Chapter 2085

Marcellus added, "If your reputation is tainted, even the courtesy title you now hold will be stripped from you. Father and Mother will see to it that you disappear. Do you understand?" It was Serelith's second time realizing how cruel her family could be. She was undoubtedly related to them by blood, yet because she returned late, she had lost all value in their eyes. A trace of grudge slowly seeped out, and it seemed to connect with the heavy gloom already hanging over Marcellus' courtyard. However, the grudge from within the manor was far stronger, so Serelith's faint, hidden grudge went completely unnoticed. Then, within the manor walls came the eerie sound of a man singing in a strange, broken lilt. His voice, affected and sharp, rang out. "I am but filth among men… willing to descend to hell and have my nine tongues torn out…" The strange melody and eerie lyrics sent a chill through everyone present, even those who had doubted the mystic master's credibility just moments ag