my stealth fighter

Chapter 342 Destiny
Until Catherine's narration came to an end, the rain was still falling, the forest was very quiet, and the sky was cloudy like evening.

No. 33 never interrupted Catherine, and listened quietly, even temporarily ignoring the hunger in her stomach.

No wonder Catherine can speak Chinese fluently. It turned out that this was the foundation laid when she was a child. Objectively speaking, this is Lilith's only credit.

No. 33 has also experienced a very tragic past, but her tragedy is gradual. She knew the nightmare she was about to face very early, and then continued to try to get rid of the nightmare.

In contrast, Catherine's happy life collapsed overnight. In a sense, this is even more unbearable, because No. 33 does not miss the past life, and Catherine may always live in her childhood. In happy memories.

"Then how did you get to Mount Ararat?" No. 33 finally asked.

She was curious why Catherine and her sister didn't enroll in Hongye College as their mother planned, otherwise the fate of many people would be different today.

Catherine's thoughts were still wandering in the dark and wine-smelling cellar.

After she took her younger sister into the cellar, due to a fire and a power outage, the cellar soon fell into absolute darkness.

This kind of absolute darkness is powerless even for cats and dogs who are good at night vision.

"Catherine, why don't you go?" Arabella asked.

"There's a power outage, and I can't see anything." Catherine said nervously, as if there were countless ghosts and ghosts lurking in the darkness, they might rush over and chop them up at any time.

"It's okay, Catherine, I'll go ahead, are we going to the lower floor?"

Arabella hummed a nursery rhyme, and she pulled Catherine forward instead. She seemed to be able to see in the dark, and easily pulled Catherine around rows of wine racks and wooden barrels.

So, is this what it feels like to be blind?

Arabella has always lived in such a world?
Catherine really wanted to hug her sister and cry aloud, because there were only two relatives left in the world, but she couldn't cry, she must be strong, if she collapsed, who else could her sister rely on?
"Be careful, there are stairs ahead." Arabella reminded.

The two of them walked down the stairs to the second floor of the wine cellar. Catherine curled up in the innermost corner with her sister in her arms.

"Catherine, are mom and dad really alright?" Arabella asked with her head raised.

"Well, they have already escaped, but the maids did not have time to escape."

Catherine tried her best to stay calm. She knew that her sister could hear many details that ordinary people couldn't hear from her voice, and she might be able to tell that she was lying.

"Oh." Arabella held the cross in her arms, as if she believed it.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-"

A heart-piercing scream came from above the head, the voice was so shrill that even the second floor of the cellar could be heard, it was the scream of human beings when they were enduring great pain.

"Catherine..." Arabella heard it more clearly, trembling in her arms.

"Don't be afraid, I will protect you." Catherine forced a smile, "Arabella, I like the nursery rhyme just now, can you sing it to me again?"

"OK……"

Arabella sang the nursery rhyme again, and Catherine gently covered her ears.

The heavenly voice of a child lingers on the second floor of the wine cellar.

Music itself has a healing effect and can cross languages ​​and national boundaries, and music sung by such a beautiful voice can naturally relax people.

boom.

There was a loud sound of heavy objects collapsing overhead, but the screams disappeared. Catherine tightly covered her sister's ears, and at the same time she smelled a faint smell of smoke.

Only then did she realize that there was a fire upstairs.

The fire had already engulfed the main house. Fortunately, it was raining heavily outside today, so the fire did not spread to the outside, otherwise the entire manor might be burned.

The security guards and staff in other houses noticed that the main house was on fire and had already called the police, but it would take at least half an hour for the fire engines to arrive here, after all, the farm was too big.

There is also a wooden door between the two floors of wine cellars. After the wine bottles on the upper floor burst due to high temperature, a large amount of wine flowed out and flooded the upper floor. This not only prevented the fire from spreading downward, but more importantly, isolated the smoke. People were mostly smoked to death, not burned.

The sweet alcohol was evaporated by heat and dispersed in the lower air. The little Catherine and Arabella were overwhelmed with alcohol, and fell asleep unknowingly smelling the smell of alcohol.

The next day, the firefighters who cleared the fire scene found the wine cellar under the guidance of the farm staff. They thought that everyone had been burned to death, but miraculously found the two sisters who were still sleeping soundly in the lower level of the wine cellar.

They were taken to the hospital, where they were checked and found not to have suffered any trauma.

However, no one believed the facts that Catherine told the police, and she had no evidence to prove what she said. She was hoarse when she spoke, and others only regarded her as a fantasy caused by the influence of alcohol.

All the corpses at the scene of the fire were charred, and the specific cause of death could not be determined. Even the maid whose skull was broken by a hammer could not rule out the possibility that she was killed by falling beams or furniture.

However, one thing is certain. There are only nine corpses in total. According to the dental records, it can be judged that they belong to the hostess, the chef, and six maids, except for the corpse of Lilith.

The employees could prove that Lilith was indeed left for dinner by the hostess and hostess that night, and no one saw when she left. Therefore, the police regarded Lilith as an important suspect, but they failed to find her. She seemed to have disappeared from the world. up.

Then comes the cumbersome and disgusting issue of inheritance.

A lot of relatives who came from nowhere in Europe appeared one after another, claiming that they were the uncles and aunts of the two sisters, and asked to adopt the two sisters. Wanting to adopt them is obviously because of the inheritance left by their parents.

Fortunately, considering the security situation in Chile, the parents asked a lawyer to notarize the will, and stipulated that the entire property should be inherited by the two sisters. However, they were afraid that the two sisters would be deceived when they were too young, so they stipulated that Catherine should be 18 years old. Before coming of age, the estate is managed by a trust fund.

But the problem before the sisters is that they are too young now, legally they must have guardians, and they must either enter an orphanage or be adopted by relatives.

Catherine sees through the despicable faces of relatives, and Arabella hears that relatives are full of lies. They don't want to be adopted anyway, because once they become stepdaughters of relatives, they will not be able to control the rest of their lives.

"Don't go to the orphanage!"

No. 33 knew that the incident had already happened, no matter whether the sisters went to the orphanage or not, it would be futile to dissuade them now, but she still couldn't help but speak.

Catherine glanced at her sideways, not understanding why she reacted so strongly to the orphanage.

"No, we didn't go to the orphanage."

At that time, the situation the sisters faced was very dangerous, which was beyond the imagination of adults. Catherine felt that everyone around them wanted to harm them, and this was not delusional. Arabella could also hear that the people who claimed to be relatives were pregnant. For their own purposes, no one really wanted to help them.

Their best choice is to go to Hongye College immediately according to their mother's plan, but they currently have no right to control the inheritance and cannot pay the admission sponsorship fee, so this road is blocked.

"Arabella, Mom told you before, besides Red Leaf Academy, which other mysterious schools in the world are there?" Catherine asked while looking at the map.

Since her father passed away, Catherine seems to have grown up overnight. She is no longer the little wild girl who ran around like before. Apart from taking care of her younger sister, she spends all her time studying, observing words, and absorbing all the knowledge she can get her hands on. , she made up her mind to shelter her sister from the wind and rain, and from now on, she can only depend on her sister for life.

Arabella had a good memory. Catherine checked the dictionary and recognized the names of various countries on the map. According to what her sister said, she marked those locations on the map with pushpins.

Among these mysterious schools, only Red Leaf College and Mount Ararat Monastery are clearly located. No one knows where the sea of ​​trees in Japan is located like Ninja Academy.

Catherine stared at the border of Armenia. On such a plateau, there stood two lofty mountains. It was said that there was a mysterious monastery on the higher mountain. Although the location was not as clear as Hongye College, it was their only one. hoped.

This might be fate. She prayed that if she could get through that night safely, she would follow the glory of the Lord for the rest of her life. Now it was her turn to fulfill her promise.

As for why she chose a mysterious academy instead of an ordinary school, besides the guardian issue, the most important thing is that she wants to avenge her parents. Only by becoming an existence of the same level as Lilith can she fulfill her wish.

Yes, she wants to become a transcendent, she must do it no matter what, she wants revenge, she wants to protect her sister, although other children may have similar ideas, but no one has stronger determination and desire than her.

The chores were dealt with for a month or two before it was over.

After she nodded and agreed, the manor where she was born and grew up was sold to someone else, and the employees who had worked loyally for her family for many years were also dismissed. A series of processes of production and sales, rather than letting the manor decline in her hands, it is better to hand it over to others completely and exchange it for money to lie in the bank.

Next, she started planning her trip to Armenia, where her family's neighbors played a key role.

It was the neighbor who lost her beloved son. They rushed to the scene immediately after the fire broke out, organized rescue, and provided a lot of help to the sisters in the following days, and even vaguely revealed that they wanted to adopt them. Ideas, as long as they agree, ex-couples who have divorced are even willing to remarry for them.

Compared with their relatives, the former couple of the neighbors are sincere. They have long regarded Catherine as their future daughter-in-law. Now that their son has died, they are willing to regard the sisters as their own, and the neighbor's family property is also quite rich. There is no concern of coveting inheritance.

Catherine was grateful for their kindness, but she politely refused them.

Maybe after becoming their stepdaughter, she can continue to live a peaceful and happy life, but she can't avenge her parents, and she can't protect her sister when a similar disaster strikes again.

She had a premonition that she would meet Lilith again in the future, and more than once.

The former neighbor couple spent money to clear up the relationship and took the sisters to Armenia by plane. They thought that Catherine would retreat after seeing the majestic snow-capped mountains, but they underestimated her determination.

At the age of seven, she slipped out quietly on the night when she arrived at the foot of the mountain, and headed for Mount Ararat alone with water and food.

The terrain around Mount Ararat wasn't exactly difficult, and there were no dangerous beasts, but even so, it was too difficult for her at such a young age.

After a lot of hard work, she finally set foot on Mount Ararat. After climbing a few steps, she couldn't hold on any longer and passed out from exhaustion.

When she woke up, she was surrounded by several nuns in nuns' attire. The nuns had seen many people who wanted to climb Mount Ararat for various reasons, but climbing alone at such a young age Surprised them.

They easily healed her broken elbows and knees from the road, asked her why she wanted to climb the mountain, and asked her where her parents were.

Without her sister by her side, Catherine could finally cry aloud, and she told the nuns about her experience in detail.

The nuns were moved by her experience and made an exception to take her back to the monastery.

The dean heard about her experience, and allowed her to stay in the monastery as a trainee nun, usually doing chores. If she did not have the ability to awaken until she reached adulthood, she would be allowed to leave the monastery and return to inherit the inheritance.

After Catherine disappeared at night, the neighbors and the couple were very anxious, and Arabella even shed tears, her eyes were swollen from crying. She thought her sister had abandoned her.

However, on the second night, Arabella also disappeared, and there was a note in her room, stating that the sisters had joined the monastery, and the abbot became their guardian until they came of age. The couple returned home with peace of mind, and the sisters would write to them regularly to report their safety.

The two sisters lived in the monastery ever since. Although they had to do chores in name, none of the nuns had the heart to order them, especially the blind Arabella. The only task assigned to her by the nuns was to sing.

A few years later, the two sisters gradually grew up, became more and more beautiful, and successively awakened their abilities, and officially became members of the monastery.

Everyone agrees that Catherine or Arabella will be the next dean, especially the latter may be more suitable, because the former has no interest in becoming the dean, and she only has revenge in her eyes, to Lilith and the world. All demons take revenge.

(End of this chapter)