Something strange

The person was none other than Yuki Tsukumo, who had been staying at his house all this time.

Hadn't she gone back to being busy with her research? Why had she suddenly appeared here?

And this time, she was actually wearing denim short shorts, a change from her usual clothes that left Yuanfang feeling strange.

"Do you need something?"

As he spoke, Yuanfang couldn't help being drawn to her long legs.

It wasn't that he lacked self-control. Those long, fair thighs had dealt a critical hit to his poor heart after so many years of being single.

"I set up some more Curtains recently. Help me remove the cursed energy attached to them again!"

Watching Yuanfang sneak a glance at her fair legs, Yuki Tsukumo spoke with a lovely smile curving her lips.

"Sure. Let's go!"

The moment he heard he could absorb more cursed energy, Yuki Tsukumo's fair legs lost much of their appeal to Yuanfang.

Between women and getting stronger, he ultimately chose to get stronger first.

With that, he immediately hopped into the car and let Yuki Tsukumo lead the way.

Seeing Yuanfang hurry into the car, Yuki Tsukumo's smile grew even wider.

After a grueling half hour, they finally reached their destination.

Why had it been grueling? Because Yuki Tsukumo kept shifting her long legs around as she drove, putting Yuanfang's innocent little heart through quite an ordeal.

"Hmm, are you sure this is the place?"

Looking up at the building ahead, Yuanfang wondered whether he was seeing things.

The sign read Kunshen Couples Hotel, and there were so many people coming and going around it. It hardly looked like somewhere that would generate huge amounts of negative emotion.

Yuki Tsukumo parked the car and strode over to Yuanfang on her long, slender, fair legs, explaining:

"A lot of men and women come here to catch their partners cheating. The negative emotions they produce are enormous!"

"Hmm, fair enough!"

Yuanfang nodded, finding that reasonable. If he came here to catch a cheating partner and found out he'd been cuckolded, the negative emotions he felt would indeed be immense.

He would want to kill the cheating pair.

Seeing that Yuanfang had no more questions, Yuki Tsukumo smiled slightly and led the way, saying:

"I think I heard Satoru Gojo say recently that a humanoid cursed spirit blew you up twice, and you would have died if you hadn't awakened Reverse Cursed Technique?"

"That's right. Some highly intelligent cursed spirits have appeared lately. You should be careful too!"

Thinking of that sneaky bastard Mahito made Yuanfang even more eager to absorb cursed energy and improve his defenses.

Otherwise, if Mahito got his hands on an even more powerful weapon next time, he would really be done for.

"Don't worry. I'm Yuki Tsukumo!"

Yuki Tsukumo was very confident in her strength. Perhaps only Satoru Gojo, Yuta Okkotsu, and Tengen could defeat her.

No, wait. Yuanfang, with his special cursed technique, also had a chance of beating her. It was practically impossible for anyone else.

"If you can tank a nuclear bomb, forget I said anything!"

"Uh!"

At Yuanfang's words, Yuki Tsukumo didn't know how to respond.

Although highly destructive weapons had all been sealed within powerful barriers, there was no guarantee those cursed spirits couldn't enter the barriers and take them out.

They might do something insane.

It seemed she needed to speed up her plans. Otherwise, if some cursed spirit really did something like that...

The consequences would be unimaginable.

After all, most of those powerful cursed spirits had been born in ancient times.

The feudal oppression and cholera of ancient times had a tremendous negative impact on people, making it easy for powerful cursed spirits to arise.

Yuki was certain that if a nuclear bomb went off, the resulting negative emotions would be immense.

Countless curses would be spawned, and their grades would be very high.

"Would you like a room?"

Just then, they entered the hotel. When the woman at the front desk saw Yuki Tsukumo, she couldn't help thinking:

Looks like another young guy being kept by a rich woman. When will I get a chance like that?

Looking at Yuanfang, she desperately wished she could have the chance to keep a young man like him.

"I've already booked a room..."

Yuki Tsukumo gave the receptionist her room number, and after verifying her identity, the receptionist handed her the key card.

"How many are there this time?"

This couples hotel was enormous. The few Curtains Yuki Tsukumo had made before wouldn't have been enough to cover it.

Yuanfang hoped she had developed a few more this time so he could absorb his fill.

"One?"

At Yuki Tsukumo's answer, the expectant look on Yuanfang's face vanished without a trace.

If she'd told him earlier there was only one, he would have... come to absorb it with a little less excitement.

"Shouldn't just one make you happier?"

Seeing Yuanfang's expression made Yuki Tsukumo even more certain of her suspicions. His cursed technique wasn't as simple as she'd imagined.

He probably wasn't eliminating curses, but absorbing them.

"It's nothing. I was just worried I wouldn't remove enough and curses would form here. We're here. Let's head in!"

The elevator happened to reach their floor just then, and Yuanfang once again made a tactical change of subject!

This time, Yuki Tsukumo wasn't as easy to fool as before, but she didn't pursue the matter either.

Because she, too, had something more important to do this time, something she absolutely had to accomplish.

She strode toward the room she'd booked on her long, slender legs.

Click!

The door opened, and an unusual fragrance immediately wafted into their noses.

"Whoa! There's so much cursed energy!"

Yuanfang paid no attention to the strange fragrance. He could feel the cursed energy here, and it was actually on par with the combined total he'd absorbed from those several Curtains last time.

That puzzled him greatly. What was going on? Did getting cheated on really produce more negative emotion than anything else?

Yuki Tsukumo gently closed the door and answered Yuanfang's unspoken question:

"I learned a new attraction cursed technique. It gathers the cursed energy produced nearby into this place!"

"That's you for you!"

Hearing her words, Yuanfang couldn't help giving her a thumbs-up. If the idiotic author hadn't written her death in the original story, such a clever woman might have killed Kenjaku back then.

"Of course!"

Yuki Tsukumo showed no modesty either, readily acknowledging that she was clever.

Yuanfang didn't dwell on it and immediately expanded his domain to absorb the cursed energy.

What he failed to notice was that Yuki Tsukumo was practically grinning from ear to ear.

She didn't have any cursed technique that could draw in cursed energy. She had just lied to Yuanfang.

The reason the cursed energy here was so dense was that she had brought some curses and left them here for a while.

Yuanfang instantly absorbed the cursed energy, and an indescribably wonderful sensation filled his body.

He noticed something unusual happening inside him and felt puzzled.

What was going on? It felt like I'd swallowed a whole bottle of Viagra. My body was brimming with inexhaustible energy.