[You did not trail behind Itadori and Nobara Kugisaki like a conscientious babysitter, slowly taking the stairs.]
[The moment they entered the door, you drove power into your legs and bounded up the abandoned building's outer wall like a phantom. Amid a few crumbling flakes of wall plaster, you silently vaulted onto the top floor, intending to work your way down from above.]
[The instant you landed, you expertly activated "Phantom Parade."]
[As the Cursed Energy circuits inside your body reconfigured, you perfectly replicated "Cursed Spirit Manipulation" for the first time in a long while.]
[The power of Suguru Geto's Cursed Technique flowed through your palm. Ahead of the other two, you instantly crushed and subjugated the few Cursed Spirits occupying the top floor with overwhelming strength.]
[However, since this was only an ordinary abandoned building, all it had to offer was two low-level Cursed Spirits that barely qualified as Grade 3.]
[After turning them into Cursed Spirit Orbs and swallowing them to subjugate them, you did not keep them in reserve, but immediately released them again.]
[These two Cursed Spirits, now reduced entirely to your puppets, would be personally controlled by you from the shadows and serve as the questions in this "entrance test" for Itadori and Nobara Kugisaki.]
[It was while subjugating the Cursed Spirits on the top floor that you caught sight of a patch of shadow in the corner. A little boy was actually huddled there, trapped after wandering into the abandoned building by mistake.]
[Looking at the boy's tear-streaked face, drained of color by fear, your first instinct had been to pick him up and carry him safely out of this building full of filth.]
[But your movements paused. A thought flashed through your mind, and you dismissed the idea of rescuing him outright.]
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