Under Kallen's utterly unconcerned gaze, Yae Sakura untied the ropes around the straw doll.
Then... it was as if time had stopped.
"Your resentment has been heard!"
A girl's voice seemed to reach directly into his soul.
Then... Kallen appeared in another world. Here, a beautiful kimono girl in lavish robes floated in the air, while an old man and a man and woman stood nearby.
"This is..."
As Kallen looked around, before he could finish speaking... he suddenly felt his belly swell. He could even feel a tiny life being born within it.
Yet before he had time to panic, a moment later... an unbearable agony tore through his abdomen, and the child inside him miscarried.
The pain Yae Sakura had suffered replayed itself upon him again and again, one after another. Kottou-onna and Ichimokuren even stood nearby, earnestly explaining these things to him.
"You... who exactly are you people? What do you want?!"
In pain and misery, Kallen looked at Enma Ai, Kottou-onna, Ichimokuren, and the others beside him, terror plain on his face.
"We're sending you to hell, Senior..."
Imitating Yae Sakura's voice, Kottou-onna replied seductively.
"What?"
Kallen instantly remembered the cursed straw doll in Yae Sakura's hand.
It was... it was real. He had been cursed and resented by Yae Sakura.
"Oh, pitiful shadow lost in darkness! Soul that harms others, scorns others, and wallows in sin..."
The lovely voice rang out once more. Enma Ai, dressed in a kimono, floated before Kallen as though reciting a lesson...
At the end, Enma Ai suddenly stopped. Her blood-red eyes closed as well, and at that moment... the whole world seemed to turn gray.
After a pause of roughly three seconds, Enma Ai suddenly opened her eyes and stared at Kallen, who was writhing on the ground in