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Zombie Kiss Chapter 2: Verdict

 

 

Prologue

 

Blood gushed from the white rabbit’s stomach.

Its fur turned red like a bloody cotton ball. The tender membrane on its ear tore apart. The white rabbit limped its way slowly. It could stop moving any moment.

I followed it, every step bringing me closer to darkness.

Darkness from a black, bottomless ‘hole’.

But when I took my eyes off it for a moment, the rabbit disappeared, leaving me behind in this ‘rabbit hole’ all alone.

Like Alice who lost sight from the White Rabbit.

In…the labyrinthine blackness in my heart.

That was…the wide rabbit hole in me.

‘All the world’s a stage’ was a quote from Shakespeare that I agree with. Humans are actors, destined to live. When they die, their roles end, no different from a puppet with severed strings.

I never thought of myself higher than others. I never felt disgust, envy, or love. To put it simply, I was apathetic towards other beings in my species. In my eyes, humans and ants are the same, just living things driven along to the day they perish.

It was a fact, but this world condemned people like me as ‘twisted’. They say I stepped over a line that can never be crossed.

However, to live smoothly in this world, I had to wear the mask of ‘a regular human being’ and play along with roles given to me. Still, no matter how well I pretended I was normal, the rabbit hole never disappear.

It grew wider and darker.

I let the rabbit hole embrace me.

When I reached out my hand, darkness swallowed it like a hungry animal. In a round pit where darkness lives…

My hand touched something…

“Ariya! Are you listening!?!”

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Third floor, a certain classroom in the Faculty of Medicine.

“Are you sure you want to give it to me, Lilith?”

Kanya was hesitant when her friend suddenly handed her a luxurious golden box, stuffed full with makeup. On the box was a logo of one luxurious makeup company in a foreign language she cannot read, but the ribbon wrapped around that box had Thai on it, and it said: First Prize.

“Take it. If I bring it home, my grandma would complain my ears off.”

Lilith shrugged it off.

“Moreover, I got it without even trying.”

After Kanya gave her the shocking news, the contest was cancelled.

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Prologue

 

****21.15 [Rabbit Hole] has just logged in****

[Kimberry]…:

Slut. She’s always fooling everyone with the good girl act.

[Natural Beauty]…:

Yeah, yeah! Plastic beauty! Has she no shame?

[Friend with good intentions]…:

Have you seen this topic on the forum? “The real identity of the pretty girl is a fake. Plastic and whorish behaviors?!?” It has over a hundred comments.

[Kimberry]…:

I’ve seen it! So dramatic, our university’s forum…

[Natural Beauty]…:

Kick her out. I hate those who are beautiful from surgeries. Tch, tch. -*-

[Different Opinion]…:

Uh…are you going too far? Everyone’s doing it these days. =_=”

[Commarts Kid]…:

Those who’re gossiping right now are naturally beautiful(hideous), right???

[Natural Beauty]…:

Why??? Ugly but honest is better than pretty but fake. -*-

[Kimberry]…:

I can’t accept this. It’s a contest, you need to show the real thing to win.

[Friend with good intentions]…:

Bye bye, Miss Hera Hysteria ^_^

[Kimberry]…:

Withdraw already, shoo shoo! (-*-)p

[APPLE]…:

How will this event end?

[APPLE]…:

Who will be the last one standing…?

[Rabbit Hole]…:

I am not expecting anything.

[Rabbit Hole]…:

This story…is just about women’s jealousy…

****21.35 [Rabbit Hole] has just logged out****

“She” is a “twisted beauty’.

A beauty… that enchants…those who draws near will face tragedy.

The name of that beauty is “Lilith”.

Zombie Kiss Vol.3 [Intro]

Zombie Kiss Volume 3: Beauty, Corpses, Killer

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I knew a man…

He had a friendly smile,

And was always helping others.

But I could feel that under his smile…

Something was hidden.

Something mysterious, cold, and frightening,

Like an endless rabbit hole.

The man’s name was…

“Ariya”

 

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Note: Lilith

 

Is this a joke…?

 

That was her thought, but the young girl’s throat was dry and the hands that held the sketchbook was shaking.

This is a story…surely a story…or maybe Namfon was playing a prank on me. Didn’t seem like her. And this is a really bad prank.

Lilith glanced around the void classroom. It made her feel lost.

Was it this late already? So quiet…why are there no teachers or janitors around?

The girl shook creepy thoughts away. She stood up, and her eyes caught on a message at a corner of the book.

Open me.

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Vengeance…is the dark side of love.

If love is a bond that never ceases,

Vengeance is the anger that never fades.

The more the love, the more the hate,

Intertwined like a spider web

That never let its prey go

“Twins”

 

 

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Lilith… my dearest friend.

 

Before we graduate and go our separate ways for college, I have something I must confess.

Actually, I should have said this from the first day we met, but no matter how much I wanted to spill everything I hid, I was a coward and didn’t know where to start.

That’s because… my sins were too grave to forgive.

Three years after that happened and I am still haunted by it every single day. I cannot bear to repeatedly wake up after a nightmare any longer.

I hope confessing everything in this friendship notebook to you would calm my troubled heart, even if a little.

Even if you do not forgive me…

At least, I hope…

That you would read this until the end.

Zombie Kiss Vol.2 [Ch.2 Angel’s Corpse Second Half] Epilogue

Epilogue

 

Da ended the call after she finished telling her ‘Angel’s Corpse’ story on the late night show.

She sighed and hugged her pillow. After sharing her experiences with a bunch of strangers, the stress coiled inside her began to unwind. Maybe it’s because sharing her worries relaxed her mind.

Funny. She’d only ever listened to this program. She never thought she would be the one telling stories.

Then her phone rang.

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Shinabutr

 

Shin drove aimlessly on the road as slow as a turtle crawling. There was a honk from the cars behind as all the cars passed him. The man didn’t care. It was past 1 am., but Shin did not want to go home.

‘Did not want to go’ was not as accurate as ‘too scared to go’.

But the man had nowhere else to be and no one else to depend on. He didn’t know how to explain to others that ‘a corpse in my room turned into a Pop’. Instead of getting an advice, he would be the joke of the century.

The only one who would believe him was Da, his ex fiancee.

But because of pride and ego, he could not go back to his ex.

If he called, she would say ‘see, I told you.’ Deep in his mind, he was more afraid of being an embarrassment than confronting the Angel’s Corpse.

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Shinabutr

 

The day after Shin’s fight with Da, nothing was out of the ordinary.

He woke up in his bed, ate breakfast, took a shower, drove to present his work, and came back with indifference. He didn’t feel sad, guilty, or empty. Without Da, his life flowed as usual, as if her disappearance wasn’t anything major.

Women are all the same. They would ask for a breakup after a quarrel. When they calmed down, they would come back eventually.

That’s right. He’s not in the wrong here.

Da was the one who made him lose a good sum of money from selling the Angel’s Corpse. If he had more time to negotiate, he would be able to raise the price. He didn’t know why, but he had a feeling that whatever number he named, the buyer would pay it to get his Angel’s Corpse.

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Love… is from the bottom of the heart.

Even death cannot put an end to love.

But sometimes, desires sprouting from love…

Can drive a person to death.

“Angel’s Corpse”

 

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Ladda

 

“Why is it still here!?”

Da screeched the moment she opened the door. She heard that someone rented the corpse, and they will return to their former happy life, so she came to Shin’s room to invite him to go shopping.

But her good mood crumbled when she saw Shin humming a tune while decorating the black coffin, the Angel’s Corpse sitting quietly beside him.

Da thought she saw the corpse’s red lips smirking at her.

“Something happened to the guy who rented her.”

Shin replied as he decided where to put a black ribbon.

“Something? What kind of thing?”

Da demanded an answer, her heart filled with anxiety.

“Nothing. The TV show producer who rented her had a heart failure and died.”