Fat lady? Looks like it really is Kaahn - the fat one, and right on time.
"Gennaro, it's me. Open the door." A voice suddenly came from outside.
Gennaro nodded desperately. "It's her! That fat Kaahn!" He hadn't seen her yet but recognized the voice immediately.
"Open the door. If you don't, I'll have to force my way in again," Kaahn shouted from outside.
"Go open the door! Quick, let her in!" I told Gennaro. Then I turned to Stein and Antonio: "Let's hide."
As we all hid, Gennaro stood up trembling. "I don't dare..." But the knocking outside had already grown as loud as thunder.
"Do you want to die?" I said. "If you piss off Kaahn out there, whether she's a ghost or a pig demon, you won't get away with it."
This guy was too timid - I had to push him harder.
Finally scared into action, Gennaro went to open the door. When he did, an enormous fat woman entered - easily twice Gennaro's size. Hidden in the cabinet, I almost laughed myself silly.
This? And you did it seven times in one night? How? You'd be crushed to death!
Kaahn immediately sat on Gennaro's lap. He let out a loud "oof" like he was in extreme pain, but Kaahn ignored it. "Why have you been avoiding me lately? Deleting my WeChat? Do you know something?"
"Aigoo, auntie, I don't know anything! Please let me go?" Gennaro begged.
Kaahn's small fist hammered Gennaro's chest. This time he really spat something out - I couldn't tell if it was bile or blood, but his expression showed extreme pain.
"Let you go? Like I'm going to hurt you. I just need you to...keep me company."
After saying this, Kaahn clapped her hands with a sharp snap.
"You'll drain me dry and still come after me? You...you're not even human!" Gennaro couldn't take it anymore. Pushed to his limits of fear and frustration, he shoved Kaahn away violently.
"How did you know? I suspected you'd found out." Kaahn bristled, her fat face contorting unnaturally - like her features were just a mask of flesh stretched over fat.
"But no matter what, you can't escape me. I'll have you! At worst, like last time, I'll knock you out. A man being unconscious doesn't hinder things anyway," Kaahn said with disturbing nonchalance.
"You...you demon! What are you? Why won't you leave me alone?" Gennaro growled.
"Heh heh..."
Kaahn suddenly laughed - an eerie, unnatural sound. As she laughed, I watched in horror as the flesh on her face began peeling away layer by layer, twisting grotesquely.
Finally, her face - her entire head - transformed completely into a pig's head.
Kaahn had transformed into a pig-headed monster! She snarled at Gennaro, her bloody mouth gaping wider than Gennaro's entire head. A terrifying demonic wind blew from her maw, sending Gennaro into a daze before he collapsed to the ground, trembling violently.
To be honest, even we were stunned witnessing this. It was our first time seeing such a horrifying monster. Was this the pig demon Stein had mentioned?
"Come out already. There are three more people in this room - I've smelled you for a while now," Kaahn said.
Damn. She'd detected us long ago. No point hiding now. I quickly emerged from the cabinet with Stein and Antonio.
"Hmph, so you actually found people to deal with me?" Kaahn's pig snout snorted coldly.
At that moment, Gennaro suddenly sprang up. He threw open the door and bolted out. His movement and escape speed surpassed even Stein's usual quickness - so fast that Stein looked genuinely impressed. The escape was so sudden even Kaahn didn't react in time.
"You're not getting away!" Kaahn roared angrily and moved to chase Gennaro.
"Antonio, stop her!" I grabbed a chair and smashed it against Kaahn's pig-like back while Antonio rushed to the kitchen for a knife.
With a loud thud, the chair shattered into splinters against the pig's head - yet the monstrous skull remained completely unharmed, without even a scratch.
"Heh heh... sorry about that. Just testing if the chair was sturdy. Damn crooked merchants selling shoddy goods - I'll tear down their shop sign tomorrow," I hastily joked, forcing a laugh.
"Seeking death!" Kaahn's bloody maw gaped wide as she lunged for my neck. With that jaw strength, she could easily snap my neck - crunch!
I barely dodged in time. Her teeth only grazed me, leaving a superficial scratch at worst.
Slapping my chest in relief, I gasped, "Too close!" That nearly took my head clean off. With Gennaro she'd just been intimidating, but with me she meant business.
Just then Antonio emerged from the kitchen, a large cleaver gleaming coldly in his hand. At the sight of the blade, Kaahn froze. All her previous hostility vanished as she backed away toward the door, pushing past us.
"This knife... such heavy killing intent. Could it be a pig-slaughtering blade?" Stein exclaimed in surprise.
A butcher's pig-slaughtering knife is also called a life-taking blade. After killing countless living beings, it accumulates such malignant energy that it can ward off evil spirits.
For a pig spirit like this, nothing is more terrifying than a pig-slaughtering knife - the perfect weapon against Kaahn. The real question was: why did Gennaro have one in his home?
Kaahn fled in terror, but Antonio's skills were nothing to scoff at. Taking aim at Kaahn's back, he hurled the knife with perfect precision.
A muffled grunt sounded as Kaahn immediately dropped to her knees. The butcher knife stuck deep in her right back, blood gushing freely from the wound.
Kneeling on the ground, Kaahn convulsed violently. Her limbs thrashed uncontrollably while her pig-like face contorted in agony. Blood continued pouring from her wounded back.
I expected her to reveal her true form and transform into a pig at this point. But to my complete astonishment, she instead began shrinking gradually. Her body grew thinner and smaller, though she did gain a few centimeters in height. Her hair gathered together before splitting into twin ponytails.
I stood utterly dumbfounded. The enormous fat Kaahn had actually transformed into loli Kaahn! That pig-like face had morphed into a delicate, cute little loli's face.
However, that adorable face quickly twisted into something hideous. Meanwhile, the bleeding wound began emitting thick black smoke.
"Ahhh..."
Kaahn unleashed an inhuman shriek as a terrifying gust of yin energy exploded from her body. The knife embedded in her back shot out violently, embedding itself upside-down in the wall.
"I'll be back!" This loli Kaahn had turned completely blackened, her face now eerily sinister. Her lips and eyebrows oozed with dark energy - I could feel the profound resentment radiating from her.
This loli Kaahn... she was a ghost!
A demon and ghost sharing the same body - what kind of abomination was this? It made no sense. What was going on?
Stein looked equally baffled. "I've never encountered anything like this," he admitted. "A ghost is a ghost, a demon is a demon. They can't possibly share the same form!"