Teach Me Reverse Cursed Technique

"Rika!" Okkotsu shouted furiously, his expression turning savage. "What are you doing?!"

"Xia Jie is our benefactor!"

"Yuta!" Rika hurriedly withdrew her pale claws. Her single eye filled with grievance, followed by countless egg-sized tears.

"Rika... didn't mean to!"

"That man... that man!"

"Yuta... don't hate Rika!"

Rika circled Okkotsu nonstop, the tears in her eyes spraying like a fountain and splashing across his clothes.

Xia Jie braced himself against the ground and stood up, glaring unpleasantly at Rika as she acted like a little girl throwing a tantrum.

Under normal circumstances, he might have teased Okkotsu for truly living up to his reputation as the warrior of pure love. But just now... he had nearly died!

Luckily, Gojo Satoru had been nearby... Then again, if Gojo Satoru had not been there, Xia Jie would never have dared try to condense Rika's spiritual foundation.

Xia Jie took a deep breath and settled his pent-up emotions.

"Are you all right, Xia Jie?" Gojo Satoru asked.

Xia Jie had Shadow Maru return to his shadow, then shook his head. "I'm fine! I was just scared out of my wits! Come to think of it, I have to thank you, Sensei!"

"After all, I was the one who asked you to come help," Gojo Satoru said with a wave of his hand. "It would be inexcusable if you got hurt because of it!"

"I'm sorry, Xia Jie!" Okkotsu approached with the tearful Rika, looking troubled. "Rika, she..."

"I'm sorry!" Rika cried out hurriedly. "I won't attack you again!"

"Forget it!" Xia Jie said gloomily as he looked at the embarrassed Okkotsu and anxious Rika. "It's partly my own fault. Imaginary Cursed Spirits always carried this kind of risk. I just thought that, given your special relationship with Rika, nothing dangerous would happen... Luckily, Sensei was here!"

"Still," Xia Jie said, looking into Rika's eyes, where her hatred for him was nearly impossible to conceal, "I think we should make a Binding Vow! I don't want Rika to suddenly lose control and take a shot at me again someday!"

"A Binding Vow?" Okkotsu asked in confusion.

Xia Jie explained the special bond between himself and Rika. Although Rika was currently restrained by Okkotsu and had not attacked him, as long as her bond with Xia Jie remained, she could never let go of her hatred for him. Since that was the case, it would be better for him, Okkotsu, and Rika to make an appropriate Binding Vow.

He would give up his connection to Rika in exchange for Rika no longer attacking him.

Once Xia Jie and Rika established the Binding Vow, Rika indeed stopped glaring at him with the same hostility. Xia Jie also no longer felt as if he might die at any moment.

Xia Jie felt much more relaxed and smiled. "Congratulations, Okkotsu! Now, besides Sensei, Jujutsu High is about to gain another Special Grade!"

"Thank you, Xia Jie!" Okkotsu was also somewhat excited, but what made him happy was not something as boring as returning to Special Grade. It was that Rika had returned to his side.

Xia Jie looked at Rika and Okkotsu acting all lovey-dovey, then at Okkotsu enjoying every second of it, and for a moment, he had no idea what to say.

He had seen human-snake romances and human-ghost romances before, but whether snake or ghost, they at least wore human forms.

But a pair like Okkotsu and Rika? Not a single one. This really was pure love. There absolutely could not be any other factor involved.

Come to think of it, what would Okkotsu do when he got married in the future? Rika would definitely strangle the bride to death, right?

As Xia Jie's mind wandered through all sorts of nonsense, Okkotsu sincerely thanked him again. "Xia Jie, thank you so much! I really don't know how to repay you!"

Xia Jie waved his hand. "My help wasn't all that important! You could have condensed a physical form for Rika on your own too. It might just have taken a little longer!"

"You had already completed ninety-nine steps. I merely gave you one little push! Otherwise, there's no way I could have imagined a Cursed Spirit like Rika so easily!"

Xia Jie was not being entirely modest. He was merely stating an objective fact.

By now, it had been nearly two months since the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons. It was about time for Rika to reappear in the world.

In the original story, Okkotsu had resummoned Rika through his own efforts alone. That meant that even without Xia Jie, Okkotsu could still have summoned Rika.

Okkotsu asking Xia Jie for help this time could only be called perfect timing. Who could blame Xia Jie, this little butterfly, for happening to enter Jujutsu High?

"But without you, I really wouldn't have known when I could take that final step," Okkotsu sighed. "I really don't know how to thank you, Xia Jie!"

Okkotsu could not help repeating his thanks. He was simply too happy.

"If you truly want to repay me, there is a way!" Xia Jie rubbed his chin. "Teach me Reverse Cursed Technique!"

"Reverse Cursed Technique?" Okkotsu's eyes widened.

If Xia Jie had asked for anything else, Okkotsu could have tried to find a way. But Reverse Cursed Technique... this was not something he could teach simply because he wanted to. Even if he taught it, Xia Jie might not necessarily be able to learn it.

Reverse Cursed Technique was an extremely advanced form of Cursed Energy application.

As everyone knew, Cursed Energy originated from humanity's negative emotions and was a form of negative energy. Reverse Cursed Technique used Cursed Energy through multiplication, turning its negative energy into positive energy. It could strengthen and heal one's own body or another person's body, restore Cursed Energy, and more.

At present, only a handful of people at Jujutsu High had mastered Reverse Cursed Technique: Gojo Satoru, Okkotsu, and Shoko Ieiri. Only those three.

Among them, Okkotsu and Shoko Ieiri could use Reverse Cursed Technique to heal others, while Gojo Satoru could only use it to heal himself.

Even so, that did not mean Gojo Satoru's Reverse Cursed Technique was weak. In fact, his application of Reverse Cursed Technique surpassed both Okkotsu and Shoko Ieiri.

Through the uninterrupted operation of Limitless and Reverse Cursed Technique, Gojo Satoru could use Limitless without consuming Cursed Energy.

Even more ridiculously, he could infuse the positive energy produced by Reverse Cursed Technique into Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue, creating the new Cursed Technique Reversal: Red. Its power was several times greater than the black hole created by Blue.

Not only that, Gojo Satoru could overlap Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue with Cursed Technique Reversal: Red to produce Hollow Technique: Purple, creating imaginary mass that could be fired outward. The kind where whoever got hit died.

Looking across all of Jujutsu Kaisen, only Gojo Satoru himself had mastered both Cursed Technique Reversal and Hollow Technique. That was enough to show just how deeply he understood Reverse Cursed Technique.

Yet even a person like Gojo Satoru had no way to teach his students Reverse Cursed Technique.

It was not that he did not want to teach it. This was something that could be understood but not explained. Even if he told his students, they might not understand. So far, among Gojo Satoru's students, only Okkotsu had mastered Reverse Cursed Technique, and he had figured it out on his own.

So when Xia Jie asked Okkotsu to teach him Reverse Cursed Technique, Okkotsu truly did not know how to answer. Telling him directly that this could not be taught would be no different from refusing Xia Jie, and Okkotsu could not bring himself to say that.

"Xia Jie, I should have already taught all of you the principles behind Reverse Cursed Technique, right?" Gojo Satoru spoke from the side. "With something like this, you either can master it or you can't. If you can't... Okkotsu probably won't be able to help much either!"

"Sensei, I know that! But I believe there must be another way for me to master Reverse Cursed Technique!" Xia Jie said firmly. "As long as I can keep experiencing the energy of Reverse Cursed Technique, I believe I'll definitely be able to master it!"

"Experience the energy of Reverse Cursed Technique?" Okkotsu asked doubtfully.

"Like this..." Xia Jie suddenly raised his right hand and gripped his right wrist with his left hand. A fierce glint flashed through his eyes, and then he snapped his own wrist without hesitation.

Crack—

Pain made Xia Jie double over, beads of sweat the size of soybeans forming on his face. He forcibly kept himself from crying out, while Okkotsu and Gojo Satoru stared at him in shock.

He raised his right hand and said to Okkotsu with a deathly pale face, "Okkotsu, you can heal this, right?"