Chapter 94: First Confrontation with a Curse!

“Spirit Summoning: Azure Dragon — Weihuo Tiger!”

Shengzai, who had slid sideways and overturned numerous desks and chairs, now held one arm around Sasaki, clearly still in shock.

With his other hand, he swiftly waved through the air, and moments later, a massive ritual array materialized on the ground—a fierce tiger with a tail wreathed in flame burst forth from the fire!

Just as the tentacles had already wrapped around Jingkou’s body and opened its maw to swallow him whole, a far larger bloodied maw suddenly engulfed the fleshy curse.

The next second, Jingkou, who had just believed himself doomed, saw the fleshy monster before him suddenly bitten in half, as if it were a dumpling, by the tiger that had just arrived.

“Boom—boom—boom—boom!”

As the Weihuo Tiger devoured the fleshy curse, the pale arm that had previously reached uselessly toward the ceiling, having crushed the chair Sasaki had just sat in, now spread its palm to reveal a colossal, glossy black eye.

After locking onto Shengzai and Sasaki as its targets, it stretched its body once more and slammed down toward their location.

The enemy kept smashing, while Shengzai kept dodging with Sasaki in his arms; soon, the entire classroom floor was riddled with massive craters, and all the original chairs lay in shards.

Shengzai leaped several times, landing beside Jingkou, then placed the still-shaken Sasaki beside him and said: “Sasaki, it seems they were drawn here by that finger in your hand. Can you give it to me?”

Still rattled from the shock, Sasaki nonetheless, trusting Shengzai instinctively, handed him the finger she had been clutching.

After obtaining the two-faced Sōna’s finger, Shengzai turned to the Weihuo Tiger and said: “Stay here and protect them both. If you encounter a foe you cannot handle, roar to alert me.”

Upon hearing Shengzai’s command, the Weihuo Tiger nodded with clear intelligence.

Shengzai then looked at Sasaki and Jingkou, still visibly uneasy, and said: “Sasaki, Jingkou—this tiger is a spirit I summoned. It will protect you both.”

As for me, I’m going to deal with the curses drawn here.”

Since the curses’ targets were mostly the two-faced Sōna’s finger, the moment it came into Shengzai’s possession, the curses immediately shifted their focus.

Watching the pale arm descend once more from the ceiling, Shengzai no longer dodged—he punched straight up!

He had avoided combat earlier only because carrying Sasaki made movement difficult; now that he had no such burden, he had no reason to spare this level of curse.

Though the arm curse’s form was merely a single limb, its length stretched two meters, and its thickness rivaled that of an adult’s waist.

Yet when its fist clashed with Shengzai’s, the massive fist—nearly as large as Shengzai’s own body—was shattered instantly by Shengzai’s fist, coated in cursed energy.

After destroying the arm curse, Shengzai noticed curses flooding in from the windows and corridors.

Glancing at Sasaki and Jingkou, still under the Weihuo Tiger’s protection, Shengzai realized that staying with them would only put them in greater danger.

So after leaving the Weihuo Tiger to guard them, he kicked through the ceiling and leapt upward, racing straight for the rooftop.

Meanwhile, due to his grandfather’s death, Tachibana had been at the hospital handling his grandfather’s funeral arrangements when a black-haired hedgehog-headed boy named Fukuroi Megumi suddenly arrived and informed him of the Special-Rank cursed object and curses.

Curses are entities born from human negative emotions—pain, regret, shame, and the like.

“Curses” refer to cursed energy, cursed spirits, cursed objects, cursed tools, and cursed techniques.

The cursed object Tachibana picked up was the finger of the two-faced Sōna, a Special-Rank cursed object.

Cursed objects and cursed tools themselves possess no consciousness; the former are remnants or items infused with cursed energy, the latter are weapons imbued with curses.

But because they carry cursed energy, cursed objects and tools attract nearby cursed spirits, as the spirits grow stronger by consuming them—a primal feeding instinct.

The two-faced Sōna’s finger, as a Special-Rank cursed object, naturally held immense allure for cursed spirits.

When Fukuroi learned that the Special-Rank cursed object—the two-faced Sōna’s finger—had been given to a club senior and junior, and that they planned to remove the sealing talisman tonight, he froze in disbelief.

He’d seen reckless people before, but never anyone this reckless.

After being taken into the Cursed Technique Academy, Special-Rank cursed objects are always sealed with talismans; sealed objects repel and suppress low-rank cursed spirits.

That’s why the two-faced Sōna’s finger was stored at Sugi High.

But once those talismans are removed, the object’s repelling and suppressing effect turns into an attraction.

The cursed spirits, sensing the cursed energy radiating from the object, will swarm toward it like sharks drawn to blood!

“Did your club senior and junior say exactly when they’d remove the talisman?”

As Fukuroi asked, he was already sprinting out the door; realizing he might have endangered his senior and junior, Tachibana rushed after him, face pale with panic.

Running beside Fukuroi at nearly the same speed, he shouted: “They said they’d wait until ten, but it’s already nearly eleven—they’ve probably already removed the talisman you mentioned.”

But Shengzai was with them—he’s incredibly strong. He’s never lost a fight since he was a kid, so he probably…”

“Idiot! What do you think cursed spirits are?! Even if your body is tough, what good is it?!”

Without a cursed tool, do you really think flesh and bone can destroy a cursed spirit?… Forget it, you wouldn’t understand. We must return to school immediately.”

Tachibana’s words were cut off by Fukuroi, who sneered at his “strong fighter” friend.

In the world of curses, being strong means nothing—without cursed energy or a cursed tool, ordinary humans cannot destroy curses.

Only curses can fight curses. But if Tachibana’s friend has exceptional physical strength, he might still be alive—and possibly salvageable.

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