Demon Hunter and His Cabin
Chapter 580 - Chapter 580 Chapter 522 Disaster Serpent (Two in One)_2

Chapter 580: Chapter 522: Disaster Serpent (Two in One)_2 Chapter 580: Chapter 522: Disaster Serpent (Two in One)_2 That thing was like a giant python, completely black with rough blood vessels and green veins instead of scales, covered with an unknown sticky mucus.

“What is this thing?!”

Roger couldn’t help but ask.

“Disaster Serpent.”

Higurashi Chika answered, then swiftly pressed her finger just below Ai Asami’s navel and lifted her arm.

With a swift motion!

Spiritual Power coursed through the blade, and she easily sliced off the thing. Roger noticed that Higurashi Chika didn’t completely sever it; instead, she left a small part attached.

The remaining piece was absorbed into Ai Asami’s body. Her originally aged and withered body visibly regained its youth at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, it was clear that the part she reabsorbed could not make up for what she had lost before. Though she was young again, she looked more like a woman in her thirties rather than a girl of around 20.

“It’s over.”

Pumping Spiritual Power into her weapon, Higurashi Chika swung down again, and the wriggling thing on the ground turned into a pool of black liquid.

Drenched in heavy sweat, Ai Asami collapsed on the ground as if she had been fished out of water. She lay pale until she finally regained enough strength to reach for a piece of clothing from the sofa and draped it over herself.

“It’s a success. From today on, you are completely free from that monster.”

“Disaster Serpent.”

Roger muttered to himself, recalling an old legend about The Eight Hundred Bhikkhuni. A woman had gained the ability of Longevity by consuming mermaid flesh, but such a life was too long and without release.

Therefore, she chose to end her life in the year she turned 800.

Legends always seem a bit unreal, and it’s unknown whether the monster inside Ai Asami has any connection to that tale.

She certainly didn’t live to be eight hundred, but well over eighty was more than enough.

“Thank you, thank you!”

As Ai Asami straightened her disheveled hair, she bowed deeply in sincere gratitude, “You have truly set me free.”

“Finally, finally I no longer have to endure such torment.”

She squinted her eyes, showing a clean smile.

Clearly, maintaining youth also came with a price.

Roger wasn’t sure what the price was, but judging by Ai Asami’s expression, it probably wasn’t easy.

“It was your determination that made everything so smooth.”

Higurashi Chika looked somewhat exhausted. As she spoke, she began to pack up the items on the table.

“We should leave now.”

Carrying her suitcase, Higurashi Chika came to the door with Roger and turned to look at Ai Asami.

“Hopefully, we will never meet again.”

Ai Asami smiled back.

“That might be difficult.”

“It’s not easy to avoid seeing me on television.”

Higurashi Chika didn’t respond, but Roger was slightly taken aback. He frowned slightly, a thought suddenly crossing his mind.

The eerie charm that had enveloped the woman before him had completely dissipated. It was then that Roger took a deep breath and suddenly discerned a familiar scent in the air.

It was…

He turned to look at a door at the far end of the room.

“I apologize, I drank too much water earlier.” Roger gestured to the empty water cups on the table, “Just before leaving, I suddenly…”

As he spoke, he strode towards that room.

“Snap!”

His wrist was tightly grasped, the woman’s slightly cold fingers holding onto Roger, “The restroom isn’t over there.”

With Roger’s reflexes, Ai Asami shouldn’t have been able to touch him if he hadn’t allowed it, but he showed no sign of resistance, instead drawing closer, his breath growing heavier.

“Oh…”

Roger nodded, not moving, “If it’s not there, then what is that room used for?”

He said with a suggestive tone, “The smell seems a bit odd.”

By now, Higurashi Chika had also come by Roger’s side from the doorway. She might not have enhanced her senses to the same degree as Roger had when entering the Transcendent state, but she still instinctively sensed something was off.

This odd presence didn’t come from Roger or that room, but from Ai Asami.

“What’s wrong, do you feel unwell?”

Higurashi Chika asked.

“A little, so I hope to rest as soon as I send you off.”

“Sorry to have disturbed you.” Higurashi Chika nodded, ready to lead Roger away, but when she casually pulled at him, she grabbed thin air.

Roger, who had been right by her side, was now by the door not far away. With Ai Asami watching in astonishment, he placed his hand on the doorknob.

“Why the nervousness?”

Roger said with a smile.

“Could it be that there’s someone else hiding in this room besides us?”

As he spoke, he didn’t even bother to turn the doorknob, just took a step forward and leaned against it gently.

Crack!

The thick wooden door shattered in response.

Everything in the room looked normal, filled with assorted clutter, but as the door opened, Ai Asami and Higurashi Chika’s complexions changed drastically.

Separated by a door, Higurashi Chika might not have noticed the problem, but now…

She dashed into the room.

Thud!

A closet was opened, and a heavy suitcase was dragged out!

Higurashi Chika turned her head, staring at the pale-faced Ai Asami.

“What is this?”

“It looks like there really was someone hidden in the room.”

Roger said leisurely from the side.

“A dead person.”

Higurashi Chika didn’t speak, she just kept staring at Ai Asami.

If Ai Asami was just a normal actress, then this kind of affair would at worst be considered a criminal case, but earlier, there was a monster hidden inside her body, which made the nature of the events completely different.

Fear, regret, anger, despair, grievance.

All these emotions were successively displayed on Ai Asami’s face before she knelt down helplessly and burst into loud sobs.

“I didn’t do it on purpose, I really didn’t mean to!”

She lifted her head, looking pitifully at Higurashi Chika.

“Miss Higurashi Chika, I’m not like you, without the power to protect myself. For a woman, to have beauty but no strength is a great sorrow.”

“Nearly a hundred years ago, it was a society where people preyed on each other; those bandit-like men, they violated me, tortured me, and I couldn’t fight back.”

“I thought society had progressed and would be better.”

“But what was the result?”

Ai Asami gave a miserable smile.

“Nothing changed.”

“In the first thirty years, I was a despised woman in the slums and gutters doing flesh business, a meal, a pair of shoes, or even a fish could buy those people’s torment for an entire day.”

Her expression twisted, and her nails clawed at the ground, “One time, I met a guy who was studying Onmyoji Techniques, he said he would help me.”

Ai Asami nodded with a smile.

“He truly helped me, locking me in a basement for ten whole years. Honestly, that was the only time when I ever felt full.”

“Thank God, he was a useless failure; despite practicing for over a decade, he showed no progress and ended up killing himself.”

“I escaped, and in the next two or three decades, I became an actress.”

“The lowest kind.”

“Cautious and trembling with fear, I had to be wary of being discovered by Onmyoji on the one hand, and on the other hand also protect myself from men with ill intentions.”

“Finally… finally, with my own efforts, I gained my current life.”

“But what was the result?”

Ai Asami, no longer caring for her bleeding nails, scrambled up from the ground, her gaze ferocious, like a wild beast gone mad.

“I’ve lived for so many years, possessing the beauty and youth every woman desires, but constantly changing my identity, I’ve had no stable life. What’s more important is that this thing inside me is a curse; it prevents me from being a normal woman.”

“The yearning wasn’t mine, it was its!”

She stepped forward, seemingly wanting to get closer to Higurashi Chika, yet ultimately stopped.

“That man was an animal; he was a high-level executive at the company; he did to me…”

Seemingly recalling those images, Ai Asami could speak no more. Instead, she covered her face with her blood-stained hands and wailed.

“I had only just begun to see hope in my life.”

Slowly, she walked up to Higurashi Chika, “Miss Higurashi, please give me a chance, let me go, I am willing to trade all my wealth for it.”

“Even if it’s just for one year.”

She held up one finger.

“Even if it’s just for a month, I want to be free from its control, to be a normal woman.”

“To truly live for once, okay?”

By the end, her voice trembled, and she could barely speak.

Roger stood silently not far away; her story reminded him of his past experiences. If what this woman said was true, then her life was indeed complicated beyond description.

Could it be that the events of Swamp Town would repeat themselves?

“Miss Asami.”

Higurashi Chika’s face showed little pity, “Do you know what you did wrong?”

Ai Asami stopped crying, while Roger also discerned something else in Higurashi Chika’s words.

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