It was not merely a rebirth. The Withering of the Big Mary Rose in the Rose Garden might have had something to do with her.
After all, she had been reborn amid countless lush, vividly blooming Big Mary Roses.
Angel did not know exactly what had happened, but judging with the naked eye, she seemed to have absorbed the life energy of every rose against the tide, and only then did that bizarre transformation begin.
The reborn girl bore Big Mary Rose patterns all over her body. Her long dress, headdress, earrings, even the exposed skin of her shoulders and back—all were tattooed with vivid roses.
Even when she threw back her head and laughed wildly in celebration of her rebirth, Angel saw that her pupils and tongue piercing had turned into rose shapes.
After her unrestrained laughter, the rose-reborn girl's gaze slowly shifted toward the house. Her laughter faded, replaced by a twisted smile brimming with malice and sickly obsession.
With every step, a flower bloomed. The girl slowly walked into the house.
As the girl entered the house, the Box Garden underwent another drastic change.
The once ordinary-looking house was suddenly surrounded by countless thorny rose vines. Green vines bound the white walls and red tiles like ropes; the thorns pierced deep into the house, as though sucking its blood.
Before long, rosebuds appeared on the thorny vines, followed by roses blooming one after another in an endless succession.
At that point, the Box Garden no longer changed.
Or rather, changes were still occurring, but all of them were inside the house. Angel's viewpoint was fixed at this time, and he could not see what was happening within.
After waiting for a while, Angel ultimately gave up on continuing to spy and withdrew from the Birdcage viewpoint.
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