While Aikawa Kaze was busy bonding with Suguru Geto and making arrangements, Yuta Okkotsu's Little Classroom had begun elsewhere!
They sat in a classroom. This time, three people sat facing Yuta Okkotsu, who stood in the teacher's spot.
But a second before the lesson began, Yuta Okkotsu suddenly noticed something was wrong.
Bringing it up now might be a bit discouraging, but...
"Maki... you're learning this too?"
The mood earlier had been so harmonious that no one had noticed the problem. Now, though, they realized something was off.
Maki had an incomplete heavenly restriction, with so little cursed energy in her body that it was practically nonexistent. She even needed special glasses to fight cursed spirits; without them, she couldn't see them at all.
She couldn't even cast a Curtain normally. How was she supposed to learn Reverse Cursed Technique?
"Why are you all looking at me like that? I just want to try. Besides... maybe I really can learn it."
Maki narrowed her eyes and pulled out a sword hilt with no blade.
"That's..."
"One of the Black Keys Kaze gave me. The blade was out when he gave it to me, so I always thought that was how it was supposed to be. But later, I discovered I could retract the blade and carry it around as just a hilt."
Maki couldn't help feeling touched at the thought. As far as she was concerned, there was no way Aikawa Kaze hadn't known that.
So, back when they barely knew each other, Aikawa Kaze had probably been afraid she would refuse. He had deliberately claimed he didn't know how to use them and given them to her on the excuse that they were inconvenient to carry.
Of course, this was actually a lovely misunderstanding. Aikawa Kaze wasn't a stickler