I, holding a long sword in my hand, only know one move

It was really weird, Kugisaki scratched his head.

Are all single cubicles like this in hell? It's like being in a jail cell...

And Kugisaki actually squatted down, leaning his back against the corner formed by the transparent wall, curling up.

Silence, darkness, nothingness, alone.

Unable to feel the sense of direction or the passage of time, Kugisaki was just in a daze.

"Why did I come here...?"

Gradually, he began to feel bored. As if he remembered some way to kill boredom, Kugisaki began to count rhythmically.

"One...two..."

Move forward every sixty seconds.

"One minute and one, one minute and two..."

Then one hour...

Twenty-four hours and another day forward.

"One day and one second..."

"A week and a day..."

"One month...."

Go forward one by twelve months.

"One year..."

【.....How long is one year? 】

Kugisaki stopped suddenly and stared blankly.

How long is a year?

Although I counted it second by second, I had forgotten it, as if it only happened in the last second.

I am bored.

Bored to death!

"But I'm already dead, so I can't die anymore~" Kugisaki covered his head and buried it deeply in his curled-up knees.

"Who will come and have a word with me..."

Bored to the point of going crazy.

There is nothing here but myself.

Hear nothing, see nothing but yourself.

But fortunately, she still has memories that she can recall.

Over and over again, I sorted through the things that I could still remember. If I think about it for a long time, I can hardly remember many things from my childhood. The clearest thing is the things that happened 'before my death'.

That guy Xiao Mo is crying...

Kugisaki remembered that he seemed to have regained consciousness for a short time at the end, even if it was not a flashback.

Tears welled up from her eyes as bright as the stars in the dark night and fell on her face.

It's hot, but it feels cold at the same time.

"It turns out that curse spirits can also cry..."

The two blood-smeared and bad-looking brothers who were previously defeated at the Eighty-Eight Bridge may not be considered real curse spirits, but only the physical body.

But that guy Xiao Mo...

All kinds of memories of getting along with her came to mind, and Kugisaki suddenly burst into laughter.

Only after you die can you think about the problems at that time...

If she wasn't a curse spirit, maybe the two of us would really be very good friends, no...

They are very good sisters, right?

I actually quite like her, she's cute, and she talks nicely... I just like to ask why.

"Kugizaki-sister."

Well, yes, she likes to call me like that.

As if he could recall Xiaomo's voice and tone when he called him, Kugisaki couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.

It's a pity that I didn't make it out alive, otherwise I'm afraid it would have shocked the others, especially Knotweed and Fushiguro... I wonder what their expressions would be?

"Kugizaki-sister."

The voice of calling sounded in his mind, but it seemed to come from all directions. Kugisaki suddenly stopped thinking and listened with bated breath.

Did you hear it correctly? It seemed like she was calling me again just now?

"elder sister."

The sound came from behind, and Kugisaki jumped up from the ground and looked back.

The delicate black-haired girl was standing outside the transparent wall, watching herself quietly.

"Xiao Mo?" Kugisaki said in a puzzled tone.

"You died too? That's not right... Is it possible that the cursed spirits and humans can go to hell together after they die?"

Small

Mo didn't answer Kugisaki's question, but just smiled.

"Sister, it's great that you're okay."

"Ah? Of course I'm fine, because I've..." Kugisaki's words stopped abruptly, as if he thought of some possibility.

She asked uncertainly: "Is it possible that I'm not dead yet?"

"Sister, I have a lot of problems."

Kugisaki sighed helplessly: "There's nothing I can do...because now I don't understand what happened."

Gradually, Kugisaki seemed to hear the miserable howl of something coming from outside the space.

A sound full of sorrow, fear, and despair. Is that the sound of human wailing?

Click! !

The transparent wall in front of him suddenly burst into cracks, startling Kugisaki, and he took half a step back.

Xiao Mo stepped forward and gently covered the place where the crack appeared with her hands. The two of them were separated by a transparent barrier. She said, "It's okay, don't worry, I will cure you."

The cracks gradually disappeared and the transparent wall merged back into one.

"What is that?" Kugisaki asked, looking at the wall repaired by Xiaomo.

She just looked at herself and smiled, but didn't answer a word.

"Xiao Mo?"

"I'm here, sister..."

"What is this wall and why is it cracked?"

"Don't worry, sister, Xiao Mo will cure you."

Boom! !

The wall cracked again, this time as if it had been hit by a bullet. Terrifying radiating cracks appeared. Kugisaki felt a slight vibration under his feet. There seemed to be something coming from the incomprehensible depths of nothingness and darkness. Break the transparent barrier covering yourself, rush in and tear yourself apart.

"Xiao Mo, what on earth is this!?"

"Sister, I will be cured... I will always be cured..."

An unknown feeling began to grow in her heart like wildfire. Through the transparent wall, Kugizaki could clearly see that the smile on Xiaomo's face was beginning to be forced.

Even with pain.

boom...

boom! !

Gradually, the cracks and scars became more numerous and denser, until they appeared faster than Xiao Mo could repair them.

"Ah...sister...I'm sorry."

"Why do you have to say sorry to me?" Kugisaki was puzzled.

Cracks continued to appear with loud noises, and the speed at which the cracks were repaired obviously slowed down. Kugisaki no longer paid attention to those things. She looked up at Xiaomo who was lying on the other side of the wall staring at her.

There was a crack spreading from the back of her slender and white neck, and Kugisaki squinted to see clearly.

what is that?

As soon as this idea came to mind, a huge scar suddenly appeared across the entire transparent wall in front of him, almost cutting through the entire wall in front of Kugisaki.

Although Xiao Mo's expression did not change at all, her legs disappeared from her knees, and her whole body shrank suddenly.

Her missing calf turned into fragments and rushed toward the transparent wall that had been torn apart by an unknown attack to fill the huge scar.

"I want to see my sister for a while longer..."

"Xiao Mo, what are you doing?" Kugizaki found that his voice was trembling, and panic was growing in his mind.

Once this wall is broken, terrible things may happen.

The wailing sounds came one after another all around, and the distance seemed to be closer and clearer. The continuous howls made Kugisaki's head spin, and he felt like he would go crazy if he listened to it for a while longer.

"Sister will not die. Remember to come and play with Xiao Mo later. How about we go shopping together?"

The girl smiled happily, as if chatting with her best friend, and ignored her gradually torn body.

The parts of her that were torn apart by the unknown attack turned into dust and light, filling the cracks in the transparent wall in front of Kugisaki.

"But Xiao Mo has no money, and he has to sneak out while hiding from Xia You... I heard that you can make money by working part-time. Can Xiao Mo go work with your sister?"

Legs, arms, waist, then chest, neck.

Xiaomo in front of her was constantly torn apart by the passing wails coming from the darkness, but the corners of the girl's mouth were always raised happily, as if she couldn't feel the pain that was close to being separated by Lingchi, and her tone was calm. They talked about what they were going to do in the future.

Kugisaki was petrified, she was frozen in place unable to move.

Because she gradually saw clearly that the things surging out of the darkness were twisted and painful people. They turned into black mist, with scarlet eyes, carrying all the resentment in the world, and attacked the girl in front of them who turned her back to them and blocked everything for herself.

They mercilessly tore off a part of Xiao Mo's body as if they were meeting the most hated enemy.

"...Xiao Mo, don't you feel pain?" Kugizaki's lips trembled and his breathing stopped.

The overwhelming resentful spirits turned into black waves a hundred meters high and swept over.

Before that, Xiao Mo shook her head slightly, and the remaining mutilated limbs gave her a particularly moving and poignant feeling.

"I am very happy to know Kugisaki-nee..."

"Sister Kugisaki, can you treat me as a true friend?"

The transparent barrier covering Kugizaki shattered. Before that, Xiao Mo who was blocking him was completely torn to pieces, and then the huge wave of resentment surged towards him in a destructive manner!

At the last moment, Nagizaki heard Xiao Mo’s touching words.

Heartbroken murmurs.

Full of helplessness, reluctance and loneliness.

"Even if it's just pretending..."

boom--

Everything in front of him was submerged by the torrent of resentful spirits. Kugisaki raised his arms in vain to block it, but what he thought would be torn to pieces in an instant did not happen.

The ocean composed of those resentful spirits just passed through both sides of his body.

Then, everything returned to calmness, to the darkness and nothingness where there was nothing and nothing could be heard at the beginning.

But this time there was no transparent barrier around him, and there was no figure of Xiao Mo.