"Who the hell are you people? What do you want?!"
Racked with pain, Sato Xilei looked at Enma Ai, Bone Woman, Ichimokuren, and the others beside him, naked fear on his face.
"We want you to go to hell, senpai..."
Imitating Yonekura Shoko's voice, Bone Woman gave a seductive reply.
"What?"
Sato Xilei instantly remembered the cursed straw doll in Yonekura Shoko's hand.
It was... it was real. Yonekura Shoko had cursed him out of hatred.
"O pitiful shadow lost in darkness! A soul that hurts others, demeans others, and wallows in sin..."
A lovely voice rang out. Dressed in a kimono, Enma Ai floated before Sato Xilei, as though reciting a passage from a textbook...
As she reached the end, Enma Ai suddenly stopped and closed her blood-red eyes. At that moment... the whole world seemed to turn gray.
After a pause of roughly three seconds, Enma Ai snapped her eyes open. Staring at Sato Xilei as he lay on the ground in agony, she recited the final line in an even more beautiful, eerie voice:
"Ippen, shinde miru? (Do you want to try dying once?)"
"Wha-!!"
In this dim underworld, a pitch-black river seemed to stretch on without end. Brilliant red spider lilies bloomed along its banks, while a small wooden boat glided over the water.
Dressed in her kimono, Enma Ai stood aboard the boat and propelled it with an oar. In the middle of the boat... sat that successful man, Sato Xilei.
Not a sound broke the silence along the way. The boat silently passed through a torii gate standing in the underworld river!
"This resentment, this hatred, shall flow into hell."
Enma Ai's voice sounded softly as the wooden boat carried them farther and farther away... until they vanished from sight.
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