Villain Path

Chapter 56.1. One death for two

Yin and Al were found on the same bench where Shen had left them. The girl ate candy, and the main character looked ashamed. Seeing the teacher, Yin still turned a little pale.

"Yin, how do you feel?"

"This disciple is all right," the girl lowered her head, trying not to meet Shen's gaze.

He sighed and came a little closer.

"Perhaps my question will seem strange to you, but were you going to play the zither in the near future?"

"How do you know?" the girl perked up."Just today at sunset I was going to play a composition from the legendary suite"Rebirth"."

"And what is its legend?" asked Shen.

"The ingenious composer Carney Lis created it about a century ago. According to legend, the seven melodies of this suite are able to grant boundless power to the listener. But the composer deliberately changed a few notes so that the unworthy could not receive power. Since then, many musicians have been trying to unravel the secret of this suite, "Yin said readily." Well, and there is also a theory that the matter is in a musical instrument. They say that Carney Lis had a zither given to him by the goddess, and it is the melody played on this zither that can give power.

"And you, therefore, want to try your hand at interpreting his melodies?" Yin nodded.

"Who will be the listener?"

The girl thought about it.

"It seems that there will be no one.

"Then who invited you to play? Gave notes?" Yin stared at him in shock.

"I do not remember."

"Do not remember?" Shen asked.

The girl shook her head dejectedly.

"It was as if... as if I hadn't thought about it until this very moment. Now... Who?.. Who was it?" She touched her temple and frowned.

"Clear. Don't strain too hard. You can hardly remember. Then the question is: where was it supposed to take place?" In the third grade of music," the girl immediately responded.

He had already heard something about this class recently... Wasn't Annis going to perform there?.. Oh, exactly! She was talking about the same suite!

Shen felt a little uncomfortable. According to the original plot of the novel, Annis was not supposed to participate in any way in this arc with the murders of girls. The main character then concentrated all his attention on Yin, she was killed, and he hated the villainous Shen more than ever. Then he walked and suffered for some time, and such a sufferer met the main character. Everything went completely wrong in this version. The Shen-butterfly effect?

What if, because of his actions, the main character suffers? This will be a terrible blow to the plot!

"So, Yin, listen carefully, I will not repeat: you are not going to play any suite today. Al will show you to your room now, and you won't leave until dawn. This is clear?"

"But..."

"I'll kill you if you stick your head out!"

"I understood everything, teacher! I will do everything as you say!"

This is what is called the right motivation. Shen sighed softly in sorrow. Such threats can only roll out when people are ready to believe in their feasibility. Ah, the villainous Shen...

«So!» he thought, following the retreating Yin and Al with a glance. «What do we have?»

[Have we got something?] System responded gloomily. [You do not know where the zither is, or who is responsible for the deaths.]