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"I DON'T CARE WHAT TOMIE IS! SHE IS MY EVERYTHING NOW, AND I WON'T LET ANYONE HURT HER!"
Right then, Spencer really looked like someone willing to give up everything for the woman he loved. It was just too bad the woman he was protecting was his mistress. If she hadn't been, the moment might have actually been moving.
"Dad?" Eriri used to think her father was just under a spell. She believed things would return to normal once this woman was gone. But now, seeing Spencer, Eriri understood her real father was gone. The man in front of her was a stranger.
Once she realized this, Eriri stayed silent and closed her eyes.
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"Very touching, but what a shame!!" Kai shook his head at Spencer.
Spencer was just an ordinary person, with no chance of a sudden, miraculous power-up. Kai didn't bother saying anything. He simply waved his hand.
Suddenly—
Swish, swish, swish!
A lock of hair shot out from the Spider Woman. It whipped around Spencer, tying him up so tightly he couldn't move at all.
"Mmph! Mmmph!" Gagged and bound, Spencer thrashed wildly, desperately trying to shield Tomie.
Too bad. Tomie didn't even spare him a passing glance.
"W-WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO??" Tomie panicked as Kai locked his gaze on her.
She could regenerate and come back to life, but that didn't mean she wanted to die. After all, the new Tomie would actually be a different person.
"What do you think?" Kai tilted his head, maintaining his smirk.
With a group of hungry Cursed Spirits staring at her, Tomie would have to be clueless not to understand what was coming.
"Wait! Can you really bear to kill me? I'm so beautiful. Don't you want to make me yours?"
Tomie knew her beauty was her best weapon. She thought all men were the same, and she didn't care about Kai's supposed strength.
"Disgusting!"
When Tomie tried to seduce Kai, both Sayuri and Eriri glared at her. Spencer kept struggling on the floor, unaware that Tomie was offering herself to someone else. All he cared about was saving her.
"What's so special about those two? They're plain and boring. But I'm different. I can give you what you really want~" Tomie sounded more confident with each word.
Ever since she was born and learned about Jujutsu Sorcerers, she had kept her distance from them. She wasn't stupid, and she knew better than to stir up trouble. But now things had changed. She couldn't run anyway. If she could use this chance to get a Sorcerer under her control with her charm, she would never have to worry about anything again.
Thinking that, Tomie gave a seductive smile and walked slowly toward Kai.
"..."
Kai casually raised a hand.
The next second, Tomie felt the world turn upside down.
Thud!
Her upper body hit the floor. When she saw her lower half still standing a few feet away, Tomie realized she had been cut in half.
"YOU!" Twisting her head around, she met Kai's gaze—a pair of slowly spinning Mangekyou Sharingan.
"At the end of the day, your charm is just a form of illusion. Trying to beat me in a battle of illusions? You're way out of your league!"
Honestly, Kai didn't care much for Tomie's cheap parlor tricks. He didn't give her a chance to speak. The Mangekyou in his eyes began to spin rapidly.
"Kamui!"
A violent spatial distortion appeared. Tomie's split body was sucked into the Kamui dimension. Kai didn't leave even a drop of her blood behind.
The villa quickly returned to normal.
With Tomie gone, the summoned Cursed Spirits were disappointed, but because of Cursed Spirit Manipulation, none of them had the courage to move. They waited quietly. Kai waved his hand, and the spirits faded into the shadows. At the same time, the hair holding Spencer disappeared, setting him free.
"TOMIE! MY TOMIE!"
As soon as he could move, Spencer didn't look at his family. He rushed to where Tomie had disappeared and started clawing at the floor, desperately searching for her.
"Give her back! Give my Tomie back to me!!"
Finding nothing, Spencer whipped his head around, glaring venomously at Kai. He looked ready to tear Kai apart if he didn't hand her over.
"Dad! That woman was a monster! Couldn't you see that??" Eriri yelled.
When Tomie was cut in half, she didn't die. It was clear she wasn't human if she could survive that. Anyone could see it.
When Eriri saw her father actually threaten Kai, she couldn't hold back. "Dad, that monster is dead! You should be snapping out of it by now! You—"
"Shut up!"
She wanted her father to go back to normal. Before Eriri could finish, Spencer cut her off with a sharp command.
"For the rest of my life, the only woman I will ever love is Tomie Kawakami!"
"H-How could you..." Eriri stared in shock and stepped back. She never thought her father would say something like that.
"..." Kai just shook his head, staying silent.
Tomie's charm was impossible to break. For a normal person, once they fell for her, the damage couldn't be undone. Even after Tomie died, her victims stayed obsessed with her forever.
"If Tomie is a monster, then she wouldn't die that easily! She has to be coming back! I'm going to find her! I have to find her!" Spencer babbled before sprinting out the front door.
"Dad!" Eriri instinctively tried to chase after him.
But Sayuri grabbed her arm, holding her back.
"Mom! Dad is—"
"Eriri, from now on, Mom will always be by your side!" Sayuri promised.
Hearing that, Eriri finally understood. Spencer was never coming back. She stayed silent, buried her face in her mother's chest, and cried.
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Later that night.
After a long time comforting her, Sayuri finally got Eriri to sleep.
Tired, Sayuri went downstairs and saw Kai eating dessert. Just seeing him made her feel a little better. She took a bottle of wine from the kitchen and sat down across from him.
"Thank you for today!" Sayuri said. "If it weren't for you, Eriri and I would have been in serious trouble."
She still couldn't believe Tomie Kawakami was a Cursed Spirit. If Kai hadn't been there, the day would have ended in disaster.
"It was nothing," Kai said with a casual smirk, waving his hand as he accepted the glass of wine she poured for him. "I guess that makes me Eriri's daddy, in a way."
"???"
Daddy?
Sayuri blinked in confusion, then realized what he meant. She gave him a sultry, reproachful look. "You're so bad!"
The memories came rushing back. During their previous session... By that logic, he really was Eriri's daddy.
"Well then..." Sayuri's gaze darkened with a suggestive glint. "Do you want to experience that feeling again?"
She had put up a strong front all day, but after everything that happened, she felt emotionally drained. All she wanted to do now was let go and relax.
"Of course!" Looking at the alluring Sayuri, Kai broke into a grin.
She was handing him an open invitation. Turning her down now would be a crime against manhood.
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"Tomie! Tomie!"
Late into the night, a disheveled and delirious Spencer stumbled down a deserted alleyway, clutching a half-full liquor bottle. He was a complete wreck. He muttered Tomie's name under his breath, repeating it like a broken record.
Just then, a slender silhouette stepped out from the shadows at the other end of the alley. It was a woman wearing a surgical mask. She walked toward Spencer and stopped just a few feet away.
"Am I beautiful?"
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