“L-Lady! Actually, I’m a transmigrator!!”
After a few seconds of silence, Miss Holy Sword Bearer seemed to use all her strength and loudly shouted out those words.
But… the Lady before her didn’t show the expected expression of surprise.
Instead, she tilted her head in confusion.
“Trans…migrator? What does that mean?”
Huh? Ah… right…
Since the Lady is a native of this world, it’s only natural she doesn’t know what a “transmigrator” is…
“Well, a transmigrator is a soul from another world…”
Holly used her own logic to explain what a transmigrator was.
“So, your soul doesn’t belong to this world?” Ileya said as Holly could feel the Lady’s red eyes gradually brightening!
Whoosh—!
The next moment, the Lady’s pale, cool little hand directly covered Holly’s head!
“Let me see!”
At that moment, this Miss Holy Sword Bearer suddenly felt as if her brains were slowly leaving her body, and her intelligence was instantly drifting away from her…
Gone.
“-(><) Ughhh?”
I’m doomed! I’m going to be sucked dry like Senior Veil (0_0)!!
Whoosh… But the next second, that feeling of being drained of soul suddenly disappeared.
Thump! At that moment, Holly collapsed limply to the ground, staring blankly ahead. Deep in her soul, something was about to emerge!
“Holly? Holly! Are you okay?” The Lady’s voice gradually became clear in her ears.
The Holy Sword Bearer girl looked up dazedly, meeting those red eyes again.
“Ahem, sorry~ I couldn’t help but… study a soul when I saw an interesting one.”
“Holly?”
Thinking a simple apology would smooth things over, but the next second, she saw Holly’s tears, which had been welling up in her eyes, fall in big drops!
“Wah… Waaaah!!”
Eh… Eh?!
Watching Holly suddenly burst into loud sobs, for the first time today, the Lady felt that things… were a bit beyond her control!
For some reason, seeing Holly like this, Ileya felt a dull ache in her heart.
Was it because she had pulled on the other’s soul just now?
Whoosh—!
While thinking, Ileya had already taken hold of one of Holly’s hands, and a calm, peaceful soul wave instantly transmitted over, soothing the other’s agitated soul.
Through this examination, the Lady also understood why the other had suddenly burst into tears.
Fear.
Because she sensed the ultimate terror that the girl had been hiding deep in her heart.
It was a great horror that could not be spoken to anyone, the despair of facing imminent death, the panic of being drowned alive in front of her own parents…
Had the soul vibration just now released the fear hidden in the deepest part of her heart?
At this moment, Ileya understood Holly’s true identity.
And perhaps without even realizing it, her body trembled slightly at that instant.
After experiencing so much in this other world and completely merging with this Lady’s soul…
It seemed she could no longer observe such things with the cold eyes of the executioner from her past life.
That past life lived for revenge was like a long, tedious movie, or a short, brilliant firework—laughable… yet fearsome.
‘Tsk…’
‘Calm down… I need to calm down.’
She never felt regret for her revenge.
Because of that dusk lit by the setting sun, that boy wailed and kept frantically digging through the rubble even though his hands were torn…
In the end, he only saw his sister’s pale face. Her eyes weren’t closed; they were wide open, her dilated pupils staring blankly at him…
Then… it was his father who was usually unserious and liked fishing, his mother who always wore a faint smile and was trying hard to quit smoking, and his grandmother who loved to nap in the rocking chair in the hall and enjoyed cracking sunflower seeds… They… were all gone after that day.
Perhaps that boy who liked to go to school with a backpack slung over his shoulder every day, sometimes skipping class to go to an internet café with his buddies… also disappeared under that day’s sunset.
What remained was only a demon who had shed all tears, clinging to revenge, a scumbag, a parasite…
He faced everyone with his sunniest smile, and with the best grades, he made the entire society think… that he was a pillar of talent. But it was all a facade.
In dark corners, he constantly and endlessly spied, eagerly waiting for his enemies to show a flaw, then like a scavenging hyena on the prairie, he would rush up and madly bite their necks, devouring their flesh and blood…
Finally… he got his chance… In the summer vacation after he turned 16, which was the summer before high school, he had been working part-time to support himself, but he directly bought a plane ticket to H Province and completed his first revenge there.
It was the family of the foreman who had been involved in that construction project… He should have been in jail, but someone higher up fished him out through some means, and he never did that job again.
Watching them happily eat together, take photos, and travel every inch of that scenic area… The still immature boy clenched his teeth, and the flame in his heart nearly devoured him.
Finally, he got his chance. On a somewhat dim night, he completed his first revenge.
It was a crude simulation of an accidental fall off a cliff.
With the forensic technology of later years, it would probably be exposed immediately.
And whether it was the thrill of revenge or the fear of killing, his whole body trembled from killing for the first time… But that day, he remembered that his face truly showed the first sincere smile in years.
“Hm?” The memories cut off abruptly…
Ileya also let out a long breath. Her control over souls was still not proficient; the memories deep in her own soul had been stirred up as well.
But… she didn’t really care about all that before now. She was no longer that stubborn boy.
Now she had family to protect, a fate to change, and a calamity that was constantly chasing her… The past was nothing more than a little wind and frost.
As for the person before her… if she could use her, she would. But if one day, she truly stood before her with a blade, even threatening her cherished things, she… would absolutely show no mercy.
Thinking thus, Ileya slowly extended her right hand.
Veins bulged, and her nails gradually turned pitch black and sharp… A strange black-red mark slowly formed in the girl’s palm.
“Mm…” As her consciousness gradually recovered from fear, feeling the cool sensation on her cheek, Holly dazedly focused her eyes and looked ahead.
There. It was the Lady. At this moment, she was gently stroking her face, smiling at her.
“It’s okay. Everything is over.”
Whoosh… The next second, her body was pulled into an embrace.
“It’s okay… Don’t be afraid. I’m here.”
The Lady’s body… although soft, cold, with a very light and faint heartbeat and delicate shoulders… But it was this very Lady who gave Holly a full sense of security.
It seemed… as long as the Lady was by her side, she wouldn’t be harmed… even if that demon really appeared, she didn’t need to be afraid… she just needed to stand by the Lady, and everything would be easily resolved…
“Lady…” She pursed her lips, feeling that meeting the Lady and her master was the luckiest thing in this life…
“I’m sorry… Lady (T^T) It’s… it’s because Holly is too weak…”