When Nozaki thought about Yukihime's affectionate attitude towards Makoto and her greetings to Makoto about her sister Kotoko, he quickly realized that Yukihime was not human.

Seeing Yukihime's charming eyes, her skin as white as snow, and her name, Nozaki couldn't help but tense up.

He thought of the legendary big monster, the Snow Woman.

The legend of the Snow Woman has been around for a long time, but according to all the stories that have been passed down, the Snow Woman is a very vicious monster who will lure men, and after the men are fooled, she will freeze them into ice sculptures and store them in the snow mountains.

Despite having snow-white skin and beautiful looks, the Snow Girl will also take human lives without mercy. She is both beautiful and terrifying!
Xue Ji raised the tray in her hand. On the white plate and bowl were thinly sliced ​​white fish. "This is the hot water fish that the customer ordered just now."

Xue Ji squatted down gracefully and put the dishes on the tray in order, then looked at Zheng Wenjie: "If this guest wants to know Shizuko's story, I can tell you everything I know."

"But I'm afraid that Shizuko's remains can no longer be found."

When Matsuko heard this, her heart sank, and she had a bad premonition, but she still asked with a lucky tone: "Shizuko committed suicide in Omuroyama, right? You must have been young at that time, so you don't know where Shizuko's body was buried?"

The Snow Girl shook her head and looked at Matsuko seriously and said, "Miss Shizuko jumped into the crater of Mount Omuro. Although Mount Omuro is a dead volcano, there are still deep underground where Shizuko's body is. No one can find it. Even if Shizuko fell into the bottom of the volcano, there should be no body left."

Songzi seemed to have been drained of all his strength and collapsed on the sofa.

A smile appeared on the snow girl's face. She didn't care about Tsuko and the videotape at all. Instead, she looked at Mitsuki and said gently, "This hot water fish, in Izu we call it a bag.

Fish should be cooked in boiling water. The high temperature will cause all the internal organs to swell together, making it easy to clean them out, leaving only the fish meat.

Xue Ji made a gesture of invitation, indicating that everyone should come and try it.

Miyue couldn't wait to pick up a piece of the hot and curled white fish meat: "Hmm! Very good! It doesn't look like cooked fish meat at all."

"I'm still making the soup, you guys can just take a rest here." Xue Ji smiled as she watched Miyuki pick up some fish fillets and feed them into the mouths of Zheng Wenjie and Makoto who were not moving their chopsticks.

"This..." Nozaki breathed a sigh of relief, thinking of the fact that the Makoto sisters and Yukihime were familiar with each other, he spoke directly: "Snow Lady, as you have just seen, we are investigating the matter of this videotape. I wonder if you are aware of it."

Xue Ji looked at Nozaki with a smile. Her originally black hair began to fade from the roots to long snow-white hair like flowing water. It was whiter than the white home kimono she was wearing. The holiday home also became colder as the color of Xue Ji's hair changed.

Miyuki put down her chopsticks involuntarily and pulled Makoto to lean against Zheng Wenjie.

"Did I scare you? I'm so sorry." Xue Ji's face, which had turned pale and transparent, smiled as she looked at Miyuki and said.

Meiyue laughed and shook her head, but her hand grasped the corner of Zheng Wenjie's clothes again.

"Lady Yukihime, please forgive my offense!" Nozaki was also terrified. He didn't understand why Yukihime suddenly changed from a human body to a monster's. He thought that he had pointed out her identity and caused her to become angry.

The Snow Girl shook her head: "I don't blame you, it's just that the magic I used to transform into a human form will reveal my true form once my true form is discovered."

"Sister Yukihime..." Makoto, who had been silent all the time, looked a little dazed after seeing Nozaki kneeling down.

"Sister Xueji, do you know this videotape? According to our investigation, the source of this videotape is here."

The Snow Girl looked at a wall full of videotapes with an elegant smile, "I know, I put this videotape in the holiday home too, I have a lot more."

"What's going on? Why are you spreading this curse?" Makoto asked quickly, and then said in a questioning tone: "Hasn't Sister Yukihime already reached a Shikigami contract with my sister?"

"This is what I promised, so of course I have to do it. I think even if Kotoko knew about it, she would not stop me, but would find a way to lift the curse." The Snow Girl looked at Makoto and said softly.

Ever since the Snow Girl revealed her true form, Matsuko has been terrified and huddled in a corner of the sofa, but the tremendous pressure she has suffered from the threat to her life in the past few days has greatly enhanced her psychological endurance.

Hearing the words of lifting the curse, Songzi couldn't help but ask directly: "Ms. Xue... Lady! How can this curse be lifted?"

"I don't know either. You have to figure it out on your own. Sorry! Because I am friends with that person, I can't help you." said the Snow Girl.

Nozaki turned his head and looked at Zheng Wenjie and asked tentatively: "Mr. Zheng? We have all been cursed..."

Zheng Wenjie ignored Nozaki and looked at Xue Ji with some curiosity: "This is the first time I have seen a monster born from the natural forces of wind, rain, thunder and lightning. It is indeed magical."

The Snow Girl's smile did not change at all. Instead, she bowed and thanked him: "Excuse me, my guest. I am just a snowflake that has been given intelligence."

"A naturally born soul is also extremely precious." Zheng Wenjie nodded and smiled, then continued to ask: "Then can you tell me who your friend is? And why did I give you the videotape?"

The Snow Girl looked at Zheng Wenjie with a charming look: "This guest... I have already said that I can't help you with this matter. You should just enjoy yourself here."

"I heard from Makoto that you are Higa Kotoko's Shikigami? Then can you contact her and then decide whether to tell me the whole story." Zheng Wenjie restrained his smile and looked at Xue Ji.

The Snow Girl lowered her eyes and looked at Makoto who was huddled together with Mitsuki and asked, "Makoto, does your sister also know this gentleman? Humans today have become like the general who seized power a hundred years ago, sitting in a well and not knowing what the real power in the world is."

Zheng Wenjie was stunned by what he said, then he looked at the Snow Girl with amusement, stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers, the temperature of the holiday home, which had been several degrees below zero, quickly rose due to the Snow Girl's true appearance, and soon it was a hot summer day. The Snow Girl had also come to her senses, and her skin kept oozing liquid, and soon it was all over the place. When the Snow Girl was about to use her magic power, her body was imprisoned, and she could only look at Zheng Wenjie with surprise.

Zheng Wenjie snapped his fingers again, and the environment quickly changed from a hot summer to a cold winter. With the alternation between cold and heat, Meiyueqin couldn't help but sneeze loudly.

The Snow Girl, who was specifically targeted by Zheng Wenjie, had already collapsed powerlessly on the wooden board. Makoto was still sitting next to Mizuki. Seeing that Zheng Wenjie had retracted his force, he quickly crawled to the side of the Snow Girl and hugged her upper body tightly in his arms with some concern.

"I...don't be so serious. This lord is so amazingly powerful. I didn't expect that I could see a god with such great power." The Snow Girl said weakly. As a snow demon born in the wild wind and blizzard of nature, after nearly a thousand years of practice, if she could make one more step forward, she would be able to step into the realm of earthly immortals. However, this step is also the step from mortal to immortal, and it is the most difficult step.

But Zheng Wenjie could seriously injure his own origin just by changing the surrounding environment with ease, so his cultivation must have reached the realm of God by the Snow Girl.

Zheng Wenjie smiled noncommittally and asked, "Now can you tell me the cause and effect of this matter?"

The Snow Girl fell into silence, leaning her head against Makoto's arms, struggling a little.

"Sister Yukihime, tell us! You have reached a contract with my sister, so you are like-minded relatives. My sister will never allow this curse to spread." Makoto said, soothing Yukihime's wet kimono with her hands.

The snow girl sighed and broke away from Makoto's arms. She recovered some of her essence and the water flowing on the ground quickly turned into white snow, which rushed up and wrapped around the snow girl and was absorbed into her body.

Zheng Wenjie did not use any harsh force, it was just a warning, so Xue Ji recovered quickly. She was now back to her previous state, kneeling gracefully opposite Zheng Wenjie.

Knowing that the Snow Woman was about to tell the story, Nozaki, Matsuko, and Mitsuki all stared at her. Only Makoto was looking at the videotape, but his peripheral vision was looking at Nozaki, who had not dared to stand up yet.

Makoto was very disappointed. The Nozaki she used to like was not like this. Nozaki at that time was just like her, obsessed with destroying monsters and exterminating evil. If Nozaki saw the Snow Girl at that time, he would definitely not be as servile as he is now. Even if the Snow Girl said that she did not blame him, he still did not dare to stand up.

But Nozaki was clearly cursed, and if the curse was not broken within seven days, he would still die. Why was he still so afraid of the snow woman? Makoto thought with some self-mockery in her heart, people do change, and what I like is not the cowardly Nozaki of today, but the Nozaki who was brave and forgot his own identity just like herself when dealing with evil spirits.

Thinking back to what Zheng Wenjie said again, Makoto's last attachment to Nozaki disappeared completely.

"That was 20 years ago. A guest named Hiroe Hiroyuki came to the holiday home. He was a doctor from the University of Tokyo who specialized in studying unnatural events. The reason he came here was because of Shizuko."

"Back then, Shizuko lived at the foot of Mount Omuro. She did have supernatural powers. Her powerful willpower allowed her to see through things in front of her."

"At that time, Mount Omuro was not as prosperous as it is now, with tourists everywhere. The society at that time was very difficult. Shizuko, who grew up in Mount Omuro, was surrounded by vulgar people and had never seen someone as gentle and elegant as Hiroe Hiroyuki."

The Snow Girl laughed at herself and said, "I was also attracted to Guangjiang Hiroyuki at that time. When he lived in the holiday home, he would tell me a lot of things and told me a lot of things I didn't know."

"I'm not afraid of being laughed at by you all. It's been a thousand years since I was born, and the changes in the past hundred years have been too drastic. I'm at a loss as to what to do, so I've been hiding in Mount Omuro."

"Hiroe Hiroyuki helped me understand and adapt to the era after the dramatic changes. I am very grateful to him and have real feelings for him."

Mitsuki has always been very interested in love and other things, so she is very curious about Makoto and Nozaki, and will stand on Makoto's side to defend her.

Now, hearing the Snow Girl talking about love, Mitsuki became even more curious. She was not afraid of the Snow Girl anymore. She moved closer to the Snow Girl and asked, "Snow Girl... Is this the first time you have developed feelings for someone in your thousands of years of life?"

The Snow Girl was stunned for a moment and covered her mouth with her hands before she chuckled softly. Then she shook her head and looked at Mitsuki and said, "Hiroshi Hiroyuki should be the 651st man I have feelings for."

When Meiyue heard this, her expression became stiff. Finally, she smiled awkwardly and shrank back to Zheng Wenjie's side.

The Snow Girl didn't care and continued, "At the time, I wanted to please him. Since Guangjiang Hiroyuki's favorite thing to study is supernatural events, then I naturally have a way to make him fall in love with me naturally."

"I've seen all the subjects he researched. There are many different legends. He even wrote in his notes that he once encountered a real monster. It looked very familiar to me. Later I remembered that the monster he met should be the Inugami clan in Tokyo."

"When I was about to take action against Hiroe Hiroshi, I couldn't help but think of Shizuko. Shizuko was a poor child. She was born in front of me, babbling and learning to speak. She should have lived her life like a normal person."

"If she didn't have super powers, the locals of Omuroyama would be very afraid of Shizuko who had revealed her super powers. If it weren't for my protection, Shizuko wouldn't have lived to adulthood. Because she is different from ordinary people, I have an inexplicable feeling for her."

"But when Shizuko grew up, the villagers still hated her. Her reputation as a monster spread around with the villagers' rumors. She couldn't live a normal life here."

"If I were to fall in love with Hiroe Hiroyuki, he would not be able to leave me and would stay with me in Mount Omuro for the rest of my life. But I know he looks down on this place, just like the big guys look down on slaves, just like I looked down on humans back then. Why should I let him stay here?"

"And if Shizuko wanted to get rid of everything here in Oishibashi, Hiroe Hiroyuki was her only way at the time, so I let her go and helped Shizuko make Hiroe Hiroyuki fall in love with her."

The Snow Woman sighed and continued, "I made a wrong decision. I killed Shizuko." The Snow Woman looked at Matsuko and said, "Just like what this lady said just now, Shizuko still couldn't get rid of the situation in Omuroyama after arriving in Tokyo."

"And it's even more difficult because people think Shizuko killed someone, but in fact it wasn't Shizuko who killed the person, but her and Hiroe Hiroyuki's daughter, Hiroe Sadako."

"Finally, Shizuko couldn't stand the pressure in Tokyo, so she took Sadako back to Omuroyama. But the news of Shizuko's murder had already spread here."

"Finally, Hiroe Hiroyuki also rushed to Mount Omuro. One night, Shizuko climbed to the crater of Mount Omuro alone and jumped down."

(End of this chapter)