Chapter 1019 Faked
Elder Zeno Alstreim’s expression suddenly became odd, "I assume you still have the Imagery Stone with you, or have you ended up disposing of it long ago?"
"I still have it with me..." Immeth Alstreim tapped her waist and spread open her palm wide.
An Imagery Stone appeared on her palm from the spatial belt she had hidden under her robe over her waist. She had kept this Imagery Stone so that she could use this to later frame Nora Alstreim, but so far, she hadn’t seen such an opportunity arrive in front of her sight.
Looking at Elder Zeno Alstreim stare at her dubiously, she promptly activated the Imagery Stone to show that she still had it with her.
A projection appeared and formed the image of a room, along with a majestic chair that looked like a throne of a ruler, and seated over it was a beauty that could cause the fall of a kingdom, her expression proud while her lips were widened into a curve, a smirk hanging on it.
It was none other than Nora Alstreim!
She gracefully put her leg over the other and spoke.
"Claire... The fact that you are watching this recording means that you received my parting gift."
"Do you feel hopeless? Despairing? Anguished? Perhaps, deep pain in your soul?"
There was a slight pause, along with a clear sneer from Nora Alstreim’s lips.
"Don’t resent me, okay? Time and time again, I treated you with respect, but since you don’t seem to know your place, I had no choice but to do this to you."
"If you feel reluctant, why don’t you try to get back to the Alstreim Family again and take this matter to the Disciplinary Hall? However, without even a single piece of evidence, what can you do to me? What can you do against my family? As for revenge?"
Nora Alstreim’s lips curved into a mocking smile, "Are you even worthy?"
"Let’s not talk about that because first, you have to survive from those barbarians. Truth be told, I’m rather excited to see if you’re going to be killed or violated by one of them-"
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In the Purple Guest Palace, the eighteenth floor.
Davis heaved a heavy sigh as he clenched his fists in reluctance as soon as he heard, ’The matter that was orchestrated by us!’.
The conversation further that didn’t even have a regard for his mother basically proved his vague initial doubts over the matter!
He was fooled... They were all fooled!
It became apparent that it was not Nora Alstreim and her family who backstabbed Claire Alstreim, but it was Immeth Alstreim and her father, Elder Zeno Alstreim!
Just a while ago, he did think if half-believing in Nora Alstreim’s words meant distrusting his mother, but he failed to think what if his mother’s own story might be flawed in the sense that his mother might’ve been be fooled into believing Nora Alstreim was the one who schemed against her in the past!
An event seen from one point of view gives one impression. When seen from another point of view, it gives quite a different impression. But it’s only when you see the whole picture; you can fully understand what’s going on!
He was able to consider a scenario like this at the time of saving Natalya and Agis Stirlander because he had seen it from an outside perspective! But he was unable to do so when it came to his mother’s revenge because he had overly believed his mother and deeply trusted her that she wouldn’t lie to him.
It was true that she didn’t lie to him, but what could he do if she herself was fooled in the beginning?
There was no use thinking about this now...
Even if Princess Isabella hasn’t stopped him from entering that room, he would have no valid reason to stop his mother from torturing Nora Alstreim until he knew it was all Immeth Alstreim’s and Zeno Alstreim’s doing!
It was all too late!
Although Ancestor Dian Alstreim advised that Nora Alstreim should be in good health, would Claire have the leisure or the mind to care about Ancestor Dian Alstreim’s words? Right now, he could imagine that a river of blood should be flowing in that makeshift torture room!
Even then, Davis held on to that faint glimmer of hope that mother shouldn’t have started by now but just kept interrogating Nora Alstreim for answers.
He quickly moved from the hall and opened up the door to the room!