Who hid My Corpse!
Chapter 410: Fifty-five How can I bear to refuse (5K5)

Chapter 410: Fifty-five How can I bear to refuse (5K5)

Tick-tock… Tick-tock…

Accompanied by feeble breaths, blood fell into the snow and then slowly slid down through the grooves in the snow, soaking into the skin of the half-naked man lying on the snowy ground.

The golden notes restrained by silver threads on the man’s skin became increasingly bright and clear under the nourishment of the fresh blood.

“You… will face retribution,” a weak voice arose, “Lord, Lord will definitely not forgive someone like you.”

Cesar slowly opened his eyes, looking at the man and woman he had hung from a tree to bleed.

“Retribution?” Cesar said with a light laugh, “Such naïve words don’t seem like they would come from your mouth, Teacher Zel.”

“Ten years ago, you told me that the Lord only values those who possess absolute pitch, and that the rest, no matter what they do, will never gain the Lord’s recognition… isn’t that right?”

Zel slowly closed his eyes; it was a long while before he spoke: “Kill me.”

Cesar laughed, finally no longer lying down, and stood up from the snow.

Beneath him was an Array in operation.

He walked over to Zel, looking up at his former teacher.

“Why would I kill you, Teacher Zel?” Cesar said with a smile, “Didn’t you teach me to make full use of everything? I have always been following your teachings, or perhaps it could be said that everything I now have is because of you.”

“Have you forgotten?” He pointed at his own body and then at the Array beneath his feet, “The Array that collects all the scores and colors the notes—where did all this forbidden knowledge come from?”

“I’ve always wanted to know if you would have been so ‘lenient’ with me ten years ago, had you known what today would bring.”

Cesar’s smile grew brighter, while Zel kept his eyes tightly shut, yet his continuously trembling eyelashes revealed his current emotions clearly.

“It hurts… it hurts so much…”

While Cesar and Zel were confronting each other, the female Player on the side unwittingly let out a quivering voice.

Cesar turned his head to look.

The condition of the female Player was very poor, the only reason she hadn’t died was that Cesar had used Chorus Magic of the Healing System to keep her alive.

Of course, this wasn’t because Cesar was particularly kind, but rather because he hadn’t finished absorbing, so he couldn’t let the female Player die just yet.

The Silver Score, particularly plucking the golden notes, wasn’t such an easy and leisurely affair. This process was akin to bloodletting, draining all the blood laden with notes and then slowly applying it to the body of the music score holder to complete the plucking.

During this period, neither the notes nor the score can die.

Cesar approached the female Player.

The consciousness of the female Player had begun to blur, she muttered instinctively: “It hurts… it hurts so much…”

Cesar slowly reached out his hand, pressing the head of the female Player against his own, then gently said, “There, there, it will be over soon.”

“If you really can’t stand it, let me tell you a story.”

He murmured.

“Once, in a remote Seed District, there were two brothers.”

…

“These brothers have no patterns to this day, get rid of them.”

“Big brother! Big brother!”

“Let go of my little brother! Bastard, let go of me!”

“Wait, this guy has patterns.”

…

“Big brother.” A little boy looked up at the teenager who was a head taller than him, his eyes red, “Don’t you want me anymore?”

“Of course not!”

Cesar ruffled his little brother’s head, then looked up at the “Noble gentleman” who was standing aside, dressed in clothes that wholly mismatched theirs.

“Mr. Lade, please don’t harm my little brother, whether he has notes or not, wait for me to graduate and come back…”

“I got it, I got it,” Lade waved his hand impatiently, “If you can really graduate successfully and work for me as a qualified Player, I’ll take care of your little brother, but if not…”

Cesar could clearly hear the unsaid words of Lade— you, a mere Copper Sound, should rather worry about yourself.

“I will definitely graduate successfully.”

Cesar said earnestly, then leaned down to hug the little boy, whispered “Wait for me to come back,” and then he left. Even as the little boy cried out loud behind him, he didn’t look back, walking alone into the world covered in white snow.

…

“Copper Sound?” A teacher from the Three Colleges looked askance at Cesar, “The courses Copper Sound can choose are just so many, ‘Player Basics’ isn’t for you.”

“Why!” Cesar exclaimed, “I’ve already enrolled, why can’t I choose it.”

“There aren’t so many whys.”

“If I can’t choose ‘Player Basics,’ how can I use a Magic Wand?”

“Magic Wand?” The teacher scoffed, “Do you still want a Magic Wand?”

“Without a Magic Wand, how can I become a Player?”

Cesar’s words amused the teacher, who turned his head to look at the other teachers in the office, laughing as he pointed at Cesar’s nose.

“Did you guys hear what this fellow said? He doesn’t understand a thing.”

Then, he slapped a form down in front of Cesar.

“The courses for Copper Sound are fixed, you can’t choose, you can only pick this.”

Cesar lowered his head to see the form clearly marking out job locations like “restaurant,” “restroom,” and his eyes widened.

“Let me tell you,” the teacher spoke languidly, “The academy recruits Copper Sounds for only one reason, we do not allow ordinary people without notes to enter the academy, but indeed there are some tasks that need ordinary people to handle… just these.”

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