Chapter 546

Tell him about what happened over these past few years?

Although she extremely didn't want to answer this question, after looking back at her younger brother and sister's room, Anna couldn't help but bite her lip and then nodded with difficulty.

"Okay... where should I start?"

"Let's start from when you got the thing."

The man in the black robe said calmly:

"Six years ago, your parents passed away. After I visited and delivered the developed photos, I discovered that you had a certain 'potential,' and then I helped you with a small favor. May I ask what happened after that?"

What happened after that...

Anna bit her lip again upon hearing this, her face pale as she said:

"After that... I did regain family members just like you said, but... but it wasn't the kind I wanted..."

"Oh?"

The man in the black robe raised his eyebrows with interest and then asked:

"Could you be more detailed?"

"It's just... when I expressed my thoughts to that photo and wanted my family to return, the person who appeared in the house wasn't my parents, but a boy about my age."

After recalling the situation at that time, Anna said with a complex expression:

"After he saw me, he said he was my brother. I thought I had met a lunatic and was startled, so I tried my best to drive him out and continued talking to the photo you gave me.

I said I wanted my parents to return and let me regain my family, but the result was still not them, but a pair of swaddling clothes containing two babies..."

"I see... it seems that at that time, you didn't fully believe what I said."

The man in the black robe shook his head upon hearing this and said with some regret:

"You were a child who was slightly precocious and had a calm and rational mind. At that time, you had already deeply understood the meaning of death and understood that your parents could no longer return.

Even if I told you that the family photo was an unparalleled miracle that could let you regain your family and showed you a part of my power in front of you, you didn't fully believe me and still felt from the bottom of your heart that it was impossible to bring your parents back.

Because of the doubt and distrust in your heart, the seed I left in that photo didn't hatch toward bringing back your parents, but headed in an unknown new direction. The effect that finally appeared had a deviation, what a pity."

? ！！！

After hearing the man in the black robe's words, Anna felt a wave of dizziness, and a heart-wrenching cold blood rushed into her heart.

"So... if I had believed enough at the beginning, could I really have brought them back?"

"Sorry, still impossible."

The man in the black robe shook his head again:

"Between life and death is not completely irreversible, but the conditions required to be achieved are unimaginably harsh. Making someone 'not die' isn't difficult, but letting those who have already died return is shockingly difficult.

And although your 'talent' is very outstanding, it's not enough to break through the barrier of life and death. However, if you had believed me enough, you might have summoned the residual shadows left by your parents, or created two puppets or something similar."

"Then... wouldn't that still be fake?" "It is fake, that's true, but you were less than ten years old at the time. Even if they were just two empty puppets with your parents' appearance, it should have counted as realizing your wish, so I didn't lie to you."

After answering Anna's question without changing his expression, the man in the black robe, who had been quite polite, saw that the "test subject" seemed to have gone wrong, and his expression became visibly cold.

Looking toward the inner room and seeing the two children through the wall, the man in the black robe frowned slightly and said with some dissatisfaction:

"It seems that not only your brother, but the remaining two also have no blood relationship with you, and they aren't fake creations, they are all truly complete human beings.

So the seed you obtained, which was numbered within ten, finally gave birth to something that just found a few children who looked like your parents, then forcibly washed away their past, stole their original lives, and let them play house with you?"

"I... I didn't want to! I never thought of doing this!"

After hearing the "accusation" of the man in the black robe, the deepest guilt buried in her heart was torn apart, and Anna's face turned pale, the blood on her face fading in an instant.

"After discovering that something was wrong with that thing, I tore it up directly and took my brother and Melanie to find the police, wanting to help them return to their original homes, but... but everyone's memories seemed to have been changed!"

Supporting herself on the door frame with dizziness to support her body, which could fall at any time, Anna bit her pale lips and tried hard to explain:

"After the police found the neighbors, they said our family was indeed four children. The municipal people flipped through the files and also said they were indeed my siblings. Our house even had things for babies, and even the old photos had three extra children!"

"I... I didn't want to steal other people's family members, I really tried hard to explain! But no one believed me. They all thought I had gone crazy because my parents died in battle and I was too sad, and I couldn't find their original family members, so... so I just..."

Municipal files, neighbors' memories, traces of life... has everything been changed?

Hearing this, the man in the black robe's tightly furrowed brows relaxed slightly.

Although the effect clearly went astray and was completely different from the anomalous object he originally envisioned, this kind of thing that directly intervenes in existence itself and can forcibly modify the other party's life has a very high status, so it wasn't a waste of the strength of the seventh seed.

However, although this test subject met the status requirements, its ability still wasn't what he wanted, and the time for "that" wasn't far away, with at most only one year left.

If he still couldn't create the corresponding anomalous object within a year, even if he successfully handled the Blood-Haired Girl of the Virgin Bureau and destroyed the thing she had sealed on the top floor of the Virgin Bureau, he would still have been busy for nothing in the end!

"Forget it..."

Thinking of this, the man in the black robe, who was somewhat listless, shook his head, put his hat back on, and said to Anna politely and coldly:

"I have no other questions to ask. Sorry to disturb you today...

Oh, and one more thing, since you have already lost the thing I gave you, then after I find it and take it back directly, you shouldn't have any objections, right?"

"I..."

After hearing the man in the black robe's words, even though she knew the other party had power she couldn't resist, the sickly girl still gathered her courage, grabbed the door frame, and asked:

"If you take the thing away... then... then Leon and Melanie and the others..."

"Naturally, they will return to their original homes, and the memories of these years will also be erased. Except for you, no one will know what happened."

"！！!"

Looking at Anna, who had fallen to the ground with a thud, her eyes instantly losing their luster, as if she had directly turned into a fragile shell with only a human appearance, the man in the black robe finally revealed a sincere smile on his cold, hard face with the crying expression.

"Don't worry, after I get the thing, I will help you correct the mistakes you made. Isn't this exactly what you wanted?"

(End of chapter)