The absolute conditions of my blinding vows follow.
During battle, I cannot perceive future danger, killing intent, cursed energy fluctuations, or trajectory prediction. No instinctive dodging. No danger sense. No precognition. Even domain sure-hit awareness is dulled until impact.
I cannot formulate multi-step strategies once combat begins. I need to highlight this. Once the compact begins, it means I do it before direct confrontation.
Once the vow is invoked in a fight, it cannot be deactivated until the battle ends or the user is incapacitated or admit defeat. Which means I can choose to activate my blinding vows before the battle or remain inactive throughout.
Because the restriction endangers me constantly, the vow compensates violently.
Muscles operate beyond my natural cursed reinforcement limits. Strength scales dynamically to enemy threat level (Basically mean he can mirror enemy strength). Bone density and tendon resilience temporarily rival cursed tools.
Cursed energy output increases 3–5× baseline. Reinforcement becomes instinctive, not conscious. Energy leaks outward like pressure—nearby, any being with cursed energy feels crushed.
While I cannot predict, my body reacts after impact begins but before damage finalizes.
Damage taken converts directly into cursed energy for the next action. The closer I am to death, the more terrifying the output becomes.
If I win despite being blinded by the vow, my baseline physical ability permanently increases slightly after each battle.
And last, if I break my vows, then the cost of Failure
Total cursed energy collapse for 24 hours and Severe physical backlash (muscle tearing, internal bleeding, possible death)
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"Sweet," I murmur to myself as the strength starts pouring into each fiber of muscle. I don't know if Blinding Vows is good or not, as I don't have anything to compare it to. But now, I feel like I can defeat the curse in front of me.
The curse felt it.
I could tell—not because I sensed its cursed energy or killing intent, not because my instincts warned me, but because the air itself reacted. The pressure pouring out of my body made the grass flatten, stones tremble, and the curse's movements stutter like it had suddenly stepped into deep water.
My vision was wrong.
I couldn't read trajectories. Couldn't anticipate where it would strike next. The world existed only in the now—impact without warning, pain without prelude.
My body moved.
Projection sorcery activated with brute certainty. The sequence was simpler than anything I'd ever used before.
I appeared behind the curse and drove my heel down.
The dropkick landed.
This time, it wasn't like kicking stone.
It was like dropping a tank into the curse
The curse's arm—raised to block out of habit—folded in on itself with a wet, cracking sound, joints compressing where they were never meant to. The impact cratered the ground beneath it, shock rippling outward as if the earth itself had taken offense.
The curse shrieked.
I felt it then it felt pain.
It slammed backward into a gravestone, the stone exploding into fragments. I didn't wait. Waiting required planning, and planning was forbidden now.
I charged.
It lashed out blindly, claws raking across my side. I didn't dodge. Didn't even flinch.
The moment its attack connected, my body reacted—my core muscles tightening, cursed energy detonating outward like a delayed explosion. The claws scraped across reinforced flesh, drawing blood but failing to dig deep.
Pain burned.
And instantly, That pain converted.
Cursed energy surged up my spine, flooding my limbs, screaming for release.
Totally unrelated but I am getting a boner because of excessive curse energy flowing through my body.
I answered with attack with my own sweet retaliation.
I grabbed the curse by its wrinkled, faceless head and drove my knee upward.
Once.
Then Twice.
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While Naoya was fighting the curse, there was two figures who were observing him with tears in their eyes.
"He is really cool." Maki unconsciously said she looked at the fight. It felt like Naoya was protecting them like the knight in shining armor.
Someone she never thought she'd see meet in her lifetime. Mai nodded at Maki's words.
"Mother said that it was our destiny to serve our next head. I am starting to think it isn't such a bad proposal after all." Mai murmured, but it was loud enough for Maki to also hear.
Normally, Maki would be against it, but looking at Naoya's figure that was blocking every incoming attack in their direction. Even Maki started to think, if Naoya were the next head, then she wouldn't mind serving him after all.
"Truly, a knight in shining armor."
The hearts of the twins started beating in a synchronized manner as they both looked at Naoya. And they made decisions.
'That man is mine.'
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Each impact sent shockwaves through my bones, but they held—denser, tougher, temporarily elevated to something closer to a cursed tool than flesh.
The curse tried to retaliate.
It failed.
Its movements were slowing—not because it was weak, but because the pressure around me was crushing its output. My cursed energy wasn't refined; it was violent, leaking outward, compressing everything nearby. Any being with cursed energy would feel it like standing under a waterfall made of gravity.
I felt my muscles tearing microscopically with every motion.
Didn't matter.
The closer I edged toward death, the more the power answered.
"Yeah," I muttered through clenched teeth. "This is definitely broken."
I drove my sword forward.
Just a thrust backed by everything my body had left.
The blade pierced through its torso—and this time, the curse couldn't flick it away. Cursed energy detonated from the wound, ripping through its form from the inside out.
The curse convulsed backwards and Then shattered.
Its body unraveled into black ash, dispersing into the air like smoke caught in sunlight.
Silence followed.
My knees buckled.
I collapsed to the ground, gasping, every muscle screaming in protest. Blood dripped from my side, my hands trembling violently as the vow finally released its grip.
The world rushed back in—sounds too loud, light too sharp.
Mai was there in an instant, grabbing my shoulders.
"Naoya!" she shouted. "What the hell was that?!"
I laughed weakly.
"Heh… don't copy it," I said. "Terrible technique. Absolutely awful."
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