Chapter 10%
He froze for a moment and started desperately covering his face, “It’s not time yet! I haven’t swapped lives for Evelyn!” As he spoke, he charged at me holding the bone soup.
I was shocked and tried to dodge, but there was no room left.”
Just then, Uncle Joe suddenly woke up. He snatched the ashes from my hands and pushed me aside. Then he poured all the ashes onto Dawson.
Dawson let out a horrific scream and black smoke started rising from his body.”
Uncle Joe, sweated profusely, shouted at me, “Selina, draw the talisman!“}]
I was stunned for a moment, then quickly took out the brush my grandmother left me, dipped it in the ashes and began drawing the talisman on Dawson.
Sure enough, the moment I finished the final stroke, Dawson twisted violently a few times before going completely still. Next, I used the same method to draw a talisman on the pig–like creature.”
The sow let out a piercing scream, its body convulsed violently and finally transformed from a half–human, half–pig monster into a regular pig.
Agnes’s pig–like face and limbs also returned to normal human form.
Seeing that the bone curse was broken, I finally let out a sigh of relief.
After I left the lab, I immediately called the police to handle the situation.}
It turned out that the girls Dawson had abducted over the years were the very ones from the recent missing persons cases that had left the police helpless.
No one ever imagined the victims were hidden in a secret chamber beneath a supposedly haunted garment factory.}
With the police’s approval, I took the skull marked with Regina’s name and gave her a proper burial.
Once everything settled, I received another message from the anonymous account, “Thank you. Actually, from the first time I saw you five years ago, I knew I could trust you.”
“Now, I can finally rest in peace.“}
I was stunned and suddenly remembered why Regina’s graduation photo had felt so familiar.}
It turned out that the girl in the white dress we saw on the rooftop the night Agnes and I watched the meteor shower, was Regina.
After being used in Dawson’s ritual, her soul ended up trapped in a pig’s body. She’d spent all these years hiding, just waiting for someone she could trust.
Someone to whom she could hand over all the clues, to save the dozen innocent souls who’d died. Now, I had done it. And she could finally rest.
After it all ended, Uncle Joe decided to sell the pig farm he’d run for over a decade. asked him why, he’d raised pigs for so many years.
Uncle Joe scratched his head and told me, after everything that happened, he couldn’t look at pigs without feeling traumatized.
I laughed and told him it wasn’t trauma, it’s just that the old sow he had was weird from the start. What kind of pig stares at people with sideways eyes like that??
But Uncle Joe just waved his hand and said he was getting old and wanted a peaceful retirement. He really didn’t have the courage to go through something like that again.%
Before selling the farm, he gave me the old photo album my grandmother had left behind, he said it was something to remember her by.
When I opened the album, I suddenly noticed someone in the corner of the last photo who looked very familiar. It was Dawson.
(The End)
