The Young Master in the Shadows

Chapter 121: Who is she?

Chapter 121: Who is she?

Charlotte was sitting on her leather chair as she watched some men with naked chests move chests inside a vault.

“Young mistress, The Von Weiss family has eradicated the Lotus gang.” an old butler said.

“He, he, my stupid little brother would have never thought that I would use our enemies to erase the traitors he bought up.” She said with a smirk.

“Shall we send someone else to assassinate Victor?” He asked.

“No need, that gut might be a pervert. But he is well protected. And I don't want to get in trouble with his family yet.” She said, “Ah. Send him an invitation to the Auction, but make sure that he arrives late. I want to humiliate him a little.” She said with a look of hatred in her eyes.

“Understood.” The old man said as he bowed deeply.

“Any news about Baron?” She asked as she watched the guards bring in three girls in chains. Those are what’s left of her goods. Damn you, Titus, you idiot!!

“No, we don’t even know if he was alive.” The old man said.

“That guy will not die this easily. Just keep searching for him, he will pop up sooner or later, he always does.” She said, “At the very least we need to retrieve the bloodline checking book.” She added.

…

After kicking the clingy Margret and Alex out of the study and then locking the door, Victor smiled as he looked at the pouting Lily.

“These things are really great, you know, Sit down and wait for your turn.” He said with a smile as he set the blood book on the desk Then pricked his finger and marked the cover with his essence blood. The book shone a little indicating that it has recognized a new master.

Now using this is very easy, he just had to drop his blood in the groove on the cover.

The book reacted and began to turn its pages until it reached an already existing silvery purple page.

It was mostly empty, just two Lines,

And the word VON WEISE was written in elegant handwriting in the corner. Probably Baron’s doing.

He pressed Yes, and the page changed in front of his eyes

Wahh, He never knew his bloodline was this overpowered. What would happen if he succeeded in upgrading it? What would it turn into?

He knew a few things about this, The blood Features just rely on purity, while the skills would be granted on awakening and they are limited by the purity too. The purer the better. Usually, not all skills are granted, one or two mostly. That’s unless he was 100% pure and fully awakened.

“What is this young master?” Lily, who sat quietly beside him, asked.

“This artifact reveals the secrets of the bloodline. Those should be the Von Wiese blood.” He said.

“Can you read those symbols?” Lily asked with astonishment, making him realize that the book was written in Rune Writing. This type of thing was still unreadable, and only a few symbols could be recognized by trial and error, as the AAA rank. That’s how Baron used it.

“Yes, I can read this. It just needs some effort to learn.” He said with a smile that made Lily’s eyes sparkle, “the young master is really amazing.” She thought, not realizing how amazing reading Runes truly was. In his past life, Victor was one of the few who truly read this thing.

“No, put a drop of your blood in this groove.” He said as he handed Lily a sterilized needle. He didn’t want the cut to leave a scar.

She nodded and did as he told her. Just as the blood entered the groove, the book shone, then flipped open to an empty space, and out of thin air, a golden page with raven ornaments began to materialize. No record of her bloodline was registered in the book before this

Wow, much more Authority was needed for hers. Is it because of the SS rank? He quickly pressed Yes.

“Whaaaaaaaaat?” Victor stood up and yelled, making Lily shrink a little bit as he looked at her as if he wanted to eat her.

“Is everything ok, young master?” She asked timidly with a blush. The way he looked at her made her feel strange.

“Dear Lily, come sit on my lap.” He said as he sat down and patted his lap.

Lily nodded timidly and sat down, to feel his arms hug her.

“I thought that my bloodline was overpowered, but after looking at yours, I found out that I am pathetic.” He said. Making her a little shocked? Was it really like that? She thought as she looked at the incomprehensible Runes in the book.

“But, I have some good, and bad news for you.” He said with a complex expression.

“What?” She asked nervously.

“The bad news is that we may have to split up.” He said with a sigh while feeling a little guilty for having to manipulate Lily’s feelings.

“What!?” She yelled as tears began to fill her eyes. “Does the young master not need me anymore or does it have something to do with my bloodline? Is it because is it better than yours? Can’t you just take it? I don’t mind.” She said in shock.

“Idiot, that’s not it.” He said as he hugged her harder, “It has something to do with the good news. Your Bloodline let me confirm who your parents are.” He said, deciding to tell her the truth about her origin. The truth would come out sooner or later, and it would be better if he was the one who would deliver the news.

“My parents?” She asked in shock. “But I remember them, they were farmers. They sold me to a brothel when I was five. And no matter how much I pleaded, they didn’t listen.” She said with a sad voice.

“If my guess was correct. Those guys were not your real parents.” He said as he grabbed the book of wished knowledge and opened it to a page showing a pretty naked woman in a dirty pose. Lily wanted to look away in embarrassment but stopped when she realized that the woman looked about 99% similar to her. If it weren't for the slightly slanted eyes and the beauty mark on her cheek. Victor also inspected the Picture. This woman had a mature charm that the young Lily could never rival. Not yet anyway.

“Who is she? And why is she in this dirty pose?” Lily asked in shock as her face was painted red with a blush. She wouldn’t mind making this pose for her young master, but she wouldn’t like it if it was featured in a porn book.

“This book is an Artifact that was set to show the most pretty women in the world about 120 years ago,” Victor said he discovered the age by trying to ask the same question about the women and the book told him that it would cost him (120000 Order points and 10 years cold-down time) or (120 order points and 120 Years cold-down time). And since the book was usable now, that much time has probably elapsed.

“Ah… Who is she?” Lily asked,

“Look at the name at the bottom.” He said,

Lily looked to see three words written in ethereal handwritten Runes that she couldn’t read.

“What does it say.?” She asked with embarrassment while wishing to pinch the young master for teasing her.

“Venus Von Krone, Probably your grandmother.” He said, making Lily frown, she had never heard of that name before. She inspected the picture again but quickly looked away. The pose was very dirty.

“But, Maybe I just look like them,” She said,

“Not with your Crown Craw Bloodline. It’s unique to them.” He said, “The Von Krone was the strongest family in the world. They went into hiding about 21 years ago.” Victor added, making Lily gasp.

“But, But… What does it matter?” She asked,

“If you belonged to that family, that would be a problem. As they would never approve of a son-in-law like me. Not easily anyway as my bloodline rank is too low for them.” He said with a shallow smile that made Lily shocked as she realized why he told her that they may not be able to stay together.

“ I will just hide. They don’t know about me.” She said timidly, she was curious about her real family, but she didn’t want to leave her young master.

“No they don’t, but they will. You must know better than me how big family spy networks work.” He said,

“I… I know….But… But they didn’t look for me until now.” She said in a depressed voice.

“I have information that the Von Krone had some kind of an internal power struggle that would end very soon, maybe your situation was related to it.” He said, “We don’t know if they will look for you for sure, but you have to be ready just in case.” He lied, he clearly met her brother when he came to the archipelago to look for her trace back then. At that time Victor hid the fact that he was a Von Weise, just posing as a history researcher, and together with that guy he found out through the records what happened to Lily, he could not have imagined that the random girl who was killed at the day of his ceremony would have been such an important character. And he would have never believed that he would fall in love with her. His initial purpose when he saved her was to send her to her family. Her brother was his best friend after all, and that guy did confess to Victor that he wished they were brothers-in-law when they got drunk once.

“Um. No matter what, I want to stay with the young master.” She said stubbornly with a blush bringing him to the present.

“I want that too. But you would have to face your parents sooner or later. So we have to get married before they find you.” He said as he hugged her tighter. “I would have to face my in-laws after all.” He said sniffing her hair, making her smile a little.

He really had several solutions, the best one was to upgrade his bloodline. If he has an S-ranked bloodline things would be much easier.

“Did the young master know about that before and made me wear a veil for that purpose?” She asked him after sitting on his lap and feeling his warm hug for a while. Making him freeze. Shit, this girl was too smart for her own good.

“Of course not, I just didn't want anyone else to look at your beauty with dirty eyes.” He lied.

“Umm.” Lily nodded in embarrassment.

“Don’t worry. I just need to get rid of Linda, and we will marry.” He said, The Von Krone would take another 3 years to sort out their trouble, then it would take her brother another 3 years to track her here. That’s if nothing was changed.