Jujutsu Kaisen: My spells have no limit

Late at night, at a hospital on the outskirts of the Tokyo metropolitan area.

Lin Yi, with bandages on her body, was browsing through the vending machines in the corridor, preparing to buy some late-night snacks to spend the night simply in the hospital.

Suddenly, his intuition, even in disguise, gave him a warning. Lin Yi instinctively swung his right fist at the air to his side, and his gaze followed his movement.

A faint outline of a fly's head could be seen in the air as the cursed spirit swayed and flew towards the passageway.

Unrated curse spirit, fly head.

Following the direction the fly head flew, Lin Yi also saw Nanami Kento and Ijichi Kiyotaka standing in the passageway.

Ah, the expected visitor.

"Excuse me, Mr. Hayashi Ichiro."

Nanami Kento met Hayashi Ichi's gaze and watched as Ichiji Kiyotaka retracted the cursed spirit fly head he had released and apologized earnestly.

pat!

Chocolate beans and Coca-Cola fell from the vending machine. Lin Yi took them out and gestured towards the hospital entrance.

The three walked side by side, strolling around in the open space outside the hospital.

Kiyotaka Ijichi, who was extremely efficient in assisting with supervision, also read aloud the information he had already found.

"Ichiro Hayashi, born in Tokyo, was three years old when his plane carrying his parents to the United States crashed in Central America. He then joined a guerrilla group in Central America and survived as a child soldier. After the guerrilla group's coup failed, he was deported and worked as a mercenary and bodyguard in the United States. He returned to Japan in January of this year and works as an urban hunter in Shinjuku Ward, running the Ichiro Commercial Detective Agency, whose services include private investigation, bodyguarding, and exorcising evil spirits."

"Mr. Ijichi has done his homework very well."

Lin Yi wasn't surprised that he had been tricked by Ijichi Kiyotaka.

In the world of Jujutsu Kaisen, Japan has more than 10,000 mysterious deaths and disappearances every year. Most of them are caused by cursed spirits. It is not something that the Japanese jujutsu community would do to trace the source of these people. Their job is to send jujutsu masters to cleanse any remnants of cursed power left by cursed spirits.

Lin Yi simply found a decent missing persons file provided by the intermediary, changed his name, attached it to the file, and with the money in place, he had a completely plausible legal identity.

"Please forgive my offense, Mr. Hayashi Ichiro, but you've appeared far too often."

"I can understand. As someone who sees evil spirits from time to time, bad luck is a frequent visitor for me."

"It's not an evil spirit, but a curse, a cursed spirit. Normally, ordinary people can only see cursed spirits when they are on the verge of death or when they are attacked by cursed spirits. Mr. Lin Yilang, your experience has placed you at the intersection of a world of cursed spirits and a world of ordinary people."

"Really? That explains why I sometimes see evil spirits and sometimes I don't. Well then, Mr. Nanami Kento and Mr. Ijichi Kiyotaka, I'll join you."

Lin Yi agreed before Qi Haijianren could even organize his thoughts after hearing Qi Haijianren's correction.

"Because of what happened to you, Mr. Hayashi Ichiro, I'd like to ask... um? Mr. Hayashi Ichiro?"

Before Nanami Kento could finish speaking, he belatedly realized what was happening and looked at Lin Yi with a somewhat strange expression.

"Ah? Isn't this why Mr. Nanami and Mr. Ijichi came to see me? I can see the constitution of cursed spirits from time to time. I must be the kind of talent that you sorcerers like Mr. Nanami and Mr. Ijichi need?"

"No, Mr. Lin Yilang, you are just an unlucky ordinary person with no ability to fight against cursed spirits. Please allow me to refuse your application."

"That's not how it works, Mr. Nanami. I don't think Mr. Ijichi is a sorcerer who can deal with cursed spirits, but he has become your ally."

"Ijichi is only responsible for observing cursed spirits, not for directly exorcising them."

"I think my situation is a bit better than Mr. Ijichi's. As someone who has lived in the jungle battlefield, well, my marksmanship and physical fitness are excellent. Besides, I see there are quite a few cursed spirits in Shinjuku. I live in Shinjuku, so I can keep an eye out for their movements for you."

Qi Haijian stopped and pondered Lin Yi's proposal.

As a first-level sorcerer, he had the authority to appoint Lin Yi as an assistant supervisor, but this also meant bringing Lin Yi, an "ordinary person," into a world where sorcerers and curse masters, and sorcerers and curse spirits cursed each other.

"I will have Ichiro send some of the information about the cursed spirit attacks to Mr. Ichiro via email. I hope that after you read it, you will still stick to this idea."

"Alright, Mr. Ijichi, let's add each other on LINE."

Seeing that Nanami Kento was showing signs of wavering, Lin Yi also took out his phone and added Ijichi Kiyotaka on LINE. LINE is a Japanese social networking app, and its positioning is equivalent to WeChat in China.

Lin Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief after watching Nanami Kento and Ijichi Kiyotaka leave.

"It's finally all sorted out," Lin Yi thought to himself.

When Nanami Kenji and Ijichi Kiyotaka appeared at the hospital looking for him, Lin Yi didn't feel anything was wrong.

As Ijichi Kiyotaka said, as an "ordinary person" living in Shinjuku Ward, he appeared in front of people related to Jujutsu High School far too often.

Once at the law firm, once at the police station, and now this time.

Lin Yi was always there. If it were Nanami Kento or Ichiji Kiyotaka, they would have doubts about themselves.

In addition, he also became sworn brothers with Toudou Aoi this time, and there was also the unlucky girl Takagi Yuko's supplementary explanation. To be honest, it was already lucky that Gojo Satoru didn't come, otherwise he would have to consider how to surrender.

This is just right.

He neither needed to reveal his identity as a sorcerer, nor did he need to act as an assistant supervisor, serving as a laborer for the sorcery academy and the Japanese sorcery world.

In this way, even the ancient demon Lu Suo, who has been around for a thousand years, would have to think twice before trying to harm himself.

After all, targeting a highly skilled sorcery assistant supervisor is different from targeting a lone individual; the former carries the risk of being noticed by Gojo Satoru.

Given Lu Suo's cautious nature, he wouldn't act rashly.

In this way, the dilemma is resolved.

He continued to take on jobs and earn money in Shinjuku Ward as an assistant supervisor at the Jujutsu High School, while also earning some informant fees from the school and working with Natsumi Yuki to earn some money for his family.

Once the time is right, they can run away with the money—a sure-fire way to make money.

"Ah, I'm so clever. But does this mean I've become a spy planted by Xia Youjie's camp in the High School of Spellcasting, and also a spy planted by the High School of Spellcasting in Xia Youjie's camp? If I run into Lu Suo again someday, I might even become Lu Suo's spy. Heh, that's really fun."

Lin Yi couldn't help but hum softly as he thought about his current situation.

He then called an Uber and headed to his residence in Shinjuku.