Since the Shibuya Incident, nearly a month had passed. Although Geto Suguru had never revealed his whereabouts, it was not as though he had done nothing.
Taking advantage of Tokyo's transformation into a demonic realm and the panic spreading throughout the Jujutsu World, he had secretly interfered with the fates of countless people.
These people mainly fell into two categories.
One category consisted of people like Itadori Yuji, who had once absorbed some kind of Cursed Object.
The other consisted of people who, like most Curse Users, were born with cursed techniques but could not use jujutsu due to insufficient cursed energy or brains structured no differently from those of ordinary people.
Many of the former had been secretly contacted and modified to a certain extent by Geto Suguru. The reason they had absorbed Cursed Objects was, for the most part, due to Geto Suguru's actions.
The latter had been secretly marked by Geto Suguru, who had tampered with each of them to varying degrees.
Geto Suguru had been doing such things long before the Shibuya Incident and even before the Kyoto Sister School Exchange Event, and he had been doing them for quite some time.
Especially those absorbed Cursed Objects. They had mostly originated from ancient Curse Users like Ryomen Sukuna. As long as a vessel possessed sufficient compatibility and strength, those ancient Curse Users could even revive within their vessels, just as Ryomen Sukuna had.
Geto Suguru had carefully selected Cursed Objects of this kind, released them into the ordinary world, and chosen people to absorb them.
Having made such preparations, it was only after he attacked Jujutsu High and abducted Tengen that he announced something before everyone.
"Next, I will activate the prepared cursed talismans on those people I marked in the past."
So-called cursed talismans were