Tome of Blood

Charlotte finally got a good night's sleep.

She didn't have the "whispers of the ancient gods" every night when she just crossed, and she didn't have the fear when she was in the mission hospital. This time she slept directly until almost noon.

In fact, if it wasn't for the screeching sound of the black cat Ness knocking on the window to wake her up... Charlotte thinks she might even be able to sleep through the night.

"I should have said last night, just come back from the main entrance, don't disturb me to sleep late."

A head of beautiful blond hair blown into a hedgehog, wearing a white suspenders nightgown, Charlotte sat halfway on the bed with a pillow in his arms, looking coldly at the black cat drinking water from the teapot.

"Hey, isn't it because the front door is not open? Meow, besides, Mr. Cat... Well, I'm used to walking through windows."

Niss said with a smile, his amber eyes kept looking at the girl's white chest.

No matter how Charlotte looked at it, she felt that the other party did it on purpose, and it was obviously a deliberate revenge.

"Oh? So... the cat I saw outside the window on the evening of the blood sacrifice was you?"

She covered her body with a pillow and squinted at the black cat with its neck stretched out.

"Huh? Cat? What cat?"

Nice shrank his neck, looked up at the ceiling, and began to play dumb.

"The witcher knight that night was also called by you to report?"

"What are you talking about? I don't know! It's not me, I don't, don't talk nonsense!"

Nice directly denied the three consecutive.

Charlotte got it.

"Did you find out what I asked you to check last night?"

She was too lazy to entangle with the other party on these trivial matters, and asked about serious matters instead.

"This... how should I put it, meow, I don't know if I've checked it out or not."

The black cat scratched its head.

"Um?"

Charlotte snorted softly.

"It's like this. When I left yesterday, I told the city guards to track them down, and I also entrusted the guys from the Demon Hunting House to ambush them, but... neither the city guards nor the Demon Hunting House waited until the location on the parchment. The person who hijacked the joint."

Nice said.

"No?"

"Well, no."

"Discovered?"

"No... more like no one came at all."

"No one came? It's strange, so why did they hijack me..."

Charlotte frowned.

At first she thought it might be some kind of enemy of Castel, but now she felt wrong.

Everything that happened last night quickly played a slide show in her mind, and the girl began to think again.

From being abducted by a fake servant at the beginning, to killing him later, to the arrival of the witcher knights and city guards, to the fruitless investigation by Nice...

Gradually, a complete chain of events... began to form in her mind.

Charlotte faintly had some guesses.

After thinking about it, she reached out and groped in the quilt, and found out the hand crossbow that she brought back last night.

Then, it was thrown directly to Nice.

Nice's eyes lit up, he raised his paws to hug, and then stretched his neck to sniff.

But when it saw Charlotte's cold gaze, it coughed dryly and shrunk guiltily.

"Go and find out the homeless man who led the way last night, and then go and find out where this hand crossbow came from."

Charlotte said.

"Ah? How do you check this? Isn't this the standard hand crossbow of the New Moon Kingdom?"

Nis held the hand crossbow, turned it over and over to look at it, with question marks on his face.

Charlotte shook her head:

"If my guess is correct, you should be able to easily find out its source as long as you keep checking. Maybe...it belongs to the Duke's Mansion."

"Duke...Duke Mansion?!"

Nisi's eyes widened, and Mao Mao was shocked.

"Where is the Rose Society? How is the investigation?"

Charlotte did not continue to explain, but turned to other questions.

"The Rose Society shouldn't have anything to do with this matter. If you want me to say, it's just a black intermediary group that takes a commission. It just relies on a second-level Transcendent of Silver Moon as the background."

Nice shook his head.

Saying that, it touched its chin again:

"But Master Cat... Cough, I discovered another thing by accident."

"What?"

"Your cheap grandmother seems to have a close relationship with the Rose Society. There are many missions she has posted on the mission board there, including some for purchasing sacrifice-related materials, and even sold a cursed book page, and...she Seems like she's still an honorary member of the Rose Society, Meow."

Mrs. Castle? Remnants of the Holy Tome of Blood?

Charlotte's heart twitched slightly.

It never occurred to her that there was more than one broken page of the holy tome in the hands of that crazy old woman!

Charlotte was about to ask more questions, but noticed the black cat's high tail. Suddenly, her heart moved, and she narrowed her eyes and said:

"You seem excited?"

"Ah? What? Excited? Meow! Nothing!"

Nice continued to play dumb.

Charlotte watched it silently.

After a while, it seemed that she really couldn't stand her oppressive eyes, Nis scratched his head, and honestly admitted:

"Well, I admit, I'm a little excited, but... please allow me to ask you a question first."

"ask."

"That night, your cheap grandmother must have sacrificed to Grand Duke Gorefiend, right? Then... you changed her sacrifice just like you changed my servant's final oath yesterday?"

Boy, did you guess it?

Charlotte glanced at Nice unexpectedly, didn't admit it, but didn't deny it either.

Nice was excited almost instantly:

"Do you have any enmity with Grand Duke Gorefiend?"

"What does this have to do with you?"

Charlotte asked back.

"Meow! Of course it has something to do with it! Because I also have a grudge against him...ah no, I have a grudge against the Blood Demon Cult!"

Nice raised his paw and said excitedly, even his raised tail trembled:

"Meow! If you want to deal with the Gorefiend...religion, you must call me!"

Charlotte was noncommittal.

She didn't know if she had a grudge against the Blood Demon Cult, it depended on whether the other party would continue to trouble her, and whether she had any broken pages of the Holy Tome of Blood in her hand.

The Holy Tome of Blood is Charlotte's golden finger, and she is the owner of the Holy Tome of Blood, so completing the Holy Tome of Blood must be one of her future goals.

"If necessary, I will, after all you are my servant."

Charlotte said lightly.

Then she asked again:

"How much do you know about Cursed Pages?"

"Cursed pages?"

Nice was taken aback.

It thought for a moment and replied:

"I only know that it used to be a rather ancient artifact of the blood race, and it was destroyed in the blood race civil war. Not only did it lose most of its power, it was also cursed because of it..."

"Everyone who gets the pages of the book will eventually fall into madness, and even the vampires will lose control and become monsters!"

Curse...

Charlotte thought about it.

She thought of the countess that night.

After pondering for a moment, she continued:

"Continue to investigate the Rose Society and the Gorefiend Order, and also investigate the whereabouts of the page of the cursed book sold by Mrs. Castel, as well as other clues about the pages of the cursed book."

"What are you investigating these for?"

Nice asked curiously.

"To get my stuff back, of course."

"Your things?"

Nice looked dumbfounded.

"Okay, I'm going to get up, you go out, and remember to organize all the magic you know into a book and hand it to me."

Charlotte no longer explained, but issued an order to evict the guest.

Nice: ...

Although it was scratching its itch with curiosity, in the end it was afraid of Charlotte's lust, so it sighed and left the bedroom obediently.

"Get back...my things?"

After closing the door, Niss held the hand crossbow, still confused.

Suddenly, as if realizing something, the black cat's figure suddenly stopped:

"His stuff? Wait! Curse the pages?!"

With a "click", the hand crossbow in Nice's arms fell to the ground.

It widened its eyes and couldn't help but start trembling:

"He he he he...!"

"Could it be... Could it be that He is...!?"

...

Charlotte didn't know how much shock her words had brought to Mao Mao.

After Ness left, she struggled to get out of bed.

After a short sleep, the sequelae of the blood runaway also disappeared.

Charlotte felt like a newborn, full of strength all over her body.

Without the maid's service, she naturally abandoned the cumbersome aristocratic dress, and simply put on a dress that even she could wear by herself.

It's just that beautiful blonde hair that is a little harder to manage.

On weekdays, there are servants to help comb, and there are also female priests to help when they are in the church hospital, but now Charlotte is left alone, so she can only stare blankly.

Only at this time did she really realize how much care the servants had put into maintaining her beautiful blond hair.

Beauty has a price.

Maybe I can look back and see if there is any magic that can take care of myself, in case I can learn it too?

Charlotte thought so.

Breakfast... no, or lunch is simple.

A plate of vegetable salad, a veal steak, a small piece of fried foie gras, and a small plate of rind cheese.

In addition, there is Charlotte's favorite cream of mushroom soup.

The lunch was prepared by Quasimodo. Although the taste was not as good as the manor chef Charlotte remembered, it was not bad.

No way, now only Quasimodo and Charlotte are left in the huge Castel Manor.

Being able to take care of herself while juggling the silverware business, Charlotte already felt that the old servant was a hexagonal warrior.

"After dinner, go and call some servants."

After eating and drinking enough, Charlotte looked at the empty manor and her blond hair, which was still a bit messy after a while, and said after pondering for a moment.

After hearing her words, Quasimodo suddenly became embarrassed.

Noticing the other party's expression, Charlotte's heart moved slightly:

"Huh? Is there a problem?"

Quasimodo sighed and said with a wry smile:

"Master, actually... there are really some problems."

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