Blue Chenguang's sudden kneel took everyone by surprise. Everyone had been watching Anna, but now they all turned to look at Blue Chenguang.
He looked even more miserable than Anna, his entire face twisted in agony.
Then I realized his face really was twisting.
The features on his face crowded into the left half, while his right cheek bulged like a balloon. The swollen skin suddenly split, revealing an eye. Then an ear, a mouth, and a nose appeared one after another.
The extra face glanced sideways at Blue Chenguang, as if watching him. It kept pushing farther out, sprouting more parts: short black hair, a slender neck, collarbones, shoulders...
With a ripping sound, Blue Chenguang's back split open. His clothes tore, becoming rags hanging from his body. A pair of arms unfolded behind him. Another person's body bulged out from his back, more complete than the face, and joined to Blue Chenguang like a conjoined twin.
"Ha, ha—" The person behind him gasped, his voice brimming with joy and relief.
The person growing out of Blue Chenguang's face had sprouted hands, which pressed against the ground to support his increasingly large body.
Blue Chenguang howled in pain, the veins on his body standing out.
He tightened his grip on the dagger. His hand trembled, but he swung it upward in a quick, vicious backhand strike without the slightest hesitation.
The dagger could cut through iron as easily as mud.
I felt only a faint gust of wind. Then everything before my eyes turned red.
The person growing out of Blue Chenguang's face screamed. The lower half of his body lay severed on the ground, bleeding profusely. Blue Chenguang's cheek had become a gaping wound, blood pouring out. With a few wet splats, intestines tumbled from the opening, mixing with