I'm a teacher in Tokyo!

She changed the portrait to one with a slightly thinner face, and Mako realized that it was Kayako herself.

But before that, she clearly wanted to draw someone else, but she found that the cake couldn't hold it all, so she changed it to herself.

As a gossip queen, she guessed that one of them might be Saito-sensei, but who else could it be?

Could it be Tomie? But how could Kayako know about Tomie's unrequited love?

Also, why did she draw other women on the cake? Could it be that she was willing to share Yoshizaki-sensei with someone else?

Unbelievable, Mako, who came from the countryside, felt as if her worldview had been dealt an unimaginable blow when she thought about this.

Are these the terrifying city dwellers?

Before I was about to come to this school from the orphanage, the old director told me that men in the city were all promiscuous and that I shouldn't be deceived by bad men in the city.

They say they would pretend to be unmarried to deceive girls, then abandon them, leaving them to have children alone and live a lonely life.

It seems that women can be quite promiscuous too—

Keep in mind, Kayako was still a student, yet she already had this kind of awareness?

After Kayako paid the bill, she learned that Mako was already tired of eating and didn't want to eat anymore. Only then did she say goodbye to Mako with Yoshizaki Kawa.

I watched them walk away.

Mako Yamamura couldn't help but pick up the milk beside her and take a big gulp before she could calm down from her shock.

She felt that things were getting more and more chaotic.

……

"Teacher, I... don't have anything else I want to buy. Can I save the money?"

Kayako said weakly.

"Of course you can. It's all up to you. If you save it, it's considered that 'you' spent it, not that you're paying me back."

Kayako was willing to offer her own opinions, which Yoshizaki Kawa naturally welcomed.

Hearing this, she nodded.

Later, I bought some daily necessities and food, as well as sanitary napkins for Kayako.

Following behind Mr. Yoshizaki, we carried the cake home;

Kayako's gaze kept drifting to the patterns on the cake.

Previously, she wanted to draw the teacher, Kuro, Saito Asuka-sensei, and Kawakami Tomie together, but when she got to Tomie,

She realized that there was no room for her figure on the small cake.

This reminded her of Tomie's terrifying appearance in the Shaman Club, who was probably just like a cake, unable to contain her.

When she got home, she wanted to cut the cake vertically, but then she realized that she would be separated from her teacher.

Then--

She sliced ​​all the people horizontally in half at the waist.

That way, everyone can be together.

"Teacher, here, have this."

She gave the largest portion of her own to Yoshizaki Kawa.

Looking at the cake, Yoshizaki didn't think much of it; a normal person wouldn't overthink something like that.

He responded with a smile and then ate it.

Kayako smiled happily when she saw this.

……

A day passed quickly.

Although the heavy snow of the past few days had stopped at night, the sky was still covered by thick clouds, and it was a dark and windy night.

In the courtyard, the dead believers had been cleaned up, but the congealed blood on the ground had penetrated deep into the soil. Unless the entire area of ​​land was shoveled away, it would be difficult to clean it up completely.

Of course, men wouldn't care about these things.

He sat cross-legged on the high platform once again, and in front of the man was an ancient stone statue with a blurred face.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 132 The Dream of the Dead

The man gently stroked the stone statue; due to its age, the sharp edges of the statue had been worn smooth.

Actually, it hadn't been long since I brought it out from there, but it seemed to wear out much faster after leaving that door.

Actually, a long time ago, he was a villager in a mountain village.

In that village, there is also a mountain behind it, where a tribe is said to live and guard a gate that is said to connect to hell.

It has no name; it simply calls out to the door.

According to legend, the sorcerer used his supernatural powers to seal the door, but the resentment did not subside, so he sent people to guard it strictly.

Each year, rituals are used to suppress the rebellion.

But, one day something went wrong.

The door opened.

In the dead of night, perhaps driven by curiosity, I walked to the door.

However, due to the continuous offerings, its power grew stronger and stronger, and it was eventually filled with all sorts of disordered memories, turning it into a complete beast.

So he kept searching;

Finally, a way was found that allowed him to use the evil spirits without causing them to be born.

Guided by evil spirits, he learned how to perform miracles to deceive the masses and become a religious leader.

However, the strength of this body cannot prolong its lifespan for too long.

And so, time and again, he finally became the "father" recognized by this beast.

Of course, the last time wasn't successful; the beast didn't manage to inhabit the body, which was probably due to Kotoko.

The stone statue's face was shattered, but it automatically restored itself in front of him, at the strange well opening.

She frightened the beast.

Because of his methods, the evil spirit's will became weaker and weaker, and in each cycle of reincarnation, it almost lost its independent will.

The evil spirit appeared to him in a dream, asking him to find a body for it to descend into, and granting him infinite life and unimaginable power.

Through repeated rituals, it has extended its lifespan and has lived for over a hundred years, yet it still appears young.

Ghosts are not to be believed in.

And each time, he would sleep with the saintess beforehand, and then allow the child whose body he possessed to have his own bloodline in a disguised way.

But it was precisely because he feared the terror of the evil spirit that he dared not let it be born, for fear that once it was born, everything he had would be taken away from him.

Thus, they continuously use this method to strip the evil spirits of their power, prolong their own lifespan, and increase their own strength.

Then, using a secret technique, the body was split into several parts, preventing the evil spirits from unifying their will.

They learned that the stone statue, which originally belonged to a deity, was possessed by an unimaginably terrifying evil spirit.

Then, he brought it out himself.

Perhaps it shouldn't be called a door; it was just an ordinary well. At the wellhead, he found an ordinary stone statue used for worshipping deities.

That is, to make the evil spirit in front of you constantly regenerate, and each time you kill its reincarnated form when it is powerless to resist.

Fortunately, he had also entered into a part of it, and he could continue to use its power to prolong his life and deceive his followers.

That's why he urged the Holy Maiden to find a suitable candidate as soon as possible.

"Kawakami Tomie——"

"Let me see just how beautiful you really are!"

In the West, Mary, the mother of Jesus, conceived through divine grace, and today, I too will be conceived through a dream.

The man in the wide robe lifted the red cloth covering the stone statue in front of him;

Then he took off his shirt;

His bare upper body was almost nothing but skin, with nearly all flesh gone. In particular, various Japanese incantations and strange talismans were written in vermilion on his withered skin, making the man look like a demon from hell.

"Come on, it's time to sleep."

The man swallowed the half-comb, which got stuck in his throat and tore his esophagus, causing dark red blood to flow out.

He tilted his head back, and the muscles in his throat moved with remarkable skill as he swallowed.

A moment later, he forced himself to eat it.

He then chewed up and swallowed the hair that his subordinates had stolen.

The next moment, as he rapidly chanted the incantation, blood flowed into his trachea due to the ruptured esophagus, and to onlookers, it sounded like nothing more than gurgling bubbles.