"Tink, she's running away from here."
"But her father took away her love and gave her to the wrong man."
"She waited for who knows how many years."
"Ting Ding Dong, she has been waiting for a lifetime."
"When her father died, she dug up the grave left for her husband."
"She went in search of the one she loved when she was old and ugly."
"Run! Girl! Run! Girl!"
"… "
The girl's singing echoed in the rainstorm. Arthur remembered that a long time ago, a girl also sang this song to him. She said she liked this song from Leiber very much.
Arthur asked her what the song meant, and she said it was probably about a father who took it upon himself to marry his daughter to the wrong person, thinking he had correctly planned the girl's life. The girl had no way of resisting and had to obey it. She waited quietly until her father died, and then her husband died. At that moment, the old and ugly girl was finally free and could freely pursue what she wanted.
The girl said she wanted to do the same, but she would not wait as long as the girl in the song because she did not have such good patience. She said she would find a way to escape and would use some unconventional means if possible. Finally, she reminded Arthur to remember to lock the door before going to bed.
The freezing rain, the suffocating wind, and the physical pain were not enough to affect Arthur, but at this moment he was like seeing something horrifying. After a brief moment of fear, he asked in confusion.
"You promised me..."
The red shadow hummed the song from Leiber and shouted without turning his head.
"Yeah! Good kids don't lie!"
No one knew where she learned this technique, but she chopped the sharp blade into the demon's head with her backhand. Perhaps she didn't have enough strength, and the blade was stuck in the flesh. But she then kicked hard, hitting the demon's joints fiercely, forcing it to kneel down, and then she chopped off the entire head like chopping wood.
"But I'm not a good kid!"
As Eve roared, the folding knife pierced into the demon's heart, but the tough muscles entangled the blade and could not go deeper.
She held the hilt tightly with one hand, and used the other hand to continuously smash the tail of the folding knife's handle. With a dull sound, like a blacksmith hammering metal, she pushed the folding knife into the demon's body little by little, nailing it completely to the ground little by little.
The gushing blood dyed her completely red, and the cold rain washed away all the filth.
At Arthur's suggestion, Blue Jade spent a short period of time with Eve to try to heal the bad relationship between father and daughter. At that time, Blue Jade told Eve a lot, including the snowy night that changed Blue Jade's life.
This feeling was really bad, like a puppet, being manipulated by others at will. Eve didn't like it, so she came back.
"So in the end, all I did was just to prove something to you, right? Whether I was a detective or a demon, I was just trying to prove something, right?"
Eve seemed to be asking Arthur a question, but also seemed to be talking to herself.
This is a bad day, but thanks to this bad day, many things that Eve has been unable to figure out have become much clearer today.