Although you've been raised according to the buddhist precepts by your family back in the countryside, you've never really believed most of the esoteric things they were saying.

Sure some of it is real and they can sense certain things, but the rest seems like pure exaggeration to you who cannot see or sense anything.

Still, your grandma - healing Shaman of your small village - would insist on teaching you everything, and go on about all the different rules, traditions, incantations, and whatnot.

Which is exactly why you know right this rule so well : non-shaman who cannot perceive energy or spirits - just like you - will be able to see a curse if their life is threatened.



You don't take more than half a second to process what's happening. As soon as you see the cursed spirit, you turn over and start running to the shrine's entrance to escape.



You're not even half way there that the spirit is right beside you. In the blink of an eye, he hits you from the side, sending you flying a bit further away.