Transmigrated into Another Apocalyptic World (BL) - Chapter 197

Chapter 197: Chapter 196: Talking with Theo
He plucked some of them and put them in their underground space so that the plants would maintain their state and won’t be damaged.

He would just use his ability to help them grow a bit later and plant them in their space properly.

After Theo put all the flowerpots from the yards of the few buildings around, they sat down on the bench that was in the yard in front of one of the buildings.

“What is it?” Luciel asked Theo, who kept looking at him while they were sitting.

Theo really isn’t a talkative kid.

If Luciel was with Sophie, he was sure that Sophie would have been chattering about different things while they were having a walk.

If he was with Ashlee, even though it wouldn’t be noisy, at least Ashlee would still talk about some things, unlike when he was with Theo, where they really just walked and worked silently.

But now that they were sitting on the bench, it was obvious that Theo wanted to ask something because he was staring at him for a long time, so Luciel had to ask because it seemed that Theo wouldn’t speak first if he didn’t ask anything.

“Why are they all in a bad mood and sad?” Theo asked.

It seemed that Theo still couldn’t fully grasp what frustration and depression or feeling down were, or perhaps those terms weren’t yet in his vocabulary, so he used phrases like ‘being in a bad mood’ and ‘being sad’.

Well, the context of his question was already understandable, so there’s no problem at all.

“They’re just in a bad mood and sad because they saw stronger enemies again,” Luciel answered.

“Is it very bad?” Theo asked again.

“Seeing a stronger zombie again than before is very bad for them. You’ve seen that all of them were training hard, right? And you’ve also been training, right?”

Theo answered him with a nod.

“Okay, so let’s just say that you continued training.

You felt that you got a bit stronger and were able to beat a stronger enemy because you trained hard for a long time.

But when you thought you would be able to defeat that enemy already with just a bit more training, a stronger enemy appeared in front of you again.

What will you feel?” Luciel said.

“I will feel very bad,” Theo answered.

“Why will you feel bad?”

“I will feel bad because I think that I haven’t trained enough.”

“Then after training to beat the stronger enemy that appeared, what if a stronger enemy appeared again?

Then you keep training, but stronger enemies keep appearing that you couldn’t defeat them even though you kept training. What do you think?”

Theo didn’t answer immediately, but afterwards he said, “Then my training has no use? I continued to train so that I could defeat my enemy, but in the end I couldn’t defeat them.”

“That’s what happened to the others.

They realized that they will face stronger enemies again, and others have the same thought as yours.

That’s why they were in a bad mood and were sad.”

“Isn’t it really no use? Should I also stop training?” Theo asked with a sad mood.

After realizing why the others weren’t in a good mood, Theo was also in a sad mood.

After hearing what Theo said, Luciel laughed for a while.

It seemed that Theo already had a concept of not trying anything that would be useless and the loss while he could.

Theo just looked at him blankly when he laughed.

“Why should you even think of stopping your training?

Instead of stopping training, you should continue training hard.

Don’t think about stopping your training just because you think you can’t beat your enemies.”

“But it has no use.”

“Are you sure it’s useless?

Why should you stop your training just because you thought you couldn’t stop your enemies?

The training you are doing is all to make you stronger.

If you can’t defeat the enemies that you want to defeat, does it also mean that you didn’t grow stronger?”

Theo didn’t answer and just looked at him.

“No, you still grew stronger, so your training isn’t useless.

The strength that you gained while training wouldn’t disappear just because you can’t defeat the enemies that you wanted to defeat.

Besides, why did you even start training?

Is it just because you wanted to grow stronger?

Theo, why do you want to become stronger?”

“I want to get stronger to help Aunt Jane and protect Sophie and Ashlee,” Theo answered while thinking for a while.

“Then, if you stop training and become stronger, then you won’t be able to do what you wanted to do.

At least if you keep training, then you will still be able to help them out.

Don’t think too much about the enemies that you can’t defeat for the time being.

If you can’t defeat them on your own, then you can also ask others to protect them with you.

There are a lot of people in the team besides your aunt, Sophie, and Ashlee, right?”

Theo nodded.

“See, there are still a lot of people that could work together to do what you wanted to do.

But if you stop training, then you won’t even be able to provide any help to those who were working hard to help you in what you wanted to do.

So, training to become stronger isn’t useless at all,” Luciel said.

Luciel had to make things clear for Theo because Theo was still 5 years old.

He was still easily affected by what he could see and what people were saying around him.

Kids at his age who still haven’t firmly established their own sense of self and haven’t established their own views and beliefs were all very easily influenced by others.

Luciel had to explain things properly to Theo so that Theo wouldn’t misunderstand things.

If Theo suddenly stopped training because he thought it was useless, then it would be bad.

It’s still better for kids to have a better concept of things, so Luciel made things clearer to Theo.

Of course, he didn’t say any negative things that most grown-ups already knew about.

For example, it was indeed true that sometimes it’s better to just give up some things because some things won’t just yield any result even if you put a lot of effort into it.

Well, Theo would know about such things in the future, but now that he is still young, it’s still better for him to have positive concepts, especially in the environment they were in.

Theo has space powers, so he was going out of the base and going to different places with Treyton and the others, so it’s inevitable that he would be seeing a lot of bad things along the way.

Theo was intelligent, so he would certainly understand what was happening around him after growing up for a bit.

For example, in their situation now, he understood a bit of what was happening around him, so he was asking about it.

“Besides, you’re still a child, so you still have a lot of time to grow.

Don’t worry about such things; just let the adults worry about it.”

“But all of them looked bad? Is it okay?” Theo asked slowly.

“Yeah, just leave them alone; they’re going to recover on their own.

How can they even call themselves adults if they even let a child like you worry about them?

If they remain like that for a long time, then what’s the use of going out of the base?

It would be better for them to just stay in the base and not go out if they couldn’t even recover from such things.”

Theo nodded in understanding and asked, “Then why is big brother not acting like the others?”

“Why should I be like them?

Why should I worry about such things?

I’m not the one who was dealing with the zombies anyway,” Luciel answered nonchalantly.

Theo, who was staring at him, blinked and just uttered, “Oh.”

He wasn’t the one who was dealing with those zombies, so why should he worry about it?

Besides, he was also already strong enough to deal with those zombies, so he wasn’t worried at all.

And even if he wasn’t strong enough to deal with those zombies, he wouldn’t be frustrated or be depressed about it.

Luciel had experienced a lot more daunting and more hopeless situations in his past life.

So such a situation is really nothing to Luciel, who was already accustomed to facing hopeless situations.

He had faced a lot of hopeless and daunting situations and managed to survive through them for several years.

He also became stronger because of such situations, so Luciel really doesn’t care about facing such things.

“Ok, let’s just go back,” Luciel said while standing up.

He still had to continue watching the movie that he was watching a while ago, so it’s better to go back to their RV already.

When he stood up, Theo also followed him obediently.