Tony literally dug a hole for himself and jumped down, grinning awkwardly: "No, I don't have armor now, I can't kill people, and now we are a society ruled by law, we can't—"

His words were interrupted by a roar.

"Who are you? What are you doing sitting in front of my house?"

Tony and Tom turned their heads subconsciously, and saw the old Riddle who was still having breakfast at home running out at some point, looking fierce, maybe they thought Tom and Tony were two mischievous young men again, but when they saw Tom's face , Riddle's eyes suddenly widened, and the fork waving in his hand also stagnated in the air.

"Who... are you?" Riddle murmured.

Tony grabbed Tom's hand and ran down the hill.Old Riddle kept shouting "Stop! Stop for me!" from behind. Neither of them paid any attention to it. They ran until they were out of Riddle's sight. Tom grabbed Tony tightly and Apparated back home.

The two stood in the middle of the living room panting, neither of them were of particularly good physical fitness. Both of them ran away with reddish faces. Seeing each other panting harder than the other, Tony laughed first, Tom didn't hold back, followed laughed.

"He saw your face, what to do?" Tony asked him.

Tom's smile disappeared, he frowned, and paced the living room.

"I can't believe I didn't kill them just now, and I won't have a chance to come here again." He sounded agitated. "I should leave him a message and ask him to help me—"

"No, no, no, you can't do that." Tony quickly stopped him. He knew that the "he" Tom was talking about was little Tom, but he couldn't give such a young child some kind of information to guide him to kill.

"Do you remember what I told you?" Tony held Tom's shoulders with both hands, hoping he could calm down and think about it, "Your mother... used a love potion, and old Riddle originally had a fiancée , Muggles can't resist the love potion, even wizards can't resist, Riddle is actually forced, he didn't want to - being with your mother and abandoning her, maybe you can try to understand..."

"Don't say that shit, let me understand?" Tom shook his hand and pulled out his own wand; from the look on his face, Tony thought he was going to give himself an Avada Kedavra, but no, Tom just Shaking the wand in the air, a blurry shadow suddenly appeared between the two. After a while, the image became clear, and Tony saw two people in the image.

One was a young Riddle, and the other was a plain-looking woman who must have been Tom's mother, Merope.

Tony had never seen such a poor person before. Merope's belly was bulging, and it was obvious that there was already a little life inside. She was crying, and her face was full of extreme pain.

She hugged Riddle's arm tightly, her strength was so great that as a grown man, Riddle couldn't get rid of her for a while.

"Please, don't leave me. Even if you don't love me, think about this child...he can't live without a father, he has nothing wrong! Please, please..."

"Go away, you crazy woman! You dirty monster! Witch! Go away!" Riddle looked terrified and angry. After Merope stopped giving him the love potion, he finally realized that he had left his beautiful woman. The gentle fiancée, who left with a homeless man's daughter, became the laughing stock of the whole village - and they have a baby!That child must be the same as his mother, a complete lunatic and freak!

"Who knows what you can give birth to, you are a witch, and what you give birth to is also a monster!"

Riddle stared at Merope's stomach, the expression on his face became more and more frightened, as if a little monster would break open her stomach and rush out to tear his own throat; he couldn't break free from Merope, his expression It became more and more ferocious... Finally, he raised his legs high.

Merope was still begging, she loved this man, she thought that if she had a child, even if she didn't use the love potion, he would at least be with her for the sake of the child, she cried so desperately that she couldn't help it at all. Unaware of Old Riddle's intentions.

"Don't!" Tony blurted out, but it was useless. Riddle kicked Merope's bulging abdomen. on the ground.

Blood gushed out from Merope's body, and Riddle rushed out the door, while Merope was panting and struggling on the ground, took out his wand, and cast a spell on his abdomen, and the blood slowly stopped.

Tony clenched his fist and pressed it against his lips. He felt his nose ache, and for a moment he didn't dare to look at the boy beside him, and couldn't say anything.

"Did you see? He thinks that woman and I are freaks." Tom sneered. "As for that woman, she just loves that old Riddle with all her heart. What am I to her?"

Tom shook his wand again, and the scene in the sky changed.

Several women appeared on the screen.The one lying on the bed in the middle was Merope, and there were a few nuns standing beside him. Tony recognized that they were the nuns in the orphanage on the day they went to pick up Tom from the orphanage.

One of the nuns was holding the child. The child was wrinkled and barely had the strength to cry. She handed the child to Merope and said mournfully, "Look at your child, hug him, you have to hold on!" , he needs you, don't let your son become an orphan..."

But Merope closed his eyes, and when he heard the nun's words, he only slightly opened his eyes and looked at his newborn child.She didn't try to save herself with a wand, and even though she was covered with a blanket, no one would notice with magic that there was no desire for life in her eyes.

"His name is... Tom, Tom Riddle," Merope whispered with the last of her strength, tears running down the corners of her eyes.Finally, she reached out and touched the child's cheek, as if to recall the man she couldn't love. Finally, she closed her eyes.

The picture disappears.Silence enveloped the two of them, with only the sound of rapid breathing filling the gap.

"She's got a chance to live." Tom gasped, obviously very emotional. "She's a wizard, an adult wizard, and she can charm that man with a love potion, but she doesn't want to live for me. I'm not hers." Son, I'm the instrument she's trying to tie old Riddle to."

"Your mother loves you, Tom..." Tony opened his mouth and said this with difficulty.But Tom exploded almost immediately, and he swung his wand so vigorously that the tip of his wand almost brushed the bridge of Tony's nose: "Don't call me Tom!"

With a bang, the vase behind Tony was hit by Tom's spell and exploded.

"Okay, okay, I don't call you that, calm down, there will be no parents who don't love their children. I used to think that my father didn't love me at all. He was more enthusiastic about a 90-year-old man than he was about me." Tony He forced the corners of his mouth to relax, "But then I found out what he left for me—"

"Your father?" Tom interrupted him, showing a dazed expression. "By the way, your father."

"...what?" Tony was confused.

"If it was about your parents, you wouldn't be so calm at all, let alone persuade me to calm down." A cruel smile appeared on the corner of Tom's mouth, "The first time I met you was in 2020, you brought I went to one of Hydra's bases, and I saw a few things."

The image between the two reappears, this time more clearly, and even with a darkened road in the background, Tony can still clearly see the face of the man in the image.

He was getting off the motorcycle. He looked extremely handsome, but his eyes did not show any emotion.One of his arms reflected a metallic luster. At first Tony thought it was some kind of armor, but upon closer inspection, he could see that his entire arm was a mechanical arm.

"Who is this?" An ominous premonition appeared in Tony's heart.

"James Buchanan Barnes, the Winter Soldier, Captain America calls him Bucky." Tom said word by word, "Remember his name, remember what will happen next."

Barnes walked to the other side of the road, and then a wrecked car appeared in the picture.Tony was shocked. This car was too familiar. It was the car his parents drove on the day of the accident.

The driver's door opened from the inside, and Tony's father, Howard, almost crawled out.Tony could hear his pleading voice: "Help my wife, save her..."

Barnes grabs Howard by the hair, forcing him to look up.

"Sergeant Barnes..." He recognized Barnes.

"Howard, Howard..." Tony's mother Maria was still alive, she called Howard's name, and Barnes ended Howard's life with an iron fist in the sound.

Tom glanced at Tony, whose eyes were red, obviously seeing his father's death so clearly had hit him too hard, and Tony closed his eyes as Barnes walked to the passenger side of the car.

Tom lowered his wand, and the picture disappeared.

"You know what happened next," he said.

Tony had almost no strength in his body. He took a few steps back and hit the sofa. His lips were trembling, but he couldn't say what he wanted to say. In the end, he just asked, "Why are you showing me this?"

A vague sense of guilt rose in Tom's heart. He wanted to say something, but he didn't know what he could say.

"We should all have a bad memory of 'parents,'" he said.

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