Curse Returns: What did the human-shaped wishing machine do wrong this time?

"Crimson Blood Manipulation Technique, the stolen Nine Phases of the Cursed Embryo Diagram?"

The moment Xia Youjie saw the swollen face, he instantly guessed his identity.

The evil aura of the cursed object, along with the technique of using blood as a means of attack, could only be from the Nine Phases of the Cursed Embryo that was stolen from the Kamo family a few days ago at the vocational high school.

However, the fact that the cursed object has been physically harmed means that another person's life has been erased, and it is unknown what the identity of the person whose life has been erased is.

Xia Youjie stopped and, from a distance of several people, frowned and carefully examined the angry-looking man's bloated face.

Zhang Xiang did not want to answer his question. The crimson blood arrow between his palms turned into a blur and shot towards Xia Youjie almost instantly.

Gojo Satoru never expected to see a cursed creature with the Crimson Blood Manipulation Technique. He glanced expressionlessly at Fukuro Shinobu in front of him, then suddenly took a step back, forming a hand seal, and his cursed power surged.

The azure, alluring spell shone brightly from his fingertips.

The beam of light bombarded Fuhesh.

The battle unfolded extremely quickly; in the blink of an eye, both sides had guessed each other's next move.

Fushiguro Jinji, holding the Tengaihoko, can interrupt Gojo Satoru's limitless technique, but because of the curse power on the Tengaihoko, Gojo Satoru's six eyes can observe Fushiguro Jinji's positional changes.

Knowing he couldn't hit Gojo Satoru this way, Fushiguro Jinji turned his attention to the surrounding buildings. Relying on the speed that transcended the five senses through the power of Heaven and Curse, he took a step back, broke through the smoke amidst the collapsing buildings, and appeared in front of Gojo Satoru in the blink of an eye.

The collapse of the house did not block Six Eyes' vision. Fukuro Jinji did not expect to be able to face Gojo Satoru today. There was no time to collect something to distract Six Eyes. He glanced at his wife and swung the Tennis Hoko without hesitation.

Gojo Satoru bent down to dodge the attack, then quickly changed direction in mid-air.

Surprisingly, a pale white hand was already waiting in the spot where he had taken cover.

Gojo Satoru saw the excessively bright face of the super-grade cursed spirit that suddenly came close, as well as those inorganic, inhuman, pitch-black eyes.

Strands of hair, fluttering like spider silk, brushed against his face. A sharp, piercing sound filled his ears. Before he could react, Gojo Satoru realized that the spell-breaking tool, capable of stopping a spell, had somehow slipped into his neck from behind.

Blood spurted out instantly, leaving a long trail in the air.

The sharp blade was pulled out, but then, under Fuhesh's power, it plunged in again, creating another wound.

Beneath his flowing black hair, the young man's eerie green eyes gleamed with a dark, divine light.

The fall of the ancestral techniques of the three great families, who belonged to the pinnacle of the sorcery world, excited Fukuro Shinobu, who had always been invisible. He carried Tennisho on his shoulder, wanting to find his wife to cuddle with, but was thrown to the ground by a tremendous force.

Fuheishen wiped the blood seeping from his forehead and approached again as if nothing had happened.

Meanwhile, while Gojo Satoru was fighting Fushiguro Jinji, Zhang Xiang and Xia Youjie had already exchanged several blows in just a few breaths.

Zhang Xiang's Crimson Blood Manipulation Technique is suitable for mid-range combat. He tried several times to increase the distance between himself and Xia Youjie, but Xia Youjie, a summoner, preferred close combat.

Xia Youjie wielded the mountain-like cursed spirits with unparalleled skill. While the cursed spirits did not cause any harm to Zhang Xiang, their occasional harassment greatly troubled him.

After the blood arrow tore another cursed spirit's body apart from the center, Xia Youjie, who was close by, reached out and attacked Zhang Xiang's back.

The high-speed battle turned the two into two afterimages, one red and one black, in the air. Debris flew everywhere, and blood-red cursed power and strange cursed spirits flew out from time to time, causing the surrounding buildings to collapse like dominoes.

Two figures were still fighting amidst the smoke and dust, but the red figure was being surrounded and its speed gradually slowed down.

Yuujin Itadori couldn't see the cursed spirits and didn't know what was happening around him; all he could see were buildings collapsing in patches from time to time.

Megumi Fushiguro and Alluka could clearly see Natsume's ever-changing cursed spirit.

It was at this moment that Fushiguro Megumi gained a clear understanding of the Cursed Spirits, beings he had previously thought only he could see.

Just as Alluka was intently watching the battlefield, a pair of hands quietly landed on his shoulders.

When he turned around, he saw Rimei's curved eyebrows and eyes.

"Xiaomei, are you done with your work?"

Alluka's voice rose slightly at the end, and her bright blue eyes sparkled with genuine joy, showing no concern for the two sides about to determine the victor on the battlefield ahead.

Xiaomei seems to be very busy these days, and I rarely see him. Alluka misses him very much.

"Yes, I'm done."

Rime gently patted Alluka on the shoulder.

He didn't show up simply because he wanted to see how the cursed creature would react when there were enemies. He didn't expect that this cursed creature was not very strong, but it was quite trustworthy.

"What are you going to do to Alluka?"

"He's just a child, why arrest him?"

"What are you people doing?!"

During the fight, he noticed that Xia Youjie could always dodge the blood arrows he fired and that he could never create distance between them.

His face was flushed with anger, and he shouted angrily.

"Why are you making it seem like I and Wu are the bad guys?"

Xia Youjie was somewhat puzzled, but did not intend to answer the question posed by this top-grade cursed object.

Before Zhang Xiang could utter his next question, Xia Youjie suddenly appeared in front of him and grabbed Zhang Xiang's throat with his hand.

Although it is a cursed object that has taken on flesh, the container and the human body should not be too different, and it is not as resistant as a cursed spirit.

Xia Youjie was incredibly fast; his figure was almost a blur, and in the blink of an eye, he had seized control of the expansion's weakness.

"As for cursed objects, they should be returned to where they came from..."

Xia Youjie wanted to return the swollen face, a form of flesh that shouldn't exist in this world, to where it belonged.

However, contrary to his expectations, Zhang Xiang just had a gloomy face, as if he had anticipated his actions, and his pale lips twitched slightly.

"Supernova."

The blood, compressed intensely, shot out at supersonic speeds, like a shotgun blast.

At such close range, Xia Youjie hastily summoned several cursed spirits to shield himself from a massive amount of blood loss, but some blood still managed to slip through the gaps, leaving tiny holes in his body.

Xia Youjie wiped away some of the bloodstains and spoke coldly:

"Alluka is clearly best off at the High School. We can guarantee he won't be harmed there. Do you know how much chaos it will cause if we let him out there? Or do you curse masters have some other plan?"

Xia Youjie didn't know what the relationship was between Rime and Alluka, but at only three years old, he caused two huge disturbances in Sendai and the General Headquarters.

After understanding the nature of the child's ability, Xia Youjie knew that this power had to be kept under control.

He and Wu were not at ease leaving this child, who was like a weapon, in the hands of the curse master. If the people around Alluka were dissatisfied with the status quo and made some great wish, then in a few years, the cost-paying system, which spread like a virus, would be able to wash the entire city in blood.

"Forget it, you wouldn't understand even if I told you."

Zhang Xiang didn't know what Xia Youjie meant, and his mission wasn't to investigate Alluka's abilities.

Seeing that the other party's expression hadn't changed at all, and considering that the swollen figure was the half-human, half-cursed spirit created by Kamo Kenrin's experiments, Xia Youjie felt that his words were somewhat superfluous.

With a flick of his hands, a humanoid female cursed spirit with long, jet-black hair and an ugly face appeared. It was the Slit-Mouthed Woman, one of the 16 registered top-tier cursed spirits, which he had prepared as his trump card.

The swelling was instantly dragged into the simplified domain of the cursed spirit.

It was at this moment that Xia Youjie noticed that something seemed amiss with Gojo Satoru's side.

"Enlightenment!"

He watched helplessly as a dark, bloody hole was pierced through Gojo Satoru's neck.

The splattered blood seemed to slowly disperse in the air, then dry and solidify, forming a clematis that looked like a blooming flower from the abyss.

Xia Youjie rushed over to check on Gojo Satoru's physical condition without thinking, but Fukuro Jinji had no intention of letting him go.

After all, that cursed spirit manipulation technique was intended to be used against his own wife.

Before the two even exchanged blows, Xia Youjie felt his breathing becoming difficult and his heart beating erratically, as if it were about to stop at any moment.

His face turned pale, and his features contorted slightly.

He suddenly felt a sharp pain, as if his internal organs had shifted.

Sweat rolled down his hair to the tip of his nose and dripped onto the ground.

"This is...poison? When?"

His pale lips twitched slightly as he suddenly thought of the cause of Riko's death.

When was he poisoned...?

"It should be blood from a bloated state."

A soft laugh came from above Xia Youjie's head. He looked up in a daze and saw Rimei leading Alluka slowly towards him.

"You should have expected this outcome when you decided to attack Alluka."

In the stillness, Rimei's voice was exceptionally pleasant.

He hadn't expected that the swollen blood, which was still struggling with the cursed spirit, would have such a surprising effect, seemingly eliminating the need for him to intervene.

"What exactly do you want to do with this child? Kill all the high-ranking officials and then overthrow the entire sorcery world?"

Engulfed in anger, Xia Youjie met Alluka's somewhat bewildered eyes and found himself unable to say anything.

Having just figured out the principles of the Alluka Technique, Xia Youjie naturally didn't want it to fall into the hands of an evil curse master.

In the Directorate, this child will be used as a tool for making wishes, with Rotten Orange sacrificing ordinary people to bring about a brief period of peace in the world of sorcery.

In the hands of the curse master, how much better could this child's situation be? They are a bunch of lunatics with low mental defenses and poor mental health. He couldn't even imagine how crazy the whole country would become if this ability were left uncontrolled.

Rimei's trash talk was choked back by Xia Youjie.

"It's you who wants to do this! We were doing just fine; if it weren't for you, none of this would have happened!"

The "you" that Rime mentioned didn't just refer to Gojo Satoru and Natsuyuki, but also to Fushiguro Jinji, who was just watching the show.

Ryosaku said that these two people and the Directorate General's position were not aligned, but to imprison Alluka in that high school and entrust her safety to others? Absolutely not!

Whether it was Fushiguro Jinji, or Gojo Satoru and Natsume, they all suddenly barged into their peaceful lives, and even argued that he was taking advantage of Alluka. What were those people thinking?

While Li Mei was speaking, he didn't notice what was behind him, but Xia Youjie, who was facing away from him and had been using his magic to try to detoxify, saw it.

The white-haired boy lying there twitched his fingers.

At first, his movements were slow, and he staggered as he stood up from the ruins, his wounds healing rapidly along the way.

That is the power of the Reversal Technique.

When he stood still, all the wounds on his body caused by the cursed tools had healed completely, and he raised his chin as if he were at the end of the world.

Those eyes, as clear as a lake atop a snow-capped mountain, stared at him with a look of madness.

"Spells are negative energy; they can strengthen the body but cannot regenerate. The idea of ​​combining negative energy with positive energy sounds simple, but I've never succeeded..."

Everyone looked as if they had seen a ghost, watching Gojo Satoru ramble on about his mental journey during his near-death experience.

"That guy next to me who can reverse spells always says things that are completely inexplicable. These past few days I've been wondering what the difference is between reversing spells and that cursed spirit's healing power... On the verge of death, I grasped the core of curse magic!"

Seeing that Gojo Satoru, who was having an incredibly high, suddenly came back to life, Rime's expression changed. She exchanged a glance with Fushiguro Jinji and rushed towards him together.

Xia Youjie clutched his chest, his whole body aching terribly. His vision blurred, and he struggled to cut his arm to expel the poisonous blood.

But he found that the shadow in front of him had not disappeared.

Alluka rested her chin on her hand and looked at him with great curiosity.

"Brother Xiayou, what's making you unhappy?"

He was somewhat confused, and simply stared at Xia Youjie, his thick eyelashes gently brushing against his eyelids like small fans.

From the moment they first met Xia Youjie, Alluka and Nanika noticed something had changed about him.

That faint, murky, and sticky, almost nonexistent malice arose and, like karmic fire, could no longer be extinguished.

When they last met, Xia Youjie didn't have any of these things on him.

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I'm not good at writing action scenes, so please bear with this. This wasn't what I wanted to write about yesterday, but I slept it off and forgot everything; my mind is completely blank…

I remember it was the main character's storyline, but I've completely forgotten... I can't remember a single thing... How embarrassing...