When Sakurajima Mai saw Miyauchi Hikage's beautiful sword skills, her eyes lit up.
Although she was a big star attracting everyone's attention, she didn't realize that this world wasn't as simple as she imagined until she had problems with her own body this month.
The appearance of Miyauchi Hikage and Yotsuya Miko, and their noticing her existence, further proved this point.
However, after a day of contact, except for Miyauchi Hikage's eyes that were said to be able to see through destiny, she hadn't seen any other supernatural power until now, only constantly hearing about the spiritual fluctuation on her body from Yotsuya Miko.
She hadn't even seen those wandering low-level vengeful spirits that Yotsuya Miko said could be seen everywhere usually, at all this afternoon.
By tonight, she finally saw something special from Miyauchi Hikage again.
The blade that turned deep crimson as soon as it was held, and the scorching heat that could be felt from several meters away. She didn't know if it was the power of that sword or Miyauchi Hikage's own power.
Although Sakurajima Mai somewhat lacked confidence in her heart regarding those so-called Cursed Spirits.
But since the location where that Cursed Spirit appeared was in her high school, and judging from the female sorcerer's attitude, it might really have something to do with the changes in her body, she was indeed a little concerned about this matter now and wanted to find out the truth.
And Miyauchi Hikage had Grade 1 strength, and there was also this new Grade 2 female sorcerer and that Grade 3 sorcerer responsible for Fujisawa City. There shouldn't be any danger, right?
Anyway, leaving aside other things, seeing Miyauchi Hikage waving the sword casually and the expression on his face not changing at all, Sakurajima Mai felt quite reassured.
It was precisely because of this sense of reassurance on Miyauchi Hikage that she wanted Miyauchi Hikage to continue staying by her side and help her return to normal.
Unfortunately, her proud charm didn't have much attraction to this beautiful boy surrounded by beauties. The other party always maintained a calm, gentle, and distant posture.
As an actress, Sakurajima Mai could certainly see Miyauchi Hikage's disguise, but she couldn't find a way or reason to tear off this mask of Miyauchi Hikage.
However, having just met Miyauchi Hikage, her curiosity about Miyauchi Hikage was still just a sprout.
"Let's go over and take a look first. How is the situation of that sorcerer?" After sheathing the Nichirin Blade, Miyauchi Hikage asked the female sorcerer again.
"No big problem for now. That Cursed Spirit is not very aggressive. The statement over there is that it might have been attracted because there was a problem with the sealed Cursed Object in Minegahara High School. The specific situation needs to be confirmed there." The female sorcerer answered simply.
Fortunately, both the female sorcerer and Shinomiya Kaguya came by car, so it was convenient to go there now.
It was just that when getting in the car, under Shinomiya Kaguya's arrangement, finally Miyauchi Hikage and Shinomiya Kaguya got into the Shinomiya family's car, and the remaining three people got into another car.
After the car started moving, Shinomiya Kaguya remained silent for a while. After a while, she softly reminded Miyauchi Hikage: "Although a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit is nothing to you, those Cursed Spirits occasionally have some special techniques. Since you have no experience, it's best to be careful."
Regarding Shinomiya Kaguya's concern, Miyauchi Hikage nodded first, then stretched out his hand and handed a bracelet to her: "I know, I've always been cautious. Wear this for now."
"Visiting the Cursed Warehouse of Jujutsu High yesterday was indeed an eye-opener."
"It's a pity that the Cursed Warehouse of Jujutsu High is still a bit conservative. There should be many good things and too dangerous Cursed Objects separately contained and sealed elsewhere. Otherwise, I estimate that I could have reached the special-grade level directly yesterday."
Playful Cloud, Split Soul Katana, plus the Black Rope as a consumable—although these could be considered three special-grade Cursed Tools, besides these, there was also Fushiguro Toji's Chain of a Thousand Miles with unknown grade, which could extend infinitely.
The setting of this thing was that as long as the root of the chain could not be observed, the chain could extend infinitely. Combined with the power of Unlimited Blade Works, it could also be used to cosplay a low-budget version of Enkidu (Chains of Heaven). Even an ordinary Grade 1 Cursed Spirit probably couldn't break free if bound.
However, Miyauchi Hikage actually understated his strength.
Although possessing special-grade Cursed Tools didn't mean having special-grade strength, relying on those collections, after Miyauchi Hikage went back yesterday and researched in Unlimited Blade Works for half a night, he confirmed that even without opening Unlimited Blade Works and using the dragon-slaying holy sword, he should have special-grade combat power using Projection magic normally.
After all, in this era of spiritual resurgence, the power of nuclear bombs hadn't increased, and the development of technology on the surface was still improving step by step.
But the strength of those supernatural beings had been rising with the increase in spiritual concentration. The threshold for special-grade could actually be said to have been lowering all the time.
Currently, it was very simple to reach the evaluation of special-grade. Either mastering attack methods that could cause extremely large-scale damage, or having methods that could keep a special-grade vengeful spirit and kill it.
Without using Unlimited Blade Works, Miyauchi Hikage's current conventional output means were indeed not that great, and the Chain of a Thousand Miles was also difficult to bind special-grade Cursed Spirits.
If relying solely on Sun Breathing swordsmanship and the Nichirin Blade, Miyauchi Hikage could only be considered average among Grade 1s. To reach the level of Tsugikuni Yoriichi, his realm and sword skills still had a lot of room for improvement.
If just adding the conventional usage of Projection magic, relying on those varied Cursed Tools, it would be at the level of Special Grade 1.
However, Projection magic also had a move called Broken Phantasm that detonated projected items.
Before, Miyauchi Hikage didn't have any good things in his hand, and the power of Broken Phantasm only blew a small pit.
But now it was different. Playful Cloud, the special-grade Cursed Tool with the strongest melee destructive power, had extremely high compatibility with Broken Phantasm.
Using it to use Broken Phantasm could also create a small mushroom cloud. Relying on this move, Miyauchi Hikage had steadily reached the special-grade level.
However, if he really encountered a situation, Miyauchi Hikage would rather use Unlimited Blade Works to drag people directly into the dark room to destroy the corpses and traces than use Broken Phantasm outside.
Now Kenjaku, who had reincarnated for thousands of years in the Jujutsu world relying on various identities, had targeted him, and for some reason seemed to want to "keep" him as a mascot.
Don't look at the fact that his IQ suddenly went offline in the later stage of the plot, creating a pile of mess, and his way of exiting was even more top-tier clown behavior.
But Miyauchi Hikage wouldn't really treat Kenjaku as a clown.
At least in the first half of the plot, Kenjaku's style was still there.
Creating the special-grade Cursed Objects Cursed Womb: Death Paintings as Kamo Noritoshi, and giving birth to the male protagonist Itadori Yuji as Itadori Kaori.
A series of operations plotted the resurrection of Ryomen Sukuna, and then sealed Gojo Satoru as Geto Suguru to start the Culling Game.
Until here, Kenjaku's image was still an unfathomable behind-the-scenes villain. It was only after Ryomen Sukuna resurrected later and ignored feelings directly, flipping the table, that he completely became a clown.
Now that Kenjaku was targeting him, no matter what thoughts the other party had, he definitely had to be careful. First, find a way to figure out the other party's scheme against him, and then consider the subsequent action method.
Therefore, before the Shibuya Incident, Miyauchi Hikage didn't plan to make too much noise to continue attracting this guy's attention.
There was still about half a year before the Shibuya Incident. Use this time to smoothly display the improvement of his power to the outside world. Projection magic should also start from low-grade Cursed Tools, showing a bit of the improvement process.
However, he could choose not to cause trouble himself, but there was still the diary to help.
Relying on the power of the diary, he could consciously release some intelligence, letting Shinomiya Kaguya and Yotsuya Miko influence the action patterns of Gojo Satoru and even Fushiguro Megumi.
After all, in the manga, Itadori Yuji eating Sukuna's finger was an accident. If Itadori Yuji was prevented from becoming Sukuna's vessel at this point in time, what means would Kenjaku use to make Itadori Yuji continue to eat Sukuna's finger and expose that special constitution capable of suppressing Sukuna?
Miyauchi Hikage, who was already qualified to sit at the table but only wanted to pretend to be a pig to eat the tiger, thought so.
And listening to Miyauchi Hikage's words, Shinomiya Kaguya could naturally hear that Miyauchi Hikage obviously gained a lot.
The gap between Grade 1 and special-grade was very large. Even some jujutsu sorcerers who could kill special-grade Cursed Spirits alone were only given the title of "Special Grade 1" in the Jujutsu world. Otherwise, there wouldn't be only three special-grade jujutsu sorcerers explicitly in the Jujutsu world currently.
Miyauchi Hikage said he was almost able to reach special-grade, which meant that he felt that he already had the level of Special Grade 1 now?
What good things did he get in the Cursed Warehouse, including this bracelet?
Shinomiya Kaguya thought so, while smiling and taking the dark and inconspicuous bracelet, and then unhesitatingly put it on her wrist: "So what grade of Cursed Tool is this?"
She felt this should be some kind of defensive mid-grade Cursed Tool.
But Miyauchi Hikage's answer still made her shudder involuntarily.
"It can be considered a consumable close to special-grade. According to the instructions, this thing can interfere with the precision of techniques and has good defensive effects. It can be effective even in special-grade battles. However, a part of it will burn away each time it is used. The one on your hand can probably be consumed three times."
Originally, Shinomiya Kaguya thought that Miyauchi Hikage probably just projected some mid-grade Cursed Tools.
Unexpectedly, the other party's technique could even project and copy special-grade items?
The power of this Projection technique was a bit too powerful.
She carefully stroked the inconspicuous bracelet in her hand, immediately feeling a lot more pressure on herself, and then looked at Miyauchi Hikage sitting next to her with inexplicable eyes.
"Don't look at me with eyes that want to eat me. This time it's just a free trial sample. If you want to replenish it after you use it up, it won't be free."
Facing Miyauchi Hikage's serious teasing, Shinomiya Kaguya unhesitatingly took out a black card and handed it to Miyauchi Hikage.
This attitude seemed to indicate that if this thing could be bought with money, she would buy as much as Miyauchi Hikage could provide.
"It's still early. Come to me when you truly establish the name of the Shinomiya family in the inner world."
Miyauchi Hikage's reaction was not beyond her expectations, but this also confirmed that Miyauchi Hikage's current ability was indeed not something she could buy with money. This more or less made her look at Miyauchi Hikage with a trace of regret.
She didn't have Honma Meiko's luck to leave a seed of fate when Miyauchi Hikage was young, and let this fate take root and sprout logically after the two grew up.
Nor did she have the confidence of Shiina Mashiro to go all-in on Miyauchi Hikage at the first meeting.
She had investigated the meeting between Shiina Mashiro and Miyauchi Hikage.
With Shiina Mahiru and Miyauchi Hikari as matchmakers, they met on the street of Akihabara on the day Kasumigaoka Utaha held a book signing event.
Actually, because she wanted to find the mysterious person that day, she spent a lot of effort later to get the surveillance of the entire Akihabara that day.
Also recently, because she cared about Miyauchi Hikage's identity, she watched the first meeting between Shiina Mashiro and Miyauchi Hikage more than once.
Although the picture on the surveillance was not very clear, and there was no sound.
But Shinomiya Kaguya could still see that after discovering Miyauchi Hikage, Shiina Mashiro's head had been facing Miyauchi Hikage's direction without changing.
The interaction between the two afterward was also like a floodgate opening. After chatting for only a few minutes, Miyauchi Hikage directly touched Shiina Mashiro.
Shinomiya Kaguya had watched those few seconds of movement many times. Unfortunately, the angle of the surveillance was not very good. She could only vaguely see this movement and couldn't see the specific expressions of the two.
But Shinomiya Kaguya always had an indescribable feeling.
It seemed that those few seconds made Miyauchi Hikage's attitude towards Shiina Mashiro change 180 degrees.
So, what did they say and do that day?
Shiina Mashiro did explain when asked by the girls in the group that she saw light from Miyauchi Hikage, so she chose Miyauchi Hikage.
Shinomiya Kaguya didn't know what this "light" meant.
She only knew that from that day on, Miyauchi Hikage became Shiina Mashiro's assistant, helping her create manga.
And Shiina Mashiro also taught Hamon breathing to Miyauchi Hikage without reservation.
She wanted to invest in him at that time, but because she felt that Miyauchi Hikage was not that important, she was delayed by other things.
Who could have thought that in just one month, no, less than half a month to be precise, Miyauchi Hikage could complete supernatural awakening from a nobody at that time and transform to the current level?
She missed the best investment time again, and the investment in Asahigaoka Media could only be considered icing on the cake, not so important.
However, stroking the bracelet in her hand, a beautiful smile still appeared on Shinomiya Kaguya's face.
Because she understood Miyauchi Hikage's words.
Miyauchi Hikage planned to sell those projected items in the future, and she and the Shinomiya family behind her could get the first-hand source of goods from Miyauchi Hikage!
Just for this point, no matter what Miyauchi Hikage's identity was, Shinomiya Kaguya and the Shinomiya family must firmly stand by Miyauchi Hikage's side.