What Kind of Monster Are You?!

Hana Ye, who was clutching her head, heard the sound too. Almost instinctively, she opened her eyes in a daze and looked up.

Then she immediately saw Lin En sitting on the bed with his head smashed to a pulp. He reached out, picked up his eyeball, and shoved it back into place with a series of crunches before turning to look at her.

"Can't you see I'm busy with something important? What did you follow me in here for?"

Hana Ye stared blankly.

Hic-

[Ding! Hana Ye's Sanity -50]

Hana Ye toppled backward, stiff as a board, her eyes rolling back as she fainted from fright.

"..."

Lin En froze, then his expression darkened.

"This idiot."

Then he turned to Shakira, who stood trembling, her entire body practically rooted to the spot.

He promptly slapped the bed repeatedly, saying with a (〃´皿`)q expression:

"All right! Enough already!! Get over here and keep going!! Even if you want to get creative, don't just interrupt the rhythm whenever you feel like it!! I've been waiting over ten minutes! Don't give up before we've even started!"

Shakira had gone completely rigid.

What she had witnessed was utterly beyond her understanding.

In an instant.

An utterly horrifying thought burst into her mind, a bizarre notion that sent terrified shudders through her entire body.

He didn't think she was trying to kill him-

He thought-she was still-

Spicing things up!

[Ding! Shakira's fear of you +50!]

She immediately began trembling and gasping, shudders running through her whole body. She instinctively backed away, staring in terror at the young man on the bed whose head had been smashed apart.

"How is this possible... How can you still..."

Everything she knew had almost been turned upside down.

In an instant.

An indescribable, overwhelming terror swept through her entire body.

She almost immediately thought of that possibility. Perhaps Lin Ke really was dead, and whoever had appeared before her today wasn't actually him, but...

"You're not my Lin Ke! What... what the hell are you?!"

Her scalp prickled, and an intense sense of unease gripped her.

Lin En sat on the bed and tilted his head.

"Huh? You finally figured it out?"

Lin En said nothing further. Instead, he stretched languidly, then put on his pants with his shattered head still perched on his neck. Under Shakira's horrified, trembling gaze, he reached into his pulped brain with a series of crunches, feeling around as though searching for something.

He found his other eyeball.

Pop-

He shoved the eyeball back into its socket.

[Ding! Shakira's Sanity -30]

He sighed.

"That's what I thought. Normally, when a couple's been together for three years, how could one of them fail to notice changes in the other? All I can say is that you're really oblivious. Or perhaps..."

Lin En faced her, a smile spreading across his shattered face.

"You weren't sure whether I'd really come back to life, so you tried your hardest to hide how scared you were. Is that it? After all, wasn't killing me again the whole reason you lured me here today? Hehehe."

Of course, Lin En had noticed something was wrong with her long ago.

Or rather.

The very first time they met at the school gates, his system had already given him a notification.

[Dread][Fear][Disbelief][Panic]

Those Emotional Fragments she had dropped.

They had already given her away completely.

It was just that she was such a good actress, so he had decided to play along. Of course, another, more important reason was-they were too big. How could an innocent young man like him possibly resist something that massive pressing close?!

╮(╯▽╰)╭

Shakira stared at him, trembling, veins bulging all over her body. Step by step, she backed away from this unknown abomination that resembled a counterfeit human.

"What kind of monster are you?! You... what did you do to my Lin Ke?!"

Lin En adjusted his eyeball and gave her a sidelong look.

"Lin Ke? Didn't your people kill him yesterday? Do you really need to ask me? And as for who I am..."

"Hehehehehe-"

Lin En mimicked her earlier laughter, watching her with a smile.

"You can call me Lin En."

"A... person who crossed over from another world."

Shakira's breathing grew rapid and frantic.

She had almost fully entered her [Transmutation] state. Her bones bulged, and her sharp nails had already extended half a foot. Yet even so, she still felt an indescribable fear of the unknown. That feeling made her tremble, especially at the horror displayed by the monster before her.

It was as though she were facing the natural enemy of every living creature.

Squelch-

She viciously bit the tip of her tongue, forcing herself to briefly break free of that fear.

"You possessed him?!"

Trembling, she cried frantically:

"You're an evil ghost living inside my Lin Ke's body?! You defiled him?!"

Lin En tilted his head and said:

"No, I'm not into men. But if you mean this body, then yes, it belongs to me now. Hehehehe."

In an instant.

She became a streak of blood-red lightning, unleashing her [Transmutation] to its fullest. Like a crazed female ghost, she launched herself at Lin En.

Squelch-

Her sharp claws plunged savagely straight through his chest.

"You monster! Get out of his body!!"

At that moment.

She unleashed a relentless barrage of attacks on Lin En, tearing up the crimson flesh all over his body.

But Lin En remained utterly motionless, still smiling.

The fear in her eyes deepened.

Because this was completely beyond anything she understood.

Then, almost in a flash, something occurred to her. If this was a spiritual Evil Spirit possessing him...

In an instant, her eyes turned as red as poppies. Without hesitation, she activated her second [Sequence], sending psychic power straight into his eyes.

"Heart Corrosion!"

This was her ability.

It was also the method she had used to control Loren. It could instantly amplify a particular emotion within someone's heart, severely disrupting and assaulting their mind.

Bzz-

A scarlet veil of light instantly enveloped Lin En's body and flooded into his mind.

In that fleeting moment, Lin En's body went still, and the smile on his face froze like plaster.

Shakira panted, a trace of murderous intent curling at the corners of her mouth.

"So, you aren't quite as... as I thought."

[Ding! Your happiness +1]

Lin En grinned, adjusted his eyeball, and said:

"Huh? Is this the trick you used to control that guy? You know, it's actually kind of interesting. Were you trying to amplify my [Fear] of you just now?"

In an instant.

Shakira's expression froze, overwhelming shock and terror suddenly filling her eyes.

"How?! That's impossible..."

Lin En watched her with a smile and said:

"Oh, that? Sorry, I built up a resistance ages ago. When I was up in the heavens, there was a woman who spent every day thinking up ways to kill me. She tried all sorts of tricks on me."

"If a little psychic ability like this could affect me, she would've caught me and turned me into barbecue long ago! (*≧▽≦)y"