The two soon arrived. As soon as Gojo appeared, several managers who spotted him immediately ran over and began reporting to him with grave expressions.
Little Fox quietly followed beside him, listening with curiosity and trying to work out what had happened. He soon understood.
Cursed tool makers were Jujutsu Sorcerers who specialized in making cursed tools. Rather than fighters, they were more like artisans, skilled at creating weapons and other items with support functions-much like the swordsmiths in "Demon Slayer."
The Playful Cloud that Maki used, along with her other swords and weapons, had been made by cursed tool makers.
Jujutsu High had its own cursed tool makers, and the best of them had just been discovered missing. According to the manager who contacted him regularly, he had not gone out for at least three days in a row. When the managers sensed something was wrong and went inside to investigate, the machines in the house were still running, but the man was gone.
After a thorough investigation, the people handling the case focused their suspicions on a particular cursed tool that showed signs of use-something that looked like a "gate."
The gate consisted of nothing but a metal frame, with open space on every side, like the security gates at a subway station.
"The cursed tool maker's cursed energy residue disappeared in front of this gate. It looks as though he went through it. We suspect this cursed tool can transport people somewhere else."
That was what the manager reported.
It sounded strange, but this master cursed tool maker had always enjoyed researching tools with all sorts of bizarre functions. Making weapons for Jujutsu High was merely his sideline, a way to obtain more research funding.
It was hardly surprising that he could develop a cursed tool that