"The night before yesterday, Harase-senpai went to a supernatural program as a special guest. When she was returning home at 12 AM, she got into a car accident. Her fiancé became a vegetable."
"And the filming location for that program was a famously haunted house. It's said that four family extermination tragedies occurred there, and many investigating officers died. Today I also heard that the program's host and her boyfriend hanged themselves at home, the makeup artist mysteriously disappeared, and the sound engineer and cameraman also met with mishaps... I didn't believe in things like curses before, but..."
Fujino Terumi stopped speaking, her eyes filled with panic.
Having seen even a vampire, how could she deny the existence of curses?
So many people dying for no reason in just one day—how could this be a normal phenomenon?
"Four family extermination tragedies occurred? And they still dared to go inside to film a supernatural program?"
Amamiya Rin rolled his eyes.
As the saying goes, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. These people were sprinting straight down the road to death, afraid they weren't dying fast enough.
"Senpai told me that the people who believe in curses the least are the crews filming horror movies and supernatural programs, because they stage supernatural events themselves."
Fujino Terumi gave an embarrassed smile.
As a result, after walking the night road so often, they finally ran into a ghost.
"It's not easy for them to have survived until the day before yesterday."
Amamiya Rin couldn't help but sigh with emotion, his gaze toward Fujino Terumi becoming subtle.
It is widely known that ghosts in Japan do not listen to reason.
Regardless of whether there is a grudge or not, as long as you dare to appear before it, don't expect to survive. After you die, your friends and family also have a chance of becoming names on the victim list.
"According to what you say, this curse is extremely vicious. I may not necessarily be able to deal with it," Amamiya Rin said cautiously.
According to the Abbot, as long as he could firm his conviction, he could achieve 'mind over matter.' Even ghosts without physical bodies would become as tangible and interactive as solid entities before him.
However, even if they could interact, a ghost with a resume of killing dozens of people wouldn't just have the strength of an ordinary person after materializing. At the very least, it would be a mini-Boss.
He hadn't even left the Novice Village yet; could they stop sending him to fight Bosses all the time?!
Last time, he thought the person calling for help had encountered a robber or a rapist, so he recklessly charged into the greenbelt. Who knew it would be an elite monster like a vampire? In the end, he barely won and even injured his shoulder.
This time, knowing clearly that the target was a Boss-level evil spirit, he would absolutely not intervene again.
"Do you know where that haunted house is?"
Amamiya Rin asked while taking out Officer Kazumi's business card.
Do as much as one's ability allows. For a curse of this level, it was better to let the professionals handle it.
"It's in Nerima Ward. It is said the original residents were the Saeki family," Fujino Terumi said hurriedly.
Amamiya Rin was pressing the keys to input Officer Kazumi's number. Hearing Fujino Terumi's voice, his movements involuntarily paused.
"Nerima Ward? Saeki?"
Amamiya Rin's voice pitch rose sharply. His pupils constricted slightly, and his expression went blank.
He had practiced Dhyana for many years. Even without actively entering Dhyana, he could achieve a state of no joy, no sorrow, no arrogance, and no impatience.
However, the names spoken by Fujino Terumi caused his composure to break.
"Ju-on?!"
When talking about Nerima Ward, Saeki, and a haunted house, the first image to come to mind was inevitably that childhood trauma—Kayako! The second name to come to mind was inevitably the origin of Kayako—the horror movie Ju-on.
The corner of Amamiya Rin's eye twitched uncontrollably.
He had never dreamed that, aside from the Junji Ito series of horror manga, this world would actually contain Ju-on, that famously illustrious Japanese horror movie!
Wasn't the Harase Kyoko that Fujino Terumi just mentioned Sakai Noriko?
Although he had long forgotten the character's name, Amamiya Rin remembered who played the heroine of Ju-on: The Grudge 2, and he also remembered the general plot.
The heroine played by Sakai Noriko went to the Saeki haunted house to participate in a supernatural program. On the way back, that damned brat Saeki Toshio popped out to cause trouble, causing Sakai Noriko to have a car accident, her fiancé to become a vegetable, herself to miscarry, and her mother to die as well.
However, that car accident wasn't to kill people, but to allow Kayako to successfully reincarnate.
Not long after Sakai Noriko miscarried, she went to the hospital for a checkup and found that her fetus was completely normal. In reality, that was already Kayako's reincarnation.
When everyone had died cleanly, Kayako was successfully born. When she grew to five or six years old, this little brat pushed Sakai Noriko off a pedestrian bridge to her death.
As always, a total party wipe. The only difference was that Kayako reincarnated as a human, but she still acted inhumanly as always—if Kayako were willing to be a good person, the future might have been a not-so-terrible Little Kayako.
"This isn't a mini-Boss anymore; this is a fucking late-game Big Boss!"
Although he knew that Indou Ranko had a record of defeating a bunrei of Tamamo-no-Mae, Amamiya Rin had no confidence at all whether Indou Ranko could defeat Kayako.
What was Kayako's most famous ability?
Controlling time and spatial transfer!
She could mess up time at will and easily transfer targets to her haunted house.
As the saying goes, Time is Supreme and Space is King; Kayako occupied both abilities!
Not only that, in the sequel, after the haunted house was blown up, the spreading Ju-on curse possessed the power to destroy the world.
Even placed in the Junji Ito worldview, Kayako was a natural disaster second only to [Darkness], [Uzumaki], and [Hellstar Remina], and no less than the [Supernatural Transfer Student], [The Devil that Dissolves All Humanity], [The Demon God Beneath the Village of Spirit Music], and [The Hanging Balloons].
"Rin-kun, are you alright?"
Seeing Amamiya Rin like this, Fujino Terumi also panicked and asked nervously.
"I'm fine right now, but how much longer I can live is an uncertain question."
Amamiya Rin turned to look at Fujino Terumi and twitched the corner of his mouth weakly.
Fujino Terumi was Sakai Noriko's junior, and he had interacted with Fujino Terumi in the past two days. The probability of being targeted by Kayako was no less than ninety percent.
Amamiya Rin didn't want to take his anger out on Fujino Terumi, nor did he want to say complaining words; that would be too unsightly.
He took a deep breath and closed his eyes.
Almost instantly, the surrounding sounds became distant and blurred. Amamiya Rin's consciousness submerged inward, like a stone thrown into a deep pool, sinking continuously until all was silent.
Disordered distracting thoughts and apprehension, as well as the fear he could not deceive himself about, were gradually repelled from Amamiya Rin's heart.
The realm of Dhyana was like a cool stream, smoothing the ripples of the lake of his mind.
In just a moment, Amamiya Rin's expression returned to its usual calm, as if the loss of composure just now had never happened.
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