Chapter 126: The Bizarre Cursed Spirit.
"Where are you preparing to go, Tatsuro-kun?!"
Gojo Satoru's voice came through. It made Tatsuro jump. He turned and said, "I'm going to find Maki and the others. Don't tell me there's another student you want me to pick up?"
"No, no."
Gojo Satoru put his arm around Tatsuro's shoulder and said, "How about you do a favor for your teacher?"
"What? By the way, first give me back my hundred thousand yen. Nobara Kugisaki ate over a hundred thousand yen worth of food; I'll just ask you for a hundred thousand." As Tatsuro spoke, he held out his right hand.
"Huh? Shouldn't you ask her to pay it back?" Gojo Satoru looked bewildered.
"You're the one who told me to pick her up. Pay up."
"..."
"Talking about money hurts our feelings, doesn't it?"
Gojo Satoru pinched Tatsuro's cheek and said, "I have an important mission for you, a very important one! How about you help me supervise Yuji Itadori?"
"..."
This guy wants to be lazy again...
Tatsuro slapped away Gojo Satoru's hand that was pinching his cheek, turned to leave, and said, "Stop making excuses for your own laziness. I've already brought the person over. I'm leaving the school for a few days, Gojo-sensei."
"..."
Watching Tatsuro leave, Gojo Satoru complained, "Has his personality become overly cold?"
Yes, due to prolonged training in 'Sage Mode,' Tatsuro's personality had indeed become much calmer. Even if surrounded by four Special Grade cursed spirits, he wouldn't panic, but would just contemplate the best course of action and the worst-case scenario.
Of course, setting him off was also very easy. Just slaughter any one of Panda, Toge, Maki, Okkotsu, or Megumi, and he would explode. The consequence would be a semi-perfect 'Susanoo' chasing you all over town.
Leaving Jujutsu High, Tatsuro took out his phone and called Toge.
The call was connected after two seconds. Inumaki Toge's and Panda's voices came through.
Panda: "Tatsuro, why are you calling?"
Inumaki Toge: "Are you coming over? I'll send you the address."
"Mm, send me the address, Toge."
Tatsuro nodded and said, "I've finished up my business here. There are four first-years in total this year, two junior boys and two junior girls."
"Four, huh? We definitely have to see Megumi's expression when we get back," Panda shouted.
"Yeah, the look on his face will definitely be one of despair."
Tatsuro looked at the address Inumaki Toge sent, and the sage markings gradually appeared on his face. He then instantly vanished from the spot.
This was the Instant-Step Technique, but it could only be used on the foundation of 'Sage Mode'; after all, it relied on the physical body. Actually, the principle was very simple: as long as you moved fast enough, in the eyes of others, it was teleportation.
...
Night.
Tatsuro, who had been rushing all the way, met up with Maki and the others.
"Tatsuro's here! Dinner is ready, just in time. After we eat, let's go exorcise the cursed spirit in the mountain temple together!" Inumaki Toge, who was the first to sense him, waved and shouted.
"Mm, I'm here."
Tatsuro, who had been rushing, deactivated 'Sage Mode,' picked up a wooden bowl and chopsticks from the ground, and sat down.
They were currently deep in the mountains. Although cursed spirits were rare in such places, there were always temples in the mountains. Plus, for ordinary people to go up the mountain to burn incense and then come back down would inevitably take half a day, making it easy for it to get dark.
This was when accidental falls leading to death could occur. After a period of discussion, some relatively strong cursed spirits would also be born here.
Maki, eating her meal, said, "Today's exorcism mission is a first-grade cursed spirit. Eight people have already gone missing one after another. And the mission we received is to find the eight missing people and exorcise the cursed spirit."
"Then why didn't we keep going?" Just as Tatsuro finished speaking, he was stared back down by a look from Maki.
"...My mistake..."
Tatsuro also roughly knew the reason. Maki had no cursed energy in her body; climbing the mountain required a lot of physical energy, and then she got hungry.
"Maki couldn't take it anymore halfway up from hunger. She complained for half the journey. Luckily, I had the self-awareness to carry the pot in advance," Panda said with a laugh.
Just as he finished speaking, a foot kicked him in the face. Zenin Maki said, "Are you the only one with a big mouth? Hurry up and finish eating so we can go exorcise the cursed spirit."
"Uhh..., what about this rice?" Tatsuro asked about the rice in his bowl. The wooden bowl and wooden chopsticks were understandable; after all, the trees nearby were ready-made materials. Inumaki Toge could create them with a single word.
"I bought it," Inumaki Toge said.
"Hehehe, Maki is getting shy," Panda said, not minding the kick at all.
"Shy my ass! Hurry up and eat!"
Zenin Maki used her wooden bowl to cover her face and began to shovel the food from her bowl into her mouth.
Tatsuro also started to laugh. Indeed, he still preferred being with Maki and the others. It was just a pity that Okkotsu Yuta was currently away; otherwise, the five of them would definitely be even livelier.
As the meat in the iron pot rapidly dwindled, the group, now full, began to head towards the mountain peak.
"This mountain is really big. The people went missing yesterday; they're probably all dead by now," said Panda, carrying the iron pot on his back.
"Indeed."
Tatsuro activated his three-tomoe Sharingan and gazed at his surroundings. There were many cursed spirits nearby, watching them covetously, as if they had entered a wolf's den. However, they were all relatively weak fourth-grade cursed spirits and posed no threat to them.
They couldn't even threaten the lives of ordinary people, weak as insects. If they didn't attach themselves to humans and absorb resentment, they would quickly dissipate on their own.
"Even if they're dead, we have to bring back their remains. If there are no remains, then just exorcise the cursed spirit."
Zenin Maki carried her naginata on both shoulders, with [Playful Cloud] tucked at her waist, her eyes gazing warily at her surroundings.
"A cursed spirit is approaching..."
Inumaki Toge's pair of frog-like pupils stared at the only path up the mountain ahead. Then, a piercing sound came:
"Wuwuwu, it hurts so much, kill me, kill me."
"No... I'm not like this, I don't look like this..."
"Hurry and kill me..."
"I shouldn't be alive in this state..."
Four enormous cursed spirits leaped down from the mountain, their twisted faces streaked with tears.
"Explode!"
Seeing the four attacking cursed spirits, Inumaki Toge shouted.
"Voom!"
The four cursed spirits instantly exploded, their blood dyeing the nearby trees. But strangely, the blood clinging to the trees did not dissipate like ash as it should.
"A bit bizarre. It actually didn't dissipate," Panda said, putting on his knuckle dusters, his black eyes staring at the bloodstains on the ground.
"Yeah, these don't seem to be cursed spirits."
Zenin Maki looked at the head that had rolled onto the ground. There were still tears at the corners of its eyes. She then gripped her naginata tightly and plunged it in. It didn't scream or shout; she could confirm it was already dead.
Tatsuro squatted down, looking at the blood scattered on the ground. The three tomoe in his eyes condensed together, and the Mangekyo Sharingan appeared.
He turned his head to look at the cursed spirit's head on Maki's naginata. Then his pupils violently constricted, and he instantly moved, kicking it away.
The flying head began to deform, like clay being molded into a desired shape. The head grew larger and larger, like a balloon, and then with a "bang," it exploded.
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