Who hid My Corpse!
Chapter 403: Fifty-three, what if my next target is Hewinia? (7K)

Chapter 403: Fifty-three, what if my next target is Hewinia? (7K)

Another pale cloth covered the crimson corpse.

The not-so-spacious room was already filled with several bodies.

“How many times has it been?” Adelle sat down on the bed of one of the corpses, casting a sidelong glance at Hewinia not far away. “Why do I feel like you’re delivering bodies to me every day? Could it be that you’re the murderer?”

“…Sorry, Teacher Adelle.”

“Can’t you tell I’m joking? Well, I’m really not good at joking.” Adelle shrugged her shoulders, then looked at Hewinia again. “That guy came to attack you, right? Are you hurt?”

Hewinia shook her head.

Cesar had been caught in the act by Player on night duty and had left immediately.

However, upon leaving, he intentionally let himself be seen by the Player on night duty, pretending he was there to attack Hewinia, thereby clearing her of suspicion.

Clearly, even though they hadn’t joined hands, Cesar already considered Hewinia his partner.

With Cesar’s cover, the Players on night duty didn’t think in that direction… Of course, that was also because they didn’t have the energy to. The fact that Cesar could escape the pursuit of many Orchestras from the Forbidden Forest to hunt here was indeed torturing their already frayed nerves. They really didn’t want to worry about other matters.

They didn’t even want to take care of the bodies of the deceased, and in the end, it was Hewinia who found Adelle, and the body of the girl whose name was still unknown was properly dealt with.

Then the aforementioned conversation ensued.

“Do you know her?” Adelle asked.

Hewinia shook her head. “I only know she’s from the Seed District and she’s Polly’s friend.”

“From the Seed District, again.” Adelle spoke softly. “It seems we can save the trouble of contacting the family again… But who is Polly?”

“Have you forgotten? You dealt with her body just a few days ago.”

“Hm? Which one?”

“The one you’re sitting on.”

“Ah…?” Adelle looked down but showed no intention of moving, just uttered “Oh,” “I remember now.”

Then there was a pause.

“That’s better, at least there’s company on the road. Do you know there’s a saying? In Holy Sound, after death, people rise to the Lord’s domain, fall onto the Lord’s score, and become the Lord’s notes, composing the most perfect Chapters for the world.”

“What a marvelous saying.”

“Isn’t it? So what do you think?”

Hewinia thought for a moment and said, “Aren’t we notes now as well? If we are notes both before and after death, then what’s the difference between life and death?”

Adelle raised an eyebrow. “That’s quite philosophical of you.”

“I’m just speaking off the cuff.” Hewinia bowed slightly, “I think I should leave now, good night, Teacher Adelle.”

“You wake me from my bed to help you with the bodies, and now that I’m wide awake, you want to go back to sleep?” Adelle spoke, “Won’t you stay and chat a bit longer? Dawn is almost upon us.”

“No, I’m tired.” Hewinia turned and left. “You can talk to these bodies.”

Hewinia’s reaction surprised Adelle.

In Adelle’s memory, Hewinia wasn’t like this; she should have been more obedient and sensible.

Hewinia didn’t care what Adelle was thinking, but just as she was about to leave, she suddenly heard Adelle say, “Twenty years ago, I was a murderer too.”

Hewinia stopped in her tracks and turned to look at Adelle.

Adelle clicked her tongue. “Is that what it takes for you to talk to me?”

“If you said that you were killed twenty years ago and now you’ve come back to life, I might be more interested.”

Adelle smiled. “These years, I’ve been thinking, it might not have been too bad if I had been killed back then.”

Hewinia narrowed her eyes.

She realized Adelle wasn’t joking.

“Twenty years ago at the festival, I was a student too, just like you,” Adelle looked at Hewinia, “and I had a very close friend. We shared everything, were as close as sisters, to the extent that I always thought our friendship would last until we died… until the festival came, and we both fell for the same Orchestra, and ironically, we were the same note. Heh, quite a clichéd story, isn’t it?”

Hewinia watched Adelle: “Then did you kill her?”

“Yes,” Adelle said, “Both our notes weren’t particularly good, and we both knew that joining that Orchestra was the chance to change our lives, change our fate. So, at that time, our relationship was already very delicate, but we encouraged each other, wanting to compete fairly, and the successful one would support the unsuccessful one, for a lifetime.”

“Yet, you still killed her?”

“Mhm.” Adelle nodded, “Because one day, there was a poisoning incident at the school. Everyone was panicked, myself included. And when I returned to my dormitory, I found the water in my cup was a different color. Except for me, the only one who could have touched my cup was her.”

“…Was it her who poisoned it?”

“At least that’s what I thought,” Adelle said, “At that moment, I felt an overwhelming sense of fear and anger, so… I killed her first, killed my best friend.”

Hewinia was silent for a while before asking, “What you just said, that you ‘thought’ it was her, what do you mean by that?”

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