"Thank you for your assistance, Young Miss Miwo."
Kento Nanami closed his notebook, concluding the interrogation.
After Kento Nanami left, a young boy named Sato quietly entered Yukiko Miwo's hospital room.
Yukiko Miwo smiled and rose from her hospital bed.
The small movements the two thought had gone unnoticed were all seen by Kento Nanami.
A sense of unease.
"Hello, I'm Nanami from the Metropolitan Police Department's Special Investigation Division."
Kento Nanami walked up to the head nurse and presented his forged identification.
"Hello, how may I help you?"
"Regarding the disappearance of Reiko Mizutani's body…"
Soon, Kento Nanami finished his conversation with the head nurse, stood up, and left.
A sense of unease.
Kento Nanami, with a serious expression, sought out the doctor and the hospital director who usually cared for Yukiko Miwo.
A sense of unease.
As night fell, Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara arrived at a quiet izakaya.
While eating, Kento Nanami also organized the information he had gathered today.
"Ah-woo, I just feel like everyone in that hospital is so strange, goo."
Even the somewhat oblivious Yu Haibara now sensed something was amiss.
Although Yu Haibara was a bit reckless, he was the type who could be surprisingly meticulous.
"Swallow your food before you speak."
"Yes, Senior!"
Knock, knock.
"Please come in."
Whoosh.
"Mr. Nanami, here are the documents you requested."
The Assistant Supervisor took off his shoes and entered the room.
The observant Kento Nanami noticed the Assistant Supervisor's somewhat hurried breathing.
'Has he been running around all day?'
"Have a seat first; you haven't had dinner yet, have you?"
Kento Nanami patted the spot beside him.
There were only two people in the room, so there was plenty of space.
"Um, I'm fine, the mission is more important…"
The sudden concern made the Assistant Supervisor feel a bit overwhelmed.
"A Senior I deeply respect once said that hunger is a great enemy.
If you can't even ensure your own condition, how can you complete a mission?"
Kento Nanami's voice seemed to possess a reassuring magic.
"Yes, Senior."
The Assistant Supervisor immediately sat at the table upon hearing this.
"Try this."
Kento Nanami picked up a small bowl and placed it in front of the Assistant Supervisor.
Only after a good dinner did Kento Nanami begin to review the intelligence the Assistant Supervisor had just delivered.
The intelligence could be summarized in a single sentence.
"Upon investigation, there were indeed traces of Jujutsu influence on the police officers involved in this incident.
The preliminary assessment is that a certain desire within the police officers' hearts was amplified, causing them to lose their original judgment…" "I see."
Kento Nanami closed the intelligence report.
This explained the strange behavior of the people in the hospital.
The nurse's darting eyes, the occasional panic in the doctor's gaze.
The director's official rhetoric, which seemed to say something yet nothing at all.
If they were all affected by Jujutsu, then it was no longer strange.
"Let's go, Haibara."
"Osu!"
Yu Haibara responded with full Origin Qi upon hearing Kento Nanami's words.
"Please take us to the hospital."
"Yes, Senior."
The Assistant Supervisor immediately went out and started the car.
At this moment, in the hospital's basement.
The regenerated Tomie extended her fair, lotus-root-like arms, propping her hands on both sides of the water tank, and elegantly rose.
A captivating scene of a beauty emerging from her bath unfolded in the empty basement.
Click.
Just then, the basement door opened.
Tomie turned her head to look.
Teacher Takagi was walking towards her, carrying gasoline and a lighter.
Tomie revealed a satisfied smile.
That demonic smile seemed to steal Takagi's very soul.
Tomie had been in her Awakening state for some time now.
She had also figured out what her Cursed Technique was.
And she had learned about her current situation from some people.
Tomie possessed the ability to infinitely amplify the desires in others' hearts.
As long as a person stood beside Tomie, saw her appearance, and heard her voice,
the desires deep within that person's heart would continuously swell.
Eventually, these desires would transform into immense Cursed Energy, which Tomie would absorb.
Finally, those who were drained by desire would contribute their last value.
They would dismember Tomie, allowing her to complete a new cycle of proliferation.
It was like a ritual of a cult.
Undisturbed, these dismembered Tomies would regenerate into new Tomies.
Just like humanity's infinitely expanding desires,
Tomie would also infinitely proliferate.
However, there were also aspects that displeased Tomie.
One was the speed of proliferation.
If Tomie separated from her own body and redirected her Cursed Technique to her true form, the Over-Cursed Spirit Tomie, her recovery and proliferation speed would be terrifying.
However, Tomie could not bear that unsightly appearance.
Therefore, Tomie set the target of her Cursed Technique as her own body, which had once been divided into 42 parts.
Due to absorbing a large amount of curses and Cursed Energy from her classmates,
these 42 body parts gave birth to 42 Tomies.
Coupled with the Tomies still proliferating like the one now,
it probably wouldn't be long before Tomie spread throughout the island nation.
The second was her own desires.
Indeed, Tomie, who caused desires to infinitely swell, also had her own desires.
And at this moment, what this Tomie, who had just regenerated from a severed head, wanted to do was kill another version of herself.
"Burn her."
Tomie looked with icy eyes at another Tomie still growing in a different water tank.
That was the Tomie that had regenerated from Tomie's kidney, which had been transplanted into Yukiko Miwo.
When the director removed "Tomie" from Yukiko Miwo's body, he cut off the head that had grown on the kidney, so now there were two Tomies proliferating in the basement.
However, compared to the monster with limbs growing from the kidney but an incomplete head,
this Tomie, whose head was already complete and could communicate, was given more importance by the doctors and the director.
It was also because of this that she absorbed more Cursed Energy and completed her proliferation first.
"No problem."
Takagi nodded, then reached into the water tank, dragging out this Tomie, still incomplete and monstrous.
He then poured gasoline on her and lit it with a lighter.
"Ah ah ah ah ah!"
Tomie squatted on the ground, watching her other self struggle in the flames with a look of amusement.
Click.
The sound of a door opening reached their ears.
Kento Nanami, who had infiltrated the hospital, took in everything in the basement.
"Haibara, restrain Takagi."
Kento Nanami drew the short machete tied to his waist with a spotted talisman, his gaze fixed on the naked Tomie.
"Alright."
Yu Haibara said nothing more and charged directly towards Takagi.
What surprised Yu Haibara was that Takagi acted like a truly ordinary person; he merely took one punch and fell to his knees, dry heaving repeatedly.
Seeing Yu Haibara begin his attack,
Kento Nanami also charged towards Tomie.
Under Tomie's wary gaze,
the short machete aimed directly for Tomie's neck.
Tomie inwardly cursed, thinking, 'Trouble.'
Among the initial 42 proliferating Tomies, some had already encountered Curse Users and weaker Jujutsu Sorcerers.
Therefore, Tomie knew that Kento Nanami was a Jujutsu Sorcerer from Jujutsu Headquarters.
She just didn't know the level of his strength.
Tomie continuously retreated, dodging Kento Nanami's blade.
However, what Tomie, lacking combat experience, hadn't anticipated was that
that had not been Kento Nanami's full power.
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