The Truth

After absorbing and gaining control of the Special Grade Cursed Spirit, Suguru Geto learned about its origins.

It was a Special Grade Cursed Spirit born long ago in the Western Medieval Chaotic Era from humanity's fear of demons.

Because information and propaganda had been so chaotic at the time, demons had taken on countless different forms. Still, several details were surprisingly consistent.

A towering body, a bloody maw capable of swallowing people whole, and the power to grant wishes before collecting people's souls as payment after their deaths.

Later, a witch sealed the Special Grade Demon Cursed Spirit. By chance, it was brought back by a fleet from the East as an offering, eventually ending up in the Island Nation.

"A Special Grade Demon Cursed Spirit, huh."

Suguru Geto murmured.

After learning about the Cursed Spirit, Suguru Geto turned and walked over to Eiji, looking down at the Cursed Spirit Sisters, who were faintly surrounded.

"Don't you plan on telling us about yourselves?"

Suguru Geto asked from in front of Eiji.

Eiji understood what Suguru Geto meant as well.

If they had to fight next, Suguru Geto would handle it. Eiji should rest properly.

Suguru Geto had actually sensed the intense fluctuations of Cursed Energy when Eiji fought the Special Grade Demon Cursed Spirit.

But the situation before him had kept Suguru Geto from letting down his guard.

It was Suguru Geto's first time seeing a Cursed Spirit with intelligence, and the Cursed Energy radiating from this one was equally formidable.

Suguru Geto had originally planned to quickly deal with this strange Cursed Spirit before going to support Eiji, but its actions only made him more confused.

It had actually offered to help deal with the Cursed Spirit fighting Eiji.

"Who are you, and why do you want to help us?"

Unable to figure out the situation, Suguru Geto began probing the Cursed Spirit before him.

After speaking for a while, Suguru Geto found no hostility from the Cursed Spirit.

However, worried that something unforeseen might happen once it reached Eiji's battlefield, Suguru Geto had planned to absorb it first before supporting Eiji.

It was then that the Cursed Spirit displayed an ability that made Suguru Geto wary.

She wrote something in a Pink Notebook, and Suguru Geto immediately felt most of the Cursed Spirits he had summoned being forcibly dismissed and returned to his Technique's storage space.

Only Cursed Spirits of Grade 2 and above were immune to that dismissal ability.

The Cursed Spirit was terrible at hand-to-hand combat, but her strength was astonishingly great, preventing Suguru Geto from taking her down quickly.

"Your companion is in a rather bad situation."

Knowing that he could not resolve the Cursed Spirit before him anytime soon, Suguru Geto ultimately accepted her proposal.

This Cursed Spirit was troublesome, but not impossible to defeat. Supporting Eiji, who had encountered a Special Grade Cursed Spirit, was more important now.

Besides, if anything truly happened, being with Eiji would let him immediately decide whether to fight or flee. Being pulled in both directions like this would only put him at a disadvantage.

And so, what happened afterward came to pass.

"My story? Then I suppose it starts fifty years ago."

The Girl Cursed Spirit rested a finger against her chin, her tone carrying a hint of nostalgia.

"But you probably wouldn't enjoy such a long story."

Suddenly, the girl playfully stuck out her tongue.

The Barrier shrouding the entire campus began to dissipate as the girl stepped forward and embraced the Crimson Figure.

Under Eiji and Suguru Geto's astonished gazes, the blood-red color faded from the Crimson Figure's body, making her seem like an ordinary girl.

Beneath the rising morning sun, the two figures gradually dissolved into motes of light.

"We'll leave our story to you. We hope you'll like it. Goodbye."

Facing the rising sun, the girl smiled blissfully and held her Younger Sister as they gradually vanished into the sunlight.

The lingering Barrier emitted gentle ripples, and an illusion appeared in everyone's minds.

The Onoayama Family had once produced a Jujutsu Sorcerer among its ancestors, allowing them to briefly rise to the status of nobility.

But after that Jujutsu Sorcerer died, no Jujutsu Sorcerers were born into the Onoayama Family for several generations, so their glory came quickly and faded just as fast.

Fortunately, their ancestor had left behind considerable wealth, so the Onoayama Clan never had to worry about food or drink.

Then, fifty years ago, everything changed.

The Younger Sister was deceived by a Neighbor on her way home from school and murdered.

That night, the police and their father followed clues provided by the neighbors and traces left behind by the Younger Sister to the Neighbor's home.

However, all their father found was the Younger Sister's corpse, hacked into several pieces with an axe by the Neighbor.

After learning the news, their mother suffered a mental breakdown and went insane at the sight of her daughter's body.

Their father and the Older Sister were devastated as well.

Later, the mother remembered the Clan Record passed down by the Onoayama Clan. It recorded that their ancestor had acquired a jar from the Great Eastern Nation containing a sealed Demon Cursed Spirit.

Legend said that the Demon would grant people's wishes, then take away the wish-maker's soul once the wish had been fulfilled.

Knowing little about Jujutsu or Cursed Spirits, she clung to her last hope and tore open the seal on the jar, intending to sacrifice herself in exchange for her daughter's life.

Feeling the surroundings grow steadily colder, the mother, unable to see Cursed Spirits, carried the Younger Sister's body from the day before and made a wish to the Demon.

The mother then died happily within an illusion created by the Demon. Their father, who rushed over after hearing the news to stop her, could not escape death either.

Then the Demon Cursed Spirit turned its attention to the Younger Sister's corpse, whose soul had yet to disperse.

It wanted to devour the Younger Sister's soul as well.

The Onoayama Sisters possessed the talent to become Jujutsu Sorcerers, but since the Onoayama Family had produced only one Jujutsu Sorcerer, it had left behind no systematic inheritance.

As a result, no one discovered the sisters' talent.

Because Buzi Xiao arrived one step later than their father, the Older Sister suffered an immense shock upon seeing her family lying on the ground and awakened her Technique—Incredible Game.

The Technique created a Barrier in which the caster could establish the rules of a game, and those within the Barrier could not violate those rules.

The rules did not take effect immediately after being set; they required a certain amount of time.

Rules that directly harmed people could not be established.

The Barrier released by the newly awakened girl was only the size of a single room.

The disturbance caused by the Older Sister drew the Demon Cursed Spirit's attention, and it shifted its gaze toward her.

As though it had found more appetizing prey, the Demon Cursed Spirit began moving toward the Older Sister.

Whether from fear or the weakness caused by having just used her Technique, the immobile Older Sister could only watch in terror as the Demon Cursed Spirit approached her step by step.

Fortunately, the Demon's unhurried movements gave the Older Sister's Technique rules time to take effect.

Not knowing how to establish rules, the Older Sister could think only of saving her Younger Sister.

Based on the Older Sister's wish, the Barrier generated by her Technique automatically created corresponding rules. The Cursed Energy in the Older Sister's body was continuously drawn out and poured into the Younger Sister's body.

The Younger Sister's body began to slowly recover, and the soul awakened by the Demon Cursed Spirit regained its consciousness as well.

Perhaps due to the mysterious connection between Twins, under the effects of the Older Sister's awakening and the infusion of vast amounts of Cursed Energy, the Younger Sister also awakened her own Technique, one that could create and recall clones.

When a clone was recalled, anything touched and enveloped by its Cursed Energy would be recalled along with it.

After awakening her Technique, the Younger Sister summoned a clone. Before the Older Sister could be eaten, the clone shoved her away and was devoured in her place.

The Older Sister was hidden behind a Pile of Junk by another clone.

The Demon Cursed Spirit swallowed the clone filled with the Older Sister's Cursed Energy, while the Older Sister gradually died from excessive Cursed Energy depletion caused by her unfamiliarity with her Technique.

The Demon Cursed Spirit sensed that something seemed off, but the Older Sister's presence had already vanished, and it had indeed eaten something carrying her Cursed Energy. In the end, it gave up thinking and turned back to devour the Younger Sister's soul.

The Demon Cursed Spirit was very satisfied with its newly enslaved soul. This soul was powerful and had even awakened a Technique.

The Demon Cursed Spirit then released the Younger Sister's soul. Under its curse, the Younger Sister's soul transformed into the Cursed Spirit, the Crimson Figure.

After ordering the Crimson Figure to hunt for it, the Demon Cursed Spirit turned into Black Mist and merged into the Crimson Figure's body, continuing its slumber.

If a Jujutsu Sorcerer's corpse was not handled after death, it could easily produce a Cursed Spirit.

Therefore, a Jujutsu Sorcerer had to be killed with Jujutsu or properly dealt with after death.

The Older Sister had died after exhausting both her Cursed Energy and life force, but her Technique's effects remained, along with her obsession with the Younger Sister at the moment of death.

The Older Sister inevitably became a Cursed Spirit.

"Younger Sister, Younger Sister, Younger Sister."

The Older Sister Cursed Spirit kept muttering.

"What is Younger Sister? What is Younger Sister?"

The Older Sister Cursed Spirit began to wonder. As she kept questioning herself, the Barrier generated one suitable "rule" after another, and with the help of her Technique, the Older Sister Cursed Spirit gradually regained her sanity.

Over the following decade or so, the Crimson Figure killed nearly a hundred people and helped the Demon Cursed Spirit enslave their souls, while the Older Sister Cursed Spirit continued following behind the Crimson Figure, trying to free her Younger Sister.

Gradually, the Older Sister discovered that the Demon Cursed Spirit was almost always asleep, and that what it needed was vast amounts of Negative Emotions rather than human lives.

After that, the Older Sister began using the Barrier generated by her Technique to influence her Younger Sister's actions.

After repeated attempts, this Find the Body Game emerged.

Before the Younger Sister's death, her body had been cut into several pieces by the Neighbor. Thus, a complete body became the Younger Sister's obsession, and using that as the game's content could easily influence the Crimson Figure she had become.

The school was densely populated, and young people's emotions were especially abundant. Enough Negative Emotions could be gathered here to sustain the Demon Cursed Spirit's slumber.

The Older Sister also gradually perfected this Incredible Game, ensuring that those killed within the Barrier would not truly die, while those who completed the game would eventually blur this portion of their memories and believe they had merely had a nightmare.

In the more than thirty years since this game appeared, almost no one had been killed by the Crimson Figure again.

In this way, the Older Sister successfully confined the Younger Sister to the school, providing enough Negative Emotions to keep the Demon Cursed Spirit asleep while searching for a way to save her Younger Sister, until Eiji and Suguru Geto arrived.