Chapter 18: Carl's return

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While Rocco was returning to the orphanage house after killing Luke and messing with his corpse, he did not know that he would find the good friend that he was waiting for all those past eight years and tortured him on more than one occasion. He did not know that the man that was the cause for everything that happened to him and his gang would come on this day to visit him. This one would not only be a simple visit, but everything would change from this moment.

In front of a potion shop, France,

"Finally!!!! The lord wanted me by his side, and I will return back to the glory where I could fight beside him. I am sure that the lord finally realized how much I am willing to sacrifice for him!!!!" Carl shouted with a loud voice after receiving the letter from his lord. "Hahaha!!! I can't wait to see Corvus's face after seeing me coming back with the lord's letter in my hands. You just wait, Corvus!!! If I don't pay you back for everything you did to me, I am not Carl Lestrange anymore. Oh, my dear dark lord!!! You can't imagine how long I have waited for this letter from you."

Carl's expression said it all. He was literally crying after receiving the dark lord's letter. Although he did not do anything while he stayed in France and only ordered the men around, that did not mean he was happy to stay away from his home. Although France was magic's history started later than his home, their wizard community caught up to England in many fields. Their potions studies were even more advanced than those in England. But in Carl's and the others' eyes, that wasn't that case. England would always be the state where the real magic world would be. That was why Carl was not happy with everything going on around him. How could he be glad while his brother stayed in Lestrange manor while he got sent to exile because of his brother's jealousy? Carl wanted to go back and play around without his brother's knowledge, but the Ministry discovered his traces, and Corvus made sure that Carl would get sent back to France. The Ministry even worked with his brother to shut him away in France, not letting him return without Corvus's permission. At that time, Carl wanted to play with his little nephew Max, and he made the little boy knew how his father tortured him. He was about to do it when many problems faced their business in France while he was in charge, and his brother asked a servant to watch Carl and report back to him if anything happened.

In the end, Carl stopped his plans against Max for the past eight years and only stayed in France while receiving a monthly report from Rocco about Max's state. And after some thinking, Carl thought that this was actually a good idea. At least, this time, when he went to see Max, he would let all his anger out in one go without the need to go looking for Max more than one time. Plus, Carl wanted to play the game with Max to its fullest potential. He did not want to leave anything this time. He would try every little trick and curse that he wanted to try on someone.

"Oh, my dear nephew. I hope that you would be thrilled to see your uncle the same way he would. I better prepare myself and go. I don't want to be late for the first meeting between my nephew and me in eight years. La la la la la..." It seemed that Rocco was not the only one that changed in those eight years because Carl looked as if he was literally insane and sang all the way to the manor, even when he was packing his things. His eyes were absent the whole time. It was as if he was unaware of what he was saying or anything around him.

It did not take long before Carl prepared everything that he wanted to take back with him, and he did not wait for the next day to return, but he apparated directly to the orphanage that Max stayed at the past eight years. All he could think about was what curse he should use this time or what potion to try on his nephew.

In the Innocent Home Orphanage,

"You little shit, where have you been the whole morning??? Didn't I tell you not to move around unless I said so," Rocco said those words with an angry expression on his face as he kicked Max without letting the boy explain anything. After killing his only friend, Rocco's situation deteriorated a lot, and there was no one that could save him in this state. After he saw Max when he returned to the house, Rocco didn't stop to ask the boy where he went the whole day and went ahead to kick him directly. "I am going to kill you right now and right here, even if that turns out to be my death. I have had enough with your shit. No one is going to save you from my hand anymore."

As for Max, his expression did not look good at all at that moment. Although he was fine mentally since his mind did not care about how much pain he would receive, his body had another opinion about this matter. Even if his body was much better and more fit than the children his age because of everything he had been through, that did not mean that an eight-year-old child's body could handle all that shit thrown at him by the likes of Rocco. Not only would every kick from Rocco cause him to spit blood on the floor from his mouth, but it would also leave a hideous bruise on his body that hurt like shit. Yeah, Max was tolerant to pain, but that did not mind Max did not feel it. In fact, he felt every bit of it. That was the thing that annoyed Max the most. 'That shithead!!!! Should I just kill him directly at this moment???? But I can't do that right now, or I will fuck everything up, and all the hard work I put in all those years would disappear. He is the only link to Carl that I know, and if I killed him, Carl would notice something. I only had that little chance of taking Carl down when he puts his guard down. If he heard about Rocco's death for any reason, I could say goodbye to that chance. If that Rocco was not so useless!!!! How can someone born in the magic world not know how to contact them, and he has to wait for them to do that for him??? Useless!!! If I did not hear those words the other day when he was still on good terms with Luke, I would have killed him and fucked everything up without getting enough benefits.'

Max's mind was working hard to solve this problem in his hand. He could not just sit still and wait for Rocco to calm down after beating him. Max had planted and hid enough weapons in different parts of the house, and he could use them any time whenever he faced danger. Max used those past few years to turn the house into a mousetrap where Max could kill everyone in the right place and at the right time. The others had a lot on their minds, and they did not have time to care about what he did.

But before Max could find a solution, someone finally decided to interfere and help him or act like that at least. Carl had arrived at the house the moment Rocco returned to the house. But he did not say anything and only used the Notice-Me-Not spell to hide from Rocco's and Max's eyes. Carl wanted to see the situation with his own eyes before doing anything. He had thought that he would let Rocco live after finishing his deal, but it seemed that everything would change at this moment.

And after seeing how Rocco beat Max to a near-death state without any resistance from Max, Carl became very angry at Rocco for trying to destroy his favorite toy. But he was secretly glad that Max turned into this good-for-nothing idiot that would let anyone beat him to death because that meant that his plans worked. But everything changed in his mind after seeing that Max would really die if he did not interfere. Carl decided to torture that idiot Rocco to death instead. Rocco was a waste of their family, after all. At least, Max would become a half-blood and not a squib.

"No one would dare to stop you, huh!!!!" Carl said those words in a mocking tone as he came from Rocco's back. He did not wait to get a reply from Rocco before firing a Cruciatus Curse at Rocco, taking him by surprise. "Hahaha!!! Yes, scream like that and amuse me!!! Come on!!! More!!! More!!! Crucio!!! Crucio!!!

"Arghhhh," Rocco, whose sanity was about to disappear in the first place, finally lost it completely at this time, and his body continued to tremble without a positive reaction after a few rounds of Cruciatus Curse.

'How vicious!!! That is it. This curse is the one I want, and I must learn it by all means. I don't know if I could say I am lucky or super lucky at this moment. I was about to kill Rocco, and Carl has to interfere in the right time to save me the trouble of exposing myself,' Max thought to himself as he looked at Rocco, who was trembling on the floor, with an amused smile on his face before turning to look at Carl with an amused look on his face. He decided to go on with Carl's plan for the moment and beat him in his own game in the end. 'I can't wait to see his face after I took everything from him. I am sure that he would try to act as a hero who saved the beauty in order to trick me before turning on me again.'