"Yuta, let's get married!"
On the bustling Commercial Street, Rika Orimoto, Yuta Okkotsu's childhood sweetheart, walked alone with her cheeks puffed out.
Remembering how she had proposed to him a few days earlier, only for Yuta to fluster and fail to give her an answer, she puffed her cheeks out even further in anger and kept huffing to herself.
She didn't consider herself a rash woman. It was just that the mood had been so perfect. Not only had it been her birthday, but Yuta had even given her a ring.
How could that be anything but a proposal!
That was what Rika had thought, and the moment she saw that her gift was a ring, excitement had swept away all reason. Thinking back on it now, she felt both angry and afraid.
Why wouldn't Yuta accept my proposal... We promised we'd be together when we grew up... Could Yuta have someone else... Well... He's so amazing now... But if that's the case, why did he give me a ring...
Uneasily, Rika raised her right hand, the one wearing the ring. Her eyes trembled slightly as she stared at it for a while, then let out a long, helpless sigh.
Of course she wanted to believe Yuta would never let her down, but ever since entering Jujutsu Society, he had continued to display extraordinary talent, even becoming one of its very few Special Grade Sorcerers.
Meanwhile, she was still stuck where she had always been. Sometimes, when Yuta talked about jujutsu, all she could do was smile, nod, and listen without understanding. They were childhood sweethearts, yet it felt as though they lived in two different worlds.
"Why can't I awaken a Cursed Technique? If I could become a jujutsu sorcerer too, even if I couldn't fight beside Yuta, at