"This…why?" I muttered weakly as I stared at grotesque being that I always thought was imaginary. I thought they were mere fragments of my imagination. Imaginations that held no real effect on reality.
This thing stood over the corpse of my younger sister, it ate the corpse of my father, and its hand pierced through my mom's chest. It slowly turned it to look at me. Our eyes made contact but for some reason I didn't feel fear. I didn't even feel a rage, I just felt blank.
Pah~
The grotesque being dropped my mom's body and started coming towards me slowly. It knew that I stood no chance and it was clearly treating me like a prey it could toy with.
'Disgusting fucking mongrel!'
The thought of getting eaten was disgusting. It was like something in me refused to be eaten by something lesser than it. A complete opposite understanding of the situation. I was clearly beneath this thing except for in intelligence.
As it approached, this feeling only grew stronger to the point where I could say I was losing clear rationality as a cold rage overwhelmed my mind.
"Guh?!" The curse grabbed me by the throat. A shiver went through my body.
"Unhand me, mongrel."
I stared at its eyes with clear and defined hatred. This feeling was something I've never experienced before.
"Ahhhh?" It titled its head. I wasn't sure if it could understand me or not. This didn't matter what did was one thing.
"I said unhand me you filthy mongrel!"
A cold wave burst forth from me as I officially felt my normal rational snap like a twig. The curse's body disintegrated before my eyes but it still had its arm left around my neck but with no force. The arm turned into a golden orb the size of a pill that landed in my hand.
The moment it landed, I felt a deep urge to eat this thing. My rational being gone I was being of an instinct. I tossed the pill in my mouth and swallowed with the effects being instant!
I experienced this curse's emotions before its death. It felt true fear just like someone on the verge of death would experience. This brought my mind back to reality as I understood that these things around me weren't just figures of imagination nor incarnations of evil. These things were living much on instinct similar to animals in the wild.
They just weren't afraid of humans like most animals were.
I also could feel a strange change in my body. First it was that cold burst that brought shivers to my body but now I felt like I could control something. I wasn't sure exactly what but it was there, on the tip of my tongue.
The thing is…
Darkness clouded my vision and I felt myself lose consciousness.
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[A few hours before]
"See you later!"
"Yeah, see you Tatsuya!"
I left my friends behind and walked home. Each friend still with their grotesque companion on their shoulders. They looked like toads but different colors. My friends always complained about their body feeling heavy in those areas but when they messaged where those frogs were their hands passed right through so it was really all my imagination like always.
As I walked home, I felt myself hasten my pace. Mom was supposed to be making curry tonight which was my favorite! I couldn't let my greedy sister get a bigger portion.
'Knowing her she's already convinced mom.' I chuckled at the thought of her pulling on mom's shirt giving puppy dog eyes. She's the cutest little sister in the world and no one could tell me otherwise.
I turned the corner and my house was the second one on the left.
Click~
"I'm home!"
As I took off my shoes, no one responded which was weird. However with how loud the TV was I'm pretty sure they just didn't hear me.
"Hey gu-!" My mind froze. A scene out of hell which u never thought possible.
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"MOM! HAH! BLERGH!" A sudden whiplash brought me back to reality. That dream…no that memory was just too much for me to handle. Throwing up, all over the strange room but I didn't really care to really see where I was.
Tears and stomach acid fell down my face. The strange calm that took me over before was no where to be seen.
"Hey! Hey! None of that! You almost threw up on me." A playfully masculine voice entered ears. I looked forward instead of the ground.
"Huh?" I could only let out.
This man with white hair and a blindfold had my throw up suspended in mid-air. The more I looked at it the more I realized it wasn't suspended but moving extremely slowly then it fell to the ground with no warning.
"Did it fall because it lost momentum?" I whispered.
"Oh?" He smiled with her white teeth lighting up the entire room. It was a modern looking room and a sudden knock at the door made me realize that this was my favorite sweets shop.
"Here you go sir!" The female employee bowed with a little bit more nuance than necessary while giving this man a bag.
He waved as she left and then he turned back to me.
"To think you could notice my technique even at a basic level. You might have potential." He raised his blindfold revealing one eyeball. One so radiant and attractive that it couldn't belong to a human. This man already seemed out of this world with his mysteries but he picked me up from the hell that was my old home. He saved me so perhaps he was truly an angel.
I've seen those grotesque things so angels wouldn't be a far-fetch right?
"Haha~! No way, I felt a strong burst of Cursed energy where I found you but I thought it was a special-grade curse. Who would have thought another Yuta would pop-up." His word made no sense to me but he didn't sound like he would abandon me which was a relief. All my family was dead and my friends were just mere associates at school. I had no where left to go. No one left tto turn too…
"Tell me. Do you have a goal?"
"…" I stayed silent. I did have one but it was no longer possible. It was simply to retire my parents and make sure my sister didn't have to work. This wasn't possible anymore.
"I can see you've lost your purpose. I guess whatever caused your outburst is the reason for that?"
This time I nodded.
"Man. What a downer! I'll take you in then!" His serious expression went right back to that smile from earlier as he ate a dongo.
Ring ring~
"Oh sorry. It's my student." He answered his phone his words more understandable then the nonsense about cursed energy. "Hey~ oh? Oh man seriously? That's hilarious! I'll be over there soon then."
He hung up the phone while getting up and grabbing me.
"Sorry but it seems my student needs some help so an unedited field trip for you!"
'Isn't this all already unexpected?'
Some strange energy wrapped around me. I recognized this feeling.
'Isn't that the cold energy I felt before?' It circulated around me as I observed it more and more I could feel two different types. The surroundings and space shifted before I could read it perfectly.
The next thing I knew I was in front of some black haired dude and pink haired dude.
'What the hell is going on?'