Katsuto Yuasa is an ordinary employee of a company in Shibuya Ward.

Ordinary education, ordinary occupation, ordinary family.

He doesn't have any special hobbies, his daily life is two o'clock and one line, going to work, getting off work, going home to have dinner with his wife Yumi, watching boring TV shows, playing with his three-year-old son, and then ending the day.

Katsuto Yuasa originally thought that his life would always be as plain and stable as this. Until a few days ago—

Everything is out of order.

He couldn't understand it at all, he couldn't understand what it was going on.

"Yumi, don't be like this, did I do something wrong? Look at me, I'm standing right here...... Look at me! ”

Katsuto Yuasa swallowed and begged his wife sitting on the sofa.

He completely collapsed, going from the original choking to hysteria.

The cause of the collapse may be because when I return home today, there is only dinner on the table that has been eaten, and there are only the dishes and chopsticks of his wife and children next to the cold leftovers, and there is no part of him, as if he does not exist in this family.

Yumi was originally a very virtuous wife, and every time she came home from work, she could eat her carefully prepared hot meals and get her gentle condolences.

Of course, dinner was just a fuse.

It was a small flame, and the flame ignited the bomb that Yuasa Katsuto had been accumulating in his heart these days, and after those emotions exploded, he was out of control.

Yuasa didn't understand why things were the way they were.

It was as if overnight, he had been abandoned by the whole world.

The company's colleagues all regarded him as air and turned a deaf ear, and the section manager who was originally optimistic about him treated him coldly.

It's the same at home, Yumi, and his three-year-old son, too.

Katsuto Yuasa knew that they didn't really see themselves, but they were deliberately ignoring themselves.

His son was originally very close to him, and always pestered him with milky voices. But these days, as soon as he sees Katsuto Yuasa, his son will run away in fear.

That kind of frightened look is not what a child should have when facing his father, but like seeing a stranger who suddenly appears at home.

"Tell me! Did I do something? ”

Why did things turn out the way they did?

Yumi, who was sitting on the sofa, didn't give her husband any response, but just hugged her son who was crying in wawa.

After a long time, she seemed to have finally made the decision, went into the bedroom, packed her bags, and left with her son.

Without saying a word, he just left.

Katsuto Yuasa didn't stop his wife, he just sat on the ground in a daze.

……

The door to Yuasa's house slammed open.

The wife of the Asabyu family dragged the suitcase with one hand and the little boy with the other.

Walking out of the house, she seemed to feel a lot more relaxed, and her expression was a little more vivid.

She passed by a tall young man standing in the street, but she didn't pay much attention to it, just walked away quickly, or fled, without looking back.

“…… How, can you feel it? ”

Watching Yuasa Yumi walk away, Kamiya turned his head to the side.

From the perspective of ordinary people, there is no one else around him.

But a perceptive soul slayer may be able to sense that there is something extraordinary in that clearing.

Staying by Kamiyagawa's side at the moment is Kazuki Fumi, the enma girl of the Santu River.

"Nope." Xiangyue gently tapped her palm with a folding fan and shook her head.

"It's hard to do......"

Katsuto Yuasa was one of the two victims found in the countermeasure room and subjected to the "eight-point curse".

After getting the news from Yusei Kenyou, Kamiya tracked him down.

From Yuasa Katsuto's body, you can indeed feel the strange power of the ominous curse.

However, I don't know if it's because of the blessing of the High Heaven Original, Kamiya himself has not been affected by the eight-point curse much.

The panic and disgust of the curse coming when he approached Yuasa Katsuto wasn't enough to interfere with his mind in any substance.

The co-owner of ghosts and gods is not affected!

But it's useless.

At least for Katsuto Yuasa, who abandoned him even with his closest wife and children, what if a stranger like Kamiyagawa could be kind to him?

Can it change the state of his broken life now?

Apparently not.

Unless the eight-point curse is removed, Katsuto's life in Yuasa will never get back on track.

In addition, Kamiya's assignment this time summoned Kazuki Fumi.

The current Lord of the River Styx was a direct victim of the curse of Xiao Binze while he was still alive. Now that she has the power of Enma and has transcendent perception, she is particularly sensitive to the perception of the curse she once had.

Through Xiang Yuexun's observation just now, it can already be confirmed that there is indeed a connection between the eight-point curse that appears now and the curse of Xiao Binze.

Although the two are completely different in expression, it is possible that the materials used to cast the spell are the same.

From this point of view, maybe Kamiya's previous worries were correct, and behind the eight-point curse this time, maybe it really involved the god of dark silt and beauty.

The only pity is that although Xiang Yue Xun has judged the nature of the curse, he will not be able to find the source of the curse for a while, let alone determine the location of the spellcaster.

"In this way, we are still very passive...... Uncle Cheng seems to have been mobilizing soul slayers who specialize in curses, hoping that they can get more clues than we do. ”

……

"Nagoya 17-year-old high school boy falls from a building: Shocking bullying and isolation"

“…… The poor boy used his life to indict this sick and distorted society. It's just that bullying and isolation like this, at this moment, across the country, how many things are happening that can be seen and cannot be seen? ”

The day after Kamiya began tracking down the Eight-Point Curse.

Such a striking news story appeared on the Internet and quickly gained a lot of attention.

The incident began with a high school boy in Nagoya who committed suicide by jumping off a building, and the information on the Internet detailed the bullying and unfair treatment suffered by the deceased during his lifetime.

According to the guidance of the report, the crowd on the Internet was excited.

The countermeasures room building in Tokyo.

Masao Nagatomo took a file that had just been passed from Nagoya and knocked on the door of Kenyu's office.

"Mr. Yusei, there's a report from Nagoya. Suicide...... It was true that he was confirmed to be the victim of the eight-point curse, but it was discovered too late. ”

"I see."

Yusarijin Kenyu scratched his messy hair.

The eight-point curse event has developed far more than expected, and there are already victims who have died because of the curse, and it is unknown how many more cursed people have been undiscovered across the country.

"What about the news on the Internet?"

There is another thing that is very wrong about this incident.

It's all the news on the Internet.

They are so comprehensive and specific that they seem to have been prepared in advance.

"It's been checked above." Changyou took out another piece of information, "Most of the people who reported this incident were self-media. The people who originally spread it have also been found, and according to them, the information on the incident was found this morning in the mailbox of their residence, not by mail, but directly by someone. The delivered information even includes the mailbox disc of the person who fell from the building, and the person who has not been able to find the person who has been delivered. Will these messages be ......?"

"Well, it's very likely that the instigator behind the curse spread it intentionally."

"But why did the man do that?"

"I don't know, maybe I want to see chaos, maybe the uneasiness of public opinion can bring any substantial benefits to that person."

"Are we going to stop the spread of the word?"

"This kind of thing, leave it to the people above to worry about, and they should do something practical. The countermeasures room is already understaffed, and now we need to mobilize the forces at hand to find the victims of the curse across the country and stop the suicides from happening...... Also, find out the bastard who spreads the curse and causes chaos. ”

"Stop suicide. Mr. Formation, we ...... Can it be stopped? ”

Nagatomo Masao's face is not very good-looking.

Can the Soul Exorcists do it to stop the cursed victim from collapsing and committing suicide?

I don't know.

After all, the sensitively sensitive soul slayer will be affected by the eight-point curse themselves, and can only observe the cursed from a distance. If they get closer, their actions and thoughts will be distorted.

……

"That's it, that's it!"

Shen Shi at the time of the demon is also the creator of the eight-point curse.

He's so happy right now.

Spreading the eight-point curse was only the first step for him.

The next thing is the main event -

Those public opinion that swept out like a landslide and tsunami with just a slight push.

Let's see, it's not just Nagoya.

Those who are confused, restless, angry, apathetic......

Look at all the chatters on the internet, they're so funny, they're so funny.

People will just make a noise about it, but they can't stop the curse.

Even the bullying and isolation that have nothing to do with the curse cannot be stopped.

Shen Shi knew that bystanders were just bystanders, and even if they shouted fiercely, they would still choose to remain silent when something happened. Because things have nothing to do with you, silence can protect you to the greatest extent.

When isolation becomes the default behavior of the group, no one will stand up for the isolated.

Obedience to the group, suppression of individuality, rabble, this is human beings.

So, let's be more noisy.

All of this will be turned into provisions.

Public opinion itself is a force that breeds strange rumors.

Poof, poof.

The computer screen in front of Shen Shi shone with a cold light, reflecting his crazy face. A fat, dark red tongue squirms out from the darkness behind the screen, wrapping and licking the screen.

And at the base of this long tongue, you can already vaguely glimpse the outline of a miserable white face with no other facial features except for the mouth.

"It's not enough."

The tongue wriggled greedily, drooling down its water.

"yes, it's not enough, it's not enough." Shen Shi echoed.

It is not enough to breed this unparalleled cursed monster now.

But that's okay.

With the first person who died because of the eight-point curse, there will soon be a second, a third.

People are so vulnerable.

Soon there will be bigger, more delicious messes.

Thinking like this, Shen Shi suddenly felt: "Ah, another one is coming." ”

……

Tokyo, Otemachi underground platform.

Harumi Tsubata wore her hair loose and walked down the stairs.

"Look at me, look at me."

Pingtian's eyes were hollow and depressed. A week ago, she was a college girl with few worries, but in a short period of time, she was tortured like a walking corpse by the Eight-Point Curse.

It's the same at school, outside, and even at home.

Whether it is classmates, friends, or even family members, everyone is deliberately ignoring her existence.

"Why can't you, look at me? What the hell, how can we make everyone ......?"

There is a train approaching in the distance of the platform.

Pingtian continued to approach the edge of the platform and soon crossed the yellow line underground.

One more step forward and she will fall into the tram tracks.

Of course, the staff on the side of the platform noticed her, but they turned their faces away indifferently.

The people around him only scattered from Pingtian's side, and only a few indifferent eyes were projected on the girl's body.

"Right? So, that's the way you can see me, and that's the only way you'll see me, right? ”

Tsubuda staggered on the edge of the platform.

She could feel the slightly restless wind pressure behind her driving her clothes.

Unless it is burned by fire, unless it is buried with its own body......

In the crowd that dispersed, someone raised his mobile phone and pointed it at Pingtian.

Those shaky shots seem to want to calmly record the last traces of this girl's survival.

Perhaps the next day, Tsubota's death will replace the previous Nagoya teenager and become the new focus of discussion.

Bang Bang –

The steel giant is about to enter the station, and the announcement on the platform begins to warn waiting passengers not to cross the yellow line.

"Look at me more...... Look at me. ”

Tsuboda fell backwards.

And at this moment, among the crowd of onlookers, a figure rushed out.

The man grabbed Pingtian by the collar and pulled her to the ground.

"What are you doing!?"

Pingtian fell to the ground, and the cold floor hit her in pain.

The pain was tangible, and it made her wake up a little from her numbness.

Tsubuda raised his head, and in front of him was a completely strange girl.

The girl had a gloomy expression, dressed in her everyday winter attire and tied up in a high ponytail. She carried a bulging sword bag on one shoulder, which seemed to contain a bamboo sword that had been practiced in kendo, and the sword bag was embroidered with the words "Kuronomiya Kendo Dojo".

"I ......"

Tsubita opened his mouth.

She saw the crowd of onlookers, moving closer and farther away, and saw the camera of her mobile phone swaying indifferently in front of her eyes.

The gloomy pony-tailed girl seemed to be annoyed, raised her hand and pulled out a bamboo sword from the sword bag, and slammed the nearest mobile phone out of the air.

"You're ......!"

The owner of the phone was stunned and annoyed.

"I'll pay you. Now, get out of the way! ”

The gloomy girl raised her bamboo sword to disperse the crowd. (End of chapter)