Survivor Syndrome

It was obvious that Chapter 742: Survivor Syndrome.

The girl's struggle had clearly angered the Earl.

Or perhaps the Earl had eliminated her because he felt her moral bottom line was not low enough and that she had not fallen deeply enough.

Or maybe the Earl was already annoyed by Viscount Conlay making a scene here, so he took his anger out on the poor girl... It was even possible that he simply wanted to warn Viscount Conlay.

Yet Viscount Conlay still refused to let the matter go.

After all, Earl Dawn had never been recorded as having killed a Child of the Moon. That was the foundation of his cooperation with the Children of the Moon.

Viscount Conlay knew that the other party would absolutely not break his rule with him—because he was not worth it.

That was why Viscount Conlay dared to act without fear.

What Viscount Conlay did not know was that Earl Dawn had already learned through some means that he had fallen into one of Red Phase's schemes—the false peace was about to end, so Earl Dawn had simply locked him up.

...Who exactly had told him?

At that thought, Aleister's eyes shifted, and she fell into contemplation.

"—You should be free now, right, Mirror Demon?"

Aleister chose to ask Earl Dawn's "butler" directly. "Who told Earl Dawn that he was being watched by the Earl Leipzig and the others?"

"It was Lady Anna Kingsford, my lord."

The mirror beside her suddenly darkened, black mist roiling from it.

The Mirror Demon immediately gave her a highly precise answer.

Aleister was very familiar with that name—because she was her adoptive father's wife.

Or perhaps ex-wife? She was not even sure whether they had actually divorced... In any case, she was Freya's biological mother.

If she looked