Osaka.
Chinatsu, teleporting and constantly shuttling between various battle zones, strenuously prevented the chaos from further escalating. As Curse Users fell and Cursed Spirits were exorcised, she appeared and disappeared like a ghost.
At this moment, Chinatsu, after nearly an hour, stopped her steps. She bowed her head slightly, breathing softly but somewhat rapidly.
Although Reverse Cursed Technique could heal physical injuries, mental exhaustion was difficult to reverse. Under continuous high-pressure operation, fatigue was evident in her pure eyes.
"Miss Gojo, are you alright...?"
A Jujutsu Sorcerer, who had just been saved by Chinatsu, looked at her current state with some concern. Even someone unfamiliar with Chinatsu could tell her condition was not good.
Hearing someone's greeting, Chinatsu merely shook her head, quickly adjusted her state, and gave a faint smile to the person who greeted her.
"I'm just a little tired. After this battle, I'll need a good rest, but before that, I still need to push myself a bit more."
Chinatsu's words seemed to be an answer to others, but in reality, they were also to uplift her own spirits. The people around her, seeing Chinatsu like this, didn't say much, nor did they know what to say.
She took out her phone from her pocket, opened the group chat created by her circle of friends, and, with no new messages for several hours, she sent the first new message.
Chinatsu: My area is mostly handled. How are things on everyone else's side? Do you need me to come and assist?
As soon as Chinatsu sent this message, almost simultaneously, an emoji from Gojo Satoru popped up right below Chinatsu's message.
A few seconds later, the originally silent group chat regained a bit of life. Everyone, taking a break from their busy schedules, pulled out their phones and tapped on the screen keyboard.
Geto Suguru: I'm fine here. Mostly, there are Cursed Spirits, and my Cursed Technique is quite effective against them, so I can mostly suppress them by myself.
Ieiri Shoko: Although I'm busy, assistance isn't necessary. The number of injured being sent over is gradually decreasing. Chinatsu, you should go where you're needed more.
Haibara: The number of troublemakers in the area Nanami and I are responsible for isn't large. We've mostly dealt with about seventy to eighty percent of them now. If any place still needs assistance, we can go help!
Mei Mei: Then why don't you come here? Although I really wanted to solo them and maximize the bounty, there are simply too many, and I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed.
Chinatsu: OK! On my way!
Chinatsu also sent an 'OK' emoji at the end. Then she closed her phone screen, ready to put it back in her pocket, but suddenly, as if remembering something, she took out her phone again.
She found the phone number noted as "Megumi's Dad" in her contacts and dialed it.
Beep... Beep... Beep!
When the call connected, Chinatsu opened her mouth, ready to ask about Fushiguro Toji's situation, but before the words could leave her lips, she heard a series of noisy sounds from the phone.
"Toji? Are you fighting?" Chinatsu asked tentatively, but what immediately answered her was not Toji's voice, but the tearing sound of a Cursed Spirit being disemboweled.
The soul split katana was embedded in the Cursed Spirit's body. Fushiguro Toji held the Inverted Spear of Heaven in his left hand and his phone in his right, fighting the surrounding Cursed Spirits while talking to Chinatsu on the phone.
"Am I not fighting? Am I watching TV? Actually, I was just lounging on the sofa at home watching TV when a Cursed Spirit, not caring for its life, crawled in through my balcony and scared my daughter."
As Fushiguro Toji spoke, he wielded the Inverted Spear of Heaven, launching a sharp strike at a Cursed Spirit charging towards him. The Cursed Spirit, cut and pierced by Toji, fell to the ground, gradually turning into pure Cursed Energy and dissipating into the air.
After dealing with the Cursed Spirit at hand, he turned and shouted at Fushiguro Megumi and Tsumiki Fushiguro, who were huddled to the side.
"Megumi, you must protect your sister!"
"I know! You take care of yourself!"
Fushiguro Megumi shielded his sister behind him, drops of sweat on his face, his hands crossed into a special gesture.
[Ten Shadows Technique: Divine Dogs]!
Two giant shikigami dogs, one black and one white, rose from the darkness, guarding the two in front of them with vigilance.
Seeing this, Fushiguro Toji nodded in satisfaction and refocused his gaze on the surrounding Cursed Spirits. He put away the Inverted Spear of Heaven, replacing it with the soul split katana, which could ignore defenses and attack the soul.
The surrounding Cursed Spirits were like cabbages under a knife. Fushiguro Toji dispatched them almost one by one; if one slash didn't finish it, he'd give it another.
After one slashing sound after another came from the phone, countless Cursed Spirits around Fushiguro Toji turned into corpses and then into pure Cursed Energy, ascending into the air.
Just as the immediate situation was handled, and Fushiguro Toji was about to chat with Chinatsu on the other end of the phone, his superhuman sensory ability as a heavenly restriction tyrant suddenly sounded an alarm in his mind.
Fushiguro Toji immediately turned around to look behind him, only to see a small, entirely crimson Cursed Spirit, with a face resembling a red octopus, appear in his line of sight.
Judging solely by appearance, this Cursed Spirit wasn't strong, but Fushiguro Toji trusted his judgment. A target that could trigger an alarm in his mind certainly wouldn't be an ordinary foe.
Grade 1... Special Grade Cursed Spirit?
Just as Fushiguro Toji was thinking this, the small red octopus-like Cursed Spirit suddenly underwent a grotesque transformation right before his eyes.
From a small red octopus, it transformed into an overall shape more human-like, yet with details that seemed to have sprung from the Cthulhu mythos: a muscular brute.
Disaster Cursed Spirit of the Sea: Dagon!
Seeing this appearance, Fushiguro Toji first paused slightly, then the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, revealing an expression that said, 'Now this is more like it.'
"Chinatsu, if there's nothing important, I'm hanging up. I've got a somewhat decent opponent here."
After Fushiguro Toji hung up the phone, he stuffed it into his pocket. He held the Inverted Spear of Heaven in his left hand and the soul split katana in his right, his lower body slightly lowered, his gaze burning as he looked at Dagon.
Dagon also stared at Fushiguro Toji. He had witnessed his Cursed Spirit friends being brutally killed, one by one, by Fushiguro Toji, and the rage in his heart surged like waves.
"Human, my name is Dago—"
Swish!
Before Dagon could finish his self-introduction, Fushiguro Toji, grinning, had already vanished from his spot with an explosive step, quite disrespectfully raising the blade in his hand and thrusting it towards Dagon
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