Please listen to the voice of black magic

"Did you find anything?"

Roderick, who had been waiting at the exit of the secret door, felt a little relieved when he saw Annan returning safely, but he did not forget to ask about the situation immediately.

"Unfortunately, there were no significant findings."

Annan spent less than five minutes inspecting the basement, but he didn't think there was anything worth studying there, and his senses didn't respond.

"I have some ideas, but I'm not sure yet. Anyway, let's wait for the news from Mr. Detective."

"Really? I understand."

Roderick nodded.

Since this young boy with strong inspiration didn't find anything, it must be that he didn't find anything.

"Then let's put them here first. As for what to do with the corpses below... I have to think about it first."

It was impossible for Roderick to let the corpses of his family members be exposed here, but now he had no good way to place these corpses for a while.

He needed time to think about it, and it was also time to continue exploring other parts of the mansion.

Annan and Roderick left the utility room where the secret door existed and searched in other rooms.

They checked all the places on the first floor in about ten minutes. Except for the utility room, there was nothing worth paying attention to.

Then, they went up to the second floor.

"Go to Trinidad Nares's room first. There might be something there."

Annan noticed that the companion next to him was now directly calling the godfather by his full name. The other party was obviously not used to it, but he still forced himself to use this name.

What is the mood of this young vampire? Annan is not the other person, so he will not pretend to understand him, but it is obvious that this vampire is forcing himself.

Annan didn't know how to comfort him, not to mention that he was the murderer of the godfather, so some words were really hard to say.

He thought that he would let the magic professor or Mr. Detective enlighten the other party in the future.

"No lock..."

Roderick quickly came to the room of the former owner of the mansion, and then opened the unlocked door.

The master room is designed into two parts. One is used for office and is filled with various bookcases and books. There is a door on the left that leads to the bedroom.

Roderick came to the desk and began to check the things in the desk.

The desk drawers are locked, but it's easy to destroy them. No one can care about them now, so just smash the locks.

After Roderick violently broke the lock on the drawer, he took out all the items inside and began to inspect them one by one.

On the other side, Annan came to a large oil painting depicting Trinidad. Nares's serious face.

"Um……"

Based on his intuition, Annan roughly tore off the oil painting that seemed to be nailed to the wall.

Then, as expected, he saw a hidden compartment and a safe in the hidden compartment.

Of course, the safe was locked. Annan couldn't know the password, but he didn't need to know it, he could just destroy it.

Before Annan resorted to violent means, he checked the safe briefly. This wheel-type password safe should not be connected to any external mechanism or a device that would trigger an automatic alarm.

"If there's no problem, just open it."

Annan put his hand in front of the combination lock of the safe, then released the black snake on his hand and penetrated the safe.

Hearing the movement here, Roderick, who was immersed in reading various documents, raised his head.

Roderick naturally didn't know about the safe hidden behind the oil painting. Even though he had grown up in this large mansion, he had never been to the master room a few times.

"Did you find anything?"

Annan had successfully opened the safe at this time and was rummaging through the contents.

"Yes, there is an interesting discovery."

Annan came over holding a black and white photo.

He put the photo on his desk.

"Look at this guy."

Roderick looked down and saw that it was a single photo.

In the photo, he saw a face that was both familiar and unfamiliar.

"...Alexis Nares?"

"No, there's a date on the back of this photo. It was over forty years ago."

Annan turned the black and white photo over to reveal the date written in pen on the back of the photo.

"I don't think the date was faked, that's the date the photo was taken."

"But if the photo is from more than forty years ago, why is Alexis there?"

Roderick couldn't help but frown.

"Isn't the answer simple? That's not Alexis Nares in the photo."

Annan turned the photo over again and looked down at the young man in the photo.

"This is your grandfather, and this is Trinidad Nares."

"this……"

Roderick, who instantly sensed a possibility, froze unnaturally.

"It seems you have discovered it too."

Annan nodded his head up and down.

"Alexis Nares, if nothing unexpected happens, should he be the copy of your grandfather, or should he be called a clone?"

"The golden witch..."

Perhaps it was something related to the person he respected the most, but Roderick's mind became extremely flexible at this time.

"Antonio did indeed say so... The White Knight will come to this city to investigate the Golden Witch and the Abyss Order..."

"Yes, although we don't know whether there is a cooperative relationship between the Golden Witch and the Abyss Order, it seems that there should be one now."

Annan actually had some speculation about this matter before discovering the photo.

In short, it was his intuition again.

And now, there is finally evidence to confirm this intuition.

"Your grandfather, Trinidad Nares, should have cooperated with the Abyss Order, and then the Abyss Order had a relationship with the Golden Witch. Through this indirect relationship, your grandfather obtained the Golden Witch's Help, use the golden witch’s black magic to create a clone of yourself.”

"Grandfather... Trinidad Nares said that he was disappointed with us, because none of our descendants have inherited his blood..."

Roderick muttered absently.

"I originally thought that Alexis Nares was the only one who inherited his bloodline, but that's not the case. Alexis is not his illegitimate son...so, so..."

"Alexis Nares, Trinidad Nares, it's the same person from beginning to end, at least genetically."

Annan continued speaking for Roderick.

"Trinidad Nares used black magic to create another self, so Alexis Nares has the same warlock bloodline. Your grandfather used black magic to obtain a real self. Heir, that’s why he gave up on you.”