Attack on Titan's Silent Watch

The facial part was the same as she remembered, in her father's handwriting.In the following years, it was all written by Niobe, and Icarus seemed to have completely ignored this ledger.After confirming that the items were correct, she returned the ledger to Dai'er, "Go."

After receiving the account book, Dai'er asked hesitantly, "I really went? This thing will seriously shrink your family's property by more than half. Are you really sure you want to do this?"

Vanessa raised her eyebrows, "You actually understand?" Then she smiled 'hehe', "It doesn't matter, if you don't have the determination to die, how can you defeat a strong opponent?"

In the empty corridor, leather boots made a clear sound of footsteps on the neat and clean ground.Daier swaggered to the door of Vanessa's dormitory, subconsciously looked left and right to see if anyone was there, then took out the wire and simply and roughly opened the door.She didn't want to do this either, but she was delayed on the road for too long, and if Vanessa's deduction was correct, the killer might find her at any time.

After entering the door, Dill looked around, and her eyes fell on Kathy's bed, with mixed feelings in her heart.The things on it have long been emptied, and maybe it won't be long before most people will forget her existence.

After exchanging dormitories, Vanessa slept in Dai'er's bed, so Dai'er opened the locker that belonged to her with ease, and put the ledger in it.When Vanessa is handed over to the Gendarmerie, she can pack up her things and take them away.As for the necklace that recorded the truth of the world, Dai Er hesitated again and again, thinking that it is better to keep it by herself. Anyway, Vanessa has read the contents inside. If she is really on the side of the investigative corps, she will definitely find a way to tell They're real.

Just as Daier closed the cabinet door, there was a loud sound of footsteps downstairs, and she immediately turned her back to the window and hid behind the curtains.Fingers gently opened the corner of the curtain, peeking at the situation downstairs from the gap.Suddenly, it was discovered that Vanessa was being dragged onto a carriage by the arms of several gendarmes.Although Vanessa wanted to struggle, the injury on her back was not healed. If she moved around, it would be easy to tear off the hard-fought wound, so she could only let them take her away powerlessly.

When Dill went to put away her things, several military policemen broke into the ward where Vanessa was with an arrest warrant.

"Who are you?" Vanessa stared straight at the military police, and slowly got out of bed, ready to resist at any time.

One of the gendarmes showed a document, "This is an instruction from above, and you need to be handed over to the gendarme for interrogation in advance."

"Now there is no officer in the Survey Corps who can take care of things. Under such circumstances, it is not reasonable for the Gendarmerie to come over to take over?"

"So what? Come with us!" The leading military police stepped forward ferociously, trying to grab Vanessa, but Vanessa was not a fool, she avoided sideways and kicked the military police in the abdomen. .

The gendarme knelt down on the ground clutching his stomach, and other gendarmes immediately swarmed up. Vanessa quickly threw a person over his shoulder, but the wound on her back opened again due to too much force, and a chill went straight to the bone marrow.She gasped, her movements slowed down by half a beat due to the pain.The military police who rushed up from behind grabbed Vanessa's arms, and other military police also came to grab her.Outnumbered, she was captured just like that.

After being dragged and stuffed into the carriage, Vanessa knew that it was Niobe who was going to make a break with her, and that this was going to be bad luck. She only hoped that Dai'er hadn't seen this scene and didn't do something stupid.

Seeing Vanessa being taken away, Dai'er ran out without thinking too much, and slammed the door behind her with a bang.

burning (1)

Niobe did not disclose the fact of Icarus' death. She secretly brought the body back home and ordered the servants to wash Icarus' body, put on clean clothes and store it in the ice cellar. She was going to a villa in the suburbs for a 'vacation' .

"Ma'am, this is the income and expenditure for this month." Knowing that Niobe was deeply affected, the housekeeper didn't even dare to look up at her when he handed over the bill.

"Understood." Niobe took the bill and walked towards the study.Icarus is dead, and Dai is missing. Now as long as Vanessa is also removed, she can inherit the property of the Sterling family and the Morrison family.Although he had to pay a large amount of inheritance tax, with the gray income of the Sterling family, that little money could be earned back quickly.

After entering the study and locking the door, Niobe turned the frame and opened the safe under the floor.When she saw that the ledger had disappeared, she couldn't help showing a frightened and angry expression.

With a weak body, he took two steps back and leaned against the edge of the table. Niobe gritted his teeth and said, "That girl is absolutely crazy. In order to defeat me, she even sacrificed her family property."

The cold wind blew in through the gap in the window, and Niobe found that the window was not closed, and the bolt was pulled up.She remembered that Dai'er's room was just above the study.In addition to the timing of Dai'er's escape, she has already guessed [-]% to [-]%.Even Dai'er, a seemingly careless little girl, played tricks on her.Needless to say, everything was Vanessa's idea, and it seemed right to send someone to arrest her.

Halfway through the carriage, the driver changed, and the one who took over was obviously Niobe's servant.Vanessa was taken to a wooden villa surrounded by forests. She recognized this place, and her father took her there for vacation when she was a child.Passing the small courtyard in front of the door, childhood memories emerged. At that time, she was reading a book under the tree to enjoy the shade. Icarus threw the earthworm he caught on her book, which made her cry.

The servants led Vanessa into a room covered with hay on the second floor, pressed her on a chair with armrests, tied her hands and armrests, legs and chair legs together with ropes, and walked away. go.

Vanessa wanted to break free, and after shaking back and forth a few times, she found that any further movement would have no effect other than causing her to roll over, and the sound would alert her guards outside the door.She really hoped that someone would come to rescue her now, but she didn't want Dai'er to come, otherwise they might be taken together.

I don't know how long it took, the sky was stained with black ink, and Vanessa suddenly heard a carriage stop outside the villa, and the sound of high heels stepping on the wooden floor was slow and clear.For Vanessa, this sound means the final judgment.

The door was opened, and Niobe in a traveling dress and a sun hat came in. The servant took off his hat and gloves and hung them on the hanger beside him.

"It's been a long time since I came on vacation, how do you feel?" Niobe asked kindly.

"I've never tried being tied to a chair for vacation. It's really novel." Vanessa responded with a teasing tone to cover up her inner fear.

Niobe smiled slightly, "Wait a minute, there are more novel things waiting for you. But before that, I have a question." She bent down, and raised Vanessa's chin with her index and middle fingers, "Where is the ledger? "

"What ledger?"

"Stop pretending to be confused with me. Besides you, who else will tell Delise the location of the ledger?"

"So you were talking about the ledger." Vanessa shook her head, "As the actual power holder of the Sterling family, shouldn't you be apologetic for losing such an important thing?"

Snapped!

A loud slap slapped Vanessa's face, half of her face seemed to be dyed with uneven 'blush', blood overflowed from the corner of her mouth, and her ears roared, making Vanessa dizzy all of a sudden.

"I'll ask again, where is the ledger? Is it in Delise's hands?" Niobe's eyes were wide open, and even her hair was threatening to attack Vanessa.

"I don't know." Vanessa turned her head, her tone perfunctory.

"It seems that you won't tell the truth without giving you a lesson." Niobe walked around behind Vanessa, and used the scissors handed by the servant to cut down the middle of the back collar of Vanessa's shirt, Showing the whipped back.All the gauze was torn off, and the six crisscross bloodstains that were deeply imprinted on the snow-white skin were shocking. The wounds had scabbed over, but some of the scabs from the wounds fell off during the previous fight, and the blood plasma slowly flowed from the exposed wounds. ooze.

burning (2)

The back was chilly, and Vanessa suddenly felt a cold hand gently caressing the edge of her wound.Instinctively, she twisted her body and leaned forward to avoid it.

"It's really distressing..." Niobe sighed gloatingly.Suddenly, she changed the subject and asked in Vanessa's ear, "Do you think I don't know that this is a play put on by your Joint Survey Corps?"

"If you have evidence, just show it." Vanessa continued to insist.

"Now is not the time to talk about this, I will give you one last chance, where is the ledger?"

"I don't know." Just as Vanessa finished speaking, there was a piercing pain in her back.

I wanted to squeeze my back hard and grit my teeth to get through it, but it wasn't like the instant pain when being whipped. This slow, continuous pain was not as strong as when I was whipped, but the psychological feeling was undoubtedly the most tormenting. people.It's like knowing that you will be dismembered, but unable to move, you can only endure the great pain until your body is torn apart and still retain a clear consciousness.

The sound of bleeding from the wound was very clear, and Vanessa couldn't bear to scream anymore.

The heart-piercing cries resounded around the villa, and everyone who heard it was terrified, as if their hearts were being scratched by sharp nails.However, after the tragic cry spread outside the villa, it was soon swallowed up by the vast woods.

Niobe gripped the scissors tightly, and cut bloody incisions along Vanessa's whip, deliberately letting her taste the pain slowly, so as to comfort her heartache of losing her son.

When the six whip wounds turned into knife wounds with jagged edges and dripping with blood, Vanessa's consciousness had already begun to blur, and her bound hands and feet were stretched out by the rope due to the futile struggle.