Chapter 201: Chapter 196: Repaying a Favor

Along the corridor, a pitch-black darkness loomed, concealing unknown dangers within.

The only source of light was the cold, abnormal green glow of the emergency exit sign, which cast a small glimmer, allowing Xiao Yi and his companions to barely make out the door of the room they had just left, as well as the door of the adjacent room.

"Behind this door lies your secret... the truth about why you became an ogre," Xiao Yi said.

Xiao Yi then approached the door of the neighboring room.

Clements silently looked at Xiao Yi, as if to ask him whether to open the door or not.

Xiao Yi replied, "Open it."

"I understand. Then..." Clements took a deep breath and once again confronted an experience from his past.

The door opened, filling the room with the orange glow of the sunset while the corridor remained shrouded in darkness.

From dawn to night and then to dusk, the shifts in the world occurred too frequently.

"Suddenly, one day, the noisy, disgusting sounds from next door stopped. I thought that family had finally moved out; I was so pleasantly surprised I almost cheered out loud. But it was on an ordinary evening at dusk when I learned the whole truth."

As Clements spoke, he entered the room, followed by Xiao Yi.

They found themselves in an ordinary room full of the essence of a lived-in home, the dusk sunlight painting everything crimson, with a lingering warmth.

The light of dusk was intense, but the areas not touched by sunlight were very dim.

Therefore, Xiao Yi didn’t immediately notice the bloodstains almost covering the walls and floor.

Suddenly, Xiao Yi heard the sound of a knife striking a cutting board, as if someone was chopping something.

He looked toward the source of the sound and saw a little girl standing in the kitchen, cutting something.

Beside her, a liquid of an indistinguishable color due to the intense sunlight kept dripping onto the floor.

Next to her, a pot on the stove was still bubbling with steam, as if something was being cooked.

"..." Familiar with the scene, Clements walked over to the little girl and asked, "What are you doing?"

The girl turned around, her clothes filthy and stained.

Upon seeing Clements, her face lit up with joy, and she smiled brightly, "Big brother, you’ve finally come to see me! I thought you were gone."

"...What are you doing?" Clements, unmoved, repeated the question he had asked.

"Just like you see, I’m cooking," the little girl answered. "Daddy and Mommy always say they’re too tired from work and don’t want to do anything, so they keep asking me to cook."

"Then... what about the blood on the walls?" Clements asked, recalling the past.

"That’s... because a little cat ran into the room," the girl said softly with a smile. "But Daddy really hates animals and insists on killing them when he sees them. So I had to do the same; otherwise, Daddy would definitely hit me again. He always made me attack those little animals his way, so he wouldn’t hit me. But the little cat was too lively and that’s why blood got everywhere. I was afraid Daddy and Mommy would get mad again, so I thought of cooking it to apologize, so they wouldn’t be angry!"

"..." Hearing this, Xiao Yi suddenly noticed a little cat’s head in the corner of the sofa.

And the round eyes, once there, were nowhere to be found.

But at this point, it was far from over, if anything, it was just the beginning.

The little girl then let out another troubled cry.

"But... they were even unhappier because the kitten didn’t taste good, so they beat me even harder than usual."

"Why didn’t you go find someone else... ask me for help?" Clements repeated the insincere words he had once said, once again uttering the nauseating phrase.

And the girl answered thus, "Because... my mom and dad love me, everything they do is for my own good, so there is no need for me to seek help."

"... What did you say?"

"I did indeed hate them very much at first," the little girl said. "After you warned them that day, they said all the beating and scolding was actually out of love for me, to prepare me to better cope with this cruel society, so it was a necessary education. And, I should be thankful for their upbringing, not the minor kindness of a stranger, after all, without them there would be no me. Therefore, I must obey and not disappoint their meticulous cultivation and also must share in the household chores."

"... " Hearing this again, Clements couldn’t help but furrow his brows.

Xiao Yi’s expression also became slightly stern.

Yet, what the little girl said next made Xiao Yi involuntarily startled.

"But I really didn’t want to respond to their love anymore because it hurts too much. So, I thought I’d pay back this favor. My parents always talked about how painful it was to give birth to me, how much they sacrificed, so I figured I would ’give birth’ to them as well. That should repay the favor of my birth, right?"

This statement sent a shock through the hearts of the live-streaming audience.

"What did you do?" Clements continued to ask.

"I’m not exactly sure how they conceived me, but I do know where babies come from— the belly. So, I stuffed mom and dad into my stomach, thinking that would ’birth’ them, right?"

As she spoke, the little girl even patted her bulging belly.

"But the feeling of ’giving birth’ to mom and dad wasn’t really painful, maybe because there’s too much of them, I can’t birth them all at once, so I can only do it little by little."

It was then Xiao Yi saw clearly, what the little girl was slicing on the table was a pair of arms... and without a doubt, they were human arms.

Then, Clements couldn’t help but look toward the fridge.

The room wasn’t large, so finding where the couple might be wasn’t difficult.

"At that time, I thought it was impossible, that what the child was saying was just childish nonsense," Clements said as he approached the fridge, "I desperately wanted to prove this, so I opened the most likely place for evidence—the fridge."

Clements reached for the fridge, but a wave of dizziness hit him, with his whole mind and body resisting him.

But Clements glanced at Xiao Yi, clenched his teeth, and with all his courage, shaking hands, he opened the fridge door.

And there they were, the heads of the two people he hated most, staring straight at him, unbelievably calm.

"..."

Clements didn’t say anything, he vomited, just as he had done before.

Even after experiencing it all over again, he couldn’t help but throw up.

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