Chapter 398: Happiness (2/2)

"Look!" The boy clapped his hands together, and when he pulled thereen colored shi+eld floated in the space between his hands

"Oh, you're a Creator!" said the father

"I know it's not either of your powers, but-," began the son

"Nonsense! Some parents care that their kid has their powers, but not us Anything you have is the best to us" The father knelt down by his son, inspecting the floating shi+eld

"This shi+eld's invincible!" said the boy "Just today, I saved one of my friends from a holo-board that collapsed"

"Hoho, invincible, you say? It's not good to be too confident, you know Your old ulations holo-board is nothing" The father wound back his fist and punched the shi+eld The force pinged back and knocked him flat on his back, dazed

"You should take that advice yourself," said the h

"See?" said the son He was positively bri with a happiness found froht he was resigned to "With this, I can finally, finally be a hero Just like you two! I can take down a big villain group like the Trident too!"

"You're a late Bloo a hand on her chin in conteht on the cusp of puberty They say the earlier or later a power Bloo, has to be trained"

The father groaned as he got back up, blowing at his aching knuckles He grinned at his son "And, son, you won't see better trainers than the two of us You know, your dad's just gotten promoted to the B rank, heh

But-,"

The father knelt in front of his son, putting a firm hand on his child's shoulder He looked into his son's eyes with orange, firht?

To be a hero?

It's not all what the AA programs show you

It's hard

You'll make many friends

But you'll lose some

You'll save so many people

But you'll fail others

But even through all that, to be a real hero, to have a golden age heart, you need to know that you can never, ever give up You can't ever let the weight of losses drag you down Or, worse, h, honey, he's just turned twelve and barely now Bloomed Heavy talks like that are for later," said the mother

The father shook his head "No A hero's job is hard and can have, no, will have so many sacrifices Aldrich needs to understand that before he steps foot on it"

"I know," said the son He met his father's stare with equal, unbroken intensity "I still want to do this It was always ht in front of hed and patted his son's head "It's fine to be like us, to reach for us, son, to follow us But in time, you need to learn how to follow this" He tapped his chest, right above his heart "To fight for yourself"