The little girl, who had been weaving through the dim alley, seemed to recall something. She stopped and took out several strange devices from her backpack, resembling cameras or probes, and placed them by her feet.
Soon, a tall woman in a tattered brown trench coat, her body wrapped in bandages, appeared at the alley entrance.
The strangely behaving woman blocked the little girl's escape route and walked towards her step by step.
If anyone had been nearby, they would have immediately called the police.
But at this moment, the alley was deserted.
Strangely, the little girl remained silent, staring intently at the eerie woman.
"Am... am I beautiful?"
The surrounding space suddenly turned pale blue, as if the little girl and the eerie woman had been placed inside a giant box.
"Born of darkness, arriving from the deepest dark. Foul Cursed Remnants, be utterly exorcised."
The already dim sky seemed to be dyed an even darker color, and Eiji cast a barrier to prevent ordinary people from observing.
"That should do it. Now for those professors."
Then Eiji turned his gaze to a truck that had just arrived nearby. Several assistants were unloading experimental equipment from the truck.
"This is incredible, it's like frozen space from a sci-fi movie."
A young assistant looked excitedly at the simple domain released by the Slit-Mouthed Woman.
"Could it be that the molecular motion in that space is frozen, like absolute zero?"
A young man who had just finished setting up the experimental equipment also began to fantasize.
After all, supernatural powers were something every young person yearned for.
Having recently graduated, they were still at an age of innocence and fantasy. They were academically excellent but not top-tier, and without connections, they couldn't get into their ideal research institutions. They had originally planned to just coast by.
Later, they received an interview invitation and discovered several well-known former professors among the staff. With a "might as well try" attitude, they interned at the Eastern Folklore Research Institute for a while.
And then, their world was opened up.
"How could it be absolute zero? The air is still flowing inside."
A professor with half-white hair raised his detector.
"You two, stop daydreaming and come help. We're pressed for time."
"Yes!"
The two assistants, wearing glasses, immediately stood at attention, bowed, and joined the urgent research.
When they noticed a tiger, one person tall, three to four meters long, and with wings, appear beside them, their legs trembled with fear.
Slap.
The professor with half-white hair swatted the heads of the two assistants.
"Stop dawdling and hurry up."
"But Professor, there's a tiger over there."
"That's our bodyguard. You're new here, you don't know, but we have plenty of these bodyguards."
"What?"
The two assistants looked dumbfounded. After coming to their senses, they worked even harder.
There were so many Cursed Spirits in the institute, oh no, Summoned Spirits. If they performed well, could they also apply for one?
At the front of the research team, in front of the Slit-Mouthed Woman's simple domain.
Eiji and Suguru Geto were studying the Slit-Mouthed Woman's simple domain.
A Cursed Spirit walked up to the simple domain and was forced to stop.
A pale blue barrier, like transparent glass, blocked the Cursed Spirit's path.
"My Cursed Spirit is completely immobilized. Is this a Domain Expansion?"
Suguru Geto was trying to control the Cursed Spirit inside the barrier to break free from the Slit-Mouthed Woman's simple domain.
"This is still an incomplete domain. If it were a complete Domain Expansion, the Slit-Mouthed Woman wouldn't be a quasi-Special Grade Cursed Spirit, but a true Special Grade Cursed Spirit."
Eiji chimed in from the side.
Eiji had also had Little Black test the hardness of the simple domain earlier and found that with Little Black's strength, it could be broken from the outside.
However, Eiji wasn't in a hurry. On one hand, Suguru Geto's Cursed Spirit might get injured, but it wouldn't be life-threatening.
On the other hand, the professors and scholars behind them were enthusiastically researching, so there was no need for him to engage the Slit-Mouthed Woman so quickly.
Once the Slit-Mouthed Woman was subdued by Suguru Geto, there wouldn't be many opportunities for research.
Suguru Geto had to attend school and take on Cursed Spirit extermination requests, so he had very little time to visit the institute.
If it were a weaker Grade 2 or Grade 3 Cursed Spirit, Suguru Geto could directly hand it over to the institute for the scholars and professors to study at their leisure. However, a quasi-Special Grade Cursed Spirit couldn't be casually left at the institute.
If, by any chance, it triggered the Cursed Spirit's attack, he, being far away at school, might not even have time to order a stop.
So, for now, he would let these scholars and professors study it for a while longer.
As for the Cursed Spirits inside, they weren't feared at all.
The little girl inside was a Special Grade Demon Cursed Spirit that had transformed, skilled in shapeshifting.
The Slit-Mouthed Woman was mainly rated as a quasi-Special Grade Cursed Spirit due to her simple domain, which granted her a single, guaranteed hit attack.
This attack was extremely dangerous for Jujutsu Sorcerers; one wrong move could cost them their life.
However, it was nothing to a Special Grade Demon Cursed Spirit.
Although it lacked a domain, its inherent strength was genuinely Special Grade. While the Slit-Mouthed Woman's attack stung, it was difficult to threaten the Special Grade Cursed Spirit's life.
The scene fell into an eerie silence.
The Slit-Mouthed Woman's simple domain created an area where participants could not attack each other.
Within this domain, the Slit-Mouthed Woman would ask the target a question. Once the target answered, the Slit-Mouthed Woman would launch her attack.
Summoning several giant scissors to shred the opponent.
Unfortunately, in the original story, the Slit-Mouthed Woman encountered Toji Fushiguro.
Toji Fushiguro was a complete Heavenly Restriction, possessing zero Cursed Energy.
To a domain, he was an invisible person, unrecognizable, like a tree or a stone by the roadside.
This was also why Toji Fushiguro was able to knock away all of the Slit-Mouthed Woman's scissors before her scissor attack could land.
The domain couldn't recognize Toji Fushiguro, rendering the guaranteed hit attack ineffective. The Slit-Mouthed Woman had to manually control the scissors to attack Toji Fushiguro, thus, although the attack was launched, it lost its guaranteed hit property. Toji Fushiguro could then treat it as a normal attack and counter it.
Speaking of which, Suguru Geto was quite unlucky. The two trump cards of his second year at Jujutsu High – the Special Grade Cursed Spirit Rainbow Dragon, known for its physical strength, and the Slit-Mouthed Woman, powerful due to her simple domain's guaranteed hit attack – were both completely countered by Toji Fushiguro.
The Rainbow Dragon was cut by the Soul Release Blade, which ignored hardness, while the Slit-Mouthed Woman's strongest move, a guaranteed hit attack usable only once per battle, was rendered useless.
Just as Eiji's thoughts drifted afar, the Slit-Mouthed Woman, who had been silent for a long time, finally made a new move.
The Slit-Mouthed Woman felt insulted.
In the past, anyone who encountered her either screamed and fled, or fought her with fear in their hearts, even those who could defeat her.
But what were these people around her?
This little girl in front of her had stared at her expressionlessly for over an hour without saying a word.
Was she mute?
And those two behind her were actually discussing her right in front of her.
The curious gazes from dozens of meters behind, which felt like they wanted to strip her bare and study her, were unbearable.
As an existence that had lived for over twenty years and reached the level of a quasi-Special Grade Cursed Spirit, the Slit-Mouthed Woman was clearly not a completely brainless Cursed Spirit.
Thus, the not-so-bright Slit-Mouthed Woman became enraged.
Her bandaged mouth opened, revealing a mouth full of sharp teeth, stretching to her ears in a bloody grin.
The pale blue simple domain disappeared, and the scissors that had surrounded the little girl began to descend upon her.
As the scissors fell, the Slit-Mouthed Woman wasn't idle. The small pair of scissors in her hand grew larger, and she turned to stab at Eiji.
In her perception, this human harbored the most ill intentions towards her.
Eiji, who had mentally run through all the tricks netizens used to deal with the Slit-Mouthed Woman in his past life: ???
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