Kaylar's gaze at Esther grew more and more complicated, even confused.

Esther stood still, letting the bat lie behind her feet, hugging the edge of her boots and shivering.

The situation was at a stalemate for more than ten minutes, longer than Kailar had been dancing just now, until Kailar lowered her head with a blank face, and she stared at the red rose in her hand: "Thank you for the compliment."

"You're welcome, you should be! It's a privilege for guests to be able to watch the host dance!" After discovering that the other party really had no intention of making a move, Esther gradually had the posture of letting go of herself, and she said nonsense with a serious face, "I have never seen such a beautiful dance, and you deserve these praises!"

Keller's expression was visibly twisted violently, and the overly ostentatious horses made the lady who was accustomed to aristocratic and reserved feelings feel at a loss. Her bloodless pale cheeks were gradually reddening until her hand stroking the bouquet suddenly crushed a rose under her finger.

The castle master gave Esther a fierce look and threw the rose in Esther's direction with his backhand.

Esther naturally wouldn't pick it up, she wasn't stupid enough to "accept" the bouquet, Esther's fingers quickly closed, and her figure had already appeared on the other side of the rooftop, also keeping a long distance from Kylar.

When Esther stole space and teleported, she also took the bat that was on her trouser leg and didn't leave it where it was.

The bouquet fell to the ground, the lip-like rose petals scattered and flew out, and in the next second, a large area of thorn bushes in full bloom of roses took root on the stone bricks, and frantically stretched the thorns towards the entire platform, covering nearly half of the roof in just a few seconds.

Esther grabbed her backhand several times in succession, her weight became light as a feather, and as she kicked the ground, her whole body floating in the air, the bat "squeaked" in horror.

In the process of slowly falling, Esther decisively stole the distance between herself and the entrance of the tower, and successfully slipped inside.

Kylar stood in the middle of the blooming roses until the roses covered the rooftop and covered her gown, and Kylar didn't move.

She stared at Esther's figure with complicated eyes, and did not stop Esther from escaping back to the castle, but gently broke off the nearest rose in her hand, and red blood flowed from the fracture, all the way down the black lace gloves of Kailar.

"Welcome, welcome......"

Kylar spread her hands out at the crimson moon in the sky, letting the full light envelop herself, roses clinging to her body, red buds covering her face, and then blooming again.

The thorns sank suddenly, and the covered figure was empty, and Kailar did not know where to return to the castle, leaving only the growing rose bushes, which grew wildly in the moonlight, but could not climb too high, far from the hole in the tower.

Esther decided to enter the tower, also to avoid the coffin she had seen in the castle before, she even deliberately blocked the trapdoor with a cage, and now if she went back, the roses would definitely be faster.

In contrast, Esther chose this cave directly, especially after seeing bats and Kailar's fake "Benjamin", Esther felt that this place would not be more dangerous than below.

Her instincts weren't wrong, and the Marquis of Kailar didn't catch up, at least Esther briefly escaped her attention, and Esther wasn't sure if her "compliment" had worked.

But the situation here was also worse than Esther had imagined, and the moment she fell into the tower, the torch that Esther had been holding in her hand suddenly extinguished on its own.

The room was not even shone in the crimson moonlight, and the ceiling was hung with dense gray-black circles, large and small, almost completely blending in with the shadows. The largest of the shadows was in the corner, nearly half a man tall, while the smallest was not much bigger than a fist.

From time to time, they will shake back and forth twice, making a slight "squeak" sound.

The ground was littered with white bones of various shapes, human and animal, that looked like they had been dead for an unknown amount of time.

In the corner, there were also several iron cages that Esther had seen, and in them lay some withered white bones, and on them lay a number of smaller bats, which were also hung all over the iron cages.

Esther leaned down to remove the bat from her feet and place it next to her kind at the edge of the cage, but the bat seemed to understand her intentions, and as soon as Esther's hand came near, it whispered nervously.

"You don't want to come back?"

The bat tugged tighter at her trouser legs, expressing its resistance to it, as if it wanted to burrow into Esther's boots. Esther had to give up on the idea of getting rid of it, lest that really happen.

The screech of the bat attracted more attention, and the ball hanging above Esther's head spread out, and more and more crimson eyes emerged from the darkness, staring at the intruder with confusion and curiosity.

Esther was a little nervous as she stood at the entrance to the cave, but judging by the bat's behavior, the creatures might be able to understand what she was saying.

So Esther bowed slightly and asked very politely, "May I pass through here?"

Several human-headed bats spread their wings and hissed sharply, piercing their fears, even if Esther couldn't understand what they were saying.

With their hostile start, more and more bats were awakened from their slumber, and they screamed, but none of them flew up and pounced on Esther, simply joining in the harmony and expressing unfriendliness.

With a heavy sigh from the half-human-tall shadow, all screaming stopped instantly, and scarlet eyes rolled everywhere and landed in the corner, and Esther was no exception.

Even though it was quite dark in the room, her eyes could see everything around her clearly, and as the bat's wings unfolded around her, another pair of larger, more sane and peaceful scarlet eyes appeared in the shadows.

It was a human head, with a layer of short grayish-black hairs growing around its cheeks, and beyond its neck it was completely the body of a bat. The head spun up and down, changing angles to look at Esther standing by the door, then let go of its claws hanging from the ceiling and fell silently to the ground.

Judging by the middle-aged man's appearance and the sound he had just made, Esther judged that it was probably a male, or a male bat, but she thought his face looked familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere.

"You are a guest of your mother, and you should not disturb us."

The first time the giant bat spoke, Esther suddenly recognized his voice, which was exactly the same as that of the "butler" at the gate of the castle.

She struggled to recall the glimpse that overlapped with the face on the bat, and finally Esther was able to confirm that the bat and the butler might have been "the same person" at one time.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bother you, I didn't think ......."

There are so many bats here, and a person would probably be guilty of dense phobia. Esther sighed inwardly.

The bat holding Esther's hind legs suddenly tilted its head, peeking its head out from behind her, and barked twice at the giant bat.

The bat's voice was completely drowned out by the previous howl of the bats, and now there was silence around it, and its faint and trembling voice became clear.

Esther couldn't understand what the bat was saying, but the "butler" clearly did.

The butler opened his mouth, revealing his fangs similar to those of the Marquis of Kailar, and his voice deepened, "No one can leave here, and no one can leave Mother! That's everything we are!"

The bat that didn't let go of Esther's body screamed, I don't know what it shouted, all the other bats suddenly hissed, the sharp and noisy sound almost tore people's eardrums, Esther couldn't help but frown and took a half step back, close to the edge of the hole in the wall.

"Quiet, quiet!" In the end, it was the "butler" who spoke, letting out a low roar, and the rest of the bats stopped their voices, and the "butler" gasped, but his scarlet eyes were very indifferent, "An heir is an heir, and it is impossible to break away from the mother's embrace."

The "butler" looked at Esther, and her voice gradually returned to calm: "Guest, you should get out of here as soon as possible. You smell terrible, and it will make it easier to frighten the offspring."

"Hmm...... Excuse me, can I go over?" Esther didn't know what to do, so after apologizing, she pointed to the door behind the butler, and when the butler lay on the ground, the iron door that had been blocked was revealed.

Esther had previously met another "Bloodline" who complained a lot about "vampires", so she knew that she had a strange smell in the Bloodline's sense of smell, so it seems that the bats here may all be related to the Bloodline?

The butler looked at Esther for a moment, then lowered his head slightly and arched his black-haired back, as if he were bowing, "Yes, you are a well-behaved guest."

However, when the "butler" looked up again, a very wicked smile appeared on his face: "What's more, the heirs don't want to eat you."

Esther smiled as well, "Thank you."

She lifted her foot to step on the bones, not deliberately slowing her steps, and as the white bones on the soles of her feet continued to crunch, Esther walked past the "butler".

The "butler" let out a deep "hiss" sound, and if it weren't for Esther's special hearing, she would never have been able to capture the meaning of the sentence: "Death is the only ......"

Esther didn't look back, but kept looking through the scarlet-eyed gaze, pushed open the iron door in the corner, and finally walked out of the room.

The "butler" coughed vigorously twice, and the eyes on the ceiling closed one after another, and they continued to fall into a deep sleep.

The "butler" looked at the moonlight outside the entrance of the cave, retracted into the darkest corner, and blocked the iron door with his own body.

"Mademoiselle Marquise...... The Son and the Mother ......"

As he closed his eyes, the restless hissing of all the bats in the room fell silent.