Chapter 1411: No One Is Innocent

"Speaking of which, although asking this might have a bit of showing off—do you know that your properties are about to be completely investigated and confiscated?"

Xia De asked again, and Osenfort nodded: "I received some news this morning. It seems it was a direct order from the Emperor of Kesenrick, so there is no room for maneuver. Speaking of which, Mr. Watson, you know quite a few big figures... Her Highness Margaret?"

Although Xia De tried his best to avoid involving others, his connection with the Princess was too close, so it wasn't strange that Osenfort guessed some things. Of course, there was no need to worry about Margaret's safety tonight; she and Prince William were staying directly in the Sun Church, which was with Yin Luna.

"I do have some relationship with that Highness, but she also happens to be short on money to appease the Stonemason Society. Don't you feel regretful? Those are your properties after all."

The master of the manor looked again at the back of his own phantom at the window:

"Of course I feel regretful; that is a huge sum of money. But after tonight, everything will be different. As long as I can survive tonight, everything can start over. As long as you don't exist, it will become very simple to take back what was lost."

His eyes looked at Xia De's hand, which was wearing the 【Demon Hunting Seal】:

"I am glad to see that you found this. But it's not enough; to deal with it, this is far from enough."

"But to deal with you, it is already enough." Xia De looked down at his ring:

"You still don't understand, do you? It and I are the chess players; you are the chess piece. Because I am involved in more troublesome matters, it doesn't want to take my soul for the time being, at least not now. Similarly, since I don't worry about what it thinks of me, why should I take the initiative to become its enemy?"

"Because that is the kind of person you are." Osenfort looked at him:

"I will never become a person like you, but a person like you is very suitable to be a friend."

"Should I say thank you for the compliment?" Xia De stood up and looked into the room:

"Having said so many serious things, actually, compared to those, I am more interested in your life with Lady Haila. Tell me about how you two got along."

Xia De looked at the woman on the bed:

"For example, after she was 'resurrected', did you usually sleep together? And was there a normal married night life?"

Osenfort squinted at him:

"You want to deliberately provoke me? No, you have already promised that you cannot make a move on me within half an hour."

"But I am truly curious."

Xia De walked to the bedside, with his back to the groom's phantom at the window, facing the bride's corpse on the bed, and asked him:

"I am very certain that you still love her, but why do you usually seem to be avoiding her? Because of the guilt of killing her whole family? Or because of something else? I am curious; I am truly curious."

"This has nothing to do with tonight's events." Osenfort said, and Xia De raised his head slightly: "There is still time anyway, what's wrong with talking to me about it?"

"Your curiosity is truly perverted."

Osenfort said, taking one last look at the corpse on the bed and the scene of his wedding:

"I will wait for you in the courtyard. After the time is up, you can leave this room."

After saying this, he didn't give Xia De a chance to speak at all, turned around, and walked out the door.

Xia De shook his head, looked at the window, and counted down three numbers in his heart: "Three, two,

Two streaks of black smoke flew in from the gray snow outside the window through the open balcony door, landing and turning into the maid and butler. 22

"I thought you would just leave." "You fulfilled your promise, and we will fulfill ours."

The maid wearing an old-fashioned maid dress said: "You saved us, so we should give you a reward. The contract is dissolved, but we still cannot reveal key information, so we can give you a hint."

Xia De nodded:

"I want to talk to Haila Osenfort

for a bit. Since Stone Osenfort let her 'slumber' tonight, there must be a special reason."

"No problem." The butler said first:

"But before that, I would like to ask you a question: what is your favorite animal?"

Xia De was stunned:

"Of course it's a cat. What does this question mean?" "Since you like cats, you don't like lions, right?"

The old butler asked, and Xia De didn't quite understand this sentence, but still nodded:

"It is indeed not a lion." And the maid said:

"Lady Haila is currently in a sealed state. Since you already know she died long ago, you should understand that the current death is also just an illusion. Unseal the seal, and she can be restored. And to unseal the seal, you can rely on the seal in your hand."

After saying these words, the maid and butler nodded at Xia De together, then turned into black smoke and flew out the window.

Xia De walked quickly to the window, watching them fly into the deep night sky to the east in the heavy snow, until they were completely invisible, before he withdrew his gaze.

【I thought you wouldn't let these two demons go.】

"She" said gently. Although there was no starlight or moonlight tonight, Xia De still felt the silver moon shining on him.

"I originally planned to, but they could have left just now but didn't, and even came back specifically to give me a hint. I think changing my mind is fine. Besides, I couldn't catch up to them anyway." He hesitated, then added in his heart:

"【Desire】 once told me that when the very end comes, sin is also power. Keep them; maybe we will meet again in the future."

He turned to look at the corpse lying on the bed; the petrified rose vines seen from the perspective of the Demon Eye should be the so-called seal.

If the "Night Watcher" were in his hand now, Xia De could destroy those rose vines with a gesture. Since he didn't have the sword now, it would probably be a bit troublesome.

He took off the ring, pressed it onto the colorless ink pad mixed with the No. 1 holy water obtained from 【God's Gift Box】, and then gently pressed the seal onto Lady Haila's palm.

The hissing sound and black smoke rose almost simultaneously, and in the "Demon Eye" vision, the petrified rose vines actually began to be burned by flames.

So Xia De pressed the seal on the corpse's forehead, throat, and chest respectively. After waiting for a moment, the petrified rose vines were burned away bit by bit, and the pale woman on the bed opened her eyes.

She looked at the ceiling, then without moving her head, her eyes looked sideways at Xia De; this appearance was truly strange.

Xia De picked up the veil placed by the bedside and handed it to her, then reached out to help her sit up.

The woman looked at the illusion in the room, then expressionlessly put on the black veil.

"According to the agreement with you, Osenfort's properties are finished. In about ten minutes, I will go downstairs to duel with him and then plunge the sword into his chest."

Xia De said, even gesturing with the sword.

Haila Osenfort stood up from the bedside, still expressionless; the scene of the wedding night and the news brought by Xia De could not bring her the slightest change.

She just looked at the black rose in her hand, and then

said:

"You, you should still have things you want to ask me." "Yes."

Xia De nodded; he deliberately provoked Osenfort because he wanted to know some things that even he didn't know:

"I know your story, so, the day your father first came to this manor, how exactly did the poisoned wine come about?"

The eyes behind the veil looked at Xia De: "It had nothing to do with my father, and nothing to do with Stone." "It had to do with you?"

The pale woman nodded, and her flat voice recounted the story of the past:

"Father always looked down on Stone, and that prenuptial agreement was also excessive. I thought, if the wine father brought caused everyone to be accidentally poisoned, perhaps he would give up the agreement out of guilt, or at least, Stone could force him to give up a few clauses. The poison wasn't fatal; it should have been fine originally."

Xia De frowned deeply. Sure

enough, there was no one with normal thinking in this matter:

"But things went beyond your expectations. Osenfort's anger had already accumulated to the peak; he lost his mind because of that glass of poisoned wine... and because of the content of the agreement, he concluded that your father wanted to murder him to obtain the family property, which led to the destruction of the Watson family."

He didn't continue, but in this way, the feelings of the woman who died of a broken heart at that time were not just sadness that her husband had killed her whole family.

On her wedding night, thinking of the cruel things her husband had done and thinking of the death of her relatives caused by herself, the feeling of that night, even for Xia De who was an outsider, made his scalp tingle just thinking about it.

And when Xia De asked her last time if she knew about the destruction of the Watson family, her abnormal attitude could be explained.

"Who told you this 'good idea' of poisoning?" Xia De asked again.

"I thought of it myself."

But she was just an ordinary person; if someone gave her a hint, she wouldn't be able to tell at all.

"Where did the poison that wasn't fatal but would make people vomit blood come from?"

"I asked the maid for it."

And the maid had already left, so Xia De didn't know if this was another trick of the stone mirror demon, or truly a joke of fate.

Osenfort and the demon's story was filled with strangeness and oddities everywhere. Xia De originally thought the love in it was at least sincere,

but he didn't expect to learn even more outrageous things.

He could only say that Miss Feilian's words about "cherishing the soul and staying away from demons" were indeed correct.

Seeing Xia De silent, Haila Osenfort said again: "Before you duel with Stone, there is one more thing you need to know, about his immortality, about how to defeat him. Part of the demon contract stipulates under what circumstances his death can cause him to lose the bet with the demon; I don't know this. But I know how to completely destroy his immortality."

The woman wearing the veil covered her left chest: "His heart is not normal." ===== CHAPTER 1412 =====