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

"Itari! We're planning a test of courage at the nearby abandoned factory tonight, why don't you come along!"

Senior student Sasaki is a young girl with short black hair and glasses. She leans forward and looks at this extremely reliable junior with hopeful eyes.

"Huh?"

Yuji Itadori never expected that his seniors would start causing trouble again after he had only missed one day of club activities.

"Yes! I heard something strange happened at that factory yesterday, let's go explore it! I'm so excited!"

Sasaki's eyes turned into starry eyes.

She and Iguchi are both naive and playful, and they like scary things, but they only dare to go on adventures when accompanied by Hisahito Itadori.

However, although there are many curses in this world, the haunted locations that Sasaki chose were all very ordinary places. The so-called haunted locations were just places that had been exaggerated due to various misunderstandings, and after a few times, Itadori Yuuji didn't take them seriously.

"This time it's definitely a real paranormal event! Itadori, please!"

Sasaki clasped his hands together in a gesture of begging to Yuujin. Yuujin picked at his ear, thought about it, and since his younger brother and the others were at the hospital and there was nothing else to do, he agreed.

"Itari, is your younger brother coming along?"

While excited, senior student Iguchi didn't forget Alluka, who was with Itadori.

Unlike his older brother, Hisahito Itadori, who is extremely strong and can run 50m in 3 seconds, his younger brother is extremely sickly and often takes sick leave. He seems to have disappeared from school, and even his classmates rarely see him.

Iguchi and Sasaki knew about Alluka because they always did club activities with Itadori Yuujin. This brother-complex guy would always mention his younger brother no matter what he was doing, which is why they knew so much about him.

"Ah, Alluka went to the hospital, so he won't be going anymore."

Hisahito Itadori scratched his head, a bright smile spreading across his face.

"Kudoshin, you've really worked hard!"

"Yes, Itari, it must have been really tough taking care of your younger brother."

The senior students imagined Alluka being sick and hospitalized again, and patted Itsuji on the back to comfort him.

"what?"

Yuji Itadori was a little confused, wondering what the two of them were thinking.

He had just spoken to his younger brother on the phone. Alluka said that Aunt Mei and the others were planning to take Grandpa home today because the old man was throwing a tantrum at the hospital and refused to go back. Yes, his brother was indeed having a tough time.

After school, Yuujin Itadori told Alluka that he had a club activity and would be home late, so he quickly packed up and followed Sasaki and the others to the so-called haunted spot.

Yuji Itadori took a pair of black-rimmed glasses out of his pocket and put them on his nose.

He had used these cursed glasses for many years. When he was a child, he was once so frightened by Fukuro's mother that he dared not look directly at the cursed spirits.

However, as he grew older, the boy's curiosity overcame his childhood fears. Yuujin Itadori once defeated a level 4 cursed spirit with a cursed tool made from a baseball bat, accompanied by his friend. After that, he felt that cursed spirits were not such a big deal after all.

After all, not every cursed spirit has the strength of Rika and Fushiguro's mother.

Under the influence of the cursed artifact, he could see that the abandoned factory was indeed haunted by a cursed spirit, and the entire building exuded an ominous aura.

Within his field of vision were only tiny, level-four cursed spirits, the kind of spirits that were so numerous at school that they were impossible to defeat. Itadori Yuujin didn't take them seriously.

"What a creepy atmosphere! This shadow is amazing! Itachi, let's go inside!"

While senior Sasaki was very excited, her fingers unconsciously tightened around Yujin's clothes, and she and Iguchi shrank behind junior Yujin Itadori.

"Wow, you two, seniors!"

Yuujin twitched his lips, feeling somewhat helpless towards these two cowards.

He took the lead and went in.

This factory has been abandoned for who knows how long; even the factory's signboard is corroded and pitted.

The interior of the building was empty and simple, with weeds and moss occupying the corners. Some steel bars and cement were piled up in the open space, and there was a thick layer of dust on the ground. Only two footprints proved that someone had been here recently.

The factory has three floors. The first floor is mostly empty except for some waste. The two footprints went up the stairs.

"It doesn't look like anything special!"

Although the lack of lights made the building look rather eerie and terrifying, the empty environment made Sasaki relax.

"Shall we go up and take a look?"

Yuji Itadori was also curious about what those two people were doing upstairs.

The second floor was no different from the first floor. But when they arrived at the third floor stairwell, Yuujin Itadori clearly noticed that the atmosphere here was a bit abnormal.

He sensed an unusual dark aura here, hesitated for a moment, and then dialed Zhang Xiang's number.

"Hiruhito, what's wrong?"

Zhang Xiang never misses a call from his younger brother.

"It's nothing, it's just that there seems to be a cursed spirit here."

Yuujin Itadori is not a sorcerer, and even with his glasses, he couldn't determine the level of the other party's cursed spirit.

"What! Yuujin! Do you need your older brother?! I'm! Coming! Right! Now! Where's the address?"

Upon receiving Yujin's distress call, he immediately jumped out of bed as if he had been injected with adrenaline.

He slammed his fist on the wall, shocking the people around him.

"Well... it's nothing, senior!"

Sasaki and Iguchi seemed to have confirmed that there was no danger here, so they stopped hiding behind Yuujin and went straight to the third floor.

Yuji Itadori only had time to call out to them from behind before he hurriedly told the Prime Minister the location of the factory and then followed them upstairs.

Sasaki didn't notice anything unusual about the place, but the eerie atmosphere was fantastic. She took out a white candle and an exquisite wooden box from her bag.

The box contained something unknown, and it was wrapped in layers of something that looked like a seal.

"What is this?" Senior Iguchi curiously peeked over and took a look.

"I don't know either. A classmate found it and gave it to me today."

Sasaki is a well-known paranormal enthusiast at school, so it's not unusual for her classmates to give her strange things they find.

"What would happen if we peeled this off?"

The two looked at the props in their hands with great anticipation.

The two ordinary people were focused on the sealed cursed object in their hands, but Yuujin Itadori saw through his glasses that a dense mass of hair was sticking out from what should have been the factory office, and that the hair was extending towards his senior.

"This is really bad."

Yuji Itadori muttered something under his breath and took out the magical artifact that Zhang Xiang had given him from his bag.