"You can stop following me and tell me what you want unless you want to end up in a place you really don't want to," Umilia warned in a stern tone as she looked at the hooded figure calmly, waiting for him to remove his cloth mask.
Still, inwardly she was a bit surprised as her senses enveloped him, making her narrow her eyes with a confused look.
The man slowly raised his head with a dangerous glint in his eyes as he suddenly let out a peal of laughter, "Hahaha, Umi…I knew it…you are really so different from other boring women. What kind of woman could be so brave and fearless to face a man in the middle of the night with nobody else around. Imagine the things that could happen."
After hearing his voice, Umilia got her final confirmation as she said with a perplexed expression, "Linard…all this time, the world thought you went missing, but here you are, stalking me around instead of going home to your sister. Do you have any idea how worried sick she has been about you?"
Umilia was indeed surprised that this man was Linard, especially since he had been missing for months and nobody was able to find him, including his sister. She was thinking that the worst had already happened to him and was worried if his sister would be able to accept the reality.
And the way he was speaking to her didn't seem like the Linard she knew who was always a gentleman. She wondered if he became unhinged or something.
"Trisha huh…" For a moment, his thoughts seemed to wander somewhere else, but then he shook his head wildly like an animal, "Don't fucking try to change the topic!!" Linard shouted with visible anger on his face as he removed his mask to reveal a sickly pale expression of a man whose looks made it a bit obvious that he was once good-looking.
But now, even his hair seemed half bald, and reddish-blue veins were spreading across his face, making his appearance look quite scary, though it only made Umilia feel even more suspicious seeing what had happened to him.
"Who did this to you?" Umilia asked with squinted eyes as she continued to stand in the same spot.
Linard had a perplexed look seeing how Umilia barely reacted to his face after seeing it. Usually, women would scream in horror and fear the moment they saw him before he shuts them up for good.
"You really are quite interesting…I wonder how tasty your blood will be…Don't worry, I won't kill you but instead turn you into someone like me so that you will understand in this world other than me, nobody else will accept you when you turn into a monster like me, hehe," Linard said as he lasciviously licked his lips, his eyes glinting with lust and thirst to get his hands on her.
And as his lips parted, one could see bloody sharp fangs extending from his teeth that could send chills down any ordinary person, though Umilia only frowned hearing his words and said in a serious tone, "I don't think that is going to happen. But Linard…stop this madness here, and I can still try to help you and get you back to your sister. Don't do something you won't ever be able to reverse. I don't know if you are even the same Linard anymore, but the Linard I knew wouldn't abandon his family, especially his sister, to satisfy his own carnal desires. Don't let the monster inside you completely take over you."
Umilia wanted to try her best to not take down Linard since Trisha had been literally seeing her and asking every day if she heard anything about her missing brother. So at least for her sake, Umilia wanted to stop Linard before it was too late.
But seeing how he was acting, she wondered if the Linard everybody knew was already gone.
Linard's expression froze as his face uncontrollably twitched, his head jerking side to side in a weird manner, as if something was going on in his head.
His hands were visibly shaking as if tremors were passing through them as his eyes rapidly blinked.
"No…No…Stop…Arghhh!!" Linard suddenly clutched his head in pain as if his body and mind were splitting into two halves.
Umilia closely watched him with vigilant eyes and felt that maybe a tiny part of the previous Linard still existed in his mind, but it seemed as if he was losing control over his mind and body.
Suddenly, Linard bobbed his head straight as he looked at Umilia with scarlet red eyes, his expression rabid as he shouted, "YOU ARE MINE!! You won't be able to stop me, hehe. Watch this!"
With a wild expression on his face, Linard punched the concrete wall on his left and…
*Crack!*
The part of the concrete wall he hit formed cracks all over it as some of the fragments fell on the ground.
"Now, obediently come to me before you force me to hurt you," Linard was still obsessed with Umilia, and this was the only thing that was stopping him from outrightly trying to kill her.
Umilia sighed with a disappointed look as she said, "You are beyond saving."
"You DARE!" With a feral look on his face, he charged towards Umilia while licking his lips, wanting to finally taste this beautiful piece of flesh he had been longing for years.
His nose, which was picking up her intoxicating scent continuously, was making his blood tremble in lust and excitement.
Umilia's expression seemed unperturbed as she saw her charging towards her at an inhuman speed.
All she did was simply raise her hand as a brilliant white light emanated from her palm that seemed to have the potential to light up the entire street, but she instead focused it all upon Linard.
The moment her palm was enveloped with the radiant white light, the pupils in Linard's reddened eyes became as narrow as a needle in horror.
"AARGHH!!"