Nira Nightshade ignored Eren's shocked expression and continued.
"They say that House Montmorency was doing some sort of demonic ritual as an experiment and summoned the soul fragment of Satan by accident. He possessed the body of the original Ottoman de Montmorency. After his demonic possession, Ottoman is said to have killed a lot of members of his own clan before finally obtaining control of the soul fragment.
Frankly, I doubt how much control this Ottoman guy has over his current body. But since the Anfang Alliance has decided to keep him around, I don't want to raise any doubts.
Anyways… I heard that the possessed Ottoman killed the head of the clan right after the ritual was completed. So his daughter Levine de Montmorency hates Ottoman for it. This effectively divided the clan into two factions. And since there was a demonic ritual involved, none of them could talk openly about it to any outsider.
