"Let's get shelter in a school. We will be able to use its ground for practice. My school is nearby, so I know everything about it."
Teruhashi suggested a place of shelter.
Ideally, a school is the most used place for shelter. It has many rooms, kitchen, cleaning supplies, and washrooms.
But...
"No. Cursed Energy is created due to negative emotions. So school must have more powerful Cursed Spirits. Let's go for the least stressful place—"
"How about a love hotel?"
Honjo pointed at the love hotel nearby.
"Hey! We have a kid here!"
Sato scolded Honjo, but he scoffed.
"I bet he knows that sort of things already. Kids these days with internet get exposed to that stuff all the time."
Sato's kid, Kentaro, who is probably 10-11 year old kid, averted his eyes as Honjo stared at him.
"Kenta—"
"Shh! Don't shout. You will attract other players."
I whispered to him, and considered Honjo's suggestion.
Gojo Satarou said that love leads to the strongest curses.
But, it's probably due to getting rejected or loosing your loved ones, or things like that.
If someone is going to love hotel, they must be happy.
Thinking about that, I couldn't help but think about Saiko.
...
Sigh. Let's focus on survival first.
I tried to check the internet if anything bad happened in this hotel in the past, but there was no signal.
Ah. How inconvenient.
"The love hotel seems to be the best choice. Let's go there."
So, we made our base in the ground floor of the love hotel.
Surprisingly, electricity was still working. So why is there no signal?
Anyway, we gathered all the food and important supplies from the convenience store and stored them in our rooms. Each room had a fridge. So canned food should be enough for lasting everyone a month.
After getting into our rooms, we gathered in the reception.
"It's going to be 12 AM a few minutes. The dangerous players will probably be hunting in the darkness, so we need to be alert. At all times, 3-4 people should remain awake."
I looked at the kid of our group, Kentaro.
"You should go to sleep. The rest of us will take turns. Today is the first day, so we should get some basics done."
So, we started training.
The first thing to do is Cursed Energy reinforcement. Of the whole body.
While everyone was struggling, I and Teruhashi managed to get a hang of it pretty fast.
Guess it's a perk of watching too much anime?
So we went to the mall to buy some things
I looked at Teruhashi, who was cosplaying as a bunny girl.
According to what she told me, her Cursed Technique 'Cosplay' allows her to get the abilities of the character she is cosplaying as.
Thankfully, it was Halloween a few hours ago, so finding cosplay in mall was very easy.
First, she cosplayed as Naruto, her favourite character.
"Hehehehe! Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
She made the handsigns and shouted excitedly.
A Shadow Clone really appeared!
But it took all her Cursed Energy to make a single Shadow Clone. Which also puffed away in less than 5 seconds after exhausting everything.
"Ugh... So I can't use moves that use too much Cursed Energy huh?"
"You have to choose someone who is very efficient."
"Efficient... I can't think of anything... Ughhhhhh! I don't watch much Shounen!"
And speaking of efficient, Gojo Satarou came in my mind.
But, I think cosplaying as Toji will be better. As it will not only remove the problem of Cursed Energy itself, but she will be useful in running away and work well in Domains.
Though if she cosplays as Gojo, mastering his technique will be too difficult, and I don't expect her to master Domain Expansion. And without Reverse Cursed Technique, she wouldn't be able to go on like him.
Still, cosplaying as Gojo will provide her maximum safety... unless Kenjaku decides to kill her.
If someone had such a great Cursed Technique in the og story and still didn't get mentioned once, she probably died early.
"I have two ideas—!"
Suddenly, we felt a shiver.
A Cursed Spirit appeared.
"Please... This item can't be returned..."
...A Cursed Spirit which can speak!?
Shit!
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