Chapter 102 There Is only One Truth!

……What's happening here?

The homeless child was startled.

He reached out and touched it again, but found that everything in his left eye was normal. Even a little warm.

. . . Strange, more and more strange.

It's just like, the two states switch back and forth from time to time...

Is this a hallucination, or something like an inner world?

Could it be that Elle's face has also turned into a skeleton face similar to that of the painter Amos?

"—Elly, can you hear me?"

Just then, the homeless child heard Amos' call.

He turned back subconsciously.

I saw... a skeleton was sitting on the chair next to him, looking at himself with concern.

There is hardly a piece of flesh on it's body.

Only the left eye and the back of the neck.

Its left eye is inlaid with a green eyeball. On the back of his neck, there was a piece of skin the size of two palms... and there was even some pale blond hair on it.

The homeless child remembers it clearly.

Amos is brown-haired and blue-eyed, while Islay is blonde and blue-eyed.

——In other words, these are the eyes and skin that belong to Elle!

"Body... how is it?"

In a heavy voice with an echo, the skeleton slowly asked, "Can you see...?"

Can you see it?

Why are you asking if I can see?

Didn't I tell you at first that I have a headache?

Homeless children are acutely aware of the problem.

"I……"

--visible.

That's what he was about to answer.

But the moment he was about to speak, he suddenly felt a trance.

When he woke up again, he found that the skeleton had changed back to Amos.

His eyes were still blue.

wait, isn't it?

The homeless child suddenly realized something.

"I can see it, it's very clear...the body is also very comfortable."

As he answered slowly, he touched his eyes and the back of his head without a trace, using the ingenious technique he practiced in the examination room.

as predicted.

This time he felt a strange, icy touch again.

Whether it's the eyeballs or the neck, it's all cold. He could even clearly feel his protruding cervical vertebrae, and it felt a little sharp...

"—I know how to provoke. One of the anchor and his father must be dead."

"—Is he going to tear Elle apart and stick it on himself?"

"—My God, how are you feeling! How are you feeling!?"

"I feel good, father."

Ai Lei's expression changed, and she asked softly, "I just felt my body is very light and... powerful. What's wrong with me?"

"This is a gift from Lord Skeleton, Elle."

It was only then that Amos finally showed his cards to Alley: "My strange god-given paint was bestowed by Lord Skeleton.

"And your current healthy and powerful body is also bestowed by the Skeleton Lord. His divine power is stored in your body... You will not only live healthy, but also won't get sick or age."

He chuckled and said, "Isn't this a good thing? This is a benefit that the righteous gods can't give."

"...Then, Father."

"Ai Lei" was silent for a while, then asked solemnly, "What's the price?"

"There is no cost."

Amos replied without hesitation: "This is just a one-way ceremony to pray for gifts. My transaction with the skeleton has not officially begun. You don't need to pay anything... He may promise me, and he will give me the number later. Ten times the first paint, enough for me."

looking at...

Ellie's face was a little weird.

If you don't have to pay anything,

So where is Elle's left eye and the back of her neck?

No, it should be said...

Such an obvious thing.

-Why does Amos think that I didn't notice this?

"……wrong."

Annan looked at this scene and was suddenly startled.

He recalled something again-

If he guessed correctly.

It's possible that Ellie was not killed by Amos.

Or, he didn't even realize that... he had already killed Ally.

In that newspaper from forty-five years ago, the body fragments of "Elly" were scattered in the frame of each painting in the form of minced flesh. As for the gallery, as far as the "gallery" in the nightmare is concerned, the guarantee is more than 100 pictures.

If you really want to disassemble Ellie's body and put it into each painting...how much work would that be?

Is there such a big hatred between them?

Ellie's death...but later than when the gallery was built.

Was he going to go to the gallery at night when no one was there and stuff the minced meat into the frame piece by piece?

impossible.

It's not that Annan believes in the relationship between their father and daughter... It's that with Amos' clumsy skills, it's impossible for him to do these things silently without being noticed.

Then there is only one possibility.

That's when the fragments of Elle's body entered the painting, before her death.

- Her body was broken before she died.

This is not impossible.

To be more precise...

"Most of the pigments given by Lord Skeleton are made from Elle's body?!"

Annan's pupils shrank.

He suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

A somewhat bold guess.

But it just explains everything.

Even if it was the first time, the ceremony of Duke Skeleton was not at all costless...

But the price has been paid in advance!

In the third sacrifice, if you choose "half of your lifespan", you will sacrifice the previous part... that is to say, you will instantly become an old man.

So wouldn't the "half of conscience" and "friendship from now on" sacrificed in the second sacrifice have any effect on him? What are the commonalities, if any?

It is contempt for the lives of others.

In other words, the second sacrifice cannot be stopped. Those who make the second sacrifice will definitely make the third sacrifice... Because no matter which ritual they choose, "eating a certain part of another person" will no longer cause them a psychological burden.

According to this logic, the content of the third sacrifice will definitely require the sacrificer to make the fourth sacrifice.

This is not surprising.

The most pleasing ritual for the skeleton is "the creator is killed by his own work". And the "sacrificial replacement ceremony" that can avoid paying the price, you need to renounce your parents, wife, children and friends.

think about it.

Would a protector who loves the artist enjoy such a ceremony?

Many images suddenly appeared in Annan's mind:

——In every painting in the gallery, there is Elle's flesh.

——In the basement found over there, there are Ellie's skeleton without all her flesh and blood, and a container for a dead baby.

——Amos swallowed Ellie's umbilical cord.

——Amos had lost eyes and skin on Amos.

"...I totally get it."

Annan murmured, "Amos just got it wrong..."

He finally reacted.

The Bone Man is not at all a patron of artists and creators.

The reason he was hostile to Javon was not because they were robbing the artist of resources.

He hates all creators.

Hence... the enemy of Javon, the protector of the artist.

He mocked their greed, satirized their desperate efforts for their work, and made them pay for it...to become demons.

From the very beginning, Duke Bone thought that the person who called him would definitely hold the ceremony to the end.

So He has taken the final price early...the life of their "beloved". He just let these people go about their normal activities until they realized they were dead.

To be precise, it should be the lives of these artists, "beloved" before the ceremony.

Not the life of that person after they achieved fame, lost half of their conscience, ate the body of a loved one, or severed their relationship with them...

Although by that time, they no longer paid attention to this person.

So ironic.

The fourth sacrifice with the heaviest price was completed at the very beginning.

They have long been unable to look back. And at this time, there is no need to go back.

At that time, they were already dead in the first place.

Completely cut off all contact with the past self, lose all the glory of the original body, as if the original body died. Put on the skin of someone you love, someone you've harmed...watch yourself die in society.

[The creator was killed by his own work. 】

The ceremony itself.

It is a dramatic way to retell this theme.

"……strangeness."

Annan frowned slightly.

According to this logic, then the ceremony of Amos should not be completely completed.

Otherwise, he should have become Elle... But in the end, he coughed out Elle's eyes instead.

...Or rather, it was because he coughed out Elle's eyes.

He will enter this, the nightmare of "taking Elle's eyes"! ?

Annan's eyes suddenly lit up.

He finally knows all the rules of this nightmare!