Three days had passed since Kagura Shin transmigrated. During these three days, he had gained a thorough understanding of his situation from various items in his home.
Kagura Shin, 15 years old. He had just graduated from middle school and was enjoying a pleasant summer vacation when disaster struck. Now, he was being brought by Satoru Gojo to temporarily stay in the dorms of Tokyo Jujutsu High.
As for all the items in his home and the house itself Satoru Gojo had arranged for people to sell everything that could be sold. The money was all transferred to Kagura Shin, effectively severing his ties to his old life.
Lying in the dorms of Jujutsu High, Kagura Shin finally had some free time to begin carefully researching his Curse Technique. Over the past three days, he had only confirmed that the items he unlocked could be created using Cursed Energy and stored; he only needed a thought to summon them into his hand when needed.[1]
He hadn't researched anything else yet.
"Alright, let me first try to see how to unlock items."
Based on his hypothesis from a few days ago, he estimated that killing Cursed Spirits would grant experience points to level up, and each level up would automatically unlock several items. However, what Kagura Shin wanted to test now was whether he could decompose and synthesize related items in the Minecraft way.
First, he took out a massive Dark Oak Log (one cubic meter). Then, with a thought, the log in his hand was decomposed into four planks, and the Dark Oak Planks in his panel were simultaneously unlocked.
"I can unlock them myself? Great! Now for the next test."
Soon, all items related to wood and Cobblestone were lit up. Kagura Shin held a Stone Pickaxe in his hand—it looked as if it were composed of countless pixels—and swung it at the glass window of the Jujutsu High dorm.
The expected sound of shattering glass didn't ring out. Instead, Kagura Shin felt a surge of resistance in his hand. Pixel-like patterns appeared from the center of the glass window. A moment later, with a crisp snap, the glass turned into a miniature Glass Pane, floating quietly on the ground.
After picking it up, the Glass Pane in his panel was indeed unlocked as well.
"Can Glass Panes drop? Never mind, I'll just assume they can."
Subsequently, Kagura Shin conducted several more tests and discovered that his Minecraft creations would disappear once they were more than 64 meters away from him. In other words, his maximum attack range was temporarily limited to 64 meters; whether there would be a way to increase this in the future was still unknown.
Furthermore, when an item was held in Kagura Shin's hand, its weight was zero, but when it was used, its weight became extremely heavy...
...
In the evening, Satoru Gojo arrived at Kagura Shin's dorm.
"Yo~ Shin! Looks like you're in a good mood today. I'm going to a newly opened dessert shop nearby want to come along?"
As Satoru Gojo spoke, he reached out his hand, intending to pick up a Stone Sword Kagura Shin had placed on the floor.
"Shin, is this your Curse Technique Minecraft? Just creating these... blocky things?"
He grabbed the hilt intending to lift the Stone Sword, but the weight transmitted to his hand made him raise an eyebrow. He let go casually and looked at Kagura Shin, who was currently using a Wooden Sword to hack at the Stone Sword.
"I've suddenly changed my mind. Shin, let's go do something more interesting than eating dessert."
Before Kagura Shin could answer, Satoru Gojo grabbed his arm and teleported directly to an abandoned factory. "Gojo-sensei, we're not here to deal with a Cursed Spirit, are we...?"
"Bingo~ You're not scared, are you? It's fine though, I'll be watching from the side nothing could possibly go wrong."
The two chatted as they moved into the factory interior, the residual traces of Cursed Energy becoming increasingly apparent. Suddenly, a claw lunged fiercely at them from the ceiling above.
Satoru Gojo jumped away, leaving the field to Kagura Shin. However, since Kagura Shin was just a rookie who had only recently learned about Cursed Energy and hadn't even learned the most basic body reinforcement, his body couldn't dodge the strike. He had no choice but to take out a block of Cobblestone and smash it upward with force.
The nearly two-ton block of stone, carrying tremendous speed, struck the Cursed Spirit's claw, instantly smashing it into a bloody mess.
"Skree!"
A Cursed Spirit covered in eyes with seven claws fell from the ceiling. The injured arm was quickly restored under the rapid replenishment of Cursed Energy.
Kagura Shin quickly took out a Stone Sword and adjusted his stance. Though calling it adjusting his stance was generous—it was really just standing firm and staring at the Cursed Spirit, since Kagura Shin didn't actually know any proper stances.
"Skree!"
The Cursed Spirit kicked off the ground and lunged at Kagura Shin with great speed. Kagura Shin instinctively closed his eyes like any normal person, but quickly reacted, reopening them and rapidly placing four blocks of Cobblestone in front of him to form a Cobblestone Wall.
"Bam!"
The Cursed Spirit slammed hard into the Cobblestone Wall. The wall didn't budge an inch, but dense pixel-like patterns appeared on its surface. The Cursed Spirit followed up with another claw strike, and the Cobblestone Wall turned back into four Cobblestone drops, which Kagura Shin reclaimed.
Fighting a Cursed Spirit for the first time, Kagura Shin could only defend clumsily or rather, roll awkwardly to dodge its attacks.
Meanwhile, Satoru Gojo was already standing far away, watching the battle unfold.
"Shin! What are you afraid of? Fear of getting hurt? If you keep dodging and defending like this, you'll be worn down sooner or later. I'm here, so don't be afraid."
Indeed, Kagura Shin was afraid afraid of pain and injury like any normal person. He wanted to attack the Cursed Spirit without getting hurt himself because he hadn't yet adapted to the pain of injury. In other words, he was not yet a qualified Jujutsu Sorcerer.
Hearing Satoru Gojo's words, Kagura Shin gritted his teeth, tightened his grip on the Stone Sword, and charged forward.
The moment the Cursed Spirit's claw touched the Stone Sword, it was severed by the blade, which weighed nearly four tons. At the same time, another claw carved several deep, bone-chilling gashes into Kagura Shin's thigh.
"Hiss—It hurts, but it doesn't seem as unbearable as I imagined!"
With that, Kagura Shin raised the Stone Sword and hacked fiercely at the Cursed Spirit's body. In his perception, he carved out a large chunk of the Cursed Spirit with almost no effort. In the Cursed Spirit's perception, this human had struck it with a four-ton, sword-shaped serrated object, and the jagged edges tore away a massive amount of Cursed Energy.
"Skree!"
"Thump, thump..."
Kagura Shin felt that his wound no longer hurt. Instead, his entire body surged with excitement, as if he possessed limitless strength. But just then, Satoru Gojo teleported to his side and casually pressed the Cursed Spirit into a puddle.
"Alright, mission accomplished. You're bleeding quite a bit—let's head back to Jujutsu High. There's a very skilled doctor there~"
As he spoke, he grabbed Kagura Shin's shoulder and teleported back to Jujutsu High.
Kagura Shin also leveled up three times amid a series of pleasant experience sounds, unlocking nine items:
Cherry Wood, Birch Wood, Apple, Bread, String, Wool, Pufferfish, Pink Axolotl, and a type of Tropical Fish.
[1] The protagonist can use Cursed Energy to create unlocked items and store them. Items are unlocked by using tools like pickaxes or axes to collect existing real-world objects. For things that don't exist in reality, three random items are automatically unlocked with each level up. Additionally, he can craft and unlock items at a Crafting Table. Once unlocked, items can be created directly with Cursed Energy at will, without going through other processes.