The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 196: Final Battle (18)

Although Ashiya Yoshisuke did not answer the question raised by the mourning hall Yanci, there was no doubt that he knew the answer.

Ashiya Yoshisuke recalled the woman who was called "the witch with a curse" and murmured, "Yes, what a good person..."

In Yoshisuke Ashiya's memory, Hiruda's mother, Keiko Terao, was a gentle and beautiful person. She had a mole between her eyebrows, just like Hiruda, but she looked much more pleasing to the eye than Hiruda. As for why she was called "the cursed witch", it all started with her family.

The Terao family is a cursed family. According to legend, during the war-torn ancient times, their ancestor was a thief. Once when he entered a temple to steal, he was discovered by a monk in the temple. So he decided to kill the monk in front of the Buddha and then ran away. Since then, the Terao family has been cursed by the gods.

Over the long years, because of the curse, almost no child of the Terao family could live past the age of 50, and many died in their thirties or forties. From a modern perspective, their family may have some kind of genetic disease with genetic defects, but people in ancient times did not know about this, and gradually, the reputation of the Terao family being cursed spread in the local area.

Perhaps it was because of the power of the curse that the Terao family gradually discovered that they had an outstanding talent in curses when searching for a way to break the curse. Thus, with the efforts of generations of ancestors, an ancient family that was good at curses was born.

Because of the influence of the curse, the Terao family has always had few members, and by the time it came to Terao Keiko's generation, she was the only one left.

In order to make a living, Keiko Terao came to Tokyo. Amid the glamorous high-rise buildings, she felt the darkness lurking in the shadows. The darkness was so huge that she had a premonition that she would achieve great things in this city.

But among the sorcerers, Keiko Terao is an outlier. She is extremely sensitive and can clearly feel the pain in others' hearts. Perhaps because of her childhood experience of being excluded, Keiko Terao is very empathetic, to a pathological degree, and she simply cannot ignore those who need help.

So as a sorcerer, Keiko Terao has never used spells to curse anyone. The curse of the Terao family not only gave them a short lifespan, but also gave them an extremely powerful ability to withstand curses. So Keiko Terao took a different approach and became a sorcerer who specialized in helping people remove curses.

She would transfer those curses that were difficult to remove to herself, and let herself bear the curse. Because of this unique way of removing curses, Keiko Terao could basically remove any curse. During her career, she gradually accumulated powerful curse power in her body, and gradually, she became the most powerful sorcerer and curse remover in Japan.

Countless people have received her kindness and regarded her as their savior. In addition to her identity as a sorcerer, Keiko Terao was given the title of "the witch with the curse". She was highly respected in the exorcist circle and even in the entire Tokyo upper class. After all, no one knows whether they or their family will encounter a tricky curse.

During a commission, she met Hiruda's father, who was also troubled by the curse at the time. After witnessing Keiko Terao's gentleness, he fell in love with Keiko Terao and began to pursue her.

The pursuit process was not smooth, and only the two of them knew the twists and turns in the middle, but in the end, the two got married and gave birth to Hiruda Makoto.

The story seemed to have ended here, but it seemed like God was playing a little joke on them.

Keiko Hiruda, who had already changed her name, suddenly found that because she had absorbed too many curses in her body, the curse power was so strong that it overflowed and even affected the people around her, just like a source of infection. And the closer the person is, the more the curse in the body is ready to move. After discovering this, Keiko Hiruda divorced her husband, changed her name back, and left them. Keiko Terao knew that the worse her relationship with them was, the less likely it would be for her curse to be transferred to them, so she did not explain too much, but just endured everything silently.

But Hiruda's father could not accept this, so his temperament changed drastically and he became a decadent alcoholic. Smoking, drinking and domestic violence were commonplace. Hiruda grew up in such a single-parent family.

If things had ended here, Hiruda would not have become what he is now. However, something else happened afterwards that made Hiruda what he is today, and that was the Slit-mouthed Woman incident.

Keiko Terao was also one of the exorcists who participated in the commission at that time. She was a comrade-in-arms of Yoshisuke Ashiya and also died in that commission. Before her death, Keiko Terao asked him to help take care of Hiruda, and Yoshisuke Ashiya naturally agreed.

Keiko Terao's wish is that Hiruda will never come into contact with the world of curses and sorcery, and just grow up, get married, and have children in an ordinary way. Perhaps with the development of medicine, the problem of longevity of their family can be solved, so Yoshisuke Ashiya has no plans to let Hiruda enter their circle.

However, unexpectedly, after Keiko Terao died, the power of the curse in her body did not dissipate. Instead, due to blood ties, it appeared in Hiruda.

That day, Hiruda's father was drunk and was beating him with a belt. In extreme resentment, Hiruda's curse power exploded, killing his father and almost killing himself. It was Ashiya Yoshisuke who arrived in time to save him.

Now that the power of the curse has reappeared, it is impossible to avoid contact with this circle, so Ashiya Yoshisuke thinks it is better to let Hiruda learn the spell, so that he can stabilize his own curse. So he transferred the inheritance of the Terao family to Hiruda, which was the inheritance he should have received.

Just think about it, if a person who is full of resentment, has suffered humiliation and grievances, and has an extremely dark heart, suddenly gains powerful power, what will he do?
Thus, today's Hiruda was born.

At the beginning, Hiruda did not dare to act too rashly, but he gradually discovered that because of the influence of his mother and Ashiya Yoshisuke's reputation, many people would turn a blind eye to his behavior, so gradually, he began to act recklessly.

He possesses the power of spells, but he would not be like that stupid woman and use himself to bear the curse on others. Spells are not used like that!

The correct way to use spells is to hurt others!
His ambition gradually began to expand, and he began to accept commissions from various cursed targets. Only more benefits could satisfy his twisted heart.

Hiruda became a prominent figure in the "inner world" of Tokyo's exorcist circle and had many followers, but he was not satisfied with this because his actions were still shameful and he was despised by others, which made him very dissatisfied. He wanted a higher social status, which required the support of some bigwigs, or in other words, he wanted to use this power to control some bigwigs.

Just when he had spent a long time recruiting soldiers and horses, hoping to gain benefits through spells and expand his sphere of influence, Qian Xiaoyi appeared in front of him.

(End of this chapter)