Chapter 368 Chapter 162 Chrisis’s Past
“Invader, hehe…”
The Black-winged Monarch’s voice fell silent, letting out a few low, incomprehensible chuckles, as if mocking something. Verafia didn’t plan to pay him any more attention. She tilted her head slightly, and the clean light touched her delicate white skin.
“However, this Chrisis, she said… in the past, it was because of this guy, Ig, that Eggesti took her in, and last time, she seemed to have quite a few complaints about the aristocratic class.”
Verafia thought silently. Although Anderdun was her enemy and not her friend, his judgment of Chrisis just now was something Verafia did indeed think.
The young girl’s gaze shifted slightly. In front of her, the silver-robed nun’s clean, long hands continued to distribute bread and water to the children beside her, while also not forgetting to bestow blessings.
And, very obviously, on the nun’s slightly upturned cheek, a pure sacred light shone, faintly revealing a joyous emotion from the bottom of her heart.
Verafia gently pulled the nun with her slender hand and asked in a crisp tone, “Chrisis, you seem very happy to see these children?”
“Happy… perhaps. Maybe because I can help them too?”
Chrisis said. She had intended to finish dealing with the girl and continue her work, but Verafia’s big eyes were still questioning, and her fingertips were still holding onto her robe.
Chrisis couldn’t help but smile helplessly. She temporarily asked a white-robed nun beside her to take her place for a while, and led the girl to a slightly more open area.
“Miss Verafia, are you asking about my past?”
Stopping her steps slightly, the silver-robed nun’s watery, lustrous eyes fell on the girl’s pure white jade-like cheeks beside her. However, before she could answer, the nun chuckled and gently shook her head:
“However, I think, Miss Vera, you already have an answer in your heart. Actually, it’s just as you think. In the past, I should have been one of these children too.”
“Eh? You mean…”
Verafia raised her head, and the silver-robed nun in front of her still had a faint smile on her beautiful face, but it was like a tranquil lake reflecting the moonlight in the deep night.
Chrisis’s slender fingertips gripped lightly, nodded, and then raised her face again, speaking softly: “”
“I told you… I was taken in by Lord Marquis because of the Young Master. However, before that, I wasn’t born in Lorinc, but in the territory of a nearby Count.”
Verafia’s golden eyes looked up at her face, and the silver-robed nun in front of her seemed to be reminiscing:
“I lived in that place for six years. Although the memories are a bit blurry now… I can still remember that my father was a hunter, and my mother was a weaving worker, making silk cloth for the ladies of the Count’s family to make a living.”
A smile suddenly appeared on Chrisis’s face: “At that time, although our family was not well-off, I still have many happy days in my remaining memories.”
“Then… did something happen later?”
The nun turned her gaze to the questioning girl’s cheek. She was looking up with her golden eyes, her radiant golden color like a treasure, and her flawless face made one inexplicably jealous.
Yes, who wouldn’t be jealous of such a perfect girl?
Chrisis released her fingers, closed her eyes slightly, and then gently shook her head, speaking again:
“Actually, I don’t remember much. What appears before my eyes now seems to be just a scene that suddenly fell into darkness, like a black tide… and many people turned into monsters with scales and claws… and then there were everyone’s screams of fear and pain.”
“I remember, my mother hid me under the bed. At that time, I was so scared that I fainted directly. When I woke up, it was a collapsed ruin, and a lot of blood flowed into a black river… As for my father and mother, I didn’t see them, only fragments of their clothes.”
Although the nun was smiling, her voice had a slight tremor, as if recalling such scenes was still a very painful thing for her.
She closed her pupils and said again: “It wasn’t until a long time later that I learned that day was just because of the Count’s experiment. He had converted to a dark cult and infected his subjects with dark tainted blood, trying to open the gates of hell.”
“So your parents… are they gone because of this?”
Verafia seemed to hesitate. But she still raised her head and spoke.
“Actually, I thought so at the time. However, Miss Vera, that’s not the case.”
Chrisis smiled at her: “My mother was actually abducted by the Count and died from being raped in his lair… As for my father, a Count who not only possessed power but also surpassed mortals would naturally notice a simple hunter like him.”
After many years, even though it was just a simple description, and the smile on the nun’s face had not faded, anyone could clearly perceive the suppressed grief in her heart.
“…Then, Chrisis, did you and Ig meet because of this incident? And what happened to this Count in the end…?”
“You ask this… I only remember that the Count and the Dark Cult behind him still ruled the city for a long time, using the blood of commoners to perform dark magic… It wasn’t until more than a week later that the city, which had become a fiend’s fortress, was finally breached. And the Count, before summoning a dark fiend, had his head thoroughly severed.”
Chrisis said. Her gaze suddenly fell on the girl’s raised face, “Miss Vera, do you believe that when that Count was completely killed, I happened to be nearby and witnessed that scene with my own eyes. Yes, you guessed right, it was Lord Marquis who killed him.”
“So, then…”
Verafia’s long eyelashes blinked. It seemed that the answer to her previous question was already clear.
However, Chrisis shook her head and gave a light smile.
“That’s not it. At that time, the Young Master was only two years old, so Lord Marquis naturally wouldn’t bring him along, let alone such a dangerous war.”
“Moreover, at that time, I was just an ordinary child, and there were quite a few people like me in the entire city. Lord Marquis naturally wouldn’t pay much attention.”
“Is that so?”
Verafia thought about it and realized that this explanation seemed more reasonable. She raised her face again and asked, “Then did you and Ig meet later?”
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Not finished… I should have another chapter later.
