"I heard everything! This isn't a combat lesson, it's an emergency!"
Tears almost welled up in Miyuki's large eyes, and she let out a pitiful, shrill cry.
"What happened to the simple mission of just coming to pick up a cursed object? How did it turn into this?!"
"Get used to it quickly. This is the daily life of a Jujutsu Sorcerer," Fushiguro Megumi said, breathing slowly.
Finally, one of the Cursed Spirits in the surrounding crowd could no longer restrain itself and charged at them with a roar.
Fushiguro Megumi unleashed the Cursed Technique he had prepared and roared with all his might:
"Battle start! Go—Divine Dogs!"
The shadow beneath Fushiguro Megumi's feet suddenly elongated, and leaping out from it was a large white dog—
Ten Shadows Technique: Divine Dogs!
Divine Dogs opened its mouth wide and bit into the charging Cursed Spirit, its immense bite force nearly snapping the spirit in half.
The Cursed Spirit let out a strange, wordless shriek.
In the next instant, the shriek vanished.
Fushiguro Megumi stepped forward, his fist infused with Cursed Energy smashing into the spirit, which exploded like a popped balloon.
Amidst the filth, Fushiguro Megumi calmly observed the surrounding situation.
He counted the total number of spirits, discovering to his surprise that there were over thirty.
Most were Grade 3, with Grade 2 Cursed Spirits hiding among the Grade 3 swarm.
It was rare for so many Cursed Spirits to gather like this because they were ranked by strength; usually, when a powerful Cursed Spirit was present, lower-level Cursed Spirits would not loiter nearby.
The attraction of Ryomen Sukuna's finger had broken the tacit understanding between powerful Cursed Spirits and weak Cursed Spirits.
A massive number of Cursed Spirits were gathering here, searching recklessly in hopes of evolving further.
Driven by instinct, the Cursed Spirits watched with greedy eyes.
Originally, the Cursed Spirits were targeting Miyuki, but when Divine Dogs and Fushiguro Megumi counterattacked, all the Cursed Spirits shifted their gaze toward them.
"Whew."
Fushiguro Megumi exhaled slowly, taking his stance once more.
After less than a second of silence, the Cursed Spirits rioted!
The spirits howled as they rushed Fushiguro Megumi.
They all rioted simultaneously without any coordination, but their sheer numbers made up for it.
They lunged like two overlapping fans, and in the middle of the intersection, spirits even crowded and hindered one another.
Yet even so, they did not hesitate, surging forward like a tsunami.
Fushiguro Megumi vanished from the spirits' sight without warning.
He lowered his body almost to the ground, circulating his Cursed Energy while taking a deep breath, then exploded into motion!
He slid beneath the two fan-like formations, his hands infused with Cursed Energy striking upward.
The swarm of spirits passed over him; his instantaneous action allowed him to evade the first impact of all the Cursed Spirits while he took the opportunity to kill two or three of them.
Divine Dogs crashed head-on into the swarm of Cursed Spirits.
The white shikigami dog slammed into them with all its might.
The Cursed Spirits completely enveloped Divine Dogs, countless cursed hands wrapping around it.
The violent tearing caused Divine Dogs to yelp, but it surprisingly wasn't torn apart.
It withstood the tearing force and opened its large mouth to bite back.
Fushiguro Megumi delivered a kick, sending one Cursed Spirit crashing into another.
Their tsunami-like offensive vanished in an instant.
After all, they were just mindless beasts.
No, they were even worse than beasts.
A pack of beasts at least knows how to coordinate, but these things didn't even have that much sense.
Aside from their frantic, tide-like charging, they had no other form of attack.
Once the first wave was weathered, they would even get in each other's way, eventually meeting their end by being picked off one by one.
Suddenly, Fushiguro Megumi's eyes widened.
A Grade 2 Cursed Spirit hidden among the Grade 3 swarm finally bared its fangs, but the direction of its attack wasn't toward Fushiguro Megumi—
it was Miyuki!
This cunning Grade 2 Cursed Spirit was a snake-shaped Cursed Spirit.
It had been lurking in the middle of the swarm, advancing slowly.
After the swarm was blocked by Fushiguro Megumi, it didn't try to ambush him.
Its goal remained consistent:
Miyuki.
It only wanted her.
And now, the opportunity had come.
Even Fushiguro Megumi was bogged down in the swarm, and Miyuki was wide open.
It lunged suddenly, its snake-like body springing exactly like a snake in the hunt.
In the blink of an eye, the snake's mouth was before Miyuki's eyes, fangs bared, biting down.
Miyuki screamed, and Fushiguro Megumi's eyes nearly split from the strain.
"Miyuki!"
In the next instant, the snake's mouth exploded.
Miyuki tore the Grade 2 spirit apart amidst her screams.
Fushiguro Megumi was stunned.
He saw it clearly.
Miyuki didn't have any conscious intent to attack or defend; she had simply put her hands in front of her face while screaming.
The snake's mouth had already bitten her hand, and its fangs would surely have injected potent venom.
Yet, as the fangs bit down, the Grade 2 Cursed Spirit's teeth actually failed to pierce Miyuki's hand!
Howling Cursed Energy radiated outward from Miyuki like a storm.
Miyuki had used her instinct to cover her body's surface with Cursed Energy, which flowed over her delicate white skin.
This was the most basic Cursed Energy protection, the fundamental operation emphasized during the first year at Jujutsu High.
In the chaos, Miyuki exerted her strength.
This was also part of the curriculum for first-years at Jujutsu High:
reinforcing the body with Cursed Energy.
But even for Fushiguro Megumi, reinforcing the body wasn't total reinforcement.
He had to use every bit of Cursed Energy within him cautiously.
He would calmly judge the situation and then allocate his Cursed Energy with extreme efficiency; he had always fought this way.
But now, for the first time, he saw a Jujutsu Sorcerer possessing such vast Cursed Energy that they could use it to simply crush others with power!
Miyuki erupted with Cursed Energy amidst her screams, instinctively deploying a full-body Cursed Energy shield!
The Grade 2 Cursed Spirit's full-power sneak attack couldn't even bite through her basic protection.
Then, her counterattack was as simple as a baby tearing apart a thin string.
She grabbed the Grade 2 spirit with both hands and suddenly yanked outward.
The Grade 2 Cursed Spirit was actually torn in half like a string shredded by an infant, turning into cursed residue amidst its shrieks.
Fushiguro Megumi suddenly remembered the words Gojo Satoru had told him when he entrusted Miyuki to him.
"If it's Miyuki, don't worry about her," Gojo Satoru had told Fushiguro Megumi. "Though I have a lot of faith in your potential, Megumi, at this stage—without a doubt, Miyuki is stronger. She's much stronger than you, to the point where you might even feel jealous."
Fushiguro Megumi's mouth twitched.
"I see. So, this is the potential Gojo-sensei spoke of, the potential to definitely become a Special Grade Sorcerer? Now, I completely understand."
(T/N: Did I just hear potential?)
He took a deep breath and suddenly shouted,
"Miyuki! Calm down!"
Dazed, Miyuki lowered her hands.
The cursed residue of the Grade 2 Cursed Spirit still lingered on them.
She could hardly believe she had so easily killed a Cursed Spirit that had actively attacked her.
This wasn't a teaching material from a textbook, but a real, manifested curse.
When the Cursed Spirit attacked her, she was almost swallowed by terror, but now she realized...
it seemed like it was no big deal?
Was this body modified by Mahito really this powerful...?
She suddenly snapped back to her senses at Fushiguro Megumi's shout and responded flusteredly,
"Yes! Yes, Fushiguro-kun! I'm okay, I'm actually okay!"
"You're being incoherent, calm down! Cursed Spirits can't even hurt you, haven't you realized that yet?!" Fushiguro Megumi shouted again.
This time he didn't even look back, simply continuing to strike the spirits before him with fists reinforced by Cursed Energy.
Beside him, Divine Dogs had already returned.
Working in perfect coordination with him, the swarm of over thirty spirits couldn't even get close to him.
"Eh? I—I need to calm down; I need to calm down."
Miyuki took deep breaths.
"Now!" Fushiguro Megumi shouted while throwing a punch, "Do you see the swarm of Cursed Spirits in front of you?"
"Yes?"
"Kill them," Fushiguro Megumi said.
"Eh...?" Miyuki was stunned. "Me?!"
Then, Fushiguro Megumi deliberately let a few spirits pass.
These spirits realized they couldn't hit Fushiguro Megumi, so they turned their attention back to Miyuki.
After all, compared to Fushiguro Megumi, Miyuki was their original target.
It was only because Fushiguro Megumi kept attacking them that they instinctively attacked him back.
Now that Fushiguro Megumi no longer wanted to engage them, they naturally refocused on Miyuki.
Miyuki's face turned pale.
"I—I can't do it!"
"Now," Fushiguro Megumi repeated his words, "kill them."
A portion of the swarm split off and rushed toward Miyuki.
Amidst Miyuki's sobbing, power erupted everywhere!
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