There are still two hours left before it's time for people in the Southern District to wash up and go to bed. Vertex 23S. Fastest updated In the master bedroom on the second floor of Grande, Murphy sat in front of Louise's dressing table, holding the book "Cain of Divine Punishment" in his hand.
"I thought you were a daughter of an upper class, and you would know that it is rude to just enter other people's rooms and look at other people's things." Louise stood inside the door, leaning against the door frame, looking at the dresser that occupied her woman.
Can you blame Louise's first words to Murphy after returning to Grande for being sarcastic. Louise tried her best to be that generous person, but Murphy didn't know when was enough.
Murphy raised his eyes and saw Louise's image in the mirror. Of course, there was only Louise, and she herself did not exist. "Yes." She did not close the book in her hand, nor did she mean to leave the master bedroom. , continued to sit there, talking to the image in Louise's mirror, "I am the daughter of an upper-class Federation family of that era, and that's why Zachary and I consummated our marriage." Look, I don't know when enough is enough, and what's more. "But whether I have education or not is definitely not the reason why Zachary wants me to join him and become immortal. I have been immortal for a long time now, far beyond my human life. Education is not a quality I care about." Murphy He looked away, "Sarcasm doesn't work for me."
Louise's cheek twitched Why did Zach ever want Murphy to be a member of the Immortals? Just like he made Louise immortal, because of love~
Louise stared at Murphy's back for a long time and then spoke again, "What do you want?"
"Your question is too unspecific and I can't answer you." Murphy answered calmly and turned the page.
"It's impossible for you and Zach to get back together." Louise crossed her arms and said firmly, "I won't allow this to happen."
"Ignorance." Murphy, uh, responded like this, "Ignorance blinded by emotions." Murphy looked at Louise in the mirror again, "I don't want to get back together with him, I've made it very clear."
"Why are you here?" Louise frowned, "What do you want to achieve?"
"I don't have to answer this kind of question." Murphy withdrew his gaze.
"Tsk." Louise left the door and just walked back and forth in the corridor. She needed some time to calm down. Returning to his original position, "Do you still love Zach?"
"No." Very simply.
"Hate him?" Louise's face became a little better and she continued to ask.
"No." Just the same.
Louise's face turned ugly again, "You don't mean anything? You keep emphasizing your marriage relationship and stimulating our emotions, making it impossible for us to have a good conversation with you. You don't love and you don't hate, what on earth do you think?" What do you want?"
Murphy closed the book in his hand. He didn't look at Louise in the mirror this time. Instead, he turned around in his seat and looked at Louise at the door. "My marriage to Zachary is a fact. At the same time, I There is no emotion to stimulate you, I have no emotions, and all the emotions you feel are just your wishful thinking. Your question was wrong from the beginning, I am Assamat, I have no emotions... "
"How did you become Assamat?" It wasn't Louise, it was James.
James had just gone up to the second floor and intervened in the conversation without any permission.
Let me explain. James came from Benjamin's Warehouse.
Based on the fact that Benjamin was hired, Benjamin returned to Grande for a while and was going to live here. So after arriving in Grande, he immediately returned to the warehouse that originally belonged to him and sorted out his living environment.
Zach is helping Benjamin clean up the warehouse, not that Zach wants to help. We all know that the atmosphere between Zach and Benjamin is not right either. But Zach didn't want to get close to Murphy, and watching Benjamin make the bed in the warehouse was just Zach's way of escaping.
James was also in the warehouse, throwing a hundred thousand questions at Zach, 'Who is she?' ''wife? What's the meaning. ''Is there a secret alliance of foreign races in the central region? '…
Zach one by one... refused to answer. So, James ran over and asked.
Murphy looked at James trotting over, "Silent human driver." Ah! Sorry, explain. This was Murphy's knowledge of James' identity back on the Grand Road. It was James who was driving the car, and James miraculously remained quiet the entire time.
"James Lance." James introduced himself, hesitated for a moment, did not extend his right hand, but looked at Louise, "I am a police detective, so answer my question!" What it looks like at work.
"I didn't break the law, I don't need to answer your questions." Murphy looked away from James, turned around, and continued to pick up the book he had just closed...
"What's the name on your ID card?" James pressed Louise's shoulder inexplicably, stood in front of Louise, and spoke to Murphy who turned around, his tone was interrogative, "I don't I think it's Murphy Moriarty, or Murphy Toledo, huh, let alone Murphy Assamat. Do you want me to investigate so that you can enter this place where a man of Indian descent is the mayor? Identity in the city. I am sure I will find something special, so I suggest you cooperate with me and answer questions."
Murphy turned back to James, looked at James with no expression, "Human Detective, you are threatening me." This was a statement.
"I'm here." James also looked at Murphy with a very clear expression, "What can you do? Eliminate the threat?" He looked at Louise and said to Murphy, "She is Zach Descendant, third generation Toledo, you are..." Wait to be added.
The person who filled in was Louise, "Sixth Generation Assamite." This seemed to be the first time these two people who met Zach at the same time had seamless cooperation except after Louise shot and saved James. , "Even if she has the blood of the twin Seth and can forcibly cross the ranks to become the fifth generation Assamite, she will still be suppressed by me."
James nodded and looked back at Murphy, "Then I guess I have nothing to worry about, right?"
Murphy was silent for a while, just a short while, "It was the second year after I moved away from Moriarty Manor and returned to my human parents' home." Still calm, "An Assamite, my eternal life 'Father', found me and made an offer for me to join the Twin Clan."
Louise interrupted, not because she thought about it, but because she heard something unreasonable, "Proposal? You were not forced to become a vampire? Is this a proposal?"
Murphy looked at Louise, "Is this a problem? That's what I said, isn't it?"
Louise's eyes rolled, and she glanced at James. She didn't want to communicate directly with Murphy and explained to James, "Zach said that the reason their marriage became bad was that Zac proposed eternal life to him. She disagreed, and the two of them have been torturing each other since then. She killed Zach in various ways, and Zach responded in various ways. Their..." Louise curled her lips, "the marriage is very painful, It was unbearable, and then Zach gave up, disappeared, and started a new identity."
You can see the change in James' expression when he heard these words, but he knew that now was not the time to ask Zach how to fight back against an ordinary human woman... James still had some sense in him, so James started again. He faced Murphy with an interrogating attitude, "One is your husband, the second-generation Toledo, and the other is the unfamiliar Assamat, the fifth-generation vampire. What changed that made you agree to the proposal to become a vampire."
"Life has changed." Murphy looked at James, still emotionless, "I am in pain, more painful than Zachary is by my side. I hid back to my human parents' home because I couldn't bear it anymore. Those voices around me.”
"what sound."
"Friends of the same class, servants, higher-ups. All kinds of voices." Murphy turned around and looked at the images of James and Louise in the mirror. "The common friends Zachary and I once lived in, human friends, said I ate my husband. I don't blame them, after all I served Zachary's body at banquets and he stained my rouge with his blood. We were what our friends considered 'crazy'."
Louise and James looked at each other, neither commenting.
"The servants in Moriarty Manor, they know the truth, and they are talking behind my back about my stupidity. I refused the opportunity of eternal life." Since Murphy has no image, she turned her back to James and Louise. We can’t know the expression, but based on all Murphy’s previous behaviors, it should be calm without a trace of ripples. “Then the humans whose social class is higher than me and Zachary, the core of this country, those who have been in our The humans who complimented me on my beauty at the banquet and envied Zachary's blessings all became disgusted with me after Zachary disappeared."
James was about to ask, but was stopped by Louise, "Don't ask. You know that Zach is in the Secret Alliance to do things for the alliance. Every identity Zach has ever had was to complete a certain purpose of the Secret Alliance, and it is all in the past. , you don’t need to ask.”
Murphy glanced sideways at Louise, "You're right about this." Then he turned back, "My life has been completely destroyed. The people or things I was familiar with during my marriage to Zachary are all far away from me. Or, I want to stay away from them, but I still can’t stand it as a human being.”
"That doesn't explain your sudden change of mind about becoming a vampire..." James. But he was still stopped by Louise.
Louise looked at James, "Actually, this can be explained." She glanced at Murphy's back and explained to James, "Part of her knew that her life was completely destroyed because he rejected Zach's offer of immortality. ." Louise frowned and wanted to sigh, "The rational part. The other part is just despair. Her life had no hope at all in that era. This is the emotional part. She..." Louise still shook her head. , "She is the qualified standard of the twin clan. She is trapped between love and reason. She doesn't know how to continue living."
James also frowned after hearing this. After being silent for a while, he actually said something surprising, "You can't sympathize with her, right?" He said to Louise.
Louise rolled her eyes at James, "If I had to choose an emotion to face her, I'd rather choose sympathy, eh." After saying that, she waved her hands.
James also curled his lips and looked back at Murphy, "So you gave up your life and gave yourself to the blood of the Twin Clan to choose a way of life for you."
Murphy also turned back and looked at James and Louise, "Yes. I've finished answering. Do you have any other questions, Detective Lance?"
"Zach attended your funeral, who was that old woman?" Louise asked. James glanced at Louise and shook his head speechlessly. This was really not something the detective cared about.
"Substitute." Murphy answered, "In human society, she is me."
"Substitute?" Louise held down James who was about to interrupt, "You mean the old woman Zach saw, who lived the life of Murphy Moriarty in your place?"
Murphy nodded.
James was ready to ignore Louise's obstruction and forcefully ask what was really important...
Louise covered James' mouth, glared at him, and continued to look at Murphy, "This is a substitute. Does she look like you?"
"Seven points." Murphy answered and looked at Louise.
The atmosphere of this stare-down... is a little hard to describe.
"Who found this substitute for you?" Louise continued to ask, "Don't say it's you. You just told us that the social status you and Zach managed together was destroyed after Zach left. The 'widows' of that era did not have such resources and abilities." The hand covering James' mouth could be put down, "Did the Twin Clan find it for you?"
Murphy was silent for a while, "Yes."
"So this is a system, a system passed down by the descendants of twin clans. It is the same as the secret, Sabbat, and vampire identity rotation systems. It is a system with detailed institutional regulations and supporting resources." Louise concluded.
It was the first time Murphy had an expression, with her eyebrows twitching together. Moreover, this was also the first time she did not directly respond to all the questions asked of her: "You are very smart."
"Thank you." Louise became expressionless, ignoring the wide-eyed James, "And this system must be independent from the secret alliance, and the vampire integrates into human life. Because if not The information you deliberately gave before that Assamat was not a foreign vampire, everyone thought you were a foreign vampire."
Murphy said nothing.
Louise continued, "So this system is still running. It's just that it no longer serves to conceal the identity of the descendants of the twin clans, but has become a system that only hides the identity of Asamat in the twin clans."
Murphy stood up and looked at Louise, "I believe my bodyguards have packed up my residence."
"You don't really think that you can..." James was pushed back by Louise again.
"Let her go." Louise looked at Murphy, "She's just Assamat, hum, just an ordinary person. Except for that pretty face, she's not that smart. She refused to be Toledo, didn't she. She just excluded She is a little more focused than others because of her emotions, and it is only a matter of time before we can find out her true identity."
"Sarcasm." Murphy glanced at Louise when he went out, "It doesn't work for me."
"I know~" Louise smiled, "But it works for me~ I say it, I feel good~" and, "Oh~ you don't know what this kind of feeling is, you are Assamite, what a pity~ "