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Shelley directly pushed open the door to the dining room. He was just about to introduce Klara to the people inside when he was startled by the scene inside.
“What’s going on?”
The scene before him was extremely gloomy. The magnificent dining room was gone. In the center of the dark hall before him was an iron chair, with crimson bloodstains on it…
!!!
Bang, bang, bang.
A few sounds of iron chains hitting the ground came from the side of the door…
Ever since Nadia’s ascension to godhood, Shelley’s guard in Ir had always been in a relaxed state. At this time, he was startled by the sudden sound and looked in the direction of the sound…
“Shelley, Shelley, Shelley!”
Who’s there? Oh? It’s actually a white ghost? Hmm… why is it Catherine?
He looked at the jumping Catherine with his mouth agape. He found that her face was pale, and with a white dress, she looked like a soul-reaping ghost.
Catherine, without a word, ran toward Shelley with all her might, holding two shining, serrated knives in her hands…
At the beginning, Shelley was still wondering why she was charging at him… but gradually, he looked at the approaching Catherine, the posture of her holding the knives, and the eager excitement in her eyes…
Danger! There’s danger! Run, fucking run.
Clang.
Shelley had just turned around when he found that the door was tightly closed.
“Elena?”
He found that Elena had rushed out from behind the door with a smug look and had closed it tightly.
What are you doing here?
In the moment Shelley was stunned, a small figure rushed out from the other side of the door and hugged Shelley’s waist tightly.
“Cough, cough. Erica.”
“You… what are you trying to do?”
Catherine, Elena, and Erica, these three legendary melee fighters, formed a triangle and locked Shelley tightly.
Looking at the three of them, who were approaching step by step with an oppressive air, Shelley’s mind was racing.
“Have I triggered the yandere ending?”
What’s going on?
“No! I have to run first.”
With his extremely high physical fitness and his former legendary rogue’s experience, Shelley rushed through the gap between Erica and Catherine in the nick of time.
“Nige-rundayo.”
He fled, they chased. They were all unable to escape.
Shelley: I’ll run first and then… uh?
“Grease.”
While running, a large patch of slippery grease suddenly appeared on the ground under Shelley’s feet, making the high-speed charging Shelley almost lose his balance.
But…
“This is too simple. It’s impossible to trap me.”
Shelley confidently adapted and was about to continue to escape…
“Nani?”
Coincidentally, Shelley’s right leg had a cramp while he was trying to find his balance.
A cramp.
“Ah, how could this be?”
The blessing of the Twin Fates.
Although Shelley had maintained his balance in a very short time, his momentary daze was not missed by the person who was hiding in the dark.
“Web.”
Seemingly slender spider webs appeared on Shelley’s legs, and then his legs were tightly bound.
“Ugh.”
“Is this the end…”
Although so far, Shelley still hadn’t realized why he was heading toward a yandere ending…
A tragic piece of music came from Shelley’s side. He turned to look over there and found that Rui was plucking a huge harp that was taller than her.
Finding that Shelley was looking over, Rui revealed a brilliant smile and moved her cat ears and tail.
“Have you betrayed me too?”
Just then, a familiar footstep came from behind him. This gentle, almost silent footstep, only one person had this habit…
“Lilith, save me.”
He looked back at Lilith pitifully. Shelley hoped that Lilith was still on his side…
Lilith, behind him, enjoyed Shelley’s pitiful expression, suddenly revealed a brilliant smile, and pushed Shelley.
“Aaaaaaaah!”
The powerless Shelley just slid along the grease to the middle of the hall and then fell into a prepared chair and sat down.
Click.
Feeling that he could still be saved, Shelley was just about to struggle…
“Alter Reality!”
A powerful pressure was applied to Shelley’s body, directly pressing him back.
???
Nadia!
Shelley let out a silent roar, a painful wail.
A familiar chuckle, he remembered from behind Shelley’s ear, and then Shelley’s eyes were covered by a pair of hands…
In the last moment of his vision, Shelley looked at Catherine, who was holding a knife, and brought the serrated knife stained with red blood to his face…
“It’s over…”
The cold, serrated knife slid along Shelley’s cheek, and the greasy blood dripped on his face…
“Catherine, you’ve learned to be bad. You’re actually playing with your prey.”
That blood smelled sweet and fragrant. When it fell to the corner of his mouth, it was damn sweet…
“Uh? Hmm?”
Sweet?
Shelley licked the corner of his mouth, and his whole person was stunned…
“Raspberry?”
Why is it raspberry… where’s the blood?
Could it be…
“Heeheeheehee…”
“Pfft. Hahaha.”
In a series of silver-bell-like laughter, Shelley’s covered eyes were finally uncovered…
A snap of his fingers.
Everything before his eyes began to change. The gloomy and dark scene returned to a brightly lit dining room.
Melodious music sounded. Rui was happily playing a cheerful piece on her harp. Morgan also picked up her cello, looked at Shelley’s tragic state with amusement, and revealed a schadenfreude smile.
“Happy birthday!”
Birthday… whose birthday?
Shelley’s eyes slowly widened. His thoughts seemed to have suddenly returned to normal. It was as if a thin mist had been covering them before, and he couldn’t see clearly. Now he had suddenly reacted.
The chair he was sitting on was slowly turned. Shelley saw the huge cake behind him and Nadia in front of him. She was smiling gently, with a rare smugness and tsundere, and said to Shelley with a soft smile, “Of course, it’s yours.”
“My… birthday?”
Is it today?
Shelley looked at their brilliant smiles with some bewilderment and thought for a moment.
Has it been a year already?
Catherine, taking advantage of Shelley’s daze and no one seeing, secretly licked the raspberry jam on the serrated knife, her face full of happiness.
Lilith subconsciously wanted to hide in the shadows, but was caught by Erica beside her. She was stunned for a moment, then nodded, and they looked at Shelley together.
Elena hugged Shelley from behind, sharing the mountain-like weight on his head.
“Surprised? Unexpected?”
The character for immortal is one person and one mountain. Elena’s mountain is quite big. She can be considered an immortal.
Shelley said in a daze, “It’s very big…”
“Right? We put in a lot of effort.”
Catherine came over, pointed at the huge cake, and handed the clean, serrated cake knife to Shelley…
“Hurry up and cut it. I’m hungry.”
Licking the corner of her mouth guiltily, Catherine showed Shelley her most sincere and pure smile.
It’s fine. Hurry up and cut it.
