Chapter 291 Chapter 289 The Situation Is Just Like This
Wei Lin’s elaborate dress was ripped in several places, exposing her ashen shoulders. She was riding on the injured Arkanis, one hand firmly pressing down on his single wrist. The strength was so great that Arkanis felt utterly powerless, like a little chick in a farmer’s hand.
Thus, he focused his gaze on Wei Lin’s small face.
Although her face was not as decayed as some vampires—without even a nose—it was still slack and bore a bruise. However, to be fair, even in this state, she could still be considered a beauty.
Arkanis had no doubt that those flirtatious bards who saw Wei Lin would praise her as the princess of the night, her beauty carrying the scent of death, a kind of unique beauty, completely avoiding the irritating reality that vampires are fundamentally decayed corpses.
Wei Lin couldn’t stand Arkanis’s gaze. She released his wrist, opened her small hands to cover her face, and said, “Don’t look at my face!”
Arkanis stared unblinkingly.
Wei Lin’s hand covering her face emitted black smoke, obscuring her features as if she were wearing a black veil. She took out a mirror to look at herself; the black veil blurred the details of her face, making her look like a young lady hidden away in her boudoir.
She smiled happily, lowered her head, and saw Arkanis gritting his teeth.
Wei Lin asked, “Am I heavy?”
“Light as a bone frame.”
“Are you injured?”
Arkanis replied, “Of course, otherwise there would be a hole in your neck.”
“That’s good.” Wei Lin said, “If you run again, I’ll keep hitting you. Hurting you makes my heart ache.”
Arkanis simply lay back, displaying a look of pain: “It hurts.”
“Where does it hurt?” Wei Lin asked, “I don’t smell blood, I thought you were fine.”
“I have a fracture.”
“Mortal beings are too fragile.” Wei Lin laughed, leaned down, rested her face against Arkanis’s cheek, and kissed his face: “But that’s fine, now you’re mine.”
“I don’t agree.”
“That’s okay, as long as you’re by my side, I can see you, smell your scent, touch you, hug you, and occasionally drink some of your blood; that’s enough.”
Arkanis kept his mouth shut.
“Arkanis?” Wei Lin said, “How about this? I will have many mortal servants, whatever you want I can give you. I know you like bright flowers and wine; you can drink it every day. Whatever you want is fine—except for a second woman besides me.”
Arkanis said, “Just give me a quick death, vampire. Do you see my head? Use your claws to scoop out my brain; I heard that is the least painful way to die.”
“I won’t kill you; I love you.”
“Are you mentally ill? Has your brain already decayed?” Arkanis was very confused, “Why? I was going to kill you! The moment we met, I drove a blessed stake into your chest, and you still said it hurt. I pulled you into the sunlight and forced you to eat food you can’t digest.”
“Why did you fall in love with me? That’s really messed up.”
Wei Lin said, “Exactly because you drove a stake into my chest, you owe me a lifetime of love, as deep as that stake you pierced into my heart.”
“This is a sickness that needs treatment.” Arkanis said earnestly: “This is called the knight’s green skin syndrome.”
“What?”
“A female knight was unfortunately captured by the green skin tribe. Facing the cruel green skin orcs, she said, ‘Kill me.’ But the green skin orcs didn’t kill her; instead, they used her as a human punching bag, because the female knight was very strong and could take many hits, attracting the green skin orcs’ affection. They provided her with food and water, even bathed her for the purpose of beating her. Yet, the female knight was very grateful, and even after being rescued, she still protected the injured green skin orc.”
“These are good orcs! They won’t violate women as you say; they simply want to fight. It’s said that the female knight had a dark patch on her abdomen, hard to stand, yet she persisted in shielding the soldiers.”
Wei Lin corrected: “Isn’t that Stockholm syndrome?”
“Clearly the knight’s green skin syndrome.”
“Which book did you read that from?” Wei Lin questioned, “I see you often reading pamphlets from street stalls.”
Arkanis was too embarrassed to say he read it from a dirty book, so he randomly made up a name, saying, “The book is called ‘The Adventures of the Elf Queen,’ written by an ancient and knowledgeable demon named Black Fur.”
“Same meaning.” Wei Lin said, “So what? I love you; you are mine, and that is enough.”
Arkanis firmly replied: “Just kill me; I’m not a knight whose brain was damaged by green skin orcs.”
“Arkanis, you don’t like being kept at home, do you?” Wei Lin said: “Then wouldn’t it be nice to live like we used to? I won’t tie you up in my home, nor will I make you become like me, we can roam the world together. You can burn heretics, I’ll help you gather firewood, you can hunt other midnight nobles, and I will also help you. You will become the most famous hunter in history, as long as you are happy.”
“All you need to do is to stay by my side. You are a half-elf, and you can accompany me for a long, long time. When you die, I’ll give you a second life.”
“Okay.” Arkanis said: “Then I like to find chickens, is that okay?”
“No!” Wei Lin moved closer to Arkanis’s face: “Am I ugly? Whether in body shape or appearance, am I not better than that woman who sells her body? Arkanis, if you’re happy, I can also demean myself and play her role.”
“I feel disgusted by necrophilia.”
As soon as the words fell, Wei Lin’s hand swept across Arkanis’s cheek, sinking into the ground beside his face.
Wei Lin said: “Please don’t intentionally speak about the unfortunate pasts of women.”
“Corpses can actually talk.”
Wei Lin pulled her hand back, saying: “Arkanis, since that’s the case, let you experience the feeling of necrophilia later. In recent cities, although there aren’t any mansions suitable for my status, we can only lower ourselves and make do, to complete our first time after marriage.”
“I didn’t agree to marry you.”
“I told you, and it’s not necessary for you to agree.”
“Okay, okay, okay, I was wrong.” Arkanis said: “Miss Wei Lin, I suddenly realize you are very beautiful. Being with you seems not so bad. As long as you promise me that everything will be just like before, we can roam freely together, sharing the same bed.”
“You agreed?”
“Yes.”
“Great.” Wei Lin’s blood-red eyes sparkled, “I knew it; I understand my lover better than anyone else.”
The black mist veil on her face faded, revealing her small face, a face without bruises or ashen tones, white and tender, with delicate features.
This signified that she had exited the combat state.
“Then can you let go now?”
“No.” Wei Lin shyly said: “Wait until we have our first time, you… must be responsible for me, okay?”
Arkanis helplessly said: “What can I do?”
“Come, hold my hand, with our fingers intertwined.”
Arkanis’s right hand intertwined with Wei Lin’s fingers; the fingers that were clasped together were devoid of warmth, somewhat cold, the slender fingers pressing against his hand.
Wei Lin said: “You must swear here.”
“Swear what?”
“My hometown’s custom; repeat after me.” Wei Lin said: “We willingly become husband and wife.”
“We willingly become husband and wife.”
“Whether in poverty or wealth, in youth or old age…”
“Whether in poverty or wealth…”
“Whether in life or death.”
Arkanis shivered but still mustered the courage to say: “Whether in life or death.”
“Even if the pyramid collapses, the sun sets forever, the desert turns to oasis…”
“Even if the pyramids…”
Wei Lin’s hand tightened around Arkanis’s hand: “We will be together forever.”
Arkanis, with their fingers still intertwined, said: “We will be together forever.”
A cute smile appeared on Wei Lin’s face as she suddenly stood up from Arkanis and pulled him, saying: “Hurry, let’s go back to the city and have our first time.”
Arkanis was pulled by Wei Lin but fell to the ground in pain. Wei Lin quickly supported him, asking: “I’m sorry, I forgot you’re still injured.”
“I… can still stand; give me some medicine.”
“Okay, where?”
“In the bag hanging at my lower back; you can look for it.”
Wei Lin still kept her fingers intertwined with Arkanis, bent down, and used her other hand to rummage in Arkanis’s dimensional space bag.
The pain on Arkanis’s face disappeared. The shadow behind Wei Lin “stood up,” waved its hand, and stealthily took Arkanis’s silver prosthetic arm from Wei Lin.
With Arkanis’s severed hand raised, the shadow went up and attached his prosthetic limb correctly.
Wei Lin, still wearing a happy smile while searching for medicine for Arkanis, was utterly oblivious to Arkanis’s small movements.
Silently, Arkanis slipped the “death coin” to Wei Lin and, without hesitation, the shadow blade appeared within the silver prosthetic hand, fiercely attacking the unsuspecting Wei Lin. It was a successful sneak attack; even Wei Lin suffered significant injury.
The shadow blade penetrated her shoulder joint, marking the first wound on Wei Lin’s body.
“Ah! It hurts!”
Wei Lin shouted, but her hand still firmly gripped Arkanis’s hand.
Arkanis and the shadow’s subsequent attacks were swift and fierce, like a storm assaulting Wei Lin. As long as she released her grip, he could activate Shadow Leap and escape.
But even in the blink of an eye, four wounds appeared on Wei Lin’s body, yet she still held tightly onto Arkanis’s hand.
Arkanis, desperate, searched for Wei Lin’s weaknesses. Soon, he noticed that Wei Lin was bent over, seemingly attempting to protect her chest from his attacks.
The heart.
Immediately, he thrust his sword toward Wei Lin’s heart.
Wei Lin cried out: “Don’t stab there!”
The shadow blade sank into her heart, yet Wei Lin did not release her grip.
Seeing Wei Lin’s unwavering hold, Arkanis continued to stab several times.
Wei Lin finally let go, lunging for Arkanis’s wrist, her speed was quick, but at the very moment she released her hold, Arkanis vanished.
Wei Lin turned around, staring blankly at the spot where Arkanis had disappeared, feeling aggrieved as she knelt on the ground, her elaborate multi-layered skirt spreading across the floor. From her bosom, she took out a battered rattle that had been stabbed, one of the gifts Arkanis had given her.
“It’s alright, there’s still this.” Wei Lin took out a colorful pinwheel and gently blew on it; the pinwheel began to spin, but she cried as she looked at it.
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