Chapter 1523: Krewe, the Phantom Thief Who Stole the Girl, the Drama of Memory

A girl with long light red hair, emerald eyes and a white dress, who looked to be about six or seven years old, stood in the shadow of the street lamp. As Jiang Yi remained silent, she slowly lowered her head.

"Her name is Pepe. Haven't you...seen her?"

The night wind couldn't move the girl's dress, it was like blowing past an invisible shadow.

"Tell me your friend's name. Aren't you afraid that I'm a bad guy?" Jiang Yi's aura turned into invisible oppression, causing the girl to step back three steps.

"Tell your 'mother' about it."

He chuckled, dangerously.

"No! I... I can see that you and mother are not in the same group. Moreover, even if you are wrong, it's just a beating. And Pepe... mother won't..." The girl clenched her hands, plucked up her courage, looked up and looked at Jiang Yi.

Someone like my mother wouldn't have eyes like this.

"Do you trust your intuition?" Jiang Yi walked slowly to the other person. "Does the Pepe you are talking about have silver hair and special pupils..."

"Yes! It's black, with red cross-shaped pupils." the girl said excitedly.

"As a reward for your trust in me, I can only tell you... the other party is now in a place where he will not meet your 'mother'. This is not a lie, but I only told part of the truth." Jiang Yi continued, "Are you still willing to continue to believe me?"

"Where I won't meet my 'mother'?" the girl thought doubtfully.

"Pepe, is she still alive? Could it be..." She suddenly thought of something and her face turned pale, "Did she fall into the hands of others?"

"He's still alive and hasn't fallen into the hands of anyone else." Jiang Yi answered.

The girl breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you! This makes me feel much more relieved."

"And I'm sorry, because I think... the worst case scenario might be not meeting 'Mother'... an explanation."

She looked at Yandora again.

"Are you the new kid at Hearth House?"

"Do you know the truth too?"

"Just like me, I came here alone to find Mr. Kaito..."

"???" Yandora asked with a question mark.

"I'm not!" She grabbed Jiang Yi's clothes, "I'm Mr. Phantom Thief's angel."

"Angel?" The girl was stunned.

Isn't that a thing in the storybooks? It's said to be a messenger of God. Is that what an archangel looks like? And Mr. Kaito can't be God, right?

She shook her head in her heart, how is it possible.

It couldn't be that... I was able to meet Mr. Kaito because the gods heard my prayers. But I wasn't pious, and I didn't really believe that the gods would answer me.

Because "mother" means "someone who carries out God's will."

She lowered her head in thought and was depressed for a long time.

But today it was a rare opportunity to meet Mr. Kaito, which was also a surprise.

She covered her chest with her hands and raised them, saying, "We've been talking for so long, but I don't think I've introduced myself yet. My name is Krevy... I'm... a child from the Hearth House. Nice to meet you and Mr. Phantom Thief."

Yandora looked up at Jiang Yi and listened to the oracle.

"You can call me Yandora... As for the person I serve all my life, if you want to call him 'Mr. Kaito', then continue to call him that."

"Okay." Krevy nodded.

He gritted his teeth, feeling the pain in his body, but still stood on tiptoe.

“While there’s no one else around…” She stretched out her hand and made a gesture to open the window, “The view outside is so beautiful! The round moon, the twinkling stars…”

Her dress was blown up by the night wind.

Yandora looked at the other person strangely as she was making the strange movement of opening the window on the street of Fontaine. There was nothing in front of the girl, and there was no wind, but the other person's hair and clothes were flying.

It was as if the night breeze blew into a closed corridor or room and blew on the girl's face.

Krevy looked up at the night sky and sighed regretfully.

"Mr. Kaito, you don't seem to talk much..." She turned around and looked at Mr. Kaito who was watching the moon with him. "I remember the first time I saw you, I thought you were like the moon, and... the aurora! The storybook describes it as full of colors, like curtains in the night sky, changing with the wind."

She immediately remembered the color in her "dark" home.

"But Mr. Phantom Thief, you didn't want our mother to find out... Why did you come to Hearth House in such a mysterious way? Are you trying to steal some information?" Clive lowered his voice.

Ready to be a ghost.

"Does it hurt?" Mr. Kaito's response was beyond her expectations, and she was stunned for a moment.

"It seems to still be very painful!" She saw Mr. Thief squatting down, and as if performing magic, he took out ointments, bandages, disinfectant alcohol and other cleaning tools from his pocket.

Yandora narrowed her eyes. In her eyes, this ghost-like being had no wounds on its body.

Jiang Yi cleaned the other person's two bruised knees, bleeding and broken palms, swollen cheeks with palm prints, and a bruised forehead.

Krevy fell silent, and her nose suddenly felt a little sore.

She sniffed slightly, holding back tears, and smiled, "I remember when Pepe was still alive, I had a quarrel with mother and got hurt, and Pepe helped me deal with it in the same way."

"And... can mother and daughter quarrel?"

Jiang Yi said calmly: "Let alone mother and daughter, it is not surprising for father and son, mother and son, and father and daughter to quarrel. Some people in the world are happy, and some are miserable... It's not surprising. After all, there is no need to take an exam to become a parent, right?"

Yandora really wanted to complain, why did my god suddenly look like he was deeply persecuted by his family.

Do you know what empathy is? Jiang Yi turned around and gave Yan Duo La a look. Only when everyone complains about the things they hate together can they get closer.

"..." Krevy didn't know how to answer.

Because she couldn't imagine what a happy family and a lovable mother looked like... and what the exam would be about...

But she originally thought that normal mothers were very gentle and that mothers and daughters would never quarrel.

"Mr. Jiang Yi is not willing to lie and tell me that other people's mothers are perfect... Such a fairy tale." Krevy smiled bitterly.

"You already know it's a fairy tale." Jiang Yi tied a bow on the bandage on the other's hand.

More and more like Pepe... Krevy raised her bandaged hand.

Jiang Yi cleaned up the blood-stained cotton swab.

In Yandora's eyes, Krevi's image suddenly changed, turning into that of a wounded little girl, with wounds appearing one after another, and then bandages wrapped around her.

This is by no means a ghost-like existence. Her own cognition affects her own image and thus changes.

This is the power of "God" intervention.

Let the ghost of the untouchable things in reality, immersed in the ghost of the "past", the scenes in the field of vision are ghosts of one's own imagination, be pulled into the gap between "fantasy and reality".

Because of these bandages blessed by the gods, they have a partial connection with reality.

"Mr. Thief, would you like to hear a story from me?" Clive looked out the window, pursed her lips and then spoke.

The moonlight seemed to complement the thief.

"Then I'll give you ten minutes..." Jiang Yi said casually.

"Ten minutes... well, that's enough." Krevy sat on the "chair". "There was a little girl who, when she was six years old, was sent by her biological mother to a place called 'Fireplace House'. The house looked like a fairy tale world, with kind adults, friendly children, and a thriving life."

“The little girl had a carefree time, sitting in a chair in the bright hall, listening to stories told by her ‘mother’ with her new friends.”

"The story of a child born from loneliness, learning and growing up in the Hearth House, defeating all his brothers and sisters, and becoming the 'king'."

"'Mother' is not only the biological mother of the little girl, but also the mother of all the children of Hearth House. She is the controller of Hearth House and a well-known executive officer of Winter, with unimaginable power."

"She has a very beautiful appearance and a very gentle temperament."

Having said this, Krevy paused.

"One child didn't come to the storytelling session that day. She was at the funeral of her little spider."

"After hearing her mother's question, the little girl volunteered to find the 'strange child who has a curse and the curse often breaks out.'"

"She took two small cakes with cream, small red fruits and green leaves on them, and went to find the other person."

“After arriving, I took a bite myself.”

"I asked the other party if he wanted some."

"'You know, spiders don't eat cake,' said the cursed child."

"The little girl had no idea that the other party would give the cake as an offering to Spider."

Krevy held up her face and swung her feet.

It was as if I had returned to my memory, that sunny afternoon with green leaves in the yard and the smell of soil in the air filled with joy.

"I could only express myself in a flustered and nervous manner, with a wandering look in my eyes, 'I know...I know.'"

"In fact, the little girl is very greedy and likes to eat cakes. She can't help drooling when she sees cakes on the table."

"If the other party says she doesn't need it, then she can eat two."

"..."

"After that day, they became very good friends by accident. They climbed trees to pick oranges, caught fish in the pond in the yard, and read books together under the moonlight at night..."

"Until... the little girl discovered the secret."

"The so-called 'home' is not some fairy tale, but... a veritable purgatory."

Krevy's tone suddenly dropped, and the smile that was born out of memories disappeared from her face.

"The story that 'Mother' tells is her plan."

"She teaches the children martial arts, and then lets them fight each other until the most talented 'king' is chosen. This is everyone's future."

"Adults, the secrets hidden by those children who are ten years older than us..."

Occasionally, pedestrians passed by on the street at night, but they ignored Krevi who was telling a story, and Jiang Yi and Yandora who were sitting on the chairs.

Krevy also didn't notice the people passing by.

The little girl in this story must be herself, Yandora thought.

"Including the biological daughter of the 'mother', everyone in the family is just a 'tool' and 'consumable'. Those who are useful will be kept for the time being, and those who are worthless will be sent to the 'doctor' for experiments."

"'The Doctor' - is another executive officer of unimaginable power."

"The little girl tried to persuade her 'biological mother' but failed. She wanted to stand up and resist, but unfortunately, no one believed her."

"She has witnessed many people living in situations where life was worse than death, but other children are immersed in the beautiful dreams woven by their mothers, embracing false happiness. Everyone thinks she is a good person and a real 'mother'..."

Jiang Yi patted his body and stood up.

"Ten minutes have passed..."

Krevy's heart skipped a beat and she turned to look at Mr. Phantom Thief.

Does time go so fast?