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The next morning, Naoya, who had been knocked unconscious because of the binding vow, slowly started to wake up.
"Naoya!"
"Naoya!"
Hearing the noise around him, his eyes trembled a bit in frustration. The more conscious he got, the more frustration and pain he felt all over his body.
"Agh!" winced Naoya as his eyes opened up.
"So much pain..." muttered Naoya.
What greeted his eyes was the face of a huge green deer that was looking worried sick.
"Senzu..." muttered Naoya, but the pain in his body made him frown.
He touched his mouth and felt hardened blood around it, the same was the case with his nose, ears and eyes.
"So much blood."
Naoya slowly sat up. It was difficult, but it wasn't too bad.
He checked his body and could feel that the cursed energy with him was trying to rampage around, hurting him from the inside.
With his eyes closed, he took a deep breath and tried to stabilise the rampaging energy, and with Senzu's help, the energy somewhat got under control.
He then followed that by slowly releasing the excess energy out of him, but that took a turn for the worse when everything near him was sent flying.
Naobito and Kagenori, who were looking at Naoya from the side since the shikigami prevented anyone from getting close to Naoya, also felt the energy burst, and Kagenori, who was now weaker than every was blown away only to be caught by Naobito.
"Shit....control's messed up," muttered Naoya with a frown and tried to reel in the energy and control the output. Once it was under control, he started using RCT, which he felt was more difficult to use than before.
"Cursed energy control is haywire for now....I will have to master it to control this much energy again," muttered Naoya and looked at his arms, which were coated in a steady flow of cursed energy. In fact, his whole body was oozing cursed energy.
He was trying to release most of the energy within him to reach back the manageable level, but the cursed energy was decreasing at a very slow pace.
"...Have I become a monster or what?" muttered Naoya.
'System'
Ding~
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Name: Naoya Zenin
Title: Body Stealer, Possible Zenin Heir, Busiest Middle Schooler, Hei Rank 1, Special Grade Sorcerer, Big Brother, Little Uncle, Hei Captain
Cursed Technique: Ten Shadows Technique (Active) / Projection Sorcery (Active)/ Solid Shadow (Active)
Cursed Energy: 98372/102830
STR: 508
DEX: 515
VIT: 544
INT: 570 (+69)
LUK: 340
Extra Points: 0
Achievements: (+)
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"...."
Naoya stared at the screen in disbelief.
'First of all. Noice. Secondly, WTF!!!' thought Naoya and looked at the amount of cursed energy within him, along with the new cursed technique listed on his panel.
'Grandpa's technique...' thought Naoya and looked to the side where Kagenori was standing.
"Snow, Mr. Hiss, it's ok. Let them through," said Naoya.
The shikigami who heard the orders let the old men through.
Naobito and Kagenori approached Naoya, and immediately, Kagenori smacked Naoya.
"You brat! We promised to stop if it got dangerous!"
"...You got so weak..." muttered Naoya, not even feeling any pain from Kegenori's hit.
A vein popped up on Kagenori's wrinkly face.
He knew he was weaker than ever now that he had lost his cursed energy. He was now at the level of a normal old man, albeit better trained, but still a normal old man.
"Would any of you now tell me what happened?" asked Naobito with a frown.
He had wanted to ask his father about what happened in his room when he heard the old man shriek out in horror when he woke up in the morning. He rushed towards his room as soon as possible and found the old man being blocked by his son's shikigami.
"Grandpa was being all depressing. Talking about death and exorcising. We got a crazy idea and 'mutually' decided, with both of us agreeing, without any sort of pressure or threatening or guilt tripping, that it was an idea worth exploring...." said Naoya.
With each passing word, Kagenori's blood seemed to boil hotter and hotter. He wanted to ask where this shameless brat learns these kinds of things, but decided to hold himself back.
Naoya explained what they did, and by the end of it, Naobito was looking at his father and son as if he were looking at a pair of the world's greatest idiots.
"...Are you going senile?" asked Naobito and looked at his father.
"Huh?"
"Woah?! Is that how you speak to your father?" asked Naoya with surprise.
Kagenori raised his hand to strike his disrespectful son, but no cursed energy gathered.
"You really lost your cursed energy," said Naobito.
"Naoya, strike this rude brat," ordered Kagenori.
Naoya, who was still sitting, followed the order, and a shadowy hand emerged from his shadow and flicked Naobito hard, sending him flying.
"...Damn. Forgot, I can't control my power right now."
"...Did you use my technique?"
"Well, looks like I got a bonus along with your cursed energy," replied Naoya with a shrug.
Naobito, who blasted through the wall, came back inside with his forehead bleeding.
"Senzu, heal my father."
The deer nodded and walked towards the old man to heal him.
Once done, the deer came back to Naoya and nuzzled with him.
He had been on the lookout for the whole night, trying to heal and stabilise its host as much as it could. If not for it, Naoya could have gotten severely injured or even died because of blood loss and rampaging cursed energy.
Naoya patted the deer with a smile and looked at the clock hanging in his grandfather's room.
"Hmm...I am getting late. I should get going and take a bath. I need to wake up the girls, too. Well, Grandpa, father. I will be seeing you in a few days," stated Naoya and started walking out of the room.
Kagenori could no longer see the cursed energy around Naoya, but Naobito did. The energy emitting from Naoya was immense, not to mention the one within him was even more huge.
"What do you mean by see you in a few days?"
"I am going on a tri-*cough* *cough* training journey with Satoru. Will return in a few days. Bye Bye." said Naoya and ran away, only to crush the floor below his feet.
"...Sorry about that. Lack of control," said Naoya, and now tiptoed out of the room.
Naobito and Kagenori saw the kid leave the room awkwardly and remained silent for a while.
"He was going to say trip, right?" asked Naobito.
"He most certainly did," replied Kagenori.
"He is not in condition to be planning to go on a trip," added Naobito.
"He most certainly isn't," replied Kagenori with a nod.
"Shouldn't we stop him?"
"Can you?"
The room fell silent once again, but both of them knew. Letting Naoya move freely at the moment was not an option.
He could seriously injure common folks by mistake if he is not able to control his power.
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Later that day, after almost destroying the entire bathroom while taking a bath, Naoya now stood in front of his room, cursed energy still oozing out of him, with a huge predicament in front of him.
"Nii-Nii!!!!"
Maki and Mai were crying out loud while being held back by Zankyo.
They wanted to rush upto him and hug him as they did daily, but because Naoya was unable to control his power, he didn't want to unconsciously hurt the two of them.
"Bad Zankyo!!! Hate you!!!" yelled Mai and glared at the shikigami.
Zankyo, becoming unexpectedly hated, looked at its contractor.
Naoya simply looked away, feeling guilty.
"Maki-chan, Mai-chan," called Naoya softly and sat down near them, though he made sure that he was a safe distance away from them.
"Nii-chan is sick and doesn't want to get you two sick as well. Zankyo is just following my order. You are good girls, right?" asked Naoya with a smile.
The two nodded with tears still in their eyes.
"Good. Being good girls, will you two please follow my words and stay away from me for a while? Once I am not sick, let's go out for ice cream," said Naoya with a smile.
"Nii-Nii hurt?" asked Mai.
"Yes. Nii-Nii is hurt and sick. I don't want to make you two sick."
"Nii-Nii pain?" asked Maki.
"Hm? Pain? me? Haha, Nii-Nii is the strongest. I won't be in pain just from a sickness," said Naoya with a confident smile.
"Nii-Nii amazing!!"
"Nii-Nii strong!!"
The two kids cheered with delight, making Naoya puff out his chest in pride.
Naoya talked with the girls for a while before turning to Zankyo.
"Zankyo, take these two to Nee-chan and Nii-san's house. Look after them for a while. I will need time to be back in action," said Naoya.
"Understood, master."
Naoya nodded and summoned Sparkles for Zankyo and the girls, and sent them off.
Once they were gone, Naoya looked back at his cursed energy-covered body, and then summoned his system.
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Name: Naoya Zenin
Title: Body Stealer, Possible Zenin Heir, Busiest Middle Schooler, Hei Rank 1, Special Grade Sorcerer, Big Brother, Little Uncle, Hei Captain
Cursed Technique: Ten Shadows Technique (Active) / Projection Sorcery (Active)/ Solid Shadow (Active)
Cursed Energy: 96343/102830
STR: 508
DEX: 515
VIT: 544
INT: 570
LUK: 340
Extra Points: 3 (+3)
Achievements:
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Cursed energy recovery has increased a lot as well. With this level of full-body reinforcement active all the time, and still, he wasn't feeling drained at all.
He carefully took out his phone and speed dialled Satoru.
"Yo! Excited for the trip!" asked Satoru with excitement.
"Yeah....about that...."
"...Stop. Don't say another word. I have a bad feeling. Talk after I am done kidnapping you from your place, and we are at Okinawa," said Satoru seriously.
"I messed up big time, Satoru."
"....Lolicon?" asked Satoru.
"F*ck no!!!"
"Then what?"
"...Can't go into details because of clan matters, but at the moment, I am unable to control my cursed energy and powers. I am destroying things while walking if I am not careful."
"So? Destroy everything? I don't think it is a big enough reason to drop the trip with your best buddy?" replied Satoru.
"...People might get hurt by accident."
"Let the people go to hell."
"Satoru..."
"Don't Satoru me, you bastard. I am already done packing. We are going on this trip! You don't know how hard it was to convince Mom to let me go! She was insisting on tagging along as well!"
"Wait! Your mom is coming too?!" asked Naoya, feeling slightly more inclined to the prospect of letting the people get hurt.
"...Naoya... Forget that. You need training to help you control your power properly. Be right there. I am coming to beat the crap out of you. We will do this trip after that!" said Satoru in anger.
"Yay! I wanted to ask that too. Let's go on the trip later. Your mom can tag along as well," said Naoya happily.
"...I am coming there! Don't you dare run!!!!" threatened Satoru and cut off the call.
Naoya smiled and flipped the phone shut, only for him to break it by accident.
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Hey Guys! Author here. Wanted your opinion on one thing.
How should I categorise Sukuna's, Yuta's, and Gojo's cursed energy levels? I am having issues with that.
Sukuna is quantifiable with his finger being counted as increasing his energy with each finger consumed, but what should we set each finger's worth?
Sukuna is said to be twice Yuta's level, and Gojois said to be slightly lower than Yuta's, but by how much should I do it?
It would be helpful if you guys could put your thoughts here and let me know what to do with this CE.