Beichuan Si began to speak.

This was the information he had obtained from Gangye Yoshiko about Inuzuka Youka.

"...That's right," Inuzuka Youka said, anger and sorrow surfacing in her eyes, "after my father died, I was left with only my grandparents... That was also a nice time, but my grandparents were already in poor health, having fallen ill from laboring in the fields, and so, they too died not long after."

"And it was during that time—my biological mother showed up..."

Inuzuka Youka clenched her fists.

This time, Beichuan Si did not interrupt her and just quietly watched Inuzuka Youka.

After leaving Youka's father, Inuzuka Youka's mother had actually married another man.

And that man was now the father of Inuzuka Youka and Inuzuka Shintaro.

That man adopted Hayakawa Youxiang and changed her name to Inuzuka Youka.

"But even so... they never really had any regard for me," Inuzuka Youka painfully closed her eyes, "Their eyes only had Inuzuka Shintaro in them... but it didn't matter to me. After my grandparents died, I essentially had no family. To hope for more would only trouble them."

She only needed to play her role as a 'daughter' well, and then she could completely leave this family upon growing up.

"But things were far from as easy as I thought. Inuzuka Shintaro... that guy... is nothing but a scumbag, even worse than that Fukuda guy."

Inuzuka Youka's fingers trembled as she lifted her blouse.

On her smooth belly, there were also scars that could not be erased.

"The Inuzuka family had always had very high demands on Inuzuka Shintaro; they required him to be calm and sensible outside, and his academic grades had to rank top of the class. That's why Nakazato Aya and those guys thought that scumbag was calm and sensible... but would a truly calm person use the 'Pandora's Box'? Those were all just Inuzuka Shintaro's facades."

Under such intense pressure, Inuzuka Shintaro would use Inuzuka Youka as a human punching bag almost every other day, claiming it was to relieve stress.

Eventually, he even developed a sick dependency on her.

But in reality, all Inuzuka Youka wanted was a quiet, stable life, yet her reality simply wouldn't allow her a peaceful existence.

Upon hearing this, Beichuan Si stroked his chin.

If it was as Inuzuka Youka said, then she shouldn't have shown any resistance.

Inuzuka Youka, realizing what Beichuan Si was thinking, gazed into the void with a voice faint and filled with despair, "I didn't think about not resisting, but it was useless. Telling my parents achieved nothing—they didn't take it seriously, which only led to more severe beatings from Inuzuka Shintaro."

"Telling friends from school also led to disbelief... because Inuzuka Shintaro was famously gentle and composed in the class."

Neither the school nor the family could offer her help. As for the police, Inuzuka Youka dared not even consider it.

What would she face from Inuzuka Shintaro if she ultimately failed?

Inuzuka Youka was just a junior high student. Under daily beatings and enduring the pain, she naturally learned to act and restrain herself.

Didn't she initially have hope for this new family?

But as time passed, hope gradually twisted into despair, and her initial expectations turned into resentment.

Just like the 'Pandora's Box', the original intentions and motives were good, but as the evil thoughts kept being injected, the contents inside completely transformed.

"I was waiting for an opportunity," Inuzuka Youka's voice suddenly grew excited, "and that opportunity soon presented itself right before me."

Her gaze was dark and intense, her tone pleased, and her feet shook with excitement.

Beichuan Si watched all this without making any judgment.

"When I was little, my grandparents told me a legend... about the 'Pandora's Box' legend, that one could curse someone to death by making a wish, but in doing so, disaster would also corrode the wisher... During the Golden Week in May, I returned to my old home in Hayakawa Town, and in the small storage there, I found an ancient map wrapped in knotted cords and marked."

Inuzuka Yukari, following the markings on the map, climbed the mountain and then discovered the shrine housing the Disaster Box amid the secluded thickets.

Remembering the legend of the Disaster Box, Inuzuka Yukari no longer hesitated. She first spread many stories about the Disaster Box across the school's online network.

Next, she figured out a way to add Fukuda's LINE social account and told him the legend of the Disaster Box and the location of its shrine.

"Actually, I've known about that trivial matter between Fukuda and Nakazato Ayana for quite some time," Inuzuka Yukari snickered, "And it's all thanks to these two that I could lure Inuzuka Shintaro into using the Disaster Box in sheer frustration and rage."

The truth of the matter wasn't as Nakazato Ayana had said—that 'Inuzuka Shintaro discovered her affair with Fukuda.'

Before that, Inuzuka Yukari had actually sought out Inuzuka Shintaro on purpose and showed him a video of Nakazato Ayana and Fukuda hugging and cuddling.

The rest of the outcome was quite simple.

Inuzuka Shintaro, unable to beat Fukuda, went to trouble Fukuda and ended up getting beat up badly instead.

Enraged and humiliated, he didn't care about the curse of the Disaster Box anymore. Without any hesitation, he wished upon the Disaster Box, using the power of disaster to curse Fukuda to death.

After that, Inuzuka Shintaro also died due to the disaster.

Perhaps as a man on the brink of death, his words became kind, and Inuzuka Shintaro even apologized to Inuzuka Yukari in his suicide note.

But—

Inuzuka Yukari turned around.

She looked at Beichuan Si, "I still can't understand. How did you figure out it was me... I've never even met Fukuda in reality, only online at most..."

Beichuan Si glanced at her askance, his tone unchanging as he replied, "Actually, it was precisely this 'online' you mentioned that became our clue to you."

As he said this, Beichuan Si gently patted his collar in front of Inuzuka Yukari.

Under Inuzuka Yukari's disbelieving gaze, a small doll valiantly squeezed out of Beichuan Si's collar, clambered onto his shoulder with hands and feet together, arms akimbo, and stared down at Inuzuka Yukari as if by magic.

This lifelike performance made Inuzuka Yukari rub her eyes.

She moved her mouth, about to say 'that's impossible.'

But then she thought to herself—if items like the Disaster Box that can curse others exist in the world, wouldn't entities like spirits and ghosts exist as well?

If relying on these things, then it wouldn't be surprising that Beichuan Si could find out about her situation through extraordinary means.

"With Kelian's abilities, we pieced together your detailed information, and afterwards, Shen Gu Mirai conducted an investigation in Hayakawa Town. While investigating, we also confirmed with some local residents that you used to live in Hayakawa Town, only having moved away later for unknown reasons."

That last 'unknown reason' for moving was also made clear to Beichuan Si after he asked Gangye Yoshiko.

At this point, all of Inuzuka Yukari's affairs were thoroughly exposed to Beichuan Si and Shen Gu Mirai.

"I knew you might be wary of me calling you out and that you would bring the Disaster Box... I chose to do it at night for that very reason. And indeed, the fact that you did have the Disaster Box on you somewhat proved that mine and Mirai's speculation was not wrong."

Beichuan Si looked at the Disaster Box in his hands.

He had already confirmed beforehand with the dead air that Inuzuka Yukari had the Disaster Box and then unhesitatingly snatched it from her hands without giving her a chance to use it.

This secured the initiative for him and completely sealed off Inuzuka Yukari's escape routes.

But now, a new problem lay before Beichuan Si.

That was—

Beichuan Si looked at Inuzuka Yukari.

What should he do with this girl...?

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