It's alright, it should be alright.
Although he was comforting Shazi, Jingxin himself wasn't so sure.
He was worried that the rebels would soon be dispersed, and then those guys would search the entire mountain for him.
Although this place was found by Jingxin in advance, he was still uneasy.
But staying here was also boring.
Jingxin's eyes filled with memories of 14 years ago, when Shazi led the corpse demons and villagers in a final battle in the great fire, and they lost.
He put Shazi in the trunk and drove away from Sotoba Village, wanting to go to the more prosperous big city of Tokyo. But Shazi was hungry, so they stopped here for a night.
He had only intended to casually eat a person here and leave the next day.
This was also what Jingxin believed to be the correct method for corpse demons: eat people, then wait for them to naturally die from the toxins, and perhaps even turn into corpse demons, but by then it would be none of their business.
However, it was that night that they were discovered.
He never expected that a seemingly ordinary village would be involved in human trafficking, and Shazi became their target.
As a result, they hadn't even gone out to eat people before they were surrounded.
Jingxin, relying on his werewolf physique, originally intended to break through the encirclement, but Shazi was captured, which forced him to use the promise of immortality to tempt the then-elderly wealthiest man in the village.
It wasn't until things became more and more uncontrollable, and his lie that only Shazi could turn people into corpse demons was exposed, that the current result occurred.
Although Shazi had a stable food source, he was happy, but he didn't want it, at least not to be so cruel to their food.
All he wanted was for them to live a simple life, just eating a person every few days.
As time passed, Jingxin counted the seconds in his heart, gently stroking Shazi's small head to comfort her.
"It's alright, the sun will set in a few hours, and then we can leave."
"Hehehe! Yes! Your sun is about to set."
Suddenly, a dry laugh came from the cellar door.
"What?!" Jingxin was greatly alarmed, because he was very familiar with that voice.
"Shimura Danzo?!" Jingxin was so shocked that he stood up directly in the narrow cellar.
And immediately after, he heard a violent noise.
"Wuuuuu!"
The wooden door of the cellar began to shake violently, and then the tip of a chainsaw penetrated the door and emerged, creating a huge noise with flying sawdust.
The sunlight, which Shazi feared, gradually illuminated the dim, cramped cellar. Keli and Kazuma blocked the door, looking at the two hiding in the cellar.
Jingxin was momentarily flustered. He couldn't figure out how the other party had found him. The cellar was located on the mountainside, and he had taken special measures to conceal it.
It shouldn't, it shouldn't have been discovered!
And even if it was discovered, why wasn't it those villagers? At that time, he would still have room to explain. But why were it them?
"Wait! This humble monk didn't want this either! Both of us were forced! Corpse demons can only survive by eating people! We were forced to transform, and then we could only listen to them. I am a victim just like you! We only did this to survive!"
Jingxin's pupils trembled, lies spilling from his mouth as he continuously retreated, uttering justifications just like he had 14 years ago.
"You think it's okay for you to live by eating people, so isn't it even more okay for us to kill you, who eat people, in order to live?"
Sato Kazuma hated these kinds of people the most. When they had the upper hand, they would act like they didn't care, like "what can you do to me?" But when they were truly caught, they would start talking about principles, saying things like "this is just a small matter, don't delve too deep."
Kazuma, who surfed the internet every day, had seen too many people like this.
Keli didn't even bother to speak. He had already confirmed that the white-haired man in front of him was the monk Jingxin. There was no need to talk to such a person.
Keli picked up the chainsaw and directly thrust it forward.
Jingxin raised his hands to try and block it. He could have dodged, but Shazi was behind him, so he couldn't.
"Ah ah ah!"
The sound of hands being severed by the saw echoed.
Keli, with a burst of strength, pushed Jingxin against the wall.
Jingxin was about to say something to Keli, but then he saw Kazuma holding a gun and walking towards Shazi behind him.
"Stop! Stop it, both of you!"
His eyes turned crimson from the extreme exertion of power. His torn palms lifted, and with his shattered wrists, he desperately pressed against Keli's chest.
Kazuma hesitated for a moment, looking at the extremely frail, doll-like girl in front of him. He found it hard to act.
However, the next moment, the girl's eyes also glowed red, her fangs bared, and she lunged forward, swinging her hands.
"You let Jing…", "Bang!" Kazuma pulled the trigger.
Suddenly, the cellar fell silent.
Whether it was Jingxin, who had been screaming just moments ago, or Shazi.
Tongfu Shazi's eyes widened little by little, watching her body, from which a blood clot had been shot out.
This is… my blood…?
Hundreds of years of time passed through her eyes, little by little, finally settling on the last few decades.
Truly, even though she could only see Jingxin once in a while during these decades, and even though her daily life was monitored, she still believed these were the happiest dozen years of her life.
At least she found a confidant, at least in her life of guilt-ridden survival, where she both felt she was once human and that killing made her sad, yet she dared not die and could only live by constantly sucking blood.
One person appeared, a firm voice told her that she just wanted to live, that she was not wrong, that she could let go of her psychological burden and harm others, just like humans eat pigs and cattle.
She was very happy on the days she had him, even if she heard these words, she couldn't let go of her guilt, but having him, she was very happy.
It's just a pity that, in human stories, humans who elope with Vampires always seem to have a happy ending, but reality is so cruel. 1
"Bang! Bang!" Kazuma didn't hesitate, gripping the gun with both hands to reduce recoil, and fired again.
Shazi collapsed, her heart pierced by a shot.
Kazuma turned his face away; because this guy was too much like a child, he really couldn't bear to look.
"Shazi!!" Jingxin let out a painful scream.
Didn't he do all of this, starting fourteen years ago, all for Shazi?
Because of his contact with Shazi, his innocent parents were executed by the villagers as accomplices of the Corpse Demons.
He allowed himself to be a food source for Shazi to consume.
He created many literary works, but the core was always the same: what kind of person or prey, what is right and wrong, someone who could do what he did simply didn't care; he only cared because he recognized Shazi as someone who could understand his work, and he just wanted her to live… 5
"Damn it! So disgusting!" Keli raised the rotating chainsaw, pulling it upwards, and Jingxin stared blankly at Shazi, who was looking back at him.
Someone once conducted an experiment that people still retain consciousness after being decapitated; he looked at that face, his eyes gradually dimming.
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