And if he could find a way to make Alice realize all this, perhaps he could separate the vengeful ghost fused with her!

In an instant.

He activated Flesh Calamity, and the Evil Spirit Vertical Eye immediately appeared on his forehead.

The moment he opened the Evil Spirit Vertical Eye, he saw the thick curse marks on the second-floor corridor. He hadn't paid attention before, but now he could clearly sense that the curse traces here were significantly denser than elsewhere.

And there were more than one similar location like this throughout the entire ancient castle!

This meant that in these specific areas back then, events of extremely heavy resentment must have occurred.

"Perhaps..."

In that moment, Lynn suddenly gritted his teeth and stopped abruptly.

[Echoes of the Past!]

When used on living beings, it could reproduce their state from a certain time point in the past!

But what if used on an entire area?!

Could it also reproduce the scenes from that time?!

[Ding! You are activating Echoes of the Past on the target area. Proceed with influence immediately?]

"Yes!"

[Please locate the reproduction time point.]

"Before the ancient castle fell into the Dark World, the day Alice was killed!"

Lynn gritted his teeth.

He didn't know the exact time, only able to make a vague positioning, but this was his only method to seek information now.

"Echoes of the Past! Activate!"

Lynn clenched his jaw, pressing his ten fingers firmly against the ground.

Blinding light enveloped the entire burning corridor, and within that brilliant light screen, the raging flames vanished, replaced by a dark hallway.

Lynn knew the reproduction had succeeded!

In the pitch-black corridor, scenes from that rainy night when Alice was killed appeared.

"You must let Alice know your ugly true faces, because she still holds hope for you in her heart!"

"No, this is unacceptable. You must make Alice understand that you're all evil spirits wearing human skin. Go, go tell Alice... you are butchers."

A hoarse, cursed voice echoed throughout the corridor.

In the scenes.

Camell, the Female Host, and that boy all showed expressions of madness and brutality.

Carrying boning knives, under the seductive whispers of the curse, they excitedly and ferociously stepped through the corridor, heading toward that tall tower.

Lynn quickly adjusted the time backward.

Heart-wrenching wails and agonizing screams that pierced the night sky came from that tower.

When those three people reappeared in the corridor, they still displayed sick, brutal, and dazed expressions, but now they were covered in blood, their blades stained red.

Drip, drip, drip went the blood.

Falling from the baskets in their hands, drop by drop staining the entire corridor red.

"Hide it... hide my wailing daughter... in the walls... in the main hall... in the fireplace... do you hear me... my daughter has finally seen your true faces... she hates you... she hates you..."

The cursed voice permeated the entire corridor.

Then came the sounds of chiseling at the ground, and at that moment, Lynn finally saw clearly what was in those three baskets...

Whoosh—

Echoes of the Past expired, and the scenes returned to the currently blazing corridor.

Seeing that scene, even Lynn felt a surge of intense anger burning within him.

He quickly rushed to the corner where they had buried the body back then.

With one punch, he shattered the decayed floorboards.

Under the floor, he saw a small hand that was still bleeding.

Hatred.

Prevented the corpse from rotting.

And throughout this entire ancient castle, such body fragments were scattered everywhere!

[Ding! You obtained Alice's body fragment x1]

Was this the reason the curse spread?

Just because of jealousy?!

Just because of malice?!

So cruelly making even your own daughter become a tool for revenge?!

Lynn gritted his teeth, rushing toward the staircase leading downward as the raging flames spread over.

She wanted to make her daughter become a vengeful ghost just like her!

She wanted her daughter to personally destroy this Happy Home for her!

Lynn continuously rushed to one curse-dense point after another, constantly activating Echoes of the Past, piecing together the various truths.

"Darling, I feel something is wrong. Alice hasn't eaten for several days, but I remember we had lunch together this afternoon... and that child... she seems afraid of me..."

"I swear, I didn't abuse Alice! I know you feel guilty about her mother's death, I... I've actually been trying to accept her, but I never thought she'd be a witch... But regardless, the merciful Holy Mother... wouldn't let me vent my frustrations on a child..."

"Wrong... wrong... I can't seem to remember many things... Why is there blood on my hands... hair... this is Alice's... how could... I... I don't seem to remember anything..."

"Damn it! I hit her, I... I cut her hair, merciful Holy Mother, please... please forgive me, I don't know how I could... I... I seem to hate her so much, yes! So much hate! She's that witch's child, that witch seduced my husband, her child also... also deserves to die!"

In one reproduced scene after another, Lynn watched the Female Host gradually transform under that vengeful ghost's curse.

From a compassionate godmother at first, slowly becoming a malicious and hate-filled woman.

During that period, Count Camell and their eldest son were simultaneously changing too.

"How could I give such an order... she's my daughter, how could I allow her to be locked in a cage... I... damn it damn it damn it! Have I gone mad... I seem... aaaaaah!"

"My son has changed too, he's always been such a righteous child! But he's actually torturing... torturing those small animals... he seems to go to the freezer and the tower more frequently... He brought gifts for Alice? I hope... I hope it's not what I think..."

"I'm going mad! I've gone insane, I feel I'm cursed! Aaaaaah! Come at me! Whatever it is, come at me!! Don't make me abuse my daughter!!"

In the reproduced room, the reproduced scene froze on Count Camell's hysterical screams.

And that was the last time they displayed clear rationality.

After that.

They never woke up again.

Their wills had become completely twisted and pathological under that vengeful ghost's curse.

One could imagine.

After all three of them were completely affected by the curse, what kind of terrible torture and tragic news Alice suffered during that period.

[Ding! You obtained Alice's body fragment x1]

[Ding! You obtained Alice's body fragment x2]

[Ding! You obtained Alice's body fragment x5]

Lynn gritted his teeth, swiftly moving through the continuously collapsing castle, constantly collecting fragments of Alice who had been dismembered by them back then.

No wonder the resentment!

No wonder she so desperately wanted family companionship!

Even after becoming an evil spirit, she still desperately sought happiness.

Is this the Happy Home?

Is this everything you hoped for in your heart?!

Boom—

Lynn punched through a floorboard in the corner of the main hall, revealing beneath it half of a girl's head that was still bleeding and weeping.