Nanami looked at Fushiguro Shin and said, "It's been a long time, Shin."
"Long time no see, Nanami-senpai."
Itadori looked at the two greeting each other and asked curiously, "Did you two already know each other?"
Fushiguro Shin explained, "I enrolled earlier than you, and I've been on some missions with Nanami-senpai before."
Nanami pushed up his glasses and spoke, "However, hearing about your recent situation from Gojo really surprised me. I didn't expect you to have grown into such a reliable Jujutsu Sorcerer."
[Kento Nanami's favorability increased to 20, gained 500 experience points.]
Understanding the cause and effect of those events, Nanami didn't intend to discuss them. At least in his eyes, as a comrade, Fushiguro Shin was undoubtedly qualified and reliable; he hadn't made him work any overtime since the beginning.
Nanami was just about to teach Itadori and said to him, "Can you see them? The residues of Cursed Energy..."
Fushiguro Shin couldn't help but interrupt, "Um, Nanami-senpai, let's go to the rooftop first. I've already dealt with the two Cursed Spirits, but they seem a bit special. I'd like you to confirm them."
"Eh?" Nanami didn't react for a moment, stunned for a few seconds. "When did you do that?"
Fushiguro Shin explained patiently, "Probably while I was exchanging pleasantries with you. I could sense the Cursed Energy reaction from the rooftop, so I just used my Cursed Technique to deal with them."
Since the Special Grade finger Cursed Energy incident, Itadori hadn't seen Fushiguro Shin in action, nor the battle with Sukuna.
So Itadori turned to look at the floor plan of the building, the sign detailing the contents of each floor and then asked Fushiguro Shin in shock.
"There are five whole floors, Shin, and you've already dealt with the Cursed Spirits!"
In reality, Nanami's level of shock was no less than Itadori's. He hadn't expected Fushiguro Shin's Cursed Technique to be capable of such a thing, but being mature, he hid his shock well.
Fushiguro Shin also briefly demonstrated his Cursed Technique to Nanami, reaching his hand into the shadow and then appearing from the shadow under Itadori's feet, tugging at his pant leg.
"As long as I can lock onto the opponent's position, I can connect through shadows. After all, generally speaking, shadows are everywhere unless there's a special lighting situation where there are no shadows."
Nanami rubbed his chin in agreement, "That is true. But more than the Cursed Technique, your perception is truly exaggerated."
[Killed two Cursed Spirits in advance, partially rewriting the plot, gained 500 experience.]
"Let's save the small talk for after we're done," Fushiguro Shin said, gesturing for the two to quickly go upstairs to check the situation.
Looking at Fushiguro Shin's back, Nanami found it hard to connect him with the arrogant and wild image Satoru Gojo had described.
However, Nanami wasn't the only one with a great interest in Fushiguro Shin. Sukuna inside Itadori was even more annoyed at not being able to see Fushiguro Shin's Cursed Technique.
Sukuna inside Itadori sat with his legs crossed, resting his chin on one hand, and muttered to himself.
"Shin, show me a little more."
[Sukuna's favorability rose to 17, gained 200 experience.]
Hearing the system prompt, Fushiguro Shin couldn't help but frown.
Fushiguro Shin thought to himself that as expected, 'The Bath' couldn't restrict Sukuna for too long. But Sukuna's inexplicable increase in favorability still disgusted him, as if he were being watched by a creepy guy.
Before long, the three arrived at the rooftop. Nanami was still shocked by the two piles of Cursed Spirits cut into pieces before him.
In fact, Fushiguro Shin hadn't just used Shadow Demon; he had used a combo of Shadow Demon and Cat's Cradle.
Using Shadow Demon to bring the prey into attack range, and then using Cat's Cradle beneath the bodies of the two Cursed Spirits.
The natural shadows beneath the Cursed Energy bodies became the carrier for the Cat's Cradle attack, easily shredding both of them.
Fushiguro Shin only left behind the hands, which were wearing bracelets and still showed human structure.
Nanami thought silently, with this level of Cursed Technique ability, wouldn't it be no problem for the current Shin to be ranked as First-Grade?
He asked himself if he could do something similar, and...
To protect his younger brother, Megumi Fushiguro, was he willing to hide his strength and just be a Grade 3 Sorcerer?
Fushiguro Shin took out his phone and took a photo of the hand on the ground.
"As I thought."
Nanami asked, "What's wrong?"
Fushiguro Shin showed the photo on his phone to the two and explained, "These two don't look like simple Cursed Spirits."
"They can be captured by a camera? Then that means..."
Fushiguro Shin voiced Nanami's suspicion.
"Then it means that although their forms are those of Cursed Spirits, their essence is human."
Itadori looked at the two corpses and muttered, "Humans...?"
About an hour later, after Shoko examined the three people in the Movie Theater and the corpses Fushiguro Shin had cut into pieces, she called Fushiguro Shin.
"These are all humans. Or perhaps I should say, before they were turned into this, they were all humans."
The three people listening to the speakerphone didn't look too surprised. After all, they had guessed as much before, and it was just confirmed by Shoko.
Fushiguro Shin said, "Simply put, there's no possibility of restoration, right, Shoko-san?"
"There's no way. Even if the opponent used the same Cursed Technique, it's basically impossible to restore this level of 'deformation' to its original state."
"Understood."
"Also, Shin."
"What is it, Shoko-san?"
"Even if you can solve it easily, don't cut the corpses into such small pieces. It makes my research very difficult!"
"Sorry, I'll definitely pay attention next time."
After Fushiguro Shin hung up the phone, Itadori said angrily, "To do something like this, it's just too cruel!"
"It's a bit heavy. Nanami-senpai, I'm going out for some fresh air."
Nanami didn't think much of it and casually agreed.
Just then, Kiyotaka Ijichi walked in with a map.
"Where is Shin going?"
Nanami looked at the map in Kiyotaka Ijichi's hand and asked curiously, "He said he was going out for some fresh air. What are you holding?"
"Earlier today, Shin asked me for reports on recent disappearances and incidents with abnormal deaths in this vicinity, as well as related residue reports. I thought it would be helpful, so I organized them in detail on a map."
"What?" Nanami thought of something and immediately took the map to examine it... Meanwhile, Fushiguro Shin had already arrived at the entrance of the Sewer where Mahito was hiding.
Whether it was solving the Movie Theater problem in advance or arriving here at an incredible speed, it had saved a significant amount of time.
If Fushiguro Shin's calculations were correct, Yoshino Junpei should be inside chatting with Mahito right now.
Fushiguro Shin looked up at the gloomy sky and muttered to himself, "A cloudy day, huh? That really helps a lot."
[Experience consumed, activating Two-Way Heavenly Restriction.]
Fushiguro Shin reached his hand into the shadow and said coldly.
"Cat's Cradle."
Instantly, countless sounds of cutting echoed from the pitch-black Sewer.
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