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Chapter 421 - 286. Just Do It, and It’s Done (4000 words)_2
Chapter 421: Chapter 286. Just Do It, and It’s Done (4000 words)_2
She still maintained the appearance of a doll even under these circumstances.
But what about Shenzhu Shihui?
Beichuan Si raised his head and finally found an ethereal shadow near him.
When Shenzhu Shihui saw him looking over, he instead stuttered and asked,
"What on earth is going on here? It’s completely... not like what you said, Beichuan..."
"The world of the heart may not be constant," Beichuan Si analyzed rationally, "The last time I was here, Shan Yuanmu Yuzi was clearly in a very stable mental state. But over time, as her mental state became unstable, it has turned into this."
"I’m... not talking about that... What are you going to do next?... In this world of the heart... there might be monsters." Shenzhu Shihui stuttered and wanted to say something else, but saw Beichuan Si had already opened a storage cabinet on one side and taken out a broom.
"What are you doing?" Shenzhu Shihui asked in a strange tone.
Beichuan Si didn’t answer, just twisted the end of the broom vigorously without looking up. The broom’s head fell to the ground, and at the same time, the metal part of the broom was twisted into a sharp, spiral shape.
He expressionlessly lifted his hand and thrust it into the deformed flesh column beside him.
Plop!!!
Blood splattered, spraying all over Beichuan Si’s face.
"What are you... doing..." Shenzhu Shihui watched Beichuan Si with his cold and ferocious demeanor, her mouth moved but she didn’t dare to make a sound anymore.
"Making weapons." Beichuan Si gripped the object in his hand, and at the same time, rummaged through the cluttered storage cupboard to find a crowbar.
He put the crowbar behind him, and continued, "Now that Sacred Heart Girls’ High School has become like this, I have no clue what’s inside. It’s always right to be fully prepared."
"Instead, you, how come Nishijou Kelian has become solid, yet you are still a shadow?"
Beichuan Si glanced at Shenzhu Shihui.
"...I don’t know... Maybe it’s because of... the issue with this bizarre world of the heart."
The surroundings were full of chunks of meat, and the ground also adhered with those wriggling flesh...
It was as if the three of them had entered the body of some creature in an instant.
"Kelian, it’s time for us to set out." Beichuan Si got everything ready, then turned his head and called out to Nishijou Kurenai, who had jumped onto the table and seemed to be doing something.
Nishijou Kurenai, hearing Beichuan Si, turned her head and pointed her round arms at something.
It was a book.
A hard black cover, decorated with the hair-raising depiction of angels being dragged into Hell by endless chunks of meat.
"What’s this...?" Beichuan Si put the sharp iron rod aside and picked up the book.
The book was substantial, feeling as if it were made of iron or copper, with very thick pages that appeared to hold only a few leaves.
Beichuan Si turned the first page.
He saw long passages of text, to avoid the suspicion of padding out the word count, only a segment is presented here:
’O mes frères, qui à travers cent mille dangers; Etes venus aux confins de l...’
"What does this... mean?" Shenzhu Shihui was so stunned.
She, who had lived in Shenzhu Village for years, had never seen this language.
Beichuan Si glanced at her and, touching the words on the page as if they were carved with fingernails, calmly replied, "This is the French translation of Canto 26 of the ’Inferno’ from Dante’s ’Divine Comedy,’ though it’s only a selection from it."
"French?"
"..." Beichuan Si.
Beichuan Si didn’t bother to explain this to Shenzhu Shihui, simply translating word for word, "Oh brothers! You who have come to the West through a hundred thousand perils, retain some vigour, for it may still prove useful. Follow the sun and seek the land untouched by man."
"Oh." Shenzhu Shihui pretended as if she understood, "But what does that explain?"
"The 26th Canto of the ’Inferno’ in the ’Divine Comedy’ is divided into four parts; the first is Dante’s curse on Florence, combined with the background of that time... never mind, you wouldn’t understand if I told you. Just know that this part tells the story of ’Ulysses’ final voyage.’"
"In Homer’s ’Odyssey,’ Ulysses is portrayed as a hero, yet in Dante’s ’Divine Comedy,’ he is a scoundrel. He committed various sins and even defied God’s will, insisting on sailing to the far west. In the end, he incurred divine wrath, and his ship was struck down and sunk to the sea bottom— and that translated segment was his words of encouragement to his sailors on his final voyage."
But was that really the case?
Beichuan Si fell into thought.
Dante’s portrayal of Ulysses might indeed be despicable, yet similarly, he also epitomizes Humanistic sentiment.
Ulysses was indeed cunning, but he likewise felt the spectrum of human sins and challenged God’s authority on his last voyage. This was undoubtedly something that could not be manifested under the oppressive religious thinking of the time.
"Drawing an analogy using himself?" Beichuan Si narrowed his eyes.
Perhaps that was Shan Yuanmu Yuzi’s intention in using Ulysses as a metaphor for herself.
She had done many things a high school student absolutely should not do, which wasn’t far from the image of Ulysses.
If she was indeed drawing an analogy with Ulysses, then the ceiling and floor filled with disgusting meat chunks, resembling an apocalyptic scene, couldn’t it be likened to ’Ulysses’ last voyage’?
If he failed this time, Beichuan Si estimated that it would become very difficult to enter this mind-world again.
He still wanted to continue flipping through the pages.
However, the next page seemed to be glued together, making it impossible to turn.
Even if he couldn’t flip through it, Beichuan Si couldn’t just leave it there.
He found a student’s satchel on the bed beside him, stuffed the book into it, and then walked out clutching a spiral iron pipe in his hand.
The hallway was full of pink, fleshy tissues, reminiscent of the gullet of some creature.
Beichuan Si instinctively looked outside.
On the sports field, an inverted pentagram had been drawn with a line-marking machine.
For some reason, the pentagram created with the line-marking machine appeared to flicker with a scarlet, blood-like light.
"Beichuan, to the right," Shenzhu Shihui whispered in Beichuan Si’s ear to get his attention.
Hm?
Beichuan Si turned his head.
To the right at the stairwell, there was a creature with a body full of writhing chunks of flesh and tentacles, slowly moving downward.
This monster, covered in eyeballs, emitted the lively voice of a high-school girl:
"Teacher... teacher... teacher...?"
That eerie and unnerving sight made Shenzhu Shihui recoil.
If it were a vengeful spirit, she certainly wouldn’t show such an expression.
But this thing was different.
It was filled with elements Shenzhu Shihui detested.
Beichuan Si cast a nonchalant glance at the writhing beast, and when he saw that it hadn’t noticed him, he walked in the opposite direction.
Similarly, he did not forget to check the situation around him.
The entire school building was deserted, with only the voices of young high-school girls echoing from various places and no other noise.
"Let’s go up to the rooftop and take a look," Beichuan Si said softly, creeping step by step toward the rooftop.
From the rooftop, one could get a complete overview of the situation, and it was also possible that they could find Shan Yuanmu Yuzi hiding somewhere.
After a series of dodging and hiding, Beichuan Si stood at the bottom of the stairway to the rooftop.
In front of him was a giant lump of meat, a monstrous creature writhing in size, as large as two or three people.
"Beichuan... what should we do?" Shenzhu Shihui asked, drifting back a few meters as she watched the creature in front of her.
Despite its vile shape, it emanated such a sweetly cute voice, which sent chills down one’s spine.
"Or shall we look for another way? In the mind-world, you don’t have the same kind of strength you possess in reality," said Shenzhu Shihui, speaking smoothly without a hitch, almost without any stuttering.
"Find another way?"
Beichuan Si fell silent for a while, then cast a sidelong glance at the monstrous meat blocking the door.
He seemed to be weighing the pros and cons.
Shenzhu Shihui breathed a sigh of relief.
Thankfully, Beichuan Si still seemed very rational.
And then...
And then Shenzhu Shihui saw Beichuan Si decisively pick up the steel pipe and rush forward—
Damn, just like that, it was done.
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