50 ChunHuas Visit 4 (1/2)
Black felt his blood run cold upon hearing Hongyue's words. He immediately nodded and watched as Hongyue smiled, her eyes however still flared dangerously. Much too dangerous, Black thought. He didn't want to stay here any longer; however, he wasn't able to move his feet at all. He exerted his strength to no avail; it was like his limbs were dead weights. Black stared at Hongyue dismayed. What spell did she use? How was it this powerful?
Hongyue, however, paid him no attention. Her eyes were concentrated on ChunHua who was running awkwardly on her feet. The corpse of the fourth madam chased closely behind. Hongyue scowled, she wasn't going to perform a 'chase and catch game.' It would be a waste of her energy and time. Hongyue twirled her fingers, and the corpse abruptly rushed forth, its speed enhanced dramatically.
ChunHua, on the other hand, was quite out of breath. Her mind was loaded with questions. Why?! Why wasn't Fourth Madam dead? Was it a ghost? But how was that possible? ChunHua narrowed her eyes. Could it be someone in disguise deliberately scaring her? Within minutes, ChunHua no longer had the time to think nor the energy to yell out for help. Her elemental power was based on earth: a more defensive ability and because of that, ChunHua wasn't at all used to scrambling around this much. Finally, approaching her limit, she spun around, standing her ground.
Quickly chanting out a spell, she manipulated nearby stones to reshape into sharp darts and launched them directly at the corpse. The stones stuck into the flesh of the body, but it did nothing to hinder it. ChunHua paled. It actually was a dead body?!! This was REAL?! How was this possible?! What should she do? ChunHua swayed, her mind slowly breaking. She didn't want to die.
”Fourth Aunt, please spare me..please. I-I didn't intend to kill you..spare me,” ChunHua quickly changed to plead, her eyes flowing with tears.
The body proceeded to move forth.
”I-it's me, ChunHua. Mother was the one who told met-,” ChunHua stopped short as the body stopped in place. Believing the dead fourth madam stopped because of what she said, ChunHua was fueled with hope and quickly started spilling out the truth for her life. She inched up closer to the dead body and slammed her head down in the dirt in pleading. Fourth Aunt always forgave her as long as she apologized, it wouldn't be any different even if she died, ChunHua thought.
”It was Mother....all Mother. I was worried that you might get in trouble, but it's Mother who insisted that I continued on with the plan. She said it didn't matter if you died or not because you adore me. Fourth Aunt, you still love me right? You can't bear to kill me right? If you love me, you should forgive me. Just forgive me this one time, I'll burn ghost money for you so that you can rest in peace. O-okay?” ChunHua's voice shook the entire time, her head on the ground in hope,so she missed the flash in Hongyue's eyes.
'If you love me, you should forgive me.' The words uttered by ChunHua echoed in Hongyue's heart. Her hands curled up firmly, her nails digging into her skin. Hongyue laughed out bitterly, her voice cutting through the air.
ChunHua looked around wildly, her eyes finally landing on Hongyue. Hongyue stood there calmly, indifferent. It was almost like Hongyue was above the world, and nothing else mattered. Did that trash do this? No, if she could do this, how could she be trash?
”Y-you're not trash?” ChunHua choked out.
Hongyue didn't acknowledge her, but it was rather clear it didn't need to be explained. Instead, Hongyue came closer to ChunHua and for the first time, ChunHua felt fear striking into her soul. She could see the left peculiar dark blue eye that gleamed brightly along with a bloodthirsty black eye watching back at her. This can't be Hongyue! Who was this?! How did Hongyue get someone to look so much like her? ChunHua backed away in doubt; her appearance looked nothing like the overbearing second miss.