Chapter 95 — Into the Curse Core
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Location: Inside Aika's Mind — A Broken Mirror Realm of Memories and Sin
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Yuuto gritted his teeth and held Aika tightly as her body trembled in his arms — the curse trying to consume her completely. Her eyes rolled back, breath short, body glowing with unstable energy.
> "Aika, I'm coming to get you… No matter where you are."
He pressed his forehead to hers.
Everything went dark.
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Entering the Curse
Suddenly — flash — he was somewhere else.
Yuuto opened his eyes inside a distorted landscape. The sky was a swirl of ink and fire, and beneath his feet, the ground cracked with every step. Floating shards of memory hovered around him — scenes of Aika's past, fragmented and painful.
> "Where… am I?"
"Her core," a whisper answered — it was his own voice, but darker.
He turned, and saw dozens of mirrors… all showing Aika — crying, bleeding, screaming, laughing in madness… and more.
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Facing Her Truth
He walked through a corridor of reflections. One memory pulled him in:
Aika, barely a teenager, locked in a dark room, her wrists chained, cursed marks carved into her skin by cloaked figures.
> "They said I was chosen," her younger voice echoed, "but I was just their vessel."
Another mirror:
Aika, barely clothed, her body used in rituals — the curse fed through desire and suffering.
Yuuto clenched his fists.
> "I'll kill them all…"
"No. You'll have to accept it," a voice said behind him.
He turned — and saw Cursed Aika.
Her eyes were pure black. Her body cloaked in swirling red threads of energy, floating just above the ground.
> "You came all this way, Yuuto," she smiled, "So what will you do now? Touch me and become like me? Or abandon me like the rest?"
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The Intimate Trial
Yuuto stepped forward slowly.
Her body was ethereal, both alluring and terrifying. She leaned closer, brushing her lips against his.
> "You want me? Then take me… all of me," she whispered, voice trembling between seduction and sorrow.
"But if you hesitate — even for a second — you'll be lost here forever."
The world around them pulsed. Reality twisted. The curse wanted him to give in — to consume both of them in raw madness.
But Yuuto reached out, not with lust — but with love and defiance.
> "I want all of you, Aika — but not like this.
I'll carry your pain. And I'll make it mine."
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The Light That Shattered Darkness
His hand touched her chest — and a bright light exploded outward.
A scream. Her voice. His name.
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