Cursed Corpse Doll

"Mr. Lin Ichiro, are you sure you want to join us?"

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"Absolutely. After considering it for the past three days, for the sake of my upcoming work and commissions in Shinjuku, I want to join you as an assistant supervisor—a support staff member who helps sorcerers exorcise Cursed Spirits. In other words, a so-called 'Window.'"

"I need to correct you on one point, Mr. Lin Ichiro. In fact, even we 'Windows' can channel our own cursed energy to deploy a Barrier Technique, a Curtain, to assist sorcerers in exorcising Cursed Spirits. You are merely an ordinary person whose emotional fluctuations make you more likely to see Cursed Spirits or cursed energy, and whose physical abilities are relatively good. Strictly speaking, you should be considered an informant."

"Not much difference. Mr. Ijichi, you can only deploy Curtains. When facing Cursed Spirits, you might not handle them as well as I can."

"That is true. Since you have already thought it through, Mr. Lin Ichiro, there is no need for me to say more. Here is the contract. Take a look, and if there are no issues, I will complete your onboarding procedures now."

"Huh? Here?"

"Yes."

Click!

Three days later, at the Ichiro Trading Detective Agency on Ome Kaido in Shinjuku Ward.

Having successfully joined Jujutsu High and become Shinjuku Ward's assistant supervisor, Lin Yi saw off his workplace senior, Kiyotaka Ijichi, downstairs. There, he also saw Jujutsu High's compensation for him: a newly customized Kamen Rider W Hard-Boiled motorcycle.

It had to be said that the Japanese Official Jujutsu Society really was loaded. Their efficiency in handling matters like this was actually decent.

They had delivered the compensation Lin Yi requested so quickly.

Looking at the brand-new Hard-Boiled motorcycle parked by the intersection, Lin Yi felt utterly content.

Kiyotaka Ijichi also took a case from his official vehicle and handed it to Lin Yi.

"Mr. Nanami used his Grade 1 Sorcerer authority to expedite this based on your work requirements, Mr. Lin Ichiro. There is also Mr. Kento Nanami's business card inside. He asked me to tell you that if you have any financial issues, you may contact him directly."

All right, Lin Yi took back his earlier praise for the Japanese Official Jujutsu Society's efficiency.

Opening the case Kiyotaka Ijichi had handed him, he found a customized black M1911 semi-automatic pistol and a pair of sunglasses inside.

Once Lin Yi put on the sunglasses, he saw faint blue cursed energy flowing over the black handgun.

"Cursed Tools are items that acquire some of a sorcerer's technique effects after being steeped in a sorcerer's cursed energy for many years. These sunglasses will allow you, Mr. Ichiro, to better detect fluctuations in Cursed Spirits and cursed energy. This gun can draw upon your cursed energy and imbue its bullets with cursed energy. Judging by the amount of cursed energy you possess, Mr. Ichiro, it should be able to imbue roughly seventy to one hundred bullets."

"Wow, Mr. Nanami really went to great expense."

"These Cursed Tools are not unavailable for purchase, Mr. Ichiro, so there is no need to take it to heart. Then, goodbye."

"Goodbye, Mr. Ijichi."

Lin Yi watched Kiyotaka Ijichi drive away. Only then did he contentedly tuck the two items he had freeloaded from Jujutsu High into his clothes. When he looked again at the motorcycle Jujutsu High had compensated him with, his gaze lingered briefly on a doll placed atop its front.

With a smile on his lips, he pushed the motorcycle into the parking garage, then took the doll from its front and returned upstairs.

When the elevator doors opened, Lin Yi did not head straight inside. Instead, he turned left after exiting and followed the fire stairs at the end of the corridor down to the first basement level.

There was an indoor shooting range there, specially set up by Lin Yi.

In truth, he was the only resident in the mixed-use building where he lived. Being able to acquire such a place to stay in Shinjuku Ward was thanks to his having used his technique to solve a Cursed Spirit problem for a big shot in Kabukicho. The big shot had then catered to his preferences and arranged everything properly for him.

Lights on, door shut, magazine loaded, test firing.

At a ten-meter target, every shot hit the bullseye.

After emptying the magazine, Lin Yi held the doll he had taken from the motorcycle and looked toward the gun rack hanging behind him. Seven or eight pistols hung from it. Muttering to himself, he said, "Sigh, an M1911? This gun doesn't really suit a private detective like me. A Colt Python would suit me better. Oh well, having one is better than nothing. Come on, let me show you your new home."

After choosing a matching holster, Lin Yi took the doll upstairs. Back at the agency, he placed it prominently on his desk, then went into the kitchen for a bottle of cola and sat on the sofa in the living room to watch television.

Out of the corner of his eye, he occasionally glanced at the doll on the desk, which had not moved at all.

What he had done just now was not unnecessary. He had done it specifically for the person with ulterior motives behind the doll to see.

A Cursed Corpse doll.

It was the handiwork of Masamichi Yaga, principal of Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College and a Grade 1 Sorcerer.

His technique was called Puppet Manipulation. One could tell how the technique worked just from its name: using cursed energy alongside related techniques to create controllable puppets, namely Cursed Corpses.

Cursed Corpses were essentially robots powered by cursed energy, but robots needed to be manually charged and controlled.

The Cursed Corpses created by Masamichi Yaga, however, were different. Once formed, they could replenish their core energy on their own by absorbing cursed energy from the air, and they even possessed self-awareness. You could even regard them as entirely new lifeforms.

Panda, a current first-year student at Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College, was Masamichi Yaga's greatest masterpiece.

Clearly a panda doll, yet he could cry and laugh, shed tears and bleed. Earlier, Lin Yi had almost been unable to stop himself from going over to rub him a couple of times. Before and after transmigrating, he had never been this close to a panda.

The Cursed Corpses created by Masamichi Yaga were also known as Fully Independent Cursed Corpses.

In other words, given enough time, Masamichi Yaga could fully establish a production line for an army of Fully Independent Cursed Corpses, mass-producing an army of Grade 2 to Grade 1 Cursed Corpses.

With this Puppet Manipulation technique that allowed him to become an army by himself, Masamichi Yaga, like Suguru Geto, was recognized by the Japanese Official Jujutsu Society as being at the level of a Special-Grade Sorcerer despite not having mastered the Reversed Cursed Technique or Domain Expansion. So long as Masamichi Yaga pledged loyalty to the Japanese Official Jujutsu Society and handed over the method for creating Fully Independent Cursed Corpses, the Japanese Official Jujutsu Society would recognize him as the fifth Special-Grade Sorcerer and elevate him into the upper ranks of Jujutsu Society.

But Masamichi Yaga had rejected the olive branch extended by the Japanese Official Jujutsu Society. He fobbed off Jujutsu Society's upper ranks with the flimsy excuse that he did not know how to create Fully Independent Cursed Corpses. More than anyone, he understood what kind of disaster would result if his technology fell into the hands of those vermin in the Japanese Official Jujutsu Society's management.

Although the Japanese Official Jujutsu Society was suspicious, because of Satoru Gojo's presence, they did not dare make a move against Masamichi Yaga.

The doll on Lin Yi's desk was a Fully Independent Cursed Corpse. Kiyotaka Ijichi's delivery of the Cursed Tool gun and Cursed Tool sunglasses had actually both been cover for this Cursed Corpse doll.

Clearly, the suspicion surrounding him had not yet been cleared.

Kento Nanami and the others also wanted to use this method, which Lin Yi would not easily notice, to confirm whether there was truly something wrong with him.

Too bad. Your buddy was an intelligence-equipped transmigrator.

I've already seen through your little scheme!

Lin Yi could not help smiling smugly to himself. Ignoring the Cursed Corpse doll on his desk, he changed clothes and headed out.

He was going to take the new motorcycle he had just fleeced from Jujutsu High out for a ride~

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