Tome of Blood

"Blaze Demon... Calamity?"

Charlotte's heart skipped a beat.

She recalled it carefully, but couldn't recall why.

The memory that Charlotte inherited after time travel is not very complete, especially when she was a child, the memory of ten years ago is like a dividing line.

There is no way to do this. People are not machines. Memories will gradually fade over time. Only some deep impressions will be retained for experiences that are too long ago.

This was the case in my previous life. As I grew older, my childhood memories faded away. When it was time for Charlotte to start a family and start a business, only the old willow tree in the grandmother’s yard and the sun-kissed tree that my mother had basked in left me. The smell of the warm quilt was off.

It's almost the same after crossing.

In Charlotte's inherited memory, the only impressions of childhood are the fragmentary experience of visiting Aunt Catherine in the Duke's mansion with her mother and father.

And other than that, running and laughing in the woods with childhood playmates.

Um?

playmate?

At a certain moment, new memory fragments flashed in Charlotte's mind.

That seemed to be the deepest memory buried by the original body, and it gradually emerged before her eyes as she recalled it deeply.

She seemed to see a familiar forest, a beautiful garden and a beautiful manor, and she saw the young Charlotte running happily in the sun with two beautiful girls, playing hide-and-seek together.

But in the next second, that beautiful manor turned into a sea of ​​flames.

She heard someone crying, someone screaming, someone shouting...

She seemed to see the whole sky turn red, and saw her father and mother touching Charlotte's little head, gently asking her to hide and not run around, then took out her staff, joined hands, and looked at Charlotte with determination. Charged towards the red stalwart figure in the distance...

Um?

Are you crying?

In a trance, Charlotte suddenly found that his eyes were blurred.

Those were not her tears.

That's Charlotte's.

That was the natural instinctive reaction of this delicate body when the painful memories that I didn't want to recall came back...

"It seems that you have already remembered."

"Think about it too. After experiencing such a painful thing, even if you deliberately forget it, how can you really forget it?"

Looking at the tearful girl, Quasimodo sighed softly.

Charlotte: ...

No, I didn't think about it, it was just a natural reaction of this body!

She wanted to say so.

Fortunately, Quasimodo seemed to be recalled, and soon started talking to himself:

"Ten years ago, Earl Broglie, the court archmage of the Principality of Boulder, invited nobles and nobles to attend the coming-of-age ceremony of his twin daughters, and the former master, who is a friend and colleague, was also included."

"The former master, madam, and you, the friend of Countess Broglie, all participated."

"However, what no one expected was that the coming-of-age ceremony was just a cover..."

"Earl Broglie's real purpose is to communicate with the Gorefiend, using his own daughter's body as a container, to summon the most terrifying dark entourage under the Gorefiend—the Balrog Valaroka!"

"He wants to break through to legend, he wants to gain the power of demons!"

"He succeeded... The incarnation of the legendary demon came to the world, bringing endless disasters. Almost all the nobles who participated in the coming-of-age ceremony were killed, including yours..."

Quasimodo's voice was a little choked, he looked at the girl sadly, and didn't say any more.

Charlotte knew that what he wanted to talk about was the original body's parents.

Perhaps because she inherited the original body's memory, inexplicably, a touch of sadness emerged in her heart.

Charlotte quickly suppressed the sadness.

The past is the past, if the original body has any regrets, then as the successor, she is also willing to make it up for the other party.

But what needs to be resolved now is the present and the future.

Earl Broly...

This name, why does it feel a bit familiar, as if I heard it somewhere?

Charlotte frowned slightly.

She quickly remembered that this was the name of the owner of the abandoned manor where she was kidnapped last night.

But other than that, she always felt that she had seen this surname somewhere before after time travel...

But I couldn't remember it for a while.

"But... what does this have to do with yesterday's assassin?"

The girl suppressed the doubts in her heart and continued to ask.

"This involves the secrets of the year. Although the Duke's Mansion has been blocking the news in order to reduce the bad influence, there are still many people who know the inside story, including me."

Quasimodo sighed softly, and continued:

"Earl Broglie's summoning of the Balrog was carried out through a ceremony called 'Pure Sacrifice'."

"It was an evil sacrifice that required the blood of an underage virgin."

"For this reason, he secretly abducted or kidnapped a large number of underage girls in the principality. It is said that there are more than a thousand of them. Among them are some noble daughters... some girls are only four or five years old."

"brute!"

Charlotte said coldly.

Quasimodo sighed:

"Who says it's not... Besides, this also includes the assassin's daughter last night."

"He is not an ordinary assassin. He used to be a fallen nobleman without awakening power. His three daughters... were also kidnapped and eventually died in an evil sacrifice."

"His entire family was also exterminated by Earl Broglie in the process of tracking down his daughter's whereabouts more than ten years ago. Only he, who happened to be out, survived."

Charlotte was confused:

"But what does it have to do with him coming to me for revenge? Even if it's revenge, he should go to Earl Broglie?"

Quasimodo shook his head:

"The Broglie family was already expelled on the night of the Balrog Disaster."

"It's self-inflicted. The whole family, hundreds of people, all died from the incarnation of the summoned Balrog, including the Earl himself and his daughter."

"As for why the assassin came to assassinate you..."

Quasimodo paused, smiled wryly and said:

"Because you are the only survivor of that disaster, and also the only survivor among all the girls who were sacrificed..."

"After that disaster, there has been a rumor in Boulder City that the Countess of Castel and his wife, who are the chief and deputy heads of the Boulder Mages, are actually with Earl Broglie."

"It was they who performed the evil sacrifice together, and that's why you survived."

"Ridiculous! They are heroes fighting the Balrog incarnate!"

Recalling some of the broken images that came to mind, Charlotte frowned.

"Yeah, but so what?"

Quasimodo sighed:

"Rumors are the easiest to spread and the easiest to be believed. When everyone is spreading the same rumor, then in people's hearts, the lie becomes the truth."

"Human nature is inherently evil... The Castel family is rich and powerful, and for the public, what is more exciting than seeing a noble family's depravity and accusing a noble family of being evil?"

"In fact, if it weren't for Mrs. Catherine's repeated rumors, if it weren't for the Duke's strong support and support for the Castel family, the rumors of that year would even continue to spread until now!"

Quasimodo was very angry.

After hearing his words, Charlotte's heart moved:

"So... What happened in the manor a few days ago revived this suppressed rumor?"

"Exactly, and there is a growing trend..."

Quasimodo sighed:

"Although the nobles know that the truth is not like that, the public doesn't know, and neither did the assassin who was no longer a noble last night."

"He still believes that the Castel family and the Broglie family are together, and the resurgence of rumors has completely ignited his anger."

"A sad father who lost his daughter and lost his family and fell into madness."

Charlotte determined the other party in this way.

After finishing speaking, she rubbed her temples again and sighed:

"So...the resurgence of rumors must be spread secretly, right?"

Quasimodo bowed:

"I think so."

As he spoke, he gritted his teeth and said:

"This is a conspiracy against you!"

"The succession of the title requires the blessing of the church. If the rumors continue to spread, coupled with what the old lady... that person did, the Castel family is likely to be labeled by the trial as colluding with the Blood Demon Sect. !"

"And once this happens, your right to inherit the territory and title will be greatly weakened, or even directly deprived!"

Charlotte was silent.

After drinking the last sip of milk in the goblet, she hummed softly:

"So... the nobles of the principality are also happy to see this rumor spread, and they are not less behind the scenes, right?"

Quasimodo sighed:

"It's true... Once your inheritance rights are weakened, in order to preserve the title and territory, the Castel family must marry other nobles, so as to strengthen the inheritance rights and find allies..."

"And this is the greatest opportunity for those nobles who have ambitions for our family."

Charlotte listened and sneered:

"Hehe, I know this well, marry me, and then accidentally let me fall in the future, right? Think of me as Mary of Burgundy!"

Quasimodo didn't quite understand:

"Mary of Burgundy?"

"It's nothing, just an unlucky duchess who owns a large rich territory and ends up taking advantage of others."

Charlotte shook her head.

Quasimodo scratched his head and thought for a long time, but he didn't think of any Duchess of Burgundy anywhere, but he understood the general meaning the master wanted to express.

To put it bluntly, it is another sense of desperation.

"So...if I, the sole heir, die now, who will the title and territory of the Castel family belong to?"

Charlotte motioned to Nice to fill herself with milk, and asked suddenly.

Quasimodo hesitated for a moment, did not answer directly, but swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said:

"The Castle family is a branch of the Polder family..."

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