Volume I: Chapter 64 Mutations are numerous
Clostia is scratched by a monster that appears out of nowhere, and the wound is infected by an unknown one, and Cesare is forced to return to his family.
also met the red-haired girl Anya on the way, although Anya always seems to be nervous and unpredictable, but in the midst of crises again and again, the relationship between the two is also heating up......
Walk through the abandoned town, encounter the Freak Show Circus, and finally encounter the final disaster in the Fog Village.
The appearance of the mycelial monster again and again seems to imply that the rumors of the Hunyadi family are not groundless, and all this is something that Cesare has been trapped in the castle since he was a child.
But when he finally got close to the truth, the mycelium also took away his body, and although he killed Claudius and saved Anya, his body was also distorted by the mycelium infection, and he finally passed out......
The iron door of my memory slowly opened.
In the confusion, Cesare seemed to have returned to the familiar place of his childhood, only to feel that his mind was very heavy, and his body was too heavy to move, and it was vaguely as if he had been dragged into the castle.
A fluffy dark red carpet cuts across the back, and gold ornamentation weaves across it to the depths of the castle.
Just like the place in my memory, the walls and carpets here are always gray tones, as if the sun never shines through the gloom of this castle.
The rooms here are staggered, like a dining room, and the reception rooms have a bit of a regal aristocratic atmosphere, but more rooms are simple and old-fashioned.
The ubiquitous furnishings are made of metal and bronze, which always feels eerie, but in keeping with the style of the Hunyati collar.
Walking through the promenade, the walls on either side are lined with ancient portraits and tapestries of the counts and their ladies, as well as several black knights whom Cesare did not know since childhood.
Eventually, Cesare felt himself being dragged deeper, the stairs going down were winding and steep, the light source became scarcer, and then he lost his impression......
"Ah, you're finally awake."
The girl's voice sounded in her ears, and the awakened consciousness wanted to open her heavy eyelids, but she felt the feeling of the tough rattan being torn apart.
There was something black on the eyelids sticking to each other, and the field of vision was also pitch black, and it took a long time to slowly get light.
Cesare's vision was hampered by the bloodshot streaks on his eyeballs, and the streaks were still slowly wriggling.
Before his brain could fully adjust to the situation, an oil lamp was suddenly brought to his eyes, and the sudden light caused Cesare's pupils to constrict, and a tingling pain tortured the nerves in his eyeball, forcing him to close his eyes again.
"The light responds normally, a good start." The girl's voice spoke again.
Cesare tried to move, but his limbs didn't respond, and the "rattling" of the wires made his ears hurt.
He saw that he was dressed in thin clothes, and his body was bound by layers of iron chains, and his fingers, toes, and wrists and ankles were bound with silver rings, and the similar silver rings were connected by chains.
There seems to be some kind of magic flowing through it, inhibiting the growth of mycelium in the body.
The black substance in the veins on the surface of Cesare's skin was indeed slowly fading away, disappearing deep into his body.
At this time, he was sitting paralyzed against the wall, his body was held tightly by a large number of chains, and he couldn't even move his fingers.
It was still a little difficult to breathe, and when I looked around, I realized that I was in the dungeon of the castle, and I remember that when I was a child, I always wanted to sneak in here, but never succeeded.
It was dark, and the only light that lit it up was the light of the oil lamps and the faint light from the corridor outside.
An iron door was reinforced with several layers of steel, and the walls on all sides were covered with vague nicks and bloodstains, and all kinds of torture instruments and unknown iron tools were hung, and at the same time, there was a strong smell of medicine.
Raising his eyes, Cesare saw a familiar and unfamiliar figure standing in front of him, trying to make a sound, but his throat was dry, and he could only speak faintly recognizable words.
"Ilona?"
The little girl in the original memory has grown into a slim girl at this time, her silver-white hair is soft and smooth, like a beam of silver light, she still covers her left eye with her hair, her posture is beautiful and her facial features are exquisite, but she has lost the soft and cute appearance in her memory.
I thought that the encounter after many days and the tragic situation on my body would make this girl worried.
But now Ilona's expression is as cold as treating strangers, her temperament is indifferent and her words are unusually cold, and she even feels... It's kind of ruthlessly scary.
She wore a black robe with no patterns or decorations, stained with blood and withered mycelium, and kept writing down something with a pen and paper in her hand.
When Cesare called her name, Ilona just gently picked at her soft eyelashes and said casually.
"I can't imagine that Mistress Cesare still remembers my name, what an honor it is to be your servant, and I thought I had forgotten about it long ago after all these years of expecting you to come back to see me, but there was not even a letter."
As she spoke, Ilona pouted and shook her head, and without waiting for Cesare to respond, she leaned over and crouched down, tilting her head sideways and raising her hand to brush the hair off her shoulders, exposing her white neck to Cesare's mouth.
"Do you have an appetite for it?"
"Ilona, you listen to me first......" Cesare didn't care about the inexplicable question at all, although he didn't know how he was locked up here, but the first thing was Closia's injury, which was the only reason he came back here.
"Well, the brain erosion has no tendency to deteriorate, which may allow you to live a few more days." Ilona lifted up and ignored Cesare, jotting herself down in her notes. "Or maybe my Lord Cesare isn't hungry."
Really "Ilona! Klosia is in danger! She's been hurt by the monster......" Cesare struggled to bite the words clearly, but each pronunciation felt like a sharp knife through his throat.
"I'm here to ask the Count for help... Now only the Count can save her...... The chapel of Karl Stream, she is still there, hurry up...... It's been too long! ”
As soon as the words fell, Cesare breathed hard, and in just two sentences he had exhausted too much strength, as if he had run several kilometers with weights.
Ilona's writing hand stopped, and Cesare blinked in silence, her eyes much clearer than before, as if she was not sure what she had heard.
When she was sluggish, a few strands of silver hair hung down in front of her only remaining right eye, and she pouted and blew her hair to the side.
“…… Closia? What happened? Ilona's flat voice was finally starting to take a mood swing, and it seemed that she was far more concerned about Closia's affairs than the current situation with Cesare.
Cesare told Ilona everything that had happened in Karliu, about their attack in the carriage, about the scratches on Closia's arms, and about the encounter with the drunken priest in the chapel.
However, how he got here after that, and where his infection came from, Cesare did not mention.
There was no need to hear that, Ilona's face had become ugly, and the look of worry and anxiety slowly replaced the coldness of her expression, and her hands and feet had become flustered, biting her fingers uneasily as if thinking about something.
Soon put the manual and pen aside, stood up and was about to walk out the door.
"I know these things, wait for me to come back!"
This is the second time I've heard this sentence recently... Do you think I can move..."
Cesare muttered quietly as he tried to raise his arm to make the chains around his body make a noise.
"I knew you wouldn't come back because you missed me." Before leaving, he seemed to remember something, and turned his head back to stare at Cesare viciously.
Ilona looked at Cesare with a complicated expression, then pushed open the iron door and ran out in a hurry.
After going through so many things, I finally got the word out to ...... Although he was not yet relieved, Cesare also felt much more relaxed, and the disaster that had happened to him was nothing compared to his sister's situation.
Only now did he slowly come back to his senses and think about what had just happened.
Ilona...... How did you get to be like this?