After answering countless questions, Shinji finally escaped the crowd, his head spinning.
Then he saw Mei Terumi standing there with smiling eyes.
Shinji immediately prepared to sternly demand an explanation from her, but the moment he walked over, she said, "Come on. It's time to pick out a Cursed Object."
He instantly swallowed the mouthful of profanity he had been about to unleash and spat out an "Okay."
"For the sake of the Cursed Objects, I'll let you off this time."
They headed deeper inside, all the way down to the lowest level.
"This is the place. Although all the Cursed Objects have been stored separately, some of them are still dangerous."
Shinji naturally knew that.
Some powerful Cursed Objects could continuously affect their surroundings even without coming into contact with any living creature. That was Cursed Energy leakage.
Once he entered, he certainly wasn't disappointed.
Roughly twenty or thirty stone pedestals stood spaced apart, each holding a Cursed Object inside a glass container.
Looks like that theory about how Cursed Objects form really does have some merit. Otherwise, it's hard to imagine how Kirigakure collected so many of them.
Shinji nodded to himself, then started wandering around.
Although he needed to touch them before the damned system would generate their descriptions, that didn't stop him from taking a preliminary look to get a general idea.
"Well? Have you chosen? There's a description on the pedestal for each Cursed Object."
After roughly circling the room, Shinji immediately ruled out most of them based on their recorded descriptions.
Just as he had expected, most of the Cursed Objects' effects were either a complete screw-over or of little practical use.
Very few were actually useful.
Moreover, he strongly suspected that the ones stored here weren't all the Cursed Objects Kirigakure possessed. Those