Goshima Kirie’s father, Goshima Yasuo, a pottery artist of some renown in the area, was currently spinning around in the backyard while dancing wildly like a madman, completely immersed in his hallucinations.
All around him, various distorted spiral-shaped potteries were lined up in a row.
“Dad! What on earth are you doing, Dad!” Kirie cried out hysterically in terror.
“Damn it, don’t put on your crazy drama here!”
Shu had no patience to humor him; he raised his hand and directly delivered a hard slap.
*SLAP!*
That forceful slap instantly sent the middle-aged man in the midst of his madness spinning twice on the spot, before crashing heavily onto the ground, unable to get back up for a long time.
Afterward, without any further ado, Shu lifted his foot, quickly and ruthlessly kicking all the spiral potteries in the yard that contained curse energy until they shattered into pieces.
“Tsunade! Leave this matter to you!” Shu turned his head and called out.
Tsunade stepped forward and performed the exact same method.
The procedure remained identical to before.
Directly using a sealing technique to seal the curse on Yasuo.
As the sealing was completed, the madness in Yasuo’s eyes receded.
[Ding! Detected Reincarnator successfully prevented a story character’s mutation (Goshima Yasuo)…]
[Reward: 1 Rank-D Plot, 1000 Reward Points.]
In the time that followed, Shu and Tsunade tirelessly dealt with Shuichi’s mother.
Because she had witnessed the tragic scene of her husband dying in a gruesome manner, she developed a pathological fear and trauma toward the spiral shape.
Under the enticement of the curse, she fell into extreme madness, even recklessly using scissors to hurt herself in order to destroy everything on her body that displayed a spiral shape.
Fortunately, Shu and Tsunade arrived just in time.
Shu delivered a heavy slap to physically knock her out, and Tsunade immediately followed up, smoothly executing a sealing technique to directly strip away her curse energy.
Accompanied by a crisp notification sound, another Rank-D Plot and 1000 Reward Points were successfully and securely secured.
Up to this point, several key supporting characters in the early stage of the original story revolving around the male and female protagonists had basically been saved by them using this simple and crude method.
However, in this town entirely enveloped by the curse, not everyone was fortunate enough to be found and rescued in time during the early stages of mutation.
As time passed, the air in this small town became increasingly suffocating, and the rate of curse erosion deepened at an exponential speed visible to the naked eye. This chapter was copied from g.com without permission.
On the afternoon of the third day, Kirie ran over in a panic to ask for help.
The incident involved a pair of lovers who were her classmates.
When Shu and Tsunade followed the directions given by Kirie and found them at the seaside cliff.
The sight before their eyes made Tsunade, who was already accustomed to seeing seas of corpses on the battlefield, unable to keep her scalp from tingling.
They could no longer be called humans.
The bodies of those two people were twisted together like two strands of ropes being wrung, entangling each other in a way that completely violated human bone structure.
Their limbs penetrated one another, and even their faces were pressed together into one, making it impossible to tell whose hands belonged to whom, and whose legs belonged to whom.
What was even more horrifying was that the surface of their skin began peeling off on a large scale, and over the bloody flesh oozing with fluid, dense layers of bluish-green snake scales instead grew and emerged.
Tsunade stepped forward with a pale face to examine them.
In just a few seconds, she pulled back her hand and shook her head.
“No… it’s too late, the curse has eroded too deeply.”
“I can no longer strip away the curse energy; that energy has completely intertwined with their vitality. If I force an extraction now, they will also instantly die from the loss of vitality.”
Shu stood in silence beside her, was this what the late-stage curse looked like?
Truly bizarre and surreal!
Watching the bodies of those two people completely melt into a snake amidst the gruesome sounds of shifting bones.
They coiled around each other, just like true cold-blooded reptiles, sliding down rapidly along the shoreline and plunging straight into the ocean, never surfacing again.
Seeing the ripples on the surface of the sea gradually subside, Shu took a deep breath, looking up to see the pile of thick clouds in the sky looking so dark it was almost dripping water.
“It seems the early-stage patients are gone, the curse in this town is about to enter the total eruption stage.”
“Yeah.” Tsunade massaged her temples wearily.
“In just a few days, the curse energy in the air has already become this dense to this level, I’m afraid everyone in this town has already been affected! It’s just a matter of severity!”
Tsunade paused for a moment, then asked, “How are the preparations for tomorrow’s evacuation?”
“Already told Shuichi and the others to get ready.” Shu nodded.
“At a crucial moment like this, anyone who can still remain sober, is willing to trust them and come along, take as many as possible. As for those who don’t want to leave, or who are already affected by the curse to the point of being unable to walk… then they can only be buried along with this town!”
“However, before that, we still have to go somewhere tonight.”
“The hospital! Over there, there should be a large amount of rewards waiting for us.”
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Midnight, Kurozu Town Hospital.
This place was so quiet it felt horrifying.
The lights in the corridor shone dimly and flickered, emitting a buzzing sound of electrical current.
“Ah—!! Help!!”
Suddenly, a scream tore through the dead silence in the corridor.
*BAM!*
Followed by the sound of a heavy collision.
The tightly closed door of the inpatient hospital room was kicked wide open directly from the outside by immense force.
The thick wooden door panel slammed violently against the opposite wall, instantly shattering into pieces with flying wood splinters.
The people inside the room were startled by the sudden movement, stopped their respective activities, and turned their heads in unison.
“Don’t move! You’re surrounded!!”
Accompanied by a sharp snap, Shu and Tsunade stepped into the inpatient room.
The sight presented before their eyes showed several pregnant women swarming around a young nurse.
The hair-raising thing was that the mouths of those pregnant women were stained with blood, and their hands were gripping electric drills.
Their eyes emitted a red glow in the darkness, a gaze identical to the one wild beasts had when looking at their prey.
“These pregnant women have also been affected?!” Tsunade frowned deeply.
Shu’s Sharingan eyes reflected curse energy as dense as ink upon the bodies of those pregnant women.
“In nature, only pregnant female mosquitoes suck blood in order to lay eggs.”
“Then under the distortion of the spiral curse, these pregnant women who originally required this nutrition naturally assimilated into oversized mosquito humans who loved sucking blood.”
“Still savable?”
“Can’t be saved anymore, the curse has completely altered their life form, even the fetuses inside their bellies have mutated into some kind of pure entity formed from the curse. They are now merely a bunch of bloodthirsty insects masquerading in human skin.”