Chapter 531: Hope of Lifting the Curse
When Aize saw Cong Yu's expression become so serious, he knew that something might have happened.
Not to mention Aize, even Asatake Yoshino, who was still afraid to see anyone, noticed this.
But Cong Yu didn't say it directly, but said something.
"It's the evil spirit that the master captured. You'll know if you follow us to take a look."
With that, Cong Yu took Aize and Asatake Yoshino to the shrine.
Then, the two discovered that the evil spirit that was originally surrounded by the Renzhu rope had disappeared at some point, and only Asatake Yasuharu and Komagawa Mitsuha were left standing inside, discussing something.
Both of them looked like they hadn't slept all night, their eyes were full of fatigue, and there were faint dark circles under their eyelids.
Even so, the two were still discussing something intensely, asking everyone to hurry forward.
"Dad!" Asatake Yoshinori was the first to speak, somewhat anxiously saying, "What happened? Where's the evil spirit?"
Aize also looked around, especially inside the Lianzhu rope, but he did not find any trace of the evil god, which made him frown slightly.
Asatake Yasuharu and Komagawa Mitsuo looked at Aize and Asatake Yoshino who came hurriedly, first looked at each other, and then showed serious expressions at the same time.
"Lord Aize, Lady Yoshino." Komagawa Mitsuha stepped forward, extended her hand toward the two, and said, "Please take a look at this."
Aize and Asatake Yoshino immediately looked in the direction of the sound.
I saw a stone lying on the palm of Mitsuha Komagawa's hand.
The stone is very small and its outline is incomplete. It looks like a fragment of something. It is white and transparent all over, and there is a white mist-like object flowing inside.
“Dongdong——”
At this moment, Aize's heartbeat suddenly accelerated.
This feeling was exactly the same as when Cong Yuwan called him.
The difference is that when Cong Yuwan called Aize, Aize's reaction was relatively large, but at this moment the reaction was much smaller, so small that people would even mistake it for an illusion.
Moreover, when Cong Yuwan called Aize, Aize's reaction had always existed, but at this moment, he only reacted for a moment, and then his heartbeat subsided.
"This is……?"
Aize covered his chest with his hands, frowning.
"What's this?"
Asatake Yoshino seemed to feel nothing and had a puzzled look on her face.
"Aijun, Fangnai." He spoke to Wu Anqing and said in a deep voice, "This fragment fell out of the body of the evil god."
"What?" Aize and Chaowu Fangnai were both stunned and asked in surprise, "It fell out of the body of the evil god?"
Atatake Yasuharu and Komagawa Mitsuha nodded at the same time.
"Here's what happened..."
Cong Yu, who was standing by, saw this and explained the situation to the two of them.
According to Cong Yu, she stayed here all night, injecting divine power into the Lianzhu Rope to maintain the restraint of the evil spirit, and quietly watching Asatake Yasuharu and Komagawa Mitsuha's research on the evil spirit.
Under such circumstances, the Suishin was still very energetic at the beginning, constantly colliding with the Renjo Rope, trying to get away, causing Asatake Yasuharu and Komagawa Mitsuha to not know how to study each other, and could only keep a distance temporarily, observe and record.
But when the night passed, the sky began to brighten, and when dawn came, the evil spirit in the rope suddenly stopped moving, and quickly melted away, turning into a puff of black smoke and disappearing without a trace.
Immediately, this strange fragment fell from the place where the evil god disappeared and was discovered by Cong Yu and others.
In other words…
"Is this what the evil spirit swallowed into its body?"
Asatake Yoshino asked in confusion.
"No." Komagawa Mitsuha immediately shook her head, denying this statement. "According to the records that have been passed down, the evil spirit is clearly not a living being. Even its body is made of filth. It has no living characteristics at all and will not devour anything."
"Furthermore, we saw clearly that after the evil spirit disappeared, the fragment was originally black," Asatake Yasuharu echoed Komagawa Mitsuha's words, saying, "But after the evil spirit completely disappeared, the fragment turned white."
This is enough to show that this is not an ordinary piece of debris.
"I suspect this fragment is the core of the evil spirit, the host of the curse."
Mitsuha Komagawa expressed her guess.
"Cursed...host?"
Aize and Asatake Yoshino couldn't help but look at the fragment at the same time.
And in the ears of the two people, the voice of Mitsuha Komagawa was constantly ringing.
"The Chaowu family's curse originates from the eldest son's resentment."
"Because of the eldest son's personal grudge against the Asamuse family, he killed the dog god in the mountains and used the dog god's soul as a sacrifice to activate this curse."
"In other words, the root of the curse is the power of resentment."
The Komagawa family was once a family of Onmyoji. Although they have now changed their profession to doctors, they have not abandoned the knowledge left by their ancestors. That is why they were able to give so much advice when the Asamuse family turned to priestly work and became the Asamuse family's official curse countermeasures.
Hundreds of years of research, as well as knowledge left over from even more distant times, allowed Mitsuha Komagawa to quickly sort out the situation and draw some conclusions.
Just now, she was talking about these things with Chao Wu Anqing.
"According to the literature, when using the power of resentment to activate a curse, it is necessary to place the resentment power in some kind of medium."
"This kind of proxy is the core of the curse."
"Now, the fragments of this core have appeared in the body of the evil god, and it is suspected to be the core of the evil god. If nothing unexpected happens, the evil god was born from it."
"Perhaps due to some accident, or perhaps due to the backlash of a powerful curse, the original yodai shattered, becoming fragments like this. When the filth within Hoori accumulates to a certain level, the yodai fragments can harness the power of that filth to create individuals known as suishin, which harm the target of the curse—the Asamaki family and those associated with them."
Mitsuha Komagawa's words plunged everyone into an unspeakable silence.
Especially Yoshino Asatake, she was clenching her hands in front of her chest with a complicated expression.
no way.
"So, the source of the ongoing battles between the Chaowu family and us is this so-called "Pingdai"?" Aize narrowed his eyes and said directly, "And the Chaowu family has never discovered this?"
"That's right." Chao Wu Anqing nodded, sighing and saying, "Because the evil spirit always appears at night, and in the dark mountains, the shrine maidens of the Chao Wu family may not have noticed the existence of this fragment when they exorcised the evil spirit."
"Such a small fragment would likely be overlooked even during the day, even if it appeared on a battlefield with a lot of noise and in the mountains with complex terrain, let alone at night when it's pitch dark."
Having said that, Chao Wu Anqing also smiled bitterly.
The Chaowu family fought against the evil spirit for hundreds of years, but they only discovered such an important thing today. It was really fate that made them so cruel.
If she had discovered the existence of the zodiac earlier, perhaps Akiho wouldn't have...
While Asatake Anqing was thinking this with some sadness, Asatake Yoshino had already spoken.
"Then, as long as we find all the fragments of the token and restore it to its original state, can we remove the curse?"
Asatake Yoshino said this with some nervousness and trepidation.
The curse of the Chaowu family was really too heavy for her, a girl who was only in her second year of high school.
Over the past hundreds of years, countless people in the Chaowu family have died from this curse. If she fails to remove the curse, she will surely die young in the future.
The shrine maidens of the previous generations of the military family died a few years after giving birth, and she would probably be in the same situation.
But if the curse can be removed, then there will be freedom.
Not only can she herself be liberated, but also the ancestors of the Chaowu family and the future of the family can be liberated.
Thinking of this, Asatake Yoshino couldn't help but look at Aize.
Although she had only known this young man for two months, their relationship had already made a breakthrough, which had changed Yoshino Asatake's mentality a lot, even though she was hesitant to make friends with him.
Two months ago, she would never have believed that she would transform from a girl into a young woman in two months, and it was not a natural result, but the result of the impulse of both parties.
But no matter what, she has already tasted the feeling, and she really can't bear to go back to being alone.
She just had some concerns, not that she really didn't want to live a normal life.
She wanted to make lots of friends like everyone else, and she wanted to have a sweet love affair like the heroines in the girls' comics that Mozi lent her.
In the past, she didn't dare to hope for these, but now... maybe there is hope!
Mitsuha Komagawa obviously had the same idea.
"At least we can be sure that this will be an opportunity to break the status quo." Komagawa Mitsuha nodded heavily and said, "As long as we can restore the power of hatred within it, we can find a way to eliminate it."
Cong Yu also spoke on the side.
"As long as we gather all the pingdai and solemnly perform a sacrifice to purify the impurities within, and appease the dog god's spirit, the resentful power that is the root of the curse will dissipate."
At that time, the curse will naturally break down on its own.
“————!”
At this moment, both Asatake Yoshino and Asatake Yasuharu looked like they were trying their best to suppress their emotions.
The way they seemed to be trying hard to control themselves and not cry for joy made people clearly feel how heavy an impact this curse had on their lives.
Needless to say, Yoshino Asatake is the object of the curse, and the existence of the curse is closely related to her life and future.
This is especially true for Chao Wu Yasuharu. His wife left him early because of the curse. If the curse cannot be lifted, his daughter and even future granddaughter will die. For those who feel powerless about this, perhaps they are the ones who suffer the most.
If the curse could really be lifted, those who would be redeemed would definitely not only be the descendants of the Chaowu family, but also those who had various ties with them.
Seeing this scene, Aize reached out and gently put his hand on Asatake Yoshino's shoulder.
Yoshino Asatake immediately fell into his arms, burying her face in his arms, as if she didn't want others to see her expression at this moment.
However, Yoshino Asatake had no idea how much of a shock her subconscious action had brought to others.
Asatake Yasuharu, whose emotions were already fluctuating violently, was stunned, and Komagawa Mitsuha was even more surprised and stunned.
Only Cong Yu had a relieved smile on his face, as if he had seen something reassuring, something dazzling, so much so that he closed one eye.
Aize patted Chaowu Yoshino's back and spoke to everyone.
"Then the most important thing to do now is to recover these previously neglected fragments while exorcising the evil spirit, right?"
Aize's words temporarily freed everyone from their shock.
"Perhaps we can directly recover the fragments without exorcising the evil spirit." Komagawa Mitsuha carefully looked at Aize and Asatake Yoshino and said, "Peidai's fragments must be scattered in the mountains. Only when Hoori's filth accumulates to a certain level will the evil spirit be born from it."
"Before the birth of the evil spirit, they would not change their positions."
If that's the case, why bother fighting the Evil God? Wouldn't it be better to just find the fragments and reclaim them before the Evil God emerges?
"But the mountain is so huge and covers such a wide area. How easy is it to find such small fragments from it?"
Asatake Yasuharu turned his gaze to the fragments in Komagawa Mitsuha's hand and said this with some worry.
Aize's heart suddenly moved, and he remembered the feeling he had when he saw the fragments of the substitute just now.
"Maybe I can find some." Aize pondered for a moment, then said, "When I saw this fragment, I had some strange feelings. Maybe I can use this feeling to find some fragments in the mountains."
Just like when Cong Yuwan called him in this shrine, if Pingdai was also calling him, why would he worry about not being able to find them?
"Really? Master!" Cong Yu asked hurriedly, "Can you really feel the location of the fragments of the substitute?"
Asatake Yoshino also raised her head from her arms and couldn't help but look at Aize.
Seeing Yoshino Asatake's face full of hope, Aize's words that he was about to say "It's not that easy" immediately changed his mind.
"There shouldn't be any problem." Aize smiled and said, "Anyway, just give it a try and you'll know."
He was ready to ask for leave from school and go to the mountains to look for it.
"Then I'll give this to you first." Komagawa Mitsuha handed the fragment in his hand to Aize and said, "Maybe it can be of some help."
Aize nodded and took the fragment.
Holding the transparent crystal-like fragment, although a little weak, Aize still felt something different.
Others might not notice anything at all, and even if they could notice something, the reaction would probably be very weak, but Aize could clearly capture this reaction.
"It seems that my unique talent of being able to perfectly control various instruments can also be useful here."
Aize held the transparent fragment tightly.
"Go ahead and give it a try."
(End of this chapter)
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