Rule 3: The pain won't go away

Flora had a long conversation with Vlad. And she discovered some horrible facts within.

"Claude... He can never be! That gentle boy can never be a cold-hearted killer!"

"The boy you knew was gone, long ago. When I met Claude Knightly for the first time, I only saw an untamed monster."

Flora hid her mouth with both her hands and she cried silently as she remembered the broken eyes of the monster in the forbidden department.

"But he didn't know me," She noticed crying "He remembered me."

"He only knew you as a little ten-year-old child. How can that be?"

"I do not know, Vlad. I do not know. But I am sure I was not afraid of his crazy eyes. I saw my friend. The boy I knew more than I knew Claude. He was waiting for me all of this time to come and save him."

Flora broke up in tears as she imagined the pain Claude was holding inside all of those years that he had to kill a whole part of himself just to keep living. She is sure that the little boy was abused.

But can it be?

Can it be som