Chapter 697 - White Bear Plush
“Your professor also mentioned that the Centipede Guild is onto you? Those thugs are known to use absolutely any dirty tricks to get what they want. Do be careful.”
Greya suggested as she handed Toby a bag of Mana Flowers. “If their leaders are so shameless as to come personally, use the full power of your Griffin Form and take Angor away.”
Toby put the bag into his storage with a serious look.
“Lady Greya, aren’t you going to let Toby stay with you?” asked Angor.
Toby quickly started giving Angor pleading looks. No, please, don’t!
Greya saw it and giggled. “Of course I want Toby by my side…”
Toby trembled.
“… But on second thought, he grows stronger quicker if he goes with you. It’s only several years, but he got the sequence of gravity and his Griffin Form, you know? Just take him. I don’t want to burden Toby’s future just because of my blind love.”
The palm-sized toy looked poorly made—even its two eyes were made of differently colored and wrong-sized buttons. Yet somehow, Angor could feel that whoever made this toy put a lot of effort into it.
It was like a parting gift given to a traveling child by his mother.
There was a rectangular pendant weaved onto the toy’s bow-tie. Angor flipped it open and saw a stamp-sized portrait inside. The portrait showed a smiling boy who was holding a white bear toy while a tall woman was holding his shoulders. She was also looking at the “camera” as well, but the woman’s face was all blurry.
The boy should be Hobson. But… who’s that behind her?
Confused, Angor picked up White Bear’s note.
[This is my answer—my “precious treasure”. I think. I’ve been carrying the toy since childhood, and I never let go of it. I don’t remember who gave it to me, but I… like it.
[It’s probably the lady in the picture who gifted it to me. But I don’t know who she is. My family, maybe? But everyone in my family died 13 years ago.
[I’m not sure why Dodoro wanted you to have it, but there must be a reason. Like I said, fate also convinced me to do so. Otherwise, I really do not wish to part with it.
[Please take good care of it.
[Hobson Seeley]
Angor could tell that the bear toy meant a lot to Hobson, which was also proved when Hobson kept glancing back when he was walking away from the beach. That white bear costume might have something to do with it too.
He carefully put away the toy in his bracelet since it was Dodoro’s intention.
Also, he was thinking about someone else after looking at Hobson’s pendant. He was thinking of Flowey, the lonesome soul of a little girl who lived under a dried-up well outside Dark Castle.
Angor discovered a pendant inside Flowey’s coffin, which came with a piece of silk that had the image of Flowey and her brother.
Later, Flowey took the picture back and asked him to keep the pendant.
He checked and noticed that although these two items used different materials and had different designs, the chains on them looked exactly the same.
Don’t tell me Flowey and Hobson are related in some way?