[Death spectacle rating: extremely low. Chakra, willpower, and physical fitness increased slightly.]
[Mission: New Undying Duo] [Objective: Interact with Hidan and build a bond.] [Bond points: 100/100] [Stage one completed]
[Rewards issued: Cursed Soul Points ×1,000, Random Innate Jujutsu ×1] [Innate jujutsu acquired: Blood Manipulation]
[Mission: New Undying Duo] (Stage two unlocked)
Akagi Shinji listened to the system's voice, delighted.
What self-respecting transmigrator could get by without a cheat!
An accident had sent him into the middle of the Jashin Cult's Evil God summoning ritual, bringing this body back from the dead, granting him an incomplete form of immortality, and successfully activating his system.
The system he had received was a little less than respectable, though. How could he put it? It was especially... bizarre.
Its activation requirement was actually to be cursed at least once!
If he hadn't happened to "wake up" during the Evil God summoning ritual, which counted as receiving the Evil God's curse, he probably would never have activated this bizarre system in his entire life.
Of course, the so-called Evil God summoning ritual was actually a forbidden human experiment conducted by the Jashin Cult.
Logically speaking, there shouldn't have been anything like an Evil God in the world of Naruto. But since the bizarre system recognized him, Shinji wasn't about to waste time digging into it. He had already benefited; there was no point acting coy about it.
After all, even the Death God existed. One extra Evil God hardly seemed like a big deal.
He just hadn't expected this bizarre system to pull so many ridiculous stunts afterward.
Not only had the beginner's gift pack inexplicably given him a curse, but even the missions it issued were hard to describe.
Naturally, they came with absolutely no penalty for failure. Take them or leave them!
The system's explanation was actually that it couldn't let its host become its puppet, or some smart-ass would inevitably jump out and start picking holes in it, blah, blah, blah...
What an unbeatable excuse!
If he had any other choice, he would have uninstalled this bizarre system on the spot!
Failing that, he would have exploded right there and taken it down with him!
Fortunately, he held himself back.
And after enduring countless hardships, he had finally completed this lousy mission... its first stage, anyway.
That had earned him the jujutsu and cursed soul points he desperately needed, putting out the immediate fire.
"System, open my personal interface."
Host: Akagi Shinji Curses: Curse of the World's Will (permanent), Evil God's curse (permanent), system's curse (permanent). Jujutsu: Blood Manipulation Cursed spirits: None Cursed objects: None Cursed tools: None Cursed soul points: 1,000 Roulette Draw: Single draw (1,000 cursed soul points), ten draws (10,000 cursed soul points) Bound mission-trigger character: Hidan Current mission: New Undying Duo (stage two)
[Curse of the World's Will] Effect: Unknown PS: Your unexpected arrival has caused certain changes in this world.
[Evil God's curse] Effect: A stripped-down version of immortality. Self-healing greatly enhanced. Pain from all injuries doubled. Consciousness restored three seconds after death. PS: An unknown Evil God gave you a curious glance.
[System's curse] Effect: Each death increases your chakra, willpower, and physical fitness to some extent. The increase depends on how spectacular your death was. Suicide has no effect. PS1: You died, and you got stronger. PS2: Tired? Hurry up and end it all!
Jujutsu: [Blood Manipulation] Effect: Manipulates your own blood and objects coated in it. Domain: Not expanded
[Mission: New Undying Duo] (Stage two unlocked) [Objective: Omitted] [Bond points: 100/500] [Mission rewards: Cursed Soul Points ×5,000, Jujutsu Enhancement Scroll ×1] [PS: "My big brother torments me a thousand times, yet I love him like my first love." Sob, sob~]
Fuck!
To be fair, when Shinji first received this mission, he had tried getting along with Hidan. After all, as long as someone didn't know the weaknesses of [Immortality] and [Death Controlling Possessed Blood], Hidan's future lethality would absolutely be game-breaking!
Forget an Elite Ninja-even an actual Kage-Level Strongman could be killed in minutes if he fell for it!
Besides, Hidan was essentially someone who started at his peak. He didn't need grueling training; learning [Death Controlling Possessed Blood] was enough.
Having a companion like that at his side would naturally be very reassuring.
Provided, of course, that he could stand Hidan's arrogant, motor-mouthed side.
Unfortunately, that idiot Hidan simply couldn't stand the sight of him. Forget getting along-if they met without fighting, it was already a miracle.
So screw that!
There was no way I was going to suck up to him. Not in this lifetime!
"My big brother torments me a thousand times, yet I love him like my first love"?
Fine!
But we're doing it the other way around!
I'm going to train Hidan into exactly what I want!
If the future Itachi found out, he would probably hail him as a fellow expert!
Then finish it off with a tap on the forehead and a loving smile.
Shinji decided to follow the example of Konoha's dear big brother and show Hidan exactly what happened when he offended the "abbot"!
That routine was easy to talk about, but putting it into practice was difficult. Getting the balance right was especially tricky.
After provoking Hidan for so long, Shinji had only just scraped together the 100 bond points required for stage one. It really was depressing.
But Shinji hadn't given up on this "road to success"!
After more than a month of working things out, he had gradually picked up a few tricks. He believed that once he mastered them, he would complete the missions faster and faster.
Sooner or later, he would mold Hidan into exactly what he wanted.
After all... those mission rewards were too good to resist!
Skipping over the three curses that left him miserable and speechless, Akagi Shinji focused mainly on the jujutsu he had just acquired-the only one he could currently use.
Jujutsu itself was a power hidden within the bloodline, released when combined with mental power, and generally driven by cursed energy.
Cursed energy, as its name suggested, was a special form of mental energy extracted from humanity's negative emotions.
Combining the two could therefore often cause immense destruction or produce all sorts of incredible effects.
For example, Death Controlling Possessed Blood, which killed the enemy by killing oneself!
Or the technique Shinji had just acquired... Blood Manipulation!
This related knowledge had been poured into Shinji's mind alongside [Blood Manipulation] when he acquired it.
As the hereditary jujutsu of the Kamo Clan, one of Jujutsu Society's Three Great Families in Jujutsu Kaisen, [Blood Manipulation] had potential that shouldn't be underestimated, although it did seem considerably weaker than the techniques of the other two families...
Still, given that he currently had next to nothing, he wasn't exactly in a position to be picky.
More importantly, with this jujutsu, he could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
As for why?
The reason was, of course...
(PS: This book's explanations of cursed energy and jujutsu take precedence. You can consider them a special conversion of chakra. Nitpickers, begone~
Also, thank you all for your support. Since this is a new book and has to go through the recommendation-slot process, I need to keep the daily update count under control. Established authors don't need that to get enough exposure.
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