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Chapter 3 - Being a 25-year-old

Mirai relaxed his shoulders and said, "Josuke-kun, I feel much more relaxed now."

"It's very effective."

The bending game ended with Soma Josuke admitting defeat.

His body is not made of water, it's very hard. Now that the goal has been achieved, there is no need to compete further.

"Ahem, Josuke-kun, you lost." Mirai looked very happy.

"What do you want me to do?"

Without the cursed spirit, Soma Josuke's expression became awkward. His attention was previously focused on the eight-armed cursed spirit and he didn't find it strange at all.

"It's getting late, why don't you take me back?"

Soma Josuke secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

As a gentleman, Soma Josuke would have sent her back even if she didn't say it.

I looked at the watch and it was almost 6 o'clock.

My future home is very close, and the round trip only takes 30 minutes, which is just the right time to cook dinner when I get back.

This time there was an unexpected gain. He learned her full name – Dongxue Weilai – through the nameplate in front of Weilai's house.

I don't know why, it seems like I'm hearing this surname for the first time and there is no impression of it in my memory at all.

Soon, Yui came back and asked him mysteriously if anything special happened today.

There is indeed a special thing that has caused your brother a lot of trouble.

Although he complained in his mind, he still pretended nothing happened, which made Yui even more curious.

After dinner, he returned to his room, opened the system panel, and checked his changes.

[Host: Soma Josuke]

Age: 16

[Strength: E, Agility: E, Stamina: E, Curse Power: ? ]

[Skill: Demon Control Extreme]

[Shikigami: Kazan of the Sword Soul]

[Mantra: None]

The four words "the ultimate in ghost control" awakened memories deep in his head.

Strictly speaking, DNF was the first online game he played, and the Ultimate Demon Control was the passive skill of Devil May Cry's second awakening in DNF.

Although he never met Grandpa Luke due to various reasons, he had at least gone up the mountain to kill Matika.

Alas, it has been a long time since I heard Celia's heart-wrenching voice.

Thinking back on it now, it's a bit sad. I just don't know how she is doing and whether there are any brave warriors fighting for her.

After a sigh, Soma Josuke suddenly realized a very serious problem.

To put it simply, Kazan of Sword Soul is just a red formation that increases the intelligence and strength of teammates. It is a basic skill that all Ghost Swordsmen have. What's the use of it?

With doubts in his mind, he patiently studied for an hour and barely understood the function of this shikigami.

When Kazan is present, the strength of the spell power of people within a certain range near it will increase.

The range is about 10 meters in radius with Kazan as the center. It will have no effect if the distance is farther.

Kazan has no physical body and can move through walls based on Soma Josuke's thoughts.

But there is still a question, what will happen if the enemy walks into Kazan's range.

He couldn't test this now.

They shouldn't be upgraded together, otherwise, this Shikigami would be a bit too bad.

Putting aside the Shikigami for the time being, he began to study the attributes on his panel whose values were all E.

After experimenting with everything he could find at home, he discovered that he was truly a worthless fighter.

Lifting a five-gallon bucket of water with one hand already feels a bit strenuous, and I can only do 20 squats while holding the bucket of water. In short, it is really as ordinary as it can be.

He even went outside for a run, and it took him more than 15 seconds to run 100 meters. It can't be said to be a bit slow, but it can only be said to be too slow.

The system doesn't indicate how to improve these attributes, so you can only figure it out on your own, which is a bummer.

However, the most urgent task now is to understand this world, and Soma Josuke began to search for information on the Internet.

He discovered that there were indeed places called Jujutsu High Schools in Kyoto and Tokyo.

However, apart from the address, the only information we could find was that these were two religious sister schools, and no other information was available.

Soma Josuke was lying on the bed thinking about what happened today. He realized that he might not be able to go to school as normally as the original owner did before.

Now that it has been confirmed that it is a world of sorcery, he has to consider one question – whether or not he should let the sorcery world notice him.

The best outcome would be if one could enter the Jujutsu High School in an ordinary way without attracting the attention of those higher-ups.

He only read the settings of the comics and a small part of the plot at the beginning, and his understanding of the current world of sorcery only stopped at the strongest Gojo Satoru and several other special-grade sorcerers.

Gojo Satoru should be a teacher at the Tokyo Jujutsu High School. If I could get close to him, at least I would have more security in this world.

You can also hone your cursed power in the Curse High School. If you are alone all the time, you will be doomed if you encounter a cursed spirit that you cannot deal with.

After all, he hasn't discovered that his shikigami has any means of attack, so being a 25-man… no, being a support is not bad either.

I don't know how powerful a shikigami like me is that can increase the strength of cursed energy, but it should be a relatively rare species.

The next day, Yui went to school after breakfast.

Soma Josuke called his teacher and asked for a long vacation.

The teacher just asked a few simple questions and approved his leave, which wasted the perfect leave reason he copied from the Internet.

Since there is a plan to enter a technical high school, then ability is a must. Now I only have one shikigami, and the control of spell power is sometimes effective and sometimes not.

What he lacks now is time, he needs practice.

The experience of releasing cursed energy from before can be said to be very useful. Soma Josuke is already able to make his cursed energy flow in his body by imitating the feeling at that time, but it is still a little obscure.

His speed in summoning shikigami also needs to be improved, as it took more than 10 seconds the first time he summoned.

After a whole night of constant summoning-recalling-summoning, he only shortened the time to more than 4 seconds, which was still too slow and enough for him to die several times.

Continuous practice also led him to an important discovery: his cursed power did not seem to decrease due to repeated summoning of Shikigami.

After ruling out the ridiculous idea that summoning a shikigami does not consume magical power, he became even more curious about the magical power indicator on his panel that showed a question mark.

Something like cursed power is transformed from one's own emotions.

But even if the transformation was faster, it couldn't support him summoning Shikigami so many times, so he now had two inferences:

1. Your own spell power is infinite.

2. The system comes with a mechanism for quickly replenishing spell power.

He himself didn't know which of these two possibilities it was.

If it is the first type, it would be more reasonable to display it as infinite.

As for the second type, the system can even give out techniques as rewards, so it is not surprising that it can do this.

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