All Chapters of My Scourge Wife can't be this Cute: Chapter 51
- Chapter 60
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CHAPTER 52: THE GLUTTONOUS GHOST FURNACE
In the rear courtyard of the Kujou estate, a wooden ritual altar had just been erected.Not large.But very foul.From the four corners hung strips of red cloth that had darkened to deep brown. The wooden surface was carved with warped symbols resembling open mouths. At the center stood a bronze furnace, blackened, chest height on an adult. The body of the furnace was swollen, its surface embossed with human faces contorted by hunger.Black smoke continuously crept from the gaps in the furnace.Not rising upward.But curling along the ground like living mud.A heavyset man stood before the altar.He wore a wide yellow ritual robe, discolored with filth, the sash pulled nearly to snapping point across his stomach. His face was round, his neck short, and his eyes so small that when he smiled only two thin curves remained. On all ten of his fingers were rows of silver rings set with black stones and polished animal bone.His name was Genda.An occult practitioner not recognized by the or
CHAPTER 53: TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
Hashira Maruhi sat in her private office, a large screen before her continuously displaying reports in red. The eastern transport route had been suspended. Warehouse three was closed. Twenty-seven drivers could not return to work. Three senior managers were showing uncontrolled symptoms, one of whom had died. News had begun spreading online, and Hashira Logistics shares had been falling continuously since the market opened.The phone on the desk was almost constantly vibrating. Lawyers, hospitals, operations, shareholders, media, business partners. Every call brought a new piece of bad news, like successive waves striking a ship already tossing in a storm.Maruhi remained composed."Transfer the medical freight route to the reserve team. Close all canteens in affected warehouses. Do not announce the death count until victims' families have been notified. Legal to prepare response documents in case anyone attempts to spread misinformation. Check all unusual stock transactions in the pa
CHAPTER 54: THE CURSE CLINGING TO THE FATE OF A COMPANY
Maruhi still held Hikaru tightly.After the urgent kiss just now, her breathing had not fully steadied. The face that was always gentle and composed had gone pale with exhaustion, and very faint shadows showed beneath her deep eyes. One look was enough to know she had barely rested properly from last night until now.Hikaru felt something settle heavier in his chest.Maruhi was someone who could stand before police, shareholders, and an entire collapsing conglomerate without letting weakness show. But right now, she was holding him as though if she let go, every remaining bit of her strength would dissolve with it.He raised his hand and gently stroked her soft brown hair."Calm down."His voice was quiet."I'm here."Just one short sentence.But it was enough to let Maruhi's shoulders slowly release.She did not move away from him immediately. Her face still rested against his shoulder, both arms still around his back, the familiar camellia fragrance settling quietly over everything.
CHAPTER 55: In the Car
CHAPTER 55: RETURNING TO THE HASHIRA CLANThe black car pulled away from the Hashira Logistics headquarters as noon drew near.Beyond the tinted windows, the city carried on as it always did. Long lines of cars crawled down the streets. Office workers hurried across intersections. Shops opened their doors. Electronic billboards cycled through one advertisement after another. No one out there knew that, in the span of a single morning, hundreds of employees at a major logistics corporation had been hospitalized by a bizarre curse.Inside the cabin, the air was far quieter.The driver kept his focus on the road.The partition at the front had been raised.In the back seat, Maruhi sat beside Hikaru, scarcely saying a word since they had left the building. She had reshaped her expression with startling speed before stepping outside. Her face was calm. Her hair was perfectly in order. Her kimono carried not a single unnecessary crease. To anyone watching from the outside, there would have b
CHAPTER 56: In the Car (2)
Hikaru drew in a deep breath. Lust surged through him like a rising tide. Maruhi seemed to sense it immediately. She raised her hand, her soft index finger gently pulling aside the front of her kimono, revealing her snow-white breasts cradled in a seductive red lace bra.Maruhi proactively arched her body toward Hikaru, pushing her full, creamy breasts forward. The deep, bottomless cleavage appeared right before his eyes. His face was so close to her chest that his hot breath blew directly onto her soft skin, then bounced back onto his own face, carrying the intoxicating scent of her luxurious perfume.“Hikaru…” Maruhi cooed softly, her voice as smooth and sweet as honey. She placed both hands on the expensive leather seat for support, leaning forward slightly as she looked down at the man she had almost completely enveloped. A sweet, intoxicating feeling bloomed in her heart.“I couldn’t sleep at all last night,” she whispered. “I missed you so much…”Hikaru’s body trembled. In his m
CHAPTER 57: THE LEECHES OF THE HASHIRA CLAN
The steward led Hikaru and Maruhi down the long wood-floored corridor, heading toward the main hall set deepest within the estate. Beneath the eaves, small bronze chimes hung utterly still, even as the wind drifted through the garden. The scent of sandalwood in the air grew heavier with each step, but the foul thing hidden beneath it was also becoming clearer.Burnt hair.Dried blood.And a very faint sense of hunger, as if something lay deep within the shadows, slowly licking its lips at the sound of living footsteps.Hikaru gave nothing away. He walked beside Maruhi, letting her keep her arm linked through his as she had at the gate. Only the small talisman tucked inside his sleeve continued to grow warm in silence, leaving him all the more certain that this place was not clean.Maruhi seemed to feel the eyes of the servants around them as well. None of them dared to look directly, but seeing her bring an unfamiliar man back to the clan, those discreet sidelong glances kept appearin
CHAPTER 59: THE WOMAN CAME DOWN THE STAIRS
The white light of Shiratori still hung in the middle of the great hall.The small paper crane beat its wings very slowly, layer upon layer of pure light drifting down like snow dust, settling over Maruhi’s throat. The black serpent mark beneath her smooth white skin had faded considerably, but it had not vanished entirely. It still lay there, coiled around her slender neck like an invisible rope, and if the music box in Nazekawa’s hand were to sound one more time, that wicked thing could very well wake again in an instant.Hikaru held Maruhi in his arms, his expression growing colder by the moment.Her body was still limp from exhaustion. Her pale face rested against his shoulder, her lashes trembling faintly, a few strands of brown hair clinging to her cheek with cold sweat. Though she had not yet lost consciousness, it was clear she no longer had the strength to stand on her own.Nazekawa still clenched the small box.His aged face was twisted with fury. But what held Hikaru’s atte
CHAPTER 60: THE ONE WHO KNOCKS AT MIDNIGHT
Night fell quickly.The Hashira estate sank beneath a heavy layer of stillness. The lanterns under the eaves still burned, but their pale yellow light did nothing to thaw the cold of this place. Wind drifted through the trees in the courtyard, carrying the rustling of leaves with it, and now and then a dry, brittle creak slipped in from a wooden corridor that had stood for far too long.Hikaru sat beside the bed.Maruhi had not yet woken.She lay on her side upon the white mattress, her breathing steady but shallow. The kimono had been changed by the maids for a soft sleeping gown in pale blue, the collar a little loose, exposing the smooth white skin around her collarbone along with the black serpent mark, now considerably faded. Her long brown hair spread across the pillow, lending the face that was usually so mature and sharp a rare touch of fragility.Hikaru reached out and brushed his fingers lightly against her throat.The curse mark was still there.Shiratori could only suppres
CHAPTER 61: Kaori (1)
Kaori’s finger rested upon Hikaru’s lips.Very lightly.But because the distance between them was so close, the gesture carried a pressure that was difficult to name. The cool fragrance on her skin drifted slowly into his lungs, neither heavy nor cloying, yet possessed of a strange pull, like a breeze after rain at the start of summer, clean enough that one unconsciously wished to draw it in just a little deeper.Hikaru did not draw it in.If anything, his guard rose higher.Kaori stood directly before him, nearly his own height, and with her long legs and the slight forward lean of her posture, her presence even tipped slightly into dominance. The deep red silk of her sleeping gown was very thin, soft enough that it clung almost like a second skin. Beneath the pale yellow light of the room, that fabric traced the mature, firm, vital lines of her body, revealing the strong yet alluring curves that ran from her bare shoulders, down past her slender waist, to the long, smooth white legs
CHAPTER 62: Kaori (2)
Hikaru looked at her.This time, he was genuinely caught off guard.That afternoon, she had seen with her own eyes Nazekawa use the Serpent-Binding Blood Curse. She had seen with her own eyes Maruhi suffer until she nearly fainted. She had seen too his Shiratori take form, becoming a barrier of light that scattered the Yin Energy throughout the great hall. And yet here she was, telling him with absolute conviction that ghosts did not exist in this world.“Are you joking with me?”“No.”“Did you not see what happened this afternoon?”“I saw it.”“Then how do you explain it?”Kaori gave a small shrug.“It could have been some kind of mass hypnosis. It could have been a trick involving chemicals. Or some unrecorded type of neurotoxin in the air. As for that piece of paper of yours catching fire and turning into some sort of arch of light…”Her eyes narrowed slightly.“Perhaps a chemical reaction?”Hikaru felt his head ache further.“I am an Onmyoji,” he said. “Science struggles to explai