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Kayako's attack achieved no results other than causing Sakurai to be burned to death by the soul flame again.
That is what is called...
Useless.
Then, Sakurai went straight to the attic.
"If this is the extent of the attack, I would be very disappointed."
"You know, I came here with the intention of making a big scene. Don't let me come here with high hopes and leave disappointed, Kayako."
Sakurai's voice echoed on the second floor and finally disappeared.
The moment the words fell, the familiar bubbling sound rang out again, and a translucent paper door appeared out of thin air in Sakurai's eyes.
The paper door is full of Japanese style and looks like an ordinary house, exactly the same as what Sakurai saw when he first came here.
"A hallucination?"
Before Sakurai could make a judgment and take action, the paper door slowly opened. Behind the door, a man and a woman whose faces could not be seen clearly seemed to be arguing about something.
Then the man with an angry face continued to beat the woman in pain, then he took out a kitchen knife from the table and stabbed it into the woman's body.
She fell to the ground in disbelief, blood flowing from her wounds and staining the ground red. The woman with wide eyes let out a giggle and fell into a pool of blood with unwillingness.
The man did not stop. Controlled by anger and rage, he kept cutting the woman's body with the knife. The woman's body, which was still alive, kept convulsing and trembling, her wide-open eyes filled with incomprehensible pain.
The woman's face, stained with blood, was full of hideousness.
In the end, the man cut off the woman's head and held her hair tightly.
Sakurai looked up and met a pair of dark pupils. These were the eyes of a woman filled with resentment and unwillingness.
Why did she have to go through all this? With such resentment, she was brutally tortured and killed.
The man's name is Takeo Saeki and the woman's name is Kayako. This is...
The day Kayako was killed by Takeo Saeki?
Sakurai made this judgment here.
49. The Root of the Curse
Sakurai knew what was happening.
The cause of all this was recorded in the information given to him by the bartender.
The Grudge was a tragedy from the very beginning.
Kayako, a girl with an introverted personality, fell in love with a man in college. Due to her personality, she did not have the courage to express her feelings to the man. She only recorded her thoughts in her diary, and in the end the man was unaware of the matter.
After that, Kayako suffered a series of misfortunes.
The black cat who grew up with him died, and his parents also died in a car accident while traveling.
After that, Kayako married a man introduced by a matchmaker. That man was the man who killed Kayako, Takeo Saeki.
That can be said to be the happiest period of time for Kayako.
It was also her home at that time when she was alone.
However, from the very beginning, this short-lived happiness was like a bubble that would burst at the slightest touch.
Takeo Saeki was born with mental problems and was born with a violent tendency.
Shortly after the marriage, Kayako gave birth to a child, Toshio Saeki, who was killed by Sakurai.
A few years passed in a flash, and Kayako's story came to a turning point in her destiny.
One day, Kayako accidentally learned that Saeki Toshio's elementary school teacher was her secret crush, Kobayashi Shunsuke, and during a physical examination, Saeki Toshio learned that he was born with a low sperm count and it would be difficult for him to conceive a child.
Confused and irritated, he accidentally found Kayako's diary in the cabinet, and then...
The violent gene hidden in his bones finally erupted. Controlled by rage, he lost his mind and cruelly abused Kayako, then killed and dismembered her.
Finally, he hid in the attic on the second floor.
All the tragic experiences from childhood to adulthood, the resentment and confusion of being abused by her husband due to misunderstanding.
The answer was finally found after death.
She understood the whole story.
The resentment that had accumulated over the years reached its peak, turning into a curse that could not be vented no matter what, and it entangled this house.
After killing everyone, Kayako, who had turned into a ghost, began to indiscriminately kill everyone who entered the house.
The case came to an end only when unscrupulous businessmen used some means to hide it.
If the bartender hadn't discovered it in time, with the horrific spread of the curse and Kayako's identity as an immortal ghost storyteller,
Maybe Tokyo has already fallen.
Anyway...
The scene now being played out in front of Sakurai is the entire process of Kayako's transformation into the Grudge.
So what comes next is...
The angry Takeo Saeki left home with a kitchen knife and went to the home of the elementary school teacher that Kayako had a crush on and killed his wife Manami.
That is to say...
They wanted to kill me as a bystander.
Sakurai didn't think that Kayako showed him this scene just to gain sympathy.
Just as Sakurai thought, after chopping Kayako's body into pieces, Takeo Saeki walked towards Sakurai with a knife in hand and a ferocious face.
He raised the kitchen knife and chopped at Sakurai.
"As a cursed person, Kayako cannot be forgiven. She has killed too many innocent people. Only death can bring everything to an end."
“This is also the purpose of my trip.”
"As the instigator of all this, you are even more unforgivable."
"Saeki Takeo, your time has come."
Sakurai stomped his feet and jumped backwards while saying this, avoiding the kitchen knife dropped by Takeo Saeki.
Covered in blood, Takeo Saeki was unable to understand the meaning of Sakurai's words. After being killed by Kayako, his self had died and he became Kayako's puppet like all the people who had died so far.
Now, he only has the instinct to kill.
The instinct is to treat all humans within sight as Kayako and kill and chop them into pieces.
"You think you can hurt me?"
"Are you worthy?"
The horizontal Aragami fang blocked Takeo Saeki's kitchen knife, and with a flick of the fang, it cut off his arm holding the knife.
With a ferocious face, Takeo Saeki opened his mouth and was about to bite Ichiki's neck.
He kicked out, sending Takeo Saeki flying, and his body jumped into the air.
The crimson Aragami fang fell heavily and cut through Takeo Saeki's trachea.
"Trash is trash. They don't even have the most basic thinking ability."
"You bastard who only attacks those weaker than you, get lost."
"You have no right to exist in this world."
It cut off his head, limbs, and finally, pierced his heart with ease.
Standing up and wiping the blood off his face, Sakurai extended his thumb and turned it 180 degrees, snorting as if it was natural.
Then...
Sakurai's face suddenly turned pale and he vomited a lot of black hair and blood mixed with internal organs.
His body went limp and he fell to his knees.
The sound of LoLoLo's laughter rang in his ears again, and this time, the source of the sound was his stomach.
Her belly expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye to a size even more exaggerated than that of a pregnant woman in her tenth month of pregnancy. It was as if Sakurai had drunk the drinking water from the Kingdom of Women, and a new life was growing in her belly.
The child's name...
It's called Kayako.
But unfortunately, I don’t want children.
Sakurai turned the Aragami fang over with a cold face and stabbed it into his stomach, rotating it 180 degrees and stirring it up thoroughly.
A large amount of black blood and fragments of internal organs spurted out in one breath.
The amount of bleeding was even greater than an adult's weight.
It’s not over yet, it’s not cleared yet.
My internal organs have also been polluted by Kayako.
Realizing this, Sakurai let out a long sigh, and before the body had finished healing, Sakurai reached deep into the stomach and pulled out the internal organs along with Kayako's shapeless head and threw them on the ground.
Looking at the internal organs that were chopped into small pieces like beef offal, Sakurai's face turned a little dark.
This kind of attack that comes from within the body is really fucking disgusting.
Filled with rage, Sakurai stepped on Kayako, who had not yet fully formed, and the invisible flames burned her body along with the black blood and internal organs.
The bubbling laughter of Lololo in my ears turned into an uncontrollable, miserable wailing, and now it was Sakurai's turn to laugh.
Thank you, God of Wilderness, your ability is really useful.
Sakurai kicked the dark ashes on the ground and felt a little relieved.
Sakurai wiped off the mixture of internal organs from the corner of his mouth, raised his mouth and swung out the Aragami Fang. The swirling red light cut through the translucent paper door and returned to Sakurai's hand again.
"You're so disgusting! You forced me to eat you. How can I make up to you——"
"Kayako."