Cecilia Vaughn stared in disbelief at the old woman, a ominous premonition rising in her mind.
The old woman's subordinates moved swiftly, dragging the two corpses on the floor away as instructed, even cleaning all the bloodstains and filth from the hall very quickly.
Cecilia felt a chill at the thought of the word "wedding," and as she glanced around the pavilion's decorations again, an inexplicable unease crept over her.
The setup was entirely that of a traditional Veridian wedding, but aside from the bright red "happiness" characters, there were some symbols Cecilia completely couldn't understand.
But those symbols didn't evoke any auspiciousness or joy of a wedding; rather, they resembled the Spirit Suppressing Talismans Cecilia had seen in suspenseful thriller films, brimming with sinister and malevolent vibes.
...
Cecilia couldn't fathom, no matter how hard she tried, that she was supposed to marry a "dead man."
And that old woman had directly laid out this answer.
