Cursed House

The farm, the dining room in the main house.

　　Stinky, rotting, dirty, dim.

　　The round wooden tables are covered with food made from some kind of dark recipe, no more than three months old, with all kinds of liquids still on the surface of the food.

　　There was even some sort of living thing wriggling around inside the body of the large turkey that was placed in the very center.

　　The four members of Victorino's family were eating here.

　　The 'forms' of all four are different.

　　[Farmer] Murphy Victorino, wearing a plaid shirt and butcher's apron and a kind of tattered linen headgear, eats with food shoved through the chin opening at the bottom of the headgear.

　　Some curse seems to have befallen him, so that he must put the headgear on at all times.

　　[Mother] Belin Victorino is nearly three meters tall and has a variable number of fingers on the palms of her hands and the ends of her feet.

　　She moves her fingers very fast and eats quickly by pinching and skewering them.

　　The mother's head was already full of white hair and 'wrinkled' skin, severely aged, giving the impression of a centenarian, as if due to some sort of aging curse.

　　But such aging does not affect her sensitive actions in the least.

　　[Oldest Daughter] Trish Victorino is the most normal person in the family, with a face of a female college student in her early twenties under her blond hair. As recorded in the task description, she is young and beautiful except for a few freckles.

Wearing denim overalls, she eats quietly with a knife and fork in her hand. She is always willing to come to any kind of food, and she has a very good appetite.

　　[Youngest daughter] Roxy Victorino looks like she's just a teenager, but her skin is like cloth, as if she's been cursed by some kind of curse to look like this.

　　Roxy's mouth has many lines sewn into it for some reason.

　　When she opened her mouth, these lines were also opened up, and the inside of her mouth was filled with jumbled teeth, and even her tongue had a dental structure that made it easy to chew and eat.

　　The House of the Curse.

　　Yes, this family has always lived here, and the coming of the Dark Ages has bestowed upon them the power of an even more terrible curse. Even though the Lords sent men to try to banish the family, only, no matter how many were sent into the barn, they could not come out.

　　During the meal, the eldest daughter, Tracy, blushed a little and suddenly stopped eating and said.

　　"I just saw intruders at the barn, who didn't seem to be the Great Lords and one of them was a boy with glasses so good looking, my type."

　　Sitting on the other side with her head on the ceiling because she was too tall said, "Trish, do you need Mom to get him back?"

　　"No, I'm an adult, I'll do these things myself. I want to get to know this little brother first."

　　On the side, her sister Roxy became curious, "Sister, sister! What kind of boy is he? Is he stylish?"

　　"Belonging to the type of sisters like, sister you don't get any ideas on him!"

　　She said, her sister Tracy actually put her fork in her hand and poked a hand into her sister's forehead.

　　Tick tock tick tock, liquid from the wound flows.

　　The sister, however, was not angry at all, and even had a playful look, "Got it! Isn't there a group of people here? Maybe there's a type I like too, sister you're so stingy."

　　Tracy pulled her fork out and rolled up the black pasta on her plate and continued to eat.

　　"Sister, tell me what else, what kind of people are there?"

　　The family all began to 'talk and laugh' as the sister started a conversation.

　　Only the father was indifferent and ate quietly.

　　......

　　Between the lush corn fields.

　　The squad was slowly moving forward towards the farm area.

　　Han Dong through the small magic eye vision, as much as possible to avoid the scarecrow.

　　However, just after walking less than ten meters, the spider silk bolted to everyone's wrist was slightly pulled. It was Mia, who was in charge of the back, who seemed to have something to tell everyone.

　　"There is also a problem with these corn. A small portion of the corn carries a curse and will be infected if touched, it's better to let me lead the way."

　　"Oh."

　　Wendy's place at the head of the row hadn't even warmed up before she was kicked off, and she could only follow behind Han Dong. As for the back, it was all left to Magician Dempsey.

　　Mia spat out two words softly as she passed by Han Dong: "Scum!"

　　Han Dong didn't mind being called that and asked, "Mia, if we were to miss the cursed plant, we'd run into the scarecrow, right? Do you think it's better to avoid the plants or the scarecrows."

　　"Avoid the plants." Mia replied decisively.

　　"I'll leave that to you."

　　"Huh, scum! No need to talk to you much. I'm only responsible for getting you out of the cornfield. As for the farm, I'm not going to try to help."

　　As Mia led the way.

　　After avoiding several cursed plants, they bumped into a scarecrow.

　　It was different from the dummies that were traditionally woven using straw.

　　The scarecrows here were carefully crafted.

　　First, a four-meter high wooden cross is used as a fixed support, and the scarecrow is firmly inserted into the ground.

　　Then, the 'scarecrow' was fixed to the cross as a support.

��　Han Dong stared at the scarecrow and whispered, "Do you remember the missing farm servant mentioned in the mission? Looks like all of them have been caught 'working' here."

　　Exactly.

　　The ones stuck in the cornfield are all 'real scarecrows'.

　　Modeled after farm servants, their bodies and straw are fused with each other, so much so that there is straw spilling out between the five holes of the face (with normal eyes).

　　Once a scarecrow captures an intruder in a cornfield, it will shoot out straw vines from its body to bind and drain the target for its own nourishment.

　　Even though the organs in the bodies of these farm servants are almost replaced by straw, they are still 'surviving' themselves.

　　This is how the curse works.

　　A kind of scarecrow's curse that sealed their souls forever within this body, guarding the cornfield.

　　At the same time.

　　A large amount of straw immediately shot out of the scarecrow's body, quickly wrapping around the nearest Mia and Han Dong.

　　Just as the two were about to face off.

　　"Blacksmith's Grip"

　　Snap!

　　Wendy, who was following closely behind Han Dong, extended her hand!

　　There was actually a gravity compression field forming in its palm.

　　Forcing the scattered straw vines to all be compressed together, they were grasped by Wendy to death.

　　Hard pull!

　　The scarecrow's body, even if it was reinforced with a curse, could not resist this brute force at all.

　　Such a tug.

　　There was a feeling of the entire body's internal organs being dragged out. However, the target was just the scarecrow, and after the epidermis broke open, a large amount of straw stained with bodily fluids was all dragged out.

　　There were no fancy tricks, relying on brute force alone to obliterate the target.