[After the first Dummy Cursed Spirit serving as an "appetizer" had been exorcised, you were about to actively control the second enormous, frog-like cursed spirit from the ceiling to give Nobara Kugisaki a little unexpected trouble.]
[But to your surprise, before you could transmit the command through the cursed energy circuit, the Beast-Type Cursed Spirit lurking in the shadows acted first. Having witnessed its companion's demise and sensed Nobara Kugisaki's highly aggressive cursed energy, it actually moved on the cunning instinct of a low-level cursed spirit to seek advantage and avoid danger.]
[Its huge, bloated body twisted eerily as it silently approached the trembling little boy in the corner, attempting to use this fragile human child as leverage against the troublesome jujutsu sorcerer before it, as though it would have made this despicable choice in its desperate circumstances even without your intervention and control.]
[You narrowed your eyes slightly in the shadows on the ceiling, your mind racing.]
[After a moment's thought, rather than stopping it, you went along with its actions and relaxed the absolute restraints on its limbs, granting the cursed spirit a degree of "autonomous movement authority."]
[Of course, to ensure absolute safety, you firmly engraved an inviolable command into the underlying logic of that authority: it was forbidden to actually touch the child's body or cause any real harm.]
[And so, with your tacit approval, the hideous monster, standing over two meters tall, abruptly straightened up. It extended its thick, foul-smelling hands covered in pustules and made a gesture of tightly gripping the little boy's slender neck.]
[In reality, however, restricted by your ironclad rule, its sharp claws could only curl around empty air less than a centimeter from the boy's skin, unable to touch him at all.]
[Yet from where Nobara Kugisaki stood, the boy