"Fushiguro, maybe I'm imagining things, but something feels strange around here." Nobara Kugisaki frowned slightly, surveying their surroundings warily as she murmured.
Unlike Megumi Fushiguro, who had grown up in the city, Nobara had been born in a remote village. She was far more attuned than he was to their surroundings out here on the outskirts.
Megumi Fushiguro nodded seriously at her words. His senses were indeed less keen than Nobara's in this environment, but the shikigami he had summoned, Nue, was still circling overhead and relaying information to him.
Was something hiding nearby?
Anything that even Nue could not clearly detect could only be stronger than the shikigami. While a curse user might have been lurking nearby, a powerful cursed spirit was the more likely possibility.
"Kugisaki, it's probably a special-"
Before Megumi Fushiguro could finish, a dark shape suddenly darted out from concealment. It was a canine cursed spirit, and it lunged at him with its sharp claws and fangs bared.
"Shikigami Summon: Rabbit Escape!"
At the last possible moment, Megumi Fushiguro formed a new hand seal. Countless shikigami rabbits leaped from his shadow, building a shield with their bodies before the canine cursed spirit's claws and fangs could reach him.
With a swish!, the shield formed by Rabbit Escape was torn apart. Using the brief opening the rabbits had bought him, Megumi Fushiguro rolled across the ground and put some distance between them.
"It's a special grade cursed spirit!"
Megumi Fushiguro shouted, and Nobara answered with an equally forceful yell.
"You don't have to tell me! I can see that!!!"
As Nobara's shout rang out, she hammered a barrage of nails wreathed in cursed energy at the spirit. Every last one struck and pierced its body, but unfortunately, they did little damage.
Unlike human jujutsu sorcerers, who