Chapter 3The Zodiac Curse

After escaping from Mom's room...

I covered my head with the quilt, a feeling of suffocation washing over me like a tide.

I grew up in an unhappy family.

Mom was cold, Dad was violent, and my sister was weird.

Except for food and drink, no one in this house cared about me.

I could only rely on pets to relieve my loneliness.

I didn't expect to fall under a Zodiac Curse, burying Dad and my sister.

"Closest kin or deadliest poison..."

The woman's words floated in my mind.

After Dad and my sister died, Mom became restless.

Every night she would bring a masked man home.

Then, sounds that made one blush would come from her room.

This person who cast the curse...

Could it really be... Mom?

Did she eliminate obstacles just to be with that man?

But I didn't care about her affairs; why did she want me dead?

Amidst thousands of thoughts, I fell asleep in a daze.

Then, I had a dream.

I dreamed Lucky climbed onto my bed.

I wanted to pet him, but he suddenly opened his mouth wide.

Sharp fangs sank fiercely into my arm.

I heard the sound of bones cracking and saw flesh flying in the air.

That pain was heart-wrenching.

"Ah!"

I screamed in despair, waking up from the dream.

But abruptly met a pair of crimson eyes.