Chapter 52.0: The Necrophiliac Killer’s Mocking Smile
[Smiling]
He fell.
He fell straight down.
His heart was pierced by a blade, and red blood flowed out, spreading and dyeing the surrounding earth red.
…No… it can’t be…
I stood up numbly and walked towards him.
I reached out to touch his cheek.
I reached out to lift his cheek, but he didn’t look at me. Why wouldn’t he look at me? I held him in my arms. Jun Jun had been holding me all along, so it was my turn to offer him warmth.
“Oh my, Miss, are you his lover? I’m so sorry, you’ll have to find a new boyfriend.”
What was this person babbling about?
How could I possibly find a man other than Jun Jun? Absolutely impossible! I’d rather die than do that! My Jun Jun is the protagonist, the male lead of my life. We’ll have a happy ending like the prince and princess in a fairy tale, and live happily ever after. Right, Jun Jun?
Why aren’t you answering me?
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
Ah, no, this won’t do… As an excellent girlfriend, I shouldn’t put too much pressure on my boyfriend.
Since you don’t want to talk, Jun Jun, just raising a hand should be enough, right?
“Okay?”
His body was stiff. I’m going to get angry.
Really, stop joking.
I know you love to joke the most, this must be a joke too, right?
The magic trick ends here. I don’t really like this kind of performance.
His heartbeat stopped. Don’t keep your eyes closed, open them and look at me…
At you.
I want you to look at me.
His pupils dilated.
…
I couldn’t speak.
I couldn’t even shed tears.
Wh-why… what is this all for?
I don’t know what I’m questioning, who I’m asking. Maybe I’m asking everything, maybe I’m asking everyone.
But the answer was already unsolvable. I hugged his body tighter. Even though I didn’t want to admit it, it had already become a fact, accepted by the world. Jun, Juncheng, was dead.
Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead. Really, dead… Right, Juncheng, wake up…
You’re not going to die like this, are you?
Didn’t we promise to go on a date again?
There are still so many happy, joyful things waiting for us. We can’t end it here, can we?
This isn’t the ending we were supposed to have, is it? *Roar*
Stop flowing, you disobedient blood. Go back, go back into Jun Jun’s body!
I caught the blood with my hands and poured it back into his chest. But it was like pouring water into a leaky cup; it could never be filled and would only all spill out.
When the flowing blood was no longer warm, my chest began to ache.
The pain of a pierced heart… The discomfort in my throat made me cough violently. Something was coughed out. I opened my palm—black liquid mixed with organ fragments scattered irregularly, spreading, slipping through my fingers, and falling onto the ice.
The ice reflected my current appearance: black tears flowing from empty eye sockets, black blood flowing from the corners of my mouth, and a large opening in my chest.
My heart fell out…
It was shattered into pieces.
It’s okay… I look so ugly now… I don’t deserve to be by his side anymore.
Extreme sorrow poured out from my empty chest like a black spring.
She appeared before me, but her smile was gone.
Why aren’t you smiling?
Aren’t you the happiest right now?
………
“I still lost ‘him’, and you got what you wanted, ‘it’… Isn’t that what you wanted? Smile, show your most…”
I staggered to my feet, hugged her neck, and kissed and licked her cheeks and neck.
I smudged and smeared the black liquid onto her… You should feel my pain too.
“I want to ‘die’ too… If I disappear like this, you will regain this emotion.”
And this pain will return to you.
But that’s not what I want.
What I want is not ‘release’. I don’t want this emotion, which belongs only to ‘me’, to be possessed by her. Even if she and I are the same existence.
“Please… him… come back… With your current abilities, you should be able to do it… Make him a ‘moving corpse’.”
“Heh heh, even if you don’t want to, you’ll surely do it… right? Lianbing?”
I looked up and kissed her lips as a farewell, then fell backward into the abyss beneath the ice layer, in the same posture as his death.
Ah, it doesn’t seem as scary here as before.
It must be because I love him so deeply.
“Heh heh, heh…”
[Sinister laugh]
“Hahahaha ha ha ha ha ha ha… Finally! I finally did it!”
I can open my hands, and start my sucking. SF Light Novel.
I couldn’t help but laugh wildly at the sky. *Op*
This unexpected ending made me chuckle.
…So sleepy…
A surge of ecstatic emotion erupted. I covered my mouth with my hands, but still couldn’t contain the laughter leaking out.
My face was torn, my teeth melted into patterns hanging on my face. My mouth was wide open with ecstasy, and this smile would never stop.
I died there, died laughing.
After he ‘taught’ me how to laugh, I suddenly realized how convenient a smile was… This time, I’m still smiling, smiling at his inexplicable death. A smile, a sneer, a mock smile.
The boy lay on the ground, the light in his eyes dimming.
“Is it fun? Juncheng An? When I died, it was quite fun… *He he*…”
Falling from the rooftop, the moment I accepted death, I felt unprecedented freedom.
At that moment, I finally understood how humble human life was.
“How cheap is human life! You can die from any accident!”
I couldn’t even indulge in loud laughter to my heart’s content, being restricted everywhere, confined to a limited space, how unfree!
This made me realize that what is precious is not life, but the life lived!
But to just die like this is a bit much… because my life has not yet reached its fullness!
What’s the point of living, living like a dog?
If you live without value, it’s better to be dead!
Even if you, the boy, always chose to stay out of trouble, you were eventually dragged into this vortex.
“Come on, get up. Well then, get up.”
It will end like this, right?
You won the first round, I won the second round. Now the decisive moment has arrived. Let this play reach its climax! But he didn’t respond to my expectations.
Lying on the ground like a useless piece of trash, not moving at all.
“Hey, get up? Hurry up and get up?”
Could it be that it’s going to end like this?
Tch, you’re just an ordinary person after all.
You’re just this level of guy.
I lost interest in the already dead Juncheng An, flicked the blade in my hand, and thought about what to do next.
Right, right, what about that female corpse?
I looked around and finally found her at the edge of the encirclement.
The surrounding zombies remained still, while the female corpse was inexplicably curled up and trembling.
After those ghouls revived me, the mission they gave me was to blend in with the corpses carrying this woman’s body and protect her. However, it doesn’t matter now. I just wanted to kill Juncheng An anyway. As I was about to leave, I saw the girl Juncheng An had saved walking over blankly.
Is this girl his girlfriend?
“Oh my, Miss, are you his lover? I’m so sorry, you’ll have to find a new boyfriend.” The girl looked up at me blankly, as if she hadn’t understood what I was saying.
Did she escape reality due to excessive sadness?
I suddenly felt like seeing how she would change later. I have nothing to do anyway, so I’ll look for some fun.
After a long while, I was so bored I was about to fall asleep. *Knock, knock*
Staring blankly at the boy’s empty, hollow face, it suddenly changed.
The girl’s expression.
It was so evil.
Tears were overflowing from her eyes, yet the corners of her mouth were turned up high.
“Heh heh heh heh.”
A smile filled with the scent of death.
Then she suddenly burst into tears and hugged Juncheng An tightly, as if she had just realized her beloved person was dead.
Darkness billowed out from the surroundings, an unpredictable darkness. Will it bring… death?
She was like a black datura flower, a flower of death weeping in the night.
She bloomed with an eerie beauty.
Oh~ this is an unexpected surprise…
Fantastic!
[Losing control of laughter]
Returning to reality, the first thing I saw was his corpse.
The corpse of Juncheng An, which I had always dreamed of.
It had completely lost life signs. Blood no longer flowed, and its body had become cold and heavy.
This weight was the weight of ‘death’.
You’re finally dead!
You’re finally a corpse!
You’re finally mine!
I should have shouted lines like these excitedly and then burst into laughter. However, I couldn’t speak.
It wasn’t that I killed him. It was to protect someone, for such a trivial reason, stabbed by some nobody who appeared out of nowhere. He died meaninglessly.
You shouldn’t have tried to protect me. You already went through it once at the cemetery, why repeat the same mistake?
Why… why this…
Huh? Strange?
Why are these tears?
I cried for him?
When was the last time I cried?
I don’t remember… Was it when my mother died?
“You’re such a… idiot…”
The smile etched on my face was not from my heart. The tears from my heart were drawn on my face.
I split myself, yet I still fell into that deep sea. I still shed tears when we part. Perhaps I’m a big trouble for you. But when I saw you rush into danger for me again and again, my body itched with heat. I really did fall for you. Looking at your wounded body, remembering the burning sensation in my heart, I couldn’t help but want to stay by your side and rely on you.
I don’t care if you’re a corpse anymore… I just hope… to have you.
I hugged the body in my arms even tighter, and only stopped increasing the pressure when I felt his full weight and warmth.
I stood up carrying him, bearing his death, and walked towards that person.
The person who was once most important to me… But now the most important person to me is…
“And you’re not my mother.”
Not only that, but he got hurt because of you…
*Sob, sob, sob…*
“My ability to control corpses isn’t the only one. You might not know this, but I am your daughter.”
And more excellent than you.
“My Lord… This old servant has been waiting for a long time.”
“Give me the Heart of the Undead.”
“As you command.”
The blue Heart of the Undead, stained by my blood, turned entirely black.
Darkness is my paradise. The dead are my servants.
Death is my game.
“And your death, I refuse to accept!”
Wake up, Juncheng.
Without you, I can’t even smile…
I will only smile for you from now on.
[Forced smile]
“That black… it finally happened.”
“You already apologized before, and I agreed. Besides, it’s not your fault, is it?”
“Ugh, Mom, Principal, what are you talking about? I don’t understand…”
“Because Lixin, you’re an idiot. We’re talking about… he might die.”
“Huh?! Juncheng is going to die?! No! I have to save him!”
“I knew you’d say that… Everything here is resolved, you can go.”
“Really?!”
“Mm, Nana, you also need to…”
“Then I’m going!”
“… Go and turn Juncheng into our companion.”
“Leave it to me!”
“Leave it to me!”
“In the end, it still turned out this way… Is this fate?”
“Who knows…”
… ESMi-
Character Change: [Necrophiliac Killer] -> [Witch of Calamity]
