[Another year passed peacefully in this world filled with curses.]
[The new year's "draw" arrived on schedule, accompanied by the system's cold, familiar notification sounding in your mind.]
[Draw complete.] [Talent Card acquired: Paperwork Maniac [N]] [Effect description: Greatly increases your writing speed when processing official documents, drafting mission reports, and applying for budgets. Thanks to its innate passive attribute of "extremely rigorous and extremely long-winded logic," the reports you submit can leave reviewers suffering severe mental fatigue and entering a state of "giving up on thinking" after reading three pages, thereby greatly increasing approval rates for all manner of outrageous reimbursements and special requests.]
[Looking at this N-Rank Card steeped in the deconstruction of bureaucracy, you rubbed your brow somewhat helplessly.]
[One evening after you officially joined Jujutsu High, a somewhat unkempt man came to see you. He was the Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer Atsuya Kusakabe.]
[Although he was also Grade 1, Kusakabe was notorious in Jujutsu Society for being "afraid of dying" and "fond of slacking off," a textbook pragmatist.]
[But the Kusakabe standing before you now showed none of his usual lackadaisical laziness. His sunken eyes were bloodshot, and his expression was agitated, even carrying a trace of barely concealed pleading.]
[After making sure no uninvolved people were nearby, he asked you with extreme urgency whether you were the one in the rumor about "the father who created Panda, a cursed corpse with a soul who could act independently."]
[You answered him in the affirmative, but said nothing more. After all, the truth behind this matter involved your promise to protect Masamichi Yaga.]
[Hearing your confirmation, Kusakabe seemed to clutch at his last lifeline, his breathing growing rapid.]
[In a voice that nearly broke with sobs, he told you that his sister had suffered a