Chapter 480 |
Ghost Sweeper 3
[(Skyun, fiii～～…)]
The DVD slid into the player, and loading began. Then, without anyone doing a thing, images suddenly started playing on the TV screen.
(Hm. But the picture quality is really rough…).
First shown was a slightly yellowed fusuma door. Then, panning to the right from there, it revealed the back of a woman in a red kimono facing a three-sided mirror.
(Huh, a red kimono…. I thought it would be white, but I was wrong).
I figured these kinds of curses would go for white, but surprisingly it was red. And though I could only see her from behind and could not make out her face, the obi around her waist looked like a pretty solid one too.
(Hmm, but I do not really get the time period…).
Since there is a three-sided mirror and the image quality is poor, I wonder when this was filmed. Maybe it was shot on 8mm or something like that.
As I was thinking that, terrible noise began running across the screen. Even though it was digital, it was not a blackout or a blue screen, but noise like black-and-white static snow.
[Oooh…. Iiiuu… ooaaiaoo…!]
Then, mixed in with the crackling noise, something like a woman’s voice could be heard. And when the screen shook violently, a creepy woman’s hand suddenly extended out from it.
(Oh, I see. So this really is a cursed DVD…!).
That hand stretched out, grabbed the edge of the screen, and the head of a woman with tied black hair slowly emerged too. Then, with her upper body seeming to rise out of the screen, the kimono-clad female ghost lifted her head while making a moaning sound.
[Gyaaaaaa!?]
But with a piercing scream, the female ghost twisted her body and arched back.
Because, when she looked up, there was a bizarre insect man with a golden body, sitting seiza with a notebook in hand, staring straight at her and waiting there.
“Hmm, that is an interesting reaction. What was that?”
[Gyaaaaaaa!!]
The female ghost thought. Why is there a monster here who surpasses me?
“Hey, do not try to run. You only just came out, right? There, salt barrier!”
[Gyaaaaa!!]
When the female ghost tried to flee, some powerful force stopped her, and she was left completely unable to move.
…
And so, with only her upper body sticking out from the screen and unable to move, the female ghost wound up being subjected to relentless interrogation by the eerie insect man.
Things like “Where did you come from?” and “Why are you inside the DVD?” were questions she could not understand at all herself. But when she could not answer, he would call it punishment and repeatedly press a huge male oriental cockroach against her face.
[Gyaaaaaaa!!]
…
[Hyu～… hyu～… aah…]
The unbearable torture continued, and the female ghost thought. At this rate, even though I am a ghost, I will die. So as a last resort, she decided to dispel the curse herself and escape this place.
[(Fiii～skyu…, nbee～…)pishi!]
“Ah!!”
As I was happily spending ghost analysis time, the DVD was suddenly ejected from the player. And what is more, with a loud crack, the DVD split clean in two.
“Hmph, so you were planning to run! Like hell I will let you. Over the salt barrier!!”
[Kyaaaa!]
By breaking the DVD, the female ghost probably released the causality by lifting the curse, and escaped from my salt barrier. But I captured her with an even greater salt barrier.
Yes, it was the barrier made with the skill [Space] that I had been planning to have Cloud Sea-san teach me once he mastered it.
But since that still seemed far off, I kept trying things myself, and eventually I managed to do it. The key was combining the skills [Salt] and [Space]. Also, sealing the pressure-cooked simmering state with the Space skill was a really great hint.
“Awawawa…!”
And it seems that by dispelling her own curse, the red-kimono female ghost had become completely weakened.
“Hey, after cursing someone, and then dropping your pants when things turn against you, what kind of nonsense is that. But I will not let you off for something like that. You will help me with further experiments. Now, take this, [Ota Delusion Beam]!”
Let me explain. Negative desire, the kind of urge where people long for death, is destrudo. For evil spirits and the like, that would probably be a delicious treat. But libido, the urge toward life, would conversely be unbearable pain for spirits. Well, strictly speaking, there are some slight differences between life and sex.
Still, it is written that the heart lives, and that is sex. So this too is indeed a kind of libido.
And so I took the unquenchable delusional power of an otaku, which turns everything and anything into a cute girl, loaded it with magical power without wasting a drop, and hurled it at the cursed female ghost.
[Kyaaa!]
And then…, a sailor-uniform female ghost with cat ears and fluffy paw-pad hands was completed.
Yes, the blood-soaked-looking red kimono and such were already gone somewhere. Well, her hair still being tied up in a Japanese style is a little unbalanced, but even so, this is perfectly acceptable.
“…Hmm, this is quite something. Not bad at all, de gozaru. All right, then I shall chant the spell that is most effective in situations like this. Ahem… ah, there, DVD! DVD…!”
And so I completely crushed the curse without leaving even the slightest trace.