[Before Satoru Gojo could erupt, you turned your gaze to Suguru Geto beside him.]
["As for Geto's 'Cursed Spirit Manipulation,' it might look like simple summoning, but it's actually a cursed technique that controls cursed spirits after subjugating them."]
["But there's one thing I'm very curious about..."]
[You leaned forward slightly and asked the question that made Suguru Geto's pupils quake.]
["Since the principle is to subjugate cursed spirits, then... how do you endure that taste, like swallowing a rag used to wipe up vomit?"]
[The classroom fell deathly silent.]
[Masamichi Yaga's mouth hung open, and the chalk in his hand dropped to the floor.]
[Shoko Ieiri actually sat straight up, staring at Li Shunchen as though she had seen a ghost.]
["You..."]
[Satoru Gojo wasn't angry. Instead, he flashed his white teeth, his expression carrying the excitement of a hunter who had discovered new prey.]
["Sitting here without making a sound all this time-so you were observing us like specimens?"]
["Your presence was so faint that we unconsciously overlooked your gaze... You've got some nerve."]
[Li Shunchen leaned back against his chair again, adjusted his glasses, and returned to looking utterly harmless.]
["That concludes my cursed technique demonstration."]
["However, hardware limitations prevent me from perfectly reproducing Gojo's Limitless, and I can't swallow cursed spirits like Geto for the time being, either."]
["But give me a little time, and there will be no secrets in this classroom."]
[Although your explanation had convinced all four people present, including Masamichi Yaga, only you knew that your words were actually a mixture of truth and falsehood.]
["Phantom Parade" could indeed obtain information about the cursed techniques of everyone present, but with your current proficiency in "Phantom Parade," obtaining complete information about a cursed technique took an extremely long time.]
[Especially when it came to the cursed techniques of Special Grade Sorcerers like Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto, the analysis took even longer.]
[The information about their cursed techniques that you had rattled off was entirely based on the intelligence you had acquired during your previous simulation, over three years spent with them as a trainee Assistant Supervisor.]
[Although Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto did not consider you a combat asset, they acknowledged your role and ability in gathering intelligence, treating you as an accessory like Shoko, useful when needed.]
[As your teacher, Masamichi Yaga placed more importance on your cursed technique and asked another question.]
["Does 'Phantom Parade's' reading effect work on cursed spirits, too?"]
[After saying this, Masamichi Yaga thought for a moment and remembered that you had only awakened your cursed technique recently. Concerned that your grasp of basic knowledge might be incomplete, he added an explanation.]
["Beings like the cursed spirit you killed that night."]
[You pretended to consider it, then finally rubbed your chin and answered.]
["I think it should, because before I killed it, I did sense information conveyed through its cursed energy, but after I killed it, I couldn't sense it anymore..."]
[Masamichi Yaga wasn't particularly surprised by your answer. It only made him more certain of what your cursed technique could do.]
[After all, not everyone could reach the Special Grade level of Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto. For the vast majority of sorcerers, Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer was as far as they would ever go.]
[And Masamichi Yaga saw enough potential in you to become a Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer.]
[Moreover, even among Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerers, a cursed technique with effects as versatile as yours was extremely rare.]
[However, you discovered that even after displaying such potential, Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto still didn't seem to acknowledge you, and there was no sign of your mission being completed.]
[And through the missions and studies that followed, you gradually realized why.]
[Despite the versatility your cursed technique displayed, whenever you went on missions with them, you had no room to contribute at all.]
[As soon as a mission began, Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto would swiftly take over the fighting. Faced with their absolute strength, there was no room for your analysis to play a role.]
[Even in work like investigating cursed residue to find cursed spirits, you still had no room to contribute under the gaze of those eyes.]
[Even the occasional one or two battles against curse users were no different. They simply treated you like an accessory-one that probably, possibly, perhaps might come in handy someday.]
[It wasn't that they didn't see you as a companion. It was just that one didn't think he needed help, while the other considered protecting the weak his responsibility. Neither placed you on equal footing.]
[You had no good solution to this in the short term. After all, the gap in strength was an objective fact.]
[Even so, you hadn't wasted this year.]
[Since you had to spend most of your time together, you devoted a great deal of time to analyzing the cursed techniques of Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko, reaching the point where you could perform simple applications, albeit clumsily.]
[However, due to various factors, your reproductions still fell far short of the originals.]
[Without the aid of the Six Eyes, the Limitless you reproduced couldn't even last half a second. You simply couldn't perform precise calculations while also achieving one hundred percent efficiency in using cursed energy, nor did you possess the enormous reserves of cursed energy needed to force it to hold.]
[Whenever he saw you practicing by attempting to reproduce "Limitless," Satoru Gojo would always pat your shoulder in consolation once you were utterly exhausted.]
["It's all right. Even a short one is cute."]
[When reproducing Cursed Spirit Manipulation, however, the problem lay elsewhere.]
[For one, your proficiency was insufficient to control high-level cursed spirits, though your ability to adapt to that disgusting sensation was also a factor to some extent.]
[The other issue lay in how "Phantom Parade" operated.]
"How 'Phantom Parade' operated?" Li Shunchen paused slightly when he read this sentence.
[In fact, "Phantom Parade" was somewhat similar to the simulator in nature. "Phantom Parade" served as a medium through which you reproduced other cursed techniques, which meant that when "Phantom Parade" stopped, the cursed techniques you reproduced would stop as well.]
[This meant that you could use "Cursed Spirit Manipulation" while "Phantom Parade" was active, but once "Phantom Parade" was deactivated, your reproduced "Cursed Spirit Manipulation" would also cease operating, and the cursed spirits stored as saved data would be erased and lost along with it.]
[But in a sense, the results of reproducing "Cursed Spirit Manipulation" were at least considerably better than those of "Limitless." At the very least, you could temporarily subjugate low-level cursed spirits and use them for reconnaissance.]
[Compared with those two, "Phantom Parade" had the smoothest results reproducing "Reverse Cursed Technique." Although its effects still fell short of Shoko's, you were undoubtedly the second person at Tokyo Jujutsu High capable of using Reverse Cursed Technique on others.]
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