"Kamo Noritoshi?"
The woman froze for a moment when she heard the name, then suddenly smiled.
"Ah, right. That's correct."
Satoru and Geto both looked confused.
"You just remembered now?" Satoru asked.
The woman rested her chin on her hand and sighed. "Actually, I only chose that name to spite the Kamo family."
Satoru blinked. "You named your son just to provoke them?"
"Of course." She smiled without any guilt. "You're jujutsu sorcerers, so you should understand. The name Noritoshi Kamo is a taboo inside the Kamo family and even among the Three Great Families."
Yuta blinked slowly. "Then isn't Noritoshi a little pitiful?"
"Sigh… I was furious back then, so I gave him that name in a fit of anger and filed the birth certificate right away."
Her expression gradually softened as she looked out the window. A butterfly flew past under the sunlight, leaving a faint shadow on the table.
"I really hope he can leave that terrible family soon and come back to me."
A small child sitting across from her suddenly spoke.
"What are you talking about?"
The woman smiled warmly. "We're talking about your older brother."
"Older brother?"
The little boy pouted.
"What's wrong? You don't like him?"
"It's not that," the boy said while eating cereal. "I just don't know if he's a good person."
"He's very gentle."
The woman smiled faintly, as if remembering something.
"After all, he's my child."
…
Jujutsu High.
"Kamo Asaoka!"
Kamo Hiroki shouted in shock as the man's face suddenly appeared on the large screen.
At the same time, inside the Kamo family's underground laboratory, Asaoka had taken control of Kokichi's miniature Mechamaru. Using his own technique, he forcefully hacked into the conference room's computer and camera system.
Through the screen, he looked directly at Kamo Takanobu and burst into loud laughter.
"How pathetic, Family Head."
"As the head of one of the Three Great Families, you were beaten like that by the Gojo family head. What a disgrace."
"If the rest of the clan saw you now, your authority would disappear instantly."
"Shut up, Kamo Asaoka!"
Kamo Hiroki roared at the screen. "You useless branch family member. How dare you insult the head? Do you want to die?"
Hearing that, Asaoka instinctively showed a frightened expression. Years of humiliation had become a habit.
But the next moment, his face twisted into something dark and venomous.
"Yes. I'm a useless branch family member."
"You people are the noble main family. The true Three Great Families."
"You were born above us, holding the power of life and death over people like me."
He laughed bitterly.
"For a meaningless promise, I humiliated myself and became nothing more than a dog for the main family."
"Because of that, my wife despised me. She would rather divorce me and start a new life with an ordinary person."
"My son, Kamo Noritoshi. Everyone says someone like me is only living off his talent."
"And you, all of you. Takanobu, Hiroki, the elders, even children like Hiko. None of you ever took me seriously."
He laughed again, the sound turning hoarse as he began coughing.
Kamo Hiroki sneered. "So you did all this just to complain? Exactly what I'd expect from trash like you."
Shion, who was standing nearby, rolled his eyes.
The Zen'in family went mad, and now the Kamo family was doing the same thing.
Besides, Hiroki was already a criminal himself but still acting arrogant.
Hearing that, Asaoka slowly stopped laughing.
"Of course I didn't do this just to vent."
He took out a syringe filled with a deep red liquid.
"I didn't hand over all the research data. I kept one thing for myself."
"Resonance Agent. All research on cursed blood originally came from my son, who was born with Blood Manipulation. I've always kept the original sample."
He grinned like a madman.
"When I heard the news about the Zen'in family being destroyed by their own blood, I suddenly got an interesting idea."
"Tell me, if the noble main family of the Kamo clan were slaughtered by a worthless branch member like me, wouldn't that be entertaining?"
Without hesitation, he stabbed the syringe into his own neck.
Red veins spread across his body instantly, and his flesh began to twist unnaturally.
"Blood Manipulation, Bloodline Traction!"
The moment he activated it, all the bodies inside the blood bank began to tremble violently.
Bang. Bang. Bang.
The containers shattered one after another. The bodies inside exploded, and the blood began to gather together.
A river of blood formed on the screen.
This was not an exaggeration. It was exactly what everyone in the room was seeing.
"Kamo Takanobu. Kamo Hiroki. Get ready to collect the corpses of your noble main family."
Completely covered in blood, Asaoka roared and rushed out of the laboratory.
What awaited the Kamo family now was a massacre.
The screen suddenly went black.
Kamo Takanobu, Kamo Hiroki, and the rest of the clan members collapsed where they stood, their faces completely pale.
Even Shion was stunned. He had not expected the situation to escalate like this. But considering it was one of the Three Great Families, maybe it was not that surprising.
"Gojo Family Head. Gojo Family Head."
Kamo Takanobu dragged his injured body toward Shion.
"As members of the Three Great Families, please save the Kamo family."
Only Shion could do it. The Limitless technique allowed him to teleport long distances, and he was the only one capable of stopping Asaoka right now.
It was not that Kamo Takanobu cared about his clan members. He simply could not accept losing the foundation of the Kamo family.
Suddenly, Shion spat out a mouthful of blood.
His face turned pale instantly.
Choso quickly stepped forward and supported him.
"Sorry, Kamo Family Head. My injuries still haven't fully healed. Using my technique just now reopened an old wound."
Shoko immediately walked forward and pretended to check his condition. Then she spoke with a serious expression.
"It's bad. Very bad. He needs to go to the lab immediately."
Choso and Shoko quickly placed Shion onto a stretcher.
"Wait… the sunflower seeds on my seat," Shion said weakly.
Choso picked up the bag without hesitation, and the two of them carried Shion out of the conference room at once.
Everything happened so smoothly that it was obvious they had practiced this before.
The elders of the Gojo family finally reacted.
"This is bad. Something happened to the family head."
"Quick, follow them."
"Head, nothing must happen to you."
Watching the Gojo family leave in an instant, Kamo Takanobu trembled in rage.
He coughed violently and spat out another mouthful of blood before collapsing unconscious.