The drinking session had shifted from matters of the heart to matters of work. They were all elites of Jujutsu Society, after all.
Suguru Geto began drinking morosely. Clearly, he had understood what Miwa Chisei's transfer to the Medical Group meant.
Miwa Chisei could only use Reverse Cursed Technique to treat fatal injuries.
"There's something else. Satoru and I plan to train Okkotsu as quickly as possible. He's an important asset in battle, after all."
Suguru Geto sounded somewhat subdued as he said this. Yuta Okkotsu was only a first-year student, after all, and someone afflicted by a curse.
"So we can't lift Rika's curse yet. We need that power. Ironic, isn't it?"
Hearing this, Miwa Chisei patted Suguru Geto's shoulder reassuringly.
"I have an idea about that. When I first met Yuta, I worked out that he was a distant relative of Satoru's, didn't I?"
"And that enormous amount of cursed energy inside him meshes very well with Rika... but Rika Orimoto was an ordinary person with no cursed energy. Why did she become such a powerful curse?"
This reminded Shoko Ieiri of something, and she immediately spoke up.
"I examined that boy. He didn't have any of the symptoms I've seen in other people afflicted by curses. In fact, he was in excellent physical condition."
Suguru Geto was a little surprised. Thinking back over the times he had taught Yuta Okkotsu to train Rika, he couldn't help arriving at a bold conjecture.
"Could it have been Okkotsu who cursed Rika Orimoto and turned her into a cursed spirit?"
Miwa Chisei nodded and spoke with complete seriousness.
"It's very possible. Yuta's power doesn't come from Rika. It comes from himself. Even if Rika's curse is lifted, Yuta will still be an incredibly powerful jujutsu sorcerer."
Those words offered Suguru