Chapter 143

Tell me about what’s happened these past few years?”

Even though she was extremely reluctant to answer this question, after glancing back at her younger siblings’ room, Anna couldn’t help but bite her lips and then nodded her head with some difficulty.

“Alright… where should I start?”

“Start from when you got the item.”

The cloaked figure said calmly with a composed expression: “Six years ago, after your parents passed away and I delivered the developed photos, I discovered that you had a certain ‘potential.’ Then I gave you a little assistance. So, what happened afterward?”

Afterward…

Upon hearing this, Anna bit her lips again and said with a pale face:

“After that… just as you said, I did regain my family, but… it wasn’t the kind I wanted…”

“Hmm?”

The cloaked figure’s eyebrows perked up with interest before he continued to ask:

“Could you elaborate more on that?”

“It’s like… when I expressed my wish for my family to return while speaking to that photo, the person who showed up at home wasn’t my parents, but rather a boy around my age.”

Recalling the situation back then, Anna said with a complex look in her eyes:

“After seeing me, he claimed that he was my older brother. I thought I had encountered a madman and was scared, so I drove him out with all my might and continued talking to the photo you gave me.

I kept saying that I wanted my parents back, wanting to have my family again, but the ones who appeared were not them; instead, there were two infants wrapped in swaddling clothes…”

“I see… It seems that back then, you didn’t fully believe my words.”

After hearing this, the cloaked figure shook his head somewhat regretfully and said: “You’re a slightly precocious child with calm and rational thinking. At that time, you had deeply understood the meaning of death and knew that your parents could never come back.

Even though I told you that the family portrait was an unparalleled miracle that could give you your family back again and even demonstrated some of its power in front of you, you still didn’t completely trust me and deep down, believed that it was impossible for it to bring your parents back.

Because of your doubts and lack of trust, the seed I left in that photo didn’t germinate towards bringing back your parents but went in an unknown new direction. As a result, the anomaly… um… the effect produced deviated, which is regrettable.”

?!!!! After hearing the cloaked figure’s words, Anna felt a wave of dizziness, and a heart-wrenching chill suddenly struck her heart.

“So… if I had believed enough back then, could I really have brought them back?”

“Sorry, it would still be impossible.”

The cloaked figure shook his head again and said:

“The boundary between life and death isn’t entirely irreversible, but the conditions required are unimaginably harsh. Making someone ‘indestructible’ isn’t difficult, but bringing back someone who has already died is incredibly hard.

Your ‘talent’ is quite remarkable, but it’s still not enough to break through the barrier between life and death. However, if you had trusted me enough, you might have summoned the residual images of your parents or created two puppets like things.”

“But… aren’t those fake too?”

After answering Anna’s question without changing expression and noticing that the “test subject” seemed to have gone wrong, the originally courteous cloaked figure immediately became visibly colder.

Looking toward the inner room and checking the two children behind the wall, the cloaked figure frowned slightly, somewhat dissatisfied:

“It seems not only your older brother, but the other two also have no blood relation to you. Moreover, they aren’t false creations; they are all truly complete humans.

So, you obtained one of the top ten seeds, and the final outcome was merely finding a few children who resemble your parents, forcibly erasing their pasts, stealing their original lives, and making them play house with you?”

“I… I didn’t want this! I never intended to do this!”

After hearing the cloaked figure’s “accusation,” the deepest guilt buried in Anna’s heart was brutally torn open. Her complexion instantly turned pale, and the blood drained from her face in an instant.

“After realizing that thing was wrong, I tore it apart right away and took my older brother and Melanie to find the police, wanting to help them return to their original homes, but… but everyone’s memories seemed to have been altered!”

Supporting herself against the doorframe to prevent herself from collapsing, Anna bit her pale lips and tried to explain:

“After the police questioned the neighbors, they said our family indeed consisted of four children. The municipal records also confirmed that they were indeed my siblings. There were even baby items in our house, and even the past photos had three extra children! I… I never intended to steal anyone’s family; I really tried to explain! But no one believed me. They all thought I had gone mad from grieving over my parents’ deaths. I couldn’t find their original families either, so… so…”

Municipal archives, neighbors’ memories, traces of life… everything had been completely altered!

All contents within 69 Book Bar are prohibited from being reproduced without permission!

When the cloaked figure heard this, his furrowed brows relaxed slightly.

Although the effect clearly went astray and was completely different from the anomalous item he originally envisioned, this thing that directly interferes with existence and can forcibly alter someone’s life must have a very high rank. It wasn’t a waste of the strength of Seed No. 7 after all.

However, although the rank of this test subject met the standard, the ability was still not what he wanted. And “that” time was drawing near, with at most a year left.

If he still couldn’t create the corresponding anomalous item within a year, even if he successfully dealt with the Blood-Haired Maiden of the Virgo Bureau and destroyed the thing she sealed on the top floor of the Virgo Bureau, it would all end up being for nothing!”Never mind…”

Thinking about this, the cloaked figure, now somewhat dispirited, shook his head and then readjusted his hat politely yet coldly to Anna:

“I don’t have any other questions to ask. Sorry to bother you today…

Oh, and since you’ve lost the thing I gave you, once I find it and take it back, I assume you won’t have any objections?”

“I…”

After hearing the cloaked figure’s words, despite knowing that the other party possessed a power she couldn’t resist, the frail girl still mustered up the courage to grab the doorframe and asked: “If you take it away… what will happen to Leon and Melanie…”

“They will naturally return to their original homes, and the memories of these years will be erased. Except for you, no one will know anything happened.”

“!!!”

Looking at Anna, who fell to the ground with a thud, her eyes instantly losing their light, seemingly turning into a fragile shell with only a human appearance, the cloaked figure’s tear-streaked stern face finally revealed a sincere smile.

“Don’t worry, after I get the thing, I’ll help you correct the mistakes you made. Isn’t this what you want?”

(End of Chapter)