Chapter 126 Sadako
"Hiroe Sadako." Zheng Wenjie listened thoughtfully and said, "There is a picture in the videotape. Shizuko turned her head and talked to the person next to her while combing her hair at the dressing table. The figure of that person also flashed in the picture. It was a girl in a white long dress."

Zheng Wenjie looked at the Snow Girl: "Did Sadako also inherit her mother's superpowers? No, compared to Shizuko in the videotape and the Sadako who flashed by, Sadako's superpowers are even stronger than her mother's."

The Snow Girl nodded: "Yes, Sadako's willpower is very strong, much stronger than Shizuko's."

"What about Hiroe Hiroyuki and Sadako? Finding them might be a way to lift the curse." After getting another clue, Matsuko asked excitedly.

Nozaki also had a feeling of relief at having escaped from a desperate situation. He thought that the friend who gave the videotape to the Snow Woman should be Hiroe Hiroyuki. Perhaps after finding Hiroe Hiroyuki, there would really be a way to break the curse.

The next words of the Snow Woman also confirmed Nozaki's thoughts: "After Shizuko died, Hiroe Hiroyuki and Sadako were left behind. After handling Shizuko's funeral, Hiroe Hiroyuki gave me this videotape as a souvenir."

"Great!" Nozaki stood up excitedly and looked at Zheng Wenjie: "Mr. Zheng, I have checked all the broken curses in the sealed files of the investigation team. As long as we find the source and transcend the resentment, we can break the curse."

Zheng Wenjie did not answer. He looked at the Snow Girl and asked, "Then what? Why are all those who have watched this videotape cursed?"

"When Hiroyuki Hiroe gave it to me, this videotape did not become the medium of the curse. It was only a month later that I discovered that this videotape had become the medium of the curse."

"The Grudge?" Zheng Wenjie asked when he first heard the word, "What is the Grudge?"

"After a person dies, resentment rises to the sky. Coupled with the peculiar environment and location, a curse is naturally formed. Unlike ghosts that can be born with intelligence, the degree of damage caused by the curse is also less than that of the vengeful spirits. As long as you don't come into contact with the medium of the curse, you will not be targeted by the curse." Makoto explained solemnly, and then continued: "But the curse... is very powerful, or it is difficult to remove the curse of the curse. At least, I have never heard of anyone who has survived the curse."

Nozaki sat down on the ground as soon as he heard about the Grudge. He covered his face in a daze and said nothing. Matsuko's mood was like a roller coaster, up and down. She didn't know what the Grudge was. She couldn't accept what Makoto said. She pulled Nozaki's shirt and shouted in dismay, "What is the Grudge? What can we do to lift the curse? Speak! Speak! Our son is still at home! What should we do?"

Mitsuki blinked as she looked at the collapsed Matsuko, then looked at Makoto who was lost in thought with a serious expression, pulled the corner of Zheng Wenjie's clothes, raised her head and looked at Zheng Wenjie and asked in a low voice: "Father, can you solve it? If not, are we doomed?"

Zheng Wenjie looked at Miyue and shook his head imperceptibly, then looked at the Snow Girl and asked, "Then do you know where Guangjiang Bozhi is now?"

The Snow Girl didn't care about the situation Zheng Wenjie and others were facing, even though she called Makoto affectionately. But now Makoto was facing a life-and-death situation. If it weren't for Zheng Wenjie's threat of force, she would not have told this matter.

So at this time, the Snow Girl was watching Zheng Wenjie and others with great interest. When she heard Zheng Wenjie's question, she nodded and said, "I know where Hiroe Hiroyuki is, but even if you find him, it's useless. Hmm..." The Snow Girl looked at Makoto and smiled, "Makoto also knows where Hiroe Hiroyuki is. It was because of Hiroe Hiroyuki that Makoto and her sister Kotoko came to me."

Makoto ruffled her short pink hair, leaned back on the sofa and said, "The old man you froze into an ice sculpture twelve years ago was Hiroe Hiroyuki?"

The Snow Girl nodded and her tone became a little disappointed: "At the beginning, I wanted Shizuko to be like me. If this place is not easy to survive, I will move to another place, but I didn't expect to push her from the crack into the abyss."

Makoto frowned at the snow girl and clenched his fists: "You said at the beginning that you killed Hiroyuki Hiroe because he broke his oath to you!"

"That's right! Hiroe Hiroyuki broke his oath to me." The Snow Girl stood up and looked at the wall cabinet where the videotapes were piled. "He promised me that he would take good care of Shizuko and the baby in her belly, but he broke his promise and he must pay the price."

"But this is not what he meant!" Makoto also stood up and looked at the Snow Girl tit for tat.

"Lady Snow Woman!" Nozaki remembered something and quickly crawled to his knees in front of the Snow Woman. He looked up and asked, "Has Lady Snow Woman seen this video tape? How did Lady Snow Woman remove this curse?"

The Snow Girl looked down at Nozaki, as if she was looking at flowers and plants on the roadside: "I am a monster, a big monster!"

Nozaki was not disappointed. Instead, he smiled and twisted his body to look at Zheng Wenjie and said with certainty: "Mr. Zheng must have thought of a solution!"

The Snow Girl stared at Nozaki's back, wanting to freeze him into an ice sculpture as well. She felt offended by an ordinary human being, but when she thought of Zheng Wenjie still being here and the Shikigami contract she had made with Higa Kotoko, she withdrew her gaze.

Zheng Wenjie let out a casual "ah", raised his arm and patted Makoto's forearm: "Ms. Makoto, please sit down first. Yukihime hasn't finished talking about this matter yet, right? How did Hiroe Sadako die? And why did it become a curse?"

Makoto was stunned when she heard this, but Nozaki smiled and pulled Matsuko, who was lying on the ground, over to whisper in her ear, "Mr. Zheng is an exorcist who is more powerful than the Snow Woman. Since the Snow Woman can lift the curse, Mr. Zheng will naturally not let us be harmed by the curse."

Matsuko just nodded and looked at the videotape on the table in silence.

"Hiroe Sadako? Isn't that Shizuko?" Makoto asked with some confusion.

Mitsuki patted his head and lowered his voice to Makoto's ear: "How on earth have you been exorcising demons for so many years without dying? When Shizuko died, this videotape was just an ordinary videotape! And the one who is related to the videotape and has a superpower even more powerful than Shizuko's is Hiroe Sadako."

Makoto suddenly realized and looked at the Snow Girl and asked, "Then why did Hiroe Sadako die? Was it because she killed someone and caused her mother to commit suicide?"

"Sadako didn't commit suicide." The Snow Girl shook her head and continued calmly, "It was Hiroe Hiroyuki who killed her."

Makoto and Mitsuki were both stunned. Although their families had problems, they had never thought that there would really be a father who would kill his own daughter.

"So that's why Sadako became the Grudge after her death..." Makoto murmured.

"But why? There must be a reason, right? Why would Hiroyuki Hiroe kill his own daughter? Is it because Shizuko committed suicide?" Mitsuki asked, not knowing whether she was curious or angry.

"Shizuko has been called a demon girl by the fishermen and villagers of Mount Omuro since she was a child, and Sadako is called a monster by them," said the Snow Woman. "Hiroe Hiroyuki studies legends, ghosts and the like, and not many people would choose to invest in his research topics. He promised me that he would treat Shizuko well, and he also knew how I would punish him if he broke his oath to me, so he set his sights on Sadako."

"He used Sadako to make money. He originally just wanted to earn money for his research, but gradually he became addicted to the casino."

"Hehe..." The Snow Girl sneered, bent down her waist, inserted the video tape on the table into the CD player of the TV, and watched Shizuko on the TV screen tell the cause of Sadako's death.

"With Sadako's help, Hiroe Hiroyuki bought a big house. He was no longer interested in the ghost legends he was obsessed with until Sadako became pregnant."

"Pregnant?" Makoto asked in confusion: "Didn't you say that Sadako was regarded as a monster? Why is she still pregnant?"

The Snow Girl smiled coldly and said, "Do you know why your sister, even though she had subdued me, didn't just kill me as she did? After all, I am a legendary monster, and thousands of people have died at my hands."

Makoto slowly widened her eyes: "Are you saying that the baby in Sadako's belly is Hiroe Hiroyuki's?"

"Yes." The Snow Girl bit her teeth and continued, "That's why I feel guilty towards Shizuko. After Sadako died, the videotape became the medium of the curse. I was curious and checked it out, and found that Hiroe Hiroyuki had sex with Sadako during the so-called experiment."

"Where were they at that time? Tokyo?" Zheng Wenjie asked.

The Snow Girl looked at Zheng Wenjie and nodded: "After Shizuko died, he returned to Tokyo with Sadako and lived with the Inugami Yanagisawa family that I saw in Hiroe Hiroyuki's notes."

Except for Zheng Wenjie and Songzi, Makoto and the other two were all stunned and looked at each other for a few seconds. Nozaki suddenly stood up and said, "I understand!"

"Hiroe Hiroyuki and Mayumi Yanagisawa, the last head of the Yanagisawa family, killed Sadako, who had superpowers! But Mayumi Yanagisawa was also counterattacked by Sadako before her death, so the ancestral home of the Yanagisawa family was silently destroyed more than ten years ago, and Mayumi Yanagisawa's body was cursed by the dog god and turned into a slit-mouthed woman!"

Nozaki walked around in a circle and clapped his fists excitedly: "No wonder we are all so confused. How could the Yanagisawa family, the only Inugami family that has been passed down for a hundred years, die silently? It's because Mayumi Yanagisawa died in her own ancestral home!"

Mitsuki also figured it out, but she frowned and said with an uncomfortable look: "Why didn't Sadako kill Hiroe Hiroyuki! Even Mayumi would be killed in the counterattack, it's obviously not difficult to kill Hiroe Hiroyuki."

The Snow Girl sighed softly and smiled at Mitsuki: "This lady has already understood, hasn't she? Although Hiroe Hiroyuki doesn't regard Sadako as his own daughter, but as a monster and a tool to make money, even if Hiroe Hiroyuki wants to kill her, she still regards Hiroe Hiroyuki as her last relative."

"It wasn't Hiroe Hiroyuki who gave me the videotape, but Sadako. Hiroe Hiroyuki brought Sadako to say goodbye to me. I wanted Sadako to stay with me, but she refused. She gave me the videotape and said she stole it from a TV station during filming. She told me to watch it if I ever think of her or her mother in the future."

The Snow Girl gently looked at the fleeting image of Sadako on TV, smiled and said, "What a naive child she is. She thought her mother was dead and her father was the only relative she had."

"Where did Sadako die?" Nozaki asked impatiently.

The snow girl's smile froze, and she turned her head 180 degrees to face Nozaki. A few snowflakes appeared out of thin air in the surrounding space.

This scene made Songzi, who was already nervous and stressed, faint with her eyes rolled back.

But Nozaki was not afraid. After joining the special agent team for several years, he had encountered more terrifying evil creatures than the Snow Girl. What's more, the cold and beautiful face of the Snow Girl did not make people feel disgusted.

"Lady Snow Woman, please forgive my rudeness! But we have all been cursed, and it is too late, so please help us! We will never harm Sadako's body, and we also want her to be buried in peace as soon as possible!" Nozaki looked at the Snow Woman's head that was twisted 180 degrees, and he solemnly stepped down from his seat and said sincerely.

The Snow Girl snorted coldly, glanced at Zheng Wenjie and tried to hold back her killing intent. Just as she was about to turn her head back, she heard Zheng Wenjie speak:
"So how did Sadako die? Why was her body in the well? And it's strange. What on earth did that body go through before it died? The body is full of viruses and hasn't decayed yet? How did these viruses manage to survive in a corpse?"

Zheng Wenjie asked curiously, "When he was sensing the situation in the well after killing the Slit-Mouth Woman the day before, he found a corpse. The virus in the corpse, once it broke out, would cause damage no less than smallpox, which has been completely eradicated today. But in ancient times, smallpox caused the death of one-third of Japan's population."

"Hiroe Hiroyuki." The Snow Girl said the name calmly, and then continued: "Hiroe Hiroyuki used Sadako as a test subject, relying on Sadako's strong willpower that could control the changes in her body to conduct experiments."

"That's why Sadako's body... or the poisonous corpse nowadays."

"This bastard is not worthy of being a father! No! He is not worthy of being a human being, he is just a beast! And that Yanagisawa Mayumi, I felt sorry for her because she had to suffer the curse of the dog god and turned into an ugly slit-mouthed woman after her death! What a bastard!"

Zheng Wenjie looked at Miyuki who was laughing angrily and cursing loudly, and then looked at Makoto's face which was as black as the bottom of a pot. He couldn't help but think that what he said in the car had an impact on Makoto, but Makoto's words also had an impact on Miyuki, otherwise Miyuki would not have lost her composure like she is now.

"Sadako didn't turn into a ghost, nor did she go on a killing spree. This video tape simply became Sadako's obsession, her obsession with her mother, so Sadako became the Grudge."

"Although she hated Hiroe Hiroyuki, she couldn't bring herself to kill him, but I helped her get revenge." The Snow Girl turned her head back and looked at Makoto: "So Makoto, do you know why your sister didn't punish me for killing Hiroe Hiroyuki?"

Makoto nodded with a cold face but still said: "But you didn't tell my sister that the videotape in your hand became the obsession of the curse and became the medium! And you also spread it out."

The Snow Woman did not answer Makoto but instead talked about the scene she saw when she found Hiroe Hiroshi more than ten years ago.

(End of this chapter)