While Miyauchi Hikage was still editing his video at midnight, the early morning in Beika Town was not peaceful.
On the surface, Beika Town was a bustling area close to the city center with a complete set of supporting facilities, apart from its ridiculously high crime rate.
But because of its ley lines, feng shui, and some other messy barriers, beneath the surface prosperity of Beika Town, the hidden world had long since treated this place as Tokyo's dumping ground for vengeful spirits.
Even if this might lead to Beika Town's crime rate and suicide rate being much higher than in other regions.
But the fact was, as the most populous city in Japan and even the entire world, Tokyo did indeed need such a dumping ground.
Over time, those exorcists were naturally unwilling to wander around this place, which was overflowing with malevolent aura.
At most, the Tokyo Jujutsu High would bring new students over to find a few vengeful spirits to practice on when they enrolled each year.
For the rest of the time, as long as no major commotion was stirred up, no one was willing to come here to clean up a batch of vengeful spirits that would inexplicably grow back after a while.
At most, they would come here once a month to check on the state of the vengeful spirits.
They would deal with some of the ones that stood out too much, and the rest would be left here.
This situation had already been going on for many years.
As long as they ensured those vengeful spirits stayed in Beika Town, they didn't have to worry about them causing any trouble.
But this year, for some reason, an accident had occurred in Beika Town.
A large group of vengeful spirits that had been staying obediently in Beika Town had suddenly run out in a swarm!
And by the time the spirit mediums responsible for the areas surrounding Beika Town had finally noticed that the extra vengeful spirits in their own regions might have run out from Beika Town, nearly half a month had already passed since the collective escape.
Faced with those "displaced" vengeful spirits whose emotions were becoming more and more irritable, these spirit mediums had also decisively reported this urgent information to the higher-ups.
These higher-ups referred to the higher-ups of the Shinto shrines and the Jujutsu Headquarters.
Compared to a freelance exorcist with no base like the Godly Mother of Shitamachi, although spirit mediums were also a profession that used spiritual power for exorcism.
But most spirit mediums were based in shrines, signing contracts with the ley lines where the shrines were located. When necessary, they could directly borrow the spiritual power from the ley lines to perform exorcisms, and could exert even greater strength in the region where their shrine was located. And they basically all had official positions in the Shinto religion.
Of course, because they had signed a contract with the ley lines, spirit mediums were definitely not as free as Jujutsu Sorcerers and exorcists. If they were to leave their territory for a long period, they might even suffer a backlash from the ley lines.
And between exorcists and Jujutsu Sorcerers, the latter placed more importance on family inheritance. For hundreds of years, a few Jujutsu families and the Jujutsu Headquarters had held the power of discourse in the Jujutsu world.
The Innate Techniques, which could almost not be acquired later in life, was the threshold.
It was also this threshold that had prevented a large number of talented people from becoming Jujutsu Sorcerers in the past, thus having their talent taken away by onmyoji, other exorcists, or other supernatural forces.
It wasn't until after the establishment of the Tokyo Jujutsu High that a crack was torn in this tradition, and every year, some students with no family background or even Innate Techniques would be absorbed as new blood to become Jujutsu Sorcerers.
At least, relying on the relatively open teaching philosophy of the Tokyo Jujutsu High, and the strong individuals who had come out of it in the past ten years or so, the influence of Jujutsu Sorcerers in the Tokyo area had also been steadily rising over the years.
Although Beika Town was a dumping ground abandoned by the hidden world, it would still be very troublesome if an accident really occurred in the dumping ground.
And so, facing the "anomaly" in Beika Town, besides the higher-ups of the Shinto religion sending a few spirit mediums over to investigate, the Jujutsu higher-ups had naturally also sent a Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer over to investigate the situation.
"As expected, those guys from the Jujutsu higher-ups are also a bunch of dogshit, making people work overtime in the middle of the night," standing on the territory of Beika Town, feeling the malevolent aura rising from the ground, Nanami Kento just wanted to finish the job quickly and get off work.
After becoming a working man, he had always paid considerable attention to the volume of his hair.
Every time he stayed up late to work overtime, it was a test for his hair volume.
And although a place like Beika Town would rarely produce a threatening cursed spirit, one could say that the existence of Beika Town itself was a huge cursed land.
Back then, some big brain had even thought of using a sealed Sukuna's finger to suppress the malevolent aura of Beika Town. The result was that not only was the malevolent aura not suppressed, but even the seal on Sukuna's finger was almost washed away by the malevolent aura.
Working in this place might not be dangerous, but one absolutely could not let one's guard down.
"So have you found out anything from your investigation?"
Nanami Kento asked the few spirit mediums who had come over to work overtime with him.
"We have already communicated with a few of the vengeful spirits that possess intelligence, but for some reason, those vengeful spirits are very reluctant to talk about this matter."
"It should be that some powerful exorcist from out of town or even from abroad passed through Beika Town and used relatively ruthless means to cause great harm to the vengeful spirits, to the point that even these surviving vengeful spirits don't dare to look directly at that exorcist, and have no idea what they look like or any other characteristics."
"A similar situation has actually happened a few times before. After all, this is a bustling area of Tokyo, and there are many foreign tourists. Among them, there are some with special abilities."
"When those tourists see the situation in Beika Town, they will either choose to take a detour, or they will just clean up some of the blind vengeful spirits…"
"But a large-scale cleansing like this is the first time it has happened."
The spirit medium frowned tightly and said what he had investigated. "Thirty percent of the vengeful spirits in Beika Town were directly dispelled, sixty percent suffered injuries of varying degrees, and then the remaining ten percent and a small half of the injured sixty percent were driven by instinct to flee Beika Town, not daring to go back."
"It's fine for these vengeful spirits to stay in Beika Town, but after they leave, they can easily become a real threat. If they are unwilling to return to Beika Town, for safety's sake, we must completely wipe them out."
"A powerful exorcist..." Nanami Kento naturally knew how many vengeful spirits were gathered in Beika Town.
Although there were no special-grade vengeful spirits, the number of those judged to be grade one or two was not small.
Let alone him dealing with them, even if Gojo Satoru were to handle it, it would probably take a whole night.
More importantly, the vengeful spirits here were an endless cycle.
After killing them today, a new batch would pop up in a couple of days.
But a situation like now, where Beika Town was still filled with a sky full of malevolent aura, yet more than seventy percent of the area was clean and not a single vengeful spirit could be seen, and those who had escaped still dared not return.
For such a "powerful individual with cruel methods and unknown motives" to come to Tokyo, who knows what their purpose is.