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In the second episode of _Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon_ , one of the
characters has two daughters: one natural that can see supernatural things,
and a stepdaughter (which she bullies) that can't; about them, she says this:

> いつまで経っても見鬼のけの字も現れない穀潰しとは大違いね

見鬼 is the ability to see the supernatural, and the sentence means something
like "She is very different from a useless daughter which no matter how much
time passes can't see the supernatural", but I can't understand けの字. I tried
looking on Google an on dictionary, but nothing came up.
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Meaning of word けの字
This けの字 refers to the letter け from 見鬼（ **け** んき）. `XYZのXの字も(ない)` is a
pattern used to say "(not) even a trace of XYZ". Similarly, you can say
"挨拶の「あ」の字も知らない", "あいつには責任感の「せ」の字もない", and so on.

Here's a blog article about this construction:

「～の～の字もない」 <http://kokoromi2.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2019/11/post-3f95ab.html>
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