Vito stood at the window, staring at the fire not far away, feeling his heart beating a little uncontrollably hard.
Just as some thieves who have been stealing for years can intuitively sense if the treasure chest in front of them is loaded with traps or not, after staying in a certain kind of life for a long time, people will always have some natural reactions. Just as Vito's instincts were now alerting him to the fact that some kind of danger was approaching, and of a life-threatening kind.
But just as a treasure chest filled with traps is likely to yield rare treasures, so greater danger means greater opportunity.
Even so, something's not right.
Vito withdrew his hand and grunted.
According to his plan, the federal army should have entered the city by now, and then they can use this place as a frontline base to further devour the territory of San Marino Empire. Of course, their ambition will not succeed. As long as the five Chanting Ambassadors are still alive, no one can do anything to San Marino Empire. But that's not Vito's concern, as long as this country is invaded, as long as the people here ...
A strong gust of wind blew through the window and Vito squinted, but the wind then swept and changed, forming the shape of a man in one corner of the room.
"Father-sama!"
"Kelly?"
Vito stared at Kelly in amazement, as if he couldn't believe the fact.
"Aren't you already ..."
"I'm alive, Father."
Kelly gasped slightly, then stood up, gazing at Vito with a sad face.
"So, please stop this stupid plan. If you don't, the entire family will be destroyed! Now that the Council has recognized this, if you continue, things will become even more difficult to control! I don't know what Father's plan is, but I hope you can stop it. It's not too late!"
"Kelly, You're Alive ..."
As if he hadn't heard Kelly's words, Vito reached out with trembling hands and gently stroked Kelly's face, as if to confirm it .
"You're alive, you're not dead?"
"That's right, Father-sama. But these things can wait for a while, we are now ..."
"You're alive?"
"Father Superior?"
Kelly eyed Vito with some surprise, as if she sensed something was wrong.
"You are ...."
She didn't get to finish her sentence, because Vito had his hands down on her neck in a death grip.
"Woo...!!!"
Kylie didn't even have time to fight back before she was lifted flat on her back by Vito, she desperately grabbed Vito's hand and tried her best to pull away. Kylie's mind was so confused she didn't even know what was happening, no, or she did, but she didn't want to understand what was happening. Why her father, whom she remembered as stern and kind, as kind and affectionate, had attacked her, was something that had never occurred to her. But Vito's voice, full of disgust and hatred, was loud and clear in Kelly's ears.
"I can't believe you're not dead ... You failed me just like that bitch. As expected, you and your mother are both losers! I really don't know what I raised you for sixteen years for, how could I raise such a waste like you. Why don't you just die and let me carry out my plan? And now you're still alive? How can you still be alive? Die! Go to hell! Go to hell!"
"... uh ..."
The power in Vito's hands increased, and Kylie was completely out of breath, her instinctive pain wanted to struggle, but she was powerless. She couldn't accept what was happening to her, what had she come here for? Why had she come here?
"Whew!"
Black flashes of light flew by, Vito let go and stepped back, and Jared stepped in front of Kylie with both blades in his hands. Caroline appeared from behind Kylie and hugged her as she was about to fall to the ground. At that moment, Serenity and Belonga appeared at the window, completely blocking his retreat. Serenity glanced uneasily at Kelly, who was paralyzed in Caroline's arms, and then said to Vito with a grave expression.
"I'm sorry, Don Vito, but you have been convicted of high treason for colluding with another nation in an attack on the Empire. Now that the Convocation has ordered that you be stripped of your identity, please surrender immediately and hopefully stop resisting. Otherwise, we have the right to kill you on the spot."
"As for the army, I don't think you need to think about it. The Federation has already begun to retreat without their commander, and will probably leave the Forest of the Undead after dawn. The 1,200 soldiers under your command were all executed for attempting to attack a nobleman. Lord Holguin was instrumental in this. Not only did he send his own private soldiers to fend off the attack of your rebels disguised as the Konos, but he also protected all of those nobles ... "Jared said here, smiling coldly."" Anyway, things are like this, you still have anything to say?"
Vito looked at Jared coldly, the atmosphere of the room was as silent as death for a moment. Then he quickly took half a step back, and when everyone realized something was wrong, the five rings on Vito's fingers exploded, and a golden barrier instantly wrapped around him.
Almost at the same time, Jared has rushed to Vito's front, trembling double swords in the golden barrier radiated dazzling sparks, but did not cause damage. Jared jumped back and looked at the swords in his hands with a slight surprise, in fact, even he did not expect that the swords that could crush everything could not cause the slightest damage on the barrier.
"It's the Demon Spirit Barrier?"
Serenity blushed slightly, but immediately resumed her frosty demeanor.
"I still wish you would give up your resistance, Lord Vidocq. The Spirit Barrier may be able to block all attacks, but you can't move while you're in it. When the barrier fails, you won't stand a chance!"
"Hmph! Little girl ... don't speak out of turn."
Vito grunted.
"Think you can deal with me like this? You guys are really underestimating me!"
Kelly barely managed to struggle out of Caroline's arms, trembling slightly as she gazed at her father with disbelief. In a hoarse voice, she asked.
"Why? Father-sama ... why did you ... kill me?"
"Why?"
As if he'd heard the world's funniest joke, Vito rolled his eyes up oddly to glare at Kelly, then laughed coldly.
"Because you deserve to die! You deserved to die a long time ago!!!"
Here, Vito didn't seem to care about the others' reactions, but continued in a tone full of fervor, mixed with anger.
"You think I love you? My daughter? No, l don't love you at all. l just pretend to. Because the more I pretend to love you, the more I hate you. And you know why that is? Because your mother, that bitch who is also my sister, has the audacity to defy my will and be with another man!!!! She is a disgrace to the Vito family! She belongs to me! She belongs to me alone!!!"
"..."
Everyone was stunned for a moment, even Jared and Caroline took a while to come back to their senses, they hadn't expected things to be so unexpected.
Vito is in love with his sister? And had a child with her?
"Your mother is so stupid that after accepting my love, she runs away from it all. Moreover, no one in this country would accept our love, and my love could not be fulfilled. It's because of these stupid pigs that I'm in the way, and that shameless woman who fell in love with the Academy's wizard after that? Ha! You clowns are just a bunch of jugglers! How dare you take my sister's heart?!"
Vito roared, and frantically struck the magic barrier, and seemed to have lost his mind. But he soon stopped moving, and suddenly became calm, staring at Kylie, who was sitting on the ground in complete disorientation due to the intense stimulation.
"Your mother thinks l don't know, she thinks l don't know she's in love with another man. What a joke! I can still remember the horror and fear on that horny woman's face that day, after she gave birth to you, when I told her that I knew she was in love with another man! Do you want to know what she said at that moment? She said she begged me to save her, not to kill her.... At that time, if I had been able to find a magician to heal her, maybe she wouldn't have died. But why would I do that? I want that woman to know what the price of betraying me is. So I watched her flame of life gradually extinguished, that time I was really very happy, because she even the moment of death are manipulated in my hands!
"You know what? Kelly, what did that woman say when she realized she wasn't going to be saved? She cried out to me, begging me for forgiveness, hoping I wouldn't kill you. Of course I won't kill you, I'm going to love you, make you happy, and then destroy you ... hahahaha! Do you know what your mother did when she heard me say that to her? She actually wanted to kill you first! This is really a great mother's love ah!"
"Ah ... ah ..."
Kelly, now bleary-eyed and incoherent, clutched her body tightly around herself and sat on the floor, shaking as if she were afraid of something. No one made a move, the madness was more bizarre than even Jared could have imagined in a nightmare. Vito was talking to himself as if he had gone completely crazy, showing joy and excitement.
"When you cried in my arms every time you did something wrong, when you fell into bed because you were sick, there were times when I wanted to break your neck and let you die in despair. But that would have been too easy! My sister and I would have lived happily ever after if it hadn't been for those stupid pigs in this country who prevented our union! My sister wouldn't have left me if those wretched wizards at the Academy hadn't bewitched her! That's why I deliberately approached the Federation and got them to send in troops, and at the same time sowed discord between the Convocation and the Crown... what is the Empire?! When those bastards lose their loved ones too, they will understand my pain and joy!"
It was incomprehensible crazy logic, and it was then that everyone in the room realized that Vidocq, a long time ago, had become unhinged.
"It doesn't matter if it's stopped by you and the Convocation ... NOW!!!! The same is my revenge!!!"
The demonic barrier was destroyed in an instant, and the raging flames erupted suddenly from Vito's body, winding him into a huge, insane ball of fire.
"Oops!!!"
Serenity was the first of all to react.
"He's going to burn his life and turn it into pure magic crystals!"
"Are you kidding me?"
Jared surprised to look at the growing fireball, which is not a long-range missile, in case when he really condensed successfully ...
"We must evacuate, and at the same time notify Lord Cthulhu."
Serenity stepped back first, and Wendy did absolutely nothing to stop it.
"Mr. Jared! We must leave, there's no way to stop him here! This Elemental Orb is so chaotic that if it is disturbed, the entire city will be flattened by it!!!"
Jared stared intently at the fireball in front of him, then he sighed softly.
"... Caroline?"
(...)
"Any ideas?"
(... hmm.)
"Very good."
Jared stands up and takes a few steps back.
"Destroy it."
Caroline took a slow step forward, walked to the fireball, and then casually flung her hand, the slender chain sword transformed into a silver snake, and flew away.
Then, Caroline opened her eyes, the golden-colored right eye, at this moment, suddenly changed into a deep and incomparable, as if seeing through the whole world as bright and penetrating.
Silver light flashes.
Caroline put away her sword, and in front of her eyes, a clear crack appeared in the center of the fireball, and then began to gradually dissipate, and eventually changed into a few wisps of fire, burning out in the air.