"You... are already dead."
Ye Chen spoke this cruel truth directly to the Daig Family.
The old man immediately went stiff as a wooden chicken, his blank expression making him look as though his soul had suddenly left his body.
The children were at a complete loss, clutching the toys in their arms, their eyes brimming with terror.
The little shack fell silent, with only the fire pit still hissing as it burned.
However, that silence was soon broken by another abrupt voice.
"That's right. They died long ago."
The Daig Family turned toward the source of the voice, only to discover in horror that, at some unknown point, a man in a pitch-black trench coat had appeared in a corner of their living room.
He was the mayor of this city, the master of this world—the Butcher Hunter, Jietisikoki.
Faced with the sudden appearance of this cruel executioner, Ye Chen's grief immediately turned to anger. He rose to his feet and shielded the old man and children behind him.
Ye Chen remembered it clearly. In the previous cycle, Jietisikoki had not even had time to defend himself before his body was exposed to the savage, violent blood-red lightning strike, meeting a fate of mutual destruction with Ye Chen.
Yet at this very moment, the man standing before the young man was completely intact, without even the slightest sign of injury, as if everything that had happened before had been nothing more than Ye Chen's dream.
However, the young man knew very well that this was absolutely not the case.
This man had truly died, and then truly come back to life.
Just like Ye Chen himself, standing here now.
At that thought, Ye Chen's face grew grave.
Jietisikoki, on the other hand, acted as though nothing had happened. He