Cursed House Child

The boy sports a bowl-cut hairstyle broken by a small triangular part at the center of his brow. His clothing is simple: a collared shirt in a dark light tone, white joggers, and a pair of slippers.

He comes across as an ordinary child, frightened easily by the sight of ghosts. The loss of his parents to suicide leaves him deeply traumatized.

One evening, while sharing a meal with his mother and father, the boy spotted a spectral child standing among them and cried out in terror, gripping his father in fright. His father dismissed the warning, and when the boy looked again, the ghostly figure was joyfully dancing.

Not long afterward, he discovered both parents hanging dead from the ceiling. The Kito Family then came for him, marking him as the next sacrifice owed to the Tsuchinoko. Bound to a chair and weeping over his fate, he was attended by the same spirit boy he had glimpsed earlier, who tried in vain to untie him only to find that his ghostly hands could touch nothing in the living world. The spirit then reshaped itself into the child's likeness, becoming the yokai called the Evil Eye, bent on avenging the Kito Family's cruelty toward so many innocent households.