On the stairs.
Bai Yi followed fearfully beside Lynn. Watching Lynn carry the Chainsaw on his shoulder (*￣︶￣), he finally swallowed and asked, wide-eyed:
"B-big bro, can I ask you something?"
"Go ahead."
Bai Yi asked nervously, "Didn't you say you were going to help that woman... that ghost? Why did you suddenly stab her again?"
The corner of Lynn's mouth lifted. He adjusted his Monocle and turned toward him.
"I lied to her."
Bai Yi: "(꒪Д꒪)ノ Huh?"
Lynn smiled faintly. "Because the commission I accepted was to cure Miss Alice of Happy Home. A deposit was paid for that."
"As for everyone else, of course I'll treat them if I can. I'm a doctor, after all. I can't leave an illness untreated. But once they're cured, they're enemies. Besides..."
Lynn rubbed his brow.
"She actually dared to make me eat that disgusting stuff!"
[Lynn's resentment +1]
Bai Yi went blank.
Th-this...
Why did the logic behind this feel so different from a normal person's?!
Why did you have to cure her first, then kill her? That was way too weird!
Bai Yi stared, swallowed, and asked, "Th-then that medicinal catalyst you mentioned earlier was..."
Lynn raised his head, glanced at him, and said:
"Ah, that's simple."
"Because that woman was lying. Nobody turns into a vengeful ghost for no reason, unless they were born a ghost. But since she was human, for her resentment to grow so powerful that she dragged the entire Old Castle down into this world with her..."
The corner of Lynn's mouth curled upward.
"There's a lot more to that story."
A kind and gentle father.
A loving, capable mother who kept her children well fed.
An older brother who never beat his little sister.
Ah!
What a happy family!
Lynn flashed Bai