Chapter 611 - 611: Shocking Discovery

Chapter 611: Shocking Discovery

[TL: Asuka]

[PR: Ash]

“Where’s Erin? Where’s my daughter? What kind of sick, perverted bastard would disturb her rest?” A heart-wrenching howl tore through the night. Dowa’s hunched figure leaned against the empty coffin before the headstone. The corpse within was nowhere to be found.

Aiden and his companions exchanged a look. They had a feeling this corpse’s disappearance was connected to the missing Gaetan. They were in a hurry, but they held that back and asked, “You’ve been Kent’s chief for years. You know everyone there. You should know who’s the prime suspect, shouldn’t you?”

“What do you mean, witcher?” Dawo wiped his tears and stopped crying for a moment.

“It’s a complicated world. There are always evil people out there. People who loved your daughter but couldn’t marry her when she was alive. Or outright necrophiliacs. They all have their own reasons to steal Erin’s corpse. Reasons related to their own perverted desire.”

Dawo shivered like he was electrocuted. He shook his head. “No. That is not possible. Erin was the most beautiful girl, or at least in my eyes, she was. She was as pretty as her mother, but the truth is she was tormented by her condition. She was nothing but skin and bones, and she was a timid girl. The villagers didn’t like getting close to her. And I’m sure no one in the village is the kind of sick pervert you mentioned.” Dowa stared at the headstone. There was sadness in his voice. He took a deep breath and said something that broke his heart. Upstodatee from n(0)/ve/lbIn/.(co/m

“Perhaps the damned beasts dug out her body.”

“Make one thing clear. Beasts are creatures driven by their instinct. They would never rebury the coffin and clean up the place perfectly after they dug it out. This was human. Someone wanted to hide their crime,” Kiyan refuted, his eyes turning around. He was reminded of the hell he went through under the temple island. With malice, he said coldly, “Which leaves us with one suspect. The barber and healer you claimed to be kind and for the people. Godefroy. He took the patient’s body for medical research purposes. Maybe he experimented on her. Perhaps that was the real payment for his years of healing your daughter.”

“No!” Dowa pushed down on the coffin and shot back up like a billy goat that got pricked by a hedgehog. He glared at Kiyan, a film of sweat covering his face. “He would never defile the dead. He adored Erin when she was alive. Treated her like his own. He would never do something so mad.”

“That was just a guess. Calm down.” Roy cast Axii. A green inverted triangle gleamed in Dowa’s eyes. His agitation calmed down, and he relaxed. Roy continued, “Aside from that, there might be another possibility. Are you sure Erin is dead?”

“You think she faked her death and lied to her own father? No! I remember that day like it was yesterday. She had no breathing or heartbeat. Her skin was so white, I could almost see through her. And she was as cold as ice.” Dowa was in agony. “The villagers saw her for the last time and confirmed her death. There were so many of us. We couldn’t be all wrong.”

Roy fell into a great disadvantage back in Ellander a few years ago because of that.

Only a higher vampire can make it look like Gaetan disappeared into thin air. Roy’s heart was pumping with excitement, and he was getting a lot of ideas. But why did Regis take a dying Cat away? If he only wanted to save Gaetan out of the kindness of his own heart, why didn’t he just set him up here in this workshop? It’s filled with herbs.

“No. It wasn’t just one.” Aiden and Eskel held up the four glass cups. They gleamed a dangerous, mysterious glint under the lamp. The witchers could see four ribbons of distinctly different colors in the air. “These cups were used not too long ago. For the mandrake distilled wine. And there are four different scents on it.”

“Just tell me what that means, witcher.” Dowa was already numb to the shock.

“Don’t you get it? The barber-healer had three companions.”

Dowa had no idea what it meant, but Roy’s heart sank. Are Regis’ companions higher vampires too? If four higher vampires join forces, they can level a whole town if they want to. What were they trying to do? Do Erin and Gaetan share some similarities that are worth the attention of higher vampires?

Roy had a feeling he had gotten himself into something big, but he couldn’t figure out why. He barely had any contact with higher vampires, after all.

“Stay with me, witchers. We’ll wait for Godefroy to come back. I want to ask him why he did something so evil. I won’t ask for your help without any reward, of course.” The old man put his hands in a prayer before his chest, and he gritted his teeth. Earnestly, he said, “I will leave all my life savings for you. Three hundred orens. For this request.”

Dawo has no idea what he’s up against. Roy calmed down. “Let’s set the reward stuff aside. We have a score to settle with the healer as well, but he’ll never come back if we stake this place out.” Higher vampires have powerful senses. He’s probably noticed four fully-armed witchers in his house, waiting for him. There’s no way he and his companions are going to come back. “Does Godefroy have any other abodes nearby?”

Dawo went green, and then white. He eventually shook his head and sighed. “He never told me about his past or his life beyond the plains.”

Knew that. Roy mused, then he gazed at Dawo. “I have a plan to find Erin’s whereabouts, but it’ll be painful for you. You’ll have to go on a long journey. Will you do it?”

Dawo was a little shocked by how bright Roy’s eyes were gleaming. He held his crutch tightly and held his head high, his cheeks glowing red. “If I can find my daughter and have her rest in peace, I’ll do anything. But first I must ask: where are you taking me?”

“Nowhere serious. It won’t kill you.” Roy exchanged a look with his companions. The other witchers nodded. They knew what he was thinking, They watched as Roy took out a xenovox and rubbed it gently. A magical beam of light shot into the air and started making a blue screen. “I’ll contact a sorceress right away. She’ll open a portal to Novigrad. You’ll be looking for an oneiromancer by the name of Corinne Tilly. You will do whatever she says and find the answers you want in your dreams.”

Gaetan only left a medallion behind. It wasn’t enough for any oneiromancy. However, Erin, who was also taken away, left behind a jasmine hair clip and her father. That was enough to find out where Erin and Gaetan were taken to.