Curse Eater Volume 1 illustrations +...

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Rerelease Opening Illustrations:

When in a park late at night, simply taking

a few steps away from the walking path would surround you with a darkness and

loneliness you would never expect in the middle of the city. The faint sounds

of the city in the distance only accentuated the silence and your eyes would wander

every which way in search of light.

(I should see the Hanging Tree before

long.)

With the fallen leaves crunching underfoot, Iwakura Shinji reached into the

pocket of the coat he wore over his school uniform and pulled out a video

camera with an IR mode for filming in the dark. He walked toward a certain tree

deep in the park.

The giant tree was easily more than a

century old and it was known as the Hanging Tree because several people had

hanged themselves from it in the past.

There had long been rumors that a man’s

ghost would appear near the tree and Shinji was here to see if that was true.

(A picture is worth a thousand words. If

there really is a ghost at the Hanging Tree, it can show itself to me!)

The boy converted his thrill-seeking and

curiosity into a desperate courage as he tried to walk as silently as possible

into the darkness.

“Uu…uuuu…nnnnhhhhhn…”

When he heard the low, suppressed sound of

a man groaning, Shinji’s entirely body jumped.

(Th-that’s it! Is it really here!? Evidence!

I need to get some evidence!)

He tried to suppress his racing pulse and

the fear rising within him and he tried to start filming, but the camera would

not turn on and open the LCD finder.

“Wh-why!? I just checked it earlier!”

He quietly protested and tried again and

again to get it working, but the video camera would not do anything despite

working just fine before entering the park.

(Is this that convenient thing where

electronics always malfunction at spiritual locations and crop circles!?)

Shinji stared into the darkness with the

non-working camera still in his hand.

He saw something white swaying at the base

of the giant tree silhouette visible in the faint starlight.

(There really is something there… Is it the

rumored ghost!?)

To get a better look, the curious boy

regulated his breathing, suppressed his presence, and did his very best to move

silently as he approached the Hanging Tree.

“Nhhhhhhmh…nhhhh, ahhhhhhh…”

As he approached, he distinctly heard a man

groaning and the outline of the white moving thing gradually grew clearer.

(A ghost!? No, that’s…a naked woman!?)

He looked befuddled because those were definitely the sexual curves of a

woman’s back he saw slightly swaying in the darkness.

(I haven’t heard any rumors about a woman’s

ghost… Wait, is that a living woman?)

Shinji gulped and could not keep his eyes off of the bewitchingly seductive

back of that woman as it swayed slightly in the darkness.

The white back stood out from the darkness

like it was emitting white phosphorescence and it created a stark contrast with

the long black hair. Her slender waist was drawn with artistic curves, but her

round butt had a fair amount of volume to it.

There was not a single blemish on that

round and tight white butt and it swayed erotically in the faint starlight.

(It doesn’t look like she’s completely

naked… But it’s definitely a really skimpy outfit.)

He could not see her face since she had her

back to him, but her white body was unbearably charming even from behind and

the only thing hiding her nudity was something belt-shaped wrapped around her.

A leather belt only a few centimeters wide

dug into the valley of her round, slightly-swaying butt, splitting her plump

butt cheeks to either side. Similar leather belts seemed to be wrapped around

her chest and the pressure squished her breasts enough for him to glimpse their

curves through her armpits.

The leather belts were not limited to her

torso. They were also wrapped around the arms and legs straddling the man,

creating the perverted eroticism of full-body bondage.

(That’s not normal underwear, is it? Is

this what you call bondage? Did I stumble across an SM couple enjoying some

outdoor sex?)

Doing it at a suicide spot seemed

inappropriate, but the curious boy could not peel his eyes away from the

obscene sight.

“Nmhhh…nnnn…”

He heard a man groaning below that swaying

white butt.

The woman with her naked body bound by

leather belts straddled the man’s stomach with her back to him and she seemed

to be using both hands to give him a handjob.

Shinji could see her elbows and upper arms

slowly moving up and down while she presumably held and stroked the man’s

erection. He could not actually see the penis being caressed, but the delicate

and obscene movements of those arms were enough for his young male organ to

grow hot and hard.

“Nwohhh…ohhh…nmhhhhhhn.”

While receiving the handjob, the man

groaned as if in pain, reached his hands up, rubbed the woman’s butt and waist,

and massaged the large, belt-bound breasts as if scooping them up in his hands.

(Her tits are pretty big… Damn, I wish was

the one groping those!)

Even through the slight gap below her

armpits, Shinji could see those soft white melons being squished and kneaded by

those dark fingers, so he burned with envy.

While groping those breasts, the man’s

fingers seemed to try to slip the leather belts off of the large mounds, but

they were too firmly in place and he failed to do so.

The woman receiving the caress may have

been too embarrassed to let out her voice because she did not moan at all and

silently continued directing those delicate and obscene movements toward the

man’s crotch.

(Ah…wait! No! I didn’t come here to spy on

this indecent scene! If there’s no ghost here, I need to leave!)

The boy had been enthralled by the lustful act occurring before his eyes, but

he came to his senses.

If he stayed here any longer, he could be

mistaken for a peeping tom and get in a lot of trouble.

The boy stuck the useless video camera in

his pocket and started to leave, but he stopped when he noticed something.

(Wait…something’s weird about this. Why is

that man pitch black?)

He could see the woman clearly, but the man

pinned below her swaying butt only looked like a dark shadow, as if he had

fused with the darkness. It was weirdly erotic how those dark fingers crawled

along the woman’s white skin, but the contrast seemed a little much.

He was too dark to explain away with skin

color. It was a truly pitch black like his entire body was coated with ink.

Also, his body did not seem to have any thickness to it.

It almost looked like a mere black shadow

was clinging to the woman’s body and moving in obscene ways.

And just as Shinji considered taking a step

closer to check…

“Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!”

The shadow man raised his voice in a howl

and arched his back below the woman’s butt.

The woman on top floated up and was jerked

up and down like she was riding a bucking bronco. Her black hair flew around

her and she skillfully kept her balance atop the rising and falling stomach

while continuing to stroke the erection.

While Shinji watched in shock, the black

shadow man’s lower body suddenly burst into bluish-white flames.

“Wah…!”

The boy quietly cried out in surprise and

could only watch as the man’s entire body was quickly enveloped by the bluish-white

flames spreading from his crotch.

“Nwohhhhhhhhh!”

Blue flames erupted from his eyes and the

mouth opened wide in his climax cry. The flames brightly illuminated the man’s

shadowy body, but it was immediately turned to ash like a paper doll in the

fire and then it quietly crumbled.

The flames even reached the fingertips

holding the woman’s breasts and those fingers burned away and scattered as

ashes. But even with the burning fingers holding her chest, the woman showed no

sign of discomfort, remained straddling the burning and crumbling man, and

slowly raised her hands overhead.

Those hands held what looked like an erect

manhood burning like a torch.

“Ahhh…nhahhhh…hh…”

She had not made a single noise before, but

as she stood up with the burning manhood held aloft, she moaned and bent her

head back in a sexual way that did not fit the tragic scene at all.

The slight change in her position brought

the side of the woman’s face into view.

(W-wow, she’s beautiful…)

Shinji was stricken by her face as she closed her eyes and looked up toward

heaven.

It turned out she was a girl about his same

age.

Her eyebrows were skinny, the bridge of her

nose was straight, and her half-opened, moaning lips were somewhat thick and

sexy.

The lines from her pointed chin to her

smooth throat met up with the delicate outline of her collarbones and continued

on to the cleavage of the breasts pressed together by the leather belts. The

girl had the perfect proportions and she seemed more cool and dignified than

cute.

The manhood burned away in her hands and

darkness enveloped the area once more.

After lowering her hands, she slowly turned

around in the darkness and directed her obsidian-black eyes toward Shinji who

was still standing there in a daze.

“Hyah…!”

Before his brain could parse the situation, his body chose to flee.

The boy turned tail and ran full speed

away.

(I really hope that burned man was a ghost!

Because if he was alive…then I just witnessed a really bizarre murder! Shit,

I’ve gotta get out of here! This is way too dangerous!)

He continued running at full speed until he arrived back at the school dorm.

“I was seen during a sealing? And that was

my first job in this city…”

A girl muttered to herself while soaking up

to her shoulders in a bathtub’s warm water and letting the shower pour drops of

water onto her face.

“The avoidance curse must have been too

weak for someone with strong curiosity. I was careless.”

The girl recalled what the boy had looked

like and what he had worn as her somewhat low and dignified voice echoed in the

bath.

“I can

work out his school from his uniform. And showing up as a student might not be

a bad way to gather information. I’m sure to make plenty of connections there.

Hee hee♪”

The girl

laughed quietly when she pictured herself in a school uniform and she stretched

her slender naked body. The round lines of her ample breasts floated on the

bathwater’s surface and repelled the shower water.

Those

melons were currently freed from the bondage of the leather belts and, thanks

to the stimulation of the shower, they grew firm and the light pink nipples

grew hard and erect.

“Nh…hhh…”

The girl

moaned sensually as she soothingly stroked her erect nipples and slid her

fingers along the roundness of her breasts.

(That

got rid of the evil spirit’s impurity.)

A cold,

unpleasant sensation had lingered in her breasts where those sexual fingers had

groped them, but that melted away in the warmth of the water while the girl’s

fingers gently rubbed her naked body.

“The

time has come. I will soothe all of the Sex Gods in this city and take them

inside me.”

When she said that while loving her own body, a sad light briefly flashed

through her eyes, but it immediately vanished.