Chapter 1810: Chapter 1035: Going Home
Yang Xiao nodded. He couldn’t take Sato Shouta home, but he wanted to visit Sato Shouta’s home, to see his mother, and see what he could do for him.
"You don’t need to blame yourself. It’s not related to you. Actually, we don’t need to tell them the truth, which can also avoid these troubles."
"As long as we bring them in tonight and give them a fake target, making them think they can survive, they will be happy to become our Substitute Death." Jiu Shan Sha Yue said.
Yang Xiao shook his head, "There’s no need for that, they’re already very pitiable."
Looking at the two corpses on the bed, Jiu Shan Sha Yue felt complicated: "I don’t really care, but we might have a little trouble tonight."
"There will be no trouble. The original plan remains unchanged. You just go to the seaside, and I’ll take care of the rest." Yang Xiao said calmly.
He had promised Jiushan Cangxuan to keep Jiu Shan Sha Yue alive, and he would definitely do it, but Sato Shouta was already dead, and Yang Xiao didn’t want him to be cruelly tortured by the female ghost before he died.
Although Nishimura Yuna was not familiar with him, Yang Xiao did not want to drag her into the Ghost Dream either. Ending their lives with sedatives was the most merciful way Yang Xiao could think of.
Stepping back, as long as someone enters the Ghost Dream with them tonight, it would add more variables, and at such moments, their own people are more reliable.
"Yang Xiao, you’re not a qualified Samurai, but you are a qualified friend. What I want to tell you is, I, Jiu Shan Sha Yue, am not someone who fears death or pain. It’s just that this mission is crucial to my family, so I must be the one to break the impasse." Jiu Shan Sha Yue bowed slightly to Yang Xiao, "I’m sorry!"
"This is the agreement I made with Jiushan Cangxuan, the Family Head, I will fulfill my promise. Besides... I still have some things I must do." Yang Xiao looked at Sato Shouta’s corpse, eyes filled with determination.
After confirming that both Sato Shouta and Nishimura Yuna had lost all signs of life, Jiu Shan Sha Yue left with Yang Xiao. Staying here and looking at Sato Shouta’s body would only evoke Yang Xiao’s memories.
The two arrived at the hotel lobby on the first floor, which looked more spacious. Here, Yang Xiao felt a little less oppressed.
Jiu Shan Sha Yue wasn’t someone who knew how to comfort others. No one had taught her these things during her upbringing; she was born to be cultivated as a tool. Over ten years, she had been forged into the sharpest blade of the Jiu Mountain Family, recognizing only loyalty and strength.
She had almost no friends, only the Swordswoman Xingzi was with her, but those despicable fellows actually took Xingzi’s life.
Yang Xiao sat on the tattered sofa, opened a chocolate wrapper, broke off a piece, and put it in his mouth, chewing silently. The scene of Sato Shouta giving him chocolate for the first time was still vivid in his mind.
This damned Nightmare World had taken too many innocent lives. He still remembered the light in Sato Shouta’s eyes. He had placed all his hope and trust in him, hoping that he could take him home.
Rubbing his face hard, Yang Xiao forced himself to pull himself together. The nightmare wasn’t over yet; he had more important tasks to complete tonight.
Before leaving, he could still do something for Sato Shouta, things that he couldn’t imagine and dared not do.
"Yang Xiao, look over there!" Suddenly, Jiu Shan Sha Yue called out from near the service desk.
As Yang Xiao turned around, he saw a few car lights outside, with several cars lined up, driving along the path, finally stopping about tens of meters from the hotel’s main entrance.
As the cars parked steadily, the headlights were turned off one by one, and the night regained its tranquility.
"It’s those gang members. They’re going to make a move on us," Jiu Shan Sha Yue looked outside through the hotel’s glass door.
"Yes, but not now. When day breaks, the 7-day period will be up. By then, whether we’ve completed the task or not, they will kill us. That’s the scripted plan." It was nothing surprising, something they had anticipated long before, just didn’t expect them to come so quickly.
Ignoring the gang members waiting outside the hotel to kill and silence them, Yang Xiao and Jiu Shan Sha Yue waited until past ten at night, finally encountering the child ghost that came to scare them, only this time it was very calm.
No matter how the child ghost threw a tantrum, Yang Xiao and Jiu Shan Sha Yue almost didn’t react. The child ghost appeared in the cabinet in front of Jiu Shan Sha Yue, pounding the tightly closed cabinet door with a "bang, bang" sound.
While Jiu Shan Sha Yue sat on the chair, impatiently resting her legs on the cabinet to hold it down.
After a while of fuss, the child ghost, getting no response, left. And it was at this moment, Jiu Shan Sha Yue discovered something unusual.
On the hotel’s glass door, a faint silhouette was reflected.
The silhouette was very blurry, only roughly discernible as a woman from the physique. The woman had her hands clasped together, facing Yang Xiao’s direction, and her chin moved as if she were speaking.
But soon, in just the blink of an eye, the woman disappeared.
Jiu Shan Sha Yue quickly ran to the glass door, carefully observing again, using the glass’s reflection to check each corner of the hotel lobby, but no longer found the woman’s... no, the female ghost’s shadow!
That figure was undoubtedly the female ghost. She came, and just now cast a Curse on Yang Xiao!
The commotion on Jiu Shan Sha Yue’s side also alerted Yang Xiao. Jiu Shan Sha Yue quickly explained the situation.
Yang Xiao’s judgment was consistent with Jiu Shan Sha Yue’s; this was definitely the curse-casting female ghost, the so-called Village Guardian Tide Woman, Puchuan Xiaoman.
