*reader's discretion alert, contain bloody and disturbing scene that will probably causing discomfort to some readers.
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At the other hidden area of the garden. A reddish humanoid figure with curly long green hair is painting on a whole sheet of freshly peeled bloody human skin while humming some weird rhythm, some flies can be seen flying around it before getting eaten by a giant venus fly trap...
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Maria and Suzaku are looking for the source of the foul smell by following the smell with Maria's Big Nose familiar. Despite how disgust Big Nose felt due to the awful smell, it still does its job well by tracing the smell and leading Maria and Suzaku to a weird-looking 'farm'. But Big Nose does not dare to get near to the farm, it stopped about thirty meters away from it. From such a distance, Maria can't see very well what is planted on the farm, all he can see are some irregular reddish-brown 'plants' that stick out from the soil. At the same time, the noise in his head certainly got much much louder than before which triggered his headache again.
"I guess this little guy got the right place... Haha..." said Maria with bitter laughter while holding his head.
Maria gently picked up Big Nose and put it back into his pocket before carefully approaching the farm. As they approached the farm, the foul smell got worse and worse until a state that Maria had no choice but to temporarily cancel his smelling sense with one of Ben's special drugs. When they finally reached close enough to identify what those reddish-brown 'plants' are, they are astonished and horribly disgusted by the sight. Those reddish-brown things are not plants, it's the rotten dead bodies they were looking for, or to be exact, it's a whole 'farm' of skinned and dissected body parts that are half-buried into the ground in various positions.
"Gosh... This is a bit too extreme. I wondered when was my last time seeing anything as terrifying as this?" said Maria, both shocked and disgusted.
"Well, I guess, we had found out the reason behind the abnormal growth of plants in this garden." said Suzaku, who actually sounds quite calm.
"Ah... What a disturbingly beautiful outcome." said Maria with a bitter smile...
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On the other side. Ai is casually 'strolling' in the garden while humming some happy rhythm. She is holding Yuki in her left hand, while in her right hand is her dagger and a small stack of human face skin that is still dripping with the weird gooey green liquid. After a short stroll, she reached a dead end of the garden that is blocked by a brick wall with a beautiful door without a doorknob. Ai stared at the door for a while before pushed the door with her right hand, yes, her right hand that is holding the dagger and human face skin.
To her surprise, the door is not locked and opened as soon as she pushed it. With the door opened, a pungent smell of preserved meat blasted out from the door. However, Ai doesn't seem to be affected by it. Or rather she doesn't think that as unpleasant.
"Hmm... Smells like some expired jerky." Ai murmured with a shrug before opening the door wide and walked into it.
As Ai entered the door, she is amazed. Behind the door, is a large storage room with some unwanted pots and seeds, but what amazed Ai are the well-decorated human skins that hung on the wall along with several stacks of human skins around the corner. Those human skins that hung on the wall are in complete form with beautiful faces that are nicely enhanced with pretty makeup, while those stacked up around the corner are in torn-up pieces without any facial skin.
Ai stared at those human face skin she 'collected' along the way, those faces are quite pretty but not as stunning as those hung on the wall.
"Ah... So these are the demoted princesses huh?" She murmured.
Suddenly, a part of the wall in the room moved and opened into a secret door, a magnificently gorgeous lady walked out from the door. The lady has long curly green hair that perfectly covered her private area as she is totally naked where her neck, waist, and feet are covered with some thin layer of blood, some flies can be seen flying around her.
"Hello my dear, welcome to my paradise, do you want to join me in my paradise?" said the lady, repeating almost the same sentences that said by all the 'fake' flower queens Ai slaughtered along the way.
"If I am not mistaken, you are the real Flower Queen, right?" Ai asked as she put down all the faces she had been collected onto the floor.
"Yes, you are right my dear. I see that you had met and see through all my body doubles, you are a really intelligent lady, don't you?" The Flower Queen asked.
"Uhm... Not really, I simply slaughtered them whenever I spotted one. Anyway, are you the one that killed all those ladies and skinned them?" Ai asked, very directly.
"Well, yeah, I just killed this one as soon as you entered my garden." said the Flower Queen as she pointed at her own face.
"I see. Last question. Were you planning to kill Yuki-chan just now?" Ai asked, still in her usual innocent tone.
"Mhmm... Only the prettiest lady has the right to stay alive and become the only princess in my paradise." said the Flower Queen.
Ai nodded as she put Yuki down onto an old office chair nearby before staring at the Flower Queen with murderous eyes...
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*Something out of the story
Sky: "Dear readers."
Chris: "Hmm?"
Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."
Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."
Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."
Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."
Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."
Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.
Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."
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