Curse of the Eye of the Dead

Europe a month ago.

"Speaking of which, do you curse masters have the ability to confirm a person's location, life and death?"

Europe, late at night.

in a certain house.

The blond-haired blue-eyed European male looked down condescendingly, he asked in a low voice, and stepped on a half-dead curser under his feet.

"Life or death? Location?"

The curse master, whose limbs and bones were broken, endured the severe pain and fear. He regretted his decision to leave Japan at this time, otherwise he would not have met such an evil spirit—but it is obviously too late to say this now, in order to live Going down, the curse master stammered nervously:

"I, I haven't heard of it... Hey!! Wait, I know, let me think about it! Think about it... By the way, to confirm life and death, it's better to find a spiritual master, as long as you have part of the target's body tissue, Hair, or whatever, and you can have her spirit possess!"

"Spiritual possession?" The man with blond hair and blue eyes tilted his head and said to himself.

"Yes! That curser is called Mistress Tail, and she's in Japan! I've worked with her many times in the past, so the information will never be wrong!"

The curse master who betrayed his former partner without hesitation shouted eagerly:

"Her spells can only be used on the dead. After the spirit descending, you can selectively obtain the memory of the descended party or the physical body and abilities of the previous life. If the spirit descending fails, it means that the descended person is not dead... ... Although, although the location cannot be determined, it is still no problem to determine life and death... Hey! Please! I have said everything I can, I really don't know other curse masters who meet your qualifications, don't—"

The Curse Master's voice stopped abruptly.

The blond-haired, blue-eyed European man moved his foot away expressionlessly, leaving behind the corpse with no wounds on the surface, but all the bones inside had been crushed long ago, and the internal organs were pierced by bone spurs.

It was exactly the same as the death of other bodyguards in this room and an important person.

Shortly after.

The blond man left the house and walked down the dark path.

"Spirituality, is it useful for humanoid abilities? Even if it is useful, I don't have the child's body tissue... Rimbaud's blood sample can be found, but the guy must be dead, right? Otherwise, it would be impossible not to return to France for such a long time."

He slightly lowered his eyes and talked to himself, paused with an unclear expression, then exhaled, thinking about another possibility: "And the ability to capture the memory of the dead... Maybe it can confirm or rule out some possibilities."

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A European man with blond hair and blue eyes, his name is Verlaine.

He is a transcendent from France, possessing the same ability of [Gravity Control] as in the Central Plains. At the same time, he is also the world's first singularity life and the original man-made miracle.

This tall adult European male always wears a black shirt, a suit vest, a white suit jacket habitually, and used to wear a small black top hat on his head-now the hat is gone.The facial features are typical deep Europeans, the sharp-edged cool handsome appearance and the blond blue eyes shining like the Aegean Sea shrouded in bright sunlight, making him look as dazzling as the sun god.

However, he is not some shining god.

It's just a sensitive humanoid supernatural weapon whose heart and soul are filled with the huge loneliness and despair of being a different kind, and whose hands are also stained with blood.

It's not a human being, it's just a personality compiled by a researcher - that's how Verlaine described himself.

[He reacts like a real "human". ]

Verlaine has been commented in this way before, and there are many similar words.

"Like" a real "person".

This sentence repeatedly emphasizes the fact that he is not human.

And this kind of repeated stimulation from the environment finally merged with the facts of his birth process and his own sensitive emotions, brewing the loneliness and despair that Verlaine can't get rid of until now—he even suspected that his "despair" was also designed by the research institute. The emotional simulation feedback that comes out makes it more painful.

Even if his closest partner, Rimbaud who rescued him from the institute and gave him the freedom to live, no matter how much he emphasized that he is now a real "person", Verlaine still couldn't let go.

After all, in France, in the eyes of many people, he still has a firm label of [Humanoid Supernatural Weapon].

Verlaine, who is well aware of his own origin, has also identified his identity as an "alien".

At some point, Verlaine hated humans.

Even with the only worthy partner around him, it didn't change his view of human beings as a whole.

Man-made monsters have been overwhelmed by indelible, deep-sea-like loneliness and hatred for a long time.

until eight years ago.

Verlaine and his partner Rimbaud received instructions from high-level French officials and were sent to secretly infiltrate Japan to seize a new type of humanoid supernatural weapon from the Japanese military laboratory as an enemy country.

That was the first time Verlaine saw the same kind.

He is still a young, unrecovered "similar" who knows nothing about his life experience.

Verlaine stared at him, his blood seemed to flow backwards for a moment.He pinched his fingertips and made an amazing decision with his heart beating like a drum.

—I will take the child alone.

It will not be given to the French government, it will not be left to the Japanese military research institute, it will not be given to anyone.

I want to take this child... take my younger brother to settle in a remote and secluded village, and let my younger brother grow up quietly and happily without knowing his origin. *1

I want to save my other self.

This wish has become Verlaine's strongest obsession since his birth.

Even if you have to betray France and your partner who has a deep friendship with you and become a treacherous bastard.

Even if you have to kill more people for this, you will be hunted down.

Verlaine thought paranoidly: I want to protect this child.

He will not be deceived by humans, used by humans, or turned into a weapon.

As the well-known "Assassination King" in Europe, Verlaine, who lacks empathy and no sense of belonging, has a stern expression and scorching eyes: I will take care of all the "dangers" around my brother.

Therefore, in order to take away his "brother" who was still awake, Verlaine shot at his partner who was determined to take him back to France.

Failed to kill each other.

One of them wanted to leave with the young experimental subject, and the other was determined to take them back to France.

After two transcendent-level superpowers and once closest partners couldn't reach a consensus, fierce internal fighting broke out.

This has affected Experiment A No. 258, who has not yet awakened.

Later, the "Huangba spit" in the child who he named "Zhongyuan Zhongya" was offended, so the terrible explosion and the black flames that swept over destroyed everything, and the two transcendents at the center of the explosion I was caught off guard.

When Verlaine woke up in the ruins, he didn't find his young companion or his partner.

At the moment of the explosion, the head of the transcendent, who was protecting himself with all his strength, was stunned by the impact of the explosion. For some reason, he was not seriously injured by the accident, and he got up from the dust and looked around.Unwilling to reconcile, Verlaine searched around and around, and finally had to leave early because of the intervention of the Japanese government.

French responders found him and took him away.

Verlaine provided false information that the operation failed and that Rimbaud and the target subject disappeared in the explosion.

Then, the blond-haired, blue-eyed Transcendent was guarded by the state, and he waited patiently and nervously for the French intelligence agency to go to the site of the explosion for re-examination—they lost Rimbaud, a transcendent-level superhuman, and they would definitely go to confirm the scene.

He wanted to know about the child... and about Rimbaud.

However, in the end, Verlaine got the news that the two were suspected of "death".

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The Japanese government will never tell the public that the military research institute is manufacturing humanoid supernatural weapons.

The important experimental body armor No. 258, whose life and death are unknown, disappeared. After searching for no results, thinking of the uncertainty of the scale of the explosion and the experimental results, the Japanese military marked the experimental body armor No. 258 as an experiment failure, suspected The text of death.

Verlaine, who betrayed his partner but still lost his "brother", was in a very bad mood.

He left France in a certain year, and it was difficult to catch his whereabouts when the powerful transcendent who was especially good at assassination went missing.

Verlaine wandered around the world silently.

He began to assassinate "important people" who were protected by layers of revenge everywhere, and finally boarded the list of high-risk persons of Europol.

It was in the process of assassinating without distinction, without good or evil, that Verlaine met a curser.

The curse master... is somewhat similar to the supernatural power user, but is completely different from it.

The question he asked casually received an unexpected answer, and Verlaine suddenly had some expectations in his heart.

Maybe my brother isn't dead yet?

The child with humanoid abilities might just be stimulated to explode by Rimbaud's abilities, and this kind of self-defense explosion may not necessarily destroy the body.

Maybe still wandering.

Maybe some organization discovered the value and was trapped by threats and lures.

Maybe—it was hidden by the Japanese government and sent back to the research institute.

Just like himself, he was not rescued until he was sixteen or seventeen years old when he was the director of the research institute, and he was trained by the French military for a long time before he officially took action.

In order to avoid the same accident happening again with the humanoid supernatural weapon, its existence was completely hidden...

Verlaine thought: If the child is really taken back by the military, the possibility that a government will make such a decision is not low.

Verlaine began to inquire about the curse master, and hesitantly went back to France during the period, and got a blood sample from his partner Arthur Rimbaud familiarly.

He came to Japan incognito, assassinated three important figures in the Japanese military one after another, removed some of their bones, and went missing again.Then focus on finding the location of the tail witch.

He searched patiently for a long time.

Mori Ogai, who has some connections with the Curse Master and is currently the partner of the Tail Goddess, got this information.

——There is a powerful blond man with supernatural powers inquiring about the location of the witch.

Coupled with the information that several important figures related to the research institute died one after another at the top of the Japanese military some time ago, and a piece of bone was taken from the corpse, Mori Ogai, who knew the Tail Goddess technique, squinted his eyes and followed this Check the news.

Soon after, he got the identity of the first suspect from Europol.

That's the French transcendence, Verlaine.

It is the first suspect because although the cause of death is similar, the act of taking a piece of bone is really different, and it is still a bit controversial.

Mori Ogai, who has extra intelligence, filters out those controversies.

He pondered for a long time.

It was obvious that Verlaine wanted to use Tail Witch's technique to obtain some news from the memory of the deceased or confirm something through the seance.

According to Verlaine's usual style, after obtaining the information he wanted, it was impossible for him to let a curse master who knew his intentions continue to live - after all, most curse masters have no morals and professional ethics.

Mori Ogai wanted to kill the tail goddess who was his superior "witness" without leaving a trace. This was undoubtedly the most convenient way.

However, he was not sure whether the information Verlaine wanted would be detrimental to Japan or even Yokohama.

But if you think about it carefully, if a strong man like Verlaine came to him, they would not be able to resist. After all, the port mafia doesn't know much about the transcendent, and the weakness of the other party's abilities...the port mafia does not have similar abilities. For reference, in addition, Mori Ogai, who has not been in office for a long time, has not been able to collect this level of information, so he has no way to start talking about making plans.

With their current scale of influence, if they want to stop a transcendent with unknown weaknesses, they will have to bleed a lot and take a very high risk of failure.

Mori Ogai: For a curse master who threatened him, this is not worth it.

Thinking about it this way, in this situation, it is indeed more appropriate to take advantage of the situation to solve the witch.

After the death of Goddess Tail, his most worrying problem can be solved.

As for the disadvantages... He can trade this information with the government in exchange for the money he is most in short supply at the same time, and let them quickly deal with the important information known to the few dead high-ranking military officials.

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Mori Ogai blocked Verlaine's information from Mistress Tail alone.

Other than that, he doesn't need to do much else.After all, Mistress Tail is a curse master, and she is also a curse master who accepts business. Naturally, there is a legitimate way to spend money to hire her. As long as Verlaine spends some time, it will only be a matter of time before she finds the contact information of Mistress Tail—and this kind of letting nature take its course , can also allow him to be naturally set aside in this incident.

Tail Goddess agreed to the spirit seance request of an unknown employer at the end of July-the amount of money the other party was willing to spend was unbelievable.

She took her grandson, who was the mediator of the technique, and the ashes of "Fuhesher" that she had just obtained not long ago, and went to meet him somewhere.

The handsome, tall, blond European man was carrying a suitcase, and calmly handed the bag of bones in his hand to the curser.

"Three spirit descendants?" Tail Goddess asked slowly.

"Ah, three people." The blond man replied in fluent Japanese.

"Tell me their names, and what information do you want to know from these three dead men?"

The blond man fluently announced the names of the deceased in order, and then said, "I want to know everything about No. 258."

"A No. 258?"

The Tail Witch narrowed her cloudy eyeballs, muttered, and then pinched a bone with her dead branch-like hands.

She began to descend from the spirit, and only chose the memory to attach to herself.

Not long after, the Tail Goddess who received the memory of the deceased opened her eyes slightly, looking at the blond man in front of her in surprise.

"You are...! These bones are...!"

"Where's the information?" The blond European man's expression remained unchanged. He just put down the suitcase in his hand - which contained a lie detector, and then asked slowly.

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The author has something to say:

*1 Verlaine's original words.

In addition, the novel mentions that [the experimental subject that Verlaine tried to capture was an important person whose life and death had no definite news until recently (Chuya was 16 years old). ) survival began to circulate].

Therefore, as far as this fan is concerned, because Nakaya is far away from the Mafia, the news that Gugu set Huangbatu alive has not been circulated yet. Only Akutagawa brothers and sisters Kitazawa's family and Gojo Satoru know, but they will not spread it.