Chapter 607 The Headless Bride
Fuyuki Sanzi was helped downstairs by the servants to rest. After her disturbance, the others lost the mood to continue eating and finished the meal in a hurry.
Tokida Wakaba had been taken to the church and was to stay there overnight according to the scheduled ceremony.
In the living room, Yuya and the other two sat on the sofa in silence.
After a while, Yuya said, "Mr. Makino, what are you going to do next?"
Makino Hiiragi clenched her fists and gritted her teeth as she said, "I don't believe Ruoye would change her mind and agree to marry someone else. She must have been coerced! I'm going to find her and ask her for the truth!"
Youya looked around and saw no one else, so he whispered, "Then shall we go to the church now?"
Just as Makino Shuu was about to nod, Kazemachi Jun also walked down the stairs.
He saw several people looking like they were getting ready to go out, so he asked casually, "What's wrong? Where are you going?"
Yuya rolled his eyes and asked, "Well, why does the bride have to stay in the church for a night?"
Feng Jichun also smiled, walked down and sat on the sofa, then said: "This is a rule that has been in place since the church was built in the village. The night before the wedding, the bride must go to the church to cleanse her past sins."
"The bride would stay in the church all night, lock the door, lie on the prepared bed, close her eyes, and pray to purify her soul."
"There will also be an unmarried girl accompanying her outside the church."
Kazesai Jun smiled and said, "The one who will be performing the ceremony tonight is Wakaba, and the only unmarried woman of marriageable age left in the village is Kabuto's daughter, Kabuto Kiriko."
He looked up at the clock on the wall: "At this time, Ruoye should have entered the church and lay on the bed, right?"
However, as soon as he finished speaking, a series of "dong dong dong" bell sounds were heard outside.
Several people subconsciously looked outside and the sound seemed to come from the church.
Miyano Shiho casually asked, "Is this also part of the ceremony?" What a strange custom.
"No," Kazematsu Jun'ya's face looked a little ugly, "It is indeed the church bell, but the bell is only rung during funerals."
"...something's not right."
This should be a happy occasion, why are we ringing funeral bells?
"Let's go and take a look!" Youye rushed out first.
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Yuya and his companions, as well as other people who heard the bell, ran to the church together.
Yuya looked around and saw that there was no one at the church entrance. He asked curiously, "Didn't you say that Miss Wuzi would accompany you outside the door? Why don't I see anyone?"
"Wu Zi! Wu Zi?" Dou Reiji called out his daughter's name loudly, but got no response.
Yuya walked forward and knocked hard on the door of the church: "Wakaba-senpai, are you in there?"
No one responded.
"Bang bang bang!"
Yuya increased his strength a bit: "Wakaba-senpai, are you in there? Can you hear me?"
Still no one responded.
This church should have windows, right? Thinking of this, Youya walked around to the side and indeed found a window, and lay on it to look inside.
There were no lights on and no candles lit in the church, but there was a huge cross on the wall, and the light from outside shone through and illuminated a bed.
Yuya squinted his eyes and could clearly see a person in a wedding dress lying on the ground. It should be Tokida Wakaba. From this angle, he could see her legs first.
"Is he... asleep?" Youye muttered. He couldn't even hear such a loud knock on the door?
He turned his gaze and looked at Tokida Wakaba's head, and found that her face was covered with a silk scarf, which was covered with blood!
Yuya was shocked and ran to the main gate, shouting, "Oh no! Senior Ruoye seems to have been in trouble. I saw a scarf covering her face, and it was covered with blood!"
"What?!" Everyone was shocked.
"Quick, quick, open the door!" Makino Hiiragi shouted in panic.
"No, it's locked from the inside and can't be opened without a key!"
There was no time to get the key, and Youya yelled, "Get out of the way!"
With a loud bang, the church door was kicked down.
There was no time to think about why this young man was so strong, and everyone rushed in.
When they arrived at the bed, they were all in a daze and fear. Fuyuki Sanko even screamed, "No, no head! Head! Kakashi!" He rolled his eyes and passed out.
The person in the wedding dress on the bed had a scarf covering her face, but... there was no head under the scarf! It was a headless corpse!
"Ruo, Ruoye?" Makino Hiiragi's eyes lost their luster and he stared blankly at his girlfriend who was lying on the bed in a state of death that could not be more dead.
Youya frowned and noticed a piece of paper placed on the chest of his clothes, so he walked over and picked it up.
It reads: "The bride's head was taken by the fifth mummy."
"Ruoye!" Tokita Jusan wailed and fell down, holding his chest.
Everyone was in a panic and hurriedly helped the man to sit on a bench, then took out a bottle of medicine from his pocket and fed him a few pills.
Yuya suddenly noticed that a black feather had fallen from the scarf. He picked up the feather and took a look at it: "Is this... a crow's feather?"
He clearly remembered that when Kabuto Kiriko and Tokida Wakaba left for the church, she was wearing a black hat with a few crow feathers stuck on it. Presumably, they were plucked from the crows she raised?
Dou Reiji quickly came over to take the feather and said confidently, "Yes, this is the feather on Wuzi's hat! I made it myself."
"Where is Kiriko? Where is Kiriko?" He was panicked, worried that his daughter had died like Tokida Wakaba. He grabbed Fuuji Jun who was beside him and shouted.
Feng Jichun also comforted her: "She will be fine, let's go look for her together!" Then he led people to run outside.
Yuya put down the paper and looked at Miyano Shiho: "Let's go, let's help too."
Miyano Shiho nodded gently and looked at the headless body on the bed with some sadness. She still remembered that Tokida Wakaba had helped her several times when she was in school, but she didn't expect that he would end up with his body torn apart.
Yuya sighed and did not disturb Makino Shuri who was crying beside the bed. He and Miyano Shiho left the church to help find someone.
Unfortunately, we searched for most of the night but still couldn't find anyone.
There was no other way, the exhausted crowd could only go back and rest for the time being, and wait until the police arrived the next day to look for it again.