Who hid My Corpse!-Chapter 297: Eight "Secrets
Chapter 297: Eight “Secrets
Heavy boots crushed the dried wood in the snow, and the owner of the boots let out a dull gasp.
Hewinia followed silently behind him, her mind seemingly preoccupied.
Finally, the man stopped walking, bent down, and supported himself on his knees, gasping heavily, clearly in poor condition.
“Are you sick?” Hewinia asked lightly, “If you are sick, you can see a doctor.”
“…Shut up!” the man roared, then suddenly raised his head, staring intently at Hewinia with bloodshot eyes, “How dare you mock me?!”
“I was merely stating the facts,” Hewinia said calmly, “If you truly feel unwell, I can take you there. With Doctor Norman’s medical skills, he will surely be able to help you.”
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Upon hearing Hewinia’s words, the man laughed.
But it wasn’t a normal laugh; it was a laugh filled with anger and mockery.
“Stop pretending, Hewinia!” the man said, “In this academy, no one knows your true nature better than I do!”
“Oh? Is that so?” Hewinia slowly folded her arms behind her back, “Tell me, what is this true nature of mine.”
As she folded her arms, a magic wand that had been well hidden in her sleeves slid down and was firmly grasped in her hand.
This movement naturally went unseen by the man, whose entire focus was fixed on Hewinia herself, further enraged by her serene tone.
“Do you think I’m posturing, Hewinia?” the man raised his hand, pointing at Hewinia, “Do you not know what you did in the Seed District?”
Hewinia narrowed her eyes slightly.
Memories from a year ago resurfaced in her mind.
Had she been discovered then?
But there should have been no one around at the time.
So, did this man already know about her identity in the Golden Score?
A string of questions surged in Hewinia’s mind, but soon they were condensed into a single thought.
How to make him shut up.
Hewinia didn’t reveal her thoughts, merely saying, “You’ve already called me out here, and now it’s just the two of us. Why don’t you speak more clearly… after all, I still don’t know who you are.”
“You don’t recognize me… haha, indeed you wouldn’t recognize me, for you didn’t notice me at that time.” The man stretched his finger towards his eye and slowly pulled it open, “But I had been watching you, hiding aside, watching you, when you… personally killed that person.”
Hearing this, Hewinia’s expression turned even colder, her magic wand hidden behind her back rapidly gathering a whirlwind of magical energy.
She was just waiting for the man’s next words.
“Haha, that look… that’s the look, very good, really good, you can’t pretend anymore, Hewinia!” the man yelled at Hewinia, “What you and your family did in the Seed District, the people you killed, I saw it all! I saw it all!”
The last half of the sentence was almost a scream.
The expanding sound waves shook the snow off the branches.
Snowflakes like goose feathers fluttered down between them.
And then there was silence.
The whirlwind of magical energy behind Hewinia slowly dissipated.
So it was this…
Hewinia finally understood what the man meant by murder.
And some images from the depths of her memory fell like snowflakes from her mind.
…
“This one won’t do.”
“This one’s potential is poor, it won’t reach silver even if raised.”
“Dispose of it quickly.”
Shadows flickered, and someone approached her.
“This one seems okay.”
“Observe it a bit longer.”
…
After the last snowflake melded into the snowy ground, there was no more obstruction in sight.
Hewinia still gazed at the man, but her eyes had regained their calm.
A calm that made the man uneasy.
“Is that all you wanted to tell me?”
The man was taken aback, “What… what do you mean ‘is that all’?”
“I had hoped that you could present something more surprising,” Hewinia said, brushing her snow-dampened hair behind her ear, “But it turned out to be just this. It’s somewhat disappointing.”
“You, you, you’re posturing!” the man shouted, “The things you and your family did in the Seed District, once the academy finds out…”
“So what if they find out?” Hewinia said, “Do you think it’s a secret?”
“…What do you mean?”
“I think, you must have visited only that part of the Seed District.” Hewinia slowly began, “If you had visited the other areas, you wouldn’t be saying such naive things to me right now.”
The man understood Hewinia’s words.
So all the Seed Districts… were like that?
The man opened his mouth, his eyes filled with disbelief.
“You, you’re just making excuses.”
“What is there to make excuses for?” Hewinia slowly raised her head, as if looking down at the somewhat hunched man in front of her, “The Hailuo family, our family, ranks midstream in the annual seed harvest rates throughout Holy Sound… in your eyes, we, who do not hesitate to secure harvest rates, can only rank midstream.”
She paused, and memories surged again in her mind.
“So, what have the families that rank upstream done?”
