Volume 2, Chapter 90 – The Unacceptable Truth

Boom!

Accompanied by a terrifying surge of energy, black light scattered in all directions! Benjamin’s body was instantly pierced by countless black spikes! Heart-wrenching wails suddenly echoed through the sky as blood splattered across the ground and the magic gun Benjamin had been holding was torn to shreds by the black light.

After a period of wailing and howling, the pain gradually receded and Benjamin slowly regained some of his rationality. He opened his eyes with immense fear to look at the terrifying black liquid pinning him down.

‘What on earth is this thing?!’

Benjamin couldn’t help but wail inwardly. However, once he clearly saw the familiar figure of a girl enveloped within the black liquid, Benjamin instantly held his breath. Cold sweat poured down his forehead like rain and his heart beat so violently it seemed ready to burst from his chest!

‘This… this is impossible!! How could this be?!’

In the reflection of Benjamin’s blue eyes, a young girl with pink hair was actually wrapped within the eerie black liquid that coiled around her immature body.

She was a beautiful and lovely girl with soft pink hair that cascaded down like a waterfall and draped perfectly over her delicate shoulders. She had clear, bright heterochromatic eyes of blue and red, curved willow-leaf eyebrows, and long eyelashes that trembled slightly. Her flawless white skin revealed a faint rosy tint, and her thin lips were as delicate as rose petals.

Undoubtedly, the pink-haired girl was very charming and would surely become a peerless beauty in time.

However, such a delicately carved young girl made Benjamin look as if he had seen a ghost, his expression filled with absolute terror! How could Benjamin not recognize this familiar face? It was the very person who, in his mind, should have been dead long ago.

“Yuan’er?! How are you still alive?!”

After spitting out a few mouthfuls of blood, Benjamin couldn’t help but cry out in shock.

Though he didn’t understand why Yuan’er was not only alive but had also taken on this bizarre form, Benjamin could judge from the aura she emitted that this pink-haired girl was nothing like she used to be! The pressure brought by that black light was unprecedented.

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Benjamin even had the illusion that his very soul was about to be crushed.

More importantly, an incomparable feeling of dread suddenly flooded Benjamin’s heart like a torrential river, submerging his entire being in a swamp of fear. The moment he thought of what he had done to Yuan’er and his persecution of her and her sister, Benjamin couldn’t stop shaking.

‘Is she here for revenge?!’

Meeting the girl’s heterochromatic eyes, which had almost no highlights, Benjamin began to struggle frantically.

‘No! No! I don’t want to die!’

‘I can’t die!’

‘I am the man who is going to become the Marquis, I can’t die! I haven’t even sat in that seat yet!’

“Yuan… Yuan’er!! I… I really didn’t mean to hurt you back then! The deaths of your sister and parents had nothing to do with me either! It was all done by those people from the Divine Punishment Holy Church! If you want revenge, go find them! Don’t… don’t come for me!!”

In his agitation, Benjamin ignored the intense pain in his body to survive and desperately begged Yuan’er for mercy.

However, the pink-haired girl before him merely stared at Benjamin with indifference. There was still no emotion in her dull heterochromatic eyes, an apathy that was chilling to the bone.

The more Yuan’er remained unresponsive, the more Benjamin’s heart filled with panic.

“No, Yuan’er! You can’t kill me! We are family! I am your big brother!! I used to take care of you all the time when we were little!”

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To stay alive, Benjamin tried to play the emotional card. At the same time, his eyes darted around frantically, trying to find Wilt’s figure in the hopes that the Cult Leader could save him!

But before Benjamin could find Wilt, Yuan’er, who had been silent for so long, actually had a rare reaction. She tilted her head and looked curiously at the pathetic pink-haired man.

“Big… brother?”

Hearing that familiar voice, Benjamin nodded his head frantically.

“Yes! Yes, I am your big brother, Benjamin! You… you can’t kill your brother, right?”

However, the moment the words left Benjamin’s mouth and Yuan’er heard the name ‘Benjamin’, her expression suddenly turned cold as if she had been triggered by the word. A terrifying bloodlust gradually emerged within her heterochromatic eyes.

At this moment, although Yuan’er had successfully received Yumo’s power and become a new demon king tier entity, her consciousness had not fully awakened. Instead, she was in a state of ethereal chaos. Her previous actions, including killing the Hero and coming to Windward City, were all driven by instinct.

Strictly speaking, Yuan’er’s mind was currently in a mess as her human nature and Abyssal Demon nature constantly merged and conflicted.

The original Yuan’er instinctively wanted to kill Benjamin, but after seeing the tragic state of the Duke’s Marquis Mansion, she had frozen in place. If Benjamin had chosen to stay silent, he might have had a slim chance of survival.

But now…

“Yuan’er?!”

Seeing the killing intent in Yuan’er’s heterochromatic eyes grow heavier, the fear in Benjamin’s heart intensified. His face became distorted and comical with terror, making it nauseating to behold.

Just as he was about to continue begging for mercy, intense pain suddenly flared from his wounds, instantly causing Benjamin to let out a heart-wrenching scream.

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“Aaaaaah! No! Please! Yuan’er, you… you can’t kill me… I am…”

Benjamin’s wails were useless. Instead, they only served to intensify the madness on Yuan’er’s face! More and more black spikes pierced through Benjamin’s body. Despite the pain being enough to make anyone lose consciousness, Benjamin remained inexplicably awake.

But what use was clarity? He was utterly powerless to resist and could only let out one helpless wail after another!

Accompanied by Benjamin’s wails, which sounded like a moving melody, the dozens of black spikes piercing his body suddenly emitted pulses of black light! As the black light grew more radiant, Benjamin’s body gradually withered until he turned into a dried corpse, his life force being continuously stripped away.

His voice as he begged for mercy and cried out grew weaker and weaker. Deep despair and unbelievable pain occupied Benjamin’s brain.

“No… why… why is this happening… I don’t…”

However, Benjamin didn’t even have time to finish his last words. As if she found him too noisy, Yuan’er’s brow furrowed and a whip constructed of black energy suddenly lashed out!

Under Xiumu’s shocked gaze, Benjamin’s wails came to an abrupt halt as half of his head was sent flying. He was as dead as could be.

In an instant, brains and blood scattered across the ground. After being stained with blood, Yuan’er’s cute little face became even more demonic, making her seem increasingly like a stranger to Xiumu.

‘Yuan’er? How… how did it turn out like this…’

After seeing the scene before him, Xiumu couldn’t help but clench his fists as a strong sense of internal conflict surged into the old Marquis’s heart. Yuan’er being alive should have been a cause for celebration, but what if she had become like this?!

‘She had become an Abyssal Demon?!’

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To Xiumu, who had hated Abyssal Demons and fought them his entire life, this news was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue. The Yuan’er of the past might have been a bit headstrong, but she was fundamentally kind and timid. Yet, that fragile girl who hadn’t even dared to kill a chicken was now killing Benjamin without blinking an eye?!

She even wore such a cruel smile. Was she really Yuan’er? Or was she a monster wearing Yuan’er’s skin?!

As if to verify his inner suspicions, Xiumu endured the intense pain and spoke slowly, summoning his courage to stand up.

“Yuan’er…”

As Xiumu’s call reached the pink-haired girl’s ears, the girl surrounded by black liquid slowly turned her head to look at the sorrowful old Marquis behind her.

In that moment, the pink-haired girl’s unfamiliar, bone-chilling gaze, one that even contained killing intent and bloodlust, locked onto Xiumu, making the old Marquis’s heart stop! His ominous premonition seemed to be validated at this moment. The pain in his heart had already surpassed the pain in his body.

‘Yuan’er, have you really become a monster?’

‘What on earth had happened…’

To be noticed by a demon king tier Abyssal Demon was undoubtedly a death sentence, yet the heartbroken Xiumu didn’t care about any of that as he knelt back down on the ground helplessly. Right now, he couldn’t even withstand the pressure being emitted by a demon king tier.

However, as if she felt something, or perhaps because Xiumu was too weak and posed no threat, Yuan’er did not attack him. Instead, she looked up at the sky toward the silver figure floating in mid-air.

Upon sensing the aura around the silver-haired girl and seeing that glimmer of golden light, a chilling intent to kill and a sense of tyranny suddenly erupted from Yuan’er’s heterochromatic eyes.

The silver-haired girl, in that instant, felt a suffocating chill.