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

The street in front of them was completely unfamiliar; it was not the Sendai they knew. Alluka, held in Fuheshti's hands, stared at the house in front of them with some curiosity.

This is a detached house far from noise, sparsely populated and somewhat remote. It is slightly different from other houses. During the day, the thick curtains are drawn, and from the moment Alluka enters, she feels a dark atmosphere.

In the darkness, a pair of eyes, emitting a faint inorganic light, gazed over.

Through the swaying shadows, Alluka seemed to see several tentacles.

As if anticipating something, the next second, Fukushiro placed Alluka on the ground and dodged at an extremely fast speed.

Where he passed, a series of rapid, muffled thuds followed, as if something had been knocked open, and the dust kicked up made Alluka cough.

Are you alright?

A somewhat cold voice rang out.

Before Alluka could react, a pair of small hands pulled her away from the living room, which resembled ruins.

Back upstairs, he finally got a clear look at the other person's face.

It was a little boy his age, with short, jet-black hair that was a bit messy and sticking up.

Unlike him, the child had a cool expression on his childish face that didn't match his age.

"What's your name? Thank you so much!"

Upon suddenly seeing someone her own age, Alluka's grey-blue eyes instantly brightened.

"...Fushiguro Megumi".

The boy with short black hair seemed surprised by the other person's enthusiasm. He turned his head slightly and coughed lightly, looking somewhat flustered.

"Fukuro... Oh! You're Uncle Fukuro's son?" Alluka tilted her head up slightly, revealing a somewhat soft smile.

"Can I call you Xiaohui?"

Alluka asked expectantly.

He was a child who grew up in love. Whether it was Itadori Yasuke, Rimei, or Itadori Hisahito, they all doted on him unconditionally.

Putting aside the awkwardness of dealing with strangers in an unfamiliar place for several days, he, who was deeply influenced by his older brother, really wanted to befriend the son of the black-haired uncle he had met several times.

"?"

Fukuro Megumi was taken aback. He had never met someone so outgoing. He was somewhat speechless but couldn't bring himself to refuse immediately.

Downstairs, there was another crashing sound, like something collapsing, followed by the sound of glass shattering. A nightlight flickered on and off, appearing to be on and off intermittently.

"...They're fighting again, don't go over there."

Seeing Alluka curiously run to the window, Fushiguro Megumi quickly spoke up to stop him from this dangerous act.

Megumi Fushiguro doesn't have many memories.

He only knew that he had been taken to live in the homes of various women by his father since he was a child, and he didn't have a deep impression of his mother and father.

Last year, my father remarried to an aunt. He left him in a strange family and rarely came back. The aunt was also rarely home. It was just him and Tsumiki who depended on each other for survival.

But recently, I don't know what happened, my father divorced that aunt and brought back a monster. My father said that was his mother.

Fushiguro Megumi was completely bewildered, not knowing what her mother was.

Abandoned by her aunt, Tsumiki seems to be unable to see the existence of her monster mother. Every day, the two of them hide in this house in fear, watching their father and mother fight in various ways.

He thought he would continue living like this forever, but unexpectedly his father brought back a group of people his own age.

Fushiguro Megumi, who was usually rather aloof, was unusually flustered.

"Oh! Is it that auntie?!"

From a distance, Alluka saw a woman's face. The face looked familiar to him; it seemed to be the same one the uncle had shown him in the photograph.

"Can you see your mother?"

Fushiguro Megumi opened her eyes wide in surprise.

Tsumiki kept saying he couldn't see his mother, and he thought he was dreaming, but the strange noises in the house every day reminded him that it was all real.

"all right."

Alluka blinked, and just as she was about to answer, a girl with a panicked look on her face and a trembling body pushed open the door and walked in.

"Hui, I'm a little scared..."

Miki Fushiguro is the child brought by Jin Fushiguro's second wife. However, her mother is not a reliable person either. After their divorce, she simply abandoned her to her ex-husband and disappeared.

From that day on, her life was like a nightmare.

She couldn't see the "Mom" her brother in the air was talking about; all she knew was that the house was often a mess and her father was always fighting with the air.

That thing didn't harm her or Xiaohui, but she was still terrified when she couldn't see it...

"..."

Fushiguro Megumi pulled Tsumiki over, and the three of them huddled together in the corner, planning to wait until the fight downstairs was over before coming out.

In the silence, Alluka, hugging her knees, suddenly looked up and smiled.

"Fushiguro Megumi, can I pat your head?"

As time dragged on, Alluka and Nanika tried to use their abilities to solve the problem at hand.

Fushiguro Megumi had no idea why his new friend was saying that. In the darkness, he saw a pair of bright, deep blue eyes.

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Fuheshen'er had gotten used to being beaten by his cursed wife, and he didn't know if it was because he had been too indulgent towards himself over the years.

Even though he was powerful enough to exorcise the other party, he couldn't bring himself to do it when he saw that face.

Rime begged him to bring Alluka back. Seeing that the child and his son had run away, Fuheshel didn't care about anything and strolled around downstairs with his wife.

Anyway, he'd already smashed everything he could in his house, so there wasn't much left to lose.

Rime appeared when he slid to the tenth lap.

"I'm upstairs, and I've brought my things back."

Fuheshen pulled the super-grade cursed object covered in sticky fluid from Choubao's mouth.

That was a cursed fetus nine-phase diagram made by Kamo Kenrin, the most evil curse master of the Kamo family, more than a hundred years ago, and kept at the high school. It is said that the thing was made by Kamo Kenrin by making a woman pregnant with a cursed spirit nine times and then aborting the stillborn fetuses.

Fuheishen was a little confused as to how this curse master knew that the High College had this thing and even had him bring it back.

"Is he upstairs? I'll go check."

Rime wiped the sticky liquid off the glass bottle with his robe with some disgust and strode up the stairs.