The Japanese-fear sorcerer who started by taking in Tomie

Tomie returned to her room, closed the door behind her, plopped down on the bed, pulled out her phone, and quickly typed a line of text into the search bar.

How can a beginner cook the perfect meal?

……

"So, you mean you spent the whole morning making scrambled eggs with tomatoes? And you burned them!!!" Xin Hengyuan stared in disbelief at the plate of pitch-black, unidentified objects.

He picked up a piece with his chopsticks, brought it to his nose to smell, closed his eyes, put it in his mouth, chewed it a couple of times, and was completely certain.

This isn't an egg at all, it's carbon.

Xin Hengyuan has lived this long and never imagined that someone would make scrambled eggs with tomatoes like this.

"How can you blame me? It's clearly... it's clearly because your stove fire was too strong, like a fire-breathing dragon! The eggs burned as soon as I poured them in!"

Tomie was wearing a pink apron, her eyes were red with grievance, her whole body was covered in oil spots, her face looked like a little cat, and there was even a smear of cigarette ash on the tip of her nose.

"It's edible! It's really edible! It's just a little burnt!"

After saying that, Tomie picked up her chopsticks, grabbed a piece, and stuffed it into her mouth. She chewed it a couple of times, her expression visibly contorting for a fraction of a second before she forced a smile.

"Look, it's edible!"

"Forget it, stop eating. You'll get a stomachache if you eat any more. To be honest, this tomato has grown so big for nothing, and the egg was laid by the hen for nothing."

Xin Hengyuan put down his chopsticks and muttered a speechless complaint.

"This is the seventh plate already," the slit-mouthed woman added with pinpoint accuracy. "The previous six plates consumed a total of eighteen eggs, six tomatoes, a whole bag of salt, burned through the bottom of one pot, and ruined a spatula."

"The result is still the same."

Tomie bared her teeth at the Slit-Mouthed Woman and said, "Shut up! It's all your fault! If you hadn't insisted on standing there and making me so nervous, I... I wouldn't have ended up like this!"

"Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes."

"You ugly monster, I'll fight you to the death!"

……

Xin Hengyuan watched the two bickering and then silently left the kitchen and dining room, opening the bedroom door.

He was going for a morning run and would buy some breakfast on the way. He really couldn't eat this tomato and egg stir-fry. Xin Hengyuan was afraid that after eating it, he would go to find Hell Girl.

After all, Shingen isn't like Tomie and Kuchisake-onna, who are immortal and can't die no matter what.

There is a Chinese restaurant near Xinheng's home. The chef is Chinese, and the food is quite authentic. Xinheng usually likes to have breakfast there.

For no other reason than that this is the only place on the whole street that offers steamed buns, fried dough sticks, and soy milk.

"Boss, three baskets of xiaolongbao, a cup of soy milk, and four youtiao (fried dough sticks) to eat here, and then I'll get three more baskets of xiaolongbao and four more youtiao to take away."

As Xin Hengyuan entered the bustling, thriving restaurant, he walked straight to the only empty small square table by the window, sat down, and waved to the owner who was busy at the stove.

"Okay! Please wait a moment."

Xin Hengyuan sat down and looked out the window.

It was still early, but the streets were already filled with groups of students, some from junior high and some from high school, each carrying their schoolbags, playing and laughing.

Xin Hengyuan couldn't help but sigh, "It's so good to be young."

Including his age in his previous life, Xin Hengyuan has reached the age of thirty. In a daze, Xin Hengyuan seems to have returned to that year in high school...

Mountains of exercise books, endless practice tests... Ugh, maybe it's better not to go back.

Xin Hengyuan decisively rejected the idea. He had finally made it through so much, and he didn't want to go through it all again.

"Hmm? That person looks so familiar?"

Looking out the window at the figure, Xin Hengyuan felt a sense of familiarity, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

She was a sweet-looking girl with long black hair draped over her shoulders, and her yellow eyes were particularly striking in the morning light.

She wore a light yellow school uniform top with a dark blue bow tie, and a dark blue mini skirt, revealing a pair of long, slender legs without an ounce of excess fat. A large tote bag was slung over her right shoulder.

From a distance, Xin Hengyuan couldn't see her expression.

But Xin Hengyuan could clearly see that her shoulders were trembling slightly, and her hands were gripping the straps of her handbag so tightly that her knuckles turned white.

"Boss, no need, just send the package to this address..."

……

Miko Yotsuya gripped the strap of her handbag tightly.

I can't see, I can't see...

Just walk to school like usual.

Yotsuya Miko silently repeated the words to herself as she mechanically moved forward.

One day, she suddenly gained the ability to see those things, those ghosts and monsters that shouldn't exist in this world.

Once these monsters discover that someone can see them, they will not hesitate to eat that person, so she can only pretend that she cannot see them.

At that moment, in Yotsuya Miko's eyes, a huge and twisted evil spirit was standing beside her.

The evil spirit's limbs were large but deformed, its muscles atrophied and shriveled, and its neck was eerily elongated like a giraffe's. Its hollow eye sockets stared straight at her, as if searching for her weakness.

He kept repeating the same sentence under his breath.

"You can see me...you can see me..."

Yotsuya Miko's face was tense, she didn't dare to move her eyebrows, her heart was in her throat, and she hurriedly walked towards the school.

After a while, the evil spirit seemed to finally lose patience and muttered something under its breath.

"So you couldn't see me after all."

Then it turned around on its own, dragging its long, twisted limbs, and slowly wrapped itself around another passerby.

Yotsuya Miko breathed a sigh of relief, but she still dared not relax. What if the evil spirit was faking it and was about to launch a surprise attack?

She maintained a blank expression, her nails almost digging into her flesh.

As Yotsuya Miko walked, she felt her mouth go dry. She was exhausted from packing for so long. She opened her bag and rummaged through it, then was immediately alarmed.

Oh no! I left in a hurry and didn't bring any water!

Just as I was feeling annoyed, I glanced at the roadside out of the corner of my eye.

In the alley, a self-service beverage vending machine is quietly glowing white.

Yotsuya Miko hesitated for a moment, but her mouth was so dry that she could hardly bear it, so she could only comfort herself.

It's okay, it's okay. Even if there are ghosts, just pretend you can't see them, as usual.

Yotsuya Miko then walked over, took a coin from her bag, and inserted it into the machine, making a crisp clinking sound.

The canned coffee tumbled into the retrieval slot with a thud. Yotsuya Miko bent down and reached out to grab it, her fingertips just touching the cold can.

"You can see me..."

Miko Yotsuya's outstretched hand froze. The open retrieval opening revealed an upside-down head, its empty eyes meeting Miko Yotsuya's yellow pupils.

Hold on! Hold on! Hold on!

Miko Yotsuya kept biting her lower lip so hard it bled, but she calmly took out the coffee, as if she hadn't seen anything.

"...So I can't see it after all..."

The giraffe spirit was greatly disappointed. Its long neck retracted from the side of the vending machine, and its slender, twisted limbs braced against the ground as it crawled deeper and deeper into the vending machine.

With a stiff face, Miko Yotsuya pulled the tab on the coffee can, her fingers still trembling. The can was wet and slippery with condensation from the freezer.

Yotsuya Miko didn't hold onto one of the stones properly.

"Click"

The coffee can fell to the ground...

"You can see me!!!"