[Time's cold and utterly impartial gears silently ground forward another year amid these suffocating undercurrents.]
[At an entirely unexpected moment, that seemingly emotionless system notification rang crisply in the depths of your mind, right on schedule, mercilessly reminding you that the end that would drag the entire world into the abyss had drawn another step closer.]
[Then, accompanied by a faint shimmer of flowing data, the results of this year's card draw slowly appeared on your retinas.]
["Blood-and-Sweat Grease / Weapon Slip" [R]]
[Effect: deliberately wipe your hand hard across your own bleeding wound or your forehead covered in greasy sweat.]
[Tactical value: while grappling at close quarters for a weapon, smear the blood and sweat covering your hand hard onto the enemy's sword hilt or firearm grip. The enemy's weapon instantly becomes as slippery as if it had been coated in soap, and the next second, when he puts force into a slash, the weapon will fly uncontrollably out of his own hand.]
[You merely swept a cold, indifferent gaze over the card's name and description.]
[Although this was a second-tier card rated [R], frankly, in the battles to come, where domains would frequently collide and Special Grades would fight to the death, a "little trick" confined to physical, close-quarters combat was no longer particularly useful.]
[In your memories and calculations, the Jujutsu Sorcerers in Jujutsu Society who truly excelled purely at using cursed tools could be counted on one hand.]
[You knew perfectly well that few cursed tools were powerful enough for a sorcerer to build their entire core combat system around one.]
[At least for now, among your countless simulation memories spanning a hundred years, you had never seen a cursed tool with effects superior to the Soul Liberation Blade and the Inverted Spear of Heaven, capable