After Shin revealed some of his secrets to Satoru, it felt as if a heavy weight had been lifted from his heart. If he had any arrangements in the future, Satoru would be his strongest support.
For example, right now, Shin pulled out a compass emitting a colorful glow and pushed it in front of Satoru, saying, "Gojo-sensei, I wonder if you're interested in going with me to take down the big mastermind behind the scenes? This compass will guide us."
Satoru looked down and scratched his head, asking in a low voice as if afraid of hurting Shin's pride, "Um... Shin, is this compass constantly spinning because it's charging up?"
"Huh?"
After Satoru understood the full story, he also roughly guessed why Shin's compass had failed.
"It's likely blocked by a special Barrier Technique. Actually, there are quite a few Barriers that shield against others' Cursed Techniques. For example, Tengen's Tombs of the Star Corridor is completely covered by such a barrier."
"The Cursed Spirits' side likely has a Curse User with high proficiency in Barriers, and they seem very cautious."
Although Shin felt it was a pity, he was quite helpless and could only put the compass away.
"Then there's no other way. We're back in a passive position now, Gojo-sensei."
Satoru said, "Haha, Jujutsu Sorcerers are just the passive side, it's been like this for a thousand years. Only after Cursed Spirits commit evil do we Jujutsu Sorcerers go to resolve the matter. It's almost become an established practice now—oh, wait, not anymore. I should say it used to be."
There are simply too many Cursed Spirits in the world. In terms of numbers alone, they are over a thousand times more numerous than Jujutsu Sorcerers. Originally, as long as Cursed Spirits didn't cause trouble, sorcerers didn't have the energy to deal with them.
But since the last collective mobilization of Cursed Spirits causing trouble across the country, the Higher-Ups issued an absolute order: exterminate all Cursed Spirits!
Furthermore, they assigned performance targets to every Jujutsu Sorcerer, and failure to meet them would lead to accountability. This left the Jujutsu Sorcerers of the entire Jujutsu World miserable, with their workload increasing more than tenfold.
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After saying goodbye to Satoru, Shin returned to his dormitory to continue researching his Cursed Technique.
He took out an odd-looking command block, placed it on the ground, and then tried to input Cursed Energy into it.
"It's useless. No reaction at all."
He then tried inputting experience points, but there was still no reaction.
"Could it be that it can only be used within a Domain?"
He partially expanded his Domain and fiddled with the command block inside, but no matter how hard he tried, the command block remained unresponsive, just like an ordinary stone.
After fiddling for a whole morning, Shin was so hungry his stomach was sticking to his back. He took out a steak, took a bite, and then frowned in disgust.
"The taste is fine, but I'm tired of eating it. Never mind, I'll go to the cafeteria."
Shin casually threw the half-eaten steak onto the command block placed on the ground and headed out to the Jujutsu High cafeteria to find food.
Inside the cafeteria, everyone from Jujutsu High was eating, while Satoru was slowly enjoying dessert on the side.
Shin got a meal and sat down across from Yuji.
"Huh... Itadori, your lunch is a bit... blood-enriching."
Yuji's plate had pig liver, wood ear mushrooms, and beetroots. The soup was a sweet red bean soup with a few red dates added—it looked very blood-enriching at a glance.
Yuji replied, "Ah... it's because the Cursed Technique I use requires my own blood. Although Sukuna has stored dozens of liters in the mark, the more blood, the better."
Nobara, who was nearby, leaned her head over and complained, "I originally told him to ask Ieiri-sensei for help, storing blood while being healed, or to ask you for help, storing it while eating your technique's creations. But he's a blockhead and didn't want to trouble you guys, so he found some folk remedies for enriching blood online and is eating them here."
"I'm afraid he'll just faint from anemia during training this afternoon."
Yuji scratched his head and said, "After all, this isn't something that can be solved in a few minutes, and I'd feel bad troubling you guys for a long time. Ieiri-sensei is very busy, and Kagura has his own things to do. Besides, there's no rush to store blood. I can just take my time."
Shin shook his head helplessly, took out a Potion of Healing, and handed it to him.
"Itadori, we're brothers. Why wouldn't I help with such a small favor? Besides, it's not that much trouble. Come straight to my dorm after lunch."
Yuji took the Potion of Healing with an embarrassed look and drank it.
"Then I'll be in your care in a bit, Kagura."
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Megumi and Junpei were pestering Satoru to lead their training. Satoru only agreed to Junpei's request and then kicked Megumi over to Shin.
"Fushiguro, the way for you to increase your strength is simple: just tame your Shikigami. Go straight to Shin and have him make you a Super Invincible Strengthening Potion to drink. Then you can easily tame the Shikigami."
Megumi helplessly said, "The Taming Ritual can only be performed by one person. Gojo-sensei, didn't you know that?"
Satoru nodded. "I of course know. But the ritual determines the number of participants based on whether there's a second type of Cursed Energy within the ritual range. Shin's potion doesn't produce Cursed Energy that doesn't belong to you in your body, so it's perfectly fine."
"Then why didn't you mention this method sooner? If I had known earlier, Itadori might not have..."
Satoru flicked Megumi's forehead and said as if it were obvious, "Of course, it was to make you work a bit harder yourself. If I had told you earlier, you probably would have slacked off long ago. But now is an extraordinary time. No matter what means you use, getting stronger as quickly as possible is the way to go."
Megumi clutched his reddened forehead, wanting to say something more to Satoru, but in the end, he didn't open his mouth. He could only rub his head while heading off to see Shin.
...
After lunch, Shin brought Yuji and Megumi back to his room. He opened the door and chatted with the two while walking in, then bumped into the command block and fell onto his backside.
'Huh? This... this isn't right. From my dorm to the cafeteria is definitely more than sixty-four meters. Why hasn't the command block despawned?'
After standing up in a daze, he saw that half-eaten steak still on the command block.
'The steak hasn't despawned either. I think I've discovered a little bit of what the command block can do.'
Before researching the command block, he first took out a large batch of Cooked Steaks and stuffed them into Yuji's hands, telling him to eat while storing blood.
Then he took out a Potion of Strength and injected experience points into it.
'Let's start by strengthening the power by twenty times and set the duration to one hour. What! It actually costs fifty levels of experience?! This is highway robbery!'
You have to understand, this is a consumable. Once used, the experience points are gone. Unlike those tool-type items where you can extract the experience when not in use, this potion—fifty levels of experience—gone in a flash.
Although Shin's heart ached for his experience points, he still gritted his teeth and crafted it, then shoved the potion to Megumi.
"Take it away, don't let me see it again, or I'm afraid I won't be able to part with it."