The Gentleman at the End-Chapter 755 - 753 Final Act

Time had looped back to the "First Night."

On that first night, when Catherine Roman, acting as a nursemaid, recognized her daughter, the hidden identity of an actress, though not overt, still constituted a violation of the rules of the performance and was captured by William’s Evil Sun’s Eye.

This caused the "Danger Level" to increase, exceeding the average of the other performers.

Just as the mother and daughter returned to their room and opened the door,

they discovered an eerie woman with black hair standing in the corner of the room, holding a metal spoon that appeared utterly ordinary.

An ordinary-looking woman posed an instinctual threat to Catherine’s mother, an Ancestor Primordial Body, causing her to unconsciously secrete seawater from her pores to form a protective barrier.

She gestured for her daughter to leave the room temporarily, deciding to confront this so-called threat herself.

Looking at the woman before her, whose substance was untraceable, whose moisture was imperceptible, yet who undeniably existed in her line of sight,

Catherine’s mother let out a sinister laugh, guessing the woman’s essence, "So that’s how it is.... No wonder the Duke, a neutral entity, would support this private performance.

This must be a product of the outside world, likely developed by the invaders of the past. If released into the Old World, it would surely bring disaster.

Unexpectedly, that young man called ’William’ is quite capable to manage such an extraterritorial commodity.

He probably intends to use this performance to warn the Old World about the impending danger, he certainly thinks big, I just wonder if he has other thoughts or conspiracies.

After all, someone like him might be one way on the surface, but another behind the scenes, exploiting such performances for fame and profit.

Let me strive to win this performance and see this man’s true intentions.

But to win, I must find a way to resolve or avoid the problem before me,"

Catherine Roman was one of the oldest Patients, an octopus that had existed since the filling of the Arc Sea and had survived that ancient war.

However, she wasn’t skilled in direct combat; like her natural octopus traits, she excelled in escaping, mimicking, and silently devouring her enemies.

She also possessed the greatest number of Arc Sea Secret Techniques.

She decided to take this opportunity to try various illness techniques on the mysterious evil woman.

Catherine’s mother soon deduced that the adversary possessed the means to strip away concepts, and was also a projection of a concept itself.

She was extremely cautious, using all her lifesaving methods, immediately initiating tentacle separation whenever the enemy approached.

Three hours passed.

Catherine’s mother concluded that with her current methods alone, she couldn’t completely eradicate this concept unless she cooperated with several individuals of similar rank to perform ’conceptual erasure.’

The risk had exceeded her interest in the performance and subsequent rewards,

and because of that night’s experiences, her condition was not great when she later fought with Catherine, nearly resulting in an accident.

Back to the regular timeline

After her duel with Catherine, in a state of only 60~70% capabilities, she was caught in a plot and had to face the ’boss’ mentioned by Catherine, the Chief of the Fear Circus.

In her heart, Catherine Roman had already made her final decision.

When the metal spoon appeared against her neck,

Catherine Roman, posing as the nursemaid, suddenly laughed like a changed person, her lips leaking seawater, and her address shifted from outside the play to her role within it,

"Hahaha! I have to acknowledge your tactics, Master, pretending to be a police officer to stir up trouble between Mr. Calvin and me, while you profit from the chaos behind the scenes.

I suspect that the reason the officer came up to inform us about the snowstorm wasn’t his own initiative but rather because you deliberately called him earlier to invite him to the dinner.

I must admit, you’ve won, Master~

But since I saw you ’resurrect,’ Master, I had already decided I’m not going to live anyway. I just slipped up to make you blabber along with me—causing the danger to rise.

Farewell, Master."

Since the nursemaid had reverted to normal and her speech fitted her character, the Danger Level did not increase, and the spoon lingering at her neck did not dig in.

The next second.

The nursemaid suddenly pulled out a gun, the very prop she had obtained earlier from dealing with the policeman’s body.

Pop!

He blasted a large hole in his own forehead, and according to the plot, the character died from the gunshot and the actor immediately exited the stage.

Buzz!

Mom Lia, with a red droplet adorning the center of her brow, woke up on a special backstage actor’s chair, surrounded by seawater that filled both the chair and the floor around her.

Meanwhile, William’s voice echoed around her.

"Miss Lia Roman, thank you for your participation! An incredible decision, and now, please proceed to the first audience area to enjoy the performance of the final act.

Your acting was absolutely on point, and you might even win the ’Best Actor’ award. Moreover, after the performance ends, we have a beautiful gift for you.

Just a reminder, please don’t break any rules while watching."

Lia walked out from backstage and immediately saw in the front row those characters who had been eliminated.

This included her two daughters and Catherine,

Catherine even specifically removed her ’Theater Viewing Skull’ to give a thumbs up to the former mother.

"Worthy of Mom indeed! Decisively exiting was the best decision, you even outsmarted the boss! The most exciting part of the performance is coming up next. It’s actually Mr. Yi and the boss who are left till the end."

Although Lia was annoyed with her elder daughter, she still asked, "Jennifer isn’t dead?"

"Still calling her Jennifer? Mom, you really are dedicated... Mr. Yi is William’s other half, just as smart~ He won’t die so easily.

He’s been deliberately playing ’disappeared’ from the start, waiting until the end to make his move."

This conversation also piqued Mom Lia’s curiosity. She walked with wet steps to sit next to Catherine, picking up the Theater Viewing Skull attached to the chair’s back.

Just as she was about to put it on, she realized that there seemed to be one actor missing from this place.

"Where did that Redundant Intestine Company guy go?"

"Oh! The first guy eliminated by the boss? Didn’t I tell you during the performance, Mom... Even though the characters in the performance are projections of our main bodies, the boss’s methods can bypass these projections and affect the main bodies directly.

Anyone targeted by the boss has a hard time staying ’whole’.

That intestine guy has already been sent back for medical treatment, but he’s probably not going to make it."

"A malignant tumor?"

"The boss isn’t merely a malignant tumor; his methods are the nastiest in the circus. Let’s see if Mr. Yi can handle him."

Just then,

as the chief director standing in the middle of the stage, William suddenly changed his expression, decisively closed the storybook he held, and withdrew the projections at the Snowstorm Mountain Villa.

Not only that,

the surface of the storybook even started to show traces of tumor cells, which were instantly burned away and peeled off by the Evil Sun, yet William’s expression drastically changed to one of immense alertness.

"Art, that guy... to think he could go to such lengths!"

Catherine and Mom Lia immediately put on their Theater Viewing Skulls, sending their thoughts back to the snowy mountain estate, but this time purely as observers, and right before their eyes, a prompt for the final act appeared.

[Chapter 4 - Father and Daughter]

Inside the study,

Art, playing the role of the master, was stuffing his severed limbs back into his body, maintaining a disconcerting yellow-toothed grin,

The evil woman who was supposed to entangle him had already vanished,

Then he faced the wall’s funnel-shaped slot and vomited fresh blood, opening the door to the basement.

With his hooked nose, he fiercely sniffed the air below, detecting the scent he had been searching for all along; his yellow teeth excitedly grinding together.

"Ah! My dear daughter, how many times have I told you never to enter Daddy’s study? Look at the mess you’ve made! This place is the secret ground of our family, you weren’t ready to come here yet."

Surprisingly, mid-sentence, Art suddenly started vomiting! He vomited a huge stench, almost seeming to expel a fluid of human faces.

"Ugh~ I can’t go on with this father-daughter affection; it truly disgusts me.

Mr. Yi, just come at me directly! I’ve already eliminated the ’threat’ hidden in this play, we can have a fight to the death without any external interference.

Don’t you dare chicken out, don’t flee from battle like that woman earlier, you need to fight me in a death match! Otherwise, even if the performance ends, I will kill you at all costs!"