27: Chapter 27: 100% Favorability!

Shaun stood in front of everyone, looking at Bobby Hill.

Her terrifying face held a trace of surprise, but more of it was mockery.

"You?"

With just that one word, the darkness in Bobby's hands was already before Shaun.

Before the power even touched his body, Shaun could already feel the cold and decay.

It felt like countless dead hands were drilling into his body.

I'm going to die!

For some reason, this thought was very clear to Shaun at that moment.

But he didn't move.

He just stood there, blocking the path in front of that sharp-tongued but soft-hearted little witch.

The darkness engulfed Shaun.

Shaun only felt excruciating pain erupting from every inch of his skin.

"Ah!"

He couldn't help but let out a painful scream, but the sound seemed to come from very far away.

Then, Shaun fell straight to the ground.

And then... he heard Madison's voice.

Not speaking.

Crying.

Madison Montgomery was crying.

"Shaun! Shaun! Get up, damn it! Get up!"

The voice was like a needle, piercing into Shaun's gradually fading consciousness.

Shaun desperately wanted to open his eyes to look at Madison, but he couldn't.

He wanted to speak, but couldn't.

Only... the golden book in his mind lit up.

The golden book opened automatically, its pages flipping frantically before stopping on a certain page.

A new set of gilded text began to emerge.

【Key character favorability threshold reached: Madison Montgomery — 100/100】

Shaun's consciousness jolted.

100?

The pages of the golden book were glowing.

【Hidden condition triggered: Shield of True Love】

【Description: When a supernatural character's favorability toward the host reaches 100, and the host sacrifices themselves to protect said character during a life-threatening danger, the character's origin power resonance can be hiddenly activated.】

Madison's origin... Telekinesis.

The words on the page continued to emerge.

【Detected that the host already possesses 【Primary Magic】, which can serve as a foundation for resonance】

【Resonating...】

In reality, Shaun's body was glowing.

It wasn't the warm light like Cordelia's, but a sharper, more powerful radiance.

When Bobby Hill's darkness touched that light, it hissed like ice meeting fire and instantly evaporated.

This forced her to take a step back involuntarily.

"What is this?"

No one answered her...

Only the light could be seen growing stronger and stronger.

Shaun felt himself being filled with something.

It wasn't an externally injected power, but something that had originally existed but had always been locked deep within his body.

It was just that now, the lock on his body had shattered.

Shaun opened his eyes.

A flash of light passed through his pupils.

【Resonance complete】

【Congratulations to the host for awakening a new ability: Telekinesis】

...

Shaun stood up again.

Madison was kneeling on the ground, her face covered in tear stains, staring at him blankly.

That look...

Shaun didn't have time to look closely.

Though he imagined it was quite complicated.

At this moment, Shaun faced Bobby Hill again.

He could see that Bobby Hill's expression had turned grave for the first time.

Her voice was piercing, yet seemed to tremble: "What... are you?"

Shaun didn't know what happened to him either.

But... he knew what he could do now.

He simply raised his hand.

No need for incantations, no need for gestures, no need for any complex movements—just a thought in his mind!

The air around Bobby Hill instantly solidified.

She looked down and saw her feet leave the ground.

It wasn't that she was floating on her own.

She was being lifted.

"This is impossible! You were just a normal human a moment ago!"

Shaun didn't speak.

He pressed his hand downward.

Bobby Hill slammed heavily into the ground, and the entire house trembled.

She raised her head in shock and anger, and darkness surged madly from her body!

Shaun waved his hand.

That darkness was torn to shreds in mid-air.

Bobby Hill let out a sharp, miserable scream.

That was the sound a ghost makes!

Shaun looked at her and saw that Bobby Hill was clearly afraid.

She shrieked with a hint of terror: "You're not a normal human, you have... in your body..."

She couldn't finish her sentence.

Because Shaun raised his hand, and a force directly sealed her mouth.

She looked down at her hands.

Those hands were dissipating.

Starting from the fingertips, they turned into black smoke bit by bit.

"No!!!"

Bobby retreated frantically, but Shaun's power was like invisible chains, binding her tightly.

Darkness surged madly from her body, attempting to resist.

But it was useless.

Bobby Hill's screams echoed throughout the entire house.

"How do you have... That is... No...!"

When the last wisp of black smoke dissipated, the entire house shook violently.

Was she eliminated?

Shaun watched the female ghost dissipate, feeling a bit uncertain himself.

He turned his head to check everyone's reaction, only to see Madison looking at him, her face covered in tears, her lips trembling.

"Shaun... Shaun!"

Shaun was stunned by Madison's tears, but immediately laughed: "What's wrong, don't you recognize me?"

Madison was also stunned for a moment, then punched him hard.

"Damn you! You scared me to death!"

That punch was forceful, but Shaun smiled.

Turning the crisis into safety this time was truly thanks to Madison's favorability reaching the threshold.

Ignoring Madison's tears, Shaun looked back at the place where Bobby Hill had disappeared.

There was nothing there.

But the entire house... Hill Manor... was undergoing changes.

The walls were trembling, the floors were trembling, the air was trembling.

The ghosts hidden in the darkness let out terrified hisses and fled in all directions.

Cordelia stood up, her expression grave.

"This house... is not right!"

In fact, there was no need for her to say it, because Shaun felt it too.

The source of Bobby Hill's power obviously wasn't something she had cultivated herself.

It was because of this house!

Hill Manor itself was the source of the power!

Year after year of death, pain, and fear were all absorbed, stored, and transformed by this house into something terrifying.

Bobby Hill was just its spokesperson, the executor of its will.

Now that the spokesperson was gone.

Its will turned to a new target.

Who?

It was precisely Shaun, who had eliminated Bobby.

In an instant, countless black tentacles surged from all directions, attempting to drill into his body.

Madison screamed and raised her hand, trying to use telekinesis to block them.

But her telekinesis was repelled the moment it touched those tentacles.

She could only shout helplessly: "Shaun!"

Shaun didn't have time to answer; he was feeling those tentacles frantically drilling into his body.

It wasn't possession, it was devouring!

This house... wanted to turn him, Shaun, into the next Bobby Hill.

It wanted to occupy his body, erase his consciousness, and make him the new puppet!

Just as Shaun didn't know if his awakened 【Telekinesis】 could resist the erosion of this house, the golden book trembled violently in his mind.

The pages flipped frantically!

Shaun's vision began to darken.

He heard Cordelia chanting, heard Madison calling his name, heard Queenie's terrified scream...

Immediately after, he heard another voice...

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