- southeast asia, philipines, manila, date: 23/4/2048
- status of area: unsafe, population: 543k humans, cursed energy residue: immense.
*ring ring ringg
kat: ahhhh my head hurts i think i slept a bit too long
*slowly checks phone*
kat: its 4:23pm bruh wtf.. ugh...
kat: ah right i got errands to run, there still should be some jobs for me to do during this time
*kat showers, dressed up and gets out of his manor house quickly
the place is a mess, outside of his house is just pure struggle, there are shackles of people living under wooden houses, or shacks, homeless locals sleeping on the ground too, it's a dull and gloomy place, the streets being filled with a senseful dread everywhere, everyone just being scared and feared from curses, the destruction that humanity caused to themselves was irreversible.
kat: despite everything that happened somehow ppl are still able to advance technology in this trash world, im glad i was born before the outbreak cuz i am genuinely not built for this bruh.
*kat takes out his phone and goes onto an app named "MANILA"
kat: it's really convenient that the government made this, in our areas there are couple of stalls you can go to and synchronize your phone using a qr scan to this app to book areas and have a places to stay anywhere u want, im guessing because the aftermath of the outbreak caused a lot of people to become refugees and flee, and in these deserted world where terrifying curses roam everywhere the government of many countries came up with this system to give people their own stay.
*phone beeps
kat: but it's really just a hoax to use people for their own resources and goods as in an apocalyptic world like this, it's obvious that people aren't gonna just accept random ass bums that just leech in ur place like a lil dog, you have to fight for your own spot here.
*Errand found: Exorcise 4 grade 5 cursed spirits roaming around the district of San Juan, location tracked.
kat: there are multiple offices in each districts of manila, they basically work as an organized landlords and use a certain kind of system called "value points" with their technology, they're essentially assessing if you're worth keeping in their district or not and these offices are shady as shit, our value points are given through completing errands (for "rats" that under 18 of age.) and tasks (for "fixers" above 18 of age.)
*You have 3 hours to complete this errand, failure will deduct your VPs. (value-points) [Recording mission from the Magandang Will office.
kat locks his house and walks along side the dirty and dull roads of his place, seeing small kids playing football and poor sick old laying on the ground, and cursed residue sensed all over the place,all he felt was the frustration of not being able to do anything for his own people.
kat: You're evicted and put under suspension and watch if your VPs goes into the negatives, the office doesn't really give a shit about people and just barely do the minimum of what the government pulled out for obvious reasons, you dont pay with real money to stay, but to upkeep your quotas which are dirty ass works for the government, you do get paid money but it's pocket changes. the only real shit amount of money you're getting paid is by doing extremely high "bituin" rated tasks/errands for the government, which are rated difficulty based off amount of "stars" in translation of the errands.
Kat checks his phone as he walks through the shabby town,
Household N.24 VP Quota: 0/200, total VP: 1050/3000 monthly.
kat: shit it's almost the end of april and i haven't done smack.. the more people in your registered household, the more quota u gotta fill, and with my mom and younger sister doing all the housework and the little errands barely giving anything i have to fight and fend for my family myself, guess i gotta do a lot today if i want this shit manor to keep up.
kat: oh my dad? well.. he's.. ugh, that's another story for another time.
Kat calls out to a nearby, familiar jeepney that he rides everyday, he goes on it and gives him the location of the place.
Kat: thanks sire, ill be back soon so no worries!
Kat gets off his jeepney and starts going around the district of San Juan.
Kat: *coughs* ugh, this place isn't governed and still being cleansed by our district so we might meet some fellow rats here, and the cursed residue here is a lot stronger than our place.. its even stronger than before, did we even do anything to it? ugh what a wasteland..
Kat continues walking through the stench of cursed spirits and smell of dread splattered all over the place, wrecked buildings, destroyed towns, burning cars, ash roads, an unpleasant sight to anyone travelling here, kat walks by a corpse with immense cursed residue accumulated over the center of his heart's position.
Kat: Poor soul, may you rest and reincarnate in a better world.
Kat claps his hands 2 times and hover his palms over his heart, exorcising the residue and silencing the corpse.
Kat: The state of sorcery in this world has changed drastically in contrast of when calamities like Satoru Gojo was alive, it's grown to be a lot more complex and refined, but it's still the base concept.
Kat approaches closer to the approximate location of the cursed spirits.
Kat: Nobody in my household has awakened cursed technique, all they had was being able to see cursed spirits, only I have awakened a cursed technique when i was 7 years old. Even with the outbreak the rules still implies, only humans with the innate talent of manipulating and managing cursed energy has good chances of having their own cursed technique, just like how talents are gifted.
*A sound muttering grows louder and louder in the distance kat is walking to.*
Kat: But it's just that with the amount of fear induced that caused cursed spirits to grow exponentially stronger during the outbreak, the balance of the world shifted and naturally caused more early-born humans to awaken cursed techniques or cursed energy for adaptation and survival, but even with that.. cursed spirits has grown to be A LOT more stronger than usual.
*a sound mutters louder and louder as kat keeps walking..*
Kat: If i were to say, a grade 1 cursed spirit before would've been considered a grade 5 by now, and this is the main reason why humanity's population is so low, the power gap difference is just so immense.. and if i wanna survive i HAVE to grow stronger, strength is everything in this world.
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Kat: *takes out his cursed bat*, Whatever it takes.. in this acursed world of sorcery, I will survive.
- To be continued.