You'd Better Not Get Your Hopes Up

Everything around was silent.

That female ghost stood stiffly on the spot.

The danger level, which had already soared to 99%, instantly plummeted to 50%.

"Huh?" The female ghost looked dazed.

Lynn coughed with some embarrassment and said, "Sorry, Big Sister, when you suddenly leaned in like that, it really made me want to kiss you. Please forgive my rudeness, because you are simply too much to my aesthetic."

The female ghost looked dazed and said, "To your... aesthetic?"

Drop after drop of viscous liquid dripped from the split in her face.

Foul-smelling tentacles and barbs looked like something out of a horror movie.

Lynn clutched his thumping, pounding heart and said with an old, slightly blushing face, "That's right... Ever since I was a kid, I've had a deep admiration for girls with good teeth and tentacles..."

He reached out, grabbed two viscous tentacles dangling from the split, and stroked them right through the slime.

"Especially the sticky Big Sister type, you really exist in my heart like the white moonlight."

The female ghost looked dazed and said, "Uh..."

Something was wrong!

This human was a bit wrong!

Why was he so calm when she showed her perfect appearance, but when she revealed her terrifying face, he got even more excited?!

Lynn stroked those sticky tentacles with a (*๓´╰╯`๓) expression.

Time seemed to freeze in place.

But right at that moment, Lynn's movements suddenly stopped, and his brow furrowed.

The female ghost reacted immediately, narrowing her eyes with a cold smile. "What's wrong? Didn't you really like sticky Big Sisters with good teeth?"

[Danger Level: 70%]

Lynn said with a serious expression, "I've noticed a few issues. Big Sister, do you not pay much attention to oral hygiene on a regular basis?"

The female ghost looked dazed and said, "What business is it of yours?"

Lynn suddenly stood up and said deeply, "That's where you're wrong. As a beautiful lady, how can you allow yourself to have any flaws? I think you are in dire need of an exquisite maintenance treatment, Big Sister!"

"And I happen to be a professional who excels at giving others maintenance."

The female ghost looked dazed and said, "Uh..."

A few minutes later.

Lynn looked with satisfaction at the female ghost in front of him, who now sported a set of dazzling, gleaming white teeth. He took out a small bottle of breath-freshening potion and sprayed it across her teeth with a pfft pfft.

"Do you feel like your breath has suddenly become much fresher now?"

Lynn produced a mirror and placed it in front of her with a smiling, encouraging expression.

Looking at the barbs inside her dazzling, gleaming split and the fresh tentacles in the mirror, she wore a dazed expression.

In fact.

Throughout these past few minutes, her brain had essentially been in a state of system crash.

Because something was wrong!

The direction this was heading was completely different from what she had imagined!

Not only was he not scared, but he had even given her a dental maintenance treatment with an encouraging expression...

Was this the reaction a normal human should have?

According to the normal script.

Shouldn't you immediately scream in terror and run away with pissing pants?

Something was wrong!

This human was wrong!

Clack clack clack-

The woman reached out, forcefully pulling her split face back together to restore her previous glamorous, mature-woman human image.

Slap-

She slammed her hand down on the counter and said coldly,

"Stop giving me your slick-tongued nonsense, I came to you for serious business today. Speak! Did you perform surgery on a Pighead Demon yesterday?"

[Danger Level: 71%]

Lynn pondered for a moment and said, "I did."

The female ghost narrowed her eyes and sneered, "You operated on him, and you dug an infant out of his stomach, didn't you?"

Lynn's mind instantly conjured the image of the Ghost Infant.

"May I ask who you are?"

The female ghost said with murderous intent, "I'm his mother."

Lynn: "!!!"

This was definitely something Lynn had never expected.

Because there was simply no way for him to connect that breakdown-prone Ghost Infant with the female ghost standing before him.

Lynn stared and said, "Calm down, please calm down. I'm just very puzzled-how could a beautiful lady like you take a fancy to that Pighead Demon? And even if you did, shouldn't you have been the one to give birth to it?"

The woman sneered and said, "Don't play dumb with me."

"You know exactly what the situation is. He should have told you-a month ago he ate a little ghost, and quite uncoincidentally, that little ghost was a piece that fell off of me."

"Since it took form, then I am its mother."

Lynn: "!!!"

Lynn forced himself to steady his emotions and probed:

"Then, Madam, why have you come here..."

The woman sneered as she licked her crimson lips. "Naturally, to take back my own child. If I guessed correctly, my child should have already formed into a calamity monster by now, right?"

Lynn stared, stepping backward step by step.

"Uh, how should I put it..."

The woman's face split open once again in an instant, and foul-smelling slime constantly flowed all over her body.

Countless tentacles spread out from her hair with a rustling sound, and eyeball after eyeball grew out of her slender hands with a clack clack clack.

She sneered as she closed in on Lynn step by step, saying,

"Slaughter! Malice! Resentment! Evil!"

"My child possesses all the pleasure-bringing qualities that I possess. Since it has been born, it will definitely become a qualified hunter, bringing calamity and nightmares to everyone!"

[Danger Level: 81%]

[Danger Level: 91%]

Lynn retreated in a tremble, pressing against the medicine cabinet behind him; there was nowhere left to retreat.

"Madam, wait just a moment! How can you be certain that infant is your child? If you want to take it away, I think you should bring that Pighead Demon over to confront it face-to-face!"

Lynn urgently bought some time.

The woman sneered.

"Confrontation? Good! I'll have him confront you right now!"

With a retching sound, she instantly pried open her blood-soaked giant maw, accompanied by wave after wave of regurgitation.

A slime-covered pig head instantly dropped from her mouth onto the counter.

Thud-

The pig head, already nearly completely corroded away, stared straight at Lynn. Lynn recognized it at a glance-it was the very same Pighead Demon he had operated on yesterday!

Lynn: "(ΩДΩ)!!"

[Sanity Value -20!]

[Sanity Value -20!]

It was eaten!

That Pighead Demon had actually been eaten by this female ghost!

"Hand over my child immediately!"

The woman sneered as she approached step by step, countless tentacles writhing and surging around Lynn.

"Otherwise, I might consider sparing your life!"

Lynn pressed his back against the wall and said solemnly, "Hand it over! Of course I'll hand it over! It's just... well... your child might have a few tiny diff-..."

But right at that moment.

From behind the cloth curtain, the sound of tiny footsteps suddenly traveled over.

Lynn's heart skipped a beat.

The female ghost immediately raised her head, sensing the aura. A cold sneer instantly bloomed across her face as she said,

"It seems my child has heard the noise and is coming over. Heh-heh-heh..."

She ignored Lynn entirely.

Turning around to face the cloth curtain, countless tentacles writhed wildly around her, and the smile on her face grew increasingly chaotic and distorted.

"Just let me take a look at what my child has turned into. Is it an unnamable distortion? Or a taboo evil ghost rolling in malice? I really am looking forward to this! Heh-heh-heh-heh-"

Lynn swallowed hard, staring as he said, "I think you'd better not get your hopes up, Madam!"

Because...

Because...