Chapter 114: I'm Going to Kill You
On Daffodil Street, the lady finally revealed her fangs. She didn't wait for Lu Ze to fully digest the "Listener" potion before she began to make her move.
"Follow you? Where to?"
Lu Ze asked, pretending to be alert.
In truth, he understood that Madam M's body could no longer hold out. Taking him away was for the purpose of performing a ritual to devour him and thus obtain his body.
Cecilia, standing to the side, looked over with a tense face, her hands clenched beneath the table, her knuckles white.
"Don't you already know?"
Madam M asked back with a smile. By this point, she no longer intended to hide anything. "Stand up. Don't waste time."
Her eyes flickered with a soul-captivating golden light, and her voice carried a power that brooked no doubt. Under the influence of this voice, Lu Ze's body involuntarily obeyed the command and rose from the sofa.
"Lu Ze!"
Cecilia called out in a low voice.
"Don't come over."
Lu Ze's body was out of his control, so he used his eyes to stop his sister, signaling that it wasn't yet time to act.
The illusory sound of ocean tides soon rang out, and he regained control over his body. However, he still put on an act of struggling hard, saying to Madam
M, "At least let my sister go. Otherwise, no matter what you want to do, I will resist with all my might."
"Sure."
Madam M said with a smile, acting as if she didn't care at all, or perhaps as if she had no intention of keeping her promise.
Lu Ze didn't believe for a second that she would keep her promise. He only said those words to perform the act of struggling and resisting, preventing Madam M from noticing anything unusual.
He didn't plan to start a fight here because the Klein family lived right next door. Any commotion would surely be noticed, and even if he could defeat Madam M, he wouldn't be able to remain a Nighthawks anymore. The place Madam M had chosen was very secluded; going there would also cause her to lower her guard.
"Goodbye, Cecilia. Take care of yourself from now on."
He spoke softly to his sister, making a gesture of farewell. In reality, the two siblings had long since discussed it. After Lu Ze left, Cecilia would quietly follow behind and sneak into the house Madam M had prepared to look for an opportunity to assassinate her.
Lu Ze followed Madam M out of the gate of Number 6 Daffodil Street. By now, the sky had already darkened. He glanced at his first home in this world, then looked at the glass of Number 2 next door where a warm light was shining, before turning to walk into the Darkness.
East Borough, inside a certain house.
The floor was already covered in blood-colored patterns, forming a complete magic circle. The circle had two cores, which were the positions where he and Madam M were to stand. No lights were on in the house, nor were any candles lit. Only the crimson moonlight shone in, reflecting off the bright red and profane patterns on the floor,
making it look exceptionally eerie.
"Drink it."
Madam M produced a bottle of liquid from somewhere and displayed it to Lu Ze.
"Is this the Shadow Ascetic potion?"
Lu Ze glanced at the bottle, sensing something ominous from within. Cecilia had been running errands for Madam M recently, and the materials she collected were likely meant to create this thing. However, Lu Ze did not know the effects of this bottle; there was no relevant explanation in the potion knowledge of a Secrets Supplicant.
"I said, drink it."
Madam M's tone grew heavier, and her eyes held an urgent look.
"Hmm, to drink or not to drink..."
Lu Ze laughed provocatively. At this moment, he no longer had any misgivings. Ever since Madam M arrived in Tingen, he had been coerced by her. Now that he was finally about to be free, according to his malicious personality, he naturally had to get his revenge!
Madam M gave him a cold look.
"Ugh!"
Sharp pain immediately radiated from Lu Ze's abdomen; Madam M's flesh was torturing his internal organs. He was so pained he couldn't straighten his back, yet his face still wore a contemptuous smile as he looked up at her, refusing to back down... "Lu Ze rondall, have you finally gone mad?"
His attitude made Madam M extremely displeased, so she increased the force several times over and asked in a pleasant yet cruel voice.
"Aaah!"
Lu Ze began to wail, rolling on the floor in pain. He scratched at the floorboards until his nail beds split and bled, and he bit the back of his hand until it was bloody and the skin was mangled, yet he could not stop.
"Don't forget, your sister's life is still in my hands."
Madam M waited until he lost his strength and lay paralyzed on the floor, unable to move, before she stopped the torture. She leaned down and, like a Mother treating a fallen child, tenderly held him, stroking his handsome yet deathly pale face as she held the bottle to his lips.
"Drink it, and it won't be so painful anymore."
She said enticingly, her eyes flashing with golden light.
And so, like an obedient child, Lu Ze submissively opened his mouth and leaned in..:
Then, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Madam M with absolute malice.
"Drink it yourself."
Lu Ze said, spitting out a piece of bloody flesh from his mouth onto Madam M.
"Enlightenment!"
His mouth was covered in blood, and his face was deathly pale. Only the malice in his eyes was vivid and overflowing as he shouted the mysterious phonetics in ancient hermes.
The Hidden Sage's charm!
That human-skin charm buried under the skin on the back of his hand had been bitten out by him while he feigned a struggle and held in his mouth. At such close range, it was released while she was caught off guard.
Lu Ze had already infused his spirituality into it beforehand, and the moment he spat it out, he recited the activation incantation. Thus, the human-skin charm began to shrink and melt in mid-air, eventually turning into pure energy that drilled into Madam M's head!
In an instant, a pair of cold, lashless eyes seemed to open in the void.
"Aaah!"
Madam M clutched her head with both hands and let out a shrill, ear-piercing scream. The Hidden Sage gazed upon her, and a massive amount of knowledge was being forcibly infused into her brain. Her ears became like trumpets, stretching out to both sides as if to receive even more information. Her hair,
and nails began to grow wildly as a result!
Lu Ze climbed up from the ground. He gave Madam M an indifferent glance and then pulled out a silver ritual dagger.
He raised the knife, pulled open his clothes to reveal his belly, aimed at his own abdomen, and stabbed in ruthlessly!
"Ugh!"
Lu Ze groaned in a low voice, his expression pained. However, he still struggled to keep his eyes wide, searching for something within his abdomen. Soon, the Secrets Supplicant's eyes allowed him to discover an anomaly somewhere in his belly. Gritting his teeth, he stabbed again to enlarge the wound, then reached in and fiercely tore out a piece of flesh covered in fine black hair.
"Squish—"
The flesh was pulled out, making a disgusting sound.
The flesh Madam M had buried in his body!
Taking advantage of the gap while she was being tormented by the charm, Lu Ze finally had the chance to pluck this damned thing out!
"Splat!"
Lu Ze smashed the still-wriggling lump of meat onto the ground and then stepped on it ruthlessly, grinding it back and forth until it became a meat pulp.
"I'm going to kill you, crazy woman."
He clutched his slowly healing wound and issued such a declaration to the still-wailing Madam M.