ch2 System start

Oh, before the chapter starts, I just want to inform you guys that the stats increase will technically happen in real time while I am writing the story.

This means that if I write something, take a break, and see a notification about the power stones, I'll add it to the scene.

Maybe Makiri is currently just sleeping, maybe he's in a fight, and his stats just spontaneously increase—who knows?

Anyway, here is today's meme.

~~~~~~~~~~~ [Makiri's Pov] ~~~~~~~~~~~

'something is wrong with him' I thought as I carefully observed the boy who looked to be in pain.

His head... there are pressure marks below his eyes as if something is biting him, but there is nothing but air.

But if there is really nothing there, then why is she shaking so much?

"W̵̴̶̢̕͟h̴̨̛͟͢͞҉̷̨a̵̕t͝҉̀͟ ̛͞t̨͟͜im̀e̷̢̢̕͢͞͡ ̵̢͠͠͏́͘͢í̛́͞͝͞҉̴̡͘̕ś ̨i̷҉͢҉t̢҉?̷̷̧̢" I quickly swung my arm to the right. After hearing that overly eerie voice, I reacted as fast as I could.

It could be a person, but the current situation suggested otherwise.

And I felt it—I felt my arm colliding with a meaty structure that I am 100% sure is something and not just air.

But as I looked back to see what it was, I only saw an empty hallway.

"Invisible monster," was the only logical explanation I could think of.

[Ding! You got a power stone from Red_2916] 'Huh?'

Suddenly, I hear a voice ringing in my head. I have no idea what it was, so I ignore it and focus on the task at hand.

*Guhok!

As the voice distracted me, the invisible monster suddenly punched me in the face, sending me staggering backward.

But someone caught me before I could fall.

"H-heeeelp." It was the boy.

'Dark. Darkness... what's happening?' After the boy caught me by the shoulder, everything suddenly plunged into darkness. I felt something biting me on my face.

From the top of my head to below my eyes, it felt as though something was biting me everywhere. The pressure and pain were so intense and surreal—what kind of creature has teeth on every side of its mouth?

And yet, it's so painful.

"Get off me!" I try to pull the thing off my head with all my strength, but its grip is relentless. If I keep forcing it, my head might get peeled.

My breathing becomes unstable, my heart pounds wildly as I have no idea what the hell is happening.

Blood begins to flow from the teeth marks. The more I try to pull it off, the stronger its grip becomes, now sinking painfully into my skin.

Is this how I'll die? Attacked by a bunch of invisible monsters?

What a joke!

[Ding! Annoyance Overdrive: Temporary Curse Sight]

Another weird voice. What does that even mean?

[You are currently in an unwinnable situation. Would you like to make a binding vow and sacrifice 1 undistributed Powerstone to save yourself?]

'Yes! I don't know what it means, but take it!'

I close my eyes, letting whatever the weird voice is take control of my life, and wait for this nightmare to end.

*Pop!*

Suddenly, my vision returns.

'Is it over?' I open my eyes. It's still quite dark, but I can see now.

And it's clear that it's not over.

As soon as I open my eyes, I'm confronted with a horrifying scene: a grotesque, naked, bipedal monster groping the girl, its hands all over her body and clothes.

It's disgusting. It makes me uncomfortable to watch the girl cry, helpless and unable to do anything.

Her eyes widen in fear, staring at me as if asking for help, but she should know better—I'm just as powerless as she is.

and it pisses me off so much knowing that I can't do shit

[Tips: Don't let it eat the finger] The what?

"H͢͡҉i̡h̴̸͘͟͢í͏̵h̢͠i̶̢̢̡̡͠h̀͏͢į̵́́ii͟͞i̴i҉̷́͢͞i̧!̨̛" The monster suddenly lets out a triumphant shriek as it releases the girl and pulls something from her skirt pocket.

It's a finger.

Acting on pure instinct, I rush to stop it. Not knowing what will happen if the monster consumes the finger, I follow the voice's advice and take no chances.

[Ding! You got 3 Power Stones from Joe_Mama_1721!] Not now, voices!

I leap into the air, aiming to dropkick the monster. As I soar, the creature, momentarily distracted by its newfound prize, notices my attack at the last second. It raises its arms to block.

My kick lands on its chest, but the monster's arms absorb most of the impact. The force of my full-body dropkick pushes it back several meters, but I crash to the floor due to my lack of planning and momentum.

The monster only grins and giggles at my sneak attack, as if being kicked in the chest is the funniest thing it's seen. There's no sign of damage on its chest.

also, the finger is still on his hand

[Tips: Curses can only be damaged with cursed energy.] Cool tips voices. now what the f*ck is a cursed energy?

and if that's the case then how am I supposed to beat this thing without it?

~~~~~~~~~~ [3rd person Pov] ~~~~~~~~~~

"Do seals come off that easily?"

"No! A normal human with no curse energy shouldn't be able to peel them off.

But the object is much too powerful and the seals are already old. It might as well be a normal piece of paper!"

Two teenage high schoolers can be seen running through the streets of Sendai. They ran at an incredible, almost inhuman speed.

their hair flowing behind them, their faces showing urgency to anyone watching.

Finally, they arrived at their destination. The moment they arrived, all their senses started flaring up, signaling the danger in front of them.

'It can't be... this is a curse? What kind of pressure is this?' the pink-haired one thought.

"You stay here." Suddenly, the girl with long black hair stepped in front of the pink-haired one, as if trying to leave her behind. "Where is the clubroom?" she asked.

"Hold on, I'm coming with you! You said it's bad, right?" The pink-haired girl looked displeased with the black-haired girl's decision to leave her behind.

"It might have only been a few months, but they're my friends!" she said, trying to convince the other girl to let her come.

"I can't abandon them!"

"Stay here," but the pink-haired girl wasn't having any of it and refused to be left behind.

*Crash!

But as the two of them argued, they suddenly heard the sound of glass breaking and saw a curse falling from the third floor as if thrown from outside.

When they looked more closely, they saw someone holding the curse from above while both of them were free-falling through the air.

"Nue!" The black-haired girl reacted quickly, performing a hand sign. Her shadows moved and quickly formed the shape of a bird, which then materialized into a strange-looking bird.

As if knowing what it needed to do, the bird quickly flew toward the falling boy, trying to catch him before he reached the ground.

But would it make it in time?

~~~~~~~~~~~ [Makiri Pov's] ~~~~~~~~~~~

'Monster, curses, or whatever. No one is immune to fall damage!' I grinned as I pushed the curse out of the window along with myself.

Is it dangerous? Yes.

Am I going to die? Possibly.

Do I care? Absolutely not.

But even in this scenario, the curse just smiled as I held its arm to prevent it from eating the finger.

Well, if you want the finger so bad then—!

*Chomp!

I bit down on the finger and pulled it out of the curse's grip with my teeth.

It's hard—hell, it's super solid; it feels like metal. What kind of finger is this?

[Tips: Eat the finger] Oh hell nah, I'm not eating this.

"Lhook whof Laufhing nowhf." I taunted the curse with the finger between my teeth as I saw its smirk quickly disappear.

And it opened its mouth, revealing hundreds of sets of teeth down its throat—why do so many monsters have so many teeth?

What's the point? Are you really going to chew someone up that deeply?

"!" As I got distracted by the curse becauseI definitely forgot my ADHD pill this morning—the curse tried to eat the finger that's still in my mouth.

Please tell me my first kiss isn't going to be with a grotesque monster.

*Flap

*Flap

'huh? something's pulling me up'

I saw the curse continue to fall to the ground as I slowly float towards the gate of the school.

I look up, and it's a giant bird. The one saving me from my imminent death is a giant bird with a human-looking face—I am so done with this nightmare.

"Do you wanna eat this too?" I said while still having the finger in my mouth.

The bird only scoffed at me and took me to the gate. There, I saw two girls standing side by side, one of them holding a gang sign.

'What a weird couple.'

"Hey," I said, showcasing my amazing talent for talking to girls.

"Hey?" The pink-haired one greeted me back.

*Pch! I spat the weird finger out of my mouth and onto the ground.

"Ew!" the pink-haired one exclaimed, while the black-haired one looked at it as if it were something important, which it probably was.

"Good, we have the finger," she said, examining the wrinkly old digit.

"Yeah, it looks kinda important," I replied, focusing back on the school.

There they were—monsters everywhere, from the windows to the rooftop, crawling around like maggots as they took notice of the finger's location.

And that location was right here. They were looking for us.

This is not good.

"Hey, question. If I kill myself, will this nightmare end?" I asked the girl in front, who seemed to know about this stuff.

"As much as I'd like to test that theory—" What do you mean by that? "This is 100% real," she said, changing her gang sign to another one.

[Ding! lord_of_Wright just sent you 1 Power Stone]

'Again with this stuff. What even are these Power Stones?'

As I tried to figure out the strange voices in my head, I noticed the girl doing the gang sign was acting oddly. More specifically, her shadow was moving unnaturally.

It moved outside of its supposed position and created an image of a dog before actually summoning a white and black dog from the ground.

"A witch!" I pointed and yelled at her.

"I am not a witch!" she snapped back at me with a pissed-off expression.

As the two of us bickered, I saw the curse that had fallen from the third floor rising up as if it had suffered no damage from the fall whatsoever.

and the bird one shotted it. great, my effort was useless

[Tips: Curses can only be damaged with cursed energy.]  yes. I know that shut up

"You two, take the finger and run." the black-haired girl suddenly commanded us, as if she was in charge.

"What about my friends?!" Pinky replied, and I looked at her, remembering the other two people in the building. "Are you talking about the girl with glasses and the boy with an almost crushed head?"

"Yea—wait, what?"

"His head got bitten by one of the monsters."

"He's dead?!"

"Hopefully not."

"STOP BICKERING AND RUN!" The black-haired girl finally got fed up with our antics and ran straight toward the horde of monsters.

"Wait!" Pinky decided to follow her, and now I have to go with her too.

What am I supposed to do? Leave them behind?

"At least take the finger, stupid!" I yelled at their reckless charge, grabbing the finger from the ground before following them into the school again.

This is not what I thought would happen today.

[Ding! lord_of_Wright just sent you 1 Power Stone] Seriously, what is with this voice?

~~~~~~~~~~ [3rd person Pov] ~~~~~~~~~~

"Where did you leave them?!"

"The same place I jumped from!"

"And where is that?!"

"I don't know!"

"Do we have to yell every time we speak?!"

"Shut up, Pinky!"

In the middle of the night, three teenagers can be seen throwing gang signs and punching the air.

At least, that's what it would look like to an outsider.

"Another one for the Pups!" one of them, the pink-haired girl, despite not being able to hurt the curse herself, uses her immense strength to throw the curse towards the one who can actually damage it.

which is a dog with weird markings on its forehead.

"That girl is freakishly strong," another member of the Pups said, currently tag-teaming with a boy about 15 years old against a curse with pencils for hands.

"Go for the head, Pups!" the boy yelled at the dogs while smashing the curse's knee with a wooden plank he had obtained by breaking one of the chairs.

It dealt no damage, but it did push the curse back.

"So what are they? Monsters? Ghosts? Ghost monsters?" The boy looked to his side to see a girl with a ponytail and black hair making a hand sign to summon a bird the size of an eagle.

"They are curses, spawns of the collective negative emotions of every human being. As a jujutsu sorcerer, it's our job to exorcise them," the girl explained, and the boy nodded.

"Like pest control?"

"Yes, but the pest are bears and dragons"

"Okay."

"Wait, dragons are real?" the pink-haired girl chimed in as soon as she heard the mention of a dragon.

"There are some curses that look like dragons, yes."

"That is so cool!" Her eyes were full of stars as she said that.

"There they are," the girl said as they finally reached their destination. Hopefully, the two students sitting side by side in the hallway were not corpses.

The three of them approached the bodies, and silence hung in the air as the curses from the lower floors were nowhere to be seen.

"This looks exactly like a trap for the boss room," the boy said after studying the atmosphere.

"Yeah, it kind of gives me chills," the pink-haired girl agreed.

Not wanting to get close to what was obviously a trap, the black-haired girl sent her dogs to check on the two students to see if they were okay.

"They're alive. They might be hurt, but they're still breathing," the girl explained. The pink-haired girl breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, while the boy looked a bit distracted.

He glanced down, only to see... nothing? It seemed like he was looking at empty air.

"Can any of you see this?" he asked, pointing at the air, which got the attention of the two girls.

"See what?" the pink-haired girl asked.

"This panel. Do all Jujutsu people have this?" he replied, and they all turned to the girl who seemed to know everything.

"There's nothing there," she answered vaguely, and the boy nodded before looking back at the empty space.

But in the boy's eyes, there was a panel with his name on it:

[You got 2 Cursed Energy from elpepe]

[You got 3 Dexterity from Praxyz]

[You got 3 Dexterity from DvdNovel]

[Makiri Tohsaka]

Strength: 40 [+]

Cursed Energy: 42 [+]

Dexterity: 46 [+]

Undistributed Power Stones: 4]

"So I'm guessing you have no idea what Power Stones are either?" the boy asked, looking up at their only information source. She shook her head in response.

The boy touched the air twice, and the black haired girl suddenly felt a shift in his presence—his cursed energy had increased. Not significantly, but it was definitely higher.

"Alright! So what do we do now?" the pink-haired girl broke the silence, asking the question that had been hanging since they found their objective.

"You two take their bodies to safety; they need urgent care, so get them to the hospital," the black-haired girl commanded once more, despite her previous attempts not working out.

"And what about you?" the boy asked

"I'll be fine. Just get away from here and take them to safety," the black-haired girl urged, trying to convince them to leave her to do her job.

"On it, boss!" The pink-haired girl saluted and quickly moved to her two friends, lifting the larger of the two with ease.

"Hey, can you put her on my back? My hands are full." She turned to the boy and asked him to place the unconscious girl on her back instead of carrying her.

"Alright." The boy stepped forward and picked up the fainted girl in a princess carry.

Meanwhile, the pink-haired girl turned her back to him.

"No," he said.

"Why not?" she asked, curiosity in her voice.

"My manly pride won't allow it," he replied respectfully, prompting a snort from the black-haired girl as she watched their interaction.

But all good things must come to an end.

As they chatted without a care in the world, the roof suddenly exploded from above, and something quickly descended through the debris to grab the boy.

The black-haired girl, being the first to notice the collapse, ran straight towards the two people carrying the other students and leaped into the air, pushing them out of harm's way.

She succeeded, but at the cost of her own safety.

"Run away!" were her final words before she was dragged back to the rooftop.

~~~~~~~~~~ [To be continued] ~~~~~~~~~

Current stats

[Makiri Tohsaka

Strength : 40 [+]

Cursed energy : 44 [+]

Dexterity : 46 [+]

Undistributed stones : 2]

Okay, this might bite me in the back later because I decide to call out the name of people who gave powerstones but this might not work for the long run.

If I keep doing this in the future you'll be seeing 1000 words dedicated just to call them out. it's fine if it was only 5-10 people but if the story continues to grow then I am not gonna be able to call them out

so I might not do that in the future. please don't start a riot.

Also, Yes. he can use the undistributed stones for temporal binding vows like the one where he use it to kill the face bitting curse.

which is kind of a stretch but not really because it's a grade 4 or even lower than that. the only reason he can't beat that curse is because he can't control his cursed energy

he can use it for more binding vows actually, I thought I am gonna use 4 of them to make vows that let him able to hurt curses without having to consciously control his cursed energy but that was even more of a stretch so I am not doing that.

anyway, Thank you for reading the story. it was kinda fun, but Now I am gonna have to edit it first before uploading it. that's not fun

See you later!