For an adult male, whether actively or passively, controlling desires is something one must learn.
Unless your family is extremely well-off and can shield you from all difficulties for a lifetime.
It's like some fathers, who clearly love eating pork hock and playing with cars.
But after starting a family, he often wouldn't order a plate of pork hock at a restaurant for an entire month.
However, the moment his child asks, he immediately goes to the restaurant to pack a portion of pork hock to bring home.
He no longer replaces his car every few years or his phone annually.
Instead, they become remote control cars and clothes and toys for his child.
However, Kento Nanami is even stronger at controlling his desires.
Because he can control his desires and regulate his behavior very well, even without a wife or children.
This is why Tomie failed this time.
Desire cannot defeat everyone.
Kento Nanami controlled Tomie with one hand, while his knee pressed down firmly on Tomie's body.
With his other hand, he took out a rope covered in Cursed Seals.
The Cursed Seals on this rope could suppress the use of Cursed Energy.
Tomie had been captured; the next step was to bring Tomie back for interrogation.
After all, according to Kento Nanami's speculation,
in the worst-case scenario, they would have to face at least 42 Tomies.
Kento Nanami confirmed this from the small, four-limbed kidney-like creature crawling nearby.
Therefore, it was necessary to capture a Tomie alive and interrogate her for information when capable.
Just as Kento Nanami made his move,
a massive amount of Cursed Energy suddenly surged from Tomie's body.
A distorted face appeared from behind Tomie's head and continuously expanded.
It was a terrifying and sinister face, like that of a dead person.
"A Cursed Spirit?"
Kento Nanami looked in surprise at the giant head that suddenly emerged from Tomie's body.
Although surprised why a Cursed Spirit would appear in Tomie's body, Kento Nanami's movements were not slow.
He released the rope and grabbed his short sword.
Kento Nanami delivered a horizontal slash at the Cursed Spirit's head that was biting at him.
Pfft.
The head was severed in half, and the Cursed Spirit's blood splattered on Kento Nanami's face, then quickly vanished.
Kento Nanami suddenly felt his consciousness waver.
When he regained consciousness, the surrounding scene had changed.
Kento Nanami's surroundings had transformed from a basement into the entrance of an abandoned hospital.
"This is..."
Kento Nanami silently looked at the body cut in half at the waist before him.
He remembered this place; it was a place he could never forget in his life.
This was a scene from his Senior year of high school, when Kento Nanami, newly promoted to a Grade 2 Jujutsu Sorcerer, was on a solo exorcism mission.
Because the Seniors were too monstrous, they had monopolized all Grade 1 and above Cursed Spirits near Tokyo.
So, the younger Jujutsu Sorcerers like them only needed to exorcise Grade 3 and Grade 2 Cursed Spirits they could handle.
The enemy this time was a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit.
However, the information provided by the Assistant Supervisor was incorrect.
The Cursed Spirit here was a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit.
Although a Grade 2 Jujutsu Sorcerer has the ability to exorcise a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit,
the error in information led Kento Nanami to misjudge, which resulted in him being injured at the beginning of the battle.
Then the Cursed Spirit escaped.
The Cursed Spirit, mutually wounded in the battle with Kento Nanami, left the hospital.
And casually cut in half at the waist the Assistant Supervisor, Akemi JoJo, who was waiting outside.
This made Kento Nanami feel very guilty.
Kento Nanami, with a strong sense of responsibility, believed that his own mistake led to the death of Assistant Supervisor Akemi JoJo, who had accompanied him for several months.
This also led Kento Nanami to give up becoming a Jujutsu Sorcerer after graduation.
Therefore, Kento Nanami's heart was filled with guilt.
He clearly had the ability to exorcise that Cursed Spirit, but due to his immaturity, his partner, who had worked with him for several months, died.
In his guilt and self-blame, Kento Nanami grew to dislike the idea of being forced to sacrifice for others.
Eventually, he came to a conclusion: Jujutsu Sorcerers are Shit.
Kento Nanami then entered society, constantly working, working, working with money as his goal.
Because the ideology promoted by society is that with money, you can have "everything."
In fact, in the eyes of Eichi and Gojo Satoru,
Kento Nanami's behavior of working hard under the guise of money, turning himself into a top-tier workhorse, was a form of inner self-blame.
It was his way of punishing himself.
Just like some people, after making a mistake, always feel uneasy inside.
They punish themselves by working and studying harder to put their minds at ease.
However, a chance encounter brought Kento Nanami salvation.
It was an ordinary female shop assistant.
Due to being entangled by a low-risk Cursed Spirit,
the female shop assistant's shoulder had been uncomfortable during that period.
After sensing the female shop assistant's kindness, Kento Nanami casually helped her exorcise the Cursed Spirit.
Subsequently, he received a simple thank you.
It was this thank you that made Kento Nanami find the meaning of life again.
This was actually also a process for Kento Nanami to understand himself.
The reason Kento Nanami was so remorseful over his companion's death
was fundamentally because Kento Nanami possessed a sense of responsibility beyond his capabilities.
Because Kento Nanami was educated from a young age that he should achieve something, even if his strength was insufficient, he should strive to do so.
Instead of recognizing his own strength and doing what he was capable of.
This is actually a common situation in island nation education.
Textbooks always demand that we must bear something, become something, but they don't tell us.
What it takes to become these things, and... whether we have the ability to become them.
And in the female shop assistant's thank you,
Kento Nanami realized that he was not Gojo Satoru or Eichi.
He just needed to do his best at what he could do and bear what he should bear.
Kento Nanami looked at the corpse before him in silence for a moment, then stepped forward and closed the corpse's eyes.
The desire for atonement in Kento Nanami's heart receded under his control.
Everything around him began to blur.
When he opened his eyes again, Kento Nanami was back in the basement from earlier.
Tomie, who had been pinned beneath him, was gone.
The sound of fighting still came from behind him.
Kento Nanami turned around.
He found Yu Haibara carefully subduing the frenzied Yukiko Miwo.
And behind Yu Haibara, the figure of Teacher Takagi had also disappeared.
Yukiko Miwo's condition at this moment was very unusual.
Half of her face looked as if countless distorted blood vessels were bulging from beneath her skin.
Her body also erupted with unimaginable immense strength.
Yu Haibara was suddenly ambushed by Yukiko Miwo and failed to prevent Tomie from escaping.
Coupled with Yu Haibara's unwillingness to harm this kind girl, who had just overcome illness and was ready to embrace a beautiful tomorrow,
he found himself constrained.
Kento Nanami got up and walked behind Yukiko Miwo, knocking her unconscious with a hand chop.
"Phew, it's finally quiet."
Yu Haibara sighed in relief.
He really didn't want to hurt this poor girl, who was a bit younger than his own sister.
"Both of them ran away, what should we do?"
Yu Haibara said remorsefully.
"Don't worry, this operation was not without gains."
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