"Exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale."
In an apartment in the Adachi District, Misa panted heavily. She did not dare to touch the wounds on her body. Once she did, it would hurt so much that she wanted to cry out loud.
Lying on the windowsill and looking at the police and patrol cars on the street, Misa suppressed the urge to scream. She covered her bleeding wound. Her face was frighteningly pale. Her hair was disheveled, and her face was pale. Coupled with the blood on her body, she did not even need to put on makeup to be a female ghost in a movie.
After being bestowed the Blood Limit Boundary by Mizuno, Misa's body also had a small amount of Chakra, but it could not withstand the consumption of the Corpse Bone Meridian. After the Chakra was exhausted, Misa burned her own life every time she used the Corpse Bone Meridian.
After killing like this for a few hours, Misa's breath was so weak that it was about to wither. She crouched humbly in the corner of the room.
Looking at the noisy screen in front of her, Misa's heart beat slowly with difficulty. This was a sign that her body had reached its limit.
"Still not enough …"
She had not experienced the world of ice and snow in the Northern Kingdom. She had not seen the Boqi Fuji at Tottori Dune. She had not experienced the beach in the Southern Kingdom. She had not tasted ice cream in winter. There were so many beautiful things in life, but she had not seen them all. Even with her current body, she still hoped to find someone she loved deeply and complete all the beautiful things in life with him.
"I'm so beautiful. How can I die?" Misa laughed at herself. She covered her wound and stumbled around the room looking for something.
Most families would have a medicine box at home. It contained commonly used hemostatic medicine and cold medicine. Misa rummaged through the cabinet and finally found the medicine box.
The brown wooden box looked very old. What surprised Misa was that the box had the words "Tri Ye Children's Care Home" written on it. The owner of this apartment seemed to have worked in an orphanage.
Misa had a good impression of the owner of this apartment that she had never met before. Although there were many bad people in the world, there were always good people. It was just that most of the time, the human heart was more terrifying than demons and ghosts. Although Lord Bone Lady was a demon, she was more like a human than a human.
Just as Misa was applying the bandage on her wound, the door to the apartment's bedroom was slowly pulled open.
She nimbly reached out her palm and aimed it at the bedroom. With just a thought, her finger would shoot out like a bullet.
Even if the owner of this apartment was just an innocent citizen, she would not hesitate to kill in order to survive.
But the one who opened the door was an old woman with white hair, a wrinkled face, and a kind smile under her squinted eyes.
"Ah, is it Mochizuki sauce?"
The old woman turned around and closed the door. "Why are you up so early? If you don't sleep, you won't grow up."
Moongazer?
Misa didn't remember having such an elegant surname.
"Are you hungry? Have you woken up?"
The old lady smiled mysteriously at Misa. Then, she bent over and took out a fruit candy from the drawer. "Here, eat it. Grandma Fat hid this for you. Eat this candy first. I'll cook for you."
The old woman opened her cracked palm. There was a hard fruit candy wrapped in green packaging on it. She waved her palm at Misa.
Although she called herself Grandma Fat, the old woman didn't look fat at all. In fact, she was very thin.
Misa shrank back. She was a "monster" who killed countless people, but she was forced to retreat by an old woman.
Seeing the old woman's kind smile, Misa hesitantly accepted the candy. She held it in her palm and ate it without being reckless.
The old woman smiled and walked toward the kitchen. "If only Misu, Takeda, and the others were as obedient as Moongazer. They're too naughty. I wonder where they've gone to play now.
"How can they have the energy to play when they're not full? This won't do. If they don't study hard like Moongazer, it'll be hard for them to establish themselves in society in the future."
Touching the word "orphanage" on the medicine box, Misa understood something.
The old woman must have worked at the orphanage before. Now that she had dementia in her old age, her ability to distinguish things was very, very low. She even mistook Misa for a child from the orphanage.
But Misa didn't let her guard down. Who knew if the old woman was faking it? She was still very vigilant.
The sound of cooking came from the kitchen, and there was a faint aroma.
Putting the medicine box back in its original position, Misa observed the photo frames placed on the table. They were all photos of a plump middle-aged woman and her children. That should be this mother-in-law. There were children of five or six years old, some in their teens, and some in their twenties who were already adults.
There were some wedding photos at the back. The fat grandmother accompanied the bride and groom. This should be the children from the orphanage who had grown up and formed their own families. The fat grandmother was invited to attend the wedding as a mother.
Misa also found a photo of the fat grandmother's family. It was a beautiful family of three.
But the strange thing was that the old woman was the only one living in the apartment now. Her children must have gone to work and lived outside, so they had their own families.
There were more and more lonely old people like this in the Island nation. Decades ago, it had become a social problem. Due to the low population growth rate brought by economic development, big families had shrunk into small, single-person families. The social circle of the lonely old people became smaller and smaller. Many old people without children would only be visited regularly by the community welfare workers.
Because of this reason, the Island nation even had a term called "Death by Fate." The vague meaning was that many old people died alone because they didn't have any social "fate." After they died, no one would claim their bodies, and their houses would be empty. Some old people were only found by their neighbors and community workers a few months after they died.
"Mochizuki, come here. This is a special meal that I've prepared for you. You have to finish it before Mi Jin and the others wake up." The fat grandmother struggled to hold the rice cooker.
Misa limped forward and took the rice cooker.
The fat grandmother smiled happily. She took out another stir-fried dish and placed two bowls of rice on the table.
"Hurry up and eat." The fat grandmother put her palms together. After I started eating, I picked up a piece of meat and put it in Misa's bowl.
"I … I'm starting." Misa held her chopsticks and put her palms together with difficulty.
The meal was very slow. The fat grandmother was old, so she didn't eat much. Misa didn't have an appetite. After her shoulder was injured, it was inconvenient for her to move around. Even eating was troublesome.
Misa helped clean up the dishes and let her guard down. She leaned against the sofa in a comfortable position to ease the discomfort in her body.
"How's Mochizuki doing at school?"
"Don't play on the swing in the courtyard. The rope looks old. Be careful not to fall and break your butt."
"Sigh, I wonder what happened to Yuanzi after she was adopted …"
"A well-behaved girl like Mochizuki will be adopted by a good family in the future. She will live a happy life and give birth to a beautiful son and daughter."
The fat grandmother's nagging made Misa want to doze off. However, she didn't feel impatient. She enjoyed the "peace" at this moment. She was willing to nag for a few more hours.
"Knock knock."
While Misa was listening to the fat grandmother's nagging, someone knocked on the door.
"Who is it?"
The fat grandmother stood up and walked to the door. Her steps were unsteady, and her speed couldn't be any slower.
She was so slow that Misa could kill her in an instant.