I am New Here (10)

"Miss, the plan failed. Someone intervened, and my brothers were killed tonight."

"Impossible! You have succeeded with everyone else but failed this time?"

"Miss, we didn't know she had someone to guard her. We have disposed of a lot of people for you, but we never expected that my people would be killed in the process of this order. Our cooperation ends here."

"Stop! You can't leave! I need you to kill her! I will compensate you and pay a lot!"

The door suddenly opened. 

Cards flew from the entrance, but they saw no one. The cards did not fall on the floor but remained floating in the air. 

The conversation between Sophia and the killers she hired was put to a halt. They were not expecting someone to find this place and disturb their secret meeting. Sophia was mad, and she wanted to kill everyone in sight.

"Come out! You dare to intrude, be prepared to die!"

No one came out.

But they were not expecting the cards to move.

The cards were so sharp that Sophia witnessed how those cards slit open the necks of her men. One by one, they fell on the cold floor. Blood bathed the room in horror. Then, someone's hand reached for Sophia's neck.

She choked and struggled, but it was of no use.

"Re-release me..."

But the man was deaf to her pleadings.

Sophia lost consciousness. Her hands and feet were tied together. She was brought to a zoo. When she regained consciousness, she felt something was wrong with her surroundings. She was no longer in the secret meeting place, and the killers were gone. No one was left to protect her.

"Don't you love killing people by sucking them dry? You might as well try your own craft."

"No! No! No!..."

A Sigbin bit and dragged Sophia's body.

Sophia could feel that her body had been drugged. She did not know what kind of drug it was, but the pain of being bitten was amplified by several degrees. The drug also kept her awake in the process of sucking her blood dry. And she couldn't even make a noise, as if someone sealed her mouth shut.

Tears welled in her eyes. She could feel her muscles and organs being ripped apart little by little. Her life flashed before her eyes.

She knew her mistakes and crimes.

She was only fourteen when an accident occurred. The car she was riding in with her brother lost its brakes after being plotted by her father's enemies. She was sure that everyone in the car would die. Yet, her brother saved her.

She survived even with several bone fractures. But a gunshot rang around her. She was forced to escape up the mountains. As a supernatural, it should be easy to go up. But the lunch she ate with her brother was secretly drugged, and one of its side effects was to prevent a supernatural from using their abilities.

Sophia fought her way out, even when she saw nothing but a dead end.

But someone saved her.

When she woke up a few days later, she found out that the third son of the Jing family had passed by and rescued her unintentionally. It was not Skyler Jing, but his men took pity on her. She was grateful at first. She wanted to repay the Jing family's third son. But later on, she became obsessed, knowing she couldn't even get close to him.

Sophia's brother died in that assassination attempt, and she remained the only child of the Palma family. She was pampered at home, and whatever she liked would be given to her. Yet she couldn't get the attention of one boy.

No one knew how obsessed she became with Skyler Jing. Whenever someone wanted to make friends with him, she would always find a way to pull them away. She was a person who easily gets jealous and insecure. And whenever girls flock toward Sky, she would threaten them.

One time, a girl named Judith hung out with Skyler. She felt so jealous whenever the girl accompanied Sky wherever. When her jealousy peaked, she invited the girl for a night out. She said she was having a party with other girls in school. But the truth was, she was preparing a farewell party for the girl.

"Where are the others?"

"They will be coming soon."

"The lake is pretty. But why do we have so many candles?"

"It's for you."

"For me?"

Sophia drowned Judith.

She did not even bother asking about the relationship between Judith and Skyler.

Everything was painted red in her eyes. The devil blinded her with insecurity and anxiety. Judith choked and tried her best to save herself, but she was only human. Her strength was nothing compared to a supernatural being.

Judith died struggling.

Sophia felt nothing when she saw the floating body.

There was a smile on her lips.

The next morning, she heard the news that Skyler was going abroad. She felt panicked that he would leave her behind. When she asked the reason for leaving, her classmates told her that Judith had died and Skyler needed to attend her burial.

She hated Judith even more.

A month later, Skyler was no longer the sunny boy she used to admire. He became distant and cold to everyone. He rarely stayed too long in school, as if he hated the place.

It was too late for Sophia to know that the girl she killed was Skyler's closest cousin.

Sophia felt no remorse after her first crime.

"A cousin is worth nothing if we get married in the future..."

She killed several girls in succession.

Hearing the news of Ashii sitting beside Skyler in class, she immediately felt threatened. Skyler had never taken the initiative to sit with a female classmate for so many years. Sophia was mad that she couldn't interfere with Skyler's choices. So she plotted another murder plan.

"That woman needs to die!"

But she failed this time.