Shibuya, Tokyo.
"Work is shit, and overtime is super shit!"
Kento Nanami panted as he exorcised cursed spirits. The missing Sukuna's Fingers had yet to be recovered, and as one of the jujutsu sorcerers who formed the backbone of Jujutsu Society, he was working overtime to search for them while exorcising any cursed spirits he encountered.
He was tired. Utterly exhausted.
Jujutsu Society had always had far fewer people than the workload demanded. Although most of that burden fell on the special grade sorcerers, even the remaining ten or twenty percent was enough to crush the sorcerers who formed its backbone.
On top of that, the jujutsu world had recently begun integrating with human society. To prevent reports of cursed spirits brutally killing humans from upsetting this hard-won balance during such a sensitive period, long stretches of overtime had become part of the sorcerers' daily routine.
Of course, their pay had also multiplied several times over.
"Let's take a break. We've searched this whole area from top to bottom. We should be able to confirm there aren't any Sukuna's Fingers here."
Yu Haibara walked over to Kento Nanami with a cold glass bottle of soda in each hand. As Jujutsu High students just one year below Gojo and the others, they had now become dependable core sorcerers capable of handling an entire area between the two of them.
Kento Nanami took a bottle from Yu Haibara, twisted off the cap, and gulped down a couple of mouthfuls before leaning against the nearby wall and dropping onto the ground.
"Haibara, I'm going to resign."
"Huh?"
Yu Haibara sat down beside Kento Nanami, looking surprised yet somehow unsurprised. The idea of a jujutsu sorcerer resigning startled him, but if the person saying it was Kento Nanami, it seemed perfectly normal.
As Kento