The next day, at Jujutsu High.
Masamichi Yaga stood at the podium, assigning new missions to the group.
"Previously, the Jujutsu Management Council received several missing-person cases suspected to be the work of Cursed Spirits. An investigation by Windows later confirmed that these cases were indeed caused by Cursed Spirits."
Windows were people capable of observing Cursed Spirits despite not being Jujutsu Sorcerers. They reported the Cursed Spirits they observed to Jujutsu Headquarters in exchange for a certain reward.
Masamichi Yaga turned a laptop toward them.
Uninhabited Island Cursed Spirit Sighting Report, Sea Monster Cursed Spirit Sighting Report...
"Due to a shortage of personnel, the Jujutsu Management Council had merely queued these up as ordinary Cursed Spirit Extermination missions. However, a major casualty incident two days ago forced them to assign additional manpower."
Masamichi Yaga swiftly tapped the laptop, switching to another page.
It displayed a mission report describing how the Cursed Spirit Mothman had killed a large number of civilians before being captured by Jujutsu Sorcerers.
"Hey, Sensei, I don't think you need to say all that. Just tell us where the mission is."
Having listened for quite a while, Satoru Gojo could not help raising his hand to interrupt.
He was greeted by every teacher's elective technique: projectile chalk.
"It's precisely because this mission is unusual that I need to explain it in detail. Though with your strength, there indeed shouldn't be any problems.
Now then, Ieiri, you can take it from here."
"Okay."
Shoko Ieiri, dark circles hanging beneath her eyes, stretched lazily before walking up to the podium.
"These Cursed Spirits share one trait: they were all born from the same type of curse."
"A curse?"
Eiji found that strange.
"Could someone be deliberately creating Cursed Spirits?"
"Most likely."
Shoko Ieiri took out an experimental report