Demon Hunter and His Cabin
Chapter 287 - Chapter 287 Chapter 287 If You Wont Come I Will

Chapter 287: Chapter 287: If You Won’t Come, I Will! Chapter 287: Chapter 287: If You Won’t Come, I Will! Holly splashed cold water on her face, and in the light, she examined the woman in the mirror, whose face bore the marks of time.

Yet as a wife and mother, her skin was no longer smooth, and her figure not as graceful as when she was young, but Holly maintained herself quite well. She straightened her chest, feeling that she still had some allure.

“Dull man!”

Holly cursed softly.

Her husband Kant had many good qualities, but he was a bit too rigid. It was rare for her to boldly initiate an invitation to him, and yet this man!

“Could there be something wrong with his body…”

Shaking her head, Holly banished the frightening thought. Being a police officer was a high-risk job, and injuries could easily be sustained in the pursuit of criminals.

What one can’t have only makes the heart itch more.

Holly patted her slightly flushed cheeks with cold water.

“You harlot,” she teased herself softly.

Having confirmed that the two children were fast asleep, she closed the door to their room and lay down on the bed, exhausted. As the sea ebbed and flowed, scattered thoughts vanished, and she quickly fell asleep.

In her drowsiness, Holly felt someone approaching. She opened her eyes to see only a tall, dark figure.

“Kant?”

Holly murmured, shuffling to make space for her husband. However, the dark figure didn’t lie down on the bed but instead leaned in closer toward her.

“Stop it, I’m exhausted.”

Holly seemed to understand her husband’s intent and pushed forward with both hands. “Where have you been just now?”

She murmured with some dissatisfaction, her hands touching the approaching figure, rough and hard.

Startled, Holly opened her eyes wide and saw the figure in front of her clearly.

“Hmm…”

Before she could shout out, a rough palm forcibly covered her mouth. Holly struggled desperately, but the other’s hand was as steady as a rock.

Only managing to scrape her own hands in the process.

The rough and ready face loomed before Holly’s eyes. Seeing this wooden face identical to her husband’s, a cold chill rushed to her head.

In her terror, Holly even forgot to struggle.

What kind of monster was this?

Had someone turned her husband into wood, or had this monstrosity taken on her husband’s appearance?

“Why do you reject me?”

“Am I not your husband?”

The wooden face spoke, emitting a voice identical to Kant’s.

In that instant, Holly, gripped by fear, lost her capacity to think.

“Bang!”

Just then, heavy footsteps sounded, followed by the cabin door being smashed open, and Kant, with a gun in hand, charged in.

Seeing the figure pressing down on his wife, Kant flew into a rage.

“You beast!”

“I saved your life, and this is how you repay me?”

There was no one else on the boat, and in the dimness, the only person Kant could think of was the man they had rescued from the sea today.

Roger!

Enraged Kant still retained a shred of rationality.

The cabin was too dark. Firing a gun at this range could easily injure his wife.

As Kant ran forward, he grabbed a baseball bat lying by the cabinet.

It was something Katie had brought aboard to try hitting balls out at sea.

Kant swung the baseball bat, pouring all his strength into it as he ran.

“Get away from her!”

Kant’s eyes were filled with fury; he had been standing guard outside, but if he had dozed off and allowed his wife to be dishonored, he would never forgive himself.

“Bang!”

The bat struck the dark figure’s back, but the next second, a powerful rebound surged back, and Kant felt as though he’d hit a wall.

Hiss!

The web of his thumb split, the bat flying from his hand, and at that moment, Kant clearly saw the figure before him.

Matching his height and even his face, but the person in front of him was made entirely of wood, like an enlarged puppet.

The surface of the wood was covered with mottled imprints, and the thing should have appeared stiff and stagnant, but somehow, beneath the wooden surface, Kant could feel the breath of a living creature.

“Holly!”

Kant yelled, looking toward his wife on the bed.

Her clothes were disheveled, her face streaked with tears, and it was unclear if she had been violated.

Anger surged as his family was violated, and Kant suppressed the fear in his heart; he charged forward, his right hand holding the gun raised to aim at the monster’s cheek.

“Die!”

He frantically pulled the trigger.

“Bang bang bang!”

Flashes of light appeared, and the smell of gunpowder filled the narrow space as Kant emptied his bullets in one go.

But in the next second, he was struck by a palm and sent flying high into the air before crashing into the wall behind him.

Dizzy, Kant looked up; a wooden face identical to his own was brought close to his, but to his horror, it only showed a few bullet marks of varying depths.

Although the creature was made of wood, its hardness far exceeded that of ordinary lumber, and what was even more desperate was that the bullet marks of varying depths were visibly healing at an alarming rate.

“Ah!”

With strength from who knows where, Kant screamed and stood up from the ground, using all his might to ram into the monster before him.

“Holly, take the kids and run!”

The space on the boat was limited, and even though he knew there was nowhere to escape, Kant couldn’t just watch his family die before his eyes.

Maggie and Katie had been woken up by the earlier fight, and as soon as they came out of their room, Holly pulled them toward the door.

The girls screamed, and just as they reached the deck, Kant was sent flying once again.

“Puh!”

He spat out a mouthful of blood, climbed to his feet, and instead of charging again, he locked the cabin door that led to the deck behind him.

“What exactly are you?”

Kant, gasping for breath and feeling a surging blood tide, felt like he might faint at any moment.

“So lonely… I wish someone could keep me company.”

The monster slowly approached Kant.

Its wooden eyes actually gleamed with a hint of luster.

“Don’t worry, it’ll all be over soon.”

“Don’t you like the sea?”

“I’ll place you at the bow, so you can be in touch with the sea every second.”

“And I…”

The monster stood in front of Kant.

“Will take your place, doing what you and that woman should do!”

“I believe I can do it better than you.”

“Ha ha!”

Kant’s eyes widened as he seemed to understand something–if he were killed by the monster before him, his soul would be imprisoned in the statue at the Bow.

And the monster would take over his body, and then…

“No!”

Kant let out a desperate scream.

The monster opened its mouth and raised its wooden arm.

“Don’t struggle, you wouldn’t want your wife to face a cripple for the rest of her life, would you?”

The next second, the heavy fist fell.

“Thud!”

But just then, a loud noise came, and a hole suddenly opened in the wooden wall beside them, as a figure appeared, kicking the monster in front of Kant flying with a single kick.

Feeling like he had narrowly escaped death, Kant saw the figure clearly.

“Ro… Roger?”

The partitions between cabins on the ship were made of wood, but the thickness was such that no ordinary person could break through!

“Mr. Kant, it looks like you’ve run into a bit of trouble.”

Roger said casually.

“Need a hand?”

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