Only a few days after meeting Natsume, everyone stopped focusing all their attention on him, because a major upheaval struck Jujutsu Society.
-Shocking! An incredible discovery! Exorcists and onmyoji still exist today! Monsters completely different from cursed spirits?!
The Clickbait Shock Department dropped a bombshell on Jujutsu Society, leaving everyone reeling.
Overnight, the hidden world seemed to have become an entirely different place.
Aikawa Kaze leafed through the official newspaper, his expression complicated.
According to the official newspaper, "Spirit power" and "monsters" had existed since ancient times, but powerful onmyoji had sealed most monsters away in another dimension.
The remaining monsters had hidden themselves from humans, almost never crossing paths with them.
But after thousands of years, the seal had weakened, allowing monsters to appear occasionally and gradually become more active.
The exorcists and onmyoji, who had fallen silent after the monsters disappeared, had therefore begun to emerge again...
"They really know how to spin a story!"
Reading this information, Aikawa Kaze could not help applauding the world consciousness's storytelling ability. Its imagination was every bit as wild as when it had cobbled together his background.
This development did not really surprise him.
He could not say much about Enma Ai's experiences, but the world Natsume had originally lived in was clearly rather different from this one.
While chatting with Natsume, Aikawa Kaze had learned that he had been able to see "monsters" since childhood. Many minor monsters possessed minds of their own, clearly unlike the mindless low-grade cursed spirits.
Low-grade cursed spirits were nowhere near that intelligent, so he strongly suspected the world consciousness had brought Natsume over midway through.
He honestly thought that was rather unfair. Natsume had been perfectly fine as the protagonist of a healing anime. Why drag him into this depressing one?!
Still, Natsume was