WINNING

　　The dark figure called out a meow, then quickly jumped off of Zephyr, and a second later, Zephyr passed out, the man unconscious.

　　Turns out Zephyr was possessed by something, I told you how a little kid could have that voice and expression and be extremely deep in the city.

　　The black shadow that resembled a cat immediately ran towards Nova after it detached from Zephyr's body, but I didn't give it a chance and slashed my sword.

　　It was half a beat slower, and this sword of mine directly cut it into two halves, only to hear an incomparably mournful scream, and that black shadow immediately turned into a puddle of black water before scattering on the ground.

　　"What's this?" I stood up from the floor and pointed at Nova with the Copper Coin Sword.

　　Zephyr was possessed by something, so Nova should have been too, she was wearing a human skin, or got it off and she recovered.

　　"It was my beloved cat, back then the Emperor used it to bury me, it accompanied me for over a thousand years, you actually killed it! Damn it, I will break you into pieces." Nova waved her hands, a gloomy wind struck her, it was as if she had gone berserk, the clothes and hair on her body floated upwards, and a wave of horrible veins appeared on her face.

　　The wind was so strong that it blew my eyes a little bit, my body kept backing up, and I only stopped when I topped a wall.

　　What the hell is this thing, it doesn't look like a human, or a ghost, or a demon, it's just a human skin, can this be evil?

　　Just as I swayed, there was a whoosh and Nova was gone, and at that moment my back was grimy as if someone was standing there.

　　I immediately realised what was going on and raised Copper Coin Sword and slashed at my back, but I was already too slow, just as I turned Nova grabbed me by the neck and lifted me into the air.

　　Her strength was greater than Zephyr's, and it was accompanied by a black wind visible to the naked eye that cut into my body as if it were a knife.

　　I couldn't even fight back when she was choking me, and the choking sensation made me weak and very uncomfortable.

　　Just when I thought I was going to die, suddenly Nova's body froze and she couldn't move.

　　"What? No way, there's no way that girl can get out of my control, don't even think about it, your body is mine." Nova muttered to herself before her body began to twist and jerk wildly as if she was fighting with herself.

　　Taking advantage of this, I immediately broke free and then slashed at Nova with my sword.

　　Instead of a wound, a crack appeared on Nova's body and countless black smoke came out.

　　The black smoke was strangely odorous and smoky to the eyes, and Nova screamed miserably, her face contorted.

　　A few seconds later, suddenly the human skin ran out on its own, still floating in the air, and even more bizarrely, she actually dipped towards me, as if to take over my body.

　　I took half a step back and then slashed my sword, when Copper Coin Sword touched the human skin, it set off a shower of sparks, I slashed a few more times, and the human skin immediately cracked open a few slits, and there were countless amounts of black smoke coming out.

　　"Ah ..." the human skin screamed a few times in horror before stumbling towards the door.

　　I couldn't let her get away that easily, and threw my sword, only to hear a scream as Copper Coin Sword plunged into it, and then nailed it to the door.

　　The human skin struggled frantically, but it was no use, the Copper Coin Sword had nailed it, and unless someone took the sword off, it would never get away.

　　Just at this time, I blacked out and fainted, although the anaesthetic on the knife I stimulated my acupuncture points before, I could only carry it for a period of time, and now that the effects of the medicine surged up crazily, I could no longer support it and collapsed.

　　By the time I woke up, it was nighttime, Stein and Antonio and the others were gathered around me, along with the little foxes, and now I was lying on a big, soft bed.

　　"Little Boss, you're awake?" Stein and the others rushed over.

　　I nodded, then the first thing I asked was where was the human skin? Shouldn't have let it get away, right?

　　At this time Nova led Zephyr in, I subconsciously backed away from the bed a little bit, these two siblings don't know what's going on, it seems that both of them are controlled by something, especially Zephyr, he seems to have been possessed by the spirit of that cat.

　　"You don't have to be afraid, we're all back to normal." Nova said.

　　I glanced at Nova, and there really didn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary, but if human skin was draped over her, it would have worked just as well as a trick and wouldn't have been noticeable at all, since we didn't know Nova well per se.

　　Looking over at Zephyr again, he looked like a fool, drooling over a foot long and grinning at me.

　　What's going on here I ask?Zephyr seems ... stupid?

　　Nova sighs and says that everything she remembers, Zephyr was actually born with a cat spirit hijacking his body from birth, and when the cat spirit left, it caused him to be mentally unbalanced, and now he's just an idiot.

　　Nova remembered? What did she remember? I asked her what happened. Actually, it's something I'm a bit confused about until now, because some of the stories Zephyr told earlier were lies, he wasn't possessed by a ghost at all, he made it all up to fool us.

　　Nova said that in fact, the coffin carried by those four grave robbers contained not a corpse, but a beauty skin.

　　The deed is true, for Nova's family's safekeeping, and everything else that was said is true, except for one thing: it's not that Nova's grandfather is offended by what's in the casket, but that the human skin is so evil that she'll cling to every Nova's family member in charge as a way of taking control of Nova's family, including Nova.

　　During the time she was possessed by the human skin, she had no memories and didn't remember anything, and there were things about the coffin that were fading into oblivion, which was why Nova was only remembering it now.

　　That beauty skin was so evil that it controlled four dead grave robbers to give it away, and it chose Nova's family and tried to control Nova's family.

　　But Nova's family is not stupid, gradually, Nova's family men began to slowly discover the truth of the matter, was about to destroy the human skin when Nova's family men began to one after another died violently, and the death of a thief, the only one who survived is Zephyr.

　　He was able to live, not because he was fatal, but because he had long ago had his body taken over by Beauty Skin's pet cat spirit.

　　Also, the reason why the women of Nova's family are becoming less and less interested in that area is because this human skin has cast an evil spell and it doesn't want the women of Nova's family to marry.

　　Once someone marries out, there's a chance that word might slip out and that human skin thing could be a problem for someone with an axe to grind to hear about it.

　　Nova has not only recovered her previous memories, but also has a bit of Beauty Skin's memories at the same time, so she knows a lot of details.

　　So I asked Nova if she had any memories of where this beauty skin came from.

　　Nova closed her eyes and then began to meditate carefully, finally her body suddenly trembled as if some horrible image appeared in her mind, I quickly asked her what was wrong.

　　Nova said with a pale face, "This beauty skin seems to be that of a noble consort in the palace, who was stripped of her human skin by the others because she lost the harem fight for favour."