Secretary of the Devil's Castle

She withdrew her hand like an electric shock, then thought for a moment and decided to rot what happened just now in her heart.

Although I knew that Marianne was naturally jumpy, but I didn't expect to be able to jump out like this.

"Fata... Leah?"

The door of the tree house opened, and Marianne looked at Fatalia standing in the distance with a look of surprise, and then the figure came to her in a flash, "Why... no, why are you here?"

"I do not know either."

Fatalia threw out this sentence dryly, and then folded her arms and said: "I imagined several possibilities, probably because of the small probability events that occurred after our magic collided and connected together, resulting in our The spiritual world is also connected."

"Is that so? It's strange."

Marian closed her eyes, frowned and thought for a while, then she chose to give up thinking, "I don't know why, but let it be like this! Speaking of Fatalia, your inner world is so beautiful! The scenery is so beautiful!"

"Warm... Speaking of which, Fatalia."

Marianne looked directly into Fatalia's eyes, with a melancholy expression, "Although your inner world is very beautiful, why does it feel so... cold, and you can't feel angry at all, I looked at it It’s like looking at an ice cellar, it’s very cold.”

"Cold?"

Fatalia was stunned for a moment, but she quickly reacted, shook her head and said, "Don't worry, it's because of my personality. I have such a personality, so the inner world feels different to people."

After staring at Fatalia for a while, Marianne suddenly burst out laughing, "Pfft! Fatalia, do you know what you mean when you say that? Like that...seriously saying that he is not a good person, just Such!"

Fatalia was taken aback again, feeling that she couldn't keep up with Marian's brain circuit, "I don't understand what you are talking about at all, but I really don't think I am a good person."

Suddenly Marianne laughed louder.

It's just that the laughter gradually became blurred in Fatalia's ears, as if getting farther and farther away, and the warm light in front of her gradually faded away. Immediately afterwards, Fatalia opened her eyes .

It is a familiar ceiling.

The real world...?

Fatalia looked at the ceiling of her room and blinked, sat up with her forehead in a daze, and then felt a piece of softness crashing into her arms, and was almost thrown on the bed again: "Favre Na? Why..."

"Pfft hahaha!"

Before Fatalia could finish speaking, she heard Marianne's laughter from the next door.

Fatalia: ...Why is this divided into two episodes after laughing? !

Surprised for a moment, Fatalia didn't care too much, but just lowered her head again to look at Favna who was just rubbing hard in her arms but was silent.

After hesitating for a moment, she put her hand on Favna's head and rubbed it lightly, "It's okay, I'm already awake."

"Um……"

"So you don't have to be afraid."

"Um……"

"Will that get off of me? It's a little...itchy."

"..."

"...I won't answer at a time like this, right?"

After dawdling for a while, Favna returned to normal, and sat on the edge of the bed with a calm face, as if the little maid who just lay on Fatalia and refused to get up was not her.

Seeing this, Fatalia shook her head helplessly, and said, "Favna, how long have I been asleep?"

Favna immediately replied, "Three days."

"Three days... no wonder I feel so hungry."

Fatalia got off the bed and stretched, then put on her clothes and said, "Then Favna, let's go eat something first."【|*

"Then master, I have a good idea."

Favna's eyes lit up immediately, she stopped in front of Fatalia and gestured with her hands, "I just learned a new dish recently, if..."

"Okay, Favna, there's no need to say any more."

Fatalia directly covered Favna's mouth with her hand, "I just woke up, and I don't plan to go back to sleep yet."

Suddenly Favna's eyes darkened, seeing this, Fatalia could only sigh helplessly, "Okay, when, Favna, the mice you made won't pass out after eating them, I will Will try again."

Favna was silent for a moment, then nodded.

Fatalia didn't say much when she saw this, she just went to the door of the room, opened the door and walked out, "I haven't eaten for three days, I'm so hungry..."

"I'm starving!"

Leo dropped the sword in his hand, let out a strange cry, and lay down directly on the ground. Seeing this, Elisha on the opposite side put the sword back into his waist helplessly, and said, "Your Highness, although it is indeed time for lunch Yes, but how much attention should be paid to your image, Your Highness, after all, you are also the prince of the Reinhardt Empire."

"Prince? Can it be eaten as a meal? Hey, wait a minute, it seems to be really possible."

Recalling the situation where you could eat by swiping your face, Leo choked for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Forget it, anyway, I just want to eat now, the college competition is suspended again, and Marianne and Fatalia are here again. Unconscious, Patty stays in the room all day long, and Favna stays beside Fatalia, it's really boring."

"How about making some new friends."

Elisha reached out and pulled Leo up from the ground, "You should be very good at making friends, right?"

"Don't mention it, that's at best the person you're talking to, not a friend."

Leo put on a bitter face with some disgust, "It's all for the sake of my identity, there is no one who can talk on an equal footing! Let's go eat."

Elisha shrugged helplessly, "Then there is no other way, let's go."

Compared with when they came out with Fatalia and Marianne, Leo and Elisha did not have such high requirements for the taste of food. Leo directly asked for two burritos on the side of the road and solved it lunch question.

"Sure enough, it's the best thing to eat!"

The burritos are filled with meat and vegetables, and served with the store’s seasoning, which makes Leo’s mouth full of oil. The salty and spicy taste mixed with a little sweet taste gives his tongue great satisfaction.

"The teacher who taught you etiquette will definitely not rest in peace."

Elisha looked at the imageless Leo, and couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth, "I really can't see the slightest bit of royal family temperament at all."

"Tch, only a guy with low confidence would care so much about such boring things as etiquette."

Leo raised the burrito in his hand nonchalantly, "Our Reinhardt has always built our country on the basis of force—by the way, will we go around later? The college area is quite big, and it's interesting to take a stroll."

"But this set of etiquette system is an important tool to maintain the country... Forget it, I don't think His Highness will care about it."

Elisha held his forehead helplessly, "Is there anything you want to see or buy, Your Highness?"

"Ah, if you say there is, it really is."

Leo showed a smile, after all, it can't be done in a place with so many people.

Elisha's eyes narrowed slightly: "I see."

Chapter 34 by Reinhardt

"Ah—so full, so full."

On the street, Marianne rubbed her belly and walked ahead with a contented face, "It feels really unusual to sleep for three days and then eat a big meal, but if possible, I think it's better not to have a second time."

"I think it's better not to have a second time. I only had this kind of experience in the Great Wasteland."

Fatalia gnawed down a piece of barbecue in her hand viciously, and then looked at Marian: "Speaking of which, Marian, didn't I remember that you once said that those who are malicious to you will be burned by the holy flame?" ? Why did you and I dismantle the Colosseum and still haven’t this phenomenon?”

"This one."

Marianne twirled a strand of hair in front of her ear with her fingers and recalled it for a moment before replying: "The conditions for triggering the Holy Flame actually need to be discussed on a case-by-case basis. Burning actually forgot to tell you that there is another key premise - that is, it is not a direct offensive, it must be a shady method carried out in secret, such as secretly poisoning. And if you attack directly If you don't, like the game with you before, it will be considered a trial, and the trial of the saint will be ignored."

"Pretty smart."

Fatalia pondered for a while and made a judgment, "The so-called saint is the eyes of the gods, this sentence is really true."

"Can I still lie to you~"

Marian walked in front with her hands behind her back, but at this moment she raised her eyebrows and looked into the distance, "That's... Leo and Elisha? How did they get into the alley?"

Fatalia also shifted her attention from the barbecue in her hand to the front when she heard the words. As expected, she saw Leo and Elisha muttering into the alley beside the road. More than that, her eyes rolled, His eyes shifted to an unattractive middle-aged man in the crowd.

Although that man hid it very well, his attention has never been diverted from Leo and Elisha, and the malice on him... It is indeed impossible to hide it from Fatalia's eyes.

As a great sin, she is even more sensitive to such negative emotions than Shengguang. That guy is as conspicuous as a forest in the Great Wasteland in the City of Shengguang.

Seeing Leo and Elisha walking into the alley, the man followed them calmly. Seeing this, Fatalia and Marianne looked at each other, and then pulled Favna who was dazed aside to follow. go up.

"Ok?"

The man walked into the alley, but his eyes widened in surprise, because there was no one in the alley, he couldn't help but wondered to himself, "Where's the person?"

"People are here!"

The voice came from above, and before the man could react, he was directly pressed to the ground by Leo who fell from the sky. Leo showed a somewhat mad smile and asked curiously: "Hello, Mr. Unknown , although I don’t know who you are, but the kind of hostility on your body can really be detected by even a dull winter mouse, so you should have something to do with me? Can you talk? "

Just as the man was about to raise his head, a thin sword was attached to the bridge of his nose. The point of the sword was only a few centimeters away from piercing his flesh and blood. The cold feeling could be fully felt without touching it.

Elisha held the rapier and said indifferently: "Don't talk nonsense, don't try to escape, don't try to resist, it's useless anyway, answer honestly,"

But he didn't seem to feel it at all, and started to struggle with a blank face. Leo's face changed slightly and he looked at the person who kept moving under him. His strength was undoubtedly stronger than that of a man, but the man was completely He didn't care about this, he just insisted on getting out of Leo's control, and then Leo saw the man's body joints gradually distorted into shapes that shouldn't exist.

Click!Click it!creak!

The bones on the man's body were all broken. Without saying a word, he withdrew his left hand held by Leo, and then stretched out the remaining right hand. The target might be Leo's throat.

Leo frowned tightly, "No way?"

Before he had time to verify the thoughts in his heart, the man's broken rib accidentally pierced into his heart, but he fell powerlessly to the ground after a while.

"You guys are... wow!"

At this time, Marianne, who had just come to the entrance of the alley, happened to see this scene, and couldn't help but exclaimed, "What are you doing? Is this person still alive? Dead? Well, he is indeed dead, so what were you doing just now? "

"Just now..."

Leo stood up straight and spread his hands helplessly, "I sensed that someone was hostile to me from the crowd, but I wasn't sure who it was, so I planned to go into the alley to see who was following me, to determine who was peeping at me, and then This guy showed up - but I didn't hurt him, it was all his doing."

"The shoulder bone I made by myself was shattered, the left arm was broken, the spine was cracked, multiple ribs were broken, and one even stuck into the heart and caused fatal injuries..."

Fatalia, who had just finished the inspection, clapped her hands and looked up at Leo, "Are you sure?"

"He did it himself. I just held him down, and then he struggled and killed himself."

Leo's expression became even more helpless, and he also knew that such words were hard to believe, but Fatalia and Marianne just made a neat nasal sound without making any comments, while Fatalia's eyes flickered a little The red light began to search for the man's soul that had just died and hadn't dissipated, "Well, I found it, let me see...it's blank? Why?"

"Blank?"

Marianne's eyes widened immediately, and she gestured and said, "Wait a minute! Fatalia, are you sure you read it right? Are you sure that soul is blank?"

"No mistake, absolutely, no mistake."

Fatalia shook her head, and her expression became a little serious, "Although not all demons are experts in manipulating souls, I have done some research on this, so I am 100% sure that what I see is correct, this soul There is no mistake."

Under normal circumstances, something like the soul would be the appearance of the owner before life, and would try to reproduce its behavior before life, but what Fatalia tried to see was a vague shadow, and it was severely damaged.

What's happening here?

"A blank...?"

Leo's eyes narrowed, and he squatted beside the man as if remembering something, then touched his face lightly with his hand infused with magic power, and in just a split second, that ordinary face flowed to the ground like melted wax , What was revealed turned out to be a completely devoid of facial features and hair, just like a bald oval ball of meat.

"Sure enough."

Leo exhaled lightly: "It's the Faceless."

"Faceless?"

Fatalia also squatted beside Leo, staring at the corpse in front of her and asked, "Explain."

"Then it's a long story, where should I start... The Faceless Ones are a unique unit of our Reinhardt Empire. Each of them has undergone special training, abandoning their names, appearances and even genders. For each faceless person, full-time intelligence, infiltration, and assassination are well-known in nearby countries. They are very good at disguising as various ordinary people to achieve their goals, and these faceless people naturally master There are a lot of confidential information that cannot be leaked at all, so in order to prevent them from being caught to torture their bodies and even their souls, they will set up a magic prop in their minds. The effect of this magic prop is to reset the soul release consciousness and destroy it when the body dies. , to ensure that there will be no information leakage, which is why the soul you saw in Fatalia is completely blank."

As he spoke, Leo suddenly rubbed his chin and pondered again, "But why did the Faceless Man appear here? I remember that because the Pope of the Church of the Holy Light can sense the malice of everyone in the city, our spies can't penetrate it at all. .”

The corner of Marianne's mouth twitched suddenly: "Hey, Leo, is it appropriate for you to say this in front of me?"

"It's okay, anyway, it's not a secret, it's been rotten for a long time."

Leo waved his hands indifferently, "But even if he could come in, why would he show hostility to me? Wait a minute, could it be..."

He frowned suddenly, stretched out his hand to touch the Faceless Man, and seeing Marian's expression gradually became strange, "You..."

"Necrophilia?"

Before Marianne could say it, Fatalia complained without hesitation. Marianne immediately cast a heroic look at Fatalia, but unfortunately, the information that human eyes can contain is Limited, so Fatalia did not receive Marianne's message.