"I'm begging you... Xiaoxia, leave."

"I don't want to hurt... hurt..."

The heavy atmosphere made the surrounding darkness even thicker.

Yukawa Maki's face completely melted into the forest-white spine, leaving only a vague mouth opening and closing. A few hoarse syllables peeled away countless shadows of memories they once shared, finally shattering into a mirror, cutting the dark red-haired girl all over.

"Xiaoxia, I... like you..."

The monster hauled its bloated body out of the bathroom stall, its huge abdomen bursting the stall open, splinters flying everywhere. Its slender arm reached for Mori's face, as if to caress or to tear that pretty face apart.

"Xiaoxia... cute... like..."

The monster's slender sharp claws rested on Mori's shoulder, its distorted large face leaning close to the girl, sharp spider legs scratching deep marks on the tiled floor, sparks flying, creating an ear-piercing noise.

"Be with me, Xiaoxia, together forever."

"Stop talking..." Mori was pushed to the wall by the monster's arm, sliding down against the wall, her long hair falling down listlessly, covering her expression.

"I know all of Xiaoxia's interests, favorite places, even her catchphrases. I remember everything Xiaoxia likes vividly."

"Because I like Xiaoxia..."

"Stop saying it." Mori bit her lip until it bled.

"Let us become one, Xiaoxia."

"I like..."

Crimson blade light tore the heavy darkness like a sharp lightning illuminating the night sky, silver-white and pitch-black intertwining, then it curved with divine speed, the monster's huge swollen neck burst open with deep blood marks, ink-green blood erupted into a downpour of blood rain.

"Ah!" Half of the monster's body vanished in the blade light, retreating while letting out a sharp scream.

"Shut up, don't use Xiaoxu's tone to say these words to me!"

Raindrop-like blood fell before Mori, the mimicry Spider Gu Fang crossed into a crucifix, gaps bursting with scattered light, a near-bright red anger burning in her eyes, like a cluster of blazing camellias.

Yukawa Maki had long been dead.

The one she was just talking to was merely the Seeder, a monster influenced by the girl's memories, mimicking her tone, thought markers, behavior patterns when she was alive.

"Xiaoxia, it hurts so much..."

When the Seeder absorbs enough nutrients, it seeks a host to parasitize and finds a relatively secluded space to nest, then even the host's body will abnormally overgrow, becoming bloated until filling the whole space into a flesh nest, like what happened in the steel plant.

The monster before her was in the last state before nesting, all the words it just spoke were merely its survival instinct, deduced based on Yukawa Maki's memory model.

'Yukawa Maki' stumbled left and right within the narrow bathroom, stall doors collapsing under pressure, erratically flailing spider legs carving deep claw marks on the ceiling like cutting tofu, exploding light bulbs spitting sparks.

Mori stepped forward, gripping the mimicry Spider Gu Fang Two Daggers tight, a chilling deathly aura flowing from them, vivid dark red trails swaying in the darkness, another cross blood mark burst open on the monster.

It wasn't over, Mori disappeared into the shadows, emerging again with strong killing intent, stepping on the monster's body to leap into the air, her form dancing in midair, the twin daggers spinning continuously, tracing sharp arcs, soaring up with the monster's chunks of flesh and limbs.

The dark red blade glow sprinkling past left blood like crimson snowflakes, blossoming on the ground as eerie red tassels.

Mori exhaled frost; her body overclocked in a weave of fear and rage, the tree-like spider totem deepening blue-black, as if to imprint forcibly on her skin surface, fine white spider hairs covering her arms, terrifying compound eyes like countless bubbles rising in water, poised to completely occupy her eye sockets.

"It hurts so much, Xiaoxia, hahahahaha!"

The blade light like red snowflakes, dense as woven, peeled off layer by layer the blood and flesh surrounding the monster's gargantuan body, the frenzied slashes drained her strength, revealing the most fragile part within the monster, a glowing red heart.

Just as Mori intertwines her twin daggers to strike down and fully kill the monster, the blood near the heart suddenly accelerated its flow, transforming into countless soft hands embracing her body, Yukawa Maki's face emerged from the blood red, expression as usual:

"Do you really want to kill me, Xiaoxia..."

Mori hesitated for a moment, instinctively loosening her grip on the tightly held knives.

Mere moments of distraction in the crucial moment of the battle could be almost fatal.

The monster's peeled blood and flesh entirely reverted inside, filling the blood hole's void seamless, any hint of bright red gone, countless blue-black spider legs unfolded from 'Yukawa Maki's' back, stabbing straight towards Mori's chest!

Layer upon layer of death phantoms overlapped in her compound eyes; the only future foresight she had left a second later was an endless desolation.

In the nick of time, Mori faintly heard water, as if a droplet fell into a vast lake, creating ripples.

In her next blink, the dark golden flowing light had already arrived before her, a black-gloved hand raised, blocking all the lance-like attacking spider legs with just a cross of fingertips, in the wild wind of close combat, the girl's coat and loose golden hair fluttered wildly.

"You, why are you..."

Xu Xiaoyou stopped her steps, glanced at Mori behind, looked again at the monster in front, crossing her fingertips slightly, and the monster's immense body blasted away like a cannonball, crashing straight into the wall.

"Your curtain communication was unreachable, I thought maybe something happened on your side, so I came over," Xu Xiaoyou said, a long whip appearing in her palm.

"Seems you ran into some trouble." Xu Xiaoyou looked at the struggling monster trying to rise from the broken sink, discreetly using [Kinetic Energy Storage], hand supporting on the long whip.

"Need me to help you solve this?"

"Xiaoxia, who the hell is that damn guy!!"

The monster roared with distortion and resentment, the body just barely rising collapsed again as if falling apart, flesh and blood constantly melting into a viscous dark red liquid, extending continuously towards the two's feet.

"After all, Xiaoxia only needs me as a friend."

"Xiaoxia, it hurts so much..."

"It really hurts... No strength in the whole body, can't gather, can't crawl..."

"Sorry, You, I'll take care of what's left here." Mori said softly.

Xu Xiaoyou briefly shifted her eyes, then nodded, choosing to respect the girl's wish, leaving the bathroom to avoid.

The immense body of 'Yukawa Maki' was still continuously melting, dark red liquid flowing into the drain, sensing someone approaching, that blood-covered glowing red heart throbbed, fear visibly emerging on the blood red surface.

"Xia... Xia..."

"Don't... hurt me, Xiaoxia..."

Mori came beside it, deep and pale powerlessness moving her lips, yet unable to speak, aimed the Spider Gu Fang in her hand at that heart, or more accurately, a tumor wrapped in flesh and blood.

"Xiaoxu, sorry, for not being able to care about your feelings all along, and..."

"Goodbye."

The tumor cleaved in half, revealing an item wrapped within, it was Yukawa Maki's curtain, recording in the 'most cherished thing' album only a photo with a dark red-haired girl, behind them the night scene park, fireworks as brilliant as the girls' smiles.

The photo had just one caption

——[November 6th. As long as Xiaoxia is happy every day, I'll be happy too ^-^]

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