“Why can’t the 【史上最强天才小学生】 kill this Grade 2 Curse?”
Ye Ran’s face darkened.
The information on this bulletin board sent his pupils trembling, a tsunami of shock washing over his heart.
Shape-shifting, spirit capture, Grade 2 Curse, Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High School, Jujutsu Sorcerers…
Damn it, 【Dark Gathering】 + 【Jujutsu Kaisen】?!
It seems this mundane world has truly gone completely haywire.
“Because Curses have a physical form… it’s a matter of specialization. Exorcists like the 【史上最强天才小学生】 don’t have cursed energy, so they can’t effectively handle this situation.”
Knowing Ye Ran was a greenhorn, Miasaki Naru started giving him the rundown.
“Currently, supernatural creatures are mainly classified into 【Spirits】 and 【Curses】. Spirits have a physical form but lack substance. Only those with Yin-Yang Eyes, or a select few with special constitutions, can see them.”
“Usually, Spirits pose a relatively minor threat to ordinary people. Only a very small number of those who can see them, or those who trespass into their domains, will be in danger.”
“But Curses are different. They are inhuman monsters formed from curses. They are ranked from weakest to strongest: Grade 4, Grade 3, Grade 2, Grade 1, and Special Grade, with each level being progressively more powerful… Dangerous supernatural creatures like this need to be dealt with by Jujutsu Sorcerers who specialize in removing curses and exorcising Curses.”
“In short, Exorcists are weaker than Jujutsu Sorcerers. The former cannot handle the latter’s problems, while the latter can easily overcome those faced by the former.”
“.......”
Ye Ran rubbed his aching temples.
Digesting the vast amount of information from those words.
“If a Grade 2 Curse appeared in the Black Building, why didn’t they send a Jujutsu Sorcerer to deal with it?”
The girl with heterochromia fell silent for a moment, before sighing softly and saying in a low voice, “Because a Special Grade Curse suddenly appeared in the Kyoto district a while back, and the Jujutsu Sorcerer ranks suffered heavy casualties… It was thanks to that Special Grade Jujutsu Sorcerer, Gojo Satoru, who emerged from nowhere and personally took action, that the Special Grade Curse was successfully killed.”
“Now you understand, right? It’s not that the Jujutsu Sorcerers don’t want to deal with the Curse in the Black Building, it’s just that various Spirit and Curse disasters have been happening frequently these days, and there is a severe shortage of manpower. The authorities are barely managing to cover things up.”
“A Special Grade Curse appeared in Kyoto? But the news at the time clearly reported it as a natural gas explosion…”
Ye Ran suddenly realized something at this point.
He’d found it odd when he saw the news back then.
How could a natural gas pipeline explosion cause such widespread damage?
But after the news ended, he just shrugged it off and didn’t think too much about it.
His long-term life of comfort had eroded his sensitivity and vigilance.
Only after inheriting the Heroic Spirit System did he discover that the seemingly peaceful and stable reality was actually fraught with undercurrents.
“By the way, why are you so confident that I can deal with the Grade 2 Curse in the Black Building?”
This was the first time they had ever met, and yet, she was taking him to fight a Grade 2 Curse…
“If you’re scared, you can leave.”
Miasaki Naru’s plain face remained stoic, unmoved.
“Personally, I don’t agree with you coming, but Misaki insisted that you were different, so she asked me to bring you along.”
Ye Ran was taken aback by the short-haired girl’s calm words.
If he remembered correctly, Miasaki Naru’s younger sister, Miasaki Misaki, had died of leukemia at the age of 16 due to a curse.
Could it be that the timeline of this world has been reversed?
“.......”
Miasaki Naru didn’t offer much explanation.
Instead, she walked into the pitch-black Black Building without a second thought.
Seeing this, Ye Ran didn’t hesitate and followed the girl inside.
It had to be said, the name Black Building was truly apt.
As soon as they stepped inside, they found themselves in a pitch-black void, devoid of any light.
A heavy, oppressive atmosphere emanated from all around.
In this pitch-blackness, where one couldn’t see their hand in front of their face, it felt as if a formless, invisible, and eerie creature was lurking in the shadows, watching them, causing their hairs to stand on end.
“Hmm, the Magic Meter is starting to vibrate? Does that mean the Grade 2 Curse is lurking up ahead…?”
At this moment, the Magic Meter on Ye Ran’s waist was vibrating intensely, sending out warnings.
It seemed that the Grade 2 Curse wasn’t far away.
“It’s clear to see that the 【Barrier】 in the Black Building was hastily set up… even someone with as little knowledge of cursed energy as me could easily break in.”
Miasaki Naru led the way through the pitch-black environment, her expression calm and without a hint of fear.
“But Ye Ran has truly surprised me… he doesn’t have any cursed energy at all, so how can he enter so easily?”
“Hmm, Misaki said that his constitution was very peculiar, that he possessed an immense power different from cursed energy…”
Thanks to the Red Dragon Heart, Ye Ran’s night vision had been enhanced.
While he couldn’t see clearly like it was daytime, it was still enough to see his surroundings.
Right now, he felt like he had entered a region that was like a fixed barrier.
The darkness was like thick water, silently and invisibly enveloping him from all sides.
“!”
Suddenly, an uncanny sense of danger surged through his heart. His sharp instincts made him instinctively take a step back, instantly materializing a black key.
“Projection – Activate!”
The black key, made entirely of magic, felt more like a talon in his hand.
Ye Ran thrust it forward, instantly piercing the chest of the wolf-shaped monster that lunged at him.
“Aaaaargh!”
The wolf-shaped monster let out a bloodcurdling howl as it was impaled from front to back by the immense force.
The black key was equipment used by the Holy Church to exorcise demons, most adept at dispelling evil.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!
Like pouring cold water into boiling oil, the black spirit instantly boiled, accompanied by a shrill scream that caused the surrounding black mist to churn violently.
This deafening roar startled the Curse monsters around.
From the dark, viscous shadows resembling a swamp, several wolf-shaped Curses charged forward.
They ran towards him relentlessly, one after the other.
“Careful!”
Seeing this, Miasaki Naru clenched her teeth, filled with anxiety.
She only had time to warn the young man before a shadowy figure of a girl appeared behind her.
Her speed increased dramatically, and she was about to intercept those wolf-shaped Curses to help him.
“Don’t worry, I got this.”
Ye Ran’s pupils dilated, yet he felt no fear despite the danger.
His chest felt hot like coal, the Red Dragon Heart, like a perpetual motion machine, constantly pumping an indescribable amount of power to every part of his body.
A golden long sword shimmering with starlight appeared in his palm.
The radiant light pierced through the darkness.
The Oath of Victory Sword shot forward, instantly piercing through the bodies of three wolf-shaped Curses.
A blue exorcism rune followed closely behind, passing through them and continuing onward, even piercing through the few Curses behind them.
In the blink of an eye, these wolf-shaped Curses were easily slain by Ye Ran, strung together like candied fruit.