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Hours after first encountering the mysterious monsters, Taiyo is still experimenting with his discoveries.
"Come on!" Taiyo screams as he stares down yet another humanoid monster.
This one was pale green and only 5ft -150cm- tall, with three thin, lanky arms, the extra limb attached to its back.
It charges toward Taiyo as dozens of dead creatures are burning away around them, leaving his backyard completely destroyed and all but unusable for his archery training.
While playing with his new toy, and the friends that came with it, he'd gotten somewhat carried away.
The monster rushes toward him, falling forward and crawling on four limbs as the extra arm on its back transforms into a sharp, jagged spike, seemingly made of bone.
Taiyo matches its charge. Now able to focus on actively enhancing his strength and durability, he's much more confident in taking these monsters head-on.
As he closes in, he punches forward, sending a ball of fire at the monster, only for it to spin, whipping up a torrent of air to help disperse the heat before it's enveloped by the flames.
Taiyo takes this chance to flip over the monster and grab the spear on its back while he's upside down above it.
He feels the sharp spear rip into his skin and flesh, but simply tightens his grip and releases flames from his feet and the side of his body to pivot into the air.
Keeping himself in place, he spins and launches the monster into the air as if he were a trebuchet.
"Damn!" he growls, feeling his hands weren't healing instinctively, not sure what was wrong with his healing at the moment.
So instead, he decides to use his feet to finish this monster, and rockets into the air on two jets of fire.
While still spinning through the air above the valley, the monster is unable to defend itself properly and only barely places its three hands together to block the kick.
Taiyo feels as if he just kicked a brick wall, before he discovered his superpowers, and can tell that the bones in his left foot were fractured, if not completely shattered.
So he twists his core and pivots in the air, shrouding his right foot with flames and bringing it to connect with the monster as he lowers his left foot.
FWOOM!
The impact shatters the monster's limbs and sends a shockwave of his energy through its body, before a dense pillar of fire punches a clean hole through it.
"That was tougher than I expected," Taiyo says, clearly relieved, as he hovers in the air with one leg before quickly descending to the ground below.
He looks around at the dozen or so corpses disposing of themselves as they erupt into purple flames.
"Well, that's convenient," he says while limping over to one of the chairs in his backyard and dropping into it.
He looks at his ankle, which is swollen, along with his palms, which haven't healed.
"Maybe it's because I'm too tired," Taiyo wonders, noticing that compared to the amount of energy he woke up with, currently, he is at almost half. "I killed about three dozen of those things, so I should be able to keep fighting, but my brain feels more tired than my energy, so I probably need sleep or something."
Closing his eyes, he leans back into the chair, imagining his energy flowing like blood, repairing the bones in his leg, mending the muscle, flesh, and nerves in his hands.
And once more, he feels the cool sensation flowing through his body as he immediately heals.
"I wish I had this when I broke my leg," he mutters, slightly annoyed at the memory of spending all summer in a cast. "Hmm, maybe that's why I can heal broken bones so easily, because I understand what's wrong…or maybe the magic just does that because it knows what I want."
Taiyo looks out at the lake for a few minutes as the moon rises high into the sky, then glances over to the wooden box on the chair beside him, and thinks about the finger contained within.
"I think we've done enough for tonight," Taiyo says as he takes the box and walks into the house.
Walking into his house, he places the box on the kitchen counter and walks over to the tap to get a glass of water, then glances over at the large jar of brown sugar on the counter.
"Magic gave me a sweet tooth?" he wonders while dumping many spoons of sugar into the water.
He stirs the water to dissolve as much of the sugar as he can, then chugs the entire glass before pouring some more, with just as much sugar.
After drinking the sugar water, he can already feel his mind relaxing, noticing the effect it has on his brain.
"So sugar is good…and years of careful dieting, down the drain," Taiyo mutters as he looks at the clock, seeing that it's quickly approaching midnight.
Later that night, after a very thorough shower and bath, then another shower, Taiyo is sitting in bed with a notebook, writing everything he observed about his magic so he can properly study it.
---Meanwhile, At Tokyo Jujutsu Tech…
A 24-year-old Satoru Gojo, wearing a white button-up shirt and black shorts, opens the door to his room.
He was tall, standing at 6ft3 -187cm- with a head of white hair and dazzling blue eyes, which were currently glaring at an older man with tan skin and a pair of small sunglasses, even at night.
The man wore a black suit and white undershirt, and had a serious look on his face.
"This had better be important. You may have abandoned looking good, but I still need my beauty sleep," Gojo says. "Not that I need much, since I'm naturally handsome."
"Tomorrow we have an assignment to take care of. I need you with me."
"Me?" Gojo asks. "Why not take Nanami? He's just rejoined the school so—"
"Master Tengen detected that Special Grade again," the man says, and Gojo immediately gets serious. "You, Mei Mei, myself, and Principal Gakuganji will be going to assess the situation."
"Ugh, that old fossil. Why do we even need him?"
"Because, like it or not—"
"—Not," Gojo says.
"Mmm, regardless, he runs our sister school in Kyoto, so when something like this comes up, he needs to be informed."
"Tch, that old pile of bones would only be in the way…" Gojo then thinks about what he said, and looks at the man. "Which means you aren't expecting a fight, otherwise you'd just send me to handle this solo, instead of having you three in my way."
Principal Yaga nods. "Master Tengen learned that the unregistered Special Grade we detected weeks ago, is Taiyo Daburu."
"Taiyo Daburu? The Olympics kid?" Gojo asks. "Well, that would explain why his Cursed Energy signature appeared when supposedly that kid's family all died, then it disappeared from Master Tengen's range when he went to Russia, and now he's back."
"Yes, so be ready, and try not to annoy the boy too much," Principal Yaga says.
"I'm never annoying," Gojo says as the man turns around and begins walking away. And Gojo sticks his tongue out at his old teacher.
---Minutes Later, Kyoto Jujutsu Tech…
In the principal's office, a wrinkled old man with a thin white beard and eyebrows that are long enough to frame his face, is sitting at his desk, filling out some paperwork after getting off the phone with Principal Yaga.
After some careful consideration, the man taps a button on the phone resting on his desk, and seconds later, a woman speaks through it.
"Principal Gakuganji, has something happened?" she asks.
"Yes, something we may be able to use," he says. "Master Tengen has detected the presence of a Special Grade sorcerer. Tomorrow I will be joining Principal Yaga, Satoru Gojo, and Mei Mei, to make contact with him."
"I will inform the higher-ups immediately."
"And tell them I may need access to more resources, if we are to bring him to our side, and perhaps give us a method of resisting Satoru Gojo, depending on his talent."
"Will you require any additional resources beforehand?" she asks.
"No, but if this person appears to be another character like Satoru Gojo, steps must be taken to eliminate them, so inform the higher-ups that I may need to make such moves," Principal Gakuganji says. "That will be all."
"Yes sir," the woman hangs up, leaving the man to his work.
END CHAPTER---
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