Tokyo, Nerima Ward.
For Nanami Kento, today was another night of overtime.
Originally, the main targets for jujutsu sorcerers like them were Cursed Spirits.
But with the accelerated pace of the spiritual resurgence in the last year or two, various demons and monsters that no one had ever seen before would pop up from time to time. Therefore, the relationships between the different supernatural systems were now forced to become much closer due to these new forces.
When a situation really arose, onmyoji would also help exorcise Cursed Spirits, and jujutsu sorcerers could also deal with things like Dead Apostles that had wandered over to Japan.
Today, Nanami Kento, along with a few exorcists, had dealt with a batch of newly emerged supernatural creatures similar to vampire species.
These guys had suddenly appeared in Tokyo in the last month, and their identities could not be discovered until they used their powers.
And this bunch of guys not only drank human blood but also fed on human flesh.
It could even be said that the only staple food for those guys, who looked no different from humans on the outside, was humans.
In less than a month, they had already secretly hunted a considerable number of ordinary people.
Fortunately, these guys were not like vampire species who could create more companions through the Embrace.
Although the higher-ups of the various factions in the inner world had not yet figured out how these creatures, who called themselves Ghouls, had appeared in Tokyo in groups.
But in the face of this kind of humanoid creature that feeds on humans, the attitude of the various forces in the inner world was not much different.
Find a way to capture some of them alive for interrogation, and after figuring out their origin, clean them all up.
"What an unpleasant job," after cutting off the arm of a Ghoul who was eating human flesh with his Innate Technique, Nanami Kento looked at the scene of flying flesh and blood and couldn't help but adjust his glasses.
Although in his career as a jujutsu sorcerer, he had seen many scenes more hellish than this, his enemies had always been those inherently ugly Cursed Spirits.
Among them, only a very small number of Cursed Spirits would have an appearance close to humans, but one could still see the distinct difference between those Cursed Spirits and humans at a glance.
But these guys who called themselves Ghouls were different.
They looked almost no different from humans.
Fighting with these guys made him somewhat unaccustomed to it.
Who created these Ghouls with no identifiable information and brought them to Tokyo in groups?
Continuing to curse this crappy era in his heart, and counting in his mind that his working hours had exceeded the limit again today, Nanami Kento, after finishing cleaning up the area he was responsible for with those exorcists, nodded to the exorcist on the side, indicating that the rest of the work would be completed by them.
After all, the Jujutsu world was small in scale, and there were not many researchers. Having one or two Ghouls for research at the Jujutsu High was enough. Now, these were actually outsourced orders that the Church and Shinto side had placed with the Jujutsu higher-ups for a fee.
And just as Nanami Kento was preparing to change out of his blood-stained work clothes to relax, the ringing of his phone suddenly made his already not-so-high spirits drop a little more.
After seeing the familiar name under the caller ID, Nanami Kento's expression changed slightly again.
For the other party to be calling now, could it be because he had already learned the truth of this world from the mouth of that shrine maiden from Takamiya Shrine, so he was now calling to ask about the situation here?
Nanami Kento thought, and answered the phone.
However, after he answered the phone, the news he heard from Miyauchi Hikage's side immediately made his mood even worse.
Miyauchi Hikage's side had indeed, as he had thought, become aware of the other side of this world, and had also met that ghost of Yuuko in person.
But the file didn't mention that that Yuuko had actually split into two half a century ago!
One was the main body but had lost her memory, living in a muddle for sixty years, subconsciously suppressing the other clone, the ghost of Kanoe Yuuko.
The other was the shadow Yuuko, who had borne all the negative power and had been constantly strengthening herself by relying on the negative emotions born in the school for the past sixty years, wanting to regain the dominant position.
With this, the puzzle was indeed solved.
Why Kanoe Yuuko, who had already been judged as a Grade 1 vengeful spirit ten years ago, had never laid a hand on an ordinary person in half a century.
It turned out that the revenge in her heart had never faded, but had been growing with the passage of time. It was just that there was another remote control, the main body, beside her, restraining her.
The result was that because she had been stable for too long, Shinto had let down its guard against her, which ultimately led to her gaining enough power in recent years to counter her own main body.
If she really devoured her main body, she might immediately become a special-grade vengeful spirit.
Thinking of Miyauchi Hikage's description on the other end of the phone.
Even if she hadn't reached the level of a special-grade vengeful spirit yet, she probably wasn't far off.
Then Hiiragi Inori, whom he had found to help, was probably in danger now!
"Are you safe over there now?" he asked Miyauchi Hikage about his current safety on the phone.
And Miyauchi Hikage's answer also surprised him a little.
In other words, under the pressure of that shadow Yuuko, he had awakened a teleportation-like power at a critical moment and had now successfully escaped the range of that school, but Hiiragi Inori and the two Kanoe family members who were related to Kanoe Yuuko by blood were still trapped inside the school.
Upon hearing this news, Nanami Kento was truly a bit stunned.
When he first saw Miyauchi Hikage, he had indeed seen that his constitution was quite special. If he really brought him into the circle of the inner world and had him train hard for ten or twenty years, he would have the potential to become a Grade 1.
In subsequent meetings, he had vaguely noticed that Miyauchi Hikage's constitution was still improving at a relatively stable rate, making him think that he might be about to awaken some kind of physical-type technique or ability.
But now Miyauchi Hikage told him that he had awakened a spatial teleportation ability.
It was like at first thinking the other was just an R-rank card, then thinking that with hard work, he had the potential to become an SR.
But now, taking out the card and looking carefully, it was an SSR radiating a rainbow light.
Few abilities related to space are weak. Therefore, after hearing about the ability Miyauchi Hikage had now awakened, Nanami Kento's thoughts changed.
Miyauchi Hikage was someone he had been paying attention to before his ability had awakened. If he were to be poached by other forces like this, it was hard to say what the reaction of the Jujutsu higher-ups would be, but the principal of the Jujutsu High would definitely be nagging in his ear for half a day.
So, after just a brief thought of less than ten seconds, Nanami Kento, after telling Miyauchi Hikage to ensure his own safety, helped to call for backup.
Excluding Geto Suguru, who had long since fallen into a special-grade Cursed User and was personally buried by Gojo Satoru, there were currently only three special-grade jujutsu sorcerers on the surface in Japan.
One in Kyoto, Gojo Satoru here in Tokyo, and the newly promoted special-grade sorcerer, Okkotsu Yuta, who was currently training abroad.
So at this time, the first person Nanami Kento thought of was to ask this senior, Gojo Satoru, for help.
After all, the Limitless Cursed Technique that Gojo Satoru possessed itself had the ability to teleport, and he could basically appear at any location in Japan within half an hour.
It was just that he usually didn't like this way of traveling and would directly take the train when the situation was not urgent.
With his relationship with Gojo Satoru, he could actually just call him directly for help.
But to be more formal, he still dialed Yaga Masamichi's number first. As the principal of the Jujutsu High, he was also aware of Miyauchi Hikage's situation.
Having the principal arrange the rescue would also better show the importance the Jujutsu High placed on Miyauchi Hikage.
As expected, after hearing Nanami Kento's report, Yaga Masamichi's side would naturally not let go of an SSR like Miyauchi Hikage.
Although the Jujutsu High now had Gojo Satoru and Okkotsu Yuta, two special-grade combat powers, and more than ten sorcerers with Grade 1 strength, in order to bring more changes to the Jujutsu world, any new force with potential was worth investing in.
As for testing Miyauchi Hikage?
Miyauchi Hikage's side had probably already noticed the abnormality of this world before this. Under such circumstances, he still chose to explore those abnormalities despite his vast wealth.
This point alone was enough to see the madness within Miyauchi Hikage.
Yaga Masamichi had originally planned to have Nanami Kento bring him to the Jujutsu High after Miyauchi Hikage had officially intervened in a supernatural event, to find a way to help him awaken.
Now Miyauchi Hikage, under the pressure of a vengeful spirit, had completed his awakening ahead of schedule and had also obtained a spatial ability. Yaga Masamichi naturally did not hesitate much over a fledgling with special-grade potential.
In the fifth minute after Miyauchi Hikage left Seikyou Academy, Gojo Satoru, who was currently enjoying a limited-time dessert in a shopping arcade, received a request call from his own principal.
"Eh, is it that ghost house video blogger who's been really popular on the internet recently?"
"What, so the principal and Nanami have already been in contact with that blogger..."
"But this era is really something else. To be able to teleport with someone else right after awakening. No wonder you'd take the initiative to contact me, principal."
"...It's fine. It's not like a special-grade guy appears around Tokyo every day for me to warm up with. Going over there to see that interesting vengeful spirit now is just a warm-up."
After taking a bite of the dessert, Gojo Satoru, after learning the location of Seikyou Academy, feeling the deliciousness of the dessert, and at the same time calculating the distance between the two places.
"Since he might become my student in the future, I should go and have a good look at what kind of person this new student of mine is."
As for the special vengeful spirit that Yaga Masamichi had mentioned, Gojo Satoru just used "interesting" as an adjective, without any sense of tension at all.
Indeed, a vengeful spirit whose soul had split into good and evil individuals was not common, and one that could grow to this extent was even rarer.
As for how to deal with it.
It was nothing more than exorcising or sealing the evil vengeful spirit and continuing to leave the normal one be.
For others, it might be a bit difficult.
But for "the strongest," this kind of thing was just a piece of cake.
With the regret of not being able to slowly savor the deliciousness, Gojo Satoru, who had finished the dessert in two or three bites, stretched his muscles a bit at the entrance of the dessert shop, found his direction, and then, in a moment that no one noticed, his figure disappeared from the streets of Tokyo.
...
On Miyauchi Hikage's side, after hearing the tone of Nanami Kento on the other end of the phone, after hanging up, Miyauchi Hikage pretty much knew who would be coming next.
A super Grade 1 vengeful spirit. A normal Grade 1 coming would not necessarily be useful, not to mention that there were no other Grade 1 jujutsu sorcerers in Saitama Prefecture now.
For Nanami Kento to be able to call for help from the Shinto side was already a sign of having connections.
In the current situation, with Miyauchi Hikage having proactively shown his potential, who else could have enough strength and be called over in a short period of time, besides that strongest, Gojo Satoru?
Therefore, after hanging up the phone, Miyauchi Hikage said to Fujimiya Konomi on the side, "They should be sending someone to deal with the situation here soon. We can just wait here peacefully."
Looking at Miyauchi Hikage's appearance, Fujimiya Konomi, who had already escaped from danger, was no longer nervous about her own safety.
Miyauchi Hikage's expression meant that he probably knew what kind of person was coming, and that they could definitely solve the situation here.
Now she was just a little worried about the people still in the school.
Kanoe Kirie, Kanoe Yukariko, Hiiragi Inori, Itou Kaiji.
And the main body of that Kanoe Yuuko.
In the face of that particularly creepy-looking shadow Yuuko, could they hold on until the reinforcements arrived?
In the basement of the old school building of Seikyou Academy.
After the shadow Yuuko suddenly left, Hiiragi Inori quickly found a flaw in the basement's barrier, broke through the blockade with Kanoe Kirie and Itou Kaiji, and arrived at the real basement.
Dark, damp, old.
In this basement, through the already dimmed light in Hiiragi Inori's hand, only two relatively conspicuous places could be seen.
One was a broken skeleton leaning against the wall of the basement, with only bones left.
Obviously, this was the remains that Kanoe Yuuko had left behind, unwilling for anyone to discover.
And the other was an even more dilapidated old shrine.
This was the last and only remaining shrine of the Kanoe family's shrine.
After the shrine that the Kanoe family had guarded for generations fell into decline, this was the last place the Kanoe family used to worship the gods.
But who would have thought that the person sacrificed in front of this shrine, which the Kanoe family had guarded for so many years, would be a direct blood relative of the Kanoe family?