[In that brief, deathly silence, your brain had already raced through countless possible responses.]
[Of course, you had seriously considered the extreme possibility of "direct armed intervention."]
[With the trump cards you had accumulated, you were fully capable of crossing the ocean overnight and descending alone upon that foreign battlefield of swirling yellow sand, using absolute violence to crush the warlords, white doctors, and underground laboratories involved in the "Steel Brain" project into pulp.]
[But reason held your murderous intent firmly back as it threatened to run wild.]
[Because you knew perfectly well that land lay outside Japan's borders.]
[The people behind the atrocities were politicians, warlords, and profit-driven mad scientists-the one thing they could not be classified as was "Curse Users" as defined by Jujutsu Society.]
[Thus, the rules and logic Jujutsu Sorcerers used to police their own were nothing but worthless scraps of paper before international law and national sovereignty.]
[If you really did that and slaughtered them all, then in the eyes of outsiders and the international community, what substantive difference would there be between a "superhuman" like you, who massacred people across national borders without restraint, and a terrorist?]
[You would inspire even greater despair than a terrorist.]
[Moreover, because it involved extremely sensitive questions of nationality and diplomacy, such direct armed retaliation would not solve the problem at its source; instead, it would push matters into an international dispute even harder to contain.]
[More fatally, if you demonstrated absolute power capable of easily overturning a localized war, it would ultimately lead to only one outcome: every superpower in the world would frantically pour more attention and resources-perhaps hundreds or thousands of times more-into researching "cursed energy."]
[Because your unilateral slaughter would prove only one thing to them: the power of "jujutsu," which they dreaded, feared,