Chapter 142 - All of You Must Become Stronger!
"Right, didn't you also say... that guy is using Geto's appearance?
Just using his name to deceive people is hateful enough, and with the Cursed Spirit Manipulation technique, it's probably not just a simple disguise...
There's no need to worry too much, Emiya-kun.
I will quickly make that guy get out of Geto's body."
Before leaving like a faithless partner who eats dinner and then promptly bolts, Gojo Satoru left Emiya with these words.
Since Emiya first met this guy, he has often been very sloppy and seemingly indifferent to everything.
It's not that he has no feelings in his heart, but rather a casualness that comes from believing he can change anything at any time.
This was easily seen from his initial duel with Emiya; he continuously explained his abilities to Emiya and didn't completely lose his composure even after his Domain was suppressed by Fragarach.
The Domain was nullified, true, but even if Fragarach's attack directly targeted his head, it still couldn't kill him, right?
At that time, he was still able to gauge the hard power gap between Emiya and himself.
Later, when Jujutsu High was invaded and the students' lives were threatened, he was slightly more serious but still maintained a playful attitude—partly because he trusted his students, and partly because he believed his own strength could control the situation at any moment.
It was only at this moment that Emiya truly felt the emotion in his heart, which was undisguised fury.
After the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons incident, Gojo Satoru personally found Geto Suguru after he was defeated by Okkotsu Yuta and personally executed his friend, who had completely deviated from his original ideals.
He used a Cursed Technique to complete this process to prevent his friend from re-transforming into a Cursed Spirit-like being, and he did his best to keep the integrity of his friend's body...
The result? Who could have imagined that this very detail would be exploited by the enemy?
Cursed Techniques are inherently engraved on the body. Since there is already a technique like Seance Technique that can borrow power from ancient sorcerers, it is not impossible for there to be a special ability that invades the body and usurps the technique.
This act of complete sacrilege is something Gojo Satoru absolutely cannot forgive.
After he finally left Emiya's room, this matter was temporarily put on hold.
Although they knew the enemy's target and their intention to completely drop all pretenses, it was still difficult to take immediate and effective countermeasures.
In fact, if Emiya were the final decision-maker, even if he knew that large-scale protective measures would temporarily halt social function, he would still do it.
Because in his eyes, people's lives always outweigh any other considerations.
However, for the high and mighty overseers, any casualties short of a certain threshold are acceptable, while the economic losses caused by a societal shutdown are completely incalculable.
They will always deem the latter more important than the former. Even if a debate accidentally breaks out, they can completely use various public opinions to guide the direction of the incident.
In any case, they will take the benefits, but if things go wrong, just don't come looking for them.
As for how to deal with the potentially imminent attack from the Cursed Spirits... isn't it the responsibility of the Jujutsu Headquarters and Jujutsu High to handle all of this? What does it have to do with them?
The attitude of "just do nothing if possible" is truly too strange.
This means that they currently have no concrete way to deal with the potential danger. The only two things they can do are to maintain utmost vigilance and to improve their own strength as much as possible—
Naturally, achieving the former cannot rely solely on Emiya's efforts. As for the latter, he already has the direction of the Reversed Cursed Technique for himself, but his students still have a lot of room for improvement!
As a qualified teacher, Emiya absolutely will not allow his students to have an accident in the upcoming danger, so he must raise their abilities as much as possible.
He can set a small goal for now... for example, how about everyone reaching the level of Kokichi Muta when piloting Ultimate Mechamaru Model 0?
With that kind of ability, self-preservation in times of danger should certainly not be a problem.
"Sweat more in peacetime, bleed less in wartime," as the saying goes.
Emiya naturally decided to act on this important matter immediately. So, early the next morning, he notified everyone in advance and gathered them all in the largest training ground within Jujutsu High.
"You should remember, right? Just a few days ago, a Cursed Spirit with intelligence equal to a human's attacked the exchange event, and its ability was several times stronger than a typical Special Grade Cursed Spirit...
In fact, there is more than one Cursed Spirit with such special intelligence and power; they have formed a secret alliance and are waiting for an opportunity to completely overthrow human society."
Before implementing the hellish training, Emiya naturally had to briefly explain the cause and effect, so they would know why they were about to suffer immensely.
"An alliance of Cursed Spirits planning to overthrow humanity... seriously?"
Hearing this statement, Zen'in Maki's face was naturally filled with disbelief.
Whether intelligent Cursed Spirits exist is one thing, but Cursed Spirits as a species have, at most, only threatened a small number of humans. There has never been a scenario in history where Cursed Spirits endangered the nation.
This is like saying that goblins from another world are preparing to overthrow the Elf Empire; a normal person would first doubt the strength of those guys.
"Perhaps the Jujutsu world can easily stop them, but that is not a reason for you to slack off."
"You must have seen that Cursed Spirit from before, right? Then you should know that you wouldn't be its opponent, and that Cursed Spirit representing the forest is still on the weaker side among the enemy's ranks.
If you don't even have the ability to defeat them, you have no right to mock whether their plan can succeed."
Facing a somewhat indifferent Zen'in Maki, Emiya criticized her without mercy.
The victor can certainly mock the defeated, but that is a right exclusive to the victor. What right do a group of people who cannot even enter the battle have to view all this from the victor's perspective?
"...You are absolutely right, Emiya-sensei."
Facing this teacher whom she respected, Zen'in Maki was still able to quickly recognize her own status and the correctness of his words.
Her current strength is not strong enough... this is indeed her problem.
"Very good. Because the enemy could strike again at any time, and every one of you would inevitably end up defeated if you rashly faced those Cursed Spirits... we cannot rule out the possibility that they, being intelligent, might adopt the tactic of defeating us one by one.
So, next, I will conduct specialized training for each of you and provide you with stronger weapons... but that will be after the training is complete."
Emiya did not directly reveal the news that the enemy might launch a large-scale attack, as not all intelligence is better off known by more people.
Even Gojo Satoru and Masamichi Yaga will only disclose information to trustworthy sorcerers to enhance their ability to respond to sudden disasters.
"First up is you, Maki."
Emiya immediately called Maki Zen'in aside from the group. This was not because she had just questioned him, but because he currently had a clear idea of how to improve her.
What a true reverse Heavenly Restriction should look like—didn't he just witness it a few days ago?
"Your Heavenly Restriction exchanges all your Cursed Energy for physical strength, right?"
"That much is correct..."
"Then, as a member of the Zen'in family, you should know that ten years ago, there was also an owner of a reverse Heavenly Restriction there... he was very strong, to the extent that he could easily exorcise a Special Grade Cursed Spirit just by having a suitable Cursed Tool."
The Maki Zen'in, whom Emiya has now taught and improved once, has only just reached the lower limit of a Grade 1 Sorcerer's ability.
"I know of him, but I've never met the guy."
Ten years ago, she was just a small child, and the existence of her Heavenly Restriction hadn't even been detected yet.
"But as for that guy's ability...I have already met him.
Next, I will strive to train you in his direction. If you don't risk your life, you won't be able to keep up.
Your dream should be to return to the Zen'in family and become the head of the house, right? That guy was only driven out of the Zen'in family, so just catching up isn't enough—you must become stronger than him."
"....Good!!!"
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