A little while earlier, Suguru Geto, carrying his newly purchased long-bar weapon and accompanied by a swarm of cursed spirits, began a carpet-search of the school.
He had bought the long-bar weapon with Eiji. Among the many bladed weapons, Suguru Geto was only interested in powerful-feeling hammers, clubs, and polearms.
However, polearms were too large to carry around easily. After all, the two of them weren't always together, and Eiji couldn't act as Suguru Geto's storage at all times.
Light, flimsy short weapons felt uninteresting to Suguru Geto. After much deliberation, Suguru Geto chose a collapsible long-bar weapon.
The weapon was shortest at half a meter and longest at 3 meters. When striking an enemy, injecting cursed energy into it could produce a powerful impact, making it feel incredibly potent.
"There's a cursed tool that would suit you quite well. If you save up enough money, you can go to Satoru Gojo to buy it, but you'll need to be quick or someone else will buy it."
Having fully understood Suguru Geto's preferences, Eiji offered his suggestion.
"What cursed tool?"
Hearing about a cursed tool that suited him, Suguru Geto became interested.
"Special Grade Cursed Tool - Heavenly Restriction. Among the known Special Grade Cursed Tools, it's the only one that doesn't have a cursed technique imbued. When attacking, it grants powerful physical destructive force based on the user's arm strength."
"Oh? How much is it?"
Suguru Geto's interest piqued. A cursed tool that sounded this powerful was exactly his type.
"Five hundred million."
Suguru Geto's jaw dropped.
While exorcising cursed spirits was lucrative, that was five hundred million! He'd need to exorcise dozens of Grade 1 cursed spirits just to save up that much.
However, if he worked alone...
Suguru Geto stroked his chin.
He had always teamed up with Eiji to exorcise cursed spirits, with Eiji taking the lion's share. If he worked alone, he should be able to save up enough after about a dozen exorcisms.
"I need to save money as quickly as possible after this is over."
With that, Suguru Geto walked into the school building.
The high school buildings were arranged in a two-three-two layout.
The upper section on the left housed outdoor sports facilities and club activities, with the gymnasium below.
The middle section had the old school building on top and two teaching buildings below, while the right side had two laboratory buildings.
Home economics, physics, chemistry, and other classes were held in these two laboratory buildings.
There was strength in numbers, and the same applied to cursed spirits.
With the help of hundreds of cursed spirits, Suguru Geto found all the body parts except the head in less than an hour.
However, he couldn't find the final piece, the head, anywhere.
"The only remaining place is the broadcasting room, then."
The cursed spirits he had sent to search the broadcasting room had not reported back, and he couldn't contact them now. Regardless of whether the head was in the broadcasting room, Suguru Geto had to investigate.
"Crimson Figure detected in the auditorium."
The familiar broadcast voice sounded again, and Suguru Geto frowned.
"Strange, shouldn't the Crimson Figure be guarded by Full Elephant? Why is there another broadcast about the Crimson Figure in the auditorium?"
A second clone? Or the main body?
Never mind, it was just a Grade 1 cursed spirit. Eiji could handle it. What he needed to do now was investigate the broadcasting room.
Soon, Suguru Geto arrived at the door of the broadcasting room.
It wasn't a cloudy day, and the moonlight outside was bright, but the glass of the broadcasting room was pitch black, as if not a single ray of light penetrated it.
Click, click.
After pulling on the door a few times, Suguru Geto found it was locked from the inside.
Taking his long-bar weapon, Suguru Geto prepared to break down the door.
Just as Suguru Geto was gathering his strength to attack, the broadcasting room door creaked open a sliver.
A pair of crimson eyes from within stared at Suguru Geto.
Suguru Geto's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately prepared for battle.
"Come in."
Suguru Geto, who was about to attack, froze. This was the first time he had ever encountered a cursed spirit that could speak complete sentences.
He had encountered some Grade 1 cursed spirits that could utter words before, but their speech was always fragmented and nonsensical.
The broadcasting room door opened completely, and the figure of a girl appeared before Suguru Geto.
"Who are you?"
Meanwhile, in the auditorium.
Black mist gushed out, and a cursed spirit, about 6 meters tall, slowly materialized within the dark fog.
The cursed spirit's body resembled an ordinary stout person, but its neck was a staggering 4 meters long, with black mist continuously spewing from both sides of the neck. Its massive head had a mouth that opened in four petals like a flower, and its dark eyes, easily overlooked, fixed on Eiji.
Demon.
That was the thought that crossed everyone's mind when the Special Grade Cursed Spirit appeared.
Cold sweat trickled down Eiji's forehead. The pressure from the Special Grade demonic Cursed Spirit made him tremble.
Should he summon Mahoraga?
Mahoraga's adaptation to Command Spells wasn't complete yet. If he used all three Command Spells at once, he should be able to control Mahoraga for a short time.
But what then?
How long would it take for Mahoraga to fully adapt to the Command Spells?
Minutes? Seconds?
It wasn't impossible that Mahoraga had already fully adapted to the Command Spells.
After all, Mahoraga's ability was to adapt to anything. It only needed to withstand one attack to start adapting. He had already used three Command Spells on Mahoraga before.
At this moment, Eiji suddenly realized his mindset was overlapping with Megumi Fushiguro's.
Megumi Fushiguro always thought summoning Mahoraga would solve everything. In the six months before the plot began, he had nearly self-destructed eight times.
It seemed Eiji had developed the same idea.
"How pathetic."
He was actually afraid.
Yes, Eiji realized that the moment the demonic Cursed Spirit appeared, he was actually afraid.
What's there to be afraid of? The demonic Cursed Spirit in front of him is Special Grade, but isn't he a Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer?
Even if it wasn't recognized by the Jujutsu World, would Satoru Gojo's Six Eyes be less accurate in judging strength than the Jujutsu World?
Before Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto rose to prominence, Special Grade Cursed Spirits were eliminated by Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerers. So what's there to be afraid of? Let's do this!
A hint of madness flashed in Eiji's eyes. He didn't know when Suguru Geto would arrive. No, he couldn't always rely on others.
Assuming Suguru Geto couldn't make it back in time, he would go all out and win!
"Divine Dogs! Tiger Grave!"
Tiger Grave went first, with Divine Dogs flanking it. The two Summoned Spirits began a probing attack.
The next moment, black mist billowed, and the entire auditorium was instantly enveloped in black fog.
"No signs of poisoning, weakness, or anything like that. Just a method to obstruct vision."
Eiji thought.
Suddenly, a gaping maw appeared in front of Eiji.
"Die!"
Eiji, greatly alarmed, immediately swung his sword down.
The demonic Cursed Spirit's head was instantly cut in half by Eiji's attack, but Eiji felt something was wrong.
"It was too light. It didn't feel like I was cutting a Cursed Spirit's head, more like hacking at a stuffed toy."
The next moment, another Cursed Spirit burst out from behind the first one.
Eiji blocked with his sword, and the immense force sent him flying.
"Puhah."
Eiji slammed hard into the auditorium wall, and spiderweb-like cracks spread outwards.
He canceled the summoning of the Black Divine Dog, and Nue appeared beside Eiji, beginning to heal him.
"Tiger Grave! Blow away this black mist!"
Eiji shouted. Hearing Eiji's voice, the vortex around Tiger Grave transformed into a storm that scattered outwards, immediately dispersing most of the black fog.
The next moment, Eiji's eyes widened.
Beside Tiger Grave, the Crimson Figure was relentlessly entangling Tiger Grave's movements, while the demonic Cursed Spirit not far away held a corpse severed in two.
It was the corpse of the White Divine Dog.
"You bastard!"
With his injuries healed, Eiji immediately charged into the black mist towards the Special Grade Cursed Spirit, brandishing his long sword.
At that moment, Eiji seemed to enter a strange state. Half of his brain was filled with rage like an erupting volcano, while the other half was as cold as an ice cave, terrifyingly calm.
Charging into the black mist, Eiji swung his sword at the demonic Cursed Spirit's neck. The next moment, the demonic Cursed Spirit dissolved like mist again.
A huge figure appeared behind Eiji.
Eiji swung his sword behind his back, adopting a defensive posture similar to Su Qin carrying his sword on his back.
Clang.
As expected, it was a physical entity.
The moment Eiji was sent flying, a figure appeared behind the demonic Cursed Spirit with lightning speed, its claws slashing out and leaving huge wounds on the demonic Cursed Spirit.
This was the Ferocious Dog, which Eiji affectionately called the "Ferocious Dog."
The summoned spirits of the Ten Shadows Technique don't have their cursed energy disappear when they are killed; instead, it's inherited by other summoned spirits. The cursed energy of the White Divine Dog was successfully inherited by the Black Divine Dog, which then evolved into the Ferocious Dog.
If the demonic cursed spirit hadn't dodged in time, this strike would have likely severed its neck.
"As I thought, your ability is to create illusions within black mist."
The Ferocious Dog stood beside Eiji, spitting out two golden chess pieces from its mouth.
These were Heroic Spirit Chess Pieces of the Assassin and Cavalry classes.
Eiji then took out the Berserker class chess piece and placed it inside the Ferocious Dog.
Instantly, the Ferocious Dog's muscles bulged, and a hint of crimson appeared in its eyes.
The Ferocious Dog charged at the demonic cursed spirit, its claws unleashing wide-ranging slashes.
The wide-area attacks meant that even if the attack hit an illusion, the demonic cursed spirit's true body could only counterattack from the small areas not covered by the slashes.
And Eiji covered the opening the Ferocious Dog exposed.
Slice.
The Tang Dao plunged into the demonic cursed spirit's body. The cursed spirit, with its long neck bent, lunged to bite Eiji.
But before the demonic cursed spirit could reach him, the Ferocious Dog bit down on it first.
"Uroya."
Uroya materialized behind Eiji. The charge distance of over ten meters wasn't much, but it successfully slammed the demonic cursed spirit out of the auditorium, moving the fight to the sports field.
"Nue."
Uroya vanished, and Nue flew out from Eiji's shadow, devouring the Cavalry class Heroic Spirit Chess Piece.
The Ferocious Dog turned and charged into the auditorium, launching a fierce assault on the Crimson Figure, aiming to defeat the level 1 Crimson Figure in the shortest possible time.
Tiger Grave, carrying a gale, arrived at the battlefield with the demonic cursed spirit.
After feeding the Magician class Heroic Spirit Chess Piece to Tiger Grave, the winds around it intensified, confining the Special Grade Cursed Spirit's black mist to within a ten-meter radius.
Eiji, holding his long sword, looked coldly at the Special Grade Cursed Spirit radiating black mist.
The next moment, lightning, wind bullets compressed from the gale, and Eiji's long sword simultaneously attacked the demonic cursed spirit.
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