Mongolian Death Worms Are Deadly

Watching Okarun behave strangely, Jiji drags him and Momo clear of the Tsuchinoko's strike, realizing the creature tracks sound through the house. He stops Okarun from driving a pair of scissors into his own neck and hears him voice a wish to die, which throws Jiji back to a memory of his mother saying the same after he once kept his parents from killing themselves. Momo, too, moves to stab herself with a glass shard, only for Turbo Granny to materialize between the glass and her body, blocking the blow to Momo's annoyance. On Turbo Granny's instruction, Jiji binds Momo and Okarun to stop their attempts and learns the worm is to blame, flooding the house with psychic waves that turn occupants suicidal, which finally explains his parents' deaths. He asks why he himself is unaffected, but a mind-controlled Momo attacks before Turbo Granny can answer. Carrying Momo, Okarun, and Turbo Granny, Jiji dodges the worm's blows and bolts outside, where he is forced to face the creature. Looking away in fear, he turns back to find the spirit that has long haunted his house standing directly before him.

Jiji works out that the Mongolian Death Worm detects noise carried through the walls but not their voices. Okarun and Momo try to kill themselves with broken glass, jolting Jiji's memory of his parents hanging from the balcony. After Momo stabs Turbo Granny, she has Jiji tie the pair up and explains the worm's suicidal psychic waves. Momo flings more glass shards at herself with her powers, forcing Jiji to shield her and draw the worm's attention. Stabbed again, Jiji carries everyone out of the building, then scrambles up to stop Momo and Okarun leaping from a balcony, just as the Evil Eye arrives before the worm can strike.

This nineteen-page Cursed House Arc chapter of the Kintama Hunt Saga published on December 28, 2021, in Volume 5 and was adapted as Episode 14. It uncovers the mechanism behind the deaths in Jiji's house and brings the Evil Eye into the open at the chapter's close.