Chapter 54. The Hard Game

Lil’s POV

Cain had checked the man and told me that he was absolutely dead and there wasn’t a way to bring him back to life. Cain seemed to be performing fake magic. Perhaps it was his way of offering the psyche of the man to the spirit he’d mentioned, who could help him out of the curse and go back to the realm of spirits where he came from.

I was so merciless that I had killed too many people. I could not consider everything as an adventurous game anymore. I hoped, I could say, I didn’t care about anyone, but I needed to finish what I had started. I knew it was just a temporary ordeal.

Staying strong is what I needed, because there were many more people to die in my hands for the sake of freedom. It even crossed my mind to stop schooling and focus instead on killing people. I couldn’t study if the curse would not let me sleep every night to search for a new victim. This thing was more important than anything else because it could cost me everything. I could resum