Curse back: As a swordsman, what's wrong with a happy ending?

Su Ze perked up a little and waited for his next words.

"Ze, the curse was born from people's "negative emotions" -"

Gojo Gotan was not blunt.

"Among these, fear, anger, and anxiety are the most important emotions."

Su Ze guessed what he was going to say, and he once again recalled the mission description about Kyushu Island.

So he continued softly, "For the island nation of Dongyang, located at the junction of plates, people generally "fear" something..."

Gojo Satoru nodded slightly in affirmation.

"Yeah. It should be 'earthquake', 'tsunami'... and 'volcanic eruption'."

The East Ocean is located at the junction of the Pacific Plate and the Eurasian Plate. The crustal movement is active and extremely unstable, and the Pacific Rim seismic belt almost covers the entire East Ocean Four Islands.

"...Are you trying to say that the curse of Kyushu was born out of people's fear of 'nature'?" Su Ze frowned.

Gojo Satoru tilted his head, tapped his cheek and said, "Who knows..."

"I went to the scene... It was completely destroyed. There was some filth, but it was obviously mixed with many kinds of things - it was impossible to tell what it was."

He sighed softly, his bandaged eyes showing no expression at all.

In his opinion, the other party's behavior was quite obvious - they just wanted to blur the key curse. Those messy residues and remaining cursed power were deliberately added by the later comers.

"…"Six Eyes" doesn't work either?" Su Ze asked.

"The Six Eyes can only allow me to clearly see the existence of each type of "filth", but I can only judge which cursed spirit these "filth" belong to and when they were left behind... These things can only be judged based on experience--"

This is actually no longer a secret.

The "Six Eyes" - also known as the "Eyes of the Sky", its main function is to accurately analyze the techniques and to finely control the magic power.

Gojo Satoru leaned back in his chair, put his legs on the desk, and spread his hands, saying, "In the end, I searched the entire Kyushu Island, and only barely found a curse that had just entered the special level—"

"To be honest, if I don't find anything, I will definitely not give up-"

Gojo Satoru added hesitantly, "…But it was such a coincidence that just when I was hesitating, this thing appeared—"

Su Ze frowned slightly: "A special-grade cursed spirit that can bear all these responsibilities no matter how you look at it."

It's such a coincidence, as if it was done on purpose.

"...'Scapegoat'." Su Ze closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair.

Gojo Satoru hummed lightly.

Su Ze sighed and said slowly: "You may not know that two days ago, when the incident happened in Kyoto, Jie was also found by two special cursed spirits——"

Gojo Satoru was stunned.

——He really didn’t know about this.

He didn't return from Kyushu until this morning, and after returning he went straight to Su Ze to confirm the situation.

After all, no matter how you look at it, Jay is clearly out of the picture right now - even those old guys don't want to mess with him.

Moreover, he has been semi-retired with the reason of "his state of mind was damaged and his strength dropped sharply".

"It can be seen that the other party is obviously very anxious--" Su Ze said slowly, "He wants to take advantage of this chaos to interfere."

He opened the drawer under his desk and took out a wooden box, inside which was a thin object sealed with a talisman.

Su Ze pushed forward.

Gojo Satoru picked up the thin object and then frowned slightly.

"The other party even used this thing... at such a cost, to forcibly catalyze a special-grade curse—"

Su Ze held his cheek with his hands, his eyes deep.

Gojo Satoru frowned slightly and threw the small cursed object to Su Ze.

“…The finger of Sukuna?” Gojo Satoru said in a slightly lower tone.

"Well," Su Ze casually raised his hand to grab the finger, then put it back, "Jie found it in one of the special cursed ones--"

"Two special grade curses, one was almost forcibly "catalyzed" by a finger; the other one, with only a large amount of cursed power, is weak in strength——"

The situation of that one was the same as the curse that Suze and Nitro encountered at the station that summer a few years ago.

Xia Youjie also told Su Ze with certainty that the feeling of incongruity was the same as the one he had exterminated a few years ago.

"Not to mention that Jie's strength itself has not been damaged at all, and I also gave him a few talismans with glass curse power beforehand--"

Glass's "Reversal Ritual" can heal the magician.

But for the cursed spirits formed by "positive curse power", the output of "negative curse power" is absolutely poisonous.

The talisman that contains a little bit of Nozomi's magic and magical power may play a miraculous role at a critical moment.

"So, you're saying that there's a 'third party' that we don't know about that wants Jay's life?"

There was a hint of sharpness in Gojo Satoru's tone.

The opponent was willing to use a Sukuna finger to launch a sneak attack on Geto Suguru. This thankless behavior itself is extremely intriguing.

Fortunately, thanks to the caution of Yu Suze and Xia Youjie, they were able to trick the other party due to the "information gap".

The opponent's fangs were clearly revealed as early as the summer four years ago when Geto Suguru's mood was shaken.

"...It can't be considered completely 'unclear', at least I have some clues--" Su Ze lowered his eyebrows and said softly.

However, no matter whether it is "Nosuke" or "Sukuna", these things cannot be explained in just a few words.

"No matter what, the current situation is very good..."

"As for the rest, we will have plenty of time and energy to deal with them later."

Su Ze made the knot.

Gojo Satoru shook his toes to show his agreement.

……

What follows is the lengthy and tedious process of power transfer.

The first is the issue of the "Three Great Families".

On the "Zen Temple" side, the head of the family, Zenin Naohito, actively cooperated. Not only did he take the initiative to reveal the "Zen Temple"'s property and personnel list, he also "donated" all the industries scattered across the country to the new "General Director's Council".

Before Su Ze could say anything, the power of "Zen Temple" had shrunk by one third.

——It’s like cutting off one’s own arm.

But no matter how you look at it, such a heroic act of self-sacrifice is much better than losing the entire city.

"Gojo" is relatively easy. The young and vigorous Gojo Ao has long been interested in innovation. Although he has little talent in the field of magic, he has long been focused on the various affairs of "Gojo".

It is better to say that the normal operation of the Gojo family can be without the head of the family, Gojo Satoru, but not without Gojo Ao.

Kamo was subjected to a harsh "liquidation". Most of its industries were taken over by the newly established central organization, and the remaining members of the main family could only barely maintain the remnants.

Then, about the future direction of the three major families.

Su Ze decided to use Da Yan's "Enfeoffment Order"1 as a framework to peel off the ties between family members and the main family layer by layer, and erode its original huge structure.

As compensation for losing their family rights, those clan members were granted corresponding positions in the newly established Spell Committee.

Most of these are members of branch families, and after entering new organizations, they often become new forces that "oppose the privileges of the Three Great Families."

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Note 1: The "Enfeoffment Order" was an important decree issued by Emperor Wu of Han to consolidate the central power. Previously, the territories governed by the princes were inherited only by their eldest sons, but the decree changed it to a joint inheritance by the eldest, second, and third sons.

In plain words, the fiefdom that was originally inherited by one person was now inherited by three sons. As a result, the actual jurisdiction of the princes was gradually divided, and naturally they gradually lost the power to resist the "central government".