"It's not that I don't want to take you. Sure, you look like a sled dog, but I'm not going there to have fun. If a real fight breaks out, you haven't seen how vicious those things are. Where would you even run?"
After Shen Yuanyi shared the breathtaking scenery he had photographed with everyone, White Wolf, who had been following Panda and Maki separately lately, became displeased.
Such a perfect place, and you didn't take me?
With his back to Shen Yuanyi, White Wolf would occasionally turn his head and glance over, clearly ignoring his explanation.
"Fine, fine. I'll take you with me this time, alright?"
Only then did White Wolf turn around, his intelligent eyes fixed on Shen Yuanyi. His expression seemed to say, "You're not lying to me, are you?"
"Mission location: Yokohama. That's pretty close. Are they trying to hide in plain sight? These Curse Users sure have some ideas."
The Curse Users had recently been spotted in Yokohama and were suspected of having ties to a small local religious group. The details were unclear. The other side might have at least one Grade 1 Curse User, while the identities of the other possible members remained unknown.
Originally, the mission could have been assigned to a team composed of several First Grade Sorcerers and Grade 2 sorcerers. However, Shen Yuanyi had no mission at Jujutsu High recently, and Gojo-sensei had vanished off somewhere again, so the task fell to him.
There was no need to go through the trouble of organizing personnel for a hunt, nor was there any risk of losses. Sending Shen Yuanyi alone would be enough. The gap between Special Grade and Grade 1, whether among Jujutsu Sorcerers or Cursed Spirits, was enormous.
Once the mission had been assigned to Shen Yuanyi, barring