The Yellow-Haired Villain in Soaring Phoenix’s Novels Also Desires Happiness - Chapter 210
135, The Weeping Snake (II)
The blade pierced the heart.
Sally’s face still held a hint of confusion as she lowered her head, watching her heart being pierced by the one she loved, coughing up blood while tears of sorrow streamed down her cheeks.
“Mu En… why… is it me… did I do something wrong?”
“No, Sally, you did nothing wrong.”
Mu En gazed at her, letting out a gentle sigh, his eyes sweeping over her pitifully delicate face again and again. With his free hand, he softly caressed her pale, blood-stained cheek.
“If we are to speak of mistakes, the only one is that you, in fact, do not exist at all.”
“Not… exist?”
Sally still couldn’t grasp Mu En’s words. What does it mean to not exist? Am I… not me?
But at that moment, Mu En’s hand grasped her slender, heart-shaped face, and with a motion that seemed almost tender, he removed the ill-fitting black-framed glasses from her face.
In an instant.
The atmosphere shifted dramatically.
The candlelight flickered wildly, warmth dissipating, replaced in an instant by a chilling, ghostly cold.
The sumptuous feast on the table lost its allure, revealing a grotesque truth, as if the food had come from hell itself—something resembling monstrous entrails lay on the plates, with gaping, writhing mouths and several malicious eyes darting restlessly.
The once enchanting dining room transformed in the blink of an eye into a sinister haunt.
Yet Mu En paid no mind to that, his gaze fixed solely on Sally’s face.
That pretty face remained unchanged, not a bit different for the absence of the glasses, but with their removal, her aura had shifted entirely.
Innocence and cuteness vanished, revealing an alluring charm that was strikingly seductive.
And this beguiling essence, so deeply rooted, Mu En had only seen in one other person.
“Long time no see, Miss Succubus.”
Encountering an old acquaintance, Mu En naturally greeted her warmly.
He twisted the short knife in his hand with renewed force.
“You don’t look so well; have you not been sleeping lately?”
“…Mu En Campbell.”
At that moment, those once tender eyes turned cold, fixating on Mu En with an intense gaze, she asked, bewildered:
“When did you… find out?”
“When? Perhaps it was earlier at the academy, when a certain loli teacher told me that the moon possesses the terrifying ability to impart dark suggestions to people.
Since the moon has that ability, it’s no surprise that its followers would possess it as well. Once you follow that line of thought, many things that seemed strange before can be explained.
For example—”
Mu En pulled out a slip of paper, inscribed with an address familiar to the succubus.
“When you first invited me, my mind was filled with thoughts of a date with my senior. I’m not some kind of stallion, so how could I accept the address you gave me at that moment? Even if you forced it upon me, looking back, I had countless ways to refuse, didn’t I?
Not to mention, during the date, I happened to choose your family’s shop. Isn’t that too much of a coincidence? Even if my memory is poor, it couldn’t possibly be so bad that I wouldn’t remember your address at that time.”
“Is that all?”
The female demon coughed up a mouthful of blood.
“It’s not just that. The first time I started to have doubts was because of how suddenly Shirly showed her feelings for me. It was so sudden that it felt like she was influenced by something.”
“But you’re the son of a duke. Even if some girls are after your power, isn’t it normal for them to throw themselves at you?”
“It is normal.”
Mu En sighed,
“But Shirly’s feelings were just too sincere, weren’t they? Sincere to the point where… there wasn’t a hint of falsehood. How could such deep affection arise from just a few meetings? This isn’t some lighthearted romance where you roll in bed three times and spill your heart in five chapters.”
“I see.”
A glimmer of realization flashed in the female demon’s eyes,
“Instead, I was the one who overdid it.”
“Who told you to be someone who sneaks into the academy, even going so far as to give yourself suggestions to deceive everyone?”
Mu En looked at her teasingly, “If you were just acting, I might have actually been fooled. Who would have thought you’d really create a persona that likes me? I’m well aware of Mu En Campbell’s reputation; your sudden affection is enough to make me wary.
Not to mention, when you met me later in your true identity, you acted like an old acquaintance. To be honest, the girls I know in the academy are just a few. A quick elimination makes it clear that you have issues.”
“So you’ve been on guard against my suggestions all along?”
The female demon forced a smile,
“You really are completely different from the rumors, Mu En Campbell.”
Her complexion grew increasingly pale, and her breath became weaker, looking as if her time was running out.
“Likewise, how could I let my guard down against a snake like you?”
“Cough cough… I originally wanted to watch you die with a face full of unwillingness, but I didn’t expect to give you the chance to counterattack. How embarrassing.”
“So please, hurry up and die, how about that?”
The short knife in Mu En’s hand twisted almost a full turn, a surge of holy light pouring in, the stench of burning filling the air. At this moment, the female demon’s heart was likely shattered beyond repair by the blade and the holy light.
With such injuries, even the beast tamer from before would have died ten times over.
But the corner of the female demon’s mouth suddenly curled into a strange smile.
“Perhaps, you should cut me…”
Before her words could finish, a flash of cold light flickered by.
The smile on the female demon’s lips froze, and before she could utter another word, her vision spun wildly.
A perfectly good head rolled to the ground, confusion and unwillingness still lingering in its eyes.
Mu En gripped another pure white short knife in his other hand, shaking off the blood on it, and said expressionlessly:
“I’ve been prepared for a long time.”
After saying that, he casually tossed aside the headless corpse, its heart thoroughly crushed, stepped over the female demon’s head, and continued forward.
At this moment, perhaps because the false scenes around had lost their supporting power, everything suddenly changed.
The narrow dining room vanished, transforming back into the eerie streets of the lower city, heavy rain pouring down, and the chilling presence in the distance grew ever closer.
Mu En’s heartbeat gradually quickened, for he had a premonition, guided by intuition, that he was very, very close to his senior.
Now that the female demon was dead, all that was left was…
“Really, can’t you let me finish what I was saying?”
A sudden gust of cold wind blew in, unexpectedly sweeping Mu En’s top hat far away, but he had no time to care about the hat, his pupils dilating as his racing heartbeat nearly stopped for a moment.
He halted in his tracks, hands tightening around Elizabeth, veins bulging on the back of his hands.
That voice…
How could this be possible?
With the head severed and the heart crushed, what creature in this world could survive such fatal injuries?
“Giggling…”
Yet that enchanting laughter remained so clear.
Mu En turned back expressionlessly, watching as the female demon casually reattached her head to her neck, even playfully twisting it a bit.
“What a pity, Mu En Campbell. If you hadn’t been so hasty and let me finish my sentence, you would have known that what I meant back then was…
You should have chopped off my head, not my neck.”
Though the words seemed similar, their meanings were entirely different.
Because—”
The female demon pointed at her own head, smiled seductively, and without hesitation, tore open her clothing.
Mu En didn’t have the opportunity to admire that breathtaking sight that could leave one dry-mouthed, for in the next moment, the female demon, just like she had with her clothes, casually ripped open her own belly.
Flesh split open, ribs exposed, revealing… an empty interior.
Not to mention a heart; inside her belly, there wasn’t even a single organ!
The female demon chuckled and said:
“Because, aside from the brain I still need for thinking, everything else of mine… has been offered to the great moon.”