The consciousness of Tomie within this mass of matter had been completely shattered by the hellish power contained within the chains during the extraction process.
Only the core cursed power within her remained.
Held aloft by two coiling chains, it was delivered before Wu Heng.
"Filled with madness and resentment—is this the source of the curse? It seems this world is twisted as well, for something like this to be born."
Wu Heng stared at the gelatinous, illusory object floating before him. Scenes resembling rippling water continuously surfaced across it, endlessly displaying the desires of countless people. These were the souls of those who had committed suicide or killed others because of Tomie.
They were still suffering the torment of desire, offering up what little spiritual will they had left to nourish the curse.
With Tomie stripped of this core power, there would never again be Tomie's curse in this world.
Every vessel of the curse had been a pitiful girl. Because their souls were unique, they resonated with this world's Origin Sea and were thus chosen by the curse.
To a certain extent, after those girls fused with the curse, they became a kind of Cursed Disciple, serving a single consciousness.
It was merely that this world had not yet reached the necessary level, so no hell-level entity had been born. They were only walking that path.
Had Wu Heng not intervened with Naoko, perhaps by now this world's Tomie would have already eroded the entire world, merged with that green spring at the planet's core, and absorbed all of the world's "madness" and "desire."
Thus reaching the hell level.
Unfortunately, there was a girl like Naoko who refused to play by the rules. Even after Tomie's consciousness had become one with the world, it still had to avoid