Horror/Fear Anime: Starting with a Tomie Hairstyle

The library in Tombstone Town is not large, and the shelves are labeled.

There are different types and different time categories.

It looks like no one has looked at it for a long time.

Perhaps due to their age, these shelves seemed to carry a faint, strange aura in Jiu Zhiche's eyes.

Jiuzhiche had a clear goal and found a framework to label the news.

Do you know when the tradition of turning tombstones into Buddha statues began?

"It was 49 years ago." Koizumi's father didn't know why the young man was asking, but he answered quickly nonetheless.

"How can you be so sure?" Jiu Zhiche calculated the time and then found that year.

"Because that was a tradition that came about two years before I was born, my mother kept saying when I was little that it was scary for a human corpse to become a tombstone, but for some reason everyone believed this, so it left a very deep impression on me."

Jiuzhi Che nodded slightly, confirming that the time was correct, then that was fine.

However, there were only a couple of newspapers in the news section back then, and because so much time has passed, many of those newspapers are hard to preserve.

Jiuzhi Che glanced through the list and found only one entry that read: "The new chief priest of Shirakawa Shrine, Miyamoto Takeshi, launched a prayer event, and the townspeople cheered and celebrated. However, a fire broke out that day, resulting in 14 deaths and injuries."

Beyond that, there is no further information.

Jiuzhiche moved to the shelf of "Town Chronicles".

At this moment, Yoshikawa Tsuyoshi's face was frighteningly pale. After using up all the remaining bandages, the bleeding had almost stopped, but he was also about to die.

The wounds on his body, inflicted by the thorns, began to worsen rapidly, oozing dark blood.

Koizumi's mother was in better condition, but thorns also began to grow on the wound on her neck.

Jiuzhi Che spared a sliver of attention, oh right, he almost forgot about them.

He walked up to Koizumi's mother and used purification. The polluted aura in her body vanished instantly, and the newly formed stone thorns fell off.

I gave Yoshikawa another purification spell. Surprisingly, he's quite resilient; he's still alive.

"Thank you, thank you!" Koizumi said, crying with gratitude, not knowing how to express it.

Koizumi's father was the same, but he noticed something more. "Are you... looking for something? Why don't you tell me? I grew up in this town, so I know a lot of things."

Why is your shrine abandoned?

While checking the town's records, Jiu Zhiche asked questions. When he saw a book listing the past town mayors, he took it down.

Koizumi's father tried hard to recall: "I heard from my mother that a year before I was born, the chief priest of that shrine killed many people, so people stopped worshipping the shrine. It was about a year after the tombstone tradition appeared."

Jiuzhi Che turned to the year when the tombstone tradition emerged.

After quickly finishing reading, he flipped to the next year.

The town mayor at the time kept very detailed records and wrote a lot about the shrine, showing that he had great faith in Miyamoto Takeshi. He also wrote that Miyamoto Takeshi had many treasures that he had kept for many years to exorcise evil spirits.

There are divine swords, imperial bells, wooden tokens, and so on.

Then, Jiuzhi Che closed the book.

So that's how it is; it's not complicated.

Years ago, a stranger came to town, and then a fire broke out during a prayer ceremony at the shrine. After that, the stranger began to spread the idea that tombstones could become Buddhas, and the people who had lost their loved ones were so grief-stricken that they believed it.

Over time, more and more people came to believe in this.

Miyamoto Takeshi sensed something was wrong and secretly investigated, discovering that the outsider and the demons were making a deal. The tombstones actually imprisoned souls, and all the souls were eaten by the demons.

Miyamoto Takeshi, wielding the sacred sword that guards the shrine, exhausted himself to seal away the demon.

However, outsiders spread rumors that Miyamoto Takeshi was the son of a devil. Later, the rumors became more and more outrageous. Some even said that Miyamoto set the fire at the event because he was rejected when he wanted to have sex with a widow, and then took revenge on society in anger.

Jiuzhiche's expression after reading it: "..."

It looks like they're reading a novel.

Kujiro looked at Koizumi's father: "Have you heard of the divine sword left behind at the shrine?"

"A divine sword? Perhaps. When I was born, the priest had already died. It's said that he always carried a bell and had a sword at his waist. But these are just stories passed down by word of mouth; we don't know if they're true or not."

Our town mayor's father was the mayor back then. The mayor and the priest were supposedly good friends; the current mayor probably knows that.

"You all wait here, don't wander off."

Jiuzhiche no longer hesitated and decided to set off. All the clues here pointed to one thing: the divine sword. It seemed to be very useful.

When he went to the mayor's house, the tombstone keeper was already waiting there. It seems that it's not that the mayor is that important, but rather that the things in the mayor's house are important!

That went so smoothly!

A playful smile flashed across Jiu Zhiche's lips before disappearing.

After he left, he went to the mayor's house.

Perhaps he was lucky this time, as Jiuzhiche didn't encounter many tombstone people along the way.

Easily dodged it.

Sometimes he could only see the shadow of the person on the tombstone, a fleeting glimpse, and then he would not know who to chase after.

1, 2, 3...10.

Jiuzhiche counted the people lingering by the tombstones in front of the town mayor's house. Sure enough, the demon was worried and sent them to guard this place.

"Thud." A small pebble rolled to the front of the tombstone man. The tombstone man turned its neck, and the next second, its body stiffened. A military knife pierced its heart, and the huge force caused it to stagger and fall to the ground, where it shattered with a crash.

Jiuzhi Che pulled the knife back. Not bad, not bad, his strength has increased a lot!

The new template will grant him immense power.

"Strong": Possessing strength, endurance, and resilience far exceeding that of ordinary people.

Jiuzhiche added 5% more spirituality to his strength, and with the improvement in endurance, he could run much more easily.

Although he didn't get "immunity" yet, Jiuzhiche wasn't discouraged.

One should be optimistic and content.

He had been too greedy before, which led him to "throw away" the purification potion. He only came to his senses when the demon took action.

"Although I still want to try the strength test, I don't want to waste any more time."

"System, use the silver-haired appearance."

Jiuzhiche lured away the remaining tombstone people and hid in a flower bed. When he came out again, he had a full head of silver hair.

Silver hair look: You can change to a cool, charming silver hairstyle, which will slightly change your aura.

When Jiuzhiche returned to the town mayor's house, some of the tombstone people saw him, but they didn't rush after him as before, as if they had something more important to do—find his previous aura.

You guessed right.

The tombstone figures have no eyes, so they likely identified Jiu Zhiche based on his aura. But what if his aura changes? They wouldn't be able to recognize him then!

It doesn't matter if I guess wrong; the only price I pay is changing my hair color. It's not like it's green. And those tombstone people are just people I need to kill a little more time.

Jiuzhiche killed one of the tombstone men who came over, bypassed the crushed human heads on the ground, and entered the room.

The mayor's house was quite spacious, with several rooms, and Jiu Zhiche went straight to the largest room.

In what was clearly the master bedroom, Jiu Zhiche's eyes quickly scanned the room, focusing on any unusual aura. Upon closer inspection, he noticed the bookshelf, where there were several noticeably large books and a faint, comforting scent, which, if one had to describe the feeling, was rather sacred.

Jiu Zhiche opened them one by one, and sure enough, there were hidden treasures inside. One of the books had a hollowed-out groove inside, with a small sword.

After getting the item, Jiu Zhiche didn't leave immediately. He continued searching and even found several pairs of women's floral underwear. It seemed that this male mayor was not a decent person.

Then, he found a similar scent under the bed. When he moved the bed, he found a barely noticeable hidden compartment underneath. There was almost no gap between the door of the compartment and the floor!

Jiuzhiche opened the hidden compartment and pulled out a box.

If it weren't for his demonic eyes being able to perceive certain auras, he would have had a hard time finding this hidden compartment.

The box was old and worn. Inside, there was a diary, a bell, and a piece of dried finger bone.

The first sentence of the diary reads: When you see this diary, your life will begin its countdown...