My Cell Prison
Chapter 1527 - 1525: Origin

Chapter 1527: Chapter 1525: Origin

[Act One - Neighbor]

The opening of the Curse Diary records the family that first moved into the Japanese-style villa, heavily borrowing from the plot of "Ju-On".

Immersed in a first-person narrative.

Han Dong is the homeowner - Soei Takeshi, while Sally plays the wife - Kayako, and together they nurture their five-year-old son - Soei Toshio.

However, the origin of all resentment is not because Kayako was enamored with an old classmate and discovered by her suspicious husband, leading to her tragic murder... but for another reason.

Here, Soei Takeshi and Kayako are quite loving, with no doubts or infidelity. Even the diary entries by Kayako simply record their happy life.

This differs greatly from the original movie.

Moreover, there is an extremely important, even shocking detail to Han Dong here.

"Hmm? Wasn’t that Crooked Neck Tree in the earliest yard?"

Han Dong unexpectedly discovered that the earliest courtyard only had some flowers and grass, with no sign of the tree, which appeared to be decades or even a hundred years old.

So, when did this tree appear?

Continuing, Han Dong and Sally, through a first-person perspective, observe fragments of the couple’s happy life... But such happiness didn’t last long, as an important turning point suddenly arrived.

Days later, the Soei Family received a visitor who claimed to be a ’neighbor’.

Oddly, Han Dong, from a first-person perspective, couldn’t see the visitor’s face clearly... The upper body was entirely shrouded in black miasma, with the lower part showing large and very exquisite black leather shoes, paired with white trousers.

"This is!"

Han Dong immediately recalled the heavy sound of leather shoes he heard in the safe house.

Without forming excessive hypotheses for now, he continued his observations.

The mysterious neighbor claimed to be a manager of a botanical garden, specifically bringing a sapling he carefully cultivated as a greeting gift, saying that the expansive courtyard of the Soei Family was quite suitable for planting a tree.

During the conversation, threads of black miasma were inhaled by Soei Takeshi, who gladly accepted the idea.

Thus, the mysterious neighbor left directly without even entering the house.

Soei Takeshi did not discuss it with his wife and immediately planted the sapling in the courtyard, displaying a very satisfied expression.

Strange things started to happen... The next morning, the couple couldn’t feel the familiar sunlight upon waking from the master bedroom, as the window was already covered by dense tree leaves.

However, neither of them found it strange, as if their brains had already accepted the fact of the tree’s existence.

Since the sunlight was blocked by the leaves, the entire family started acting weirdly.

From Han Dong’s perspective, Soei Takeshi became irritable, even getting up in the middle of the night to steal raw meat from the fridge,

From Sally’s perspective, Kayako began to write strange and bizarre things in her diary, expressing affection for various men and distaste for her husband,

And as for their child, Toshio, he began to enjoy playing in the attic, and was once found eating a mouse live in the attic, repeatedly playing hanging games under the Crooked Neck Tree.

The ultimate conclusion mirrors that of "Ju-On", with Kayako being brutally murdered by her husband and hidden in a wooden box in the attic.

Toshio, who was playing in the attic, coincidentally witnessed this scene and was not spared.

After completing this, Soei Takeshi sought out a white rope and hung himself on the Crooked Neck Tree.

Han Dong and Sally’s perspectives also slowly withdrew from the corpse, rising into the sky.

Overlooking the Japanese villa from above...

Then a bizarre scene occurred; strands of resentment-filled miasma floated out from the attic, intending to envelop and penetrate this building, turning it into a haunted house, cursing all who came here.

Little did they know, an irresistible force compelled the miasma to flow toward the Crooked Neck Tree and be stored within.

At this moment, the [mysterious neighbor] visited once again, gently snapping off a branch filled with concentrated resentment before departing happily.

"Is this guy collecting the spawned resentment in people’s hearts through such means?"

The diary then moved into the next part.

[Act Two - Residents]

This part of the diary tells the stories of several residents who moved into this haunted house later.

First was an elderly widow, who, after providing a large sum of money, was arranged by the nursing home to live alone in this villa.

Every day, a professional caregiver would come to take care of her.

Due to severe leg issues, the elderly woman’s eating and daily activities were mostly performed while in bed, all managed by a caregiver with a sincere appearance.

They had known each other from the nursing home, where the elderly woman would privately give substantial tips, establishing a fairly harmonious relationship... But after moving here, both of their personalities changed.

The elderly woman began to be unpredictable, often doing unreasonable things.

Meanwhile, in the caregiver’s mind, countless murder plans had already been imagined.

Finally, one day, he treated the elderly woman like a piece of pork, placed her in the fridge with a black plastic bag, then hanged himself on the Crooked Neck Tree.

Following them was a young couple who won a free travel voucher to come here.

The young, beautiful woman with waist-length black hair ultimately had all her hair pulled out by her boyfriend in the bathroom and was strangled to death.

The boyfriend, in the end, also chose to hang himself on the Crooked Neck Tree.

Later, there was a rather dramatic episode.

Due to the many mysterious deaths, this Japanese building became slightly famous in the area, even attracting a poor person carrying a cursed videotape who ran to the haunted house seeking refuge.

In the middle of the night.

The young man, in a sleepwalking state, actually played the videotape, and when he woke up, he was already bound, forced to keep his eyes on the TV screen, and feel the fear before death.

Who would have thought.

As the ghost was crawling out of the TV, it seemed to sense something even more terrifying, instantly retreating back into the TV and jumping back into the ancient well.

The youth, just about to feel grateful for surviving, unexpectedly glimpsed the rope hanging on the Crooked Neck Tree, quickly slipping it around his neck.

...

In total.

Nine households perished within this villa.

Perpetrators captivated by the tree eventually chose suicide by hanging,

While the residents murdered in the haunted house generated resentment aura, drawn into the tree, ultimately collected by the mysterious neighbor.

Upon seeing this, Han Dong could make a hypothesis:

"This neighbor who caused all of this is likely the [Mysterious Craftsman] mentioned in the event introduction, also the key figure who created the pass-through tool "Box of Resentment".

He probably gave ’greeting gifts’ to the residents along the entire street, periodically collecting the most primal resentment aura from humans as raw material for the box.

Could it be... to find the "Box of Resentment", must one confront this person when the number of ladybugs equals 5?"

As Han Dong thought of this,

the memory scenes triggered by the diary abruptly came to an end.

Returning once again to the courtyard filled with black miasma,

the eerie scene emerging in his sight made Han Dong shudder, taking a step back.

The giant Crooked Neck Tree was now bearing ’fruits’.

Each and every one of the hanged seen in the memories was dangling neatly from the branches, all revealing grotesquely exaggerated smiles full of sickness, constantly waving their hands, hoping Han Dong and Sally would join them.

The System prompt then arrived:

"The sharing of ’Curse Diary’ has been completed, and you have become the new owners of this villa.

Please, with the number of ladybugs being 4, completely destroy the "Crooked Neck Tree".

Once eliminated, you’ll gain an important clue, touching upon the ultimate goal of this event, possibly emerging as the final winner."