The whole hotel started getting enveloped by mist.
Honjo's Cursed Technique is [Mist]. After becoming a Cursed Spirit, he seems to be attacking indescriminately without any ego as we are running.
Did his death undo the binding vow he made with us?
"Honjo! Come back to your senses—"
"Don't attack him!"
I tried to warn Itsuki, but just as she tried to punch Cursed Spirit Honjo's body, she dropped dead.
So our binding vow with him weren't cancelled!?
That's totally unfair!
Or maybe it's just because Itsuki still saw the Cursed Spirit as Honjo?
So this is a drawback of having a big group huh?
"Take Itsuki and leave! I will deal with him!"
I took a deep breath and erupted my Cursed Energy in full power to protect myself from the the mist.
Thankfully, it isn't poison, just normal mist formed by water droplets. So it isn't that harmful.
I grabbed a pen from my pocket with my left hand, and touched Honjo with my right. The order probably doesn't matter, since pen is not alive.
"Reincarnation!"
And so, Cursed Spirit Honjo flew into the pen, and reincarnated as pen. He could no longer move, but he was still releasing mist.
As I thought, my Cursed Technique isn't registered as 'harm'. But I am not willing to experiment if I can punch Honjo because I no longer think of him as the previous human Honjo.
Teruhashi gritted her teeth and put a shopping bag over the pen releasing mist, wrapping it up.
"Reincarnating him back in his body wouldn't work, right?"
"He has lost his mind. So he will still attack everyone."
"...Then let's place him in a safe place."
Teruhashi seems to have gotten a pretty good idea of how sorcery works in a short amount of time.
Placing Honjo in a safe place will not be 'Harm'.
I sighed and looked at Itsuki, who has died due to violating a binding vow. But her body is fine. Can I reincarnate her?
As I was distracted, a sound of stabbing came.
No no no no!
I grabbed Teruhashi's hand, who was still safe, and shouted at everyone to run.
"RUN!"
The murderer has recognised the cheat of obtaining double points from the same people by killing them without Cursed Energy, turning them into Cursed Spirits.
And he even knows that we can't harm each other.
Shit!
"Aaaah!"
"Save me!"
Shit! He is catching up! Killing everyone indescriminately!
Why the hell is a Cursed Technique like [Invisibility] in the hands of a no name mob, and a murderer at that!?
Think! Think something! He must have been killed by Kashimo in the original story!
"Do you know where Sukuna is?"
As we were running, Kashimo appeared in front of us.
What a luck! I don't know whether it is good or bad!
"Yes! But first kill the murderer chasing us!"
I only saw his grin, and then there was a blur with cackling lightning past us.
His Kogane shouted twice, ["5 points received!"], and the invisible guy died and became visible. Along with another guy.
It was the muscular guy who refused to be the part of the group, along with someone else that he must have turned invisible.
The remaining of us sighed in relief.
Though, those who died started releasing their Cursed Energy and started mixing together.
...Is a Special Grade Cursed Spirit forming!?
Kashimo didn't care about it and asked me, "Why were you running away from such weak sorcerers, when you have so much Cursed Energy?"
"They were invisible..."
"Haven't you learnt how to track Cursed Energy? Even if their bodies and Cursed Energy become invisible, they weren't as proficient. Traces of Cursed Energy were still visible if you tracked Cursed Energy."
"Oh."
I said dumbly. I didn't even know that it was possible.
"Give us a break! We haven't gotten these powers for even a full day yet!"
Teruhashi shouted, finally releasing her stress now that someone powerful has arrived.
But, Kashimo isn't our ally. He almost killed Panda in the original story. If he is willing to kill a cute Panda, he will definitely not hesitate in killing us.
He is a more pressing threat than the Cursed Spirit forming behind him.
"So, where is Sukuna?"
"He is in two places. 3/4th of him is locked in a kid named Itadori Yuji. The rest of him is still in the form of his fingers, and we don't know where they are."
"So Sukuna isn't at his full strength? And locked up in a kid? Kenjaku lied to me!?
Where is this Itadori Yuji?"
"I don't know. But he is under the protection of Gojo Satarou, who is stronger than Sukuna. Though he is currently sealed by Kenjaku, I don't recommend going after Itadori.
If you want a good fight, it will be better for you to help in unsealing Gojo Satarou and fight him."
"I see..."
Kashimo suddenly put his staff against my neck. I couldn't even react.
"I didn't tell you that I want a strong opponent, did I? Are you with Kenjaku?"
Shit! I fucked up!
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