"Speaking of which, although asking this may sound a bit boastful, do you know that your entire industry is about to be investigated?"
Shade asked again, and Ossenfort nodded:
"We received some news this morning. It seems that the order was given directly by the Emperor of Carsenrick, so there is no room for maneuver. So, Mr. Watson, you also know a lot of important people... ... Her Highness Margaret?"
Although Shade tried his best to avoid involving other people, his connection with Her Royal Highness was too close, so it was not surprising that Ossenfurt guessed something. Of course, there was no need to worry about Margaret's safety tonight, as she and Prince William lived directly in the Church of the Sun, that is, with Yin Luna.
"I do have some relationship with that princess, but she just happened to be short of money to appease the Stonemasons Guild. Don't you feel sorry for that? It's your property after all."
The owner of the manor looked towards the window again, and saw his own phantom figure:
"Of course I feel sorry, that's a lot of money. But after tonight, everything will be different. As long as I can survive tonight, everything can start over. As long as you don't exist, it will be very easy to get back what I lost."
His eyes turned to Shad's hand, which bore the Demon Seal:
"I'm glad to see that you found this. But it's not enough. It's far from enough to deal with it."
"But it's enough to deal with you."
Xia De looked down at his ring:
"You don't understand yet, do you? It and I are chess players, and you are the chess piece. Because I am involved in more troublesome things, it doesn't want to take my soul for the time being, at least not yet. Similarly, since I am not worried about what it thinks of me, why should I take the initiative to become its enemy?"
"Because that's who you are."
Oxenfurt looked at him.
"I will never be someone like you, but you are a good friend."
"Should I say, thank you for the compliment?"
Xia De stood up and looked into the room:
"After talking about so many serious things, I am actually more interested in your life with Lady Hela. Tell me about how you get along with each other."
Xia De looked at the woman on the bed:
"For example, after she 'resurrected', do you usually sleep together? Do you still have a normal night life as a couple?"
Oxenfurt squinted at him:
"You want to deliberately provoke me? No, you've already promised not to fight me for half an hour."
“But I’m really curious.”
Shade walked to the bed, with his back to the groom's phantom in the window, and facing the bride's body on the bed, he asked him:
"I'm sure that you still love her, but why do you seem to be avoiding her? Is it because you feel guilty about killing her family? Or is it for some other reason? I'm curious. I'm really curious."
"This has nothing to do with what happened tonight."
Ossenfurt said, and Shade raised his head slightly:
"There's still time, what's wrong with talking to me?"
"Your curiosity is really perverted."
Ossenfurt said, taking one last look at the body on the bed and the scene of his wedding:
"I'll wait for you in the yard. When the time is up, you can leave this room."
After saying that, he didn't even give Xia De a chance to speak, and turned and walked out of the room.
Xia De shook his head, looked at the window, and counted down three numbers in his mind:
"Three, two, one."
Two puffs of black smoke flew in through the open terrace door from the gray snow outside the window, and after landing they turned into a maid and a butler.
"I thought you would just leave."
"You fulfilled your commitment, and we will fulfill ours."
The maid in the old-fashioned maid dress said:
"You saved us, so we should reward you. The contract is terminated, but we still cannot reveal the key information, so we can give you a hint."
Xia De nodded:
"I want to talk to Hela Oxenfurt. Since Stone Oxenfurt let her 'sleep' tonight, there must be a special reason."
"no problem."
The butler began by saying:
"But before that, I want to ask you a question: What is your favorite animal?"
Xia De was stunned:
"Of course it's the cat. What does the question mean?"
"Since you like cats, you don't like lions, right?"
The old butler asked. Xia De didn't quite understand what he said, but he nodded.
“It’s not a lion.”
The maid said:
"Madam Hela is currently sealed. Since you already know that she has long been dead, you should understand that her current death is just an illusion. If the seal is removed, she will be able to recover. And the seal can be removed with the seal in your hand."
After saying these words, the maid and the butler nodded to Xia De, then turned into black smoke and flew out of the window.
Xia De quickly walked to the window and watched them fly into the deep night in the east in the heavy snow. He did not look away until they were completely out of sight.
I thought you wouldn't let these two demons go.
"She" said gently. Although there was no starlight or moonlight tonight, Xia De could still feel the silver moon shining on him.
"That was my original plan, but they could have left just now but didn't, and they came back to remind me. I might as well change my mind. Besides, I can't catch up with them."
After hesitating for a moment, he added in his mind:
"Desire once told me that when the end comes, sin is also power. Keep them, maybe we will meet again in the future."
Turning around and looking at the corpse lying on the bed, the petrified rose vines seen from the perspective of the demon should be the so-called seal.
If he had the Night Watcher in his hand, Shade could destroy the rose vines with a simple gesture. But now that he didn't have a sword, it would be a little more troublesome.
He took off the ring, pressed it on the colorless ink mixed with Holy Water No. 1 from God's gift box, and then gently pressed the seal on Madam Hela's palm.
The hissing sound and black smoke rose almost at the same time, and in the vision of the "Visual Demon", the petrified rose vines actually began to be burned by the flames.
So Xia De placed seals on the forehead, throat and chest of the corpse. After waiting for a while, the petrified rose vines were burned bit by bit, and the pale woman on the bed opened her eyes.
She looked at the ceiling, then without moving her head, glanced sideways at Shade, looking really strange.
Xia De picked up the veil beside the bed and handed it to her, then reached out and helped her sit up.
The woman looked at the illusion in the room, then put on her black veil with an expressionless face.
"According to the agreement with you, Oxenfurt's industry is finished. In about ten minutes, I will go downstairs to duel with him and then stab his chest with the sword."
Shade said, raising his sword to signal.
Hela Osenfurt stood up from the bed, still expressionless. The scene on the wedding night and the news brought by Shad could not bring about any change in her.
She just glanced at the black rose in her hand and said:
"You, probably have something else you want to ask me."
"Yes."
Shade nodded. He deliberately angered Osenfurt because he wanted to know something that even he didn't know:
"I know your story. So, what happened to the poisoned wine the first time your father came to this manor?"
The eyes behind the veil looked at Shade:
"It has nothing to do with my father, and it has nothing to do with Stone."
"It's about you?"
The pale-faced woman nodded and told the story of the past in a calm voice:
"My father has always looked down on Stone, and the prenuptial agreement was too much. I thought that if the wine my father brought caused everyone to be accidentally poisoned, maybe he would give up the agreement because of guilt, or at least Stone could force him to give up a few terms. The poison was not lethal, so it should have been fine."
Xia De frowned deeply. As expected, there was no one with normal thinking in this matter:
"But things turned out to be beyond your expectations. Ossenfurt's anger had already accumulated to its peak. He lost his mind because of the poisoned wine, and because of the content of the agreement, he believed that your father wanted to murder him to obtain his property. This led to the destruction of the Watson family."
He didn't continue, but in this case, the woman who died of a broken heart must have been feeling more than just sad that her husband killed her entire family.
On her wedding night, she thought about the cruel things her husband had done and the deaths of her loved ones that she had caused. Even Xia De, who was not involved in the incident, felt his scalp tingling when he thought about how he felt that night.
And the last time Shade asked her if she knew about the demise of the Watson family, her abnormal attitude could be explained.
"Who told you this 'good idea' of poisoning?"
Xia De asked again.
"I thought of it myself."
But she was just an ordinary person, and if someone gave her a hint, she wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
"Where does this poison that is not fatal but can make people vomit blood come from?"
"I asked the maid for it."
The maid had already left, so Shade didn't know whether this was another trick of the Stone Mirror Demon or really a joke of fate.
The story of Ossenfurt and the devil is full of strangeness and weirdness. Shade originally thought that the love in it was at least sincere, but he didn't expect to learn something even more outrageous.
He could only say that what Miss Feliana had said at the beginning, "Cherish your soul and stay away from the devil," was indeed correct.
Seeing that Shade was silent, Hela Osenfurt spoke again;
"Before you duel with Stone, there is one more thing you need to know, about his immortality, and about how to defeat him. Part of the devil's contract stipulates under what circumstances his death will cause him to lose the bet with the devil. I don't know this. But I know how to completely destroy his immortality."
The veiled woman covered her left chest:
"His heart isn't right."