Terrifying Heavens: I'll directly worship the Black Law of Fengdu!

Chapter 342 The Fear of Tomie's Portrait

Li Xuan glanced back at the seat that originally belonged to Kawakami Tomie, and subconsciously touched his face, wondering if he had been infected by some scent left on the chair.

Tomie Kawakami is a true enigmatic "succubus," capable of endless rebirth and bewitching hearts. Li Xuan must investigate to uncover the truth.

Just then, the fox-eyed girl squeezed in and leaned next to Li Xuan as if they were old friends, laughing: "You guys are going to Kawakami Tomie's memorial service? I'm going too, how about we go together?"

And so, a dozen or so classmates decided to go to the memorial service as a group...

The name of Xiakeng Town is rather ordinary, but its architecture and folk customs are surprisingly modern, making it hard to believe that this is a small town in a remote area.

Reiko didn't say much along the way.

Because the fox-eyed girl was always squeezing between Li Xuan and Li Zi, her chatter never stopped.

Suddenly someone exclaimed, "We've arrived!"

Tomie Kawakami's house is not much different from a typical small villa in an island country. If you had to say, the decoration is a little better. When the students walked in, the first thing they saw was a portrait of her deceased husband hanging on the wall.

Reiko and the others, including the fox-eyed girl, dared not look directly at the person in the portrait.

In this photo, Tomie Kawakami stares directly at the camera, a slight smile playing on her lips, seemingly mocking everyone as she "looks" at them...

The group proceeded according to the mourning protocol.

Visitors would take turns going to the portrait to offer a few words of condolence, present flowers, and put their hands together to say something.

The students ahead of me rushed through the process without even lingering inside the building, and then turned and left.

When it was Li Xuan's turn, he stepped forward, looked at the portrait of Kawakami Tomie, and made a Fengdu hand seal with his hands. Others couldn't understand it, but only he knew that it was a seal to ward off evil.

pat...

The portrait was a photograph framed in glass.

As Li Xuan formed the hand seal, the smooth glass suddenly cracked with spiderweb-like fissures, producing a crisp sound that startled the monk striking the wooden fish beside him...

When the monk looked up, he didn't see the handprint, but only Li Xuan standing there.

He felt that the already oppressive and eerie atmosphere had become even more somber, so he said, "When mourning, you should put your hands together and say what you want to say to the deceased from the bottom of your heart."

Li Xuan ignored him, turned around and sat down on the prayer mat next to him...

When someone dies in an island nation, monks are usually invited to the funeral to perform a ritual to help the soul find peace and go to the Pure Land.

The monk, who appeared to be in his fifties, had not yet expressed his opinion when his assistant, a young monk sitting beside him, said unhappily, "What's wrong with this person? He has no manners at all!"

People sitting nearby noticed the little incident and started talking about it.

It's not that they're gossipy; it's just that memorial services are so boring that even if you gave everyone a soap instruction manual, some people would read it word for word...

Li Xuan observed everyone, especially Kawakami Tomie's parents.

Surprisingly, the manga's description of her family is quite vague, but there are three people present: Tomie Kawakami's father, mother, and an ordinary-looking younger sister.

Tomie Kawakami's death did not seem to bring much grief to the family.

Tomie's father mechanically dealt with each of the relatives and friends who came to mourn, his wife chatted with a group of people, and his youngest daughter took selfies with her phone.

A gasp suddenly erupted from the crowd!
She was a thirty-year-old woman who collapsed to the ground, her finger trembling as she pointed at the portrait.

Everyone looked in the direction she was pointing, and all of them showed expressions of shock. The photo of Tomie Kawakami on the portrait seemed to have melted paint, her features drooping under the pull of gravity, becoming three parts human and seven parts ghost...

In the photo, Tomie Kawakami stares at Li Xuan with an extremely fearful expression.

Crash! The picture frame shattered completely, the photo fell out, and a foul, fishy stench filled the air...

Confused, the crowd could only follow suit and scream.

Li Xuan bent down to pick up the photo, and whoosh, green flames ignited where his fingers touched, and the photo automatically turned to ashes...

Tomie Kawakami's father hurriedly came over to apologize: "I'm sorry, although I didn't know what happened, are you alright?"

Li Xuan shook his head and asked, "I'm a new transfer student and I don't know what happened. May I ask how Tomie died?"

A look of confusion crossed Kawakami Tomie's father's eyes, but he quickly regained his composure and said, "She fell off a cliff and died while out on a picnic with her classmates."

Li Xuan asked, "Where is the body?"

Tomie Kawakami's father replied, "It was smashed. We went to the scene after hearing the news, but we only found a lock of hair. Oh, Tomie, my poor daughter..."

Li Xuan: “…”

Even if you fall from the world's highest peak, you won't be reduced to dust.

Tomie Kawakami fell off a cliff, leaving only a lock of hair on the spot, and you, as her father, didn't have a single doubt. Instead, you felt a deep sadness in agreement...

Reiko walked over.

Seeing this, Tomie Kawakami's father turned around to attend to the others.

Li Xuan said, "This family is a bit strange."

Reiko wiped away her tears and said, "Tomie plays a strange role in her family. Her sister often says that she is the only daughter in the family."

But I've watched Tomie grow up since I was little, how could she not exist?

I thought her sister said such hurtful things to compete for her brother's affection, but then Tomie's parents also happened to realize that they only had one daughter...

Li Xuan asked, "Have you been here before?"

Reiko replied, "Almost never. Tomie never goes to school with any classmates. Once, I came to the gate wanting to go to school with her, but she refused."

boom……

The table was overturned.

Tomie's younger sister, who was taking a selfie, suddenly swept all the flower wreaths and incense burners off the table. Her face was contorted with rage, and her eyes were filled with deep fear. She shouted, "Impossible! Mom and Dad only gave birth to me. Why are you calling this strange woman my older sister?!"

She was terribly frightened.

The fear in their eyes was undeniable.

However, her relatives and friends all thought that the younger sister was suffering from memory confusion due to excessive grief.

The younger sister kept explaining, even pulling out a family photo: "Look, there are only three people in our family photo, me, Dad, Mom, ah..."

The original photo of only three people now includes a girl with long, straight black hair in a school uniform, who is none other than Tomie Kawakami. She has the same smile as in the portrait, except that in this photo, half of Tomie Kawakami's face is sticking out from the hair on the left side of her head.

The younger sister could obviously see the strange face, and she was so frightened that she cried, pointing at the extra face on Tomie's head and saying, "Why can't you all see it? This is clearly a monster!"

Her gaze swept across the crowd and suddenly fell on Li Xuan, who had a calm expression.

Suddenly, I remembered when the boy went up to mourn the "monster," the portrait suddenly exploded and the photo became distorted. Could it be that this "monster" who called herself his sister was afraid of the boy?
The younger sister ran over with the group photo, tripped over something, and fell flat on her face onto Li Xuan. She hurriedly apologized while pulling out the photo, her eyes flashing with a crazed light and her face twisted with excitement. She shouted, "Just as I thought, this monster is afraid of you!"

Li Xuan saw that Kawakami Tomie in the group photo was blurred like flowing water...

He himself was a little confused. Why would Kawakami Tomie be afraid of him? It was just a matter of burning off one of her hearts. Weren't there still forty pieces of her scattered body?
(End of this chapter)