Dealing with the cursed spirit took the blink of an eye.
Dealing with the aftermath took a drawn-out phone call.
No matter how quickly the cursed spirit had struck, these students would surely remember something about it once they woke up. This was a junior high school, after all, and students their age were not so easily fooled.
Jujutsu sorcerers generally tried to avoid contact with ordinary people during missions, but cursed spirits attacked at random and on their own initiative. There was no way sorcerers could predict every attack and prevent it in advance.
When ordinary people suffered directly at the hands of cursed spirits and became aware, to some extent, of the Jujutsu Society's existence, it was time for the society's dedicated Aftermath Department to step in.
Chinatsu did not actually know how they went about it. Still, the Jujutsu Society had existed for over a thousand years without becoming public knowledge, so they must have had a few tricks up their sleeves.
After taking care of the enormous cursed spirit, Chinatsu dragged the students into an empty classroom. She leaned against the classroom wall, phone in hand, and called the Aftermath Department, urging them to hurry over.
Meanwhile, Nanako and Mimiko stood beside the students caught in the attack, trying to comfort them with words, though their efforts were not particularly effective.
Neither Nanako nor Mimiko kept a low profile at school. Quite the opposite: they were regarded as the school's two most notorious figures, the sort of people its delinquents had to bow to and greet whenever they saw them.
Nanako was known as "Big Sister," a title she had earned by single-handedly dismantling the junior high's delinquent gang.
Although she had done it out of kindness, most students mistook it for a turf war between