Night fell.
The nighttime bustle of the city was no less than during the day.
Yet some quiet alleys at the city’s edges were exceptionally calm.
Greta, also known as Undying Bone, had her body once filled with flesh and blood becoming gaunt and gruesome again due to hunger.
Unwittingly, he didn’t want anyone to see him like this, so he slithered into this quiet alley under the cover of night, quickly catching a passing rat and consuming its flesh and blood dry.
The flesh and blood in his body became a little more full, but it was still not enough.
Just as he was preparing to catch another rat to replenish his flesh, he suddenly sensed something and turned swiftly to look towards the alley entrance.
The fierce black eyes, emanating evil qi, suddenly retracted when seeing the person standing at the entrance.
Standing there at the alley entrance was a little girl, about one meter tall.
Her hair braid was somewhat messy, and her jacket seemed old, but her eyes appeared particularly bright in the dark night, staring at him unblinkingly.
Greta retracted his gaze, quickly turning his body to leave.
Yet after taking just two steps, the sound of small footsteps came from behind again.
Greta turned sharply, only to see the little girl had followed him at some point.
Looking up, though at an innocent unafraid age, her expression inexplicably carried some numbness.
Greta did not look good now; even a discerning person could see he wasn’t normal. Yet the little girl showed no sign of fear.
Greta waved his hand stiffly at her, signaling her to leave.
Then, lifting his leg again, the footsteps behind him followed once more.
Greta halted, turned sharply, revealing a fierce manner toward the girl.
Unexpectedly, the girl just slightly stiffened, then continued to look at him steadily, opened her mouth, and directly asked him,
"Uncle, are you an evil ghost too?"
Greta: ...
The little girl’s voice was numb, as if telling someone else’s story,
"My dad was an evil ghost, but he died."
"He ate my mom and grandma."
"Do you want to eat me?"
Greta understood but seemed to not fully comprehend.
But he knew, he shouldn’t be an evil ghost.
He didn’t eat children.
So, once again, he waved his hand at her, signaling her to leave quickly.
The little girl, Olivia Xalvadora.
She was the daughter of the villain Soren Xalvadora who, for unfilial deeds, struck his mother to death and was then struck by lightning during the second match of the Academy Grand Competition.
She had personally witnessed her lightning-stricken father transform into an evil ghost, kill, and consume her mother’s soul. She was meant to be eaten too but was saved by her grandma’s soul.
Yet her grandma was also consumed.
Though not eaten, Olivia quite wished she had been.
Because once eaten, she would reunite with her mom and grandma.
Though clearly seeing the uncle’s gesture to drive her away, Olivia stubbornly kept following him.
Perhaps irritated by her persistence, Greta could only stiffly voice,
"I don’t eat children."
Don’t follow me.
"Go home."
Olivia continued staring at him,
"But I don’t have a home."
After her dad, mom, and grandma died, a sister from the Security Bureau sent her to Peaceful City, her mom’s old home, and handed her over to her mom’s brother.
But her aunt didn’t like her, saying she had a gloomy disposition, scary.
Her uncle and aunt argued every day.
She found it quite meaningless.
Living was also quite meaningless.
Being eaten seemed preferable.
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