Was this really a good idea? a voice asked in her heart. She did not ignore it; instead, it made her hesitate and ponder. She herself found it strange. She should have been completely ordinary, so why had Hell Girl found her?
She always felt that if she truly asked Jiu Ming to do something, even if all she offered in return was her gratitude, it seemed she would miss out on something because of it...
"Can you... stop the people who pull those strings?" After hesitating for a while, she abandoned her original thought and chose another.
As long as the red string on the dolls Hell Girl gave those people was pulled, the cursed person would immediately be sent to hell. She felt that people who did such things were far too impulsive. They clearly could have thought it over longer before acting, yet after acting too soon... they regretted it.
Like one of her students who had recently transferred away...
She had vented her resentment, but regretted it afterward. Things had not been as she imagined, yet she had caused harm to her own teacher—and now she herself had to bear the karma of being destined for hell after death.
"Strings?" Jiu Ming raised an eyebrow. He had thought the girl before him intended to resolve the abnormality affecting herself, but it was only about the strings attached to those one-way tickets?
"I can certainly stop them, but are you sure that's really for the best? Other than a small number of them, wouldn't those people being resented always have something hateful about them?"
Jiu Ming was no bleeding-heart do-gooder. One could see that from how he had handled those bandits. He had already given those people a choice, but practically none of them chose the right