"AAAAAAGH—!!!"
The sound of Yuta Okkotsu's heart-wrenching screams echoed through the hallways of the abandoned school building.
He clawed at his hair, his fingers digging deep into his scalp from the sheer force until blood began to seep from beneath his fingernails.
Why?
Why was it always like this?!
As a child, he could only watch helplessly as his beloved Rika died a tragic death under the wheels of a car, unable to do a single thing.
And now, he was watching once again as Maki Zenin—the girl who wanted to protect him, the girl with a strong dream—was swallowed alive by a monster!
"I've had enough..."
Bloody tears streamed from Yuta Okkotsu's eyes, his voice raspy like the low whimpering of a beast.
"I don't want to see anyone get hurt because of me anymore!"
"I don't want to be a piece of trash who can only hide behind others!"
He snapped his head up, his once timid and lost eyes now filled with a heart-stopping madness and resolve.
Trembling, he reached into his inner pocket and pulled out a silver ring.
It was the ring he and Rika had used as a token of their promise ten years ago beside the sandbox: 'Let's get married when we grow up.'
It was also the seal binding the terrifying monster known as the 'Queen of Curses'!
"Rika..."
Yuta Okkotsu slowly slid the ring onto the ring finger of his left hand.
"Come out."
"Lend me your power!"
"Vrrrm—!!!"
The moment the ring was donned, the space within the abandoned elementary school seemed to come to a sudden halt.
Immediately after.
An indescribable, massive surge of terrifying black cursed energy erupted from within Yuta Okkotsu like a volcanic explosion, causing the air itself to warp violently!
"RUMBLE!!!"
The pillar of black cursed energy shot into the heavens, forcefully shattering the hemispherical black Curtain that blanketed the school!
"CRACK! SNAP!"
With a sound like shattering glass, the barrier erected by Assistant Supervisor Kiyotaka Ijichi completely collapsed!
"Yuta..."
"Are you... calling me?"
A voice that was ethereal, eerie, and filled with a morbid affection echoed in the void.
Following the voice.
A terrifying monster—larger than the mutated giant cursed spirit and covered in pale arms and a massive eye—slowly emerged behind Yuta Okkotsu!
Special Grade Vengeful Cursed Spirit: Rika Orimoto!
Fully manifested!
"Hiss..."
When Rika's giant eye slowly opened.
The mutated giant cursed spirit—which had just been lording over the hallway, ready to devour Yuta—let out a terrified shriek as if it had encountered its natural predator!
Its massive body trembled uncontrollably; it didn't even have the courage to turn and run, only pressing itself against the floor like a stray dog awaiting slaughter!
This was absolute suppression of status!
Before Rika, known as the 'Queen of Curses,' this mutated spirit that barely scratched the threshold of Special Grade wasn't even fit to lick her boots!
"Rika."
Yuta Okkotsu slowly stood up.
He was now shrouded in a dense layer of black cursed energy, and his originally dark eyes had turned an eerie dark red.
He leaned down and picked up the katana that had fallen into the pool of blood.
"Don't forgive it."
"Tear it into pieces for me!"
"As you wish... my beloved... Yuta..."
Rika let out a bone-chilling, maniacal laugh.
In the next second, her colossal frame vanished from where she stood!
"BOOM!"
With a deafening explosion.
Rika's pale, giant hand ignored the distance of space and clamped down on the mutated giant cursed spirit's throat, hoisting it high into the air!
"ROAR!"
The mutated spirit let out a cry of agony, attempting to fight back with the countless arms covering its body.
But Rika simply applied a little pressure.
"CRACK! SNAP! CRUNCH!"
Accompanying the sound of grinding bones, countless arms on the mutated spirit were instantly snapped!
Simultaneously, Yuta Okkotsu moved from below.
"Hoo—"
He took a deep breath, his lungs letting out a dull rumble.
Breathing Technique!
With the wild injection of Rika's endless cursed energy, the speed of Yuta's blood flow instantly reached a level beyond human imagination!
The Breathing Technique taught by Yoru acted like a high-powered turbocharger, instantly converting Rika's massive cursed energy into peak physical explosive force!
"Whoosh!"
Yuta Okkotsu turned into a bolt of black lightning, instantly closing the distance to the mutated giant cursed spirit!
"Give Maki..."
He gripped the katana with both hands, concentrating all his strength and cursed energy onto the blade!
"Give her back!!!"
"SHING!!!"
A terrifying black blade light over ten meters long instantly sliced through the darkness of the hallway!
Under the dual empowerment of the Breathing Technique and Special Grade cursed energy, Yuta's strike split the massive mutated spirit in half from head to toe!
"THUD!"
The mutated spirit's body collapsed with a heavy crash.
Covered in foul-smelling slime and deep in a coma, Maki Zenin rolled out from the remains of the cursed spirit.
"Maki!"
Seeing that while she was heavily injured, her chest still rose and fell with faint breaths, Yuta's tense heart finally relaxed.
"Yuta... Yuta..."
Rika's massive form leaned down behind him, her eerie face gently nuzzling Yuta's cheek as if asking for praise.
"Good job, Rika."
"Thank you."
Yuta gave a weak smile and reached out to gently touch Rika's pale cheek.
Then, his vision went dark, and he lost consciousness completely.
Overdrawing his physical stamina and cursed energy, combined with the massive emotional fluctuations, had finally pushed his body to its limit.
Just as Yuta was about to hit the ground.
A strong hand caught his shoulder firmly.
Yoru had emerged from the shadows at some unknown point.
He looked at the unconscious Yuta in his arms, then looked up at the slowly dissipating Rika Orimoto in the sky, a satisfied glint flashing in his deep red eyes.
"Well done."
"This is how the God of Pure Love, who can destroy everything for the sake of love in the original story, is supposed to look."
Yoru casually hoisted the unconscious Maki onto his shoulder as well and turned to walk out of the school.
"The stage ahead is only going to get more exciting."
Meanwhile.
Several kilometers away from the abandoned elementary school, on the open rooftop of the Star Religious Group headquarters.
A man wearing a gojo-style cassock with his hair in a bun stood quietly with his hands behind his back.
His deep gaze pierced through the night, precisely capturing the massive residual cursed energy dissipating over the abandoned school.
The corners of his mouth curled into an extremely eerie and fanatical smile.
"Truly an intoxicating power..."
"Special Grade Vengeful Cursed Spirit... Rika Orimoto."
A chilling light flickered in Suguru Geto's narrow eyes.
"If I can get her..."
"Then the great cause I seek—a world without monkeys—can absolutely be realized."
The 'Most Evil Curse User' who had lurked in the darkness for ten years finally bared his greedy fangs toward the boy named Yuta Okkotsu on this night.
A massive storm capable of sweeping through the entire jujutsu world was about to be triggered over the skies of Tokyo!
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