Chapter 256: Returning to Their Roots
After that emotional roller coaster, none of the three had any appetite for breakfast. Although they went to the dining room, they mostly just watched the two mysterious visitors eat.
Fortunately, the cooks at Charkus Manor worked quickly enough to barely keep up with the pair's appetite.
Their movements were elegant, and they did not even seem to eat particularly fast, yet somehow the food disappeared at an astonishing rate.
Only after breakfast ended and everyone left the dining room did the sweating kitchen staff breathe a sigh of relief. From their perspective, it had been all too obvious. Even simple tasks like frying eggs and bacon had left them exhausted.
By now, Mansha and Corlini finally believed Hilbert's account of destroying an evil spirit that night. What the three most wanted to understand now was who these two mysterious visitors were and exactly what connection they had to the Charkus family.
They sat before the same fireplace, with the same four servants bringing tea and refreshments. The difference was that this time it was morning.
As their physical hunger gradually grew, the three ate the refreshments in place of the breakfast they had barely touched.
Once all the servants had left and closed the sitting room door, Qin Xiaoxia gathered his thoughts and spoke.
"Actually, we only recently recovered a little information about the Charkus family ourselves. For a considerable time, we had both forgotten about each other."
Those words opened the story of their shared history.
"Before I go any further, I want to show you something. I wonder whether you still recognize it."
Without waiting for the three to react, Qin Xiaoxia nodded slightly to Su Su, and the two extended their arms one after the other.
As a faint,