I! Cleaner!-Chapter 951 - 880: Blood of the Medium and Heart Lake

My daughter... Ellie is the root of our family's tragedy?

Faced with the revelation from the Wailing Puppet, Emma's first reaction was that it must be spouting nonsense. However, after exchanging a glance with the Wailing Puppet, another almost instinctual strange feeling surged uncontrollably in Emma's heart.

What it said might actually be true!

...

"According to my understanding, in fact, a long, long time ago, that deer had already set its sights on you... or rather, on your entire family."

Looking at Emma, who was trying hard to maintain silence despite the fear in her eyes, the Wailing Puppet couldn't help but crack a satisfied grin and, with malice-filled glass eyes, began to reveal:

"The human Kingdom where you reside and the Witch Kingdom are allies, with a history of interaction spanning hundreds of years, including frequent intermarriage. Among the ancestors of your Bauhinia Family, several have married spirit mediums from the Witch Kingdom.

And having inherited the bloodline of spirit mediums, you belong to a very special branch among humans, naturally closer to death than other living beings, making you an ideal vessel for the arrival of the deceased..."

"You're talking nonsense!"

Interrupting the Wailing Puppet, Emma, whose face had turned ghostly pale, gritted her teeth and retorted: 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

"Even if my ancestors indeed married spirit mediums from the Witch Kingdom, no one in our family has ever learned secret techniques of the spirit mediums! There's no way we have any talent to become spirit mediums!"

"Haha, you're mistaken about one thing."

Upon hearing this, the Wailing Puppet chuckled and then explained with a calm expression:

"A lack of talent to learn secret techniques doesn't mean the traits of the bloodline haven't been inherited. Your family has indeed completely inherited the blood of the spirit mediums... If you still don't believe it, then perhaps you should recall your own experiences."

"What experiences?"

"The experience of turning back on the No Return Path after your first death and forcibly returning to the present world."

After moving its creaking wooden body a bit, the Wailing Puppet continued unhurriedly:

"After discovering your daughter's soul in the Realm of the Dead, you temporarily broke free from the shackles of the No Return Path due to anger and unwillingness, returning to the present world... Haven't you realized that this already violates the rules of the Realm of the Dead?"

"What rules?"

"Of course, the rules of the No Return Path."

Glancing at Emma's increasingly pale face, the Wailing Puppet couldn't help but smile and continued to explain:

"For all the deceased, the restrictions of the No Return Path are absolute; no soul beneath the True God has any chance of escaping.

And with so many people dying every day in the present world, there are countless deceased who are more unwilling, angrier, and more hateful than you are, so why was it you who broke free from the shackles of the No Return Path?"

"I..."

"There is only one answer, which is that you possess a highly concentrated bloodline of spirit mediums.

The ability to frequently traverse the boundary between life and death is precisely the talent needed to become a spirit medium, and you are the most outstanding individual in the Bauhinia Family with this talent."

At this point, the Wailing Puppet deliberately paused for a moment to give Emma, who had been hit with immense shock, some time to process this. Then, with a look of admiration, it continued:

"You probably don't know just how precious a treasure you are in the eyes of us Overlords of the Dead Realm.

Although the spirit mediums of the Witch Kingdom are also close to death, to avoid getting lost in death, once they come into contact with secret techniques, their souls will be 'locked' by the secret techniques to prevent themselves from prematurely sliding into the Realm of the Dead.

But you are different. Even though you have the top-level talent of a spirit medium, you are not a citizen of the Witch Kingdom and have not been subjected to their screening for aptitudes for secret techniques in your childhood, nor have you ever learned secret techniques of spirit mediums.

So your unrestricted soul is able to roam freely between life and death, and the children you give birth to, before truly understanding life and death and learning to distinguish between the two, are both living and deceased, naturally able to accommodate the souls of us 'deceased'."

After explaining why the Bauhinia Family was targeted by the incarnate deer, the Wailing Puppet looked at the slightly trembling Emma, who seemed to have guessed something, and couldn't help but grin maliciously and unveil:

"After discovering this wonderful treasure, that deer had already separated a portion of its own soul and, while you unconsciously crossed between life and death, cast this fragment into your soul that had slipped into the Realm of the Dead, intending to use you to nurture the body it needs.

But even less than one percent of the fragment, its great soul, belonging to the Overlords of the Dead Realm, was still unbearable for a human child, so the deer's consciousness could not descend and could only remain dormant in your daughter's body.

And the only way to awaken its consciousness is to create a grand enough sacrifice funeral, allowing thousands of deceased souls with similar bloodlines, kindred to that child, to share its overwhelmingly large consciousness, so that deer can truly awaken from its slumber... So do you understand?"

Looking at Emma, whose entire soul was in chaos and whose eyes were gradually losing their light, the Wailing Puppet, predicting a truly exquisite wail it was about to hear, could not help but grin to the fullest and said with delight:

"The daughter you have been missing all along is actually not your daughter at all, but merely a body created by the incarnate deer to descend into the present world, using you as a vessel.

And it is precisely to truly 'birth' this body that your parents and sisters, your brothers and friends have entered death one by one in front of you with resentment and hatred!"

?!!!

Ellie... is not my daughter? Just a shell created by the incarnate deer?

After hearing the Wailing Puppet's words, Emma, whose inner suspicions were confirmed, suddenly felt as if the world was spinning, as if something in her heart was crumbling.

Leon gave her the courage to persist, but Ellie was her only family, the emotional anchor she always relied on, and also her pillar of survival in these days of torment.

And the information revealed by the Wailing Puppet was tantamount to demolishing most of this pillar, completely shattering the already tenuous stability of her soul's defense, and an unimaginably immense pain surged instantly to her heart.

However, just when this extremely sharp pain began to swell within Emma's Heart Lake, about to turn into a heart-wrenching wail, the center of her Heart Lake suddenly "leaked" a massive hole.

Under the dumbfounded gaze of the Wailing Puppet, the overwhelming pain in Emma's soul, like seawater falling into a sea eye, plummeted into a certain bottomless abyss and was drawn out in the blink of an eye!

Then, a male hand, with bulging veins, extraordinarily and eerily reached out from her chest, grasping her own throat!