My transformation into a beautiful girl started with a hemorrhage.

The female lead needs the ability to be immortal to set the stage for a certain plot point later on.

Chapter 56 Understanding

Xiangmiao, now known as Hui, returned to her humble rented room at 11:30 p.m.

The rental house is a flat-roofed house, very small, with only two floors and four rooms on each floor.

Hui's room is the innermost one on the second floor.

Stepping onto the exposed, makeshift stairs, the hard-soled mid-heeled shoes made a "thump-thump..." sound as they hit the rusty staircase.

Upon arriving at the narrow passageway on the second floor, one finds an outdoor washing machine placed there.

Hui walked sideways past the washing machine to her bedroom door, took out her keys, and was about to open the door when...

"Xiaozhaojian! Why are you so late? Did something happen?" A pleasant, concerned female voice rang out.

Hui turned her head and saw that the door next to hers was half open, and a young woman with curly hair was peeking out.

Hui thought for a moment, and realized that this was Sister Qianchi from next door.

As far as I remember, Chichi came to Tokyo to pursue her dream of becoming a singer.

She usually takes good care of me, the owner of this body, Kobayami Kanae, and the place where the original owner is currently working was also introduced by this person.

So Hui smiled and replied, "Yes! Sister Qianchi, I'm fine. I just had too much work to do today, which made me late."

"Oh, I see! Have you had dinner? I have some leftover rice balls here..."

"Thank you, Sister Qianchi, but no need, I've already eaten!"

"Okay then! Get some rest!"

"Ok!"

Hui greeted Qianchi and then opened the door to go inside.

Turn on the light; the room is tidy, sparsely furnished, and spacious.

Hui took the quilt out of the cupboard, unfolded it, and then turned off the light to go to sleep. She felt very tired because of all the things that had happened that day.

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Nothing happened that night, and the next day...

"Ring-ling——"

Hui was awakened by a cell phone ringing.

"Moses, Moses?"

"Moshi Moshi! Is it Xiangmiao?"

Hui frowned and carefully recalled the owner of the voice.

Well···

This is the voice of my teacher at the cram school—Shimizu Takako.

In the original owner's memory, Shimizu Takako was a young and responsible female teacher.

So Hui replied, "It's me, Shimizu-sensei."

"Oh, why didn't you come to class today? Are you feeling unwell?" Ms. Shimizu's concerned voice came through the phone.

Hui thought that the original owner of this body, Kobayami Kanae, was already dead. If she left in a few months, she would have no connection with this world. Moreover, she was here to level up, and who knows, she might become a wanted criminal in a few days!

So Hui said, "Ms. Shimizu, thank you for your concern, but my family has arranged a job for me, which I think is pretty good. I've decided to give up on repeating the year, so that's all. Goodbye!"

"What!? Hey, hey!"

"Beep—, beep..."

Shimizu Takako wanted to persuade Kanae not to give up, but the other end of the phone hung up immediately.

After dealing with Ms. Shimizu Takako, Hui began to reflect on what she had learned the previous night.

"Yesterday, that demi-human directly increased his soul essence by 30 strings. Not only that, I felt that he had absorbed some special substance, which is why he had such a huge soul essence of 30 strings."

Then Hui stretched out her fair hand and stared at it for a moment.

"Logically speaking, after one's soul merges with the Void Essence to become the Void Soul, even if one cannot understand the laws of the Void, the Void Soul's powerful and unreasonable devouring ability should enable one to gain the ability of demi-human immortality."

"But... I didn't feel anything at all! There was no notification saying 'Congratulations, host, you have gained the ability of demi-human immortality'..."

"Should we give it a try?"

Hui hesitated, because after all, it was suicide!

Even if the self in this world dies, the original self will not die, but it will cause damage to the soul, resulting in headaches for several years.

Moreover, with his soul damaged, he was unable to return to this world.

Hui is very conflicted...

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Finally, Hui gritted her teeth.

"Let's give it our all! We believe in the power of God!"

Then, Hui took a long, sharp knife from the small kitchen in the rented room.

Then I went to the bathroom of the rented room, turned on the video recording mode on my phone, and placed it in a place where I could record the bathroom scene.

After securing the phone, press the knife against your heart.

Simultaneous activation of abilities:

—Capability structure adjustment…

—Object…self…

—Ability Type…Pain Shielding…

——New ability formula generation···

—Synchronization…

--complete!

Then all that could be heard was:

With a "whoosh!" sound.

Hui plunged the knife precisely into her own heart.

Although Hui's pain receptors had been blocked, her body still felt increasingly cold and sleepy...

"It's so uncomfortable... I should shut out all my senses." These were Hui's last thoughts as she closed her eyes.

In the small bathroom of the rented room, a graceful and beautiful young girl, naked except for her underwear, lay quietly on the floor. A sharp knife was stuck in her chest, and she was also holding the handle of the knife in one hand.

Blood slowly flowed from the girl's almost naked body, gradually gathering at the bathroom drain before flowing into the city's sewers.

Just then, black mist-like particles suddenly emerged from the body of the girl who should have died, especially densely around the wound on her chest.

Then···

"what!"

Hui opened her eyes.

Then I looked around.

"Thankfully, it did come back to life."

Hui breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hmm? This body..."

Hui discovered that the compatibility between her reborn body and her soul had gone from being almost 100% to being 100% perfect.

It's important to understand that the distance between getting infinitely close and reaching 100% is seemingly very small.

But in reality, it is an insurmountable barrier.

Not only that, this body completely became his own clone.

If Kei's consciousness had returned to her original body, Kobayami Kanae's body would have remained in this world as a corpse.

When Hui returns, this body will be transformed into pure life energy by these black mist-like particles and return to its original form.

Then he raised his hand, which was still holding the knife, and saw that a piece of the knife was missing, and the cut was very smooth.

Hui touched her chest again and found that it was intact and the knife that had been inserted into it was gone.

Hui got up, put on a nightgown, and watched the video on her phone several times.

He saw black particles spreading from the wounds of his own dead body.

"It seems that the demi-humans can be resurrected because of those black particles."

"Not only that, these black particles seem to be able to assimilate matter, and the entire knife disappeared."

"But where do we go to find demi-humans next?"

Hui carefully considered where to look for traces of the demi-humans.

Because the soul energy brought by the demi-humans is too great, 30 for one demi-human, the soul quality of those dozen or so demi-humans could probably reach the level of the original body.

With dozens of demi-humans, one's own sub-soul can reach the level of tens of millions of strings. At that time, one's 'mental manipulation' ability can reach level 5, although it is the weakest level 5.

Hui remembered something, took out her phone, opened her browser, and searched for 'Ajin'.

Soon, many messages appeared on my phone, including forum posts and pictures.

The top-ranked video is of a demi-human being repeatedly killed and resurrected; in just 46 seconds, this demi-human was killed five times.

Hui watched as the video showed demi-humans, bound from head to toe and gagged, unable even to cry out in pain, being brutally killed again and again, only to be resurrected, killed again, and resurrected again… beheading, heart-ripping, electrocution…

"As expected of humans! Sure enough, when the stakes are high enough, all talk of peace, friendship, empathy, and putting yourself in others' shoes is just empty rhetoric!"

Hui was extremely surprised by the cruelty of humanity in this world. No, it was this world that exposed the cruelty of humanity.