As Ai is staring at the Flower Queen, she opened a dimensional portal near Yuki and sent her into her mini dimension. Then she took out another silver dagger and hold it in her left hand before retracted her innocent smile...
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At the 'rotten skinned body' farm, Maria and Suzaku are still looking for some clues to find the culprit the had done such a maniacal deed. Suddenly, he felt a subtle yet overwhelming murderous aura from the other side of the farm.
"This murderous aura... It's Ai-chan!" Maria exclaimed.
"Mmm... I felt the murderous aura as well. But how can you be so certain that it is her?" Suzaku asked, a bit questioning.
"Well, it's the same aura I felt when Bobby accidentally flipped Ai-chan's strawberry pudding onto the ground once. It's a top killer's murderous aura." said Maria.
"I see. I guess that probably means that Lady Ai had gotten into a fight nearby." said Suzaku.
"Ah... You are right! I need to help her!" Maria exclaimed and ran in the opposite direction before Suzaku can even react.
"My Lord... Ah... I thought you said you are going to help me to deal with this mess..." Suzaku murmured before letting out a sigh.
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After approximately five minutes, Maria reached Ai's spot and is both astonished and amazed by the sight. For the astonishing part, it's the human skin display and the whole piles of human skin.
As for the amazing part...
It's Ai who had pierced through the head of the Flower Queen with the golden dagger in her right hand while beheaded another doppelganger of the Flower Queen with the silver dagger in her left arm.
"Ah... Ai-chan, that's amazing! And eww... What are those things?" Maria exclaimed in disgust.
"Uhm... Expired jerky that made of all the previous princesses's skin? I guess?" said Ai as she cut through the Flower Queen's neck and beheaded it with her silver dagger while her golden dagger still stuck in its head.
Then, Maria examined the well-decorated skin that got hung on the wall and noticed how each of the facial features is nicely enhanced with paint and makeup.
"Hmm... Is this Flower Queen actually a Hua Pi Yao? That's really unusual in Kapis." said Maria.
Ai shrugged.
"Hey! Where is Yuki? I didn't see her since I entered this building. She is not with you?" Maria asked.
"Well, she was, but I sent her into my personal Mini Dimension, this Flower Queen was trying to make her commit suicide just now." said Ai.
"Ah... I see. This Flower Queen is definitely very evil... Huh? Are those vines supposed to be here before?" Maria asked.
"Nope, they just crawled in as we were talking, and it seems like their moving speed accelerated as well." said Ai, in her usual innocent tone.
"Haha..." Maria laughed bitterly...
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Secret Base, Chris, and Ben are having some herb tea at the lounge while anxiously waiting for Maria and the ladies to return.
"I swear if they didn't come back in the next ten minutes, I am going to activate that tracking system I modified into Yuki's body." said Ben.
"Wait, what? What tracking system? Why am I not informed about that? When did you add that to her body? Since the beginning?" Chris asked, rather hard to believe what Ben just said.
"Well, you are right, that tracking system was included in her new body since the beginning, but I never activate it all these years." said Ben, as if there is nothing wrong about what he had done.
"You serious?" Chris asked, with a slightly despised look.
"Well, just in case of any special situation." said Ben.
"Ah... From your tone just now, you are not planning to remove that feature, am I right?" Chris asked with a disagreeing look.
"Yeah, why should I? It's not anything harmful after all." said Ben.
"You are evil." said Chris as he glimpsed at Ben.
"I don't want to hear that from an evil tyranny." said Ben who glimpsed back to Chris.
Just when they are kind of 'arguing' with each other, the Secret Base's security system sends out a notification of Suzaku's arrival.
"There they are. Let's go and check up on them." said Chris as he stood up with Ben.
But before they could step out their first steps, an extremely fast and loud stomping noise can be heard from behind of them before a pinkish figure swiftly passed them from the side in almost light speed.
"Ah... This rabbit is getting better and better in removing its seal." said Ben, who looks amazed.
"Mhmm... Are you sure it's just an overgrown ordinary rabbit?" Chris asked, as he seated back on the chair.
"Yeah, I am having problems accepting that fact as well." said Ben, who seated back as well.
After a while, Maria and Suzaku walked in from the entrance door followed by Pinky who is holding both Ai and Yuki in her arm, the two ladies seems to be asleep.
"Ah... Chris-chan, Ben-chan, I can explain." said Maria, rather surprised to see Chris and Ben waiting for them.
"It's okay, I believe you have a lot of 'story' to tell. But before that, can you tell me what the heck is that round bloody thing Ai is hugging right now?" said Chris as he noticed a round greenish hairy object in Ai's arms that is stained with blood.
"Ah... That's a Hua Pi Yao's head... Haha..." said Maria with awkward laughter.
"Ah... I see."
*Hua Pi Yao, which means 'skin drawing demon' in Chinese. Is a rather hideous and deadly demon in Chinese legend story, originated from a famous ancient Chinese literature, 'Liao Zhai'.
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*Something out of the story
Sky: "Dear readers."
Chris: "Hmm?"
Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."
Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."
Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."
Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."
Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."
Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.
Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."
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