Chapter 231: Kawakami Tomie
Chapter 231: The Infinitely Growing Monster! Kawakami Tomie!
Yukino and Eriri were also walking back. Normally, given their personalities, the probability of them conversing was low. However, when a topic suddenly turned to Ren, Eriri opened up her chatterbox. She began chatting with Yukino about Ren.
As they chatted, Eriri’s topic veered off, and she started talking about some private matters. These topics made Yukino shy. Eriri, seeing that Yukino knew too little, immediately transformed into a teacher and began to explain to her. It seemed she truly was Teacher Kashiwagi Eri.
The things in her mind, even without being drawn, just by being described in words, could make Yukino’s face turn red as if on fire. But Yukino wasn’t just shy. She also quietly memorized some of the actions and poses Eriri described, which, even just by imagining them, made one feel ashamed to death.
Just as Eriri was chatting excitedly, "Help!" "Save me!" The two heard cries for help from different voices.
Yukino turned her head, her Observation Haki quickly locking onto the direction—at the corner ahead. "Over there!" They exchanged glances, and Eriri said, "Let’s go see."
The two quickly arrived at the corner. And then they saw an extremely terrifying and bloody scene. "You are mine! Ah, you are mine! Become one with me!"
A man was biting off flesh from a woman’s body with his teeth, and tearing off her long hair with his hands, pulling at her scalp. Then, he madly ripped off his own scalp and covered his own bloody skin with it.
The woman, being torn apart by the man, screamed in extreme pain. "Hurry and save me!!!" Her torn mouth yelled towards the red-haired girl who was slumped on the ground in front of her. She also stretched out her bloody hand to grab the girl.
"Help!" The girl screamed in terror, scared. The previous cry for help must have been hers too.
The situation looked urgent. Besides the terrifying bloody scene with Tomoya Aki, this was the second time Eriri had seen such a bloody scene, and she was extremely dizzy and gagging. However, thinking in her heart that she had promised to become someone who could help Ren, she mustered her courage and took a deep breath. From her mouth, she could still clearly chant, "Dragon’s... Roar!"
She opened her mouth, and a stream of air solidified into a tornado, erupting from her mouth. The air tornado immediately blew the entangled man and woman several meters away. She controlled it well, as they were humans, and she didn’t want to injure them. Not only the two were blown away, but large splatters of blood also sprayed onto the walls, trees, and streetlights.
"Yukino, let’s call the police!" After Eriri pulled the two of them away from the girl, she took out her phone, ready to call the police.
However, Yukino suddenly covered Eriri’s phone with her hand. "Wait, Eriri, that’s not a human." Her gaze was fixed intently ahead.
The woman’s skin and scalp on the man’s body surprisingly burrowed into him as if taking root. And then, one tumor after another began to grow. Not only on the man’s body, but even the scattered blood began to grow tumors.
"Ah! I am the only one! Kill them quickly!" The woman, still entangled with the man, frantically yelled at the three of them. As soon as her words fell, there was a continuous chorus of echoes.
"I am me." "Kill her!" "Kill them!" A scene that made all three of them tremble in fear appeared simultaneously. Those large and small tumors had all grown into faces identical to the girl on the ground! They were all the image of a beautiful woman! Despite their beauty, they sent shivers down the three people’s spines.
The largest individual grew out of the man’s body. The man was no longer moving, and his body began to transform, growing a woman with a head, neck, and upper body. She pushed the original woman on the ground with her hand, cursing, "You bastard, die!"
"Yu... Yukino, this woman is an anomaly, what should we do?!" Eriri shrank back. She didn’t dare to use her ability anymore; just blowing the woman away had caused a lot of women to grow from the surrounding blood. Yukino also didn’t dare to act rashly; no one knew if this woman’s flesh and blood could continue to grow.
"Let’s control her first." An icy white aura bloomed from Yukino.
"Achoo!" The girl on the ground shivered from the sudden drop in temperature. Crack, crack, crack! She heard the sound of ice forming in winter. She looked up and saw cold ice sculptures.
The man, the woman, and the women that had grown were all frozen into lifelike ice sculptures. "Your ability is so convenient," Eriri said enviously.
Yukino did not relax. Instead, her brows furrowed even tighter. "I feel like they are still alive."
"Huh? They weren’t frozen to death?" This tenacious vitality left Eriri dumbfounded. Even with her angelic body, reinforced by Dragon Slaying Magic, she could feel the bone-chilling coldness of the aura Yukino released. However, the woman who was attacked by ordinary people, even after being frozen into an ice sculpture, didn’t die!
"Let’s inform Ren first. Fortunately, not many people come here." Yukino took out her phone and sent a message to Ren.
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"That’s what happened." Ren, who arrived directly via spatial movement, understood everything that had happened here through Yukino and Eriri’s explanation.
He looked at the women’s faces in the ice sculptures. Beautiful features, fair skin, long hair with a jewel-like luster, straight bangs, and a tear mole under the corner of her eye. A face with a tear mole. The man’s madness. The growth of flesh and blood. This reminded him of a thing, or rather, a phenomenon, that possessed all these characteristics.
"Ren, do you know what kind of monster this is?" Eriri clutched her hand. Compared to Yukino’s calmness, she was still a bit uneasy.
Ren said in a deep voice, "It might be Kawakami Tomie."
"Kawakami Tomie?" He explained what he knew about her to the two of them.
Kawakami Tomie’s appearance seems to prompt people to pay positive attention to her. Any male with desire for women, regardless of good or evil, old or young, will fall under her spell with just one glance. People so infatuated with her often develop a strong mixture of love and hate for her. It usually starts with the former, shifting to the latter over time.
They will then obey her commands to kill. They will also kill her and dismember her. Only then can a new Tomie be created. Tomie can regenerate herself from her smallest living tissues, including hair, bones, skin, and blood drops. Her body has extreme resistance, and her regenerative ability is sufficient to resist strong acids and gamma rays.
Each independent part can grow into a complete clone of herself, possessing its own independent thoughts, and they can share memories with each other. The temperaments of different individuals vary slightly. Some are gentler, while others are very flamboyant. Soaking her in strong acid can prevent Tomie from continuing to grow.