I'll kill you after I finish this game!

Fujii Ren cast a pleading look at Skadi, signaling her to hurry up and get started, as she had no idea how to communicate with Mary if things continued like this.

"Ah."

Skadi chuckled and shook her head, a hint of helplessness flashing in her eyes. Then she said to Mary, "From now on, she will be your scabbard. With Lian, you can manifest normally. Embrace her."

"Ah."

Mary nodded, then reached out and hugged Fujii Ren, smiling politely as she said, "Looking forward to working with you from now on, Ren."

"------!"

It was the same death-like feeling as before; I instinctively felt trembling and horrified, and although I wanted to escape, it was too late.

Mary had already embraced Fujii Ren. The embrace was so warm that Fujii Ren squinted his eyes comfortably.

Then, in the audience's view, the decapitation scars, like crowns of thorns, appeared on the two people's fair necks, emitting a scarlet glow.

Skadi's neck also bore a bloody decapitation mark, as if echoing the previous one. She touched the mark with a touch of nostalgia, looking at the two people embracing in front of her. Only she knew what she was thinking.

As the audience's vision blurred, it shifted again, this time back to Fujii Ren's perspective.

As Mary embraced her, she experienced—no, she saw—memories that weren't her own.

This video, whether from Mary's perspective or from memory, is unknown.

Ren Fujii and the audience all witnessed Mary's past as a human being.

From an unobstructed perspective, Fujii Ren's consciousness saw images from the past.

In 1793, in Saint-Malo, the blue city of France, lived a happy couple: the husband, an honest harbor worker, and the wife, a beautiful woman.

At this moment, a revolutionary wind swept through, causing the citizens' thinking to completely reverse, and they came to believe that nobles and monks were absolutely evil.

The couple never doubted this, but they forgot the help they had received from monks when they were children.

The husband is a simple-minded and naive man, while the wife is a fervent believer in the Republican Party.

One day, on the day of the execution, the couple went to visit the execution site together; the wife was pregnant and about to give birth.

The happy couple were simply typical kind citizens of that era, influenced by its prevailing values.

Following the perspective of Fujii Ren's consciousness, she arrived at a place that was incredibly familiar. It was the place where she had first encountered Mary while unconscious in the museum, and during that time, she herself had been beheaded.

Such a memorable place will naturally be remembered by the audience.

However, this time, Fujii Ren came here not as a victim, but as someone even more of a spectator than the audience.

She stared blankly at the couple and the scene of the impending execution.

The victim was a former high priest of the church, a respected figure known to all, who was like a father to the couple.

However, he was an enemy, and a sinner should be punished by beheading.

The executioner didn't show up that day. This old priest had helped many people, and the crowd below the execution platform sympathized with him; no one was willing to take his place.

The crowd surged forward, gathering around the execution platform, their gazes fixed on the person about to be executed with a mixture of emotions.

But at that very moment...

“Darling…please…” The wife’s slightly pained voice made her husband turn his head. He looked at his wife, who was giving him a forced smile, with confusion. She said, “Please go and carry out the execution in place of the executioner.”

Such a strange request was nothing unusual to the upright and single-minded husband; the woman's plea was indeed like a supreme command.

Fujii Ren and the audience felt something was strange about this. A wife who was about to give birth actually asked her husband to carry out the execution in order to watch it. There was something inexplicably weird about it.

"I come!"

The simple-minded husband readily agreed to his wife's request. He rushed out and, amidst the astonished gazes of the crowd, stepped onto the execution platform.

Seeing her husband's courageous posture as he went on stage, the wife cheered with joy. But at this moment, the cheer turned into a painful groan. She endured the pain and bent over with a heavy heart.

She successfully suppressed her sobs and then began to sing her favorite tune in a bright voice.

"[Blood, blood, blood, I want to drink blood. (Jeveuxlesang,sang,sang,etsang.)]"

"[Pouring sweet dew onto the guillotine stand. (Donnonslesangdeguillotine.)]"

"[To satisfy the thirst for the guillotine. (Pourguerirlasecheressedelaguillotine.)]"

"【My only desire is blood, blood, blood. (Jeveuxlesang,sang,sang,etsang.)】"

Hearing the familiar song, Fujii Ren felt a sudden pain in his neck and unconsciously covered his neck with a pained expression, under the understanding gazes of the audience.

After all, this Ms. Fujii Ren had nightmares about being beheaded every night after encountering the guillotine.

Looking at this scene from the audience's perspective now, her feelings are definitely not pleasant.

But this scene is related to Mary, could it be...?

Under this familiar melody, the crowd's sympathy vanished as if by magic. Joyful sounds spread like wildfire, gradually growing in number.

A blood-soaked chorus gradually began on the execution ground, and in no time, the square was filled with the bloody melody.

Viewers found the scene of the beheading, with its fanatical focus on the act, to be strangely unsettling and unsettling, something that modern people simply couldn't comprehend.

At that moment, the husband, who was about to be executed, found boundless courage in the songs of the crowd, despite having no prior experience with executions.

He picked up the axe and aimed it at the rope from which the guillotine blade was suspended.

Knowing he was about to die, the priest suddenly smiled compassionately and offered his blessing to the man who was about to execute him.

"Bam—"

As the axe struck, the head fell from the neck amidst the blood. Amidst the cheers and blessings of the crowd, the husband successfully completed his execution, and the wife proved her patriotic loyalty.

Amidst blessings, the husband beheaded his former benefactor, and the wife proved her patriotic loyalty.

When the husband returned to his wife's side after stepping down from the stage, she had already given birth to a lovely baby girl who was crying.

The girl was incredibly cute, and her parents were overjoyed, gazing lovingly at this gift from heaven.

[Only a crimson mark, like a coral ornament or a crown of thorns, encircled the girl's slender, delicate neck.]

The baby girl's parents stared wide-eyed, the words "marks of the guillotine" flashing through their minds.

Fujii Ren stared wide-eyed at the crying blonde baby girl; it was obvious who she was.

“Mary…”

Yes, that's right, that's Mary.

A girl born under the guillotine, a maiden protected by the guillotine, a princess who has been beheaded.

Viewers from countless dimensions were also surprised that Mary was born under such circumstances, and that she had an extremely ominous beheading mark on her neck from birth.

Is that why she's called the "Beheaded Princess"?

【Dominate the Demon】: The girl born under the guillotine is truly a bizarre birth, and the slash on her neck is not a scar, but something she was born with.

【Love That Can Flex and Flexibility】: How interesting. The couple had once received the priest's favor, but now they have forgotten that favor and are punishing him. Their newborn daughter has a slash mark on her neck. The relationship is so obvious.

[Vehicle Killer]: Is it retribution? Or something else?

[The Bard]: It feels very strange, a girl born under the guillotine. This is about the past of a girl named Mary.

[Guest of the Hall of Rebirth]: Generally speaking, this kind of thing is by no means accidental. There were voices calling the girl the "beheading princess," is that also related to this?

.......

Countless people are pondering this, after all, it concerns the past of a god seeking the Dao, and naturally they are very curious.

Fujii Ren's perspective shifts as her memories fade, allowing her to learn more about the truth of Mary's past.

As a means of mutual understanding and resonance, they will see each other's true selves.

Two years after Mary's birth, the Reign of Terror had ended, the guillotine was abolished, and people began to distance themselves from the last person beheaded—Mary's father.

People gave him the nickname "executioner," but despite this violence and rejection, Mary's father did not give up on life; his only solace was his beloved daughter.

[The lovable Margaret, whenever she saw the girl sleeping soundly or smiling in her cradle, like an angel, felt her heart comforted and redeemed.]

However, Mary never spoke, despite her parents' tireless attempts to teach her to speak; the girl remained silent and unyielding.

One night, the child suddenly trembled and uttered a beautiful, moving sound, like a whisper from afar.

Upon hearing this, Mary's mother was overjoyed and quickly called her husband. The couple stood by the cradle, watching Mary intently, and the mother could not contain her happiness.

"Speak, Mary, come, say something, good girl!" Mary's mother encouraged.

She urged and encouraged her daughter, bending down to listen. The child was silent for a moment, then looked with her beautiful emerald green eyes at her mother, who was clasping her hands in a Christian prayer, and began to sing a low melody.

[Blood, blood, blood, I want to drink blood (Jeveuxlesang,sang,sang,etsang.)]

[Upon hearing this, the poor mother was so shocked that she collapsed backward. Her husband rushed to support her, while Mary continued to sing the bloody song.]

[Pouring sweet dew onto the guillotine stand. (Donnonslesangdeguillotine.)]

[To satisfy the thirst for the guillotine. (Pourguerirlasecheressedelaguillotine.)]

"Ahhh!! Shut up... I beg you, please stop!" Hearing this song that she had never taught her children, the mother was suddenly provoked and pleaded in a weak voice, but Mary still didn't stop.

[My only desire is blood, blood, blood. (Jeveuxlesang,sang,sang,etsang.)]

At this point, both Fujii Ren and the audience fell silent. Mary was extraordinary and terrifying from birth.

No one taught her to sing this bloody song, but she seemed to be born with it. The first time she spoke, she sang the guillotine song without any instruction.

While some may not understand Mary's traumatized mother, it is actually not difficult for most people to comprehend.

Mary's mother practiced Christian rites, and her beliefs need no further explanation.

They beheaded the priest who had once shown them kindness, and now their daughter is singing this ballad. It's hard not to think the wrong way, wondering if they're being punished.

At first, Mary's mother could escape by claiming it was a coincidence, but she immediately broke down after Mary sang the song herself.

"No one taught her; Mary, who had never spoken before, burst into song this bloody ballad the moment she opened her mouth..."

Kiana, inside the viewing area, grabbed Raiden Mei's arm, asking her with some confusion what was going on.

However, Raiden Mei naturally had no idea why this strange and seemingly karmic scene had occurred.

Is it a curse? Because a priest was beheaded?

The video feed continues.

[The husband, bewildered by the scene, shifted his anxious gaze from his daughter to his wife, who seemed about to faint. The wife managed to get up, but her eyes had lost their sparkle and vitality, and wrinkles of age appeared on her forehead.]

In just one minute, she seemed to have aged more than ten years.