'Dead' Girl

Chapter 34: The 'Dead' Girl

Blood, slaughter, wails, death.

Nina stared blankly, like a puppet, at everything around her. She watched familiar faces fall to the ground, each breath filled with a sickening stench of blood.

"Why? Why did this happen? What did we do wrong?"

Upon arriving at a somewhat dilapidated house, Nina finally broke down. She pulled her hand away from Keith's and stumbled forward. Kneeling in the blood, Nina gently cradled the head in front of her. The innocent face still held an angelic smile, but now, that smile was frozen in the moment of death. Her skin, once radiant, had turned pale.

"Nina."

Keith, seeing Nina on the verge of collapse, instinctively crouched beside her, wanting to comfort her. But as he opened his mouth, no words came out. The head Nina held was that of Nina's only family.

It was a child who was always full of smiles. Even though she had lost her parents from a young age and only had her older sister, she always said she was happy every day. Every time Keith saw her, he would give her a big hug. Sometimes, she would secretly drag him to the street to buy her candy.

As payment, the little one said she would help Keith pursue her sister. However, the shy Keith would always deny it with a flushed face, but his actions were honest. Every time he visited, he would bring her favorite candies.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! What happened? Why did so many monsters suddenly appear!?"

The next second, Keith raised his fist and punched the ground again and again in anger. Even though the flesh and blood on his hand was already blurred, Keith seemed to feel nothing. Just seeing Nina crying beside him and the small body lying in a pool of blood in front of him, Keith's heart was filled with immense pain and regret.

He hated his own weakness. If, if, if he had been a little stronger, perhaps he could have saved Nina's sister before she was killed. Perhaps he could have prevented this tragedy. Instead of being like this now, powerless and venting.

"Keith, stop. Nini wouldn't want you to do this."

At this moment, a pair of slender arms tightly hugged Keith. Nina looked up, a smile on her face as she looked at Keith. However, Nina's smile now seemed so sad. Although she was smiling, tears streamed down her cheeks and onto Keith's shoulder.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry Nina, if only I were stronger."

"No, Keith, it's I who should apologize. I'm the older sister, yet I couldn't protect my sister."

After speaking, Nina released her arms from Keith and stood up unsteadily. She walked to her sister's corpse, reached out, and lifted the body, then placed the detached head back on top.

"Nini, sister has to go now, but don't worry, this time sister will take you with her. I'll never leave you alone at home again."

Nina looked at her sister in front of her, reaching out to gently stroke her pale skin. She seemed to see the sister who had waved goodbye to her with a cute smile at the door that morning. This time, she would never be separated from her sister again.

The next second, Nina took an incendiary agent from her backpack. After opening the cap, she poured it all over Nini's body. In the crimson flames, Nini's body slowly turned to ash. Nina, witnessing it all, still wore a smile, the flames reflected in her pupils.

A few seconds later, the flames dissipated, leaving only a pile of ashes. Nina gently collected her sister's ashes, then took out a small cloth bag, packed her sister's ashes into it, and hung it around her neck.

"Let's go, Keith, we need to find the Captain!"

Nina turned around, took out her bow and arrows, said to Keith, and walked towards the place where she and the Captain had agreed to meet. During their escape, Gordon and Tuka had gone to pick up Tuka's wife and son. As for Keith, he and Nina were supposed to pick up Nini, and they had a rendezvous point.

Once they picked up their respective families, they would escape the city through a secret sewer passage known only to their team. As for Gordon and Keith, one was a loner with no family, and the other's family lived in a village far from the city.

Half an hour later, Nina walked into a house carrying Keith, who was covered in blood and had half an arm severed. On their way, they were ambushed by Shadow Guards hiding in the shadows. Facing the sudden attack, to save Nina, Keith completely disregarded his own safety and desperately held back the Shadow Guard.

It was with this suicidal tenacity that when the Shadow Guard bit into his arm, Keith ruthlessly embraced the Shadow Guard's body and thrust the longsword in his right hand into the Shadow Guard's head. Nina, standing beside him, took the opportunity to shoot an arrow with an incendiary agent attached into the Shadow Guard's body.

At that moment, with sheer grit, Keith forcefully tore off his arm that had been bitten by the Shadow Guard. In the last second before the incendiary agent took effect, Keith was successfully pulled away by Nina. Afterward, Nina carried the unconscious and heavily bleeding Keith to the meeting point.

"Captain!"

As soon as Nina entered the house, she saw Tuka and his family inside, looking anxious. As for Gordon, the moment Nina entered, he had already taken Keith from her back and begun bandaging and treating him.

"Nina, you're finally back. What happened to that kid Keith? And where is Nini?"

Tuka rushed to Nina. He had just arrived with his family and Gordon. Upon arriving and finding Nina and Keith missing, Tuka knew something had happened because the meeting point wasn't too far from Nina.

Therefore, Tuka intended to have Gordon protect his family while he immediately went out to rescue Keith and Nina. Just then, Nina returned, carrying the unconscious Keith on her back.

"We encountered monsters when we arrived. Keith forcefully held one back to protect me. As for Nini, she's here."

Saying that, Nina raised her hand and patted the area on her chest. Seeing this, Tuka's face couldn't help but show a hint of heartache and sadness, because he knew that the little one named Nini, who always called him "Uncle Big Beard" every time they met, was already dead.

Tuka didn't know how to comfort Nina, who had lost her only family.

"Captain, don't worry, I'm fine."

Nina looked at her hesitant Captain and gently patted his shoulder, indicating she was alright. After all, she hadn't avenged her sister yet. She hadn't killed all those damned monsters. How could she have time for grief? The flames of revenge were constantly burning in her soul.

After personally burning her sister's body and watching it turn to ashes, the former Nina had died. The only one alive was a witch seeking revenge for her sister.

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