Chapter 9: Let Out the Other Ji Lian Bing (2/2)

“Can I?” I knew exactly what she meant without any explanation.

Actually, we didn’t need to talk with other face to face like this. I knew all the things she thought while she could also see through me thoroughly.

When she turned around, that symbolic smile on her face showed up again. Unlike the smile I had, that was more like a mask instead of a real smile from the deep of her heart.

“I never thought you could hang in there... Aren’t you afraid of being in ‘this kind of place’ alone? How could you not be swallowed by the ‘abyss’? It seems that you have a stronger will power than I thought. Ha ha ha ha... Consider it as my award to you.”

“As long as I have love in my heart, I will survive at any place.”

“Is that right? That’s funny. What’s so good about that shy boy...” She was saying something against her will again.

She looked relaxed now, but actually she had only used those words to hide her true feelings. I thought she was just being dishonest to herself at some point.

“You know better than anybody the outstanding features about Cheng Jun. Am I right? Ha ha, after all we share memories and feelings together~ Do you think I don’t know about you rubbing the jade which was presented by him with great care everyday?”

“...”

She ignored my question? I would take that as a yes. Ho ho~

“Just leave now. I could finally stop hearing your jabbering. Quietness is always something I want.”

“Do you, do you want to get in there?” Would she go back to the place where I had stayed? No... I thought she would go to somewhere even deeper...

“Ha ha ha ha, this place suits me better than the outside world... For you, staying here is torture. But for me, it is enjoyment.”

“No... this... this place shouldn’t even exist.” This place was the common ‘pain’ for the two of us, the other half of our world which she pretended to ignore and forget on purpose.

This was the first time I overlooked the abyss under the ice layer from ‘this side’, which gave me an even more direct fear of ‘that side’.

There were lots of dead bodies in the gray and cold water.

Corpses were everywhere from the top to the bottom of the abyss. Most of them were bones and few were dead bodies. Some of the corpses were rotten while others were still fresh... Every time I wanted to approach the ice layer, they would be in the way.

I had been there the moment when she was born. So I was well aware of that place.

That was her... Ji Lian Bing. And those corpses were all the proofs of her paranoid... They showed the darkest and the dirtiest part of her.

“Shouldn’t exist? Hahaha...” She didn’t look back anymore and stepped into the water.

However, her feet didn’t get wet. There was a hand reaching out from the dirty water for her to step on.

“But, those are the parts which formed my ‘nature’...” From the gray and dark water surface, a throne which was piled up by skeletons was raised up by a lot of corpses.

She walked toward there breezily. Every step she walked landed on a hand. It seemed those hands were willing to be her pedal.

Unlike me who was a prisoner there, she was a queen. She loved the dead bodies and they adored her... I saw her sitting on the throne with her hands putting on the armrests which were made by skulls. Then she said to me with her legs crossed smilingly, “Lately, I was a bit too innocent... Being influenced by your excessively sweet thoughts, I have become weird.”

“Haven’t you become happier?”

“Happy...?” She didn’t refute me. I thought she was also in a trance right now.

“Anyway, you can take charge of my body now. All the things that happen outside have nothing to do with me. This will also help me go back to the beginning of myself.” She snapped her finger and those dead bodies began to sink the skeleton throne into the water.

And those human skeletons under the water all began to dance.

She still smiled gracefully.

“I... don’t admit this!” I stood up and shouted to her.

“You really don’t care if Cheng Jun will be taken away by other girls?”

“Cheng Jun... An Jun Cheng, I only want his dead body, not his love... So it’s none of my business with whom he will fool around with as long as I could have his dead body,” she said those words to me.

“Well, are you being jealous right now?”

“... If I really am jealous right now, do you think those bitches will still be alive?”

“So, you didn’t come here and change place with me because you could not restrain your murderous intention?”

“...” I had guessed right.

She still cared about Cheng Jun.

There were so many girls around Cheng Jun these days, so she was swallowed by her jealousy and almost had lost control of her homicidal intent.

However, she was also scared that if she killed those girls, Cheng Jun would dislike her and loath her. That was why she had fled here.

Since that was the case... I would take it from here!

“Hum, watch me using my feminine charm to get Cheng Jun back~”

“Hohohoho..., I’ll wait and see what will happen...”

I would let Cheng Jun be mad about me![Corpse Lover Homicidal Maniac]'s tranquility: Going down, kept going down... I closed my eyes and let my body drift down by itself... I wanted to have him... I wanted to have his dead body. I wanted him to look at me with his two hollow eye sockets. I wanted to... touch his skeletons with my bare hands.

I wanted so much... to hold his dead body in my arms... The skeleton throne collapsed. Then I lay flatly while dropping to the abyss.

It would be all right... I was still me, I was still Ji Lian Bing. The thing I had always been obsessed with never changed.

“Enjoy your last peaceful life as you wish...” I felt calmness in my heart. That was the life of the body... “I’m afraid you might be a scarier existence than me...” Jealousy, that could corrupt the bone.