Hey, you. Curse," Nobara said as she entered a room with multiple mannequins.
"The mannequin in the middle. Is that your idea of hiding?" She asked.
Nobara quickly took out a hammer and nails with her cursed energy.
"No reaction? Then it's time to say goodbye."
*FWIPP
Nobara threw her nails in the air before hitting them her her hammer toward the mannequin, headshot.
*DING
*WHACK
The mannequin bent down as the nails hit it, before getting up quickly.
"Those nails... I'd take 'em out if I were you," She said as she looked at the nails in its head.
"My cursed energy... is gonna flow through 'em!"
*KRAKKK
The mannequin's head smashed in together, killing the curse.
'Perfect!' She thought smiling.
*SHF
"Hm?" Nobara voiced as she heard a noise in the corner to found a little boy sitting, trembling.
'A kid... probably snuck in for some fun and ended up hiding from the curse...' She thought.
"Everything's okay now you can come out," She said gently.
the boy shook his head rapidly, scared.
Nobara shocked by his rejection stood there frozen.
"well, they say kids don't like to approach beautiful girls. Guess I'll bring Itadori," she said as she started to walk to find the two.
"Wait!" The kid yelled.
Nobara looked back to see a furry curse appear behind the boy.
"Don't leave me!" He exclaimed.
Nobara took her hammer out about to attack before she stopped.
*SHK
The curse put its sharp fingers into the boy's neck making him bleed a little.
'He's holding him hostage?!'
'This curse... can think!'
Outside of the building, Gojo was talking to Megumi.
"Cunning! A curse that has intelligence often sprouts from a ruthless choice. A choice between... life and death!" He said.
'Crap crap crap!' Nobara thought.
'This curse isn't even that tough. It's a grade four. maybe even a lower grade three at best! and it understands that! it's taking the kid hostage because it knows that.'
'I gotta stay calm! If I die, the boy has no hope... but if the boy dies. my chances of survival won't be affected. I have to be rational. I have to survive!'
*KLUNK
*KLINK
Nobara dropped her hammer and nails.
"I got nothing. Let the kid go," She said as she raised her hands above her head.
'I'm such an idiot! Guh... I knew it wouldn't be that easy,' she thought as she watched the curse still holding the boy hostage.
"I wish... I could've seen Saori one last time..." She said lowly
*KRACKK
The wall behind the Curse busted open showing Yuji and Azure.
"Huh? Did I miss?" Yuji said as he saw the curse still up.
The curse quickly moved showing the hostage to Azure and Yuji.
Azure swung his sword with speed cutting off his arm that had the kid.
*WWP
Azure grabbed the kid running over to Nobara.
"You all right?" Azure asked the boy who nodded rapidly.
*FSSHH
Azure watched as the curse began to make its escape.
"he's getting away!"
*VOOSH
Nobara opened up her uniform jacket showing a doll inside.
"Itadori! Give me that arm!"
*FSSSHHH
The curse ran out of the building from the third floor.
"Oh?!" Gojo said as he watched it in the air.
"I'm gonna exorcise it," Megumi said standing up.
"Hold on..." Gojo replied.
*VWP
Nobara put the doll on its arm.
"A straw doll?!" Yuji exclaimed creeped out as the boy clung to Azure also creeped out.
"Straw Doll Technique!"
Nobara grabbed her nail infusing it with her cursed energy and hitting it into the doll with her hammer.
*KKSH
"Resonance!"
*BA-DUM
The curse's core suddenly beat extremely hard.
Spikes came out of its body.
"Agh!! Gaaaah!!!" The curse screamed.
*ZSHH
*BOOF
The creature let out one final, pitiful cry before it distinguished into a cloud of black smoke, vanishing,
"Good, she's plenty crazy," Gojo said as he watched the curse vanish.
"See! I told you it was dangerous to go alone!" Nobara yelled at the two.
"Huh..?!" Azure questioned.
"You never said that!" Yuji exclaimed.
"Yes, I... Wait, didn't I?" Nobara questioned herself.
"Besides, what the heck are ya eating that you can bust through a wall?!" Nobara yelled.
"And I thought you didn't know how to use a sword!" She yelled at Azure.
"It's not like it was a cement wall!" Yuji yelled.
"I don't know..." Azure said.
"Not the point! It's still impossible!" She told Yuji.
"You've been asking all the questions! What about you? Why'd you come to Jujutsu High?" Yuji asked.
"I didn't like living in the middle of nowhere... So I came to the city!"
"Wha.." Azure voiced.
"What a horrible reason.." Yuji said lowly.
"This was the only way for me to move to Tokyo," Nobara's eyes gleamed.
"You'd risk your life for that?" Azure asked with the boy in his arms.
"Sure. It's to stay true to myself," Nobara answered.
"On that note, I'm thankful to you too," Nobara said to Azure.
"If I had died, or if I had been the only one to live... the future wouldn't be as bright," She said to him as she patted the young boy's head.
"Thanks!"
"Well... everyone has their reasons..." Azure said.
"Okay! I said thanks, so we're even! No more of that talk!" Nobara yelled.
"..." Azure kept quiet not knowing what was wrong with the girl.
*******
"What's up?!" Gojo waved to the three.
"We sent the kid home safe and sound. Time for some grub," Gojo told his four students.
"Steak!" Yuji yelled.
"Sushi!" Nobara exclaimed.
"What's wrong, Megumi?" Yuji asked seeing he had a sour look on his face.
"He's pouting because he was left out," Gojo laughed.
"Tee hee... how immature," Nobara laughed as Azure smiled.
*********
*Report: July 2018, In West Tokyo City, at the Eishu Juvenile Detention Center the sky above the exercise yard.
"Hey, what's that?" A juvie asked looking in the sky.
"What?"
"There! that egg thing!" He replied to his friend.
"Whachu talkin' about?!" His friend exclaimed.
The man saw a huge monster in an egg up in the sky.
*Report: An unnamed apparition of potential special grade was witnessed by multiple non-jujutsu sorcerers. Since it was deemed an emergency, Three first-year students were sent to the scene.
Of those three students... One died.