[You continued to monitor developments in those transnational human trafficking cases through Mei Mei's vast, secretive intelligence network.]
[After you resorted to forceful measures, slamming conclusive intelligence about curse users' involvement onto the Jujutsu Higher-Ups' desks and forcing Jujutsu Society to intervene officially, the frequency of those sickening disappearances had indeed fallen noticeably.]
[But your machine-like, coolheaded mind knew perfectly well that this problem still could not be eradicated completely.]
[It was a deadlock created by countless intertwined social and supernatural factors.]
[First, the most fatal factor was "sustainability."]
[Japan was, after all, a vast country. Neither the Metropolitan Police Department nor Jujutsu High could continuously deploy personnel throughout the country to conduct blanket preventive patrols without a single blind spot, all for a situation confined to one particular period.]
[After the recent swift, decisive crackdown, no further large-scale disappearances of that kind had occurred in the various jurisdictions for the time being.]
[Under the bureaucratic system's operating logic of pursuing benefits and avoiding harm, the number of patrol personnel deployed would naturally decrease to conserve resources. In some remote areas, patrols had even been canceled entirely.]
[Another, more troublesome aspect lay in the entirely different classifications of the perpetrators.]
[If the criminals were curse users who sold out their compatriots for money, things were actually simple.]
[Under the brutal, direct rules of Jujutsu Society, you could "exorcise" them without mercy.]
[Moreover, jujutsu sorcerers already constituted an extremely small minority of humanity. Those among them willing to degenerate into curse users and dare take on this kind of transnational dirty work were even fewer.]
[After several bloody exorcisms and acts of intimidation by you and Jujutsu High's forces, these people had essentially vanished from the black market.]
[After all, faced with jobs that carried such extreme risks, could easily draw