Curse of the Eye of the Dead

There are many photos of the Kitazawa family.

Except for the children's exclusive growth records, the rest are family daily photos.

It's like a dinner party during the holidays.

The joy of the family with notes all over their faces when they play games.

During the summer vacation, I bought a whole iced watermelon, and the family sat in a row on the edge, listening to the wind chimes and eating melons leisurely.

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There are countless similar photos, and there will be a lot of new gains every year-who made the head of the Kitazawa family be particularly keen on this, and even specially changed to a professional camera, and took it out to toss silently every three days .

Thanks to online shopping, a mantra spirit can legally buy a bunch of special large items without leaving home.

The only regret is that the compatibility between mantras and modern electronic equipment is too poor.

The mantra who cannot be photographed by the camera will never have a photo with his family.

In the same way, Hui's shikigami are the same.

——This is the reason why Tsumiji chose to learn to draw.

From the sixth grade to the first grade of high school, she has been studying art systematically for about four years.

From the very beginning, Tsumiji set her own painting direction, and she was determined to bring painting closer to photos.In terms of technical terms, it can be regarded as a high degree of realism.

"I want to have a real family portrait, and I want a portrait of my father."

This is the reason why Tsumiji chose to study painting in the first place.

Then with this idea in mind, she kept practicing sketching, then oil painting, gouache painting... she would definitely practice for three or four hours every day, and if she didn't have arrangements on weekends, she could even paint at home for a day.Even when going out to play, I will definitely bring a drawing book in my bag to facilitate sketching.

In the competition activities of the school art department, she even won many youth awards.

This is an emotional and extremely tender work. Considering the age of the author, it is indeed a rare masterpiece - the judges praised it.

However, Tsumiji still felt that it was not enough.

The current level is not enough to draw a family portrait that satisfies her, let alone a portrait of her father.

Repeatedly create on the oil painting board, cover again and again.

Tsumiki finally stared at the blank drawing board and sighed.

In order to surprise her family, she concealed her desire to paint "a real family portrait" and a "portrait of her father", and then went to talk to Uo about her distress about her slow progress in painting.

"You're only in your teens, Tsumiki."

Uno was a little surprised, he patted his eldest daughter on the head gently, sat down seriously and said to her: "You can't draw the best masterpiece of your life at this age, after all, you still have decades to learn , to observe, to feel, to comprehend, what's more, painting itself is not a quick thing, it is the epitome of your spiritual world. You know, the fast walker can't see the scenery along the way."

"People should pursue perfection, but they should not be afraid of imperfection. Imperfection also has its existence value. It is like sunlight in the cracks. It is fine and mottled, but still warm and beautiful. In my opinion, the value of painting lies in emotion. The delivery and the heart touch...and you've done that."

The evaluations given by the judges in the youth painting competition to Tsumiji are the recognition of her age and level.

Uno really thinks that his children are amazing.

From the beginning to the end, he answered the children's questions from the bottom of his heart, and he said every word because he really thought so.

Of course, this does not rule out that the old father has a natural filter for his own children-the children who are already excellent in themselves will immediately become perfect under the effect of the old father's filter.

The black-skinned and white-haired curse father is like a "automatic boasting bot".

He always liked gentle encouragement and education.

Tsumiji blinked slowly, showing a bright smile, and trotted over to hug the tall Mr. Cursing Spirit.

Her goal of "wanting to have a real family portrait and a portrait of her father" has quietly changed.

It's okay not to be perfect.

Express your feelings and that's it.

That being the case, how can a family portrait or a portrait be enough?

The love for her family is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for Tsumiji.

and so--

Putting aside her pursuit of perfection, Tsumiki set her sights on the family album.

From the earliest photo album in 09 to the latest photo album, Tsumiji carefully selected more than 20 most popular photos.

Then, take these photos that are forever missing a person... and re-present them on the drawing paper.

In 09, there was a picture of three little ones eating breakfast at the dining table.

Tsumiji restored it a little bit, and then seriously added the father of the curse spirit in the most central position.

Then in 10 years, Tsumiji sat on the side of the edge weaving scarves, Hui groomed the dogs next door, and Chacha played with a group of rabbits in the yard.

Tsumiji recalled the scene at that time, and then with a smile, he added the curse father who taught him how to weave scarves by his side.

Then 11 years... 12 years...

Later Mr. Gojo joined, and Nakaya and Akutagawa brothers and sisters joined... Gradually it became more and more lively, but there was always a lack of a home for one person, which was seriously made up by Tsumiki.

Tsumiki carefully recalled the scene corresponding to each photo.

If I really forgot something, I quietly went to Chacha, who had an amazing memory, to supplement the description. I had already noticed that Chacha, who Tsumiji planned, was actively cooperating, correcting every detail clearly.

Until now, 17, Tsumiji is finally about to officially complete this stack of paintings.

Although it is not formal, it is just a scene reproduced on A4 size oil painting paper, but each one is taken seriously by Tsumiji at the highest level today.Judging from the current number of completions, it is enough to bind into a picture album.

Father Mantra's birthday is in May.

Jin Meiji quietly took out a few family photos from 17, intending to make up a few new ones before the birthday of Huan Ling's father, and then give them out as a birthday gift on that day.

Will it be liked?

Sure to be liked.

This is a conclusion that can be drawn almost without thinking.

After all, that was the curse spirit father who loved them to the bottom of his heart.

The graffiti paintings drawn by the three little ones back then will be carefully collected, and Uo, who has solemnly hung them in the study until now, will probably be warmed to melt by this album that has taken Tsumiji a long time.

Just as Uo would try to make the children happy on their birthdays, Tsumiji also wanted to make his father happy on his birthday.

It's just that simple reason.

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In the new school year, Tsumiki, a freshman in high school, still joined the art department.

Of course, she would not draw a gift for Uo's father in school, after all, the other party's appearance is too special, and Yokohama's urban legend "Guardian God" is too popular.About the "Guardian God" - the appearance and characteristics of this god-sama who is well-known by Yokohama people has already had a lot of content on the Internet.

It is worth mentioning that these contents were disturbed a lot by Mr. Gojo and Grandpa Torajiro in the later stage.

For example, spreading rumors in the description of appearance and deeds, such as tampering with the dress, hair color, and eye color of the "Guardian God", and then modifying the types of bone horns and bone tails a little bit, changing them to the horns of various messy animals Hewei also lied about the other party's rescue deeds and exaggerated the scene as far as possible.

It's even a bad idea to create its gender twice--the nickname is "God is omnipotent".

The last point is reasonable to suspect that this is Gojo Wugan.

After all, Toranojiro became furious not long after the rumor spread. With a distorted grimace on his face, he mercilessly avenged his personal revenge and intensified the suppression of that guy. During the meeting, his mouth was like a knife to the current strongest magician. Mr. stabbed.

...and then make the high-level colleagues more convinced that Toranojiro is their own idea.

Wutiao Wushepi moved around and dodged, and then cursed.

Closer to home.

Although the rumors about the "Guardian God" on the Internet have become messy, after all, the Dragon Head War has just passed less than a year, and many people in Yokohama still remember the original version—especially the curious students, yes These things are even more enthusiastic and concerned.

Tsumiji thought about the principle of being careful when sailing for ten thousand years. She didn't want to make extra troubles, she always only honed her painting skills in school, and the materials for practice were generally landscapes.

Like Tsumiji, there are two students in the art department who went straight from the middle of Lihai Daguo to the middle of high school.They are very familiar with each other and have a very good relationship with each other.

Half a month after the start of school, when the department's work time was about to end one day, the two students ran over and extended an invitation to Tsumiji.

"Tsun Miki, do you want to buy paint and drawing paper together after the work is over? I know a newly opened stationery store, where everything is complete and the price is very cheap!"

Tsumiji flipped through her painting bag, and found that several colors of her oil paints were almost used up, and thought that the oil painting paper and oil painting board in her room also needed to be replenished, so she nodded without refusing.

Tsumiji: "Sure."

"Then let's go early?" The more lively person's eyes brightened and his tone was cheerful, which always reminded Tsumiji of her own sister: "Speaking of which, it's Friday anyway, why don't you go to play by the way? Like Eat snacks, chat, go shopping... Ah, I also want to go to the movies, I saw a new movie with very good reviews on Twitter."

Another classmate tilted his head: "I'm fine, Tsumiji, can you?"

"I'm going to tell my family... but it's probably okay." Tsumiji said with eyebrows raised.

After all, she was in the first grade of high school, so she would not be rejected by her family when she went out to play with her friends after school.

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Uno did not refuse.

He just gently confirmed that Tsumiji would not come back for dinner, and let her have fun.

Just like in the past.

It should have been a normal day.

No one expected that Tsumiki would inexplicably be engraved with a spell mark by a stranger passing by on the street.

It happened without warning.

The mark that was not hostile and theoretically did not belong to the category of attack quietly blew on Tsumiji like a gust of wind, and even failed to trigger the protection mechanism of the bone chain hanging on her wrist in the first place.

Tsumiji paused defenselessly.

The sudden pain in her mind made her lose consciousness for a moment, and she fell heavily to the ground.

The bone kin who was triggered at the moment when he noticed the abnormality of Tsumiki's body was able to adjust the angle of Tsumiki's fall, so that it fell to the ground as lightly and naturally as possible without causing second-degree damage.

The two students who were traveling with Tsumiji were overwhelmed by the sudden accident.

Countless passers-by stopped involuntarily.

There was a moment of panic in the street.

The Bone Family, which is invisible to ordinary people, is guarding Jin Meiji every step of the way. It is obviously unbelievable that it failed to protect the girl. In the tense mood that is about to break, the Bone Family immediately went to investigate Jin Meiji's body. After confirming that there was nothing serious about the signs of life, he opened his empty eye sockets and looked around in shock and anger.

When the passers-by around Tsumiji stopped involuntarily, the man who was still walking not far away was particularly eye-catching.

The bone family slowly exposed its fangs, actively breaking the body's cover-up treatment and leaking its own breath.

The man paused, turned his head slightly, with a surprised expression on his face.It seems that he didn't expect that there would be around one level of curse spirit aura appearing from scratch without warning.

He and the bone snake guarding Tsumiki's side met their eyes.

The bone family that turned into a snake clearly conveyed the target's appearance to the main body.

——The man's head, with a suture line across the entire forehead.

Fifty-nine years ago, that is, the year Uo died, a certain Tsurumi clan elder had on his forehead...the same stitching line as the man in front of him.