Tokyo: I was tricked into marrying a yandere ghost

Kawakami Tomie said they just slept in each other's arms, and she wasn't lying to Kiyokawa Kiri.

This time, the other party behaved very well. After drying her hair, she obediently lay down on the bed. After Qingchuan Wu lay down next to her, she curled up into Qingchuan Wu's arms like a kitten. Only at times like this did she slightly shed her bewitching charm.

She's become more like a fragile girl...

"This is the first time I've ever slept while holding something."

Don't you have any cushions or anything like that?

"No..." Kawakami Tomie lay in Kiyokawa Kiri's arms, her beautiful eyes closed, and said in a soft voice, "It makes me feel unreal, like I'm dreaming, and I'll suddenly wake up."

"This is the first time I've heard of such a statement." Kiyokawa Kiri couldn't help but glance at the other person.

This side of Tomie Kawakami is quite unusual.

But this also means that the other party has truly let down all their guard this time, appearing before them in a more vulnerable manner.

This change in attitude was far more in line with the correct way for couples to get along than the ambiguity they had experienced before—after hesitating for a moment, Kiyokawa Kiri decided to carefully hold her in his arms.

He moved very gently, as if afraid of accidentally breaking Tomie Kawakami.

"Tell me, Kiri-kun, do you know why I live alone?" Kawakami Tomie nuzzled against the other's neck like a cat, then said lightly, "My parents... I actually killed them..."

"...Why?" Kiyokawa Kiri also tried to keep his voice as soft as possible.

"I don't know. When I was little, my father looked at me strangely." Kawakami Tomie suddenly hugged Kiyokawa Kiri tightly, her tone calm but unable to hide the faint sorrow in her voice. "One day, he wanted to come over and hug me."

"I sensed something was wrong, so I instinctively wanted him to leave... He listened to me, but I didn't realize his change. I just watched him open the door and walk and walk into the distance."

Tomie Kawakami paused for a moment, then suddenly added, "Later, when the police came to our door, my mother and I learned that my father had been gone for two days and two nights and had been worked to death."

Upon hearing this, Kiyokawa Kiri's heart tightened suddenly.

This should be the first time that Tomie Kawakami's ability to create ghost stories was revealed.

It is obvious that, whether out of familial affection or some kind of distorted desire, ordinary people simply cannot resist the charm of Tomie Kawakami.

Because of her immense charm, she could easily persuade people to agree to extremely unreasonable requests. This escalated to a perverse possessiveness, leading her to want to kill Kawakami Tomie... However, her father clearly hadn't gone that far yet, and simply complied with the request to "go away."

But its demonic nature is something that others can hardly comprehend.

Tomie Kawakami's mother couldn't understand it.

Since then, as Tomie Kawakami has grown older, her face and body have gradually matured.

That ability to tempt others to commit crimes and delve into the deepest recesses of their hearts has been further enhanced... and Kawakami Tomie's mother, through spending time with her day and night, also came to understand what made Kawakami Tomie different from ordinary people.

As a result, the fatal mistake occurred again...

"My mother wanted to cure me, but the doctors who were in charge of treating me died one after another."

Tomie Kawakami's body was trembling slightly, but her tone remained as indifferent as ever.

If I hadn't been holding her, I wouldn't have even sensed her fear, let alone imagined that the arrogant, vain, and irritable Kawakami Tomie, who had every flaw except for her beauty, would have such a vulnerable moment, with so many things weighing on her mind.

Kiyokawa Kiri remained silent for a long while before she vaguely understood why Kawakami Tomie in this parallel world wasn't pushed off a cliff and ultimately became a ghost story—it was directly related to her childhood experiences.

The emergence of Tomie Kawakami's abilities was inevitable.

However, the reasons for the emergence of these abilities are simply different settings in different parallel worlds, just like there are several versions of Kayako.

As Kawakami Tomie spoke in a low voice, Kiyokawa Kiri became increasingly certain of her thoughts, saying:

"My mother was devastated at the time and discovered that my father's death was related to my abilities... So she was in a state of mental breakdown. She wanted to take me with her to die, but she couldn't bear to let me die either, until she accidentally attended a lecture and heard what a person who claimed to be a spiritual mentor said."

"I don't know what they said that day."

"But I know that the person claimed to be from an organization called 'Aum Shinrikyo,' saying that there were people like my mother who were confused, and people like me who were 'sick,' and that they had a way to cure me."

"My mother left... When she came back, she was a different person, and she brought two men with her, trying to take me away."

At this point, Tomie Kawakami remained silent for a long time.

Finally, she whispered, "I had only been in junior high school for a short time then."

"..."

Kiyokawa Kiri didn't know what to say, and could only look at Kawakami Tomie, who seemed to be injured, with complicated emotions.

He never expected that the other party would go through such a thing, let alone that this matter would involve a religious organization—in his previous life, he had heard of the name "Aum Shinrikyo," but he never imagined that in this world, it would become something like this.

However, the world does indeed have supernatural tales and the like. How could these organizations, which like to manipulate human nature to amass wealth and satisfy their own desires, possibly miss out on such things?

More importantly, even setting aside her terrifyingly abnormal abilities, Tomie Kawakami's appearance is enough to attract others' inflated desires.

Is this why she also wanted to kill her mother...?

"I won't go with her. My mother is dead, so I let them kill each other and win the race to get me."

Tomie Kawakami exhaled slowly, and said in a calm tone, "But I didn't expect that one of them seemed to know about ghost stories and had a way to exempt me from their charm."

"But when he saw that the other two people were dead, he wanted to kill me to prevent future troubles. That is, after he attacked me, I briefly fainted. When I opened my eyes again, I saw several of me standing around him."

"This is my first time... awakening in my immortal body?"

Tomie Kawakami finally smiled, but it was a very tired smile.

"Although this ability was quite useful and helped me kill the last person, I had already bred more than twenty people by then. In order to prevent the ability from being exposed, I had to make these twenty-odd people kill each other until only one was left."

She slowly raised her head, her eyes fixed intently on Kiyokawa Mist.

"That is... me right now."