Chapter 42 Here I Come

For a moment, Kanda Kanon, holding the Amesaki Hoko, felt like she had become a fearless and powerful figure.

Just like the savages in primitive society getting their hands on hot weapons, things like the Amagakiboro that can destroy spells, if you think about it carefully, aren't they super killer weapons!

She was a little excited as it was her first time to experience using super powers.

However, when she saw the horrible cursed spirit roaring at them, she instantly returned to reality.

The fact is that she is a super weakling.

After the subspace that trapped her shattered, the scene before her changed from pitch black to a dim room. This place looks like an activity room in a nursing home. The entire room is very large, but it seems that everything in the room has been looted. All that was left were some odds and ends of broken chairs and bookcases.

The huge vomiting roar made Kanda Kanon's hair stand on end. The cursed spirit that suddenly appeared was not big. The skin on his body was full of wrinkles like an old man, and it looked like it could pinch many mosquitoes to death.

It is shaped like a dry wooden stake, with a cylindrical torso that accounts for 95% of the whole body. Its several deformed arms are thin and short, and their positions are also very strange, growing on the top and bottom of the body.

There were two huge cracks on the torso of this cursed spirit. Kanda Kanon guessed that they should be its eyes, but they were closed.

In addition to this cursed spirit, many other cursed spirits came into the room one after another, but it seemed that none of them was as strong as this wooden stake.

[I should have known not to come out...] Kanda Kanon complained silently.

The proud girl who was full of vigor and vitality just now instantly turned into a timid coward. She shrank behind the huge body of the cursed spirit, trying to make herself invisible to the cursed spirits.

However, as if it knew that she had ruined its good fortune, the wooden stake locked onto her directly.

The closed eyes opened instantly, and with a roar, countless black holes appeared on the ground.

Kento Nanami's eyes were bloodshot, and he jumped to avoid falling, but Yu Haibara on the other side was not so lucky. He failed to dodge and fell directly in.

"Kanda-san! This is a first-level cursed spirit, please get out of its sight as soon as possible!" Nanami Kento cut off the low-level cursed spirit that was rushing towards him with a sword, turned around and shouted loudly.

Kanda Kanon, who was caught by the Cursed Spirit A due to its quick eyes and mouth, also shouted when she heard it: "I want to run away!"

She tightly grasped the hair on Curse Spirit A's neck, fearing that she would be thrown off by a sudden move. Now she had no control over where to go. The only reason she didn't fall into the black hole was thanks to Curse Spirit A's fast legs.

Cursed Spirit A was also helpless, as it couldn't move freely while carrying this human. All exits were surrounded by various low-level cursed spirits. If it attacked them, they would not be able to take care of the humans on them, so it could only rely on speed to avoid the sudden attacks of these cursed spirits.

"A second-level cursed spirit becomes a first-level cursed spirit. Is Tokyo's window any good? It can even make such a low-level mistake." Zenin Naoya casually threw the two unconscious students into the corner and activated a spell to freeze all the cursed spirits nearby.

The moment they touched the cursed spirits, they were all sealed by something thin like glass, as if they had transformed from three-dimensional entities into two-dimensional photos.

Zenin Naoya casually broke a frozen "photo", and the cursed spirit inside it dissipated after it broke into pieces.

Everything happened in the blink of an eye. The fox-eyed boy looked unhappy, and his already fierce face looked even more formidable.

His spell projection technique can divide one second into 24 frames. By dividing his designed movements into 24 frames and imitating them within his field of vision, he can compress these movements into one second and achieve high-speed movement.

However, if the preset action is not completed within these 24 frames, he will be frozen in this 1 frame for one second. Of course, the person or cursed spirit he touches will be frozen for one second if he does not make 24 frames of continuous movements in one second.

However, the spell of this cursed spirit happened to create black holes leading to the subspace within the range of vision, and these black holes appeared randomly in the room. Not only the floors, but the walls and ceilings too.

This made Zenin Naoya a little hesitant. After all, once he started the 24-frame movement, he couldn't change or stop it, otherwise he would be frozen.

When performing an action, it would be terrible if a black hole appeared on the designed route.

"You and I really have a bad relationship!" The technique that Zenin Naoya was proud of was restrained, and he was in a very unhappy mood.

Zenin Naoya, who was able to become a first-class sorcerer, was definitely a leader among his peers. In the Zenin family, he was called a genius since he was a child and grew up in flattery.

Zenin Naoya's brain began to work frantically, using his superior calculation ability to try to find a way to the cursed spirit.

"Are you so powerful?" Kanda Kanon saw a bunch of "photos" out of the corner of her eye and was greatly shocked. "Don't you claim to be a super powerful first-class sorcerer? Hurry up and think of a way to deal with that big guy!"

Zenin Naoya was not happy at all when he was praised. He gritted his teeth and shouted, "What do you know, you stupid woman!"

It was not until then that Kanda Kanon finally remembered this person.

In the chaos, Kanda Kanon, who should have been extremely frightened, was surprisingly clear-headed. In life-threatening situations, humans' desire to survive rises rapidly after excessive fear, often causing adrenaline to surge, while the brain becomes calmer and more focused.

[Zenin Naoya appeared in the future recorded in the book. I remember that I was there together with Yuta Otsutsukotsu who executed the death penalty imposed on Yuji Itadori by the high-level officials. 】

As if sensing Kanda Kanon's thoughts, the book following her suddenly turned the pages by itself, making a rustling sound, and finally stopped at one of the pages and fell on the head of Cursed Spirit A.

[Projection spell.] 】Kanda Kanon read ten lines at a glance and quickly grasped the information.

This page happened to record the paragraphs that Future Zenin Naoya was thinking about in his heart, and these paragraphs recorded information about his technique.

[No wonder he was so hesitant. He was afraid that he would be frozen when he got close to the cursed spirit, right? 】Kanda Kanon’s brain started working rapidly.

[In order to break this situation, the power of Zenin Naoya is necessary. I, Shagou and Nanami Ken are not enough to defeat this cursed spirit. 】

Then there is only one answer!

"Hey, stupid man!" Kanda Kanon turned her head and yelled at Zenin Naoya who was hesitating, "I'll lift the annoying spell of this cursed spirit, and you take this opportunity to get rid of it!"

"Who are you calling...how do you know?" Zenin Naoya was furious when he was called a stupid man, but when he heard her words clearly, he was stunned.

How did this woman know what he was hesitating about? It was as if... she knew the shortcomings of his technique. But he didn't make his technique public. Could it be that she had been following him before? Zenin Naoya thought suspiciously.

But no matter what...

"Hmph, do you think I will believe you? With your mediocre kung fu, you still want to join forces with me? What a joke!" Zenin Naoya sneered and said sarcastically.

Kanda Kanon immediately put on a mocking smile: "Why, are you scared?"

She continued speaking before Zenin Naoya Kouwen.

"Don't you think about who asked you to go out just now? If you are afraid of falling into the black hole, there is no need to be. As long as you have it, you can get out of it no matter how many times!" Kanda Kanon clenched the Amasakaboko and raised it to her chest.

The black-haired girl rode on a tall and mighty curse spirit, which dodged all attacks in the room and protected the girl well.

The wind caused by running blew her hair back, revealing her delicate and beautiful face completely.

Her determined look made her eyes, which were already as dazzling as gems, appear even brighter, and everyone was moved by it.

Zenin Naoya's eyes flickered.

Women are nothing more than vassals of men, and are inferior to men since birth. He regarded a crude, unruly and weak woman like her as trash, no matter how beautiful she was.

However, the magic tool she held was indeed the simplest way to resolve this crisis.

"...Okay." Zenin Naoya put on an arrogant smile, fixed his sight on the first-level cursed spirit, and began to frantically calculate how to reach it. "This time, I will team up with you. Be grateful, stupid woman."

Kanda Kanon ignored his shouting and just thought he was a dog barking. Anyway, it's just a relationship of exploitation and being exploited. As long as the interests are aligned, temporary tolerance is nothing.

"Good dog, rush to the black hole as fast as you can!" Kanda Kanon grabbed the long hair of Curse Spirit A with her left hand, held the Amesaki Hoko with her right hand, clamped her legs together, and leaned her body to the right.

…She called me a good dog, and Curse Spirit A’s body suddenly surged with endless power, and it kicked its four legs and ran towards the nearest black hole.

Her soft body allowed her to stay stable in a very strange posture, while her right hand could hang down, allowing Amasaki Hoko to touch the ground.

Perhaps they sensed their thoughts, but the remaining cursed spirits swarmed in front of her, and the black hole closest to her began to close.

What arrived faster than them was Kento Nanami's blunt knife.

"Please continue, I will take care of them!" Nanami Kento, who can hear people's thoughts, will naturally not let them hinder Kanda Kanon.

Everything happened in just a moment. Kanda Kanon clenched her teeth and tensed her nerves, not daring to relax for a moment.

When Curse Spirit A appeared next to the black hole, the black hole had not yet completely closed. Kanda Kanon was quick-witted and swift-handed. She swung the Tenshoku and hit the black hole. In the blink of an eye, all the black holes in the room disappeared.

“Ah…Ah…Ah…” the cursed spirit roared. The ritual was broken, his open eyes were forced closed, and his deformed arms were waving wildly, expressing his anger.

And of course Zenin Naoya would not let go of this opportunity. The action of dividing one second into 24 frames has no black holes in the way, and the whole action is smooth.

When Kanda Kanon looked at the cursed spirit again, Zenin Naoya had already arrived beside it.

"Go to hell!" Zenin Naoya touched its body, and the cursed spirit, which did not move, was frozen in a frame of a photo, becoming a thin piece.

At the same time, Nanami Kento, who had exorcised the troublesome cursed spirit, also arrived beside them.

The blond boy raised the blunt knife in his hand and said, "The effect of my technique is to divide any part of the target into equal parts by length, and forcibly create a weak point at the 7:3 point..."

Is this... a public disclosure of the technique? Zenin Naoya immediately understood something and threw the frozen cursed spirit in front of him.

"Ten-stroke spell - "Waluo Waluo"" Nanami Kento raised the blunt knife, and ten equally divided red lines appeared on the body of the cursed spirit in his eyes.

Pouring cursed power into the blunt knife, he swung it fiercely at the weak point of the forced creation. Blue cursed power flashed through it, and the body of the cursed spirit shattered from the point he hit, and finally turned into ashes.

"Huh..." Seeing that the cursed spirit was finally exorcised and the room became quiet again, Kanda Kanon finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At some point, the disappeared Huihara Xiong also came back, but he did not look very well. He knelt on the ground, holding his chest and coughing.

"Cough, cough, cough, I almost thought I was going to die." Huihara Yu gasped heavily as if he was suddenly able to breathe after suffocating.

In the subspace of the cursed spirit, oxygen gradually disappears as time goes by, and those trapped in it will die painfully from lack of oxygen.

Perhaps it is due to the resentment of the elderly in nursing homes, who always end up falling ill in bed and having to rely on oxygen to stay alive.

Regardless, the three of them successfully exorcised this troublesome cursed spirit and resolved the crisis.

"In the end, it was still me who solved the problem." Zenin Naoya raised his chin and said sarcastically, "Tokyo sorcerers are no better than this."

"Hehe, it's obviously me that's responsible for it, otherwise you'd still be a target in that corner!" Kanda Kanon turned her head, the expression of a villain returned, and she sneered back unwillingly.

Nanami Kento looked at them speechlessly. These two people just kept quarreling when they got together. They were more childish than elementary school students. He thought they were the same.

Nanami Kento came between the two of them and said helplessly: "Anyway, let's leave this place first..."

The words he spoke became slower and slower, his eyes widened suddenly, and his pupils began to tremble uncontrollably.

The Curse Spirit A whimpered, and its tail, which had been standing high up, dropped down at some point, and an expression of panic appeared on the dog's face.

Everyone present froze in place at the same time, and no one moved for a moment.

"Why..." Kanda Kanon murmured to herself.

Why is it always like this? It’s as if God is against her and she never gets what she wants.

She was given hope, and when she was about to step into the light, she was instantly thrown into hell.

In those gem-clear eyes, a figure in the corner of the room was reflected.

Compared to the cursed spirit that was just exorcised, this figure seemed much smaller. It looked skinny, with a hunched back like an elderly person.

If it weren't for its twisted and deformed limbs, sharp nails and bloody mouth, she would really have thought it was an old man in a nursing home.

The cursed spirit that arrived out of nowhere made everyone shudder. The aura and threat emanating from it were incomparable to any cursed spirit they had encountered before.

The overwhelming murderous and malicious feeling made Kanda Kanon's stomach churn and she began to feel physically uncomfortable.

This was a special-grade cursed spirit, and everyone present knew it instantly.

“… Cough, uh, uh, uh…” The special-grade curse spirit opened its mouth and an unpleasant and harsh sound rang out.

Nanami Kento tried hard to move his body, and his hand holding the blunt knife couldn't stop shaking. But he stood in front of Kanda Kanon and never wavered.

No matter what, he had to let her live. This was a promise he had to keep.

Compared to him, Kanda Kanon's life is more valuable, and she is the one who should live.

"Run!" Nanami Kento growled and raised his blunt knife.

However, it was obvious that the special-grade cursed spirit was faster than him.

Before Kanda Kanon could react, the figure in front of her was knocked away by the cursed spirit. The sound of broken bones reached her ears clearly. When she looked again, Nanami Kento had fallen against the wall with blood all over his body.

The wall, which was already in a dilapidated state, collapsed backwards with a loud bang, and Nanami Kento fell on it, motionless.

Kanda Kanon's body couldn't stop shaking, and the breath of death was overwhelming.

Because the special-grade cursed spirit turned around and looked at her. Its hideous and terrifying face and disgusting smell made Kanda Kanon's brain numb.

Even with a special grade cursed tool like the Amesaki Hoko, she had no idea that she could defeat this cursed spirit.

[Sure enough, I can't escape the fate of death. All my struggles seem so ridiculous...]

At the very end, for some reason, the figure of Gojo Satoru appeared in Kanda Kanon's mind.

She should have listened to him and waited for him to come back at the technical college.

It would be great if he was around. The special-grade cursed spirit is nothing to him. If he were around, they would definitely be able to survive.

Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in the world, and once you make a choice, there is no turning back.

“…Satoru.” Kanda Kanon unconsciously uttered the name that she was thinking of.

Under the frightened gaze of Haibara Yu and Zenin Naoya's panic, the special-grade cursed spirit flashed in front of the black-haired girl.

A huge energy ball composed of cursed power appeared in its hand, and when everyone was in despair, a voice rang out.

"The technique is reversed—"

The special-grade cursed spirit widened its eyes vigilantly and looked out the window.

A blue light bloomed, covering the entire room.

"Cang!!!"

The blue spherical energy that broke through the air quickly approached the special-grade cursed spirit. Cursed spirit A bit Kanda Kanon's clothes and pulled her to the other side.

Kanda Kanon fell to the ground, staring blankly at the other half of the room that was shattered.

Of course, the place where she was standing just now was still intact, and even if there was no curse spirit a, it would not affect her.

However, that special grade cursed spirit had long disappeared without even a trace left.

A corner of the entire building was lifted up, and the sunlight outside finally fell on everyone.

Under the sunlight, a figure slowly landed in front of Kanda Kanon.

The silver-white hair fluttered in the wind, and the sunlight shone on his body, casting a layer of warm halo. His breathing became more rapid, which was unusual for him, and he had never been so embarrassed before.

The deep blue eyes, as blue as the end of the sky, stared intently at the girl in front of him. His thin lips were gently pursed, but the coldness on his handsome face had not yet faded.

This person is... Gojo Satoru? ! Zenin Naoya widened his eyes in disbelief.

As a member of the same Three Great Families, he had seen Gojo Satoru countless times. His white hair and eyes, as well as the technique and strength that had just killed the special-grade cursed spirit in an instant.

This person is undoubtedly Gojo Satoru!

But why is he here? Zenin Naoya's shocked eyes fell on the girl next to him.

...No way, Zenin Naoya couldn't believe his eyes.

"...Go-kun." As if she wanted to vent all her grievances and fears, Kanda Kanon choked up and tears flowed down her face.

"Sorry." Gojo Satoru half-knelt down and held her in his arms, stroking her back as if it were something fragile.

"I'm here, Kanon."

The familiar voice, the familiar smell, Kanda Kanon actually felt at ease.