Matthew was more intelligent than others, so his existence was the biggest threat to Eleanor, whom Tanya would not allow such a threat to be around. “Stay where you are!”
Not expecting her mother to order others to capture her, Eleanor pulled out a dagger while using her other hand to support herself in getting up. Since she had kneeled too hard earlier, her knees hurt, and she stumbled before getting up. Then, she held the dagger by her neck and looked at Tanya. “Mom, if you don’t save Matthew, I’ll die before your eyes.”
Such a scene was heart-wrenching for Tanya, who could not help but take a step forward. During that few seconds, she found herself slipping and stumbling at the stairs before finding her footing. “Do you think your threat will work on me?” She snorted with a solemn expression.
Just as everyone thought Eleanor was joking, she stabbed herself in the stomach before blood immediately seeped out from the wound, dripping down the dagger. “Eleanor!”
“Princess Eleanor!” Tanya and the several guards paled as they found the scene before them horrifying. Meanwhile, Eleanor stood there steadily and unmoving while she stared at Tanya with determination in her eyes. ‘I never make empty promises!”
Matthew’s life was at risk, so she could not waste any more time. The more time she wasted, the more dangerous his situation was. Matthew cannot die!
Faced with Eleanor’s insistence, Tanya waved her hand to the guards. “Leave us and close the door. The guards nodded. Then, they walked out, shutting the door after them.
Tanya came down the stairs and stopped before Eleanor, whispering, ‘Using the venom technique to save someone’s life is costly and not as easy as you think. If you insist on wanting to save Matthew, we must seal his memory. Otherwise, I will never save a future enemy’s life!”
“S-Seal his memory?” Eleanor had previously heard that the hidden clan’s venom technique could erase someone’s memory, but she did not want to see an amnesiac Matthew. “If we seal all his memories, he wouldn’t be him anymore.”
“To tell you the truth, the Ledger Clan don’t know the real technique of sealing someone’s memory. Only a few Elrod Clan elders led by Waylen are well-versed in such a technique. Though they never stopped researching it, they hadn’t reached any improvement. In the end, they could only use a more scientific method.
The trick is to use a chip to copy all the person’s memory and remove a portion of it before replanting it into them, breaking the brain’s memory system. However, that would bring harm to the individual and render their personality more indifferent.” “Indifferent?” Eleanor seemed a little out of it. “Does that mean he would treat me like that too?”
“But if you spend time together, he’ll develop feelings for you.” While Tanya patted Eleanor’s shoulder, she looked at the wound on her daughter’s abdomen and felt displeased. “Eleanor, it’s easy to take away things but hard to maintain them. Your father and I fought hard to take over the hidden clan, and he fell sick and passed away because of it. Do you want to watch everything that your father and I worked hard to get taken away by Matthew and Veronica?”
“I…” Eleanor hesitated. She thought doing so would be unfair to Matthew and Veronica, and it did not fit her way of doing things. Regardless, that seemed to be the only choice. “Mom, I… I’m worried. Would the technique you speak of harm his body in any other way?”
“This research had achieved success long ago, and the clinical test showed great results, but it would cost 7.5 million-not in hidden clan credits!”
The ratio of hidden clan credits to Destorian Dollars was one to five, so 7.5 million hidden clan credits would equal 35.7 million Destorian Dollars. To Tanya, using such a massive sum on an outsider was far from worthwhile.
