Chapter 630
Chapter 630
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 630
>Chapter Title: Death
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Two slaps made Li Sui's head tilt slightly, but she didn't feel any pain because this head wasn't hers.
Although she didn't feel pain, Li Sui sensed a new emotion. Anger.
Li Sui slowly raised her hand, mimicking his action, and slapped him across the face. With a "crack," the thug's jaw dislocated instantly, and his left cheek visibly swelled up.
He clutched his neck, staring at Li Sui in shock, stunned both by her strength and by her daring to fight back.
"I want to kill you." Li Sui swung another slap, making the thug's head buzz.
Finally snapping to his senses, he clutched his jaw in terror and fled desperately with whimpering cries.
Li Sui didn't chase him. She walked over to the old man and helped him up.
But the old man ignored his own injuries and anxiously checked on Li Sui instead. "Nier, Nier! Are you okay? Does your face hurt?"
Unlike before, Li Sui now felt the worry and concern in his words. After listening carefully, she asked in a puzzled voice, "Who's Nier? I'm not Nier. I'm Li Sui."
"No, no, no! You are Nier! You're my daughter!" The old man shook his head frantically and pulled Li Sui toward home.
As she looked down at the clothes on her body, Li Sui suddenly understood. He had mistaken her for the dead woman.
She opened her mouth to explain, but for some reason, a tugging sensation in her heart made her hold back.
Hand in hand, Li Sui was led back behind the blacksmith shop once more.
Li Sui was reseated on the kang, basking in the couple's solicitous care.
The feeling was comforting, yet it left her bewildered, as if she were strangely familiar with this place for reasons she couldn't grasp.
As she listened to them talk, Li Sui suddenly felt a daze wash over her. Fleeting memories surfaced in her mind, as if she had truly become the woman named Nier.
With the sounds outside growing quieter, Li Sui realized it was time to go back, or Dad would worry.
That tugging sensation returned, but this time, Li Sui no longer wanted to stay. After all, she was Li Sui, not Nier.
After hesitating for a moment, she set down the bowl of sugar water and said to the couple before her, "I'm not Nier. Nier is already dead. I'm sorry."
The previously chatting couple froze. Moments later, the old man said in a panic, "Nier, don't talk nonsense! Did you hit your head on the way? I'll fetch a doctor for you right now!"
Seeing they still wouldn't believe her, Li Sui stood up. Her skirt flared instantly as writhing black tentacles burst forth, revealing her skinless white dog head.
Then, Nier's entire body bloomed like a flower, exposing the true Li Sui within.
She opened her mouth lined with sharp teeth and said to them, "I'm not Nier. I'm Li Sui. Nier really is dead."
Yet Li Sui noticed they stood there motionless, eyes wide and staring blankly.
"What's wrong with you?" Li Sui reached out with her claw and gently touched them. The couple toppled over stiffly.
At that moment, a surge of intense grievance and fear overwhelmed her. She didn't want this unfamiliar feeling—it was simply too unbearable.
Standing there, Li Sui felt lost and helpless. She stared at the corpses on the ground, unsure what to do. She and Li Huowang had seen countless bodies before, but she had never been this afraid of them.
Fear drove her into action. She crashed through the door and fled toward the post station where Li Huowang was staying.
She hadn't gone far when she spotted Li Huowang waiting in a dark corner.
Tears of blood streaming down her face, Li Sui lunged at him, slashed open his belly, and crawled inside. She closed her eyes, wanting to think nothing and hear nothing.
Li Huowang asked nothing. He simply reached into his belly and gently stroked Li Sui's head in comfort.
Compared to her former carefree self, this Li Sui seemed to have grown a little—and to have begun understanding emotions she once couldn't grasp.
"Let's go. We're heading back." Li Huowang turned to walk toward the post station.
But he suddenly stopped, as if remembering something, and headed into the county town instead.
Following the footprints, Li Huowang arrived at a wooden building. He kicked down the door and strode in.
"Fuck! You little bitch, you—!" The thug, who had been applying medicine to himself, slapped the table but fell silent at the sight of Li Huowang.
With a clatter, Li Huowang spread out his torture kit before the thug. "Pick one yourself, or should I choose for you?"
"What? None to your liking? Fine."
Li Huowang packed up the kit, his face twisted in rage as he pounced. Amid the thug's screams, he bit off his ear.
"You dare bully my daughter? You're asking for death!!"
In the post station's deluxe room, when Li Huowang opened his eyes again, it was already the next day.
He reached into himself and found Li Sui gone. Turning his head, he saw her squatting by the window like a dog, gazing at the sky outside.
"You okay?" Li Huowang sat up and went to the wooden rack to wash up.
But unusually, Li Sui ignored him, sitting there like a horrifying statue, utterly still.
Draping the face towel over the rack, Li Huowang walked over to her side and looked at her terrifying profile.
He reached into his robes, tugged something out, and peeled off a strip of crusted blood, waving it in front of Li Sui.
When she didn't even open her mouth to bite, Li Huowang knew that whatever happened last night had deeply affected her. She was no longer the Li Sui who wouldn't even notice if her head fell off.
Just as he sat on the chair beside her, about to say something comforting to his daughter, Li Sui turned to look at him.
"Dad, please don't die, okay?"
"Hm?" Li Huowang couldn't quite follow her train of thought, but seeing the intense longing in her eyes, he nodded gently.
"Okay, I promise you. I won't die."
Li Sui opened her double claws lined with tentacles and hugged Li Huowang tightly, her tentacles wrapping around him securely.
"Dad, I think I get what death is now. I don't want you to die. I don't want Big Sis or Second Sis to die either. I'll do everything to protect you all!" Li Sui's voice began to tremble with emotion.
"Don't worry. We've endured so many hardships. If I wanted to die now, it wouldn't be that easy."
With a creak, the door opened. Liu Zongyuan walked in, hesitating at the sight of Li Huowang bound in tentacles.
"What? Spit it out."
"It's dawn. The Registrar says we should hit the road." With that, Liu Zongyuan ducked out sideways.
Hearing this, Li Huowang grew serious. He pried off Li Sui's tentacles and headed outside. "Li Sui, come on. We should reach Silver Mausoleum City today!"
Li Sui started to follow but paused to pick up the crusted blood from the floor and stuff it into her mouth to chew.
As she chewed, the tentacles on her body twisted slightly, undergoing some extremely subtle changes.