"Fortunately, that Aruka was fake too, master." Jade added, "Or else I would certainly perish."

Carla was stunned when she remembered she saw the fake Aruka they made beside her mother's dead body earlier. The real one was hiding in the secret basement in the mansion, and the fake one they made should be in Annalisa's hands.

However, since Annalisa was at the court and now at the jail, how and when did Katrina have it?

Katrina and Leila both emerged from the car, and Katrina was holding nothing, not even returning to the car.

Hence, that fake Aruka was already prepared back then... but when Katrina went to the court, Carla and her mother still had contact with Berry, and it was only then that Katrina used Berry. Berry has been with Katrina, yet no report was made to Carla about it.

That means, someone else took it and hid it in the forest.

Now that Carla thought about it, Katrina wasn't sure of the way.…

The clan already has spies in the mansion!

Probably the guards... Annalisa changed all the guards before changing the inside workers. It's not impossible, as Annalisa's men were from the clan.

"Phew," Carla felt relieved, "Thank goodness we switched the Aruka before hand. Before, Annalisa switched the workers and brought the assassins. They would have found out about the hidden passageways if they were not careful."

"Why would you perish, Jade? I died, not you. " Leila was confused.

Carla and Jade looked at each other before the latter replied, "The moment the Master puts the mark in someone else's body, the butterfly that was connected to that mark will be connected to that person."

"The host and the butterfly will have a deep connection such that not only can the butterflies feel the host's emotions and feel the pain that allows the butterfly to know when to heal the hosts, they can also be the butterflies' weakness." Jade explained.

"Physical pain will not harm them, but such a real Aruka can." Carla added, "If you are attacked by the real one, the pain and wounds will be inflicted on Jade too. I don't know how I revived you, but Jade can not. "

Jade nodded, "No butterfly who ever vanished or perished came back alive." Jade looked at Berry. "Berry was almost perished when her color turned black, indicating she was already poisoned."

Leila frowned, "Poisoned? What do you mean?"

"Apparently, the clan has something that can turn my butterflies into theirs, cutting the links between mine and them. They will be linked to the hosts, and the host will be their new master instead of me," Carla said, biting her lip.

"But that only works on someone who has a mark." Berry butted in. "Only Master Carla can upgrade us and can put the marks on other people. Hence, whoever she puts the mark with, that will be the only option to be the next host. And if the host dies, so will the butterfly linked to it. Also, the moment they cut off their links to master, they can not upgrade no more. They don't have the huge tree in the space unlink master has."

She explained, "Like Katrina did to me. My master put the mark on her and connects me to her. However, I am loyal and linked to my master. I was forced to cut my link and I had no choice but to reconnect the link to the available one, which is her. And when the master killed her outside, I was supposed to die but... "

Berry turned to Kai with a grateful look and said, "I don't know how, but when Sir Kai came out of the space, I immediately saw a thin thread the same color as I had and I grabbed the chance and took it. Next thing I knew, I came back here and passed out."

Carla and Leila looked at Kai, who still had four ears. Finally, they can't help but ask, "What's up with Kai's ears..."

"And tail?" Leila added.

"Why yoo daay? (Why did you die)?" Kai looked up at them and went to his mother's side to embrace her. He changed the topic and put it back to his mother.

The butterflies glimpsed at Kai and shrugged.

Seeing that none of them knew, Carla let it be for now. As long as it doesn't harm her brother, she can have her time to figure out what happened to him. She asked her mother next, "Mama, aren't you an assassin? How did you die?"

Leila sighed and confessed, "It was my fault. I let my guard down. Before I knew it, your Aunt Katrina's bracelet gift turned into a cuff and spiked me with some kind of poison."

They all looked at the wrists where Leila put the bracelet Katrina gave to her, but the marks were all gone and only her smooth skin could be seen and felt, as if it was just a dream.

"I think that was the time when I fell into a coma." Jade blurted out, "I had some weird dreams, but I don't think I want to remember them now."

Leila nodded, "Well, we can continue our chat after dinner. We had a difficult day and need to replenish." Leila carried both of her children and went inside the hut.

Jade and Berry stayed as they had to continue their treatment at the huge tree as they were still not fully recovered.

"Does Master know that Barbie is in trouble too?" Riri, who was listening in the tree along with all of the butterflies who were awakened, asked.

Gwen responded as she caressed Lulu's head, "Not yet." Lulu got fever from this intimidating event and can't tell the news. Other than the twins' butterflies, who are far from this event and just slept with the twins, everyone came back to the space.

"I should probably go. My limited invitation here will expire soon." Lucy, who was not supposed to be able to get inside the space, got sucked inside too in the storm. "I'll go to the mansion and see what happens in the hidden passageways."

"Be careful. Seeing Barbie's links vanished, it must not be safe in the mansion anymore." Riri warned her.

Lucy nodded, "I'll go use the house hut in the forest and see if Paris and Liliana escaped the tragedy."

"Alright," From the huge tree, Gwen and the other butterflies watched Lucy get sucked inside the huge tree and left.

….

Inside the dimly lighted room, with wine bottles at the table and two women in bed, a man in his fifties or forties, drinking his wine from the glass in front of his laptop, watches the scene with a smirk. "So it was her daughter, huh."

"We didn't think the chosen one would awaken earlier in the toddler stage." A woman in her forties said as she entered without knocking and handed him a blanket. "Normally it would be either in teen or adulthood,"

"Yes, and now because of our wrong assumptions, we failed to kill her." The man stated and embraced the woman from the back and smelled her, "We wouldn't have known it if it wasn't for the camera in the car and around where they hid the Aruka." Damn, that child was powerful."

"You have just slept with whores. Don't touch me, dear." The woman let go of his warmth, and the man didn't force her. "Should we steal that child? We can erase her memories and turn her into ours. "

The man shook his head, "It's not easy as the butterflies' ability is a mystery. Judging from earlier, it could be a healer this time. With annoying teleportation too."

"Hmm, so early. We should kill her. " The woman suggested.

The man nodded, "Yes. Find that child and kill her along with the traitor mother and that weird little brother of hers. That's the only option if we can't have it. "

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ROTS • KL • V2 The Divorce