Flowing dresses, rain-soaked hair. Odette sits on the railing of the Marchen Bridge, facing Victor, and says with a gun to his head.
"Me. It was actually really painful."
A voice that trembles as if it is spitting out a long-suffering word.
"Because I hate myself the most, it makes me tickle that others hate me."
Tears were dripping down her white cheeks. Like a dam that has been holding on for a very long time, it burst all at once.
"All the imperial people, you, my family hated me...... No one could have hated me as much as I did. I was the one who hated myself the hardest."
Victor stared into the void where Odette was, white and stunned.
'Baby, baby. Put down your gun. Please...'
Despite his desperate pleas, no sound came out of Victor's throat. Only Odette continued.
"I mean, this is definitely bullying. These people hate me so much and are so horrible that they want to torment me with the word love."
'...Nope. Nope. Odette. It's not like that...'
Victor repeated as if he were going to scream. However, there was still no sound coming out of his throat.
It was then that Odette and Victor's eyes, who were sitting on the railing, met.
"No? Victor, really?"
Odette looked at Victor as if to interrogate him. At the same time, she pulled the trigger.
Bang!
A sound like fireworks exploded in his ears at the same time. Odette's body shook like a broken marionette and fell helplessly behind the railing of the bridge.
Victor reflexively ran out to catch Odette. Unlike one day, his feet were free.
He had forgotten that he was hanging John and Shion on his shoulders.
Splash!
He could hear the river splashing.
In the night sky, only a small amount of smoke left by the exploded fireworks remained.
***
The Count's head throbbed after Rolf's report.
'What is this? Nonsense...'
The fact that Odette was actually alive makes his head throb.
"Odette, is that Siegfried's daughter?"
Siegfried and his wife were killed by the Count's subordinates. The Count remembers the report clearly, but he has never received any report of the presence of a newborn child.
"I'm also having someone check on him now, but the killer who sent him at the time confessed that he had a newborn baby."
Rolf replied with dismay. He chose him to be loyal. He didn't expect to hit the back of the head like this.
'Is that bloody vein still there?'
The Count laughed. What kind of prank is this? The girl he adopted was actually Siegfried's daughter.
Until he learned about Odette's lineage, the Count had only thought of restoring his relationship with Odette after hearing about the resurrection.
It was his first time raising a daughter, so he made a mistake.
Let's forget about our childhood and get along well in the future. Anyway, didn't you get out of the orphanage thanks to the white writer?
He thought it would be helpful for her to have him in the future.
The orphan thought that such a good ship would bring her back soon.
"But if she is Siegfried's daughter, reconciliation is impossible."
The Count had been running a pharmaceutical company. It meant that he knew better than anyone how tiring and tenacious the bereaved family members are.
In addition, the Count did not want to reconcile with Odette. What kind of human being would call the daughter of a nemesis crazy?
'I should have known about this earlier.'
If that had been the case, wouldn't it have doubled the fun of selling the house?
Every moment must have been thrilling to feel like she was trampling on Albrecht's old lineage.
She would have wanted to show it on their tombstones.
Look. The title you loved so much, the pharmaceutical company, and even the last successor are all within my grasp. If I had played with it, I would have killed him with my own hands.
'But she was alive.'
He even declared war on the arrogant family owner.
"Phuhhh."
The Count laughed. When he thought back to when Odette was just adopted, it was funny that she would take the title away from him.
But he knew he couldn't take it lightly.
He could also guess why things suddenly started to go awry two years ago. Some, if not all, of Odette must have been involved. At least for what happened on the island of Athens.
The Count checked his pocket watch as was his habit and asked Rolf.
"Then where is she living now?"
"She's like staying in a cathedral."
"Really? It's hard to kill her right now."
The Count was not a man who cared about the interests of humanity or the community.
Whether or not there was a danger of an S-class transcendent's runaway, he was willing to make Odette a false purifier for his own profit.
Even if Odette was a real S-class purifier, he thought that if she got in the way, he could kill her.
It was difficult because there were no Counts in the cathedral, and it was enough to send a killer to kill her at any time, whether it was by poisoning or accidentally killed.
Blinded by revenge, the Count had long forgotten the horror of the three S-Class Transcendents when they came to him.
'Since you dare to take away what belongs to me, I should kill you even more miserably, right?'
"I'm glad you kept Fernand alive."
The Count smiled insidiously.
Although he is an unremarkable successor. Without Fernan, all the property would have been inherited by Odette in the next generation.
"Master. And... I would also like to add a story that I overheard in the cathedral."
Rolf was holding hands with Charlotte and the High Priest Raphael, and that Charlotte was actually an S-class and that she had performed a miracle far greater than Odette.
He also explained in great detail that Odette was 'pretending to be dead' and that Charlotte had received it directly from God.
"Saintess Charlotte has accepted the adoption of the Albrecht family."
Rolf posted a report with a hint that he wanted to adopt Charlotte as soon as possible. But the Count also questioned that.
"Why did Charlotte's attitude suddenly change? She refused the sponsorship for two years."
"When I overheard the conversation with the High Priest. It seemed that Miss Charlotte hated Miss Odette very much. This is my personal opinion, but I think she wants to take advantage of Miss Odette's weakness and wants to enter the mansion."
The Count had been desperately wanting to adopt Charlotte for the past two years.
For Fernand's exemption from criminal punishment if he had an accident again, for the sake of the ruined Albrecht family's reputation, and even for the money given to the Purifier's family.
That's why he's been begging for so long to let Charlotte be his back. She did not accept. By the way.
'Suddenly adopted?'
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