The Reincarnated Onmyoji Who Returned From Another World ~ I Was Reincarnated Into An Onmyoji Family On The Verge Of Decline, But Thanks To My Experience As A Hero Who Fought In Another World And The Magical Power Training I've Been Doing Ever Since I Was Born, This Life Seems Like It Will Be Easy ~

She was a girl born to the Tsuchimikado family. Her name was Tsuchimikado Arina. The shrine maiden of the Far East, as she was called, a girl praised as a prodigy.

At the age of three, she first defeated a demon, and after that continued to perform feats unbecoming of her age, making her a girl who could be called Japan’s hope with a promising future. However, one day, such a girl was cursed by the hand of a demon. The binding curse grasped the girl and would not let go.

The young girl who had been praised as a prodigy now had her future closed off by that curse.

“(…Impossible).”

Arina had become like a living corpse due to the curse’ influence. Her consciousness was sunk deep, and while alive, she became unable to move by her own will.

She was a girl who should have been hospitalized, but they couldn’t just let her lie down. If they kept her lying in the same place, curse power would accumulate in her body. By taking her outside, letting the wind hit her, and going to various places, curse power would be expelled from her body.

Not using any sorcery at all, the curse power that had been put into her body long ago was like poison.

As a parent, it pained his heart to drag around Arina in her current state. Naturally, they tried to break the curse by mobilizing all of the Tsuchimikado family’s power and attempting to solve it with all their heart and soul.

But they failed. It was impossible to break Arina’s curse.

“(Arina… spoke, you say?).”

Therefore, Tsuchimikado Arima gazed at the scene before him as if he couldn’t believe it.

“…Wh-what did you do?!”

“Has the pain lessened?”

“N-no! More importantly, you! B-blood!?”

Seeing his daughter rush toward the boy who was spitting blood and had one knee on the ground, Arima felt as if he might be seeing a dream.

“I’m fine, this much is nothing.”

“No way!?”

Arima called the name of his daughter who was currently flustered over Touya’s state, who remained calm despite spitting out blood.

“…Arina.”

“P-Papa.”

“Have you regained consciousness? How much do you remember?”

“Eh… I-I am… That’s right. I was cursed, and then gradually lost consciousness… and then. Huh? My consciousness is clear… has the curse been broken?”

“No, the curse hasn’t been broken.”

On the subject of whether the curse had been dispelled, Touya denied Arina’s words.

“To begin with, I can’t dispel curses or anything like that. However, I possess a tremendously large amount of curse power in my body. I tried to pour that curse power into the young lady of the Tsuchimikado family and forcibly blow away the curse, but… it was impossible. A part still remains. And due to that remaining part, you’ll return to your original state by tomorrow.”

“…I see. No, it’s fine. Just being able to have a conversation with Arina like this again, there’s no greater happiness. As a parent, I hold the utmost gratitude to—”

Hadn’t the curse been broken? Arima, who had thought that even for a moment, was disappointed for an instant by Touya’s words, but still, as a human being, he quickly recovered and tried to speak words of thanks to him.

“If you’d like, I could come every day.”

Touya interrupted him and oanded his mouth.

“Hmm?”

“If I blow away Arina-sama’s curse every morning, Arina-sama should be able to be active like she is now.”

“I-is that really true?!”

Hope that he thought had been crushed returned once again, and Arima brought his face closer to Touya.

“Please wait.”

But Arina herself called for a halt from the side.

“If you do that… will you be alright?”

“Indeed, that’s right. You were spitting blood earlier. Doing it every day would be a burden…”

“No? It’s not a big deal? The blood spitting was also quite deceptive in appearance, and if you ask whether there’s really a problem, there isn’t.”

“R-really?”