"Mr. Andel...Long time no see." Cesare really wanted to take some time to reminisce about the past when he met his family again, but at this moment his throat did not support him in doing so, and he could only continue to make a dry and hoarse voice. .
"Have you seen a girl with red hair...she came with me."
"You mean the little daughter of the Lauryn family? I did think that you might be old enough to get married when you come back, but I didn't expect it to be so smooth. I was also worried that your withdrawn personality since childhood would not be tolerated by the girls at school. Welcome from classmates.”
Despite Mr. Andel's mature and steady voice, Cesare still did not respond to his speculation.
The atmosphere was silent, making Mr. Andel's expression appear puzzled.
"So you traveled thousands of miles to bring the daughter of the Laurian family back to our home, but it turned out that there was no relationship between you as we suspected. It was just the friendship between classmates that allowed the girl to accompany you back here?
"Mr. Andel frowned and crossed his arms across his chest, looking very troubled.
"Okay... this is your own business after all. But don't worry. Now that we have found you, we won't leave your friend alone, and the place where she will be placed is much better than the environment you have here."
"Can I see her..." Cesare asked weakly, and Andel shrugged.
"I'm sorry, kid. You also know what happened to you. It's for your own good to keep you here. And... Anya, right? That girl's matter is even more troublesome."
He sighed, "She has seen too many secrets of our family. You two have to stay in your room until we make a better decision."
Mr. Andel said, looking around again. "If this can be regarded as a room... I will find a way to make your stay more comfortable. Are you hungry now? Or are you thirsty?"
Cesare shook his head slightly. The knife-like pain in his throat really made him lose his appetite.
It's strange to say that although I don't know how long I have been unconscious, I don't feel hungry or thirsty until now. It's like many of the body's instinctive senses have disappeared.
Finally returning to the castle, Cesare wanted to figure it all out. He adjusted his mentality, suppressing the pain in his throat and trying to make his voice clearer.
"Mr. Andel, can I ask some questions... about what you have been hiding, the family secrets... and what really happened to me?"
As soon as Cesare's question was raised, Mr. Andel's eyes instantly became hesitant, and the mouth he was about to open slowly closed again hesitantly.
"Well... this matter is not that simple to explain." He took out his hands in his pockets and put them behind his back, and his tangled figure walked back and forth in front of Cesare.
"But you can't keep hiding it from me." Cesare was sitting with his back against the wall. The chains all over his body seemed to be binding a mad elephant. He raised his head and looked at Andel calmly. gentlemen.
"The reason why you want to tie me up is because I will turn into a monster, right? What are those monsters... and what are mycelium? How long can I live..."
Mr. Andel gasped and closed his eyes in thought, frowning tightly, and then opened his eyes firmly as if he was suddenly relieved.
"Okay Cesare, you are already a grown-up child, and now as a member of the Hunyadi family, you are obviously involved. You do have the right to know the truth." Rather than communicating with Cesare, Andel The words are more like convincing myself.
Mr. Andel took out a glass tube as thick as a finger from his pocket. It was cylindrical in shape, with a hemispherical seal at the bottom and a metal stopper at the top.
There were several wisps of black stuff squirming inside the glass tube. Cesare squinted his eyes and looked carefully, only to realize that they were the hyphae he was very familiar with during this journey.
A few strands of mycelium squirmed slowly in the test tube, twisting their bodies like tiny snakes and crawling along the glass inner wall of the test tube.
The hyphae look soft and elastic, sometimes stretching and sometimes shrinking, and they look like tentacles swimming in the water. I don’t know if it’s because they are trapped in the glass. These hyphae look slightly yellow and almost Signs of withering.
"Sure enough, the family knows about those mycelium monsters..." Cesare said with a sigh. "Why do you keep hiding it from me?"
"Because of the danger," Mr. Ander said bluntly. "Before I explain these things, Cesare, do you know how magic works?"
"Is it a phenomenon that is finally formed by absorbing the magic power flowing on the surface of the earth... and then molding it through the will of the human body? This is what the teachers at San Carlo teach.
As for what magic is... I only know that it is colorless and tasteless. According to the Bible, it is blasphemy to speculate about great magic..."
"Just listen to the blasphemy. Most of the things decided by the church are written down in books from their daydreams." Mr. Andel shook his head and rolled his eyes.
"The real reason is that our current knowledge is simply not enough to fully interpret the existence of magic." Mr. Andel walked towards Cesare step by step.
He bent down and brought the glass tube over. The mycelium inside gradually became more and more active as if it sensed Cesare's presence, jumping and tumbling as hard as possible.
They squirmed at high speed towards the glass on the side close to Cesare, but their efforts were useless. Their number was too small to destroy the glass.
Mr. Andel's expression was serious and he continued.
“I have been studying the relationship between magic power and mutated hyphae for many years, and during this period I also discovered that a lot of the knowledge in textbooks is inaccurate.
For example, magic power does not just stay on the surface of the earth. I have read many forbidden ancient magic books and found that humans in the past did not draw magic power from the earth, but...from the air. "
"In the air? But there is no magic in the air... Anyone who has used magic knows this." Cesare continued to ask in confusion.
"Yes, there is indeed no magic in the air in the era we live in now, but this does not mean that it did not exist in the past. If my research is not wrong..."
Mr. Andel's tone paused for a moment. He put the glass tube aside steadily and took out an old and yellowed booklet from his arms. The style and appearance were the same as those used by Ilona to record Cesare's body. The changed booklet is exactly the same.
He licked his fingers out of habit and opened the booklet to one page accurately.
