Blood Holy Scripture: True Ancestor Charlotte de Castel
Chapter 294: -57- Will not submit even in death!

Chapter 294: -57- Will not submit even in death!

Agnes didn’t understand why the young Count Castel hadn’t killed her.

Searching her heart, she felt that everything she knew had already been extracted by him; by all logic, she was of no further use to him, and she herself had prepared to die.

But Count Castel had not killed her.

Not only had he not killed her, but he also provided her with good food and drink. Although she was imprisoned and her powers were restrained, she had never missed a meal, and the prison guards had not troubled or insulted her like those she had read about in storybooks.

She didn’t know what that outwardly fragile but inwardly sinister and despicable man was really thinking.

After the interrogation was over, he seemed to have completely forgotten about her and never visited her again, this complete uncertainty about the future almost drove Agnes mad.

She was an impulsive person who just hoped for a swift end, even if it meant being burned at the stake immediately, rather than being forgotten in a cell like she was now.

This treatment made her feel belittled, as if her life and death were utterly unimportant to Castel. Her revenge, her hatred, he didn’t care about at all, for he had never regarded her highly.

Once she realized this, Agnes felt angry but gradually calmed down over time, only to become confused.

She, Agnes de Willit, former Duke of Violet’s daughter, heir to the Willert Family, unable to revive her family or avenge them; now, even became a prisoner of her enemy, unable to control her own life or future...

She felt herself such a failure, as pathetic as a clown.

"Miss, since they spared our lives, perhaps we are still of use to them..."

"Do not lose heart; as long as we live, there is still hope to revive the Willert Family. Our revenge is still possible."

"If even you give up, then the Willert family... will truly become history. The slander against our family, those forged stains, will forever mark the history of the Willert family, unchangeable."

Watching the increasingly disheartened young woman, the middle-aged Knight Rahael advised earnestly from across the iron bed.

Hearing her trusted Knight, a faint glimmer of light shone in Agnes’ dim pupils.

She lifted her head to look at her Knight, seeing still that resolute face.

For over a decade, through thick and thin, protecting her even in the most perilous times, now even in captivity, he was still cheering her on. Unwittingly, Knight Rahael had become her most important family member.

Over the years, they had faced numerous life-and-death crises, but Rahael had never given up; he always supported her, believed in her, and remained loyal.

He had always prided himself on being a knight of the Willert family.

Looking at Rahael’s old armor, the Willert family crest that was kept the cleanest and most polished, Agnes felt a mix of emotions.

She took a deep breath and sighed:

"Rahael, you’re right, only by living can there be a future..."

"No matter what that monster from Castel is thinking, since I’m still alive, I shouldn’t give up hope..."

After speaking, she stood up from the ground, walked to the cell door, picked up the food that she hadn’t eaten in two days, and devoured it hungrily.

"Clap clap clap..."

Crisp applause suddenly rang out from outside the cell, accompanied by a cutting, melodious female voice:

"Well said, only the living have a future; the dead... have nothing."

Agnes’s movements paused slightly as she bit into the dry bread, suddenly lifting her head, her eyes blazing red as she stared coldly at the sudden appearance of Charlotte in the cell:

"Are you here to mock me?"

Charlotte smiled as she glanced at Agnes:

"I heard from a guard that a certain prisoner seemed to have given up, and hadn’t eaten for two days, so I came to see. Now, it looks like I worried too much."

Agnes stiffened slightly, looking somewhat uncomfortable.

She clenched her teeth and said:

"If you just want to mock me, then go ahead and mock me."

"I don’t know for what purpose you spared our lives, but... if you think to make us submit, then I advise you to give it up soon. I, Agnes de Willit, would rather die than compromise with Castel!"

"Oh, really? But I remember someone saying the same a few days ago, but soon coughed up all the information they knew cleanly."

Agnes suddenly raised her head, her eyes almost spitting fire:

"It’s still not you..."

"Wasn’t it I, this bastard, who threatened you with your knight, blackmailed you with what you care about the most, and left you no choice?"

Charlotte continued where Agnes had left off.

After finishing, she smiled slightly and said:

"Miss Agnes, do you know? Once someone catches your fatal weakness, it becomes very difficult to turn the situation around. Tell me... if I now use your lives to threaten each other, what choice would you make?"

Agnes incredulously widened her eyes:

"You... shameless! People like you are a disgrace to the nobility!"

"Sorry, Miss Agnes, I never considered myself a true noble."

Charlotte, the makeshift noble, said indifferently.

Speaking, she suddenly changed the subject and began:

"The Willert family, also known as the Violet family, founders of the Violet Duchy, an ancient family that has ruled the Violet Forest and its adjacent areas since the independence of the New Moon Kingdom..."

"Ed de Willit, the last Duke of the Violet family, one of the seven legends of the New Moon Kingdom, a commander of the kingdom’s second guard legion during the Star Moon War, was known as ’Sage Ed’ due to his wise rule of his territories."

"However, during the second Star Moon War, Ed, in his greed for glory, rashly led the entire second legion to its doom in the first Roman Battle, directly causing a reversal of the war situation and the loss of the entire Violet Duchy; Ed himself also died on the battlefield..."

"Upon hearing the news, His Majesty the King was furious and ultimately decided to strip the Willert family of their ducal title and demote all Willert nobles to commoners."

While speaking, Charlotte looked at Agnes, whose expression was becoming increasingly ugly, and said:

"Miss Agnes, this is the information I found about your family and your father, am I right?"

Agnes’s eyes suddenly turned red:

"Slander! This is slander!"

"It was Castel, who was supposed to be an ally, who betrayed my father and led to the failure of a battle that should have been victorious!"

"The attack focus of the Falling Star Kingdom at the time was not on Violet at all; it was my father trying to save the important strategic point, the Castel silver mine, that led him to deliberately draw the Falling Star Kingdom’s army to the border between Violet and Roman, but he was betrayed by Castel who was supposed to support him!"

Charlotte let Agnes rant and vent, and when the other party was almost done shouting furiously, she sighed slightly and said:

"The Star Moon War has long ended, to be honest, I don’t know exactly what happened back then, I can only see the information circulated within the kingdom."

"After finding the information related to Duke Willert, I was quite surprised, your father indeed was a respectable lord who levied light taxes, encouraged arts and culture, and advanced agriculture and commerce with the aid of magic research."

"To be honest, after reading the kingdom’s official record of the first Roman Battle, I also found many doubts. However, as the leader of the Castel clan, I believe I understand my own family well, and I don’t think it is as unbearable as you believe it to be..."

"After saying so much, what exactly are you trying to say?"

Agnes coldly said, her expression full of wariness.

Charlotte smiled:

"Lady Agnes, I too am tired of the same old threats, and I know you hold deep hostility towards my Castel, but that’s okay."

"I want to make a deal with you."

"A deal?"

Agnes looked puzzled and more vigilant as she looked at Charlotte.

"Yes, a deal."

Charlotte nodded and continued:

"I want you and Lord Rahael to submit to me, continue to pretend to be Count Hall, assist me in my confrontation against the Nais clan, and I... will promise you that I will help the Willert family rebuild in the future."

After hearing Charlotte’s words, Agnes froze for a moment, then furiously said:

"Dream on! Do you think I would believe your lies?"

"I, Agnes de Willit, would rather die than submit to you!"

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