I'm a teacher in Tokyo!

"Take me to school first, I'll go get my things."

Because the videotapes at home were lost, Yoshizaki Kawa later put them in the school's safe.

Soon, we drove to the school.

Yoshizaki took a wooden box out of the safe, and inside the box lay a videotape.

When he saw this ordinary videotape, which had no special features whatsoever, Abe no Chōsai had some questions, but he didn't say anything.

In his eyes, everything Yoshizaki Kawa does must have a deeper meaning.

Chapter 180 The Curse of Waste Paper

Aside from his dreams, Yoshizaki had never been to Minakami Village in reality. All the previous matters were handled by Kotoko herself, and he only needed to listen to the results.

Sometimes, Yoshizaki had to admit that having Higa Kotoko, who was like a mother to him, made him feel quite safe.

I don't need to worry about anything, including that sect before. As long as I say a word, the sect will be completely wiped out and the videotape will be recovered.

So when news of Kotoko's perilous situation reached Yoshizaki's ears, he felt a sudden sense of panic, as if he had lost his pillar of support.

However, having experienced so many ups and downs, he naturally grew up as well.

At this moment, in Abe no Chosai's eyes, Yoshizaki Kawa's expression was calm and steady, just like a carbon copy of Higa Kotoko.

If he could sense the bloodline within him, he would even think that this guy was also a very powerful exorcist.

Soon, the car drove into a valley in the darkness, with spotlights on both sides illuminating the ground and reflecting a grayish-white light.

The scene ahead also came into Yoshizaki's view: a dilapidated village wrapped with lanterns, the distant roar of a diesel generator, and the whole area in front of him was illuminated by light.

The five-pointed star made of folded notebook paper hanging around Yoshizaki's neck seemed to be stimulated and trembled slightly.

Seeing that Yoshizaki insisted, Abe no Chosai could say anything more and could only watch him walk forward.

Anyone else who touches it may be cursed, which is the main reason why he has to face the pool.

In fact, he was very sensitive to danger. At this moment, he did not feel the presence of crisis. Moreover, he had to drop both the videotape and the scrap paper in Kayako's notebook himself.

In an instant, the sound of murmured curses seemed to come from all directions, like a tidal wave. The red threads that were wrapped around Yoshizaki's body withered and decayed rapidly from the ends, as if they had been soaked in ink, turning completely black.

The moment Yoshizaki Kawa reached the entrance of the pond,

The curses below shrank slightly, and the next moment, as if sensing a familiar aura, countless curses surged out of the pool like billowing clouds.

Looking at Abe Chōsai's slightly cold expression, Yoshizaki Kawa did not sense any danger.

Along the way, Abe no Chosai also realized that Yoshizaki Kawa was not a person with special abilities, so he naturally could not let him take risks.

However, Yoshizaki simply moved his hand away gently, then shook his head slightly to indicate that he was alright.

But at this moment——

The dense red threads tightly wrapped around Yoshizaki Kawa's feet. Once they confirmed it was Yoshizaki Kawa's breath, the red threads began to exert force, attempting to pull Yoshizaki Kawa down.

As people walked inside, a sense of familiarity arose spontaneously, and everything in the dream felt just like reality.

He even felt very familiar with the place, as if he had returned home, and every cell in his body seemed to be jumping for joy and cheering.

Miss Kotoko was unharmed after going down because she possessed the strength to back her up.

This feeling even made him involuntarily walk towards the extremely eerie-looking pool.

"and many more!"

A moment later, Yoshizaki arrived outside a cave.

Just as Yoshizaki was about to move forward, he was stopped by Abe Chōsai from behind: "This is the source of the curse. Kotoko is also trapped inside. If you go to Ikeguchi, once you are pulled down, you will die!"

As if enraged, the number of red lines below grew ever larger, and Yoshizaki could even faintly see the desolate world through the opening of the pool.

In an instant, both Yoshizaki Kawa's and Abe Chōsai's vision were filled with countless red lines. Moreover, all the streetlights along the road, from front to back, exploded in the face of this terrifying curse.

The entire base was plunged into darkness.

Panic brewed in the darkness. After a brief uproar, exorcists began chanting incantations, but after only a few words, they all coughed up blood, and several threads came out of their mouths.

at the same time,

Beneath the pool, Kotoko, dressed in tattered clothes, still gleamed with a sharp light in her eyes.

Her body was covered in bloody wounds, and even the wound on her back was torn open, with bright red blood seeping out from the twitching muscles.

But behind her, the thousands of corpses that once lay there had vanished, leaving only empty nooses hanging above the cave entrances.

After she came down, she faced not only the all-powerful ghost, but also the all-out attack of the gatekeeper ghost.

The wounds on her body were naturally caused by the female ghost guarding the gate.

But in reality, this meant nothing to her; Higa Kotoko had gradually found her "path" in the battle.

However, the path kept changing, and she had to take advantage of the moment when the female ghost in front of her wasn't paying attention in order to escape.

At that moment, Higa Kotoko suddenly felt the entire world tremble, and the curses of the entire world began to go out of control.

Before she could react, the female ghost she was confronting suddenly seemed to sense something and abruptly looked up at the sky.

The moment the female ghost sensed that familiar curse, all the curses immediately erupted. Filled with resentment, she vanished from her spot in an instant, and the rustling sound of chains echoed in the sky.

Kotoko Higa's usually calm expression instantly changed: "Damn it! What are you doing here?"

The next moment, she raised the mirror, just as she was about to freeze the evil spirit, but the latter had no intention of fighting her. Instead, it split off a part of its body and melted it in the mirror, while its main body swept towards the exit.

Without the slightest hesitation, Qinzi began to run barefoot and frantically through the rocks.

Although she had guessed that an exorcist might come to rescue her, she never expected that these guys would bring Yoshizaki Kawa with them.

Isn't this just asking for trouble?

I was originally fine, but now I can't say for sure.

……

At the entrance of the cave.

Between the rising curse and the resistance, the earth began to tremble. Abe no Chōsai, holding a jade pendant, sat cross-legged on the ground, chanting scriptures to protect himself.

He didn't even have the power to protect Yoshizaki River; at this moment, he was doing his best to resist the intertwining of the two curses.

As the female ghost below drew closer to the cave entrance, the red aura filled the cave like flowing clouds. At this moment, the scrap paper hanging around Yoshizaki's neck trembled more and more violently, as if a corner had been torn open by a tremendous force.

next moment,

From the torn corner, a drop of black ink slammed heavily onto the ground.

Almost instantly, whether it was Kotoko beneath the pool, Abe no Chosai outside the cave, or all the exorcists outside.

A buzzing sound came from their ears;

Like a locust flapping its wings, like a fly soaring high, the buzzing in the brain, the weak exorcist even felt a chill in his nose, and blood gushed out, followed by uncontrollable vomiting, as if he was about to throw up his stomach.

Inside the cave, the silk threads that had been rising rapidly paused.

Then--

"collapse!"

Like taut musical strings, once stretched to their limit, they begin to snap one by one.

At the broken end, blackness began to spread like maggots clinging to the bone—

Chapter 181 Direct Suppression

At this moment, the entire village of Minakami was plunged into darkness.

Fear began to spread from the darkness. Even the rustling of the wind sounded like fingernails scratching a blackboard to the exorcists, making their hearts tremble.

Some of the exorcists had experienced that day with Kotoko. On that day, Kotoko hung a piece of scrap paper on the altar and then gathered many exorcists in the name of inviting the gods to try to find out what kind of being it was.

On that day, Kotoko was severely injured, and all the exorcists present were also seriously injured.

They vaguely remembered that on that day, it seemed even the sky had darkened, and the spreading curse caused the high platform to crack. At that moment, they also heard that sound.

But the sound had never been as clear as it was now. That sound seemed to come from another world; though it was right next to my ear, it felt inexplicably distant.

This time, however, the voice truly came to my ears.

Fear is descending.

……

Not only the exorcists above, but even Kotoko, located below in the cave, felt that same powerless resistance against the curse she had faced before. Suddenly, she felt a strange sensation in her heart and straightened up from her frantic run.

If someone were standing in front of Kotoko at this moment, they would see the faint shadow of a pale hand appearing in her dark pupils.

"So that's what a vortex means. But how could something so terrifying appear in this world?"

At this moment, Kotoko was also in a bad state, feeling the approach of death. Her pupils began to dilate under her eyelids, but even so, she did not open her eyes, because once she opened her eyes, the hand lurking in the darkness would reach out from her pupils and crush her head!

The next moment, she suddenly closed her eyes, but in that instant, her heart twisted as if a hand was pressing on her heart, ready to crush her vibrant, beating heart with just a little force!

Around Kotoko, the vengeful spirits that had been chasing her from behind the door retreated in fear that had suddenly descended upon her.

But almost instantly, hands reached out from the bleak shadows behind them, then grabbed their ankles and dragged the vengeful spirits into the shadows where they shouldn't have been.