Change….I possessed the power to change.
Or maybe the power was something else, something I simply could not put my finger on.
Even after years of observing and utilising the technique as if it were simply a body part of mine, I was not able to understand its essence.
I knew that my technique enables me to control and change anything I can extend my cursed energy to and overtake. I know, most likely, due to the knowledge my inherited technique brings to me, that I can alter or transform matter, power, energy, objects, living beings or concepts into anything I wish to, either completely or partially, either temporarily or permanently.
Although, the power seems to be legendary, I had limited control over this.
It was not an issue of the amount of cursed energy I possessed or the level of control I had over the cursed energy.
The very basis of my technique to activate was to fully cover the 'thing' I wished to control with my cursed energy and overtake it.
I genuinely couldn't understand that how to extend my cursed energy over to something abstract as something as 'concept' and overtake it. Or even to something like 'energy', which possessed no material form.
I thought maybe, fighting life-threatening battles with curses may allow me to overcome the dead-end I had reached, like how I saw Gojo become akin to invincible in his fight against Toji, but alas, I could not cross that threshold.
Maybe it was because I never found myself in a life threatening fight, in the first place.
The curses I fought until now were not simply on such a level to put me in such a situation.
Along with this issue, I also had another worry that seemed to weigh on my mind. The issue was that in the 53 fights I have been in against curses, I did not meet any sorcerer.
After some of those fights, I even waited for hours to encounter a sorcerer who may come to investigate the remnants of the cursed energy that were left after the battle.
But no sorcerer came.
I thought of different theories as to why no sorcerer came, maybe because this area is not under their surveillance, or maybe I dealt with the curses very quickly, not giving them enough time to notice, which is very less probable, though. But again these were mere speculations.
I hoped that the true reason was along the line of these theories. I could not tolerate to think that I was alone in this world with these curses, that I was not in the world that I saw in the anime.
These thoughts scared me.
I quickly shook off these thoughts from my mind as it was foolish to indulge them.
Maybe, who knows, I'll meet a sorcerer in my next battle, for god's sake.
I woke up from my mental dilemma and quickly put on my shoes and opened the door.
"Bye mother, father!", I waived my parents with a smile on my mind, despite my worries and went out from the house.
I lied to them that I was going to my friend's house, whereas I had no intention of doing that.
I walked towards a disturbance causing ripples in the natural flow of cursed energy, most likely a cursed being. I put my brown leather jacket's black hoodie on as my eyes turned predatory.
It was time to hunt.
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