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That was what Soya called the curse that had been placed on her eyes.
"When I look at someoneâs face, all kinds of sexual information will appear around them. I mean, itâs hard for me to say it, but there are things like the number of people theyâve done it with, how many times theyâve done it, and so on⊠I can even see how many hours and minutes have passed since theyâve last done it alone, what video they used, all the details."
On top of that, the demon eyesâ ability could not be turned off at will. The only thing that could be controlled was increasing the amount of information that was provided by strengthening her eyes.
Soya had been using this cursed ability to obtain sexual information on me and the other guys.
The first wet dream I ever had as well as the fetishes of all the guys who had ever confessed to her were apparently visible at all times to Soya due to these "demon eyes". It was an extraordinary psychic ability, but frankly speaking, it was an ability that made no one happy. It was truly a curse.
"No matter what kind of defensive technique anyone uses or whatever medical treatments I take, itâs meaningless as soon as I see a face. I think itâs been a while since Iâve last seen my motherâs and fatherâs faces. Itâs awkward because I can âseeâ the number of times they do it increasing on days when theyâre feeling exceptionally friendly with each other."
Soya breathed out a gloomy sigh.
"It didnât matter whatever medical treatments you tookâŠ? Donât you belong to the Soya Family?"
"Thatâs right, what about it?"
"If thatâs the case, you shouldâve been given priority for an exorcism performed by the current head of the Soya Family or by one of the Twelve Heavenly Masters through your connections. None of the treatments worked?"
The Twelve Heavenly Masters.
Of the approximately 200,000 professional exorcists belonging to the Exorcist Society, those twelve monsters were said to be the most capable.
"Yeah, it didnât work."
"They couldnât find a way to undo the curse, let alone alleviate the symptoms. I donât have any other way to deal with it other than avoiding face-to-face contact with people. But my parents were probably resigned to this possibility from the beginning. You see, these eyes were originally a magical artifact that was sealed on my parentsâ estate because exorcism didnât work on them."
It was two years ago, when she was fourteen years old, that Soya was possessed by the demon eyes.
When the head of her family was trying to repair the wards of the demon eyes which had been secretly sealed on the familyâs premises, the demon eyes suddenly moved on their own and possessed the unsuspecting Soya.
After that, Soya even took a break from school for a while as she received exorcism treatments but none of them had been effective.
Hearing Soyaâs story, I couldnât help muttering that to myself. Soya looked surprised so I began to tell her the history behind my abominable hands which I had never told anyone before. I couldnât help feeling empathetic about Soyaâs situation.
"It was a long time ago, before I even started middle school, I think. I was in a deserted antique shop when I got possessed by this curse."
Kaede and I were still kids.
A bit of curiosity led me to stop by the store, where a strange piece of art had been displayed.
The objectâs texture reminded me of the bandages of a mummy and it was shaped like two intertwined female hands.
My memory was hazy now but I still remembered touching the hands as if something had been calling out to me. This curse continued haunting my hands ever since that day.
"After that, my fatherâhe wasnât blood-related, by the way, he was my foster fatherâhe tried various things but in the end, not much could be done⊠even someone like him who had the power of one of the Twelve Heavenly Masters, wound up helpless."
So, I had given up completely.
Although the routine weekly checkup was half forced by Kaede and her grandmother who were one of the few people aware of my situation, I didnât expect myself to be free from this curse any time soon.
What did Soya say earlier?
She wanted success so she could break her curse?
Despite being in a much more privileged environment than me and receiving exorcisms from more than one of the Twelve Heavenly Masters, her treatments had still failed.
"Itâs a curse that even the Twelve Heavenly Masters couldnât break, how could success do anything about it?"
I asked this in a slightly cynical tone. Soya nodded and responded with a simple, "Yes, it can."
"You know that the Exorcist Society has a lot of information classified into different tiers that cannot be viewed or shared unless you move up in rank, right?"
Kaede had pointed that out to me yesterday.
"The information on Demon Eyes is also restricted. My father, mother, and the Twelve Heavenly Masters would only tell me that it was a magical artifact that couldnât be exorcised. Thatâs why Iâm trying to rise the ranks to gather more information on this ridiculous artifact."
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