Chapter 125: Miss Saint’s Memory

“This is the situation in Wolfsburg recently. Also, in the Cateline Kingdom, they’ve contacted me. The special envoy expressed that they’re not too opposed to it.”

Today was the fourth day of Hall and Christine’s stay in Wolfsburg, and it was also the day the train they had booked would depart in the evening.

So during the day, Hall decided to get the documents from Morivec to understand the situation.

After receiving and briefly browsing through the not-so-complicated documents, Hall had a general understanding.

“Did the church’s bishop give you a hard time?”

“How would he dare? The moment he saw the deputy mayor dead, he immediately thought it was me. To be honest with you, when the bishop came to see me before, I thought he wanted me to kill the deputy mayor. Now that the deputy mayor is really dead, what do you think he would think, Brother Hall?”

“Then he’s definitely afraid of you. In his eyes, you’re a desperado, but he’s a noble bishop. His funds are from Saint Gregory, and he doesn’t have much say in Bal. He wouldn’t risk his life for this money.”

Hall knew that the local bishop in Wolfsburg was now on guard.

Then he could leave with peace of mind.

“Brother Hall, you really know your stuff. Did you used to be in the underworld in the Papal State? I heard the underworld there is impossible to get into.”

“No, I just have a slight understanding of the situation here.”

It was the same in the game’s plot.

Once the player teamed up with Morivec to take out an important person in Wolfsburg, the bishop would choose to avoid them.

“Then what’s next?”

Hall and Morivec said their goodbyes.

Before leaving, Morivec said he would introduce Hall to his own godfather next time they had a chance to meet.

Hall just nodded.

He thought he should run after his business was done.

“Goodbye, brother. I’m afraid we won’t see each other again. Will he not go to Cateline?”

Thinking of this, Hall took out the envelope Sophia had personally given him from his chest.

Elizabeth might have something to do with his amnesia.

He still had to go to Cateline to find out about Elizabeth.

So it became “retrieving his memories is important” versus “it’s more important to just run away and not care about what he did before.”

“Forget it, I’ll deal with this first, and then make a plan.”

He returned to the church.

Christine, Maria, and Lov had basically packed all their luggage.

At this moment, Christine’s complexion looked to have recovered from the collapsed state of the past two days.

As for the specific effect of this blessing ceremony.

According to the local church’s joint poll with the local government and newspapers.

The support rate had risen from the initial three percent to twenty-eight percent.

This data didn’t look very beautiful.

But considering that there were still six Saintess Candidates, and the local church was leaning towards Saint Gregory, the actual support rate was definitely higher than this.

The expected effect was also achieved.

And in the past two days, many citizens had also sent some local specialties or small gifts to the church to express their gratitude to Christine.

In the evening.

At the Wolfsburg station, although it was snowing heavily and the temperature was below zero.

There were still many local residents who came to see them off.

Morivec had also specially sent some of his underlings to pretend to be commoners to boost Christine’s farewell.

Maria and Lov were both carrying suitcases, and Hall was also carrying a box.

It looked very small, but it was actually very heavy.

Because it contained several thousand gold coins.

He planned to find a Child family bank in the next city to deposit them in the name of William Russell.

Staring at this box on the road, if he said that Christine would definitely guess that this money was for things that couldn’t be said outright.

Otherwise, as the son of a duke from the Faxtius family, if he wanted to buy a property or something, he just needed to go home and say hi.

“William.”

“What is it?”

Just as they were about to get on the train, Hall was suddenly stopped by Christine.

In front of many, many people, in the heavy snow, she suddenly took his hand, and a smile appeared on her exquisite little face.

“Thank you, my knight, for protecting me when I was in danger before.”

Hall did not answer.

He thought to himself, ‘When did she encounter danger recently? Now I have to continue to protect you.’

“Oh, good…”

He understood.

Christine had fabricated this.

It wasn’t to create a wave, but to let him create a wave of presence.

The people of Wolfsburg would doubt it if she had encountered danger.

Lov was a little stunned at first after seeing this scene, but then she became a little angry.

“This Christine, as a Saintess Candidate, actually made up such a non-existent thing to flirt with the Young Master.”

“This is normal, the common people won’t be surprised. But then they will be angry.”

“She is bound by her Saintess identity, making the Young Master unable to refuse, and she will also be acknowledged by the people who came to see her off.”

“Damn it!”

“So angry!”

She couldn’t hide her expression at all.

“Mm-hmm~ then let’s get on the train.”

Christine didn’t care about Lov’s unconcealable expression and just pulled Hall onto the train’s special carriage.

“…”

“What’s wrong, you’re distracted, little Parousia?”

“Nothing, I was just thinking.”

“Oh, that’s right.”

In the ancient castle outside the Bal Empire, Prince Vier and Parousia were playing chess with Parousia’s brain.

But Prince Vier was a little depressed.

This kind of thing gave her a headache.

She wasn’t questioning Prince Vier’s chess skills, but she had basically never won a game of chess since she was born.

Today’s chessboard looked like she had an advantage, so her chess skills must have improved.

If she could win against Prince Vier, she wouldn’t find it strange.

Parousia’s thoughts were also not easy to refuse.

But the other vampire viscountess beside her was a little embarrassed.

“The situation is completely under Vier’s control. Parousia’s advantage is deliberately given by the other party.”

“But Your Highness, the cooperation with the eldest princess of the Papal State. It seems the empire has sent people to investigate us and Hall these past few days, and a female knight has also personally met with Frida.”

The female knight Parousia was referring to was of course Himan.

She was looking forward to it.

The pure white sword at Himan’s waist was a sword blessed by the Saintess.

This actually made Parousia a little uncomfortable.

But Parousia was actually a bit resistant to this because the cross Christine had given to Hall made her even more uncomfortable.

“Parousia?!”

“It’s fine, we’ll go and investigate right away.”

“Relatively speaking, the Oath of Purity is not very well controlled against Vier’s cross.”

“Vier took Parousia’s queen with her chariot, and Parousia’s advantage completely disappeared.”

“Parousia immediately became fully focused.”

“Vier took Parousia with her chariot, and Parousia quickly stood up. Vier didn’t say much.”

“But after just three short rounds, Parousia was checkmated by Vier’s queen.”

“Parousia quickly stood up, and Hall said he would listen to Vier’s instructions.”

“Vier didn’t say much.”

“Vier continued, ‘If you think this is not good, you can consider picking her up again before you leave.'”

“Where are we going? Back to the clan?”

“No, we’re going to West Town. We’ll wait for Christine and you to come back there.”

“Huh?!”

Parousia was so surprised she almost dropped her piece.

“Are we still going to make a move on Christine?”

“It’s best if we can capture her.”

“But I think it won’t be easy. Hall said, what if there’s a Knight Captain in the dark?”

She wasn’t questioning Prince Vier, but what if there was a strong knight’s strength in the dark.

“But…”

“That William is really hard to deal with, Your Highness. The imposter is Christine.”

Vier’s usual strength was also very strong, and besides, the Prince’s blood magic was completely no threat to a vampire prince.

Although usually, among the level ninety vampire princes, her combat power was the weakest, but if Christine gave him a blessing, the outcome would be uncertain.

“Vier usually hides her strength, and if Christine gives him a blessing, he will definitely be at level ninety.”

Vier was the empress’s think tank.

In Vier’s plan, Parousia couldn’t say what she felt.

In short, as a viscountess, her role was to collect a large number of low-level humans.

“Your Highness, let’s go to West Town. I hear it’s getting lively there.”

“Forget it, it’s time to go. Hall and Christine’s blessings are all ready.”

“Parousia?!”

Parousia wanted to ask Prince Vier if she was really leaving.

“Forget it, anyway, Parousia just vaguely felt that Prince Vier was a bit strange.”

“A Knight Captain, I can still deal with.”

“Are you worried about me, little Parousia?”

“Ah, then maybe I’m overthinking it.”

“…”

Parousia couldn’t say what she felt.

In short, as a viscountess, her role was to collect a large number of low-level humans.

In a flash.

It was the fifteenth day since Hall had left Saint Louis.

He had been out of contact for half a month in a blink of an eye.

Every day was a torment.

Hall himself was still at the de Moyel’s house in Saint Louis, and now by his side was Christine.

She wondered if she should report to Leticia that Hall might be Specialist William.

This made Moyel not know what to do.

She was now thinking that it would be best if Hall and Christine returned to the Papal State together.

Christine’s itinerary was for a month.

The date of her visit was the same as the day Hall had left.

That is to say, in another half a month, Hall would be back, and everyone would be happy.

So Moyel, for Leticia’s safety, still decided not to tell Leticia.

But just today, another visitor came to the Child estate.

And this visitor was…

This visitor was Lorraine Faxtius.

Lorraine was very depressed.

She had been called by her supervisor to do a research report since New Year’s Eve.

She had originally planned to happily go and find Hall.

Her research report was on the theory of the balance of divinity.

Because the thesis she was working on now was to find a formula that could avoid a part of the divinity.

If a succubus was a fallen angel, then Lorraine had been trying to use her divinity to transform the blood of a succubus and the feather of a succubus.

Thus forming [Escape].

That is, it had the effect of charming without being neutralized by divinity.

Lorraine had been tinkering with it for half a month and had made considerable progress.

Even her supervisor was full of praise for her research spirit.

Of course, Lorraine’s research report was entirely about how to purify the feather of a succubus in stages.

It had nothing to do with this configuration.

But when she came back, Hall was not here.

She went to find Himan and found that Himan was also not here.

Then she thought of the entangled relationship between her brother and Leticia and couldn’t help but ask Himan.

Leticia had hidden Hall away.

So she came to demand an explanation.

But Moyel didn’t let Lorraine and Leticia meet at all.

And the two of them just argued.

“Hall is not here. I’ve been looking for Hall for half a month. Why are you here now?”

She used this reason to send Lorraine away.

Lorraine left indignantly.

She didn’t know what to do when she got home.

Then she looked at the small bottle containing a liquid like black tea and sighed.

She had prepared for half a month.

‘Where did he go? I’ll use this on him when he comes back.’

“Young Master Hall, is the next stop West Town?”

“Yes.”

“This place is so empty. It seems to be all a no-man’s-land.”

“Because there have been countless wars, both large and small, for thousands of years, the western edge of the Bal Empire is basically uninhabited.”

The Holy Train sped through the wilderness.

It was now the end of January.

Because West Town was still quite south, it was not very cold here.

And Lov looked at the clock in the carriage.

Three-forty in the afternoon.

According to the schedule, the arrival time was four-thirty.

The Holy Train was usually not late, and there was always a surplus in the schedule.

The little maid felt that it wouldn’t be long before they arrived.

As for these past few days, they had passed through three major cities of the Bal Empire.

Christine had successfully completed the blessing ceremonies, and the support rate she had obtained was basically over fifty percent.

This was a very good result.

It could be said to be quite a success.

And in the past few days, Hall had also clarified his current attitude towards Christine.

First, Christine’s amnesia was related to him.

Second, he needed to get some information from Christine.

So in the past few days, he had basically not been very shy about Christine and even had the attitude of wanting to get to know her.

She also looked at the schedule and asked the blonde girl.

“By the way, Miss Christine, do you have any memories of your past?”

He threw out this topic very naturally.

Christine also answered very naturally.

“My memory of my childhood is still relatively clear. I used to live in an orphanage on the outskirts of West Town. Because West Town was basically a town made up of a large number of adventurers and speculators, there were many cases of parents dying, so there were also many orphans. Come to think of it, Baron Hall might not believe it, but I actually had an older sister.”

As Christine said this, her face showed a hint of sadness.

She rarely showed this expression.

She was always either very happy or very calm.

“An older sister? It seems I’ve never seen Miss Christine’s older sister. And no one has ever mentioned her.”

Hall asked nonchalantly.

This was very crucial.

The game also said that two girls had escaped from the fire at the orphanage.

One of them was Christine.

As for the other, the game did not say clearly.

But he was sure that this character was by no means simple.

“Yes, because…”

She hesitated for a moment, then faced Hall, and the curious Maria and Lov.

Hall said slowly, “She died in that fire, she didn’t survive. If my sister were still alive, she would surely have achieved more than me. I was always taken care of by her when I was a child.”

“Lady Christine, Hall, what question did you ask?”

Maria was very angry.

Hall was stunned.

This shouldn’t be, right?

No need, really no need.

If Elizabeth surviving was because he had changed the game’s plot.

Then why would Christine’s sister, the other orphan from the orphanage, die?

With Christine’s looks, her sister’s looks must also not be low.

He didn’t need to be gentle with Christine’s sister.

Then if it wasn’t his doing, what kind of butterfly effect had caused that person to die?

So Hall first comforted Christine, saying he had been presumptuous.

Then he continued, “Oh, let’s skip this topic. Then what happened after Miss Christine escaped from that big fire?”

“After that, I was rescued by the people from the Church and sent to Mist Town to be a nun. My memory of that town is not very clear, it always felt foggy. But fortunately, my own conditions were good, and I still became a Saintess Candidate.”

Compared to her sister’s death, Christine’s words about this period were very calm.

As if she was talking about someone else’s experience.

Hall was also stunned.

Mist Town was indeed a relatively important side quest town in the north of the Papal State.

You could farm some rare materials and the relatively heaven-defying Mist Blood Sword there.

But it belonged to the mid-to-late game, and the whole town was quite mysterious.

But according to the game’s setting, the church where Christine was was a certain church in the imperial capital of the Bal Empire.

And only then was she selected by Roan.

And, according to some details in Christine’s route, it could be known that she was not selected by Roan.

It was Christine who had deliberately let Roan select her, and then became a Saintess Candidate.

…

Now Hall was under a bit of pressure.

Either Christine was lying to him, or Christine’s memory was deviated, or the game’s plot had undergone a huge change.

But considering Christine’s experience of knowing him and becoming [Angel] before this.

It should just be a false memory, right?

For example, in his memory, he couldn’t remember what he had done before he went dark.

It was as if he had just gone to school normally and been promoted.

Occasionally flirting with girls.

“What’s wrong, Hall?”

Christine looked at Hall’s face and knew he was thinking.

Actually, she had also thought about the memory of Mist Town.

She could narrate it calmly.

“That kind of unfamiliarity and alienation made her feel that she had lost something. And for her sister who had died in the fire, she felt sad, but she also faintly felt that the other party was still alive.”

And so, the four of them continued to ride the Holy Train west in silence.

Hall got a guide to West Town from the attendant.

There were some year tables on it, and then he gave a little tip and asked for some newspapers and news about West Town.

But the attendant aunt saw that Hall was very interested in the affairs of West Town and said that she used to be a local of West Town.

So the two had a simple chat for a few sentences.

He asked the question he wanted to ask—”Do you still have an impression of the fire at the orphanage in West Town?”

“Yes, you mean that big fire, right? It’s been eleven years now.”

Hall was directly stunned.

Eleven years?

According to the game’s setting, the fire had happened in the autumn of the year 1025 of the Holy Light Era.

Which was ten years ago.

It was now the beginning of the year, so it should be counted as nine years ago.

Before he could ask any more questions, rows of houses retreated from the window.

The train was about to arrive at the station.

And on the platform, Hall saw a figure he was very unwilling to encounter in West Town.