The Dead One: Remake (Update!)

Chapter 34

A/N: Kuchisake-Shonen: The Slit-Mouth Boy

Kuchisake-Shonen

Some say the urban legend is similar to the Kuchisake-Onna: The Slit Mouth Woman.

However...

Legend holds that several years ago, in a suburban town was terrorized by a man whose beautiful face had been grotesquely disfigured with a Glasgow smile, also known as a cheshire grin.

Roaming the streets wearing a long red ski parka and carrying large scissors, the man would approach his young victims and, while removing the mask, ask if he was pretty. The victim's response, if it were the wrong one, would almost always lead to their violent death.

The legend of the Kuchisake-Shonen came many generations after the Kuchisake-Onna. One version of the story says he was a prince in the 1600s who was married to a particurally hateful princess.

The prince was very popular with the ladies, and some versions of the story say that he may have cheated on his wife once or twice. The princess, feeling jealous that her husband got more attention with the ladies than she did with the men, attacked him and cut his mouth to his ears, screaming, "No one's gonna think you're so handsome, now!"

Other versions say he was once the decreased male lover of a slave trader. Disgusted by the way his lover was treating the slaves, he then had snuck down into the cages and set them all free. Angry that all the money he would've got for the slaves, the slave trader cut the boy's mouth to his ears as punishment, letting him bleed to death...

Kiyoshi: Now most of those stories of the slit mouth boy are common...But...this one serves at Yongedu's High Most popular.

Yuri: You mean the one on the blog...

Chibi was confused. What blog? No one ever mentioned a blog here at Yongedu High about slit mouth boy.

Kiyoshi: Yes...However...that blog was taken down many years ago since the incident took place...

In the years of 1970's at Fudo High. A young boy whom was loved for his beauty by his parents and close peers.

He had such a pretty face.

His face was so beautiful that could have been feminine and he was often mistake as a girl.

But one day...

The other kids started to get jealous of the boy's beauty. So they begin to bully him.

Chibi: (Oh no...)

Yuri:....

Kiyoshi: They would call him names like 'Faggot' or 'Bitch' just for having a 'beautiful' face....

He paused for a second before continuing.

Kiyoshi: But here comes the worse part...After school, some of the male students dragged him to the bathroom and held him down. One of the boys pulled out scissors and motioned for his face. The boy begin to scream and cry for help but to no avail...so they...begin to crave his face into a large cheshire smile.

Yuri gasped horrified while Chibi felt sick to his stomach.

Chibi: (...All that because his face looked feminine...What is wrong with these people?!)

Kiyoshi: The boys begin to laugh and laugh. And one of them said 'No one going to think you're pretty now!'

Chibi: What horrible kids...

Kiyoshi: Luckily the assault didn't go unnoticed because a female teacher caught them. With that, the kids were arrested and the boy was sent to the hospital...However....he succumbed to his wounds and died on the way to the hospital...