Horror/Fear Anime: Starting with a Tomie Hairstyle

"Let's welcome the rising star, the queen of popularity, who's like a comet born—Kanaka!"

"Summer Solstice! Summer Solstice!"

The audience below the stage was incredibly enthusiastic, chanting Zou Xia's name wildly.

"You see, Zou Xia is very popular, isn't she? I had to pull a lot of strings to get these two tickets."

While waving her light stick, Kazuko Morinaka introduced Sadako to her, "Her debut single, 'Endless Disgust,' topped the new artist charts, achieved the highest rise in new artist song rankings, and had the highest number of listens on repeat. She's only been in the industry for less than two months; these are amazing achievements!"

A strange look flashed across Sadako's face. The enthusiasm of the surrounding audience was overwhelming, and the cheers were particularly intense.

She had a feeling that something was wrong.

However, she doesn't follow celebrities and rarely listens to music, so she doesn't understand what fanaticism is, which is probably normal.

As soon as the intro started, the stage rose from below, and Zou Xia, holding a guitar, strummed the strings, making the audience cheer even louder.

Under the flashing lights, the enthusiastic audience didn't notice the pain on Zou Xia's face, or rather, even if they did, they assumed it was part of Zou Xia's performance.

Because, listening to Zou Xia's singing is a kind of exhilarating pain!

Under this premise, if Zou Xia's expression is painful, it's to better convey the emotion!

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Zou Xia began to sing, her voice rich with profound and poignant emotion:

"Aaaaaah! I've had enough! I loved! I loved! But it's all in the past! Yet you left me with this gift! Why, why, why! It feels like I'm living in hell! Aaaaah! Disappear! No, no, no! Stop it! Disappear! Is there anything that can free me?!"

"Kanaka!! I love you!!!"

"Oh, that feels so good! Oh, that hurts so much! Hahaha!"

Down in the audience, Kazuko Morinaka waved her cheering stick even more enthusiastically.

On the other hand, Sadako listened with a puzzled look on her face. Was this... this lyric really not a cry for help?

They were all recounting their own suffering, and with such intense tones, it was hard not to believe that the singers were in hell.

Moreover, Sadako felt as if the singing was trying to drill into her brain.

Something's not right. It's 10/10 that's right, but 90/10 that's wrong.

"It's not powerful enough!"

The man with Kanade's photo above his head shook his head, his expression a mixture of satisfaction and apprehension, then he frowned. "Not as shocking as the first time I heard it. Could it be that Kanade is going to exhaust herself by over-expressing her emotions...?"

In the midst of the climax, Jiu Zhiche, one of the only two who remained calm, heard the man's words and smiled silently.

Indeed, Zou Xia was almost out of her life; she sang every song with her life on her hands.

Her condition was much more serious than Tamayo's; she was at her last gasp.

The original title is "The Last Song of Darkness". The early development is the same as what Jiuzhi Che encountered, except that Jiuzhi Che did not save Zhudai in the original work.

The entire story unfolds from Tamayo's perspective. After trying various methods, Tamayo is almost in despair, but she accidentally comes across a research institute called "Noise Reduction Research Institute" and goes there with a try-it-out mentality.

The head of the research institute claimed to be surnamed Shi. Coincidentally, Zou Xia, who was suffering terribly from the pain of being harmed by Zhu Dai, was also treated by him.

Zouxia's symptoms are exactly the same as those of Zhudai.

Through Mr. Shi's explanation, Zhudai finally understood why Zou Xia was behaving this way.

Once, Zouxia met her boyfriend, a street singer. After dating for a while, Zouxia felt that he was neither talented nor jealous, so she broke up with him decisively.

As a result, the man stalked her all day and even went to her room to commit suicide. On the forty-ninth day after the man's death, a strange song appeared in Zouxia's mind. At first glance, the song only had a frenzied melody, but upon closer listening, one could hear the man's jealous and resentful curses, and sometimes it was a series of delirious murmurs expressing love...

It's something I can't shake off, no matter what.

Mr. Shi's method is to target the sound echoing in Kanade's mind through Kanade's nerves. He creates a waveform that is completely opposite to the singing and plays it in Kanade's mind, which may cancel out the other person's singing.

Of course, it failed.

Instead of canceling each other out, the frequencies resonated with each other, amplifying the sound. The sound in Zou Xia's mind became even louder, and a hole appeared out of nowhere in her forehead, releasing the song she had been hearing all along into reality.

Then, she died.

Influenced by the sound, the song in Tamayo's mind also grew louder as she watched.

At this moment, Mr. Shi looked at Zhudai with a gloomy expression and said: The experiment must continue...

"It hurts! It hurts so much!"

At this moment, Kanade, on stage, wanted to release some of her pain and pressure through singing, but the methods that had worked before seemed to have failed.

She couldn't take it anymore and smashed the guitar on the ground, breaking it in two.

The audience thought it was an interactive activity and started mimicking her throwing the guitar, making various "ahhh" noises.

Jiuzhiche: "..."

I couldn't hold it in anymore. Although Zou Xia was in a pretty bad situation, it was also kind of ridiculously funny.

"I understand that much now, let's get started."

"Click."

Suddenly, everyone heard a snap of fingers. The next moment, the excited audience stopped moving and screaming, and sat back down in their seats, stunned.

Sadako sensed a familiar presence and looked over.

Just then, I saw Jiu Zhiche fly into the air and onto the stage.

"Ah Che..."

What is he doing here?

Sadako quickly glanced at Kanade, who was clutching her head and frantically scratching her hair.

Sure enough, it was a strange thing.

Jiuzhi Che also noticed Sadako, but he didn't rush over, because if he delayed any longer, Kanade's mind would break down.

"Purify".

The purifying power instantly weakened the song's power by more than half, and the rest shrank back into Kanade's head.

"No, if too much mental energy is poured in at once, given how fragile her brain and mental energy are right now, even if the curse is broken, she'll probably become an idiot."

Jiuzhi Che pondered for a moment, then separated a tiny wisp of his spiritual power and sent it into Zou Xia's brain.

Sadako arrived on stage at this moment. She stood next to Jiuzhi Che and saw that there was no physical contact between them. Sadako silently breathed a sigh of relief.

Although she rarely says it, she is not without possessiveness towards A-Che...

Sadako, who was preparing to stand guard over Kyuuji Tetsu, unconsciously looked towards the arena.

Who came with A-Che?

If possible, she wants to stay by Jiu Zhiche's side forever.

This includes dealing with strange occurrences.

She hoped that the first person A-Che would think of was her.

Sadako didn't notice Kayako or Tomie, so she turned her attention back to Kyushu.

As I looked at it, I couldn't help but smile, my eyes filled with love.