2 Curse

Chapter-2

This really is my new life huh?

Who'd have expected that I will be reincarnated after death? If I had known this a lot sooner, I'd have died much sooner. My current life and world is a lot interesting.

I'm not even a human in this life it seems. 

I should have guessed it a lot sooner because one, I could literally understand what others were saying during my birth even when I found their words confusing. I was sure that I could even talk at that time, but I didn't, I didn't want to scare my new mother or others.

My mom is really a beautiful woman too. She has bright white hair and an angelic face, her voice is divine too. About my father though, from what the others in the family say sometimes, I think my parents aren't in the best of relationship. I'm sure that my father's at fault though, even if he's not, I will pick my mom's side any day everyday. But I'm still unaware of what my mom thinks. 

If by any chance my mom really loves my dad and is forced by this family to not be together…. It's gonna be a parade in this family.

"Hey gramps, where are you taking me now?" I asked my grandpa, his name is Hatori. 

He's a stern man with the same white hair as me and my mom, his face is slightly wrinkly though but it just adds on to his badass charm. Unlike my face which looks like a korean model, a fucking weakling.

"Get down here first!" He shouted at me. He never liked me showing off my wings or flying with them due to his anger at my father. Though he may act all this stern, I know he really cares for me. If anything, he reminds me of my past dad. He was also strict like gramps, not knowing how to express their feelings like a normal human… I'm also not a normal human.

Oh, I never mentioned it right? I'm a fallen angel. Yeah that fallen angel from the christianity. Most of the fantasy stuff is real here, especially the mythological stuff. From gods and devils to elves and dwarfs all exist in this world, from what I understand the origin of everything is really complicated.

I folded in my wings back inside my back. Since I'm not wearing any shirt I don't need to worry about damaging my shirt. Not that I need to normally either, I can use magic to repair the shirt anyway.

"Now say, where are you bringing me to?" I asked him while continuing walking besides him.

"Hufff.. You're gonna have your first fight today brat. Real fight, not spar" He said as we stopped in-front of a large empty ground.

In hindsight I should have expected this, afterall the six years of my training arc ends today. Since I'm so… magnificent, Gramps had to put me on a training arc as there's a high chance that I'd get an assassination attempt every Thursday outside this family compound.

"Is this the last test you spoke of?" I asked him as he started walking further away from me. While removing the top garment of his Yukata. Revealing his shredded body with many scars.

"I am kinda jealous gramps." I said. I'm pretty sure he's gonna fight me.

He stretched his hand and neck and I could hear those joints crack even from 40m afar. He took his long ass katana off its sheath, this is the first time I've seen it and I'm really impressed. With my eyes I can even see the molecular structure If I wanted to and I've never seen a sword as… perfect as that. It had no chips or cracks. It had a mirror-like gleam and a cold vibe. But to my surprise it wasn't a cursed tool, I always thought it was a cursed tool.

"Done staring at my katata brat?"

"That's a nice sword gramps… but why aren't you using a cursed technique? We have plenty right?" I asked him. I've seen our family's storage, we have many cursed tools and many of them are katanas too.

"You know, many asked me this question and my answer is always simple…" A level of cursed energy far greater than mine erupted from him. I felt an insane amount of heat engulf me and the grass under gramps started to burn.

"Your cursed energy has a property!?" I was surprised. I know a few people's cursed energy has a property, but I would have never expected my gramps to have this… on the hindsight I'm unaware of his cursed technique too.

"Are you giving up brat?" I saw him smirk, "Don't worry, I won't be going all out."

Hoh… getting cocky are we?

"Are you giving me a handicap?" I asked slightly annoyed. I would rather lose to him going all out.

"Don't overestimate yourself brat" He swirled his katana and immediately, they caught up in flames. How can his normal katana withstand his cursed energy without breaking?

"Ennetsu Jigoku" He said and impaled his Katana on the ground. Immediately flames branched from his katana and encircled around me. I didn't move and just observed. The moment both of them joined together, I was engulfed in a large pillar of flame which lasted nearly for 12 seconds.

"Don't try hard old man… no matter what you do, I'm literally untouchable." I walked out of the scorching ground without any damage.

My cursed technique 'limitless' allows me to bring the concept of 'infinity' to reality and manipulate and distort space at will. It would have been harder for me to use the technique to the fullest without six eyes. But with six eyes, my efficiency in manipulating my cursed energy and using my technique is probably the best. So I can envelop an 'infinity' around me. When something attempts to hit me, the person or object in question instead hits the infinite between me and them and my six eyes automatically determines which target to affect and which to not affect by my subconscious instructions. Honestly it's a lot of work to my brain and I can't keep it activated for more than 8 hours continuously. If I was a normal human it'd be even harder.

So in summary, Gramps has nothing that can hit me.

I spread my wings wide open and flapped them hard to clear out all the smoke and to my surprise Gramps wasn't there. Where is he? I can't sense or see his cursed energy.

"Where are you gramps? Isn't it my test? Why are you the one running?"

Suddenly I saw the air flow change from behind me and there he was rushing at me with his flaming sword. He was faster than me but thanks to six eyes, I could still see him so his attacks were nothing.

"Get serious brat!" He shouted while trying to burn me up again, but it was useless. 

I came out unaffected and smirked at him, "That's it? For a special-grade I at least expected a domain or something"

"I don't wanna kill you brat, your infinity won't protect you from a guaranteed hit of a domain."

 "Did you forget that I have mana?" To prove my point I made a ball of water on my palm.

Unlike normal sorcerers I am not normal. While they have to stick only on cursed energy as the means to attack or defend, I can use mana or cursed energy alternatively. Or both if the situation calls.

"Heh, mana may be versatile. But domains are the epitome of cursed energy, if you really think your magic can help you from my domain you're just delusional."

He's really hyping his domain that much? Guess it's not as weak as I thought it was. So I should find a suitable way to protect myself from a domain's guaranteed hit of a domain.

"Well this is getting boring… so let's get it over with!" I flapped my wings hard and rushed towards him leaving behind a gust of dust.

As I expected he easily dodged most of my blows, but I didn't worry about defending and just went on relentless attack, his attacks won't hit me anyway. All I wanted was to just land a hit on him, but he was fast and my body was slower than my perception so it was hard.

"Try taking a hit, my 'infinite' punch will surely surprise you, gramps."

"Trying to agitate me is an effortless endeavour brat," He swung his sword at me and a blazing arc of flame tried to hit me. But it did nothing.

"I'm still standing" I spread my wings and arms wide to make him more annoyed.

*Swoosh* But he used that same trick he used earlier and just disappeared like he wasn't even there. I should ask him to teach me that later. 

I tried looking around for him but all that I saw was scorched ground and smoke. But to my surprise, none of the trees or houses beyond a certain range was affected. He had an amazing control for someone without sex eyes. So I'm guessing that he wouldn't have gone beyond the scorched area.

I waited for a few minutes but he showed no signs of coming.

"Hey I'll literally leave." I said but he still showed no signs. I'm getting annoyed.

*Tch* I clicked my tongue and decided to bring him out myself.

Cursed Technique Lapse - Maximum Cursed Energy Output.

I created a centre of gravity in a specific space capable of attracting all matter, crushing it all effortlessly akin to a black hole. I moved it in a circular path clockwise to destroy wherever he could hide.

In the end, except the place where I was standing, everything was destroyed and a large crater was around me. But he still didn't come out. So he's hiding somewhere beyond the scorched area, stupid of me to assume that he'd stay inside it.

"Tch, I'm leaving." The moment I turned to walk away, I felt a sudden chill on my back. I turned back in time to see him, staring right at my eye while holding a weird dagger on his left hand, he aimed it right at my chest. I noticed something different on that dagger, why is its cursed energy so weird?

Why is he trying to stab me? It's not like he doesn't know about my 'infinity' either? I can understand his previous attacks because that was his cursed technique but is this weird? 

"That's what being cocky leads to brat."

"Huh?" I wondered loudly at what just happened.

I couldn't believe my own eyes at the sight I'm seeing.

The weird dagger somehow broke through my 'infinity' and stabbed me on my shoulder. The injury didn't matter much but it BROKE THROUGH MY 'INFINITY'!! 

"How?" I asked while holding my shoulder. I used mana to freeze the injury to avoid bleeding.

"This is the inverted-spear of heaven. It's a special-grade cursed tool used by one of the Zen'in family's ancestors which inherited his technique, to nullify any and every cursed technique it comes into contact with."

Spear? 

"Looks like a dagger to me" I said. 

How the fuck did I not know of something like that? If it had been someone other than my gramps I'd be dead.

"Time to get serious I guess…" I formed two large spikes of light, a special property of fallen-angels.

"About damn time you started using mana!" He laughed like a maniac. I haven't seen him like that in my whole life. 

His body soon got engulfed in a shiny energy and I felt the surrounding temperature decrease. Is he using domain amplification?

I turned off my infinity to reduce my brain's load. It's pretty much useless now as he has both that cursed tool and domain amplification.

Just as I was about make my move,

"STOP IT YOU BOTH!" It was my mom.

And she was pissed.

"HAVE YOU GONE CRAZY DAD!? HE'S JUST SIX" She came near us and started to scold gramps. Yeah mom make him regret this day!

"AND YOU, LOOK HOW MUCH YOU DESTROYED OUR LAND!" She grabbed my ear and pinched it hard.

"Ouch! Ouch! Mom! It was gramps, he did it, not me!" I pushed all my allegations to that guy.

"No Hanako! He did it, not me!"

The hell man? I'm the kid here, why are you scared?

"Geez… both of you should start being responsible." She sighed with her palm on her forehead. "Both clean up your mess and come for dinner."

Now that I notice, the sun has already set. I lost all sense of time during the fight, not gonna lie it was kinda exciting.

"Fine…" I'll just ask the servants to clean up this mess.

"And if I come to know that any of you asked the servants to clean this up, you'll be cleaning the toilets in their place for the next week."

"We won't" x2 

"And Satoru, heal your shoulder before it gets infected."

"Yeah mom."

Saying that she left, obviously pissed slightly.

"So… just for the record it was a draw."

"Draw!? I was basically winning"

"But did you? I'm standing here perfectly fine." I placed my hand over my injured shoulder and started healing it. While healing with cursed energy is fucking hard, healing with mana is the exact opposite. It's really easy.

If cursed energy is like clay, malleable but still needs some effort. Mana is like a slime, just thinking is enough to do most of the stuff. But the complicated stuff like large-scale magic or more effective ones still require some level of control. But nowhere near the effort needed for cursed energy.

Gramps stared at me for a minute before sighing, "Fine… let's have it your way. It was a draw." 

"And you did good brat." He patted my head. I was slightly surprised, it was the first time he showed his affection to me.

"Geez… you weren't bad either, gramps. Though I really wanted to see your domain."

"Haha, you're still too weak to see that brat. Maybe when you push me that far."

This life is really great. I really like my name in this too, Satoru Gojo. It has a kick to it.

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-3rd Person's POV-

"ARGHHHHH!"

"AAAHHHHH!"

"GAAAAAAHHH!"

Screams filled the streets of Kuho, as people ran in fear. Nobody knew what was going on as suddenly things started to get destroyed and people started dying, some getting crushed and some simply disappearing out of existence. 

The cause of their deaths was unknown, even to the devil who was ruling the town. The town was her family's property and an important political place for devils and it was their only territory in all of Japan. So the incident caused quite a pressure for Cleria Belial.

Inside her room, she could be seen walking back and forth in frustration waiting for her queen to come back with info. Her wait was rewarded and Maria, Cleria's queen's magic circle appeared on the floor of the room and Maria appeared over it.

"It's as you suspected my lady, a cursed spirit."

Cleria was slightly relieved that it was nothing more than that. But the danger still isn't over. It is a wide known fact around the supernatural world how annoying curses are to deal with. They can be only seen by those who possess cursed energy or someone who can see souls. The only way to kill them is by using cursed energy or holy magic but she can't use either of those.

'The curse is not as aggressive as it was before… meaning either it is in the process of evolving or it has already evolved'

Her lover and his squad isn't in the town currently either so she has to think fast. 

"It seems we have no other way than calling for those sorcerers," Cleria said. She doesn't want to call the jujutsu sorcerers because she'd rather avoid them coming inside her territory.

"Should I request the jujutsu high of Tokyo my lady?" Maria asked.

"No. I don't want them to send in some kids who could do some half-assed job." Cleria immediately rejected. She had a basic idea of how the jujutsu society worked. She knows how conservative and corrupted they are so she didn't wanna ask them.

"Send the request to one of the great three sorcerer families. Preferably Kamo or Gojo, those families are the ones who aren't openly against devils."

"You sure my lady? It may cost a lot." The sorcerer family charges a lot more than jujutsu. Nearly triple the amount. 5,000,000 yen for this specific request.

"I don't care"

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A/N

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