Chapter 156: That Young Man (1/2)
'Her daughter? The Spectre is her daughter?' Calvin stared at the old woman in shock. Finally, pieces were starting to fall into place.
'So that was the reason why she wasn't trying to hurt the old woman earlier...'
'But if it is really the truth, then what was the old woman so afraid of?'
'Is she afraid of the Village of Tulog?'
Calvin furrowed his eyebrows.
The enclosed circle-shaped fence system surrounding the Village of Tulog made it so that the place was pretty much secluded from the outside world.
But this seclusion also meant that it wouldn't be easy for them to harm anyone outside of the Village since understandably, there was only one single exit where they would be coming from and that was pretty far from where these two wooden huts were located.
Calvin stared at the old woman and said, ”She's your daughter?”
”Oh, I'm sorry...”
”I have no idea that she was related to you...”
”Well, I guess, I could see it since she does resemble your beauty. But anyway, everything was just a huge misunderstanding. I heard you screaming earlier, so I thought that someone out there was here to harm you, and since she just suddenly appeared...”
”I assumed that she was the one that made you scream like that.”
”Please calm down, madame... My intentions are pure and I bear no harm...”
Calvin had already dissipated the Emperor's Veil and the suffocating air, detectable only to those beings attributed with evil had disappeared.
The half-bodied woman didn't seem to be that agitated anymore.
She had calmed down as the old woman was giving her a tight embrace.
Eventually, she turned to look at Calvin and eyed him from top to bottom.
It seemed that she had recognized that everything was indeed just a misunderstanding, so she finally calmed down.
”What do you want?”
But the question that she asked first was riddled with nothing but coldness.
”Why did you even come here?”
”Seeing that you managed to almost harm my daughter, you are not just an ordinary adventurer.”
The old woman's eyes were strangely full of clarity at this moment.
Calvin turned serious.
”Madame...”
”Yes, I am not just an ordinary adventurer.”
”I came here to visit the Village of Tulog and cleanse the village from the curse of sleeplessness...”
He took out the Mission Order from his chest pocket and opened it in front of the old woman.
”I am a Soldier from one of the three Judiciaries, specifically the Cavaliers.”
”I see...”
”So you are a believer of the Goddess of Compassion and Light.”
The old woman let out a sigh, ”Perhaps it is better if I told you everything.”
Calvin took a sharp breath, ”May I take a guess first, Madame?”
”Oh?” Surprised, the old woman stared at Calvin with complicated emotions on her face, ”It seems that you are also quite smart, despite being only a Soldier in one of the three Judiciaries. Go on, guess... I'll tell you if you are right.”
”I've noticed some clues earlier, but I've only confirmed it just now.”
”Madame.”
”You...”
”You're also a Spectre, right?”
”Just like your daughter?”
The old woman stared at Calvin in shock. A smile spread across her lips as her body slowly turned transparent. Then, at the very next moment, her lower body detached from her upper body and dissipated into innumerable light crystals. It turned out that the daughter was not the only Aswang...
But mother and daughter were Aswangs!
Calvin's pupils constricted from the shock.
He had predicted the old woman to be a Spectre due to the fact that she was able to touch a Spectre despite being supposedly a human. He had noticed that the old woman didn't seem to have the Vision of a Predator, so to be able to touch a Spectre. She must also be a Spectre herself!
”Madame Liz...”
”You must've noticed the talisman placed in your hut despite it being no one to be protected in there. Well, since you must be knowledgeable about Specters. I don't think that I should explain to you why there was a talisman in that room now that you know that I am an Aswang, right?”
”Ah! Are you saying that...”
”Yes, it is exactly what you think it is.”
Calvin fell silent.
He had to take a moment to process this information that he had just received.
Specters were beings that needed the nutrition of other Specters to involve.
In short, to become even powerful.
A Specter must consume.
Madame Liz was basically saying that she placed that talisman of protection in that wooden hut so that she could protect her vulnerable lower body that any Specter could easily snack on if it was left unattended.
But where was her lower body located?
Simple, it was inside the stone bed.
Her lower body must be inside the stone bed in the wooden hut where Calvin stayed earlier.
Then, did that mean that...
Calvin looked up to Madame Liz and she shook her head before saying.
”I know what you are thinking.”
”My daughter's lower body must be inside my own stone bed. That is what you are thinking, right?”
”But no.”
”You are wrong.”