"How marvelous..."
Adam studied the "himself" before him for a while.
This was not a clone, but the manifestation of the grudge Adam had condensed—just as the grudge of Saeki House manifested as Kayako and Toshio Saeki.
It had a familiar appearance, but its eyes were threaded with blood, its sockets were gray-black, and its gaze brimmed with venomous resentment. Its skin was as pale as a ghost's...
Suddenly, Adam raised a finger and slashed downward. The cursed Adam's chest and abdomen split open, and its intestines spilled out at once.
Adam shook his head at the sight. His own body could not possibly be this fragile.
Still, this showed that the grudge he had formed merely resembled him in appearance. It could not replicate the strength of his body.
But that did not mean Adam's grudge was weak. On the contrary, in a sense, it was terrifyingly powerful. Otherwise, Adam would not have described it as marvelous.
Curses were an extraordinarily peculiar supernatural system. Magic had similar things, and Daoist arts did as well.
Tracing the origin of such things, they were essentially a means of using some method or medium to bypass defenses that ordinary people could not overcome and harm the target.
Those defenses could be tangible powers, such as a powerful body or armor. They could also be powers born of belief, such as tremendous authority and wealth.
When normal methods could not harm someone, one sought help from ghosts and gods.
But what if one wanted to deal with ghosts and gods? Whom should one seek help from then?
The Nail-Head Seven Arrows of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits sought help from the Heavenly Dao, while the grudge in this world sought help from the world itself—though Kayako was unaware of it and had not done