Chapter 47 - Chapter 47: Chapter 46 Alchemy Council (1/2)

Chapter 47: Chapter 46 Alchemy Council

Chris left the basement and with great agility jumped down from the manor’s window, not through the front door, but sprung on to the wall like a cat.

In the night, with his hands behind his back, he silently walked on the wall, then silently flipped down, and soon the boy disappeared behind a few trees.

The children in the orphanage were almost all asleep, even those who weren’t asleep didn’t notice Chris sneaking in.

The silver-haired boy quietly came to the yard and found Vanessa under a tree watching the stars; the girl didn’t realize he was there at all until she suddenly got tapped on the head.

“Ah! Chris, you scared me!”

Vanessa had no idea someone was approaching and her face turned pale with fright. When she saw the boy behind her, she immediately became annoyed and embarrassed.

In four years, she had grown quite a bit.

Even because girls mature earlier, Vanessa was now a little taller than Chris, although her right leg was still severely deformed, looking terrifying and nauseating.

Vanessa pointed seriously at Chris’s belly with her cane and frowned, “Apologize, Chris, you always like to scare people.”

Chris remained silent and, under the moonlight, looked very beautiful, like an angel without gender, which even stunned Vanessa for a second.

She sighed and said, “Chris, come sit, let’s watch the stars together.”

Chris calmly sat down next to the girl, knowing that Vanessa must have something on her mind, and quickly listened to her mumbling about her inner frustrations.

“Chris, I heard another story from Hospital Director Irene recently, it made me feel really conflicted.”

“In the story, a man with strong sense of justice let his enemy’s child go, which later led to all his own family members being killed by that child… Hospital Director Irene asked me if I would make the same choice as that man.”

Vanessa bowed her head, unable to figure it out, as she was too young.

“I don’t know what to do, but children are innocent either way, yet causing one’s own family members to die seems… quite foolish, doesn’t it?”

Chris didn’t utter a word, knowing that his sister was trying to gradually change Vanessa’s notions, and it was indeed becoming more effective.

But her heart seemed to be in pain, as moral dilemmas are often very fatal for those with strong morals.

For some reason, Chris suddenly remembered the girl who once claimed she would teach him a lesson. He didn’t really want Vanessa to change at all deep inside, but whatever he said, wasn’t he also actively influencing her like his sister?

“Follow, your heart.”

Under the night sky and the stars, his voice was calm and reassuring.

Vanessa turned to look at the silver-haired boy, was silent for a long time, and couldn’t help saying:

“I didn’t quite understand what you’re saying. Can’t you give me a more precise answer? Forget it, you’re terrible with words, and a bit strange, I can’t expect anything from you.”

Chris, now in a bad mood, stood up with a cold face, and the next moment, he was gone without a trace.

——

Byrne, Margaret, and their child lived in the best room of the Fischer family mansion, although it was still not comparable to Margaret’s previous living environment in Fein City.

He often stayed out all night. Many nights, he was either in the renovated workshop studying new drugs or secretly discussing hidden matters with Irene.

To protect his family in the war that was more than a decade away, for the greater good of the Fischer family, for the unfulfilled wishes of Lucius, Byrne had too many reasons not to rest easy at night.

Over the years, Margaret seemed to vaguely sense that he was hiding something, often questioning him indirectly, but Byrne managed to evade every time. The strong-willed Margaret was initially very unhappy but later stopped caring.

“Should I invest, or do something else?”

Byrne pondered what to do with the wealth the Fischer family now possessed.