At the crest of the wave, their Zenin family was at the top of the Three Great Families at this moment, and they were occupying the resources of the Jujutsu Headquarters, so their position was naturally also very important.
They could say nothing, but they would be dancing at the crest of the wave and would be watched by the sorcerers all over the country if they actively received Yuuki.
They would leave it to fate…
Zenin Naobito opened his mouth and said, "You should just treat it as you haven't heard anything, and the clear path will naturally appear after this period of time has passed for this troublesome matter."
"Then how should we respond?"
"Respond? You should just say that you're handling internal family matters and you don't have time to handle it."
"..."
Zenin Ougi's eyebrows had twitched at Zenin Naobito's perfunctory attitude, but it wasn't good for him to say anything, and after all, he was the head of the family, and he had only said, "I understand" and had set off to leave.
He had been saying in his heart the entire time why he hadn't been chosen by the previous head of the family, and his big brother's technique had a short history, and there wasn't even a need to argue about whether it was a technique that had been inherited in a single line, so why hadn't he been chosen!!!
In the end, he had still blamed the fact that he hadn't been chosen on his children, who had shamed him for not awakening a technique, and Zenin Naobito had Naoya Zenin, who had inherited his technique, and his children...
One was a good-for-nothing, whose cursed energy was even inferior to that of a normal person, and she and the completely awakened Toji Zenin, who had Heavenly Restriction, were two completely different people!!
The other possessed cursed energy, but she didn't have a technique, and she was a direct descendant of the family!!
Why hadn't even one of them, who had been born as direct descendants, awakened the Ten Shadows Technique!!
He would manage it better than this big brother, who was drunk all day, if he became the head of the Zenin family!!
Why hadn't these two guys, who had caused him to be so miserable, died in that Shibuya Incident.
The thousands of complaints in Zenin Ougi's heart were only his daily routine at this moment, and he would be unable to stop himself from cursing in his heart after seeing his big brother, who had become the head of the family, drunk all day and recalling his own conscientiousness.
And in this Japan, which had already been completely chaotic, the announcement of the Jujutsu Headquarters would probably only completely spread on the second day.
...
"Click—"
Maki Zenin, who had arrived underground and had been standing before the door of the Inventory, had unlocked the lock, and the crisp sound of the spring had been echoing in the empty underground, and Maki Zenin had pushed open the pitch-black door, which had been filled with talismans, and she had walked inside.
It could be seen that cursed tools, which possessed special techniques, had been stored on the shelves upon looking inside, and this was the terrifying foundation, which the Zenin family had stored for hundreds of years.
Even if the sorcerers declined with the passage of time, these cursed tools were different, and they would continue to be stored as long as they weren't damaged.
It could already be said that the amount of cursed tools that a family had stored represented their true foundation.
Maki Zenin had stepped inside, and she had picked up one cursed tool after another and had looked at them, and she had finally locked her gaze onto the Special Grade cursed tools, and she should just take the best one since that old guy had let her pick one at random.
And the Special Grade cursed tools, which were difficult to damage and which she herself could use, would become the key to whether she could survive in the Culling Game.
But although she had been thinking this in her heart, it was too difficult to pick a cursed tool, which was suitable for her, and they basically all needed cursed energy to activate, and even if there were more Special Grade cursed tools, they would be no different from Grade 1 cursed tools, which were slightly sturdier, if she couldn't pick one that she could use.
"Clang—"
A crisp sound of metal rubbing had been echoing in her ears, and Maki Zenin had drawn out the long sword, which had been stuck in the hilt, and she had examined it, and a smile had been raised at the corners of her mouth inexplicably.
She had found it… a cursed tool, which was suitable for her.
She didn't know what the technique of this cursed tool itself was since she had never entered the Zenin family's Inventory, but she could at least use it, and she could just ask the head of the family about it when she returned the key.
Maki Zenin had started to wield the cursed tool in her hand in the Inventory as the veins on her right hand, which had been gripping the long sword, had bulged, and a silver-white light of the sword had flashed, but a sound of the air being cut hadn't been heard at all, and it seemed that the sharpness of the blade could cut the air in half.
"...Not bad, and this is the one."
Maki Zenin, who had been feeling that it was getting more and more suitable, had put the long sword back into its hilt, and it could be seen from the fluffy red hair at the guard and the red cloth, which had been wrapped around the hilt and had faint traces of blackened blood, just how many people this cursed tool had killed in the past, and the bloodstains couldn't be washed off…
But it was inexplicably suitable for her at this moment, and she had to walk a path, which had been paved by countless corpses, to walk out a path that only belonged to her to not die in that Culling Game.
Maki Zenin had run into her mother just as she had left after the Inventory's door had been locked again and she had obtained the cursed tool.
"I heard that you've come back, so I've come to see you."
"...Mm, mother, and I'll be leaving now."
Maki Zenin, who wasn't very good at chatting with her family, had chosen to leave decisively, and after all, she didn't really have anything to say.
"...You should leave quickly, and you should never return here."
Ryogumiko's eyes had been reflecting Maki Zenin's back, which had already become independent, while looking at her daughter, who had been leaving, and she had had some relief, and she had silently left only after she had completely disappeared.
Maki Zenin's heart had been filled with mixed feelings on this return home, and she had unconsciously been rejoicing that she had left this place in the past and had joined Jujutsu High and had run into Panda, Inumaki, and the others, and she couldn't even predict just how dark her heart would have been if she had kept staying here.
This place… was truly too oppressive, and the reputation of the Three Great Families was very loud to the outsiders, who didn't understand, and it seemed that it was the strength that they wanted to touch in their entire lives, but it was because of this loud reputation that the Three Great Families wouldn't raise good-for-nothing trash, who didn't have any potential.
Even if they were direct descendants, they would be discarded directly, and it was because they didn't have any potential.
Maki Zenin had returned the key to Zenin Naobito after arriving in the house of the head of the family, and she had asked about the technique of the cursed tool in her hand.
"...Hahaha! I truly didn't expect that you would actually choose this cursed tool."
Zenin Naobito had been looking at the cursed tool in Maki's hand, and he didn't know whether he had been lamenting fate or something else, and she had actually chosen the cursed tool, which Toji Zenin, who had been Heavenly Restriction, had used in the past!!
Did the incomplete Heavenly Restriction also desire to become perfect?
Could she completely break free from the binding of cursed energy and become that second-generation Heavenly Tyrant?
He opened his mouth and said, "The cursed tool in your hand is the Soul Liberating Blade, and its technique is that it can attack the soul directly..."
"The Soul Liberating Blade was originally possessed by Toji Zenin, who had Heavenly Restriction, and it possesses the ability to cut apart even the soul, and those, who are wounded by it, can't heal even if they use Reversal Technique, and it's very suitable for you, Maki..."
"Click—"
Maki Zenin, who had already left the Zenin family, had clenched the Soul Liberating Blade in her hand, and the sound of the blade and the scabbard colliding had been transmitted, and the words of Zenin Naobito had been echoing in her mind, and she opened her mouth and said, "I'll definitely return the cursed tool alive, and I can only be the future head of the Zenin family."
There wasn't a problem with these words, which Maki Zenin had said, and she only needed to kill Megumi Fushiguro and Naoya Zenin, who possessed the greatest right of inheritance, and then she would be the only heir of the younger generation of the Zenin family.
It was just that… it would be difficult for her, who didn't have any cursed energy or techniques, to touch Naoya Zenin, who had broken the sound barrier, and she couldn't even beat Megumi Fushiguro, who didn't care about the position of the head of the Zenin family at all and felt from the bottom of his heart that the position was a burden.
But these weren't important to Maki Zenin, and after all, she couldn't return the cursed tool if she died inside…
And her goal was the Sakurajima Barrier of the Culling Game, which had been located on Luer Island, and she had instinctively chosen that place, perhaps because it was the furthest.
There were a total of ten Culling Game Barriers in Japan at this moment, and there were two in Tokyo, one in Kyoto, one in Aichi, one in Kobe, one in Hiroshima, one on Luer Island, one in Miyagi, one at the border between Iwate Prefecture and Akita Prefecture, and the last one was in Aomori.
She had taken out her phone, which had been turned on to flight mode, and had glanced at the time;
[16:20:55].
And the commonly used subway had only stopped in Tokyo, and it could still be used normally in other places, and after all, Tokyo was the only place, where a large number of cursed spirits had been gestating, but it was hard to say in a few days…
Although there were Culling Game Barriers in various places, it would still take some time to completely collapse the economy of Japan, and it would only take three or four hours to take the subway from here to Luer Island.
This meant that she could successfully arrive at around eight or nine o'clock at night and then enter the Sakurajima Barrier at night.
Maki Zenin had set off to leave after roughly estimating it in her heart, and if she didn't hurry, then the entire Japan might collapse in the next second, and the speed, at which the million cursed spirits in Tokyo were expanding, wasn't slow, and the speed, at which cursed spirits were gestating, was also getting faster and faster, and she believed that the sorcerers in various places would soon be unable to hold on.
It was because sorcerers were humans no matter what, and humans would get tired, and even if their bodies wouldn't be exhausted with the blessing of Reversal Technique, the exhaustion, which had been transmitted from the levels of the spirit and soul, was irresistible.
The cursed spirits couldn't be killed cleanly, and the exhausted sorcerers would huddle together for warmth, and this was the Heian period, when jujutsu was at its peak, huh...
"This Peace is truly ironic, huh..."
The sun had been setting particularly early in November, and Yuuki had returned to Jujutsu High and it had already been around six o'clock, and the sun, which had originally been hanging high, had also been about to set in the west at this moment, and it had only left a moment of sunset glow to illuminate the path of the people.
"Rustle..."
A refreshing cold wind had brushed past, and the yellowed dead leaves on the trees had fallen, and Yuuki, who had been returning to the school, had been carrying a few fruits in his hand, and he had raised his head and had been looking at the dead leaves, which had been sliding down with the wind, and he had felt some desolation in his heart for some reason…
Yuuki, who had been wearing an apron, had learned from Yuuki Jun'e, who had been helping him wash the vegetables on the side, that Maki hadn't been around when he had been cooking, and she had left with the cursed tools on her back soon after he had left, and as for where she had gone, Jun'e herself didn't know.
"It's fine, big brother, and Maki-nee should be back in a bit, and isn't it not the time to eat yet?"
Yuuki Jun'e, who had been floating on the side, had opened her mouth and said while looking at Yuuki, whose expression had been somewhat worried.
"...Mm, that's right, and we should cook first."
Yuuki's hands, which had been cutting the vegetables on the cutting board, had started to be busy again;
He also wasn't too sure whether Maki had gone to infiltrate the Culling Game Barrier alone, and although he didn't want to think this, he had been by her side for almost two years now, so he still knew what her personality was like, and he had only been afraid that she would take it seriously and would think that he had been holding her back and would step inside alone.
And he could only cook the dishes and wait for her to return.
"Yohoo! We've come to help."
Panda, who had washed his hands, had put his arm around Yuta Okkotsu and had walked into the kitchen, and he had started to organize the dishes, which had been piled on the table, and you had exchanged a word with me and I had exchanged a word with you, and they had been exchanging about the interesting things that Yuta had experienced overseas, and it seemed that they hadn't noticed that Maki Zenin had been gone from the school for a long time.
But… they could feel that Maki Zenin had left Tokyo High, and they just didn't want to admit it, and Toge Inumaki was still calling Maki's name throughout the school at this moment.
...
At eight o'clock, the stars in the sky had lit up, and the people of Tokyo High had been surrounding the dining table, and the fragrant dishes had become dull at this moment.
"Gurgle..."
Yuuki Jun'e's belly had rumbled, and she had covered her belly somewhat embarrassedly, and Yuuki, who had been sitting on the side silently, opened his mouth and said, "Everyone should eat first, and I'll… wait a bit longer."
Yuuki understood that he couldn't wait for her, but what other method was there other than waiting at this moment?
To split out ten wood clones and go to the ten Culling Game Barriers all over the country one by one to check?
What a joke...
The total amount of cursed energy that he had at this moment was only a mere 15,000, and the total amount of cursed energy of a wood clone after splitting them up was less than 2,000, and they might be destroyed as soon as they stepped inside, and he had only woken up not long ago today, so how would he store cursed energy...
Souls, contracts, equivalent exchange...
"...Sorry, Yuuki, and I'll be setting off first."
Yuta Okkotsu had put down the chopsticks, which he had just picked up, and he was preparing to go to a Culling Game at random to try his luck and see if he could run into Maki Zenin, who had already gone to the Barrier.
"I'm the one, who should be apologizing." Yuuki, whose thoughts had been interrupted, had revealed a wry smile.
"You shouldn't blame yourself so much, Yuuki, and no one is omniscient and omnipotent, and who would have predicted that this kind of thing would happen, and I'm going to Aomori Prefecture, and you should leave the remaining nine Barriers to them."
Rika Orimoto had drilled out of the shadows behind him just as Yuta Okkotsu had finished speaking, and she had been carrying the backpack, which had been storing the cursed tools, and she had hung it on his shoulders, and she said in her mouth, "I've prepared it, Yuta~"
"Thank you, and is there anything else that you want to say, Yuuki, and it's been decided that the game rules, which will be added, are two at this moment."
Yuta Okkotsu continued, "I. Players can freely trade game points between each other.
II. Entering and exiting the Barrier.
And then the rest is to destroy the game rules as much as possible on this foundation and to have the Culling Game stop operating autonomously."
"...Sorry, and my brain is a bit confused."
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