Where's Your Property Deed?

Qiao Qiao looked at Xia Jie with a speechless expression.

What kind of bullshit was this guy talking about? Three Black Flashes... was that supposed to be hard?

Some people might never land a single Black Flash in their entire lives, yet he was saying that landing three of them was no big deal?

He made it sound like he could do it just by raising a hand!

If she hadn't been unable to beat him, Qiao Qiao really wanted to grab Xia Jie by the collar and slap him across the face, asking where this bastard had come from, what he was doing in her home, and whether he had come all this way just to brag in front of her.

Looking at Qiao Qiao's expression, Xia Jie did not need to guess what she was thinking.

Of course, he knew how difficult it was to land a Black Flash. Even a sorcerer who had experienced one before would not dare claim that they could definitely land another.

Even with the Parasite Spirit's incredible learning ability, he could not say for certain that he could master a skill as demanding as Black Flash.

It was not like the Reverse Cursed Technique.

The Reverse Cursed Technique was also extremely difficult, with an absurdly high learning threshold, but it was at least a conventional skill that could be mastered. It was simply hard to learn.

And for the Parasite Spirit, that was precisely the least problematic kind of problem.

That was why Xia Jie could rely on the Parasite Spirit's power to gradually figure out the principles of the Reverse Cursed Technique from Okkotsu.

But a skill like Black Flash could only be comprehended on one's own.

Even sorcerers with experience using Black Flash could only offer vague words like "focus" and "feel the flow of Cursed Energy" when trying to teach others its tricks.

Those words were practically no different from saying nothing. If anyone could grasp the essence of Black Flash from that, it would truly be a miracle.

Xia Jie currently had no clue about Black Flash either. At this stage, he was still honing his Cursed Energy and physical body.

Under the effects of the Parasite Spirit, his body had already begun to gradually approach the limits of humanity, while his Cursed Energy continued to grow for some unknown reason.

Cursed Energy was power born from negative emotions. In theory, the total amount of Cursed Energy a person possessed had an upper limit.

Because Jujutsu Sorcerers frequently trained to refine Cursed Energy, they could gradually increase their total reserves until reaching a certain threshold.

Few people experienced the kind of constant sudden growth in Cursed Energy that Xia Jie did, but this also meant that his Cursed Energy was not particularly pure.

Skilled Jujutsu Sorcerers could draw Cursed Energy from an extreme emotion when refining it. The Cursed Energy refined this way was more condensed and powerful.

This was the fundamental reason why Jujutsu Sorcerers could eliminate Cursed Spirits with greater Cursed Energy reserves despite usually possessing less Cursed Energy themselves.

Because a Jujutsu Sorcerer's Cursed Energy was of higher quality, it could naturally break through a Cursed Spirit's defenses.

The quality of one's Cursed Energy also determined one's resistance to Cursed Techniques. For example, Kento Nanami had once used his own Cursed Energy to forcibly withstand Mahito's Idle Transfiguration.

Because Xia Jie's Cursed Energy was too abundant, the Cursed Energy he refined had a relatively "dispersed" feel to it.

Compared with other Jujutsu Sorcerers, Xia Jie's Cursed Energy was still somewhat weaker at equal amounts of Cursed Energy.

However, the gap was not particularly large. With the Parasite Spirit's assistance, Xia Jie's ability to refine Cursed Energy was improving almost constantly.

Xia Jie estimated that, after some more time, the intensity of his Cursed Energy would reach the level of a Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer.

After that, if he wanted to raise the quality of his Cursed Energy another level, only landing a Black Flash could solve the problem.

But Xia Jie truly was not confident that he could land a Black Flash on his own.

He had too much help around him. Shadow Maru and Thunder Maru both possessed powerful Cursed Energy, while the Parasite Spirit could help him better control his Cursed Energy. Yet precisely because of that, the number of times he had fully unleashed his Cursed Energy could be counted on one hand.

Even if he ordered the Cursed Spirits under his command not to intervene, he would still subconsciously think, If I'm in danger, I can just order them to help me.

How could he land a Black Flash, one that pushed both his body and Cursed Energy to their utmost limits, under such circumstances?

Xia Jie knew this well himself, yet there was nothing he could do about it.

He could only wait until Yuji Itadori enrolled next semester, when Hanami invaded Jujutsu High, and see whether he could learn the skill of Black Flash from Tiger Bro.

After all, Tiger Bro had landed four Black Flashes in a single day, directly tying Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer Kento Nanami's Black Flash record.

If he could personally witness Tiger Bro land a Black Flash, then with the Parasite Spirit's power, Xia Jie was fifty percent confident he could master it.

After all, even that inhuman bastard Mahito had learned Black Flash from Yuji Itadori. The Parasite Spirit specialized in support, so there was no reason it could not uncover the mysteries of Black Flash.

These were merely some vague thoughts Xia Jie had.

He was not completely certain whether they could become reality.

As for now... he had said all that to the Monster girl purely to tease her a little, just for the fun of provoking this innocent Monster girl.

"Come to think of it, I haven't asked your name yet," Xia Jie said to the Monster girl. "Also... why are you here, and why did you attack me?"

"This is my home!" Qiao Qiao shouted angrily. "A stranger sneaks into my house. Shouldn't I hit him?! And why did you come to my house?!"

Uh... that did seem to make sense, but was this really her home?

Xia Jie looked around. The furnishings were the same as in his childhood memories, unchanged from over a decade ago.

It did not look as though it had been sold to someone else, Xia Jie thought to himself.

If his father's friend had sold the house to someone else, the interior should not still look exactly as it had more than ten years ago.

"You're sure this is your home?" Xia Jie raised an eyebrow as he looked at the Monster girl. "You didn't secretly move in here?"

"Damn it! You bastard! You were clearly the one who broke in, and now you're accusing me instead!" Qiao Qiao said, her face flushed red with anger. "No wonder Jingjing and the others told me that humans are full of schemes and are best at twisting black into white!"

Xia Jie replied nonchalantly, "You make Monsters sound like a bunch of brainless idiots! You should know that, in the eyes of normal people, you Monsters are the truly devious ones!"

"Besides, when did I twist black into white?"

"You're a Monster living in an ordinary person's residence. Am I not even allowed to ask about it?"

"Since you insist this is your home, then let me ask you," Xia Jie said, staring directly into Qiao Qiao's eyes. "Where's your property deed?"

"I..." Qiao Qiao was momentarily speechless.

Where was she supposed to get a property deed? She did not even know what a property deed was!

"I'm staying at a friend's house," Qiao Qiao muttered. "He agreed to it!"

"Then who is this friend of yours?" Xia Jie narrowed his eyes, an unusual gleam flickering within them.

He did not know who the friend his father had entrusted with the house was, but whoever it was, they should not have lent the house to a Monster for temporary lodging—unless they were a Monster too.

But his father had been a first-rate Jujutsu Sorcerer. He should not have had dealings with Monsters.

Following that reasoning, his father's friend had most likely been harmed by some Monster!

"He is..." Qiao Qiao was about to say the person's name when she suddenly seemed to remember something. "Who are you, anyway?! Why should I tell you!"

Xia Jie snorted. "Didn't you want to know why I came here?"

"Conveniently enough, I have a friend too! This is his home!"