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"You four! The Mission Department has assigned a new mission!"
Yaga Masamichi walked into the classroom solemnly, clutching the Commission from the Mission Department.
As soon as he entered, Masamichi Yaga froze.
He saw Gojo Akira and Geto Suguru holding Gojo Satoru down from both sides, while Ieiri Shoko was drawing little turtles on Satoru's face with a pen.
The three of them had Anya-style smiles on their faces, while Gojo Satoru looked completely despondent, like a bullied young bride.
"..."
Masamichi Yaga felt a headache coming on.
After several months of teaching, he had pretty much figured out the four of them.
Powerful, conceited, gifted, and... problem children!
Gojo Akira was the first to notice Masamichi Yaga standing at the door. "Huh? When did Yaga-Sensei get here?"
Hearing this, Geto Suguru and Shoko Ieiri quickly sat up straight, looking like good students.
Gojo Satoru picked up a wet towel and wiped his face. "Damn it! How could I lose seven games in a row? You guys must have cheated, right?"
"Satoru!"
"Yes!"
Gojo Satoru quickly stood up and came to attention.
Masamichi Yaga rubbed his forehead, took a deep breath, and weakly shook the Commission in his hand.
"A new mission: the Grade 1 Cursed Spirit, Slit-Mouthed Woman. Intelligence says her strength far exceeds that of a typical Grade 1 Cursed Spirit!"
Gojo Satoru took the Commission and said confidently, "Don't worry, Sensei, just leave it to us!"
"Don't worry?"
Masamichi Yaga pondered for a moment and spoke calmly, "The sewer explosion in Tokyo's Shinjuku district a year ago was your handiwork, wasn't it, Satoru?"
"Uh..."
Gojo Satoru was at a loss for words.
Masamichi Yaga shifted his gaze. "Ten months ago, the abandoned toy factory in Tokyo collapsed. Akira, that was you, wasn't it?"
Gojo Akira said sheepishly, "Uh... well, it was abandoned anyway, so I thought I'd help tear it down."
"Six months ago, the commotion you caused by releasing a Cursed Spirit was discovered by a passing police officer. Afterward, he insisted there were invisible ghosts and was treated as mentally ill."
Geto Suguru gave an awkward but polite smile.
Finally, Masamichi Yaga's gaze fell on Ieiri Shoko.
Ieiri Shoko raised her hands. "Sensei! I'm a non-combatant, so none of this has anything to do with me!"
"I know that."
Veins popped on Masamichi Yaga's forehead. "But, who stole the three bottles of wine I was saving?"
Ieiri Shoko froze, then scratched her head with a sheepish grin.
Masamichi Yaga took a long breath. "I can see it now, every one of you is exceptionally talented!"
Gojo Satoru looked at the ceiling, Geto Suguru looked at the floor, Gojo Akira looked out the window at the Sky at a forty-five-degree angle, and Ieiri Shoko stared blankly into space.
The four of them were playing dumb... "Sigh~"
Masamichi Yaga let out a helpless sigh, like a weary father.
"Complete the mission properly, and don't cause any more trouble for me!"
"Yes! Sensei!" x4
...In front of the apartment building, Gojo Akira, Gojo Satoru, and Geto Suguru were doing stretching exercises.
"It's just one Grade 1 Cursed Spirit. You three can handle it, so I won't bother going in!"
Ieiri Shoko lit a cigarette, looking a bit melancholy.
Her Cursed Technique is the rare "Reverse Cursed Technique," which has the ability to heal others, saving them even if they only have one breath left.
But the frustrating part was that her three partners were each stronger than the last.
After every mission, not only were they uninjured, but their clothes were barely even dirty.
If they happened to scrape their skin, it would probably heal on its own before she could even use her Reverse Cursed Technique.
Fortunately, she was happy to enjoy the leisure.
Ieiri Shoko pressed her fingers together. "Emerge from the darkness, blacker than black. Purify that which is impure!"
A substance like black mud rose from the ground, instantly transforming into a massive square box that enveloped the dormitory building.
"The Veil is set. The rest is up to you!"
"Let's go!"
Gojo Akira took the lead, walking into the dark dormitory building.
Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru followed close behind.
Inside the building, intense resentment and Cursed Energy seemed to manifest physically, clinging to the surrounding walls.
Countless low-level Cursed Spirits roamed the building.
The three of them searched floor by floor, but even when they reached the top, they found no trace of the "Slit-Mouthed Woman" mentioned in the intelligence.
Gojo Satoru looked puzzled. "Huh? What's going on? Could the Higher-Ups' intelligence be wrong?"
Geto Suguru shook his head. "The Slit-Mouthed Woman is a powerful Cursed Spirit far beyond ordinary Grade 1 Cursed Spirits. The Higher-Ups wouldn't get such important intelligence wrong. Is there anywhere else we haven't searched?"
Gojo Akira thought for a moment, then suddenly looked up. "Oh right, doesn't this dormitory building have a basement?"
The three of them exchanged glances, quickly descended from the top floor to the first floor, and found the basement door.
Creak—
Gojo Akira stepped forward and opened the door.
At that instant, a strong sense of wrongness filled their entire bodies.
The surrounding environment and even the air seemed to shift as if the world itself had been turned upside down.
The expressions of the three changed.
"It's a Domain!"
A Domain isn't necessarily a Domain Expansion.
Some powerful Cursed Spirits haven't reached the level of Domain Expansion but can still deploy an incomplete Domain.
For example, the Cursed Womb that Itadori and Fushiguro would encounter in the future at the juvenile detention center.
There are also slightly weaker ones that can use their own Cursed Energy to form a Simple Domain that boosts their Cursed Techniques.
Neither of these has the special skills or Sure-hit effects granted by a Domain Expansion.
For instance, right now, the entire basement was filled with Cursed Energy, having been transformed into a private Domain by the Cursed Spirit lurking within.
The moment Akira opened the door, the three of them had already entered the opponent's Domain.
"As long as it's not a Domain Expansion!"
Gojo Akira breathed a sigh of relief.
Suddenly, the figure of the Slit-Mouthed Woman appeared before them.
Beneath her disheveled hair, her face was covered in a dense cluster of eyes.
In a bone-chilling voice, the Slit-Mouthed Woman spoke: "Am... I... beautiful?"
"You're ugly!"
Gojo Akira retorted bluntly.
"Aaaaaah..."
The Slit-Mouthed Woman's resentment surged as she lunged at the three of them, brandishing a pair of scissors.
Even as a Cursed Spirit, the Slit-Mouthed Woman couldn't stand being called ugly.
The sharp blades flashed with a cold light as they swung.
However, the attack slowed to a halt in front of Gojo Akira and Gojo Satoru, unable to move an inch further.
Slice—
A gash appeared behind Geto Suguru's ear, and blood flowed down his neck.
"Tch~ The Limitless technique really is convenient!"
Geto Suguru looked at akira and Satoru, who could defend against attacks without even moving, and felt a surge of envy.
"Rainbow Dragon!"
Seeing the Slit-Mouthed Woman about to attack again, Geto Suguru waved his hand, and the Rainbow Dragon roared forth, tightly binding her body.
Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue!
Shinbu Style: Kotetsu Heart-Piercer!
The three began a righteous gang beatdown.
Shocking: Three men do this to a weak woman in a basement!
After a long time, the Slit-Mouthed Woman, ravaged by the three, lay weakly on the ground, looking completely broken.
Geto Suguru rubbed his chin. "The strength of this Cursed Spirit is decent; I can actually tame it!"
Cursed Spirit Manipulation!
A black vortex appeared in Geto Suguru's palm, and the Slit-Mouthed Woman's body was sucked into it, transforming into a physical small ball the size of an egg, shimmering with light amidst the blackness.
"Oh! So this is your Cursed Technique!"
Gojo Satoru leaned in like a curious child.
Although he had long known that Geto Suguru's Cursed Technique was Cursed Spirit Manipulation, Geto hadn't encountered any Cursed Spirits worth Taming lately.
So, this was the first time Gojo Satoru had seen Geto Suguru use this move.
Geto Suguru smiled. "It's just turning a Cursed Spirit into a ball and swallowing it."
Gojo Akira suddenly spoke up. "How does it taste? Since it's a Cursed Spirit, it must taste terrible, right?"
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