Tokyo Jujutsu High, temporary infirmary.
"This is such a pain. I'd rather be out on a mission chopping up cursed spirits than helping here!"
Grumbling, Maki carried the newly arrived patients to their beds in order of injury severity and sighed.
"When is this ever going to end? Are those guys seriously planning to send all the injured here? Dr. Shoko and Yuta are going to work themselves to death!"
"Salmon, salmon!"
Toge Inumaki nodded in heartfelt agreement.
Lately, Dr. Shoko and Yuta Okkotsu, both capable of using Reverse Cursed Technique, had been run ragged. The dark circles they already had had only grown darker.
Not only that, but Maki and Toge Inumaki, who had been forced to help and share their suffering, were also starting to develop panda eyes.
"Yeah, but what can we do? There are just too many injured!"
Panda rubbed his eyes miserably and sighed too.
"Maki, Toge, have you noticed that my dark circles seem to be getting bigger lately?"
"No, that's still impossible!"
How could a cursed corpse's dark circles get bigger?!
They all shook their heads in unison, but soon discovered a "traitor" among the first-years.
"That's weird. Hasn't Kaze been working the same hours as us? Why does he still look so energetic?"
All three turned to Aikawa Kaze, who was also helping out.
Compared with his classmates, Aikawa Kaze did look tired, but only in the normal way someone looked after a hard day's work. The others looked more like they had "exhausted every last ounce of strength" and might "drop dead at any moment."
Among a crowd of dark circles, his "slightly tired" appearance practically counted as "radiant."
"Do you have some kind of trick?" Panda's imagination ran wild as he narrowed his eyes. "Like meditation that quickly restores your