In the alien circle of New York, my reputation is so bad that it can't be stinky. Those vampires regard ravens as swearing. But that's nothing. As long as you don't care what others think of you, those rumors are useless."

"Speaking of this, you haven't told me why you are in such a bad mood after you come back this time."

Merlin gently turned his fingers into mist and broke free from Laura's hand. He looked back at Logan and said:

"If I remember correctly, you have been looking for your son in Japan in the past few years. I guess if you are in a bad mood, it is related to him?"

"right."

Wolverine shook her head, and there was an unconcealable loss on his wild face, and he said to Merlin:

"Go out and have a drink."

"Go to the backyard to have a drink."

Merlin said to Logan:

"Laura moved into the house on the first day, and I was worried that she would not get used to it, so I had to look at her."

"OK."

A few minutes later, the two old men set up a table in the spacious backyard of Merlin's house, opened the two bottles of wine that Logan brought, and sat under the stars in the backyard.

"Do you want to play cards?"

Merlin took out the Gent card and sang it to Logan, saying:

"I remember I taught you how to play it."

"Forget it, I can't play with this thing."

Logan drank the wine from the glass in one sip, and he said:

"I hate all the pastime that requires brains."

"Is this a coincidence?"

Merlin put away the card and blinked at Logan:

"In addition to the Gent card, I am the same. Tell me, about your son."

"His name is Decken."

Logan poured himself wine and whispered:

"Decen Akihiro, a little boy, is a little younger than Lora, but more dangerous, but I can't remember what his mother looks like, and I don't have a photo to miss. I forgot that woman, but I should love her very much at that time. I must have lived there for a long time before I forgot her."

"Wow, this is what patients with deep amnesia are like."

Meilin pursed her lips and said:

"It's both pitiful and sad, but then again, if I remember correctly, the word Daken is not a good word in Japanese. (Daken, daken, にイン, the comics setting means 'mulse dog'.)"

"I guess your son must have been doing well over the years, right?"

Merlin asked.

Wolverine's expression dimmed a little, he said:

"I don't know, he hides his background very well. I just know that he has appeared all over the world over the years, and now he is mixed with a group of ruined Japanese gangsters and ninjas, which is called the "Shijida Family" and the "Handang Association".

"I met him two weeks ago. Actually, I didn't find him. I felt that he came to me on his own initiative."

Logan said:

"At that time, some 'small' conflict broke out with the head of Yashida Industrial, and the self-healing factor was almost removed. At the most urgent moment, Daiken appeared. The child helped me kill the ungrateful bastard, then took me out of danger, took out my heart and intestines, and threw me into the wilderness and waited for death."

"Your relationship with him is really distorted."

Merlin said:

"How should I evaluate this behavior when I save you first and then kill you?"

"Crazy, or revenge"

Logan sneered, and he looked at the starry sky above his head and whispered:

"He told me that it was to retaliate against me for killing his mother, and he said that in the winter of 1994, I dug open the poor woman's belly and threw her and the child in her belly into the snow to die."

“It’s not like something you would do.”

Merlin frowned and said:

"I mean, you are good at killing people, but you are at least in the information I found, and you don't have this hobby."

"But the problem is that I don't remember, Merlin."

Logan pointed to his head:

"I have no impression in my mind, as if I have been cleaned, I have forgotten all those things. I have lived for more than 200 years, but I can only remember the past ten years, the past, the ones I have done with my own hands, only some fragmented shadows, and they are often contradictory. For example, I clearly remember that I had seen Charles when I was young and seemed to have beaten him, but he told me that he had never seen me when I was young."

"Maybe what Dyken said is true?"

Logan took a sip of wine and said to Merlin:

"Maybe the forgetting of those memories is not because someone else intervenes, but because I want to forget it on my own initiative? Maybe I was once a very unforgivable guy?"

"You're thinking too much."

Merlin took a sip of wine and said to Logan:

"As long as you find the right way, memory can be modified, but nature cannot be erased, just as the endless anger that surges in your heart cannot be set by the acquired. Modifying memory also requires basic rules, unless you encounter some difficult-to-describe forces, but that situation is too rare."

"Logan, you may not be a good person, you may have done bad things, but you are certainly not a villain who enjoys violence."

"hehe."

Wolverine smiled and said:

"Thank you for supporting me, brother, but there are some things that cannot be explained."

"Continue talking about Deken, talk about your son."

Merlin said:

"You're not the kind of guy who will give up easily, so I guess, this time you're back, there's something else to do besides seeing Laura?"

"right."

Logan said:

"I doubt my son, he may have been brainwashed by some people, do you understand what I mean? Young people, especially adolescence, are always impulsive and easily instilled with dangerous thoughts."

"According to his words, when I killed his mother, he was not born yet. He could not know what happened when his mother died. This must be someone who told him that I had to find that person and the man who raised my son into a killer and a villain."

"Do you need my help?"

Merlin said:

"If you use the power of SHIELD, your pursuit will be easier."

"No, no."

Logan refused:

"This is my family matter, and I can feel that there must be a conspiracy against me behind this. You have enough trouble. I will do it myself this time."

"Okay, whatever you want."

Merlin raised his glass to Logan, and he said:

"But don't forget that you have friends too. When you can't handle it alone, remember to seek support. Where are you going to check it out?"

“Where it starts.”

Logan breathed a sigh of relief, he drank all the wine in his glass in one breath, he touched his mouth and said:

“Canada, Houtley Manor, then the first experimental site of Project X. Dyken revealed that he has been there”

"Do you know? Merlin, I feel now that the x weapon plan doesn't seem as simple as it seems. When I killed Stryker, the bastard told me that he was just a trivial pawn, and there was even more terrible darkness waiting for me in front of me."

"Actually, I had a question for a long time, why is it you?"

Merlin plays with the wine glass and he raises doubts:

"There are so many mutants in this world. You are not the most powerful or unique. You just live for a long time and have a self-healing factor, so why are you? I have read the file of the x weapon plan. From the outsider's perspective, I feel that the entire x weapon plan that has lasted for decades seems to be around you."

"I don't know, Merlin."

Logan showed a bitter smile, and he shot his head, saying:

"There is no answer here. I'm like walking in the fog and I don't know what's ahead, but I can't stop unless I reach the end. Oh, by the way, there's one more thing."

Wolverine grabbed the messy hair and said to Merlin:

"There is a bad news. He was also resurrected by the saber-toothed tiger that I killed a few years ago. I met him in Japan. He was with Daiken, and seemed to be plotting something, as if it was related to some major things that the Shouhe Association was about to do, but I remember it very clearly that I cut off his head with Muramashi and completely killed him."

"Muramasaki-toothed tiger?"

Merlin said in surprise:

"Is he dead? No wonder that the immortal mercenary has been so inactive in recent years, but do you think that the legendary demon sword can kill a mutant with a self-healing factor? So magical?"

"It's not the legendary one, but it's really made of special steel."

Logan took out a broken blade the size of a palm from his pocket and threw it to Merlin. Merlin held it in his hand and felt cold, as if he was touching ice.

"This is not the knife I used, but it has a magical effect. It can prevent the self-healing factor from taking effect. Weapons made of this material can theoretically kill those guys like me."

"But the last time I killed the Sabertoothed Tiger, I left my knife in Xavier Mutants Academy."

Logan said to Merlin:

"I remember handing it over to Charles because it was the only thing in the world that could stop me from doing bad things, and I had to hand it over to the most trustworthy and not use it at will."

"I can understand, good people, but maybe you should be more cautious at the beginning."

Merlin played with the broken blade in his hand, and he said:

"But what's going on with this fragment?"

"I have no idea."

Logan explained:

"When I left Japan, I vaguely remembered something. I went to an island in Okinawa and found this in a ruin on the coast. Maybe it was a weapon I used, maybe the answer was in those memories that had been completely forgotten. I don't know, I can't remember it."

Wolverine sighed regretfully and said to Merlin:

"If you leave this thing to you, just treat it as a gift I left to the little wolf girl."

"The Sabertooth Tiger is a complete madman, and he hates me, especially likes to chase and kill women who have something to do with me, and has a perverted desire to torture, just as I always fall into the arms of those red-haired opposite sexes. This may be an indelible nature."

Logan made a rare joke, and he said to Merlin seriously:

"The Sabertooth Tiger may come to find the little wolf. You have to protect her, or give her the ability to protect herself. The things in your hand can really kill the Sabertooth Tiger. Promise me, if he really appears, then don't show mercy."

“I’ll recast it.”

Merlin put the black fragment in front of him, and he said:

"Although the person who is best at manipulating metal is gone, we have a new choice. I will give it to Laura. The child does not need my protection. She has the ability to protect herself. She has the same self-healing factor as you."

“The self-healing factor is not omnipotent.”

Logan poured the last bit of wine into the cup, and he said to Merlin:

"Laura is not me. She has weaknesses that all self-healing people have. She does not have the skeleton of Eidman alloy. If she is cut off, she will die if she cannot be taken back in time. However, since she has survived the injection of Eidman alloy by those lunatics on her arms and feet, it proves that she can also survive the same whole body injection as me. Maybe, you can."

"No, I won't do that."

Merlin said:

"I won't turn my kids into the same weapon as you, that process is too painful."

"Whatever you want."

Logan stood up, he moved his body and said to Merlin:

"I just made suggestions, OK, the wine is over, it's time for me to leave."

"I won't give it to you."

Merlin stood up and pulled out his wand, and he said to Logan:

"But I can give you a gift, stand and don't move!"

The dark red wand Lora gently tapped Logan's forehead. As Merlin's unique dark red magic jumped, a temporary spell was imposed on Logan's body.

"The temporary version of the brain closure technique can save you from all the spiritual penetration and memory removal that is no higher than my casting ability, but it can only take effect once. Of course, when facing an enemy who is proficient in mental abilities like Professor Charles, you'd better not expect it to protect you for a long time."

Merlin said:

"But this may make your journey easier. This time I will give it to you for free. If you need it again next time, you will have to charge."

"Thank you."

Logan touched his forehead, and he could feel a wall-like force outside his chaotic spirit. He nodded to Merlin, then grabbed the leather jacket at hand and quickly disappeared into the backyard.

"When will you bastards learn to walk through the door?"

Merlin watched Logan flexibly jump over the wall, he complained, then returned to the study, changed into his pajamas, and prepared to rest.

In the early morning, Merlin was suddenly awakened. He looked down and found that Laura in her pajamas ran to him at some point. The child was curled up beside Merlin, holding his arms tightly with her hands. Judging from her expression, she must have had a nightmare just now.

This reminded Merlin of the situation when Lorna first moved in, and Lorna was the same as Laura at that time.

"well"

Merlin sighed, he adjusted his posture, and without affecting Laura, he leaned against the head of the bed, then waved his hand to call a magic book and read it in the dark.

Fortunately, he is a wizard and doesn't need much sleep to replenish his spirits.

"Don't be like that rebellious Deckon when you grow up."

Merlin hangs the magic book in front of him, gently caressing Laura's black hair, and he whispers:
Chapter completed!