It Became a Time-Stop Slit-Eye

53. Opening.

A time when snow falls, carols are sung, and everyone spends an idyllic day.

Since it was Christmas just a few days later, most families moved the joy forward to the weekend.

A day when it wouldn’t be strange if Santa Claus, dressed in red and with a drooping white beard, knocked on the front door.

─ Smart.

Her caring father, Mahito Ichimaru, asked her co-worker, who lives alone, to play the role of Santa.

It will be a good childhood memory for the children, and it will be a very proud thing for colleagues who will spend the weekend lonely.

As expected, Kenichi Kitagawa opened the front door with excitement.

Someone will surprise us with presents, even if it’s not Santa’s outfit.

“…… Uh?”

I don’t know what kind of gift they’ll give you, but I thought at least a person would be standing.

───Gurururook?

I never imagined that I would face a monster.

An irregularly shaped monster that wriggles its large and small tentacles all over its body.

He looked down at the child below him, tilting what he thought was his “Head.”

“…… Ahhh.”

Kenichi stiffened as if he didn’t properly recognize the existence in front of his eyes.

It wasn’t that he didn’t see it with his own eyes.

I recognized it correctly, but he was too brave to burst into tears vaguely, and he was too young to judge the situation in an instant.

Everyone in front of the front door was like that.

Mini Ichimaru also looked at the monster with a stunned face, and Hotaru, who had been watching from behind with an adult-like attitude, also stepped back in amazement.

This was an accident with several misfortunes.

Each of them failed to awaken their own spiritual abilities, but it was the day a celestial phenomenon occurred.

Above the head of the monster wriggling its tentacles, I could see the red moon in the night sky.

The magic of the red moon, called Blood Moon, stimulated their hidden spiritual powers.

However, since it was a power that had not fully blossomed, the youkai would not have been attracted to it alone.

However, all three special talents gathered in one place, and it was enough attraction for a being wandering the streets at night.

There is only one yokai, but the yokai escaped the dark alley and approached the residential area.

Kwajik-!

It replaced the guest who was originally scheduled to visit.

As the irregular monster took a step, pooled blood and human corpses stepped on the floor.

Kenichi, who belatedly discovered the body at the sound, widened his eyes, and Hotaru screamed.

───────!!!

A deafening scream.

Despite the fact that Hotaru’s voice was supposed to be heard, Ichimaru Shiki couldn’t hear anything.

His father’s footsteps as he heard the screams and hurriedly got up and ran.

The sound of Kenichi’s heavy breathing belatedly backing away in fear.

I didn’t hear anything.

Ichimaru Shiki just stared blankly at the monster.

‘Ah.’

I felt that the peace was broken.

In an instant, he escaped from his daily life and entered an extraordinary life, admitting that he had a monster in front of him.

I felt my heart beating.

I sensed the dark side of the world, a talent to bloom in a crisis.

Mini Ichimaru reached out in the air.

She grabbed at once, but didn’t catch anything. Nothing happened.

There were no intangible swords there.

It was at that moment that the monster leaned in and wriggled, and that his father arrived at the front door.

“What happened!”

Mahito Ichimaru heard the screams and came out of the living room to the entrance hallway.

Soon he noticed three children huddled together, looking terrified, and looked at the front door.

───Gurururook.

The indeterminate monster stopped at the large object that suddenly appeared in front of it.

However, the biological father, who does not have any spiritual powers, did not see the monster.

I looked up at the wide open front door, looked down, and found the corpse of a colleague.

Mahito Ichimaru cried out in amazement when he found his colleague lying on the floor, soaked in blood.

“…… Satoshi!”

Inadvertently running to the front door.

From the point of view of recognizing the existence of the monster, it was an extremely defenseless action, and Hotaru, who was standing relatively behind him, grabbed him quickly.

“What, what. First aid should be done right now-!”

“…… Uncle, wait!”

Hotaru noticed that normal people couldn’t see the monster in front of the front door.

Instinctively, I realized that a monster that shouldn’t exist in reality has come.

Terrified, she didn’t want to provoke the monster, and she didn’t want to kill her friend’s father.

So I caught on.

Just watching Mahito struggling, the youkai thought it was an opportunity.

The tentacles stretched out.

Maybe Mahito sensed something in the blow that flew through the air.

While looking at Hotaru who grabbed me with a troubled expression, she suddenly turned her head to the front.

Her arms were hastily raised to block the front of her face.

Quad Deuk!

So I lived.

However, I couldn’t stand it completely.

His tentacles hit both his arms and broke them, and he and Hotaru rolled on the floor with the sudden shock.

“───Dad!!!”

Ichimaru Shiki, who was stunned for a moment, ran towards him screaming in fright.

“aaagh!”

Mahito moaned in agony and looked at the front door with a frown on his face.

His pupils shook as if he had a hunch that there was something there only belatedly.

Mahito glanced sideways at the corpse of his colleague under the porch and whispered to the children running around him.

“…… Let’s go into the living room, into the living room.”

“…… Yes.”

Hurrying up, he and his children backed away cautiously.

The monster wriggled and took one step at a time.

With the distance barely maintained, the bodies of Mahito and his children arrived at the doorway of the living room.

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My mother, Husato, who was in the living room, suddenly tensed her body as if she realized that something had gone wrong for a long time, with her husband’s drooping arms and the children with terrified expressions.

Deep deed——!

I didn’t even pay attention to the floor and carpet, and pushed the sofa on one side.

At that moment, everyone’s bodies entered the living room, and Mahito moved quickly.

He shook off the children around him and slammed his body into the living room door.

“Quickly stop it!”

Kenichi, who had been standing there blankly, also quickly joined Fusato and pushed the sofa.

Minnie Ichimaru and Hotaru also stuck next to him and pushed hard.

Koo-ung!

I didn’t worry about it being damaged, and I put the sofa in the living room door.

It was around that time that I heard the ghost’s urgent footsteps in the hallway.

Quang! Quaang!

A strong crashing sound came from the living room door and the surrounding walls.

It was essentially different from tapping by controlling the power of humans.

It was a shock that made me feel the will to break it, catch it, and kill it.

As well as the three children who saw the ghost, even Mahito and Fusato, who didn’t know the exact appearance, turned pale in an instant.

“…… What the hell is this?”

“…… I don’t know, where to run through the window.”

Quang! Quaang!

The living room door is shaken by something outside.

I started to hear a crackle-sound from some part as I was pounding so hard.

In the living room where the Christmas tree glows softly, a situation like that of a horror movie suddenly unfolds.

“…… Yes, this location is-“

Mahito called the police and Fusato tried to smile and comfort the frightened children.

They showed mature enough adults, but that wasn’t enough.

It was not enough to stop the monster.

Ten-year-old Ichi Marushiki couldn’t let go of the sense that something was coming as his body trembled.

Quad Deuk—!

It wasn’t because of the door that was about to break.

It is because he felt the irresistible fate of the entire world that was strangling him every moment.

At the same time, he intuited his own authority that had begun to bloom in his soul.

Ichimaru Shiki blankly headed for the kitchen.

It was a sense that my body was being led by itself.

Earlier, her mother Fusato held in her hand the knife she used to cut her fruit.

She had held a cutter knife in art class or occasionally as a joke, but it was different then.

Obviously, it was the palm that held the fruit, but somehow it felt like it was in contact with the soul.

No, it feels like an extra limb has been added.

At that strange sensation, Ichi Marushiki looked down at the knife in his hand, then raised his head.

Wood deuk-!

The door to the living room swelled up, and the sofa that was struggling to block him was pushed back.

After finishing the call, Mahito pushed with his back and endured, but it was not enough.

─── Gururururururuk!

A monster appeared in a holy room where the lights of the Christmas tree lit up the darkness.

It trampled the floor wriggling its bloody, glistening tentacles.

The children who could vividly see the horrible scene froze.

At the door that was suddenly broken and the sofa that was pushed out, the adults also looked at the bloodstains and empty space on the floor that seemed to have been swept away by something with a clear sign of anxiety.

───Gurururook.

The monster wriggled its tentacles.

The guy tilted his head and seemed to be choosing his prey among the humans in the living room.

Adults were excluded.

Because they were just big in size and didn’t have any spiritual ability or inspiration.

───Guruk.

The monster finally decided.

It moved several tentacles and slammed them down on Hotaru’s head.

Hotaru could not escape and watched the flesh falling on me with his white face trembling.

Kenichi also just blankly watched him with an expression as if he was having a nightmare.

Only Ichimaru aimed his sword in the air.

It was the first time I had aimed a blade at something that was alive, but somehow I got used to it.

I felt like I could do anything.

As expected, a bluish glow gradually appeared on the fruit.

Fire—!

The flame of the soul bloomed.

──Openness.

For an instant, the world’s time stopped.

Everyone stopped moving.

The trembling Kenichi and Hotaru.

The father Mahito stares into the air with an expression of disbelief, and the mother Fusato looks for the phone as if intending to contact the police again.

The tentacles violently fell on Hotaru’s head.

Even the monster that shook every moment.

Even the lights on the Christmas tree that were twinkling in the living room went silent.

Only Ichimaru Shiki was alive.

A boy who was more mature than his peers realized what he had to do.

After running off the living room floor with a different movement than before, it suddenly rose into the air.

I gripped the fruit tightly.

Kwajik-!

I put a blade between the monster’s forehead.