At that moment, they had all changed position and moved to his apartment in Kitayama, Kyoto.
Still, as Suzuki knew that their talk would take a long time, he thought to get a lunch for the three of them first, but—
"HOW COULD YOU BE THINKING ABOUT LUNCH NOW?!"
"Let's go."
While Mai was angry, Maki grabbed his wrist and pulled him.
"...won't you get hungry later? We can get the yoshinoya first, you know?"
Unlike them, Suzuki prioritized his stomach first.
"I will get you Uber Eats later! Now, get back to your place first!"
While Maki pulled Suzuki, Mai pushed him from behind, wishing to get him to go to his place as soon as possible!
"What will you order for me?"
"Anything! So, for now, please just tell us how to solve our problem!"
Yup, Mai was just desperate.
Still, while Maki wasn't as vocal as Mai, without a doubt, her intensity was the same as that of her twin sister, Mai.
The Twin Curse.
This had been haunting them, and it was the reason Mai and Maki hated their clans so much.
Or rather, no sane person would love the Zenin Clan unless they were born as the strong.
Suzuki also had to admit that he might be in their position if he had been born weak, but fortunately, he was just above average, and he also had a drive to grow stronger, so his position wasn't bad.
While he couldn't be the strongest, he knew well that no one within the Zenin Clan could be the strongest either, especially with their limitation from the old-fashioned thought, and the way that they never thought to improve and followed the tradition.
Tradition.
When Suzuki thought about this, he could only laugh, since the tradition was so powerful. No samurai or daimyo would have gone extinct today. If there was a reason why the tradition continued to exist among the jujutsu soccerers till today, it was because their numbers were just as limited as there was only one percent or even less of the people in the society who were considered capable of wielding this power. Only those who were born in this country were considered (according to the setting).
What was even more horrible was that this power wasn't seen as a talent, something to celebrate. Instead, it was seen as a curse, and when people awakened to this power, they felt their lives were as good as over, for it meant they couldn't live among the people.
Yet, what time was it?
The times have changed, and what people once saw as a mystery can now be explained by science, like the curse of twins that befell Mai and Maki.
"...but you really can do it, right, Suzuki-niisan?" Maki's eyes were unlike before; they were no longer stoic and cold, as if she tried to hide her weakness, but there was a clear desperation.
Yet, even though Maki seemed a little pathetic, Suzuki didn't look down on her, nor did he show a strange expression, since he also knew what the twins had faced from childhood to now.
"Yes."
Whether it was Maki or Mai, if Suzuki had never said he could find a way to solve their problem, they knew they had given up as they knew well that they could either live, like this, weak and powerless, and unable to change their fate except for being treated as a tool for politics by their family, or sacrifice one of them, so either Mai or Maki could achieve their full potential as jujutsu soccerer.
When he realized how desperate they were, he quickly changed his attitude, as he knew that while it might be something easy to fix their problem, he had confirmed his theory with the "Manager," and also after he tried the trial and error to max the possibility of theory to be put into a practice, he had confidence to solve the problem of both Mai and Maki.
Still, before that, he explained their problems to them in terms of soccer and science, which was the key to solving them.
"First, let me explain that the 'Twin Curse' is not a mystical tragedy, but a System Optimization Error."
"System Optimization Error?" 2x
While Maki tilted her head with confusion, her stoic face, Mai quickly asked with an impatient expression, "Hurry up and explain!"
"Calm down." Suzuki sighed. "Before, I solved everything. I want you two to understand that what you have experienced isn't a curse like what the other jujutsu sorcerers' society sees you two, but as quantum-entangled in the eyes of science."
"What does that mean, Suzuki-niisan?" Maki asked politely.
"It means that you two are two particles acting as one system. The traditional sorcery view says, "One must die for the other to be whole." However, the Physics view says, "We just need to adjust the distribution of energy in the closed system."
Suzuki sat the two down on the sofa in his apartment to explain what they experienced mathematically, writing down the easy explanation on the whiteboard.
"Currently, you two are sharing a single 'account' of Cursed Energy."
In the sorcerer society, a twin was considered a single person, and that was the problem.
"Maki, you want to have zero cursed energy, so you can gain your Heavenly Restriction to gain the physical gift, right?"
"Yes." Maki nodded since, despite how talentless she was, she had a talent known as the Heavenly Restriction, which entailed the restriction bearer having either extremely low levels of, or absolutely zero, cursed energy in exchange for a superhumanly augmented physique.
In its most developed state, where the "physically gifted" harbor absolutely zero cursed energy, unlike most non-sorcerers who have at least a tiny amount, they attain a "body of steel" endowed with unrivalled physical capabilities: strength, speed, endurance, etc., far beyond the bounds of normal humans. Notably, this extends to the five basic senses being heightened to the point that the physically gifted can perceive the presence of cursed spirits by detecting normally imperceptible changes in air density and temperature. In addition, the physically gifted's utter lack of cursed energy grants them exceptional stealth against sorcerers, the ability to freely move through barriers, as well as immunity to the sure-hit effects of domains, which cannot recognize their presence.
The "Sorcerer Killer" Toji Fushiguro was the first person in history to have zero cursed energy, which made his restriction so potent that he was capable of defeating the strongest sorcerers through sheer physical prowess.
Maki, who wielded such a talent, naturally had the same potential as Toji Fushiguro, but as her body was connected to Mai, she had a little amount of the cursed energy, which made her unable to tap the full potential of her physical gift, or rather, having the cursed energy was simply a curse for her, since if she wanted to change her status quo, she had to lose all of her cursed energy, so that way, she could erase all the shame, and determine her own fate!
"On the other hand, Mai needs a high amount of cursed energy for her construction technique."
"So, what should we do to solve this problem?"
Mai's innate ability in construction technique was quite good, as she could practically create something from nothing. Unfortunately, due to the amount of cursed energy required, this technique was as good as meaningless, as it could only be used to create a single bullet a day.
"Currently, you two are in a lukewarm middle ground. Maki has a "leak" of cursed energy from Mai, which weakens her body, and Mai is supporting two souls with one fuel tank, weakening her sorcery."
Suzuki drew the example and wrote it on the board so the two understood what their problem was.
"Now, what you two have been waiting for."
Suzuki looked at the two of them and outlined his proposal for their situation. "To solve your situation, I have proposed a solution called The Maxwell's Demon Protocol."
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There is no need to wait!