After punishing her sister, Mai, who wanted to defy heaven's will, Maki returned to the team and began analyzing the attribute panel in front of them with everyone.
Mai, whose ticklish spots had been attacked all over her body, was now slumped on the ground, her eyes vacant and her face flushed, clearly needing some time to recover.
"The team competition project is to make us build a house? Unbelievable."
Momo was speechless at this moment.
She thought they were coming for a beach vacation, but the school actually made them build a house in their swimsuits?
That was completely impossible.
"Just throw something together to get by for a few days. That's all we need."
Todo waved his hand, speaking carelessly.
"Indeed, if it's only for use during the competition, there's no need to consider sturdiness or long-term planning. We just need to ensure no accidents happen in the near future."
Noritoshi nodded, agreeing with Todo's statement.
He, who attended Kyoto Jujutsu High, also did not know how to build a house.
"Kasumi is in charge of cutting trees, Todo and Kokichi are in charge of transportation, and Nishimiya, you come help me build."
Unlike the Kyoto School, who all looked worried, everyone from the Tokyo School had expressions like they had seen a ghost.
"It's just like controlling a game character."
Toge said after carefully examining his attribute panel.
As soon as he spoke, silence instantly fell around Toge.
"Huh? What's wrong?"
Toge also noticed the strange atmosphere around him.
"Inumaki, you can speak human language?"
Maki, who was straightforward and often acted faster than she thought, blurted it out instantly.
Looking at Toge's strange expression, Maki quickly realized that her wording seemed problematic.
"That's not what I mean. I mean, that..."
Maki started scratching her head, trying to think of the right words.
"Inumaki-senpai doesn't have to worry about the effects of Cursed Speech anymore?"
Seeing Maki's anxious look, Megumi sighed and then took the initiative to ask.
"Yes, that's what I mean."
Maki held her left hand in a cupping gesture in front of her, then formed a fist with her right hand and punched it.
"No need to worry. I sold my Cursed Speech."
Toge announced this triumphantly, crossing his arms over his chest.
"?"
"..."
Everyone looked at each other, wondering if Toge had been stimulated today.
"Click on the shop page. It's this little house icon.
Then find this skill shop. Here, you can sell and buy Cursed Techniques."
Everyone followed Toge's steps and indeed found the Cursed Technique shop.
"You're kidding, right? How is this even possible?"
"Aren't Cursed Techniques innate? It's incredible that they can be changed here!"
Exclamations of surprise rang out.
"That's why I said it's just like a game. Do you remember before we came here?
At that time, we lost consciousness in Tokyo Jujutsu High and woke up here again.
Besides that illogical way of moving, there are also our attributes all being initialized to 1, this game-like interface, and the fact that I can buy and sell innate Cursed Techniques.
After considering everything, I suspect we are currently in an illusion generated by some special Cursed Technique."
Toge stated his guess.
Since the awakening of Cursed Speech, Toge had not spoken normally for many years, and he was a bit excited for a moment.
"Like a dream, then."
Megumi followed Toge's train of thought and stated his own guess.
"Huh? Are we dreaming?"
Yuji looked at Megumi in surprise, then pinched his face hard.
"It hurts so much. Didn't they say you don't feel pain in a dream?"
"If it's a dream, then can't we have whatever we want? Designer bags, the best cosmetics, come out now! Immediately!"
Nobara spread her arms and roared at the sky.
"Oh! I can't lose either! Transformers, Ultraman, Jennifer Lawrence, come out now!"
Yuji saw Nobara's actions and began to daydream, unwilling to lose.
"You two idiots..."
Megumi covered his eyes, his head aching, wanting to pretend he did not know these two clowns.
Poke, poke.
Poke, poke.
"Hmm?"
Noticing that someone kept poking him, Megumi turned his head to look.
"Um, Fushiguro-kun."
He turned his head and saw the somewhat flustered Toge.
"What's wrong, Inumaki-senpai?"
"Can I buy the Ten Shadows Technique?"
Upon hearing this, Megumi seemed to think of something and began searching through the list of Cursed Techniques.
Soon, he found the Cursed Technique representing the Ten Shadows Technique.
"If you want to buy it, just buy it. Don't worry about me."
Megumi said indifferently.
He did not think the Ten Shadows Technique belonged only to him, nor did he care about its important significance in the jujutsu world.
Megumi simply regarded it as a useful Cursed Technique.
"Thank you."
Upon hearing this, Toge immediately purchased the Ten Shadows Technique from the shop.
Then he eagerly summoned two Divine Dogs and began interacting intimately with them.
He had been coveting these two dogs for a long time.
"Can everyone change their Cursed Technique once at the start?"
After seeing Toge really summon the Divine Dogs, Megumi came to a conclusion.
The Kyoto School on the other side also noticed the situation here.
Rather, it would be strange if their attention had not been drawn to the Tokyo School after the two-person performance by Yuji and Nobara.
"If I'm not mistaken, the one who just summoned the Divine Dogs was Inumaki."
The few of them looked at each other, clearly confused about what had happened.
"It's this."
Kokichi reached out and flipped the translucent panel in front of him, facing the others.
"I just carefully studied the panel that came with us. Everyone can choose to sell their innate Cursed Technique and purchase another Cursed Technique they want before the event officially begins."
Unlike the others, who either just exclaimed in surprise after entering or rigidly discussed plans.
Kokichi, who leaned toward being an engineering student, tried all the operations of the attribute panel at the first opportunity.
"Ah, but I don't have an innate Cursed Technique."
Kasumi looked up at the sky, speechless.
"Try clicking on this sword and shield icon. This is the equipment interface."
Then Ultimate Mechamaru appeared beside Kokichi.
"Equipment, equipment, ah, it's my sword."
Kasumi joyfully took out Dance of Fine Snow and hugged it, rubbing her face against it.
For her, who had no innate Cursed Technique and whose abilities were all in her sword, Dance of Fine Snow gave her a great sense of security.
'Others have their innate Cursed Techniques, while the three of us have cursed tools.'
Kokichi glanced at Maki, who had also taken out her Thousand Machine Umbrella.
"Also, I found this."
Kokichi clicked on a pickaxe icon again.
"This is the gathering function, and next to it is the placement function. Specifically... Ultimate Mechamaru."
Receiving the command, Ultimate Mechamaru raised his hand and fired a blast at a nearby coconut tree.
Boom.
The coconut tree fell, and Ultimate Mechamaru's Cursed Energy was instantly depleted significantly.
'Mechamaru's Cursed Energy reserves are so much weaker? Is it because all attribute values became 1?'
Without thinking too much, Kokichi came to the fallen coconut tree and clicked "Gather."
The next second, the coconut tree became ethereal, absorbed by the panel in front of Kokichi like blue data code.
[Obtained 1 Unit of Wood.]
Then Kokichi clicked "Process," turning the coconut tree into a long wooden plank, and finally clicked "Place."
"I see. It seems building a house is much simpler than we thought."
Noritoshi opened his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the wooden plank standing in the sand.
Although he was not a delicate young master, not having to build a house himself was indeed something to be happy about for him.
(To be continued.)
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