Who doesn't have some means of [Memory]?

This action thoroughly frightened the sole conscious big man, but he neither screamed nor ran away. Instead, he clamped a hand tightly over his mouth and fell back to the floor with a rigid body, attempting to play the part of an innocent person scared half to death right in front of Cheng Shi, the executioner, in a display of self-deception.

The Blind Man frowned deeply as she watched this, not because she was averse to killing, but because she could not fathom why Cheng Shi had insisted on killing the man.

Yet the scene that followed genuinely left her somewhat surprised.

She saw Cheng Shi pull a stark white Finger Bone Brooch from his breast, then gently tap the deceased Yadelik with it. Yadelik's corpse snapped its eyes back open with a swish, and a pale green glow welled up within them.

"Look, memories are not the only things that understand memory; death knows a little bit as well."

Seeing the Blind Man frown in confusion, Cheng Shi offered a mysterious smile, the corners of his mouth curling upward as he asked Yadelik's corpse:

"What is your relationship with the lady you beat?"

The corpse sat up, its form swaying, and replied with a hoarse, spine-chilling voice:

"Aromani... is my... wife... she is the other half... of my beloved... I cannot endure... her behind my back... committing this scandalous deed... that desecrates our love... I cannot accept it..."

Here it was!

When Cheng Shi heard the dead Yadelik actually state that he and the woman in the shack were husband and wife, a sharp light flashed repeatedly in his eyes. He immediately turned around, dragged the big man who had been feigning unconsciousness back up, and asked with severe, word-for-word seriousness:

"Are you certain Yadelik has no wife?"

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