The Optimization of Cursed Energy

On either side of the plaza, which looked as though it had been struck by an invisible meteor and collapsed into a massive crater.

Riezel and Kengso stood facing each other across the crater, asking one another questions.

"Answering a question with another question?"

Kengso had already healed his bodily injuries. As he looked at Riezel across from him, his gaze was like that of someone looking down on a lesser creature.

"Fine." Kengso said, "Though I don't know whether an uncivilized monkey like you can understand my thinking, if you want to know, I don't mind telling you."

Kengso's demeanor became detached, like that of a scholar pursuing truth, as he spoke each word distinctly.

"My goal is actually very simple: the optimization of cursed energy."

Those words made Riezel frown.

"The optimization of cursed energy?"

What did that mean?

Ignoring Riezel's confusion, Kengso continued.

"Though I am merely an outsider occupying this body, there is one idea on which Geto Suguru and I agree completely." Kengso sneered. "There are simply too many uncivilized monkeys in this world."

To some Curse Users who considered themselves superior, ordinary humans who could neither refine cursed energy nor use cursed techniques were like monkeys—possessing appearances similar to humans, yet still uncivilized beasts in truth.

Kengso and Geto Suguru were far from the only ones who thought this way. In fact, many Curse User families in the Jujutsu World were the same.

Otherwise, a powerful man like Fushiguro Toji, who had once driven the not-yet-fully-awakened Gojo Satoru into a corner, would never have been scorned and ultimately exiled by the Zenin Family.

It was precisely because so many Curse Users held such beliefs that beings like Kengso and Geto Suguru came to exist.

"However, unlike Geto Suguru, who was determined to create a