Chapter 876: Too Ugly! Change Your Form, Damn It!

He took out a mirror and solemnly examined the lipstick mark on his lips. As for the slap mark on his face, of course he could simply ignore it.

No problem now.

The kind and benevolent Matriarch had given him a second chance at life.

That meant he could test the power of the Cursed Eye again!

He leaped up and quickly jumped through the window back into his home. With a solemn look, he adjusted his Monocle and narrowed his eyes.

“Then let’s try it again!”

In an instant.

He gritted his teeth and thrust his hand toward the table in front of him. The Cursed Eye in his right eye contracted in an instant, and countless capillaries spread across half his face.

“[Insect Swarm Hatchery]! Activate!”

Accompanied by that ferocious command,

Buzz—

The eyeball contracted sharply once more.

A System prompt immediately rang in his ears as well.

[Ding! Your Cursed Eye has activated the Demonization ability “The Dice of Fate.” Randomly rolling now. Result: “3.” Demonization effect: Nothing happens.]

Rustle, rustle—

The fleshy veins of the hatching insect swarm spread out from his hand, slowly covering the walls of the entire room.

Lynn stood up, his gaze shifting as he looked at his hand, then at the walls around him. His eyes flickered as he said,

“So if I roll a ‘3,’ I can use the Cursed Eye normally, without any additional extreme modifications?”

In other words,

every time he used the Cursed Eye, there was only a one-in-six chance he could use its normal ability. A “6” meant unrestricted, all-out chaos, while a “3” was normal mode.

What about all the other numbers?

He couldn’t help feeling curious!

“Since I won’t die this time, I might as well try again!”

Lynn looked up, his resolve firming.

He had to admit he still had a little regret. If he died again, he could go to the Matriarch and ask her for another kiss without a shred of shame...

Of course, that wasn’t the main reason.

Figuring out this Cursed Eye completely was the urgent priority. Otherwise, how could he use it as a trump card in the future?

Without the slightest hesitation,

Lynn stretched out his hand again. But this time, instead of using [Insect Swarm Hatchery], he aimed directly at the stool in front of him and used another one of his curses, one that didn’t consume much.

“One hundred percent miss! Activate!”

With a loud shout,

his cheek was once again covered by pitch-black capillaries, making his face look utterly sinister.

If it worked, the stool would become one that was guaranteed to miss anyone it was swung at. Even if all-out chaos triggered again, surely he wouldn’t end up in an unsolvable situation like before.

Buzz—

His right eye contracted frantically once more.

As expected, the System prompt sounded in his ears.

[Ding! Your Cursed Eye has activated the Demonization ability “The Dice of Fate.” Randomly rolling now. Current result: “1.” Demonization effect triggered: Cursed Eye activation. Completely consumes one designated nutrient in your body to cast a curse in your place, with no side effects.]

Lynn froze.

And before he could even react,

Rustle, rustle, rustle—

The eyeball in his right socket suddenly wriggled on its own. Then, beneath Lynn’s gaze as his SAN plummeted, accompanied by a horrified (ΩДΩ), the eyeball began to swell like a young creature hatching from its Mother. It kept growing until it finally forced its way out of his eye socket, pulling one wet, twisted tentacle after another out with it.

It was an indescribably terrifying sight, enough to make any normal person lose their mind.

And amid the creaking, twisting sounds,

when the eyeball had swollen to nearly the size of two fists, it dragged its writhing tentacles and forcibly crawled out of his eye socket, then climbed across his cheek and looked at him like an alien.

Lynn stared blankly.

Drip... drip...

Drops of Slime fell onto his cheek.

Then, one after another, little eyeballs popped out of the big one with a series of wet smacks, immediately triggering Lynn’s trypophobia.

“Ahahahahaha!!”

At the terrifying sight before him, Lynn laughed hollowly in his dark corruption. He had certainly gotten used to the environment in hell, but watching such a gooey eyeball monster crawl out of his own eye socket was a huge challenge, both physically and psychologically, even for Lynn himself.

[Ding! Your SAN -5]

[Ding! Your SAN -10]

Then, under Lynn’s hollow gaze, the eyeball staring at him made a wet, raspy sound.

Just as the System had prompted moments ago,

[Sacrifice one nutrient to release one... ]

But before the tentacled eyeball could finish speaking,

Lynn, still staring blankly, suddenly reached out. His palm smacked onto the slimy, wet giant eyeball. He grabbed it at once, then angrily slammed it onto the floor with a squelch.

“You’re so damn hideous! Crawling out of my eye socket to scare your own dad?!”

“If you want to talk to me, then change into a normal form! You bastard!”

“Mimicry!”

In an instant, accompanied by that furious roar,

blinding silver light spread over the entire body of the tentacled eyeball monster. The creature formed from the Cursed Eye clearly had no idea what was going on. It looked utterly bewildered and struggled desperately, but Lynn had it pinned down, and there was nothing it could do.

Too ugly!

Way too ugly!!

Ever since he left Wandering Souls Alley, what kind of darkly corrupted creature hadn’t he seen? This was the first time his own eyeball had scared him into losing SAN! What the hell was this extreme modification? Why had his perfectly good eyeball turned into such a depraved spectacle?!?

Give me back my old, useful Cursed Eye!! What’s with turning it into a tentacled eyeball monster? Who are you trying to scare?!

Change!

You’d better change, damn it!!

Buzz—

The furious silver light of Mimicry enveloped the slimy, writhing tentacled monster that was the Cursed Eye.

The next moment,

with a rustle,

the silver light of Mimicry slowly faded.

Lynn panted hard, gasping for breath.

“That’s more like it... You nearly scared your dad to death...”

On the floor was a tiny, tender, dewy-skinned loli with tentacles covering her head. She appeared amid a pile of Slime, completely naked, while Lynn pinned her down with one hand.

Apparently, it still hadn’t figured out what was going on. Just like before, it continued murmuring.

“[Relea... release one curse...]”