Curse Returns: What did the human-shaped wishing machine do wrong this time?

Upon hearing these words, Sugawara Kazuka stared blankly at the child in front of him, whose body contained no trace of magical power.

He brought Alluka along purely out of his own selfish motives.

He likes soft little children, which reminds him of his sister who died young.

But this feeling of being enveloped in biting cold made Sugawara Kazukazu feel that something was wrong.

Seeing that Sugawara Kazuka remained silent.

Alluka lowered his eyelids slightly, and a gentle, harmless smile appeared on his innocent face. He opened his hands and presented them to Sugawara Kazuwa.

She asked again in a coquettish tone, "Sugawara Kazuwa, can I hold your hand?"

Alluka kept smiling, but her slightly curved gray-blue eyes shone with a chilling light.

Sugawara Kazuka, suppressing the metallic taste of blood rising in his mouth, placed his hand on Alluka's small palm.

"it is good."

He's about to die, why is he thinking so much?

This is just a child being affectionate.

Sugawara Kazuka's hands were broad and warm, with the heat characteristic of an adult man. However, when he grasped them, a few drops of sticky, dark red liquid accidentally stuck to Alluka's hand.

Alluka didn't care about the stickiness on his palm. The moment Sugawara finished speaking, he once again made a request to act cute.

"Sugawara Kazukazu, can you give me some praise?"

His tone was soft, carrying a kind of innocent naivety, but the eeriness about him was even stronger.

A strange magnetic field formed between him and Kazukazu Sugawara.

Rime stood to the side, looking at the unfamiliar Alluka with a hesitant expression.

Sugawara Kazuka chuckled, forcing himself to speak through the dull pain in his body, "Alluka is the best."

After saying this, he collapsed to the ground and began to vomit, large mouthfuls of blood gushing from his throat. Every cell in his body convulsed in pain, and Sugawara Kazuka's vision blurred. The feeling of impending death reminded him of the past.

However, Alluka did not give him a chance to repeat himself and made her request for the third time.

"Sugawara Kazukazu, can I hug you?"

The man lying on the ground, in a daze, stretched out his arms, and a blood-scented embrace landed on either side of Alluka's body.

The white collar of the garment was stained red.

Sugawara Kazuka gave him a light hug before his arms gave way and he fell limply to the ground.

In an instant, Alluka's features became bottomless voids, his skin deathly pale, gleaming eerily in the moonlight.

An endless chill, like a venomous snake crawling across their skin, enveloped the two people present.

The air seemed to freeze at that moment.

The monster, its body stiff as if wound up in a rusty clock, stared intently at the man on the ground.

"Sugawara Kazukazu, what is your wish?"

His voice suddenly took on an eerie quality that was hard to describe.

An uncontrollable tremor ran from Fujiwara Kazukazu's spine to his fingertips.

His eyes were no longer clouded, as if they were a final flicker of life before death.

The world before his eyes began to distort and fade, and dark figures appeared before him.

He wasn't the most outstanding one in the family.

Because of the technique, it was impossible to even release the life-giving domain.

The younger sister died of illness during the exile.

Being ostracized, ignored, and ridiculed...

He thought he had let go of those treatments, but it turns out he also had his grievances.

In an instant, a heart-wrenching resentment surged into my heart.

"I want to become powerful, incredibly powerful—powerful enough to dispel all the curses of the East Mountain Path!"

Sugawara Kazukazu's lips trembled a few times as he used the last of his strength to shout out all his resentment and anger.

Extreme negative emotions, like pitch-black sludge, seeped out from Sugawara Kazukazu's heart.

"Sure."

The cold, monstrous Nanika slowly grinned, whispered her agreement to Sugawara Kazuka's wish, and then disappeared.

Alluka returned to his original form, cheered, and tried to jump into Rime's arms.

"Xiao Mei".

He swayed slightly, trying to act coquettishly towards the familiar Rimei as before, but the white-haired boy pulled him away.

"Alluka, what did you do to Sugawara Kazuka?"

Rime stiffly grasped Alluka's hand, looking at the scene before her. Unbeknownst to her, a fine layer of cold sweat had seeped out from her back.

"Why?"

Alluka blinked and looked in the direction Rime was looking.

Thick, black, mud-like cursed power appeared out of nowhere in this small space, and that cursed power, far exceeding the special grade, poured into Sugawara Kazuka's body without restraint.

The man lay prostrate on the ground like a wild beast, his eyes somehow tinged with crimson.

Beneath Sugawara's pale skin, something eerie seemed to be swimming. Cracks appeared one after another on his body, and when these cracks converged, his body swelled up like an inflating balloon.

Bones, bits of flesh, and fat were broken up and then reassembled.

Along with the sound, his power was rapidly increasing, just like his physique.

The dark blue-black magical power surged like a tide in this space, and the abandoned Buddhist temple was now completely filled with this magical power that appeared out of nowhere.

But Sugawara Kazuka's changes have not stopped.

When his body was stretched into a giant several meters tall by the cursed power, a pair of scarlet, bloodshot eyes on his uneven body surface glanced down at Rime and Alluka, and then the monster ignored them and walked away blankly.

Alluka tilted her head, looking somewhat bewildered.

"Yihe said he wanted to be strong, so Nanika fulfilled his wish!"

The curse power of a sorcerer originates from their own negative emotions, as seen in the moment when Sugawara Kazuka declared that he would become the strongest in the Higashiyama Road.

Pain, sorrow, resentment, indignation...

The cursed power, carrying a large amount of negative emotions, invaded his body like a virus. When the negative energy reached a critical point, his rationality was directly lost in the extreme negative emotions.

Sugawara Kazuwa, as if cursed, went to find a nearby curse to fight one-on-one, driven by his obsession.

Alluka and Nanika didn't understand why Sugawara Kazuwa had become like this; they only knew that they had helped him fulfill his wish.

Rime's lips moved a few times, and she asked with some difficulty:

"Was it that child from earlier?"

Alluka has now returned to her harmless appearance, but the unknown being with pitch-black features just now made Rime realize that they are not the same person.

Yes, that's right~

Alluka smiled and gently took Rime's arm.