[That year, as the official start of the "Culling Game," which was destined to uproot all of Japan and even the world, drew ever closer, the indescribable pressure and guilt in your heart grew heavier by the day.]
[To think through and exhaust every possible way of improving the plan's chances before that irreversible catastrophe arrived, you found time to quietly return to Tokyo Jujutsu High, specifically to seek out and instruct one person: Kinji Hakari.]
[You knew full well that once that nationwide Assimilation ritual truly began, it would be like an out-of-control train plunging off a cliff, with no possibility of turning back.]
[The final outcome of this Simulation, along with the lives and deaths of countless innocents, would all be sealed the moment it began.]
[You had turned your attention to Kinji Hakari because an audacious idea had taken shape in your mind.]
[The underlying logic was actually brutally simple: exploit the special effects of his Domain Expansion, "Idle Death Gamble," an outlier even among rule-based abilities.]
[When he hit the jackpot inside his domain and entered that specific period of "immortality," infinite cursed energy would pour endlessly into his body in defiance of all reason, filling it to the brim.]
[Your original plan was this: if you could exploit and guide that perpetual-motion-like trait, using him as an enormous "living battery" to generate an amount of cursed energy no one else could match, would that infinite cursed energy be enough to sustain the entire Tengen Barrier, directly serving as fuel for the Culling Game?]
[If this plan worked, it would spare tens of thousands of ordinary people from needless sacrifice.]
[Yet when you actually returned to Jujutsu High and stood before Kinji Hakari on the training grounds, you discovered, helplessly, that this seemingly perfect theory simply