If you only watched the anime, it was easy to get the wrong idea.
That there were plenty of Special Grade Sorcerers.
Or at least plenty of Jujutsu Sorcerers with special-grade combat strength.
After all, when everyone fought Sukuna in the original story, Grade 1 Sorcerers were worth less than dogs, while special grades seemed to be everywhere.
But in the real Jujutsu Society, Special Grade Sorcerers were vanishingly rare.
Across all of Japan, only four were publicly known.
And every one of them had a strong personality.
Hardly any would obediently follow the Jujutsu Higher-Ups' orders.
Grade 1 Sorcerers were already the backbone of Jujutsu Society.
And there was no need to overestimate the strength of its so-called great families.
Admittedly, those families had deep-rooted influence.
But their own strength? It was nothing remarkable.
Take the Zenin Clan, one of the Three Great Families.
And what happened to them?
Maki Zenin, an incomplete Heavenly Tyrant, slaughtered her way through the clan.
One Maki Zenin was enough to wipe out one of the Three Great Families.
Never mind true monsters like Satoru Gojo.
That showed just how much weight the so-called Jujutsu Higher-Ups and the families under their control really carried.
So when the Jujutsu Higher-Ups threatened to go after Ronova,
Satoru Gojo didn't take it seriously at all.
If those embarrassments found Ronova, who would kill whom was still an open question.
Compared with the Jujutsu Higher-Ups and their sorry lot,
Satoru Gojo was far more concerned about Suguru Geto.
Suguru Geto was the one person who could genuinely threaten Ronova.
If Suguru Geto found Ronova, lured her away, and led her astray,
Satoru Gojo would be devastated.
The uproar Ronova had caused was simply too big.
The entire Jujutsu Society was in turmoil, with everyone looking for her.
So Ronova decided to become a homebody. She did nothing but play all day.
She stayed inside and ignored the storm raging beyond her door.
Honestly, it was a pretty comfortable life.
Ronova also discovered a loophole: she didn't have to witness a death in person.
Seeing it indirectly counted too.
For example, when Ronova watched the news report an accident somewhere and the number of people killed,
her Cursed Energy grew.
It opened up a whole new world for her.
So Ronova abandoned her usual habit of playing games
and started searching everywhere for reports of fatal accidents.
The higher the death toll, the happier she was.
That sounded a little grim, but honestly,
all she had to do was watch the news to increase her Cursed Energy.
Ronova really couldn't keep herself from smiling.
At this rate, it wouldn't be long before she could go out and do as she pleased.
After all, she didn't need to defeat Satoru Gojo.
She only needed to handle the threats posed by Suguru Geto and the Jujutsu Higher-Ups.
That was a much easier task!
As expected of a Special-Grade Curse—her growth was astonishingly fast!
Some might assume
a Special-Grade Curse was born with special-grade strength.
That wasn't true. Even Special-Grade Curses needed to grow.
Take Mahito.
When he was first born, Kento Nanami had nearly beaten him to death.
Only after growing step by step did he gradually gain special-grade combat strength.
The same was true of Ronova.
She was a Special-Grade Curse, but she still needed to grow.
The good news was that she was growing fast.
At this rate, she might have true special-grade combat strength within a few months.
To be clear, "special grade" here didn't mean the rank of a Special-Grade Curse.
It meant strength comparable to a Special Grade Sorcerer.
After all, Special-Grade Curses were honestly rather underwhelming.
Surely no one thought a Special-Grade Curse could stand toe-to-toe with a Special Grade Sorcerer?
In theory, Special-Grade Curses and Special Grade Sorcerers occupied the same rank.
In practice, a Cursed Spirit facing a Jujutsu Sorcerer of the same rank was little more than a stray dog.
And it wasn't just sorcerers of the same rank.
Some had even exorcised Cursed Spirits above their rank.
Aoi Todo, for instance, was still a Grade 1 Sorcerer in the original story when he exorcised a Special-Grade Curse.
That alone showed how weak Cursed Spirits were.
And because Cursed Spirits were so much weaker than sorcerers of the same rank,
Megumi Fushiguro looked like an absolute liability.
A Grade 2 Jujutsu Sorcerer had nearly been exorcised by a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit.
An utter disgrace!
Of course, powerful Cursed Spirits did exist.
The Four Calamities, for example, were four Special-Grade Curses.
They could generally match an ordinary Special Grade Sorcerer.
Mahito in particular had Idle Transfiguration, a Cursed Technique with limitless potential. He should have become the king of Cursed Spirits.
He should have stood alongside Satoru Gojo and Sukuna.
But Mahito himself was too weak. He squandered an incredible hand.
In the end, Kenjaku even devoured him.
He was embarrassingly bad.
Still, that showed how precarious life was for Cursed Spirits.
In Jujutsu Society, whether it was Satoru Gojo on one side or Sukuna and Kenjaku on the other,
their attitude toward Cursed Spirits was the same: use them, then kill them.
It was a war between Jujutsu Sorcerers,
yet Cursed Spirits suffered the most deaths.
That showed how dangerous Jujutsu Society was for Cursed Spirits, and how hard it was for one to survive.
But things were different now. They had Ronova, an exceptionally unusual Cursed Spirit.
Her unique identity as the Death Curse Spirit gave her almost limitless room to grow.
Add in the absurdly powerful All Things Die,
and Ronova had every chance of becoming the king of Cursed Spirits.
She could reach the same level as Satoru Gojo and Sukuna.
In other words, Ronova was the hope of all Cursed Spirits.
Only once she grew strong
would the Cursed Spirits of this world have better days ahead.
Besides watching the news to witness deaths,
Ronova was studying and developing her Cursed Technique, All Things Die!
Without question, it was a technique so powerful it defied all balance.
It could impose death on anything at a conceptual level.
When she had clashed with Satoru Gojo, she had used All Things Die and nearly broken through his Limitless Technique.
After all, in Ronova's eyes, even space could die.
Later, she had applied the same principle against Suguru Geto.
By killing the "distance" between them, she had effectively teleported.
And that was nowhere near the limit of All Things Die. She had barely scratched the surface.
In fact, All Things Die had an extraordinarily broad scope.
Ronova could use it to kill anything that existed as a concept.
It was somewhat like the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
But its fundamental nature surpassed the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
The Mystic Eyes of Death Perception required understanding first.
Only then could their user see lines and points of death.
All Things Die had no such requirement.
Ronova didn't need to understand a concept or the principles behind it.
If she wanted to kill it, she could.
That was the terrifying power of All Things Die.
What's more, the range of things it could affect was immense.
At the smallest scale were tangible things: objects, humans, and Cursed Spirits.
At the largest were abstract, conceptual things.
Space, distance, even time and... killing intent!
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