[After handling all the handover arrangements in the remote mountain village, you brought the sleeping Nanako and Mimiko back to Tokyo Jujutsu High without delay and immediately gave Masamichi Yaga a detailed report on this absurd and brutal incident.]
[In the spacious office, Masamichi Yaga let out a heavy sigh after hearing the whole story.]
[He firmly pinched his throbbing brow, his already stern face now drawn into a deep frown, revealing an expression of extreme distress and exhaustion.]
[After all, the "uproar" Yuki Tsukumo had caused during her recent visit to Jujutsu High had only just died down. Even the damaged school buildings outside the window were still undergoing noisy repairs.]
[Yet you problem students had merely gone out on a routine exorcism mission and somehow become entangled in a vicious criminal case involving collective unlawful imprisonment and severe child abuse in a remote, isolated village.]
[Still, despite his splitting headache, Masamichi Yaga, who now knew the full story, had no intention of blaming you in the slightest.]
[Instead, a measure of relief showed in his bloodshot eyes, and he gave his wholehearted approval to your extremely rational handling of the situation.]
[Jujutsu Society and ordinary secular society were separated by substantial barriers and differences. If sorcerers let their emotions drive them and used their powers to punish ordinary people, even those guilty of heinous crimes, it would cause irreversibly damaging consequences.]
[Your ability to perceptively and precisely distinguish "trouble caused by cursed spirits" from "human crimes," using secular law to punish secular wrongdoing, was undoubtedly the most correct approach, and the one best able to protect everyone.]
[However, although the perpetrators had been handed over to the police, the next issue was where to place Nanako and Mimiko.]
[Masamichi Yaga rested his clasped hands on the desk, his