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You Yunran said: "It's a pity that they lost most of their memories at this time, otherwise the story of this paragraph can be told by themselves."

You Yunran recalled the information he had received, and slowly said: "Life in a closed castle is undoubtedly full of torture. There is no sunshine, no freedom, no laughter here, and life is full of silence, depression, cold, and despair. You lost Lost life, lost the motivation to continue to struggle, lost all the reasons why people should continue to live, but they can't even simply die. Facing the increasingly old castle every day, accompanied by scary-looking colleagues, Living in a gloomy environment, you are afraid of the sun, but yearn for the light. You have long forgotten the taste of food, the fragrance of flowers, and the feeling of running freely on the plains... You are tired of all this everything of."

"You who have no ability to change all this can only try your best to send away your most beloved masters, hoping that they will leave this place and go to a wider world. However, those three people who can be so admired by you, and you How could it be an existence that is willing to abandon you so easily and go away alone."

"Thus, they came back. Even though most of their memories were lost, all three returned to this place without missing a single one."

"After seeing them, you guessed the reason for their return, so you immediately rejected their request to let them enter the castle. Unfortunately, you were still no match for the hostess' plea and the blizzard's persecution."

"You secretly hid the mirror in our clothes, and kept frightening us with horrible things, trying to make us leave with the mirror without knowing it. This is actually a gamble. On the one hand, it gave the whole castle , All the ghosts have a hope of 'relief'. On the one hand, it also respects your masters and their belief in wanting to save you."

"The reason why I didn't tell them all this directly, I think, is because you know that if all the mirrors are broken, you, your masters, and the ghosts in the entire castle will all 'die'. "

"You can't bear to see your masters die completely, even if you keep the form of ghosts, you can't bear to see all this."

You Yunran sighed helplessly, and said with emotion: "It's a pity that in order to save you, the masters who wanted to come back at the risk of being exposed to the sun and losing their memories, are now trying their best to save you. I deliberately want to protect the mirror to ensure my own safety. Instead, I, the only human being, try to deceive them and try to fulfill their wishes..."

"Judging from your tone, do you know that you can enter and leave the castle at will?" the butler said in a deep voice.

"Of course I know." You Yunran spread his hands and said, "After all, I have read the book and know the effect of the formation. Whether it is necessary to destroy the mirror or not, I am more eager than that person to hope that we can break the formation." The sealed chess player knows better. It’s just that the blizzard outside was so big that I had nowhere to go, and after reading the diary of your castle master, I knew the cause and effect of all this... I decided to help you, so I came here in front of you."

The housekeeper was silent for a long time, sighed almost inaudibly, and said to You Yunran: "You said you knew all this."

"Yes." You Yunran said with his hands behind his back: "The cause of everything is because of your frail and perennially ill mistress..."

"Master loves her very much..." the steward said in a long tone, and he fell into deep memories: "She is a very beautiful woman, the most beautiful pearl in the whole country. She is gentle, loving, and full of talent , she founded the orphanage, guarded many orphans, taught the children to read and study, and made cakes with them. She is very friendly to our servants and will really care about our lives..."

"But it's a pity that such a woman failed to marry a kind-hearted husband." You Yunran said coldly. "In order to save his beloved woman, he chose to sacrifice the lives of more innocent people!"

After hearing this, the butler sighed. He shook his head and said in frustration: "It's not all my master's fault. I, I actually know all of this. When the master was trying to study the devil's domain and carry out those cruel experiments, the master found He needs a helper...but I didn't, didn't stop him." The steward's voice was very painful, and he said sadly: "The family outside the forest, I watched the master do it with my own eyes... It's all my responsibility..."

You Yunran looked at the housekeeper with arms crossed, thought for a while, and said, "Then how did you decide to stop all of this?"

The butler's voice froze, like an animal driven to a dead end, full of despair and madness.

His body became more and more festering, holding his head on his back and wailing silently. After a long time, he said to You Yunran in a low voice: "When did you realize that the sealing circle was set by me?"

"Let's start from the moment we discovered that there are actually two formations? After all, one is a sacrificial formation for immortality, and the other is a 'mirror formation' that seals everything. Two different forces appear in the same place. Naturally, two different forces are needed. Since I found the sacrificial circle from your master's desk, then naturally another person is needed to manipulate the sealing circle... The most suspicious one is the mistress who is closest to the master, Or you. The hostess is the least suspicious, because she is the object that your master needs to avoid the most. She is kind-hearted and will never allow this kind of thing to happen. Even if she knows that it is rare, it may cause her depression. Aggravating. Then you are the most likely only one left. And you are the one who handles all the so-called things for your master. Just now you just confessed that you saw the experiment of the master slaughtering a family outside the forest with your own eyes. on site……"

The butler nodded slowly, acknowledging all of You Yunran's reasoning.

You Yunran continued to ask: "So, you can tell me, why did you do all this? And why did you suddenly repent and not cooperate with your master?"

"Because, that is... the domain of demons!" The steward's voice was low, and the words seemed to echo in his abdomen, very forcefully.The butler suppressed his tone, and said heavily: "The devil is greedy, cruel, and unreasonable! It is an absolutely untouchable existence...I regret it..."

"Is it because the price is too high?" You Yunran said.

The housekeeper took a few deep breaths of pain, and said to You Yunran: "Since you have read the master's experimental diary, you should have also seen the settings of the formation and the materials needed..."

You Yunran recalled it for a while, and said, "Special mysterious blood, and a lot of blood?"

The steward nodded, and said in a heavy tone: "I am that special bloodline, so I can use most of the simple magic circles that don't cost extra."

"For example, this sealing formation." You Yunran nodded, not too surprised by the "special bloodline" identity recognized by the housekeeper.One is because there is always a need for such a character, and the other is that as a noble master, it is impossible to be short of men so that he can only ask the butler for help. Since he is looking for him, there may be other reasons.

"The master told me that if I wanted to save the mistress, I might sacrifice my life. I agreed, and made a conscious of it. Therefore, I also let go of the bottom line, and numbly followed the master to hurt others..." When the butler said this, his voice gradually became a little trembling, and he roared angrily: "But, I didn't know that the so-called sacrifice would be so huge! The devil not only needs my blood, but even the lives of my family members! Create a formation The sacrifices are far more than a family of five, but a whole town!!"

The steward's body was constantly shaking, and he shouted in pain: "On one side are my family, and on the other side are hundreds of thousands of lives! I have no choice, I can only, I can only do this... Otherwise, I will My master will lead his troops to kill my family, and will try to destroy the towns he ruled... He has gone crazy long ago, he doesn't care about other things at all... I can only do this!!"

The butler gasped loudly, he bent his body sadly, and horrible, viscous tears of blood flowed from the corners of his eyes.

"I regret it all the time...but I dare not say anything...I dare not tell the hostess what his husband has done, and I dare not let the servants in the castle know the truth and anger the hostess, let alone confess myself The crimes committed..." The butler's body was bent together, he looked closer to the ghost than at this moment, he stared at You Yunran with a terrifying face, and said to him: "So I tried my best to send the mistress away They also desire to use their hands to break the curse of the mirror and free all sins..."

"After 100 years, I finally see hope. Stranger, can you save us, save all innocent lives, and redeem my sinful soul..." The butler turned his back to the moonlight and bowed deeply to You Yunran Lowering his waist, he said heavily, "Please!"

You Yunran silently looked at the butler's bent back, looked up at the full moon in the sky, and said softly, "Of course."

"Maybe that's why I'm here today."

"Although all these things were full of blood, cruelty, and sadness, I saw warmth, love, and salvation from them."

"I will end all of this for you, for you."

The bell in the house rang again, and the time came to the moment when the castle was sealed 100 years ago, which is twelve o'clock today.From a long time ago, everything in this place has been stuck at the boundary line in the early morning, wandering between life and death, caught in the gap of endless cycle, closed here, and never walked out.

It's time to break it all and push everyone locked away.

You Yunran took the last round mirror handed over by the butler with both hands, and said to him: "The soul of the dead who has been silent for a hundred years, please rest in peace."

Under the bright moonlight, the butler, who had completely let go of the shackles in his heart, stood in this beautiful garden and restored his former human appearance.He showed a relieved expression, and smiled at the free world.

The breeze picks up, bringing with it the long-lost, mountaintop cedar scent.

Mirror, broken.