Did I Arrive Too Early?

"Click!"

The sound of a phone camera shutter rang out on the quiet street, accompanied by a flash.

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The instant the shutter clicked and the flash went off, Lin Yi's advancing steps came to an abrupt halt. He felt as though invisible shackles had locked down his entire body. Then his neck tightened as a force descended from above, cinching around his throat and hoisting him into the air, hanging him from the frame of a nearby streetlamp.

Only then did Lin Yi see the hemp rope that had somehow appeared around his neck, locking tightly around his throat and leaving him unable to breathe.

Lin Yi's body swayed slightly beneath the streetlamp. Under its light, two elongated shadows stretched into his field of vision.

They belonged to a pair of young twin sisters.

One wore a black sailor uniform and had long black hair, with a medium-sized pink Rain-Calling Doll tied with hemp rope hanging from her waist. The other wore her blonde hair in a bun, had gyaru makeup on, and wore a cardigan matching her hair color over a white sailor uniform. She held a smartphone with a green case.

The sisters ignored Lin Yi, whom they had suspended from the streetlamp with their cursed techniques like a teru teru bozu. Their faces were innocent and lovely, yet the words from their mouths were cruel.

"Nanako, it's all your fault for insisting on going to Takeshita Street for crepes. We're getting back so late. Lord Geto will worry."

"But the crepes from that shop are delicious. If we go later, it'll close and we won't be able to buy any. Besides, the Cursed Spirits Lord Geto releases won't get lost."

As they spoke, through the twin sisters' line of sight, a Cursed Spirit could be seen wandering outside the Saito family's detached villa. It had dark blue hair, a body roughly the size of an adult woman's, a swollen head, multiple eyes, four arms, two feet, and a long tail. It seemed to be searching for the room where its marked prey was located.

The Cursed Spirit's long tail swayed, and half its body passed through the wall without hindrance, preparing to mark its prey once more.

The twin sisters stood beneath the streetlamp, watching the Cursed Spirit they had released, seemingly confirming whether it had completed the task they had assigned it.

Suddenly, the twins saw a black shadow flash past the Cursed Spirit's swaying tail. The Cursed Spirit, which had just been about to pass through the wall into the villa, vanished before their eyes.

"Huh? Mimiko, where's Lord Geto's Cursed Spirit?"

"Don't ask me that, Nanako, you idiot!"

The sisters jolted at the bizarre sight. As they looked at each other and questioned one another, they noticed that Lin Yi's shadow, cast beneath the streetlamp where they had hung him with their cursed technique, had vanished. They looked up and saw no sign of Lin Yi either. Then, his voice came from behind them.

"So that Cursed Spirit was raised by someone. Does that make you curse users?"

The sisters spun around and stared at Lin Yi, who stood before them completely unharmed.

The Cursed Spirit they had released was now being held by its long tail in Lin Yi's grip, unable to break free. A layer of black arm armor covered Lin Yi's right arm.

This was the second active effect of Lin Yi's Cursed Technique: Polarity Reversal. It completely severed the cursed energy hidden within his body from his physical form, granting him a Tyrant Physique with immense resistance—even immunity—to cursed technique attacks, with all his stats maxed out.

In exchange, Lin Yi's intuition was amplified several times over. Though he could not see Cursed Spirits with his naked eye, he could sense them, and he could kill them using permanent items manifested from cursed energy and imbued with effects.

The arm armor attached to Lin Yi's right arm was one part of a permanent item he had manifested from cursed energy through Polarity Reversal.

"That's the Cursed Spirit Lord Geto gave us! Give it back!"

Watching Lin Yi toy with the Cursed Spirit they had released, Nanako, wearing gyaru makeup, pulled out her phone, aimed its camera at Lin Yi, and pressed the shutter.

This was Nanako's cursed technique, Photo Capture. Using a phone as the medium for activating her cursed technique, she could attack or defend against the photographed target. She could also establish a connection with a photographed inanimate object and teleport a short distance.

As her sister used her cursed technique to attack Lin Yi, Mimiko activated her own cursed technique: Rain-Calling Doll.

It was a curse-type technique, and its effect perfectly complemented her sister Nanako's. Nanako controlled the photographed target, while Mimiko projected the hemp rope in her hand onto that target, hanging them to death just as she had done to Lin Yi earlier.

The sisters unleashed their combined cursed technique attack on Lin Yi, who had startled them, but this time it had no effect.

At that moment, Lin Yi possessed extremely high resistance and immunity to magic-type attacks like cursed techniques. He casually raised his left hand and pulled at his neck, snapping the cursed hemp rope that had appeared there again. Then his right hand, which gripped the Cursed Spirit's tail, jerked violently, and the air erupted with a bang.

The force Lin Yi exerted on the Cursed Spirit through the arm armor on his right arm shattered the long-tailed Cursed Spirit, turning it into a mass of cursed energy that dispersed.

The movement was effortless. As mentioned before, dealing with low-tier Grade Four to Grade Two Cursed Spirits was as easy for Lin Yi as handling a stray dog by the roadside.

As for the restraint Nanako had placed on Lin Yi, it had no effect whatsoever.

"Then shouldn't we settle the matter between us?"

Facing Lin Yi's gaze, Nanako reacted the fastest. She wrapped an arm around her sister, raised her phone, and took a selfie of the two of them.

The shutter clicked, and the sisters vanished from where they stood, disappearing to parts unknown.

They fled so quickly that Lin Yi did not even have a chance to stop them. Even he had to admire how clearly they recognized the situation.

Though they had escaped, Lin Yi had identified the twin sisters from their earlier conversation.

Nanako Hasaba and Mimiko Hasaba—a pair of sorcerer sisters who had grown up in a small county town somewhere in Japan. Because of their innate cursed technique talent, they had been ostracized and abused by the villagers since childhood. That was until Suguru Geto, then a third-year student at Tokyo Jujutsu High, appeared and rescued them from the villagers' clutches. He then killed 112 ordinary villagers to avenge them and adopted the sisters as his daughters.

Of course, none of that was what Lin Yi needed to care about. He only cared about one thing: he had misjudged the time period he was currently in!

This year's October 31 would not see the Shibuya Incident, which had been triggered to seal Satoru Gojo, the strongest modern sorcerer in the world of Jujutsu Kaisen. That would not happen for at least another two years.

"Damn it, this is a real pain. Not only have I barely made any money, but I seem to have gotten myself into a pretty big mess too. Sigh... Fine. Take the money and get out of here."

Lin Yi scratched his head irritably. Only then did he get on his motorcycle, twist the handlebar, pull out a power bank, and charge up his dead phone before turning it on. He sent Ms. Saito a message informing her that the evil spirit had been exorcised, then rode away amid the motorcycle engine's rumble, heading back to his residence.

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