“Where is this?”
Yuta Okkotsu looked around the deserted high-rise buildings.
“This is an elementary school,” Satoru Gojo said in a heavy tone, “But it’s an elementary school where children have gone missing.”
“Missing!!”
Yuta was shocked, and Satoru Gojo continued, “Since it’s a place like this, it’s probably natural curses causing trouble.”
“Did the children get kidnapped by curses?” Natsubi Raku asked.
Satoru Gojo: “Yes, two children so far.”
Maki Zenin, who was carrying a long black bag, explained, “Places with a lot of memories tend to gather curses. Schools, hospitals, places like these become receptacles for negative emotions whenever they are remembered. These accumulated emotions then generate curses.”
“Yes, exorcise the curses and rescue the children. If they are already dead, retrieve the bodies,” Satoru Gojo raised his right hand, making a gesture with his fingers, and continued, “Born from darkness, darker than black. Cleanse all filth and impurity.”
“Plop——”
The sound of water dripping was heard from above. Natsubi Raku looked up. A drop of inky water spread out, slowly surrounding the school.
This feeling of shock was incomparable to the manga, though he hadn’t read much of it.
“It’s gone dark!!” Yuta exclaimed in surprise.
“Relax,” Satoru Gojo said with a smile, walking towards the door with a light tone, “This is a barrier; it hides you from the outside. Barriers reveal curses and can be easily removed from the inside. Just be careful not to die.”
With those words, the black barrier completely covered the ground, while Satoru Gojo waited outside.
“Die? Teacher!”
Yuta, looking anxious, seemed to want to say something more, but Natsubi Raku reminded him, “Don’t look around. The cursed spirits have already come out.”
“What!”
Yuta turned to look. Maki Zenin had already drawn her naginata from her bag, and three tall, one-eyed curses stood on the previously empty road.
They looked identical and began trembling madly, making hoarse and frightening sounds: “Come… in… side…”
Long, slender arms were placed under their single eyes, and then they reached into their roughly stitched mouths, pulling the stitches apart with force while murmuring creepy words.
Thick white liquid oozed from the seams, slowly dripping to the ground.
So disgusting.
Even though Natsubi Raku had observed corpses being dissected, he still felt nauseous at the sight.
“Snap——”
The white thread broke, and a broad tongue emerged. As the stitches were fully torn open, the true appearance of the curses was revealed: the stitched-up mouths.
As the mouths opened wide, the three curses charged at them frantically, their drooling mouths indicating their ravenous hunger, occasionally letting out terrifying howls.
“They’re coming this way!”
Yuta, seeing Natsubi Raku’s calm expression, assumed he had a plan and quickly asked, “What do we do!”
“You’re such a coward,” Natsubi Raku glanced at Maki, who was holding a weapon, and continued, “These three weaklings aren’t enough for Maki. If she’s not worried, why are you?”
His words were unreasonable but confident, displaying a typical act-tough attitude.
“…”
Yuta was speechless. Both being transfer students, why was there such a big difference between them…
Maki, who was about to take action, heard Natsubi Raku’s words using her as a shield and recalled how he had taken advantage of her earlier. She put away her naginata and said, “Since you’re so capable, why don’t you handle them?”
“…”
If I could fight them, would I be clinging to you?
Natsubi Raku was speechless. Although the system’s task was to exorcise ten curses, it was clear he couldn’t handle these three. He wasn’t even sure if he could match them in size. However, if he could activate his Sharingan, he might stand a chance. He had activated it once before when attacked by the puppet in the morning, but hadn’t tried it since and wasn’t sure if it would work again.
Might as well try. With the cursed energy flowing into his eyes and then covering his arms, he might stand a chance. Maki wouldn’t let him die, right?
Go for it!
The three curses were now only about twenty meters away from Natsubi Raku. At their speed, they would reach him in three or four seconds. At this critical moment, he closed his eyes, directing his cursed energy to his eyes.
What is he doing?
This lunatic is closing his eyes at a time like this!
Maki tightened her grip on her naginata, her eyes sharp. If Natsubi Raku got hit, she would attack immediately. Despite her annoyance, she wouldn’t abandon a teammate.
The curses, seeing the human closing his eyes, grew even more excited, their hoarse howls echoing across the campus.
Quick, quick, quick!
Natsubi Raku’s heart was pounding. He didn’t understand why the cursed energy flowed so quickly into his eyes the first time, taking only 0.1 seconds. But doing it himself was slow.
I’m going to die!
I’m going to die!!
I’m going to die!!!
The strong desire to live filled his heart. The desperate negative emotions turned into cursed energy, continuously providing power to his eyes until they were saturated.
Natsubi Raku opened his eyes. In his scarlet pupils, a single tomoe was spinning rapidly, and the movements of the three curses became clear.
This is the feeling, the power of the One-Tomoe Sharingan. The enemy’s actions were like slow motion.
With the Sharingan successfully activated, he now needed to cover his hands with cursed energy and exorcise them!
“Step aside, I’ll handle these three.”
Natsubi Raku said calmly as he moved back to buy some time.
His eyes are different now!
Yuta and Maki noticed his strange eyes and stepped aside. The three curses, provoked by Natsubi Raku, ignored the others and focused on him.
“Raku’s eyes are different,” Yuta said.
“Yeah, I’m not blind,” Maki replied, watching Natsubi Raku skillfully dodge the curses’ attacks. She loosened her grip on her naginata, impressed, “I didn’t expect him to have some skill.”
Facing the attacks of the three curses, Natsubi Raku dodged effortlessly. Were those eyes the reason?
Is he related to Gojo-sensei?
But he doesn’t look like him, neither in appearance nor hair color, though their personalities are somewhat similar. However, just dodging won’t be enough to defeat these curses.
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