After the harrowing "accident" involving Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara had finally been put to rest, life at Jujutsu High seemed to return briefly to a peace filled with training and everyday trivialities.
Yet you knew perfectly well that this was merely the suffocating stillness before the storm.
Just a few days later, Masamichi Yaga slapped an urgent mission file with a glaring red cover onto the classroom lectern, his expression grave.
Mission location: a remote old village.
Mission objective: investigate multiple incidents of villagers being spirited away and dying under mysterious circumstances. Observations by the higher-ups' Window suggested the involvement of a Grade 1 (or Semi-Grade 1) cursed spirit. Jujutsu sorcerers were to be dispatched to determine the cause and carry out a thorough exorcism.
Given the mission's danger rating and the complexity of the village environment, the higher-ups had originally designated Suguru Geto, a Special Grade Sorcerer, to go alone. But just as Masamichi Yaga issued the mission orders, you stepped forward without hesitation and volunteered to accompany him.
The reasons you gave were thoroughly sufficient and perfectly consistent.
"Mr. Yaga, although Geto's Cursed Spirit Manipulation gives him tremendous combat power against unknown cursed spirits, in most cases, he can only suppress or exorcise them through brute force. If this cursed spirit possesses some special spatial or mental cursed technique, relying on physical means alone could very well alert it and make the situation worse. If I accompany him, I can secretly analyze its cursed technique before combat begins and use Phantom Parade to seal it directly, minimizing the possibility of causing a greater disturbance. Besides, since this is a remote mountain village, its medical facilities must be extremely poor. Against a suspected Grade 1 cursed spirit, serious casualties could occur at any moment. I can use Reverse