This was a villa built on Gojo Satoru’s private property.
Its owner, Gojo Satoru, his students, Iori Utahime, and others he had deemed trustworthy had gathered there.
Summer was waning into autumn.
It would have been a perfect time to come and enjoy a leisurely vacation, but the mood among them was anything but relaxed.
All eyes were on the blue-haired girl spreading a large map across the huge table in the center of the room.
Kitano Minami.
Once all the preparations were complete, Kitano Minami began activating her cursed technique for the people gathered in the sealed room, in order to carry out more precise work.
"My cursed technique is Projection. It projects a marked target or location into any space I choose. Put simply, you can think of it as a beam projector."
"Oh, I got it right away."
"Shh! Quiet, Itadori..."
"Kugisaki, you’re the loudest one here...!"
There was a bit of commotion, but fortunately, it did not break Minami’s concentration.
Kitano Minami’s cursed technique, Projection.
It was a technique that projected A onto B.
During the PC cafe incident half a year ago, the scenery around the area had been reproduced identically within the barrier Zenin Daisuke dismantled due to this technique.
If she simply projected it onto a white sheet as she was doing now, only a visual image would appear like a mirage. But when combined with barrier techniques, it was a technique with limitless applications, even capable of accompanying physical force.
What Minami was now preparing to reveal to everyone through her technique was one person’s precise location.
"Trace On. Begin Projection."
At the same time, a red dot appeared on the map.
A line extended from that dot toward a certain location, then stopped.
"Oho..."
"That’s amazing, Minami."
"Hehe."
"So that means... Mechamaru is here?"
The red line drawn across the map was a projection of the cursed energy path connecting one of the cursed corpses controlled by Muta Kokichi—Mechamaru, a second-year at Kyoto Jujutsu High—to the sorcerer himself.
Utahime approached the map to confirm the location.
"This location is definitely... completely different from the address he reported to the school. I suspected it, but Mechamaru really was..."
"Still, Minami, that’s incredible... How did you even track this down? It’s not like your technique’s range covers all of Japan because of a Heavenly Restriction, like Mechamaru’s does."
"Ah~ well, you see!"
As Minami was about to answer Nobara’s question, she glanced discreetly at Itadori Yuji.
The master told me I need to be wary of Sukuna sleeping inside Itadori Yuji. Even if I activate my technique, I must hide the truly important information...
"That’s a secret♡"
"Ah, figures. Sorry. I asked something I shouldn’t have. That kind of thing is rude in the first place."
"It’s okay if it’s you, Nobara!"
Projection was not originally a technique with such a wide range.
But Kitano Minami had twisted its nature by making use of a single binding vow.
[In exchange for concealing that Kitano Minami is a suspect in a jujutsu terrorist attack, she will not betray Zenin Daisuke while attending Jujutsu High as his servant.]
The binding vow Minami had made with her master, Zenin Daisuke.
When Kitano Minami made that vow, she sensed that, under the laws of the world known as binding vows, the very root of her being had become connected to something.
At the other end was Zenin Daisuke’s soul.
She had realized that the binding vow was serving as a bridge connecting their souls.
Overwhelmed by a joy beyond compare, she instinctively realized that soul, too, could become a target of her cursed technique.
Her technique activated immediately.
Minami projected Zenin Daisuke’s soul onto her own and etched it there forever.
As a result, if anything happened to Daisuke’s soul, Minami’s soul could also be affected. But in exchange for taking on that risk, she gained the ability not only to use her technique herself, but also—
「To activate her cursed technique through Zenin Daisuke’s hands as well.」
...Of course, she had not intended for that to happen.
She knew this was an embarrassing thing she had done in a moment of excitement, so she told no one about it.
In practical terms, it was a shocking act: she had written up and handed over a slave contract using her own soul. Yet Minami herself thought of it as little more than secretly filling out a marriage registration form, then hiding it out of embarrassment.
Her master, Zenin Daisuke, had also vaguely inferred from the imaginative instincts unique to a reincarnator that his jujutsu connection with Minami had grown stronger. However, he had no idea she had gone this completely off the rails.
Returning to the matter at hand, Minami’s strengthened path to Zenin Daisuke now allowed her to mark targets for her technique remotely through him.
For that purpose, Zenin Daisuke was currently carrying out a designated mission with Minami so that he could remain in contact with one of Muta Kokichi’s cursed corpses.
"Now that we know the location, I’ll project an area of roughly ten meters around Muta Kokichi and show you what he’s currently doing."
Muta Kokichi’s figure was projected above the table.
A hologram-like image appeared, showing Muta Kokichi and the room around him at one-tenth their actual size.
And there, Muta Kokichi was—
"That’s...!"
"The patchwork cursed spirit...!!"
"Huh? ...Suguru?"
—facing people no one had expected at all.
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"Yo~ Good work, Mechamaru."
"..."
The cursed corpse had stopped moving.
That meant Muta Kokichi had encountered them.
Ding.
A Line message from Minami.
A text summarizing Muta Kokichi’s current location and situation.
"Looks like it’s started. At this distance, flying there myself would be faster, right?"
—Ten Shadows Technique: Nue.
He leaped into the air in the form of Nue’s spirit, a state he had grown accustomed to by now.
"Let’s really raise some hell...!!!"
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