When Viktor saw Chen Mo looking at his fingers, he could not help but clench his fists, instinctively wanting to hide his unique fingernails.
Although Viktor usually gave people the impression that he was arrogant and decisive, he had always had a deep sense of inferiority in his heart.
The reason was because of his unique sharp fingernails.
Ordinary people's fingernails were thin, only about a millimeter thick and about a centimeter wide. Viktor's fingernails were half a centimeter thick and much narrower than ordinary people's, almost half a centimeter wide. The color was not transparent like other people's, showing the white flesh underneath. Instead, it was a glossy brownish-yellow color. Overall, it looked very ugly, as if it was deformed.
Moreover, his fingernails grew very fast. Ordinary people only needed to trim their fingernails once every few days, but he had to trim them almost every day. Otherwise, his fingernails would quickly grow long and sharp, looking like the claws of ferocious beasts.
His father, Thomas, disliked him because of this. He often called him a monster and abused him at the slightest provocation.
Other people always looked at him with a strange expression. Many people privately said that he was the child of a beast, or even a monster.
Among all the people around him, only James never despised him, never looked at him with a strange expression, and never treated him as a friend.
Therefore, even if he did not know that James was his biological brother, he still cared for James very much. He accompanied and took care of him when he was sick, and stood up to protect him when others bullied him.
However, his fingernails had always been a sore point in his heart, making him feel inferior. He had always been cold and aloof in front of others. In fact, he just did not want to be hurt by other people's strange gazes, so he chose to be cold and tough, using his toughest side to face the people and gazes of the outside world.
Viktor felt Chen Mo's gaze fall on his hands. He instinctively clenched his fists and hid his fingernails, but the pride in his heart did not allow him to put his hands behind his back.
If clenching his fists was a form of defense, then putting his hands behind his back was an act of evasion, weakness. He was strong and would not allow himself to show his weak side!
When he heard Chen Mo ask if this was his ability, Viktor could not help but feel a little confused. He did not understand why Chen Mo would ask this.
Although he did not want to talk about his fingernails, and had never discussed it with others before, when faced with the question of his savior, he still raised his head and pretended to be relaxed and answered.
"No, sir, they are just deformed."
Although Viktor wanted to pretend to be relaxed and nonchalant, when he said this, he could not help but clench his fists tightly. Obviously, his heart was was not as calm as he appeared.
When he heard his answer, he shook his head and said slowly, with his deep and dignified voice.
"No, they are not deformed," Chen's voice was very confident.... of. the extraordinary ability.....
Chen Mo's tone was incomparably certain. His deep voice seemed to carry some kind of magic, making people involuntarily feel convinced.
If someone else had said this to him, Viktor would have thought that the person was mocking him, but when it came from Chen Mo, he couldn't help but want to believe it.
Was it his superpower?
Viktor stretched out his hands and looked at his hard, thick, and extremely sharp "ugly" fingernails.
However, although he felt that Chen Mo was not joking, or deliberately mocking and humiliating him, and he wanted to believe what he said, but when he looked at his fingernails, Viktor could not help but feel doubtful.
These fingernails were as ugly as the claws of a beast. No matter how he looked at it, it did not look like an ability. The long bone spurs on James' fist could pierce through the body and kill people, but what about his claws? Scratching people?
Seeing Viktor's conflicted expression, Chen Mo easily guessed his thoughts. He also hoped that his fingernails were not deformed as others said, but had a very powerful special ability like James'. But he really could not think of the use of these "ugly" fingernails.
"Have you seen a brown bear in the forest?"
Viktor nodded slightly. Although he was young, he was not as weak and sick as James. He rarely went out. Because his father, Thomas, treated him badly, and his strange fingernails made others unwilling to play with him, Viktor often ran into the forest alone when he was young. There, he felt free, carefree, and unrestrained. He did not have to worry about what others thought of him, and no one would laugh at him.
He had seen all kinds of animals in the forest. Other than animals that were not too threatening, such as reindeer and mountain goats, he had also encountered fierce carnivores such as gray wolves and brown bears, but he was lucky enough to escape.
So when Chen Mo mentioned brown bears, Viktor immediately remembered the scene of him encountering brown bears in the forest. These huge beasts had long claws and fangs, and were extremely fierce. He only saw them from afar and did not dare to go any closer. He quickly and quietly backed away for a distance, then turned around and ran away.
"The claws of brown bears can leave deep wounds on their prey. They can even make deep scratches on thick tree trunks."
Listening to Chen Mo's words, Viktor could not help but remember that he did often see some animal scratches on the trunks of some big trees in the forest.
The thick bark on the trunks was directly peeled off, revealing a large area of bare tree trunks underneath, and several deep scratches were left on the hard wood. At that time, he had thought about what would happen if these claws scratched a person's body.
"In my hometown, there is a powerful beast that lives in the forest, the tiger. We call it the king of all beasts, and it is the strongest creature in the forest. Their claws are not as long as the brown bear's, but they are sharper and more powerful than the brown bear's. When hunting, their sharp claws can easily cut through the body and stomach of the prey, and pierce the internal organs. If they scratch a person's body, they can kill him with just one strike!"
The brown bear's sharp claws had already made Viktor's eyes shine, and the sharp tiger claws described by Chen Mo made him yearn for them even more.
If his claws could reach the level of a tiger's claws, then their power would indeed be comparable to James' bone spurs.
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