I Rely On Poverty To Sweep Through Survival GamesCh37 - Otey’s Contract

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Xiao Lan was sighing ruefully over Edmund’s portrait when he suddenly heard a woman weeping next to him.

Where did this woman come from? 85kKLr

Bewildered, he turned his head and was surprised to find that he was no longer in that piano room covered in dust.

The room he was in was an exquisite-looking bedroom which had a lively air about it. The room had been decorated with numerous bows, and the walls were covered in a light floral wallpaper.

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A little neglect and this would be Annie’s room, which they had seen previously.

Xiao Lan was just about to take a look around when he discovered that his line of sight was fixed, as if he was watching a movie, and he could only follow the movement of the camera lens. h2HKIu

The owner of the gaze looked to the front and Xiao Lan followed the gaze to a child dressed in pyjamas, who was lying on a small, delicate bed with lace curtains.

This child truly looked a little dreadful. Her head was like a clay doll that had been casually put together by a clumsy craftsman to produce an irregular shape. Her eyes had become completely different shapes due to the pressure from her deformed bones, and her neck was monstrously crooked. It was probably very difficult to even sleep like this.

Though he had never seen Annie’s portrait, Xiao Lan could guess with one glance that this child was Annie.

She was doing her best to smile as she spoke in a soft, childish tone to the woman sitting at the foot of her bed. “Actually, Annie isn’t in pain at all.”

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But anyone could see that the muscles on her face were twitching from pain.

Hearing this, the woman also stifled her weeping. There was a bit of a forced smile in her voice as she told Annie that they would go somewhere to play after she recovered, freely conjuring up images of running around a hillside where fresh flowers bloomed in abundance.

Only the back of the sweet and graceful figure of the woman sitting at the foot of the bed could be seen.

She was wearing a long, white dress with a pair of silk long gloves that covered her entire arms. She also wore a massive, outdated fur shawl that covered her upper body snugly. vYHkIe

The woman was wearing a gorgeous, excessive hat with layers of complicated decorations on it. From the viewer’s angle, only long platinum blonde, curly hair hanging down her back could be seen.

At that moment, the woman heard footsteps and turned her head.

Her side profile was extremely beautiful and gave off a pale and frail feeling, as if she was a quiet, gentle and beautiful goddess under the moonlight, but that was only half her face; the other half was covered by the beautiful decorations on her hat and completely couldn’t be seen.

“Edmund.” The woman’s tears couldn’t help falling once more. wU2tdb

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The viewer, that was, Edmund, gently supported the sad woman. “Bella, everything will get better, and Anna will be fine too.”

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Bella took off her gloves and stretched out her arms, which had begun to deform, to Edmund. “Look, Edmund, I’m going to leave with them soon too. I’m going to die like a monster in anguish. This is our destiny.” NkZ5Qz

Edmund comforted her. “We can think of something else; we can go look for doctors from further away, or those wizards from legend. There’s always a way.”

Unfortunately, this comfort was clearly very weak and powerless in the face of this sort of despair.

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Bella shook her head and smiled painfully as she walked forward. “It’s no use. The Annoti family has struggled for hundreds of years, yet this is still how it ends for us. I’m not resigned to it.”

The final scene was of Bella looking back with a hand on the door frame, revealing the half of her face that was beautiful. “Will you leave me the way my mother left father, Edmund?” d4yfwK

Edmund solemnly replied, “I won’t. I swear.”

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After that, the scene disappeared.

What followed was a period of darkness and quiet before another scene appeared. It was of a wide and empty hall that was completely built from bricks. It was dark, damp and cold, and there was a towering altar in the center. KvwUQq

Dressed in different clothes, Bella stood on the altar with her left side of her face, which had begun to deform due to her illness, exposed. Next to her lay Annie; Xiao Lan couldn’t tell if she was alive or dead.

There was an opening in the wall out of which gushed endless blood, which had a fishy smell to it. The blood flowed along specially designed grooves on the edges of the altar to form a complicated magic circle.

Bella recited a wordy and complicated incantation. In the wake of her voice, the magic circle gradually activated.

A scarlet eye appeared in the air and locked onto Bella. “Cutie from the Anotti family, why have you summoned me?” cfVDw

Bella raised her head to look at him and calmly said, “I’m willing to sign a contract with you in exchange for the Anotti family’s health and hope.”

The eye let out a laugh from some unknown place. “Heehee… You can feel it now ba. Humans are just that weak; just a tiny ailment can send you into despair. Your struggles mean nothing. Nothing can save you, including that aloof God.

“Only Otey can. Otey is very generous. You can choose between a beautiful but ordinary life or an ugly but powerful eternal life.

“Come ba, beautiful miss. Do you wish to continue being fate’s sheep, or the hunter who wields power?” thx6jv

Bella looked at Annie, whose breathing was extremely weak. She took a deep breath and decided: “I choose power.”

“Heeheehee…” Otey began to laugh. “I will grant you eternal life and a portion of my power. I will also save your little Annie. The price you have to pay is to offer me sacrifices infatuated with you every month.”

“Deal.” Bella nodded and promptly closed her eyes, waiting for a miracle to descend.

The scarlet eye released rays of light that covered Bella and Annie. Otey’s smiling voice appeared from within the radiance. “Aiya~ little Annie’s body is already so damaged that it cannot be used. What to do ne? Do you want to abandon her?” vLw3UN

Bella was startled and blurted out, “You can give her my body!”

“As you wish.”

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After that, under her disbelieving gaze, Otey fused Bella and Annie’s bodies together.

This fused body was tall and strong with features that were spaced especially wide apart, and both eyes were a completely different colour and shape from each other — one belonged to Bella and the other to Annie. wOKy3

But it wasn’t over. The face that was forcibly put together grew a tall nose that turned upwards as well as tusks; half of this face belonged to a wild boar.

Otey took perverse delight in destroying things that were once beautiful, and loved mixing despair and the sweetness of hope together.

“Heeheehee…”

The scarlet eyeball in the air disappeared in a fit of laughter, leaving behind Madam Bella who had changed beyond recognition. LuDahF

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With a flash of light, Xiao Lan realised that he had returned to the piano room once more. He looked at the expressions of the people around him and saw the dawning realisation on their faces; it seemed that they had all seen the two memories.

One was clearly Edmund’s, while the other… Could it be Bella’s?

This was also their first time witnessing the Anotti family’s hereditary illness for themselves. Imagining dying in such anguish really made one’s hair stand on end. It wasn’t hard to understand how Bella was ultimately led astray by Otey. 8CYSHr

Right at that moment, a formless shadow appeared by the piano. It practically blended with the light and it was only thanks to the players’ constitutions being boosted by the game that they could see it clearly — it was Edmund.

This Edmund looked much more dispirited than in the portrait. His blonde hair hung limp and bedraggled, and swayed with his movements. He was very thin and could almost be called emaciated.

His bony fingers danced over the keys, and the piano, which had eroded with time, looked revived at that moment. The sound was crisp and clean, and out flowed a beautiful melody. The composition was suave and emotional, like a love poem for a lover.

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Once the song ended, Edmund’s hands stopped moving and he turned to look at the players.

“This is a movement which I wrote for Bella. It was once our most beautiful memory.

“The two souls fusing caused her to act more and more out of control. In the beginning, she was Bella for a time, then Annie for a time. After that, she grew increasingly crazy and started to kill the servants in the manor as well as constantly sent out invitations to men to enter the manor to be killed.

“For a time, I even suspected that it wasn’t just Bella and Annie in this body, and that there definitely had to be something else strange and violent inside. zlHg9U

“She was no longer Bella. She was just a monster that occupied Bella’s body.”

Edmund appeared very heartbroken. There was fear at his once beautiful and gentle wife becoming a crazy monster, as well as self-blame over his inability to save her and guilt over those who had died tragically at Bella’s hands.

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“I once tried to escape this place to search for strong help to solve all this; unfortunately, Bella found out in the end. She locked me up in this piano room filled with our beautiful memories.” He pointed at the floor under the piano. “After that, I killed myself, and she placed my body in there.

“You can leave by taking my route. NkEc4T

“The way to escape is through the basement, and the key to open it is my necklace.” With that, Edmund’s figure disappeared.

Luo stepped forward and opened the hidden compartment under the piano.

Inside was a curled up human skeleton wearing the same clothes as Edmund’s ghost. Sure enough, there was a delicate necklace around the corpse’s neck.

When the locket was open, there was a tiny portrait inside. It was of Bella and Edmund when they were seventeen or eighteen years old. The fair and beautiful young woman and the handsome young man smiled as they leaned against each other; anyone could tell that they were very close. lyTAeq


Baobao Notes

Kinda feel sad about this backstory. (maybe because I have a really close relationship with my sister, and honestly, we’d both do this for the other.)

 

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26 comments

  1. Very painful…

    Thank you for translating! <3

  2. that really is sad…there weren’t any born villains here, just beautiful kind people whose love for each other wasn’t enough to save them from evil. my sister and i are best friends and really important to each other too, so i understand, too. :'(

  3. I can’t imagine how painful it was for Annie to be disfigure everyday, and Bella had to watch her become like that. Gives me chills

  4. Uh… I can empathise how one can be ready to do anything for their loved ones but to agree to offer human sacrifices every month? I think the pressure and guilt built up from doing this would have been enough to make both Bella and Anna go crazy.

    • Also she is now literally Annabella, which reminds me of Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee:” “And neither the angels in Heaven above / Nor the demons down under the sea / Can ever dissever my soul from the soul / Of the beautiful Annabel Lee…”

  5. This was sadder than I had anticipated. I cant imagine my meimei suffering like that and I, as her jiejie, not being able to help her at all. The despair they both must have felt is extreme, I’m saddened just imagining it.

    I wonder how Xiao Lan and his crew are gonna leave.. destroy the mansion, get Xiao Lan’s poverty value up and ave everyone?

    Thanks for the chapter <3

  6. … I… I won’t do that for my sister, I’d choose the beautiful and simple life, for her, I’d trust she could make good choices and live happily, after so much pain, I think, you just want it to stop, and I think Edmund would have been with Bella till the end, even if he would had to kill her himself. On a side note, otey, I don’t know why but I have the feeling he won’t be happy to see luo.

    • I don’t particularly think of she choosed the other path the demon would fulfill her wish in the way we think it would be better for her…. Because he also said that he loved to mix despair and hope together so I doubt his “beautiful and simple life” aesthetics.