"I'm home."
Tomie returned home and muttered the words in an emotionless tone, but no one in the house responded to her.
She stood indifferently in front of the entrance, resting one hand on the wall, lifting one leg, and taking off her uniform shoes.
Her socked feet slipped into slippers, and she walked back into her room step by step, casually tossing the Chanel bag in her hand onto the bed.
Doctors have a high social status in Japan. Theoretically, Tomie's father, as a doctor in Japan and also the director of a hospital, should be quite wealthy, at the very least a middle-class individual.
However, the place Tomie lived in was an old building, the home's decor was quite old, and the furnishings in the room looked as poor as a rental.
This was completely inconsistent with the Kawakami family's income.
Returning home, Tomie lay on her narrow bed, holding the latest Apple phone and watching videos online.
Around a little past seven in the evening, the sound of a key unlocking the door was heard, and the excited Kawakami Tsubasa returned home.
Tomie threw her phone onto the bed, opened her room door, and walked out. She looked at her father in the living room with cold eyes and said indifferently, "I'm hungry. Where's the food?"
Tomie's father, Kawakami Tsubasa, quickly held out the takeout in his hand and offered it flatteringly. "Tomie, I've already bought dinner."
Tomie's tone was cold. "Did I allow you to talk to me like that?"
Kawakami Tsubasa quickly knelt on the ground and said humbly, in the tone of a retainer addressing his lord, "Tomie, this is the dinner I bought. Please enjoy it."
Tomie had no sympathy for the father kneeling on the ground. She snatched the dinner bag and sneered, "Also, where's the money? Your salary for this month should have been paid, right?"
Tomie's father fumbled in his pocket for a moment and took out an envelope. The envelope was bulging, indicating there were quite a few Fukuzawa Yukichi bills inside.
"Tomie, the money is all here."
Kawakami Tsubasa's eyes were fanatical. His gaze at Tomie was excited and thrilled. "Yuu, Yuu, I succeeded. You have been resurrected."
"Indeed, Tomie is your best vessel. Hahahaha, my research for so many years has succeeded."
Kawakami Tsubasa's words made Tomie almost lose her mind. She angrily picked up the cup from the nearby table and smashed it fiercely against her father's head. "I'm not Yuu, I'm not Mother, and I'm not your experiment!"
Blood flowed from his forehead.
But Kawakami Tsubasa completely ignored the wound on his head, becoming increasingly deranged and infatuated. His eyes were full of malice and affection, like a swamp, making Tomie feel a sudden, inexplicable fear.
She always felt that this father of hers was getting crazier and crazier. It was as if he would kill her and dismember her at any moment.
This fear made Tomie snatch the envelope from Kawakami Tsubasa's hand, quickly return to her room, and forcefully close the door.
Leaning against the door, she gasped for air, suddenly feeling that her ability was not a good thing at all.
Tomie was just a high school girl with limited experience. The fawning of everyone around her for the past half year had also made her temper increasingly worse.
Whenever she encountered something that made her unhappy, she would throw a big tantrum.
But no matter how much she cursed or vented her anger, everyone else remained indifferent, still loving her fanatically and forgiving all her actions.
Just like just now, she directly split her father's head open, but Kawakami Tsubasa was not angry at all.
However, recently, Tomie discovered that the side effects of this ability seemed to have appeared.
The fanatical crowd's obsession with her began to break through limits, becoming increasingly irrational and disregarding the law more and more, causing Tomie to have the fantasy that she could be killed by them at any moment.
Fear made Tomie lie back on the bed, and it was not until she opened the envelope and saw the thick stack of ten-thousand-yen bills inside that her mood improved.
She counted. A full 800,000 yen.
With this money, she could go out and rent a place to live, leave her father, and not be afraid of him anymore.
But this old man can continue to generate money. If I leave, and the charm effect weakens, won't I have no money?
No, I can find younger and richer men, and let those men support me. I don't need to care about this old man at all, haha!
Tomie sat up and put the money away.
This money is more than enough to rent a place. The bag I saw last time was nice. Should I go buy it?
However, if it's only 800,000 yen, it might not be enough.
Really, why doesn't that old man work harder? He earns too little money.
Tomie's gaze subconsciously fell on her desk, where a family photo of three was placed.
In the photo, Tomie was still a baby, and her parents were snuggled together while holding her, very warm and cozy.
However, the picture in this photo was strange. Tomie's mother's face had been wiped clean, and there was nothing left on that face.
Tomie's past life was not happy.
Because of her birth, her mother's body developed problems, and she passed away shortly after Tomie was born.
Her father loved her mother deeply, so he disliked Tomie intensely from a young age, often hitting and scolding her.
Tomie's childhood was unfortunate. She had neither a father's love nor a mother's love.
When other children were surrounded by their parents' love and wearing newly bought clothes, she did not even have a single new piece of clothing of her own and even had to beg in a low voice just to eat enough.
Tomie's father never cared about her. Aside from the fact that Japan's law required her to attend school, he only gave her the most basic living expenses, causing Tomie to live a difficult life from a young age, unable to eat enough or dress warmly.
And as a doctor, Kawakami Tsubasa's monthly earnings always disappeared without a trace, and the entire Kawakami family was very poor.
Outsiders seeing such a Kawakami family would probably think that Kawakami Tsubasa was gambling.
But only Tomie knew that her father used the money he earned each month to buy materials for his terrifying experiment, resurrecting her mother!
Tomie had been her father's experimental subject from a young age. Every so often, her father would inject some strange substance into her body.
Those substances did not affect Tomie's body, but every time she saw her father mumbling, saying that she was the vessel for her mother's resurrection, it made Tomie feel a chill down her spine.
In such a family, Tomie became very insecure. Even with extraordinary beauty, she dared not expose it.
Because at school, she would always be bullied by other girls because of her beauty, which made her hate going to school and also hate her family.
Everything changed just over half a year ago.
Tomie's body underwent extraordinary changes.
According to her father, his experiment was successful, and Tomie's mother was resurrected in her body.
However, in her fear, Tomie did not find anything wrong with her body.
Instead, she gained a peculiar ability.
She could make anyone fall in love with her, madly in love with her, willing to sacrifice everything for her, even their lives.
And Tomie used this ability to bring about earth-shattering changes in her life.
(To be continued.)
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