"Well then, I'll be heading back first. Hehe hum~"
As everyone watched the Slug Sage leave while humming a tune, Panda turned to Toge Inumaki and asked, "It sounds pretty dangerous. Are you sure you want to learn it?"
Toge Inumaki nodded. "Salmon, bonito flakes! (Of course, I want to become stronger!)"
"Then why aren't you learning it, Yuta? It sounds pretty powerful."
Faced with Panda's question, Yuta Okkotsu scratched his head and said somewhat sheepishly, "Rika has too much cursed energy. I can't use it in actual combat."
"By the way, why did the Slug Sage reject Maki?"
"Ah! Yuta, you didn't know?" Gojo Satoru, who had been about to leave, asked curiously.
"Know what?"
"Maki doesn't have any cursed energy in her body."
"What!? But if she has no cursed energy, how can Maki see cursed spirits?" Yuta Okkotsu asked curiously.
Gojo Satoru merely glanced at the silent Maki beside him, and the field fell quiet.
"Teacher Gojo, you really talk too much." Maki Zenin complained, then took off her glasses. Looking at the ground reflected in the lenses as though recounting the past, she said:
"I was born into the Zenin Family, one of The Three Great Families, a family renowned for producing elite sorcerers. But from the moment I was born, my cursed energy was incredibly weak, even weaker than an ordinary person's. I could only see cursed spirits because of these glasses, and the Cursed Tools I used already possessed cursed energy to begin with."
"But thanks to that, I was able to leave that home! The food was terrible, the bedrooms were tiny, and unfamiliar greasy old men kept wandering around. The living conditions were awful!"
"Then I got so angry that I swore I would become a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit Sorcerer and