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Chapter 881: A Hundred Tiradually sank behind theclouds The color of the sky was shifting slowly from blue to white then to red In the end, the last drop of sun cast a crirassland

At the end of the Gilen Fa on top of it, Nightingale could see her family's houses, farmlands, and forests adjacent to the mountains When she had been little, she had liked to sit on his father's shoulders and ascended the slope to see the complete picture of their property When her parents' bodies covered with bruises and wounds had been sent back and her servants had asked where she had wanted her parents to be buried, she had chosen the slope without hesitation

At the time, she had been extremely upset at her parents' death and had had a hard tione She had wished at some point her parents could open their eyes In that way, they could see her and her brother, no matter where she and her brother were in the ain visited her parents' tombstones, but with a totally different attitude

There was not much dust on the to the over, she put a pile of neatly folded white paper in front of the two toment

Faced with the indisputable evidence, the viscount soon collapsed After Roland proed children would not be punished for the cri Dreamland Water and had also confessed the entire process of taking the Gilen Family's properties

It turned out, beneath the valley that between the two fah it was not a geoldfor the Soraphical positions, what the Gilen Faround floor of Somi's domain Farmers of the Somi Family had often fetched water and bathed downstrea water co down He had then asked others to help further search for old, which had thus attracted Dott Somi's attention

Instantly, he had prohibited the the news and sent his old dust

Yet the result of the search had greatly disappointed hiold upstreaolds in the river had been a result of the sag of rocks caused by constant water erosion and seepage However, an increasing aht be close to the Gilen Family As such, they had had no choice but to suspend the exploration

Due to the special status of Silver City, the nuhts and supporters local nobles were allowed to oere old e treasure, he had laid his eyes upon Viscount Gilen

He had started his plan with old Gilen, a distant relative of the Gilen Fa old Gilen had no title nor manor, he had tempted old Gilen to cooperate him and promised he could make old Gilen the master of the Gilen Faive him a piece of land Old Gilen could not resist the tereed to help Dott

Dott bribed the Rats to kill Nightingale's parents during the refugee riot then old Gilen took the chance to take in Hyde and Nightingale and helped to e their domain Old Gilen planned that when Hyde entered his adulthood, he would force Hyde to waive his manor and title, which was as easy as pie—after all, an heir without parents was just as helpless as a bird in a cage If any other nobles had a problereedy

His plan would have been coed his plan—on the day of her adulthood, she had killed old Gilen and disappeared into thin air Old Gilen had never got the title he had dreamed of even in his last moments

Dott Somi had to alter his plan—he could win old Gilen over, but he could not get everyone's support fro chip—the title He had to make the best use out of it

Ironically, he had turned to Hyde in the end

When Nightingale had first heard about it, she had found it ridiculous—the thing that waschip for Hyde to earn; yet Hyde was naive enough to believe Dott would help hi to Dott's proposal, the man who had murdered his parents