Hit Back by the Curse Chapter 5

"After the Kade died, Kaia Ogata gave birth to Piercing Paradise. Piercing Paradise quickly crossed the city and reached her mother's side. She also fulfilled her [child] obligations and helped her mother eliminate the dangers around her."

The screen clearly showed residential buildings wrapped, penetrated, and crushed by red thorns.

"The danger is Kaia Ogata's father, who has completely turned into a Thorne and started attacking indiscriminately."

"How does Kaia Ogata feel about this incident? She was killed twice in one day (the Kades killed her family once, and her father later stabbed her heart with a tentacle. Many people think that the Piercing Paradise went berserk because of this) ), gave birth to a Thorne, and killed two people---she could still escape responsibility for the Kade, but she watched her father turn into a Thorne, and she knew what it meant for her 'child' to kill a Thorne. What are you wearing?

"Don't forget she was eleven when all this happened."

"So she's gone crazy?" someone asked.

"So she started having nightmares," the host said.

Kaia Ogata eliminated all threats after her father's death, and fell into a coma because her young body could not bear the 'nourishment' of the Piercing Paradise. The magic world recovered the girl sleeping above the ruins. It had been a month since the session and she showed no sign of waking up.

"Kaia Ogata's physical condition is very bad. Her first death was when she was beaten to death by a Kade with a metal bat. There were large bruises on her body and her spine was completely broken. She had also experienced school violence and domestic violence before. , we found that three fingers on her right hand had mechanical lacerations, the bones were exposed at the wounds and could not be restored, and there were various wounds..." The host hesitated.

"But that's not the main reason why she [can't wake up]. In fact, another person with these injuries would go into shock within a few minutes, but the Kaia Ogata family's bloodline is activated after death. The resurrected person is no longer It's a living thing, not bound by physical wounds."

"Just the appearance of those wounds has meaning in itself - Kaia Ogata's father was also [resurrected], but his way of resurrection was to become a Thorne covered in tentacles. Kaia Ogata's choice to keep her original body shows that she Acknowledging who she is (a weak little girl who was always bullied), we felt that this wound was a form of self-punishment."

"punish?"

"We treated Kaia Ogata's wounds when she was admitted to the hospital, but none of her wounds showed any signs of healing or deterioration during her coma. She always looked like she had just been created..." The host swallowed a mouthful of saliva. "Lifelike."

This adjective made most people present a little uneasy. Noctua saw the magician next to him knocking his knees with his hands, as if to hide his urge to leave.

"Except for these wounds. We think she chose to [sleep] by herself. When she was unconscious in the hospital bed, she would have [nightmares] about three times a day. This [nightmare] would be shared with people around her...This has caused three people in the hospital to go insane, and the dean's office has received a mountain of resignation applications. "

"What's happening in [the nightmare]?" Noctua asked righteously.

He found himself the only one asking. Others were not only indifferent to this, but also looked at Noctua Zhengdao's question with surprise---If you are in a conference room, the host says [A volcanic eruption occurred somewhere... Victims xxx Name, causing economic losses of xxxx US dollars], but you don't care about this at all and don't express sympathy. You just ask "What does a volcanic eruption look like?"

"Then you are so cold-blooded."

The conjurer next to him couldn't help but say.

Orion Noctua didn't think his concern was wrong. He felt that the reason why the host made so much foreshadowing (Kaia Ogata at least thought that she was a kid who was bullied, and Kaia Ogata was punishing herself) was because he wanted them to pay attention to this point. .

"And for teenagers, their dreams can reveal a lot - deep fears, inner desires, and even the most bizarre nightmare fragments can be directly related to an embarrassing experience that happened during the day." Mo Zhengdao said.

Everyone else looked like this guy was crazy. The host didn't. He lowered his head and said, "You are really a teacher at the Conjuring College..." and then readily told Noctua Zhengdao the answer.

"Many of the people in the hospital are ordinary people, and as patients of the Curse Master, they are unwilling to cooperate anyway. According to the reports we have received, few people can survive the entire [nightmare] without having a mental breakdown, but everyone who has experienced the nightmare People said they felt the chill of death."

"First there was the pain spreading from the chest, then the weightless feeling of the feet being pulled off the ground, the cloth on the chest being soaked with blood, a little loss of consciousness--and finally the coldness. The complete nothingness of death. cold."

"Actually, many people in the hospital have received specialized training, or were prisoners from the beginning, and they work here for a period of time in exchange for a reduced sentence. They have really seen blood, and they will not be frightened by this feeling and become insane." Host At this point, he hugged himself as if he felt cold.

"But that cold feeling at the end... that feeling of complete nothingness. People who haven't really died don't understand it. It's terrifying. It makes living normally in this world terrifying. Some people just felt [When I woke up], I couldn't help but scream and step back when I saw the corner of the table - don't you think it looked like a knife? "

"But." Seeing that the meeting was about to turn into a mental illness, he shared the feeling (the mental illness was actually the host of the meeting!) Someone couldn't help but interrupt him, "Of all the people living in this world, no one is really dead." Is it okay? Even if you have a nervous breakdown in a nightmare, you will just return to reality. "

"No. Yes."

This time, it was Noctua who spoke in a deep voice. He felt heavy because of the answer he got.

He said, "There are people who have truly died but are still [existing in this world], and they are in this hospital."

"Kaia Ogata came back from the dead twice."

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"Including the previous experiences of being penetrated through the chest and being lifted off the ground, you should all know these experiences - Kaia Ogata's second death was when her father's touch/hand penetrated her chest, and then She was resurrected and went on a rampage through Penetration Paradise, destroying most of Tokyo to reach her and commit its final act of destruction: it smashed Kaia Ogata's father into pieces along with the entire residential building."

"Yes." The host seemed to have regained his composure at this time.

He lowered his arms around his chest, but his voice still sounded like it came from a man standing alone in the snow shivering with nothing on.

"Kaia Ogata died twice in that apartment, but she only simulated the scene of being killed by her father for the second time. I don't think the reason why she was comatose was because of excessive trauma or the inability to afford the piercing paradise, she just couldn't He accepted the sins he had committed, so he repeated the "nightmare" over and over again and recirculated the experience of being killed by his father to "atone for his sins."