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

As soon as Nanika finished speaking, it was as if a forbidden switch had been flipped, and the towering Cursed Queen suddenly rushed out from behind Etoki Yuta.

Her disproportionately pale body was extremely oppressive, and the tentacles swimming behind her head left twisted shadows on the ground. Her skin was completely white, and her long, sharp claws were outstretched. The cursed spirit roared to the sky.

A torrent of cursed power formed a vortex in the sky. The cursed power fluctuations, far exceeding the special grade, resembled viscous black mud and tilted uncontrollably toward Rika's body.

The terrifying pressure was like an earthquake, pushing everything in the room to the ground, and the glass windows and lamps shattered under the fluctuations of the cursed power.

"Li...Lililixiang?"

Upon seeing the full form of the Cursed Queen, Etogu Yuta instinctively cried out in alarm; his voice trembled slightly with shock.

"You're pretty arrogant, kid."

Seeing the changes that had occurred to his newly purchased house, Fuheishen was not angry at all; instead, he squinted and smiled slowly.

"If my house gets destroyed, can you give me some more money? I can help you catch people."

Fuheshchen has not given up on the idea of ​​landing another big deal.

"...Alluka, what was that kid's wish just now?"

How come Rimei remembers that Yi Guyou's wish just now was to make a cursed spirit happy?

Although he didn't know what constituted happiness for a cursed spirit, the fluctuations in cursed power in the air clearly weren't related to happiness at all!

When you make a wish to make Hisahito Itadori happy, isn't it enough to just make that kid laugh for a few minutes?

"Huh? But Rika seems really happy?"

Alluka blinked, her beautiful blue pupils brimming with joy.

Everyone present, except for Egoku Yuta himself, knew that after fulfilling Alluka's requests three times, they could make a wish to Nanika.

However, this wish is generally based on Nanica's ideas.

When Voxel simply wanted money, Nanica readily provided him with a large sum of it.

Yuta's wish is for Rika to be happy and free from stress.

The word "happiness" is easy to explain, but the definition of "stress" is difficult for Nanica to understand.

What is pressure, and who puts pressure on Rika?

After hearing Yuta Otsukoku's account of what happened to Rika before her car accident, Nanika began to improve Rika's strength in her own crude way.

Having ability means you won't feel pressure, and without pressure, you'll be happy.

Once Rika becomes stronger than anyone else of her kind, no one can hurt her, and no one will put pressure on her anymore. This is the pressure condition set by Nanika.

Blood-red clouds darkened the entire sky, and the dense, pitch-black curse power, along with the gale, was visibly injected into the curse queen's body.

Unlike humans who need to rely on their negative emotions to accumulate curse power, Rika, as a special-grade curse, is entirely composed of curse power. The way she infuses curse power is like soaking in a nourishing soup.

The threshold of strength is a cage; to be free from pressure, one must use magical power to break through the cage.

The tainted curse energy caused the air to distort slightly, and the already terrifying pressure of the curse energy emanating from Rika continued to rise, making her figure grow larger and larger, on the verge of breaking through the entire room.

"Yuta!! I love Yuta so much!! Yuta, look at me!!"

Rika happily accepted the cursed power with her slender claws, her body twisting uncontrollably, her morbid love conveyed through brief, overflowing words.

"Urika?"

Yi Guyou gripped the unremarkable silver ring in his hand tightly with nervousness.

That was the wedding ring that Rika stole before she died; it was her mother's wedding ring. The two of them made their vows to get married in the park while looking at this ring.

Hearing Yuta calling her name, Rika Kimoto happily rushed over.

"Yuta!! Yuta!! I love Yuta the most!!"

The little girl's clear, childlike voice was full of joy. The cursed Rika was even more clingy than before and preferred to express her emotions more boldly.

Yuta Otsuko was stunned for a moment, then slowly reached out and touched Rika's pale skin, which glowed with an eerie light.

"Rika, you..."

He had so much to say: Rika, why did you become like this? Rika, are you still happy now? Rika, can you ever go back to how you were before?

He had so many questions he wanted to ask, but before he could ask them all, he was interrupted by an unfamiliar voice.

"What's going on? Is it now fashionable for one person to possess a top-tier cursed spirit?"

A white-haired sorcerer in a black uniform suddenly appeared not far away, hands in his pockets, speaking in a very lazy manner.

"Alluka, Fuhesh, and who are you, kid? Is it only top-tier spirits who keep up with the times? Am I already outdated?"

One second, Yigu Yuta saw the white-haired man standing not far away, and the next second, the huge face was almost touching his own.

He took an uneasy step back, and Rika angrily swung her claws.

"Urika, no!"

Although the man in front of him was somewhat lacking in boundaries, Yuta Otsuko was still a little afraid that Rika might hurt him.

He didn't expect that Rika's claws would only swing halfway before stopping in mid-air as if blocked by something.

"Haha, don't worry! But, can anyone tell me what happened here?"

Gojo Satoru easily blocked Rika's attack from a distance.

Rika angrily extended her giant claws and attacked Gojo Satoru again. This time, her claws were covered with immense curse power. Rika's normal attack had a curse power fluctuation stronger than any special-grade cursed spirit Gojo Satoru had ever seen.

Gojo Satoru dodged Rika's attack by hanging upside down in the air, while Rika fell to the side due to inertia, smashing the last remaining wall of Fushiguro Jinji's house.

The sound of the wall collapsing reached the ears of everyone present, but Gojo Satoru showed no sign of guilt.

His six eyes observed that the gathering of magical power in this place was not normal.

The cursed power emanating from this cursed spirit likely surpassed that of all the top-tier cursed spirits he had ever seen. Gojo appeared calm and composed, but inwardly he knew that this was probably yet another cursed spirit connected to Nanika.

"I'm sorry, it's all because of me."

Yigu Yuta looked at Fukushige's house with great guilt. Only three walls and a pile of ruins remained. It was no longer the same as when he came.

He hadn't expected that just by telling Alluka to put Rika at ease, she would destroy someone else's house. Thinking about his allowance, Yuta Otsuko looked very flustered.

"I...I'll earn money to make it up to you in the future!"

Yi Gu You Tai bowed deeply to Fu Hei Shen Er.

His allowance isn't enough to buy a house. He doesn't have the money now, but he'll definitely pay it back in the future!