Aldo Fairy Tales

As soon as Xixi finished speaking, the lamp in the room suddenly flickered, and then with a "bang," the bulb shattered.

The room, neither too big nor too small, was plunged into complete darkness, with only the teleportation array on the wall emitting a faint glow.

Yu Xing squinted in the darkness. His night vision was beyond human capabilities, allowing him to see everything clearly even under these conditions.

Therefore, he was fortunate enough to witness Xixi's transformation.

A girl's shadow began to twitch, and more and more arms gradually grew from her skin. At the same time, her body grew larger and larger, convulsing grotesquely, until she had to bend over to avoid hitting the ceiling.

The beautiful nightgown melted away little by little, Yu Xing felt a burning sensation slowly approaching him from a distance. He looked down slightly and saw that Xixi's dress and the silk on the sofa had mixed together and melted into a lava-like substance.

The lava is spreading, and it's estimated that in another five minutes it will cover the ground and turn Yu Xing to ashes.

Whether or not it can be done, that's probably Xixi's plan.

The heat was intense, and a deep, guttural growl escaped Xixi's throat, like that of some mad dog.

Yu Xing looked at the monster, which was only five or six times his size, and sighed softly.

"Daisy is actually a good mother, I think you know that too."

"But Xixi dislikes her so much during the day, don't you feel guilty?"

"What do you know? Hilarious, he's just a passerby, yet he's so arrogant." Xixi gave a genuine, cold laugh.

The next second, countless arms on her body whistled through the air and reached out to grab Yu Xing, each one reeking of blood.

Yu Xing felt death looming over him; he could tell that Xixi was extremely impatient with him.

He smiled and stood still, letting the arms grab his body from all sides.

These arms are much thicker than normal people's arms, and each one looks like it grew from a different person; some are fair and delicate, some are rough and weak, and some are dark and strong.

They all converged on Xixi's body, transforming into an unknown creature composed of a mass of arms.

After those arms grabbed Yu Xing, Xixi laughed excitedly. The arms exerted force together, trying to tear Yu Xing apart. The flowing "magma" on the ground also washed over Yu Xing's feet, burning and incinerating them.

"Turn into a pile of flesh and blood! I hate seeing living things in front of me!"

Yu Xing considered the force of Xixi's attack and shook her head regretfully. "Not very effective."

He raised his hand and pinched an arm, squeezing it with force until it was deformed. Xixi gasped in pain, but Yu Xing crushed the arm completely.

"You're not even as strong as a tree."

Yu Xing casually stomped on the ground again, making a crackling sound as she stepped on the scorching lava, "This isn't hot enough; it's nowhere near as hot as real lava."

"Although you are a very troublesome ghost, unfortunately, it ends here."

"... How is this possible? What are you?!" With all her attacks ineffective, Xixi finally showed a hint of panic. "What are you doing here?!"

"I already said, I came to see you in place of Daisy." Yu Xing looked Xixi over again for a moment, raising an eyebrow slightly. "But to be honest, I was originally just curious to see if there was any way for me to leave the hotel, but now I've decided to free Daisy and the other guests."

"Impossible!!" Xixi's face twisted in pain, and she tightened her grip even more. "I won't let you destroy my home! Mom is mine, and no one can... take her away!"

Her torso suddenly split open, revealing a huge vertical eye. Frenzied spiritual energy surged through the eye towards Yu Xing, who was standing close by. Yu Xing's eyes flashed. This time, she did not rely on the power of the curse to take the hit head-on. Instead, she used the darkness to let the power of the curse quietly emerge.

On the back of his hand, black tree-shaped patterns appeared for a moment, and the power of the curse gathered into a grid-like structure, blocking Yu Xing and effectively shutting out Xixi's spiritual power.

Then, Yu Xing didn't want to say anything more. He made a claw shape with one hand and, while Xixi's vertical eye was still exposed, he stabbed it straight into that big eye.

The texture felt a bit strange.

Before the eyeball could even move, it was pierced and shattered with a snap, and dark green fluid, somewhat sticky, flowed out.

Xixi let out a high-pitched scream, her arms loosened their grip on Yu Xing and flailed up and down, before she collapsed to her knees in agony.

"You're not even a combat-type ghost, so why are you so brave?" Yu Xing pressed her advantage, bending down and looking down at the monster. "You're not actually Xixi, are you?"

Even amidst excruciating pain, Xixi still responded to those words, screaming, "Of course I am!!"

"Tsk, it seems it really isn't." Yu Xing straightened up, stroking her chin with obvious boredom. "I originally thought that Xixi was the source of this hotel's curse, and that as long as she lived, she would prevent a group of guests, including Daisy, from leaving. Daisy loves her daughter too much and would rather the curse continue like this."

"And she didn't want her daughter to feel guilty, so even when Xixi was clearly unaware of what happened at night, Daisy wouldn't tell her, bearing the burden all alone."

During the day, Daisy has to deal with her daughter's misunderstandings; at night, Daisy has to take care of her monstrous, irrational daughter all by herself.

Kneeling down, Xixi clutched the enormous vertical eye on her chest and abdomen, remained silent for two seconds, and said in a muffled voice, "... You're right, that's how it is. Mom did it all for me, all the fault lies with me, I was too selfish. But, but what's wrong with that! I love Mom, and Mom loves me. I've willingly stayed in this shabby little house, and Mom has willingly come to keep me company every night. Why did you have to ruin all of this!? Just for those tenants?"

She forced her head up and glared fiercely at Yu Xing: "Are you such a busybody? Should I say you're aloof and the kindest person you are?"

"Your performance is much better now," Yu Xing exclaimed. "I knew it! You're not a combat-type ghost. You're definitely going for the swindling and cheating route."

Xixi: "... What do you mean?"

"It means that once I actually see you, I'll know that my previous guess was wrong." Yu Xing walked past Xixi and her arms scattered on the floor in the darkness, went straight to the sofa that looked pretty good, waved her hand to sweep the hot liquid flowing on the sofa down, and sat down with her legs crossed.

"You are not Xixi, you are just a cuckoo in someone else's nest. Your state is different from others. You are neither completely Ghostification like Little Rosie nor completely lucid like Calodi. You are not Xixi's monster form at night at all, but something else entirely." He reached out and touched a book that had been left on the sofa.

"You were reading 'Aldo Fairy Tales' before I came, weren't you?"

"Don't touch my books!" Xixi's voice was hoarse.

"You couldn't wait to smash the lamp as soon as I arrived, just so I wouldn't notice this book," Yu Xing said, casually flipping through it and discovering that it was full of dark stories about "backstabbing," "deception," and "seduction."

He even happened to turn to a page about a terrifying fairy tale about a doll replacing its owner.

"The story in this book is so similar to what you've been doing. Your thought process must be pretty much the same as the author's," he laughed. "Could it be that you're Aldo himself? Studying here every night..."

Xixi screamed wildly, "Put down my book! Don't touch my book!"

"I'd like to see if there are any stories about white-haired women. I always feel that without the system's interference, all the women on Dead Silent Island who replace the system are white-haired. In school, it's that white-haired female classmate, and in the hotel, it's Miss Mino... The first time I heard the words 'Aldo Fairy Tales' was when Miss Mino subtly reminded me of them during the day," Yu Xing said softly.