Confess [Black Carnival of Cassendra]

The new life was good, in a way that Loria hadn't even imagined before.

Although Adolf is not a decent person, at least on the surface, he is a qualified gentleman.This man's life is very regular. He always gets up at seven o'clock in the morning, pours a cup of freshly ground coffee into the coffee machine, and then sits at the table, enjoying breakfast while flipping through the documents he took out of the mailbox. The morning paper of the day.He was usually out at nine o'clock, mostly on business matters, sometimes to socialize with the town's dignitaries.At around three o'clock in the afternoon, he would return to that house, have an afternoon tea comfortably, and then open a novel or other anthology.

When the night fell, he would occasionally go to the Caribou Bar for a drink, or he might go to an outside restaurant for dinner with visiting guests. In any case, he would always be home before eleven o'clock and end the day itinerary.

He seldom restrained Loria, and almost never stepped into Loria's own space, only occasionally reminding her how to deal with the trivial things in life.The intersection of two people living under the same roof is pitiful. To put it bluntly, Adolf is like a breeder who only appears on a regular basis, providing the girl with a good life and absolute freedom.

——It’s just that this kind of freedom is too much, and it has evolved into a lingering emptiness.

Whenever the night was quiet, Loria's mind would drift unconsciously to the church, to the confessional, and to the cold priest.

Adolf does not allow her to see him, and Loria understands that she has no right to choose to refuse.

But she still wanted to see him, to see the priest, and to hear his voice.

This kind of life lasted for about half a year.On that day, Adolf received an invitation letter from the mayor Pagridge, asking him to go to Los Angeles to attend a dinner party.The banquet was very late, and he couldn't catch the last bus back to Cassandra, so he had to stay out overnight.

Lolia was not qualified to attend this kind of banquet, so she was left alone in the house on Pomegranate Lane as a matter of course.

No one will walk in Cassandra at night, and no one will find it. If you sneak to the church at this time, no one will find it.

Such thoughts appeared in Loria's mind when Adolf pushed the door to leave. She thought so, and she did the same.

I don't know if it's because of the season, but the streets of Cassandra are more deserted than half a year ago.There is a narrow alley leading from Shiliu Lane to Nanxin Street. On both sides are old buildings that have not been repaired for many years. The alley is darker than night and is full of icy air that chills the spine.

There was no one in the alley, and when walking in the middle, only the sound of lonely footsteps echoed in my ears, other than that, the only thing that could be heard was the increasingly intense and restless heartbeat.

Loria couldn't help speeding up her pace, she hardly dared to breathe, for fear of being discovered by some ominous thing hiding in the darkness.She thought of the weird black figure that flashed behind Konstantin that she saw upstairs that day—maybe it was just her hallucination, but in the dark night, even hallucinations and imaginations are enough to push the anxiety to the peak .

The sound of the wind rang softly in the ears, tugging at the girl's sideburn hair, and suddenly, there seemed to be some small sounds drifting by with the wind.

"Click click."

"Click click."

Like something sharp knocking on the uneven road, or... some arthropod crawling in the dark.

Suddenly, at the end of the corner of the eye, a black shadow flashed past, fleeting, as fast as black lightning flashing across the night sky, it seemed to be the shadow of a man in a cloak, but Blurred by dark colors, people can't see clearly.

"Click click."

"Click click."

The ominous sound became more and more obvious, from far to near, almost completely surrounding the small body walking alone in the dark alley.

The pupils constricted in an instant, and Loria almost screamed.She didn't dare to imagine what it was, let alone look at it—it was a nightmare wandering in the night, it was an ominous thing that plunged the entire Cassandra into uneasiness and fear.

Out of the instinct to survive, the girl ran all the way to the end of the alley ahead.The street lamps illuminate the wide Nanxin Street in front, forming a sharp contrast with the dark alley.

As long as I can get there, as long as I run where there is light—

As the distance got closer, the scene under the light gradually enlarged in the girl's pupils. Under the warm yellow light, two figures were stretched very long.

It was a slender and tall man in a tuxedo, and a long-haired young man in a black robe.

Adolf and...Konstantin.

As if being immersed in the deep sea for an instant, Loria forgot to think and why she ran away, her eyes widened in disbelief, she stood there blankly, looking at the two people standing under the lamp.All the blood in the body seemed to be drained in an instant, and the hands and feet became cold in an instant.

Why, why did the two of them appear here?Didn't Adolf go to Los Angeles?No, Adolf didn't even let her have any contact with Constantine, but why, at this moment, he stood in front of that man?

"I'm curious, why did you choose to tell me this?" Adolf's tone was the same as usual, elegant but full of provocation: "I know that Pagridge is not a good guy. He gave it to me to take advantage of me." Everything I have now. But you are also not a good thing, so why do you think I will believe you? "

"Foxes are always ready to withdraw, so they are always the first to retreat when danger comes. And I'm just telling you, the snow in Cassandra is coming."

"If you were really a devout believer, I would think that you did it out of mercy, but unfortunately, you are not. Constantine, I am a businessman, and if I act rashly without seeing the stakes, I will only be deceived A crushing defeat." Adolf narrowed his eyes, and twirled the heavy cane in his hand with his slender fingers: "You ask Pagridge to put that kid in my place, and tell him that I can be restrained in this way. But in fact--"

"You want me to take Cassandra with me when I leave?"

"—Couldn't it be such a boring reason."

Constantine's expression didn't change, and he didn't make any movements, but Loria seemed to hear a barely detectable sigh.

He didn't answer.

"Then it doesn't matter if I leave that kid in Cassandra when I leave?" Adolf's voice rose a little, and the next moment, he turned his head and looked at the road where Loria was standing. dark alley.

Loria who was standing in the dark was suddenly startled.

But she didn't even have time to react, because in the next second, something hit her hard on the back of the neck.

Among the dissipated consciousness, there is only one voice that is exceptionally clear.

"Click click."

"Click click."