Zongman, start your journey to godhood by saving the heroine of anime

Bai Ye even contradicted himself from before, taking out the Book of Omniscience to start searching.

This time, Bai Ye wasn't searching for Luo Zhen's technology or abilities; what Bai Ye wanted to examine was the life story of a person named Luo Zhen.

"Let me see... Rozen Baskarwa, the first Genn of the Baskarwa family 100 years ago! The gatekeeper of the Abyss! The biological father of Black and White Alice..."

"So...that's how it is?"

After reading through the world's memories, Bai Ye finally understood the truth of everything.

That was an old anime called Pandora Hearts.

It's so ancient that if Bai Ye hadn't personally seen the plot again in the Book of Omniscience, he wouldn't have been able to recall how old this anime was.

Chapter Sixty-Eight: Black and White Alice and the Abyss (Two chapters combined, bonus chapter 5, bonus chapter 6)

It all began in a different world called the Abyss.

Abyss!

It is an alternate dimension residing on this land of England, used specifically to imprison the souls of evil people; one could also call it hell.

The Abyss is a world inhabited only by spirits, filled with all sorts of evil spirits. It is a place where normal people cannot survive at all.

In England, there is a family called the Bascarews, who serve as guardians between the Abyss and the human world, and are also responsible for maintaining the balance between Hell and the human world.

They were originally a family of orphans, and the family members were not related by blood.

but

For some unknown reason, after joining the family, they all gained extremely long lifespans, as if they were receiving a bounty from the world.

Furthermore, the Rozen Bascavenger that Byakuya encountered was the previous leader of this clan, a being named Gren.

He is the patriarch of this family, and can also be said to be the most talented, promising, and powerful person.

Because the knowledge and memories of each generation of Gu Lian are passed down to the next Gu Lian as the generation changes.

Such a long-lived family, blessed by the world, should have continued to prosper and shoulder the responsibility of maintaining the balance between the Abyss and England.

But...

All of this changed because of a young girl.

That was a girl named Lacey Bascaval.

The girl had beautiful, dark purple hair and a pair of scarlet, sinful eyes.

Lacey is the younger sister of Gren, the second-generation successor chosen by Ryougi.

But

She is indeed the possessor of the Red Eye of Sin.

Humans with these eyes possess the rituals that allow them to bypass the Bascalva family and the interdimensional entrance they guard.

This gives one the ability to directly communicate with the Abyss, to access and manipulate its power.

Therefore, the Bascahua family, who were responsible for maintaining order, called them sinners.

Originally, after Lacey's red eyes were discovered, she was to be taken to the dark vortex deep within the Abyss by the Hidden Eye, the family's judge, to be disintegrated and destroyed.

However, Luo Zhen, as a member of Gu Lian, felt great pity for this young girl who had never experienced the world's splendor.

He also vouched for Lacey's identity as Glenn to the Hidden Eye, ensuring that Lacey would live until her brother, the second Glenn, succeeded her, before being executed by sending her into the dark vortex deep within the Abyss.

Originally, it's not wrong to let a kind little girl experience more of the beauty of the world.

But the mistake was that the little girl named Lacey unintentionally saved a down-on-his-luck nobleman named Jack Vessalius.

Jack fell in love with Lacey at first sight.

However, what Lacey truly loves is Rozen, who saved her as Glen.

Although Lacey ignored Jack, Jack still pursued her as if she were his goddess.

Time passed quickly.

Before they knew it, it was time for the succession ceremony of the second-generation Glen. Lacey was about to be sent deep into the Abyss for execution.

At this time, Luo Zhen, who had fallen in love with Lacey, was indeed reluctant to let his wife die.

So Luo Zhen came up with a good idea: to get Lacey pregnant.

Because the dark vortex deep within the Abyss only executes those with red eyes, but it is completely harmless to the children in their wombs.

Luo Zhen wanted to try this method to exploit a bug and see if he could save Lacey's life.

pity...

God does not fulfill one's wishes.

Lacey still died in the disintegration of the dark vortex.

Although his wife was gone, Lacey's two unborn daughters were protected by the world's will of the Abyss as if they were his own daughters.

Furthermore, as her biological mother, Lacey, in her final moments before her demise, personally sculpted two powerful dolls named Bloodstained Black Rabbits to serve as bodyguards for her two daughters.

However, because Luo Zhen didn't know that his wife was carrying twins, he only named his daughter Alice.

One of the daughters merged with the core of the Abyss, turning white-haired and becoming an administrator-like being who could control the entire Abyss.

However, although she gained control of the Abyss, the girl was forever trapped in its core and unable to escape.

The other daughter, who was not fused with the core, inherited her mother's black hair and was sent back to the human world by the Abyss, where she lived with her father, Rozen.

It was at this moment that Luo Zhen completely transformed his longing and guilt towards Lacey into love for his daughter.

And with the help of his daughter Alice, he finally let go of his grief and lived a period of relatively peaceful and happy days.

However, while Luo Zhen is having fun, Jack, who is a devoted admirer, has indeed become completely corrupted.

After learning that his goddess had been personally sent to the depths of the Abyss by his rival, Gryn, Jack decided to drag the world down with him to join his goddess.

Of course, while it's called the world, the only place the Abyss can actually drag down is England.

Then, tragedy struck.

At the succession ceremony of the second generation of Gren, after Rōjin passed on his wisdom and power to Lacey's brother.

Unexpectedly, Jack, who had entered the Abyss and stolen the power of the Bloodstained Black Rabbit, ran out at this moment.

Using the power he had stolen, Jack severed the chains of order that connected the Abyss with England.

They wanted to drag all of England into hell.

Fortunately, at that moment, the newly appointed second-generation leader, Guren, decisively eliminated all the nobles who had attended the succession ceremony. He used the bodies of these nobles to create a new chain of order, thus preventing a tragedy from occurring.

However, because of this, the second-generation Glenn, who had exhausted all his power, was directly killed by the crazed Jack.

At that time, Rōzō, who was a legendary figure, lost his powers and became an ordinary person. He fell into a coma on the spot and thus escaped death.

After killing the second generation of Glenn, Jack, still harboring malicious intentions, went to Rōjin's house, intending to use Black Alice to sever the reconnected chains of order once again.

Because Black and White Alice are twins.

Although Black Alice has been sent out of the Abyss, she can still use some of her sister's privileges.

Alternatively, White Alice could use her sister's body to sneak out of the Abyss and play for a while.

So Jack wanted to deceive Black Alice, hoping she would open the entrance to the Abyss.

but

Unbeknownst to Jack, the spirit of the Bloodstained Black Rabbit behind him was constantly weeping because he had stolen its power.

Black Alice saw the crying rabbit behind Jack and immediately saw through Jack's lie.

When Jack realized that deception was not working, he decided to force himself on the girl.

then...

To prevent Jack's plot from succeeding, Alice ultimately chose to commit suicide.

However, as the daughter of the Abyss's will, how could she possibly let Black Alice really die?

Right after Black Alice committed suicide with a dagger.

Her soul drifted into the Abyss and merged with another Bloodstained Black Rabbit, becoming the Bloodstained Black Rabbit Alice.

Having gained the power, the girl immediately decided to stop Jack's insane plan to destroy England.

To completely eliminate any future trouble, Black Alice brought her sister, White Alice, to the human world.

He also wanted to use his power to shatter the Abyss Core, which was fused with his sister, and completely destroy the Abyss, this hell.

Unfortunately, how could the power of the Bloodstained Black Rabbit possibly be a match for the Abyss Core?

In the end, the girl swung her knife at her sister.

What was shattered was Alice's memory.

With her memories shattered, White Alice was protected by the Core of the Abyss and taken back to the depths of the Abyss.

After wielding her sword, Black Alice also suffered a counterattack from the Abyss Core and fell into amnesia. She was then caught in the cracks of the Abyss and imprisoned.

Finally, Jack, the instigator of it all, was cursed by the will of the Abyss.

This prevents their soul from entering the world of the Abyss, while their body continuously grows younger, becoming an infant and then growing up again, in an endless cycle of reincarnation.

And in this cycle of reincarnation, Jack's soul will be constantly worn away by time, until it is completely obliterated and can no longer be reincarnated.

At that time, all Jack will be left with is a body that is endlessly reincarnated.

but

It seems that this is because Jack forcibly usurped the power of the Bloodstained Black Rabbit.

As a result, Oz's soul remained in Jack's body after Jack was cursed.

So if Jack's soul is ultimately destroyed, Oz the Bloodstained Rabbit will take over Jack's body and become human using Jack's body.

Then...

In order to avoid being replaced by a rabbit, Jack began to devise his plan.

He shifted all the blame for the deaths of nobles during the Gren succession ceremony onto the second Gren, whom he had murdered.

It is said that the second-generation Glen killed all the nobles because he coveted the power of the Abyss.

Jack himself was portrayed as a hero who stopped Glenn's plot and saved everything.

Furthermore, he colluded with many of the nobles involved, preparing for his future reclaiming of his body.

......

Just as Jack was arranging everything.

Then, it is confirmed that Rōzō, the first Genji, has already awakened.

Seeing the corpses all around him, Luo Zhen instantly realized that something terrible had happened.

He rushed home immediately, only to find his daughter Alice's completely cold body.

For Luo Zhen, who had completely devoted his heart to his daughter, this was a devastating blow.

Fortunately, after Alice became the Bloodstained Black Rabbit, she thought about her father, Rozen, returning and left a message for Rozen in the rabbit doll beside her.

After seeing the scene at that time.

Only after learning that his daughter's soul had been merged with the Black Rabbit and that she was imprisoned within the Abyss like White Alice, did Luo Zhen finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Although he was no longer in despair, Luo Zhen, having lost all his powers, could no longer see his daughter in the Abyss.

And so... that's how it is.

For the sake of his daughter, Luo Zhen made up his mind from that moment on.

He went to Germany alone to study alchemy and the art of making dolls.

It took a full century to develop the technology for Rozen Maiden and the alchemical rituals for Alice in Wonderland.

The original plan was to use a doll made from the seven Philosopher's Stones to perform a ritual, a forbidden practice in alchemy called human transmutation.