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Kayako forcibly injected countless pitch-black gases into Sakurai's body.
It fills up every cell in his body.
With his legs off the ground, Sakurai felt a long-lost tearing sensation that spread through his arms, spread throughout his body, and finally appeared in his brain.
This feeling...
It's pain.
why...
I obviously shouldn't feel any pain.
Is it because of the gas?
To be precise, is it because of Kayako’s resentment?
Without having time to think about what was going on, Sakurai was completely silent in the onslaught of black air and lost consciousness.
He was held motionless by the huge hand and thrown directly into Kayako's mouth.
Sakurai...
Being swallowed by Kayako and the Grudge at this moment, there is no chance of recovery.
Falling, the familiar, nauseating, endless fall.
Sakurai woke up from some tearing pain during the fall and saw a lot of painful and hideous faces. These were all the people who had been killed by Kayako so far.
There is Takeo Saeki, there is Toshio Saeki, and there is also the teacher that Kayako has a crush on and her wife.
And all the innocent people who were brutally killed by Kayako after their loved ones mistakenly entered this cursed hut.
After death, they did not have enough time to be reborn, and they did not even have the chance to degenerate into spirits. Without exception, they were assimilated into part of the curse.
Together they formed a terrifying cursed group.
Then...
According to Kayako's plan, she took advantage of Sakurai's popularity.
The collective curse was split into individual resentments.
After being killed by Sakurai, they were completely assimilated by Kayako who was hiding behind the scenes.
Even now, Sakurai, who was swallowed by Kayako, acted as a catalyst to speed up Kayako's assimilation of other grudges.
Its manifestation is...
These twisted and painful faces were changing. Half of them had unknowingly turned into Kayako's appearance, while the speed at which the other half were being assimilated was increasing with his arrival.
His face also felt the tearing pain at this moment.
After being eaten by Kayako, was I also assimilated?
In the future, will I also become one of the sources of power for Kayako and the Grudge?
A heat surged from the chest and eventually spread throughout the body.
This is--
anger! ! !
Sakurai can accept dying in battle, and can accept dying together with a strong enemy in a fight.
I can even accept being easily destroyed when I face "that guy" one day.
But I absolutely cannot accept, I absolutely cannot acknowledge that I would die in such a ridiculous way for such a reason.
I'm definitely not ending here, absolutely.
He would never allow the future and the world to be handed over to someone like Kayako.
What happened in his world must never be repeated in this world.
Anger, rage, fury, the burning rage turned into power.
Set Sakurai on fire.
Pain, intense pain from the depths of the soul followed.
finally...
This anger and this unwillingness were responded to at this moment.
Sakurai's first comrade-in-arms, a partner who followed Sakurai since the beginning of his companionship.
The silent Aragami Ya felt Sakurai's unwillingness and anger.
I felt the determination not to leave the world to Kayako.
It revived again, and responded to Sakurai with a faint light.
It dispels the darkness and illuminates the dark world.
It also illuminated Sakurai's pale face which was twisted in pain.
Sakurai saw that in the endless darkness, among the assimilated faces, there were four faces that had not changed: faces of doubt, sadness, anger and confusion.
This is Kayako's flaw, and also my...
The only chance to seize victory.
"Wild God Fang, go for it with all your might."
“Roar—A Hundred Flowers in Disarray, Blazing Soul Devouring Flames.”
The red lotus bloomed, and the long-lost soul fire engulfed Sakurai's body.
Turn all of Sakurai into firewood and burn it all.
The red lotus that could last for 119 seconds blossomed and withered in just one second.
This time compressed to the extreme turned into endless boiling heat.
The huge pain made Sakurai's mind go blank, but...
At this moment, he grasped at hope.
He has seen the future in his eyes.
He swung the somewhat dim Wild God Fang with all his strength, and the scarlet dagger cut through the void of space, and then...
Sakurai's body fell into the crack uncontrollably.
Sakurai at this moment...
Escape from birth.
He grasped the hope of opening up the future and returned triumphantly from hell.
58. "Disintegrate - All living things will die in heat and the universe will be annihilated!!!"
For Kayako, who has spent her whole life in misfortune, this may be the luckiest day of her life.
After she was forced to be sealed in Saeki's house, a human who could help her escape from this situation came to her and helped her break the impasse.
Not only that, she originally thought that she could only rely on this human to escape, but she suddenly discovered that Sakurai's existence could enable her to break the limit of slightly weird stories even further.
Perhaps there were too many misfortunes in the past, and this time they were made up for all at once.
Feeling herself becoming stronger and stronger, Kayako and the Grudge can be said to be quite happy.
Kayako, who had been eager to break the seal, is no longer in a hurry. She wants to wait until she has completely digested Sakurai, and then use her absolute power to let the world see her hatred.
Then, he spread the curse to this world in one breath.
"Hehehe."
At this moment, Kayako, who was immersed in the joy of becoming stronger, suddenly felt a sharp pain in her abdomen.
The pain, even more intense than when she gave birth to Saeki Toshio, spread throughout her body.
An extremely bad feeling lingered in her heart, and she subconsciously looked down at her stomach. An intense pain in her soul told Kayako that something seemed to have happened.
This kind of pain had long been engraved deep in Kayako's soul. It was undoubtedly the intense pain caused by the flame attached to the red dagger that burned her body (soul) when the human came uninvited.
why...
I clearly ate him, why did things turn out like this?
With such confusion, Kayako watched helplessly as an unhealable crack appeared on her bluish-white belly, and then it exploded. Sakurai, with bloodshot eyes, burst out of her belly waving his fists.
After stumbling and rolling twice on the ground, Sakurai fell heavily to the ground.
Next to him, the eight-sided bright silver hammer lay there quietly.
Just reach out and touch it.
Is this distance within reach fate? Is it luck?
Neither, it’s just because he saw the future.
Among the infinite futures, among the star-studded world lines, this possibility has been chosen.
Because of this, Sakurai died thousands of times at the moment of releasing Hundred Flowers and Soul Devouring Flames.
Just to lock in this future.
"Kayako, you haven't completely digested the Grudge yet. You still have the possibility of being defeated."
"I have seen the moment when you were conquered by me."
Grabbing the octagonal silver hammer on the ground, Sakurai closed his eyes.
The existence that is dependent on the body but detached from the body, the soul that shines as brightly as the environment, shines brightly the moment Sakurai closes his eyes.
The body and soul merged together in an instant, and finally became one and indistinguishable from each other.
Then...
Falling apart and shattered.
At the same time, the body and soul disintegrated to release immeasurable and limitless energy, which was injected into the Eight-sided Bright Silver Hammer and the Fang of the Wild God.
at the same time...