"Here I come, take it properly! 'Sonic Impact'!"
"Cursed Technique Reversal—'Ratio Technique'!"
'I'm going to go check on the horses today, so it's self-study. Here is the self-training menu. If you skip, I'll kill you.' Leaving behind this unreasonable message at the start of PE class, the delinquent teacher Fushiguro-sensei disappeared.
Although they felt some resentment toward that attitude, the students, who had been thoroughly beaten and trained, had no option to skip, and the reality was that they were solemnly carrying out the planned self-training menu.
And in today's menu, Naoya and Nanami were paired up, with Naoya on the offense and Nanami on the defense, training Nanami's Cursed Technique Reversal.
As a result, the opening scene was taking place.
Kento Nanami's Cursed Technique Reversal: 'Translucent Core Sorcery'. Its effect is 'generating an invincibility judgment at the point dividing the target 7:3', which is somewhat difficult to understand when put into words.
However, seeing Nanami's fist, punched out to intercept Naoya's 'Sonic Impact', 'cancel out' the Sonic Impact's air bullet with a pleasant sound like a metal bat hitting a hardball—Kakeen!—you would understand well what kind of thing it is.
"Seriously, that invincibility is too lawless. Look, it's that thing from Garou . That feelin'."
"...Ah, Just Defense, was it? Indeed. ...This is a consultation, but if I arrange this with a Binding, couldn't I really treat it like a Just Defense?"
"Well, yeah... Wouldn't it work? Like narrowin' the invincibility to just an instant. Wouldn't be strange if it displayed performance exceedin' normal invincibility. Let's see, for example, convertin' the enemy's attack into cursed energy and absorbin' it?"
"I see. However, if the timing fails, there is no invincibility. If used intermixed with normal invincibility, wouldn't it be quite strong?"
"If you were in a fighting game, people would smash a chair into the cabinet, ya know. Generally speakin'. Even the invincibility itself is nasty. The hitbox is a bit big, ain't it?"
"Did you notice? Rather than slightly larger than the invincible part, it feels more like being clad in invincibility, or anyway, invincibility exists as if protruding from the part. ...Ah. A ring might be close to the image. Just now, I generated invincibility at the position '7 from the fingertip, 3 from the base', so there was ring-shaped invincibility at that position."
"It's crazy. If you punch an attack with that, you'd repel or obliterate it. Only slashes and area-of-effect attacks would work on you, probably."
"Conversely, I would be completely helpless against those, so I suppose it can only be used in in-fighting."
"I see... Then next, let's try the Just Guard version. Apply a Binding."
"Yes, please."
Conducting the sparring while exchanging such post-game analysis was quite efficient, and Nanami steadily mastered his Cursed Technique Reversal, rapidly improving his ability.
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While there was such a serious pair, the ones forming an amusing tag team were the matching of Satoru Gojo and Shoko Ieiri.
Satoru Gojo, who received the unreasonable demand from Toji to 'Make it so you can keep that Infinity up on auto mode', was on the defense. Shoko Ieiri, who similarly received the unreasonable demand from Toji to 'Get used to handling sidearms too', was on the offense. That combination manifested on the grounds as the outrageous picture of 'Shoko Ieiri shooting the hell out of Satoru Gojo'.
"Oryaryaa~"
"Uwoaaaaahhh!?!?"
Gojo was screaming like a gag, but if there was anyone who saw his current situation and laughed at that roar, it would be fair to say they had quite no heart.
After all, what Ieiri, who was making cute noises like "Oryaryaa~", held in her hands were American-180s equipped with 275-round pan magazines. Those guns, firing .22 Long Rifle rounds at a crazy rate of 1200 rounds per minute, possessed the insane performance of emptying a magazine in just 14 seconds and the destructive power to easily punch through bulletproof vests and turn humans into minced meat. They were the runaway express trains of the submachine gun world.
And of all things, Shoko was operating them in a dual-wield style, letting her body's cursed energy reinforcement do the talking. An outrageous female technical college student who would make even Seibu Keisatsu turn tail and run was born right here.
But of course, Toji isn't a demon. What he had Ieiri use this time were tracer rounds. Since the magnesium-strontium type trajectories glow red and are 'easier to see' than normal bullets, it is certainly easier for the defending side to see the trajectory and defend.
But, however. As can be understood from the fact that tracer rounds were scattered in anti-aircraft fire to 'intimidate enemy pilots', the visual impact of bright red bullets being slammed in at super-high speed is outstanding.
From Gojo's perspective, he felt like a Zaku being shot at by a Gundam. It doesn't matter if it doesn't hit, but what's scary is scary.
Hence, the earlier scream.
"Ah, time out, time out. Out of ammo~"
"Hee, hee, hee... A-Am I alive? Me?"
That attack, where the bullets had no cursed energy and the Six Eyes were completely useless except for visual acuity, was more terrifying to Gojo than a clumsy cursed spirit.
Toji's 'Anti-Satoru Gojo' tactic, who once made a name for himself in the underworld as the 'Sorcerer Killer', succeeded perfectly in putting the stress of 'I might die' on Gojo, and his brain circuits were on the verge of burning out. Although he had arrived at the style of forcibly healing that with Reversal to keep operating, psychological stress alone was something Reverse Cursed Technique couldn't help.
But precisely because of that, it is also a fact that Gojo's Infinity achieved a dramatic evolution in the face of a life-or-death crisis, unconsciously increasing its effective range quite far from his body surface.
Toji Fushiguro's educational sense was genuine on the single point of raising combatants, to the extent that Satoru Gojo would later grudgingly acknowledge his achievements.
But the current Gojo was squeezing out cursed energy to the point where his brain was frying and his dantian was aching, a situation where he couldn't harbor any emotions other than curses toward Toji.
And then—.
"Gojo! Next is this!"
"Hey idiot, don't screw with me, Shoko!? Even I've seen that before! That's a Vulcan! Since when did you become Cyborg Kuro-chan!? Are you crazy!?!?"
"Ah, Fushiguro-sensei said 'This is called a Microgun', so it's probably different, isn't it? He said the recoil is super strong but I can shoot it if I use full power cursed energy reinforcement, so it's fine, it's fine."
"Right now, I'm not worried about anything other than your head!!!!"
"Here I go~"
"Nnaaaaaaahhh!?!?"
Along with such an exchange, Shoko, whose whole body was reinforced with cursed energy, was pushed back inch by inch by the recoil as she slammed in 3000 tracer rounds per minute assaulting Gojo. Thoughts other than survival instinct were knocked out of his head, and the strength of his technique was inevitably forced to rise.
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