The energy in Hao Jingye's body dispersed. Just like Qiu Yu before him, he gradually dissolved into a pool of blood that flowed over the ice beneath their feet and vanished.
Jiang Yu reached out weakly, but caught nothing.
Sheng An remained rigid on one knee, utterly motionless.
Only halfway through Jia Guangliang's treatment, Qi Lingwu forced himself to his feet, walked over, and silently cradled her head against his chest.
At that moment, Jiang Yu and Sheng An were suffering the most.
Jiang Yu had killed Hao Jingye-and her Assistant Hao. The Assistant Hao who would cover her eyes to stop her from watching couples being intimate, who mocked her intelligence yet always cared about her, who would push up his glasses and outsmart everyone...
Sheng An's pain came from her own decision.
On the rooftop last night, Sheng An had said they would take a gamble. If they won, they could kill their greatest enemy-Hao Jingye.
Her stake had been Assistant Hao.
She had gambled that he still had a human side, that the Hao Jingye who had once been their teammate had been sincere, that he had always been their teammate and would help them.
Sheng An never turned her blade on her teammates, but this gamble had meant killing one.
Killing M had also killed Assistant Hao.
Xiang Hanshuang murmured, "Why did he turn into blood too?"
Qiu Yu had turned into blood because the Fragments embedded in her body had drained her blood and energy. But what about Hao Jingye?
Ruan Zifeng approached the black cloak left behind and looked at the blood covering the ground.
After a moment, he sighed softly. "Because his Assistant Hao side revealed itself. He wasn't entirely Otherkind, and he wanted to die... The Fragments reclaimed their energy."
Xiang Hanshuang