- southeast asia, philipines, manila, date: 23/4/2048
- status of area: unsafe, population: 543k humans, cursed energy residue: immense.
*ring ring ringg
kat: ..my head hurts, think i slept a bit too long
*slowly checks phone*
kat: its 4:23pm wtf.. not my usual time..
kat: ah right i got errands to run, there still should be some errands for me to do during this time
*kat showers, dressed up and gets out of his manor house quickly
the place is a mess, outside of his house is just pure sights of struggle, there are shackles of people living under wooden houses, or shacks, homeless locals sleeping on the ground too, it's a dull and gloomy place, the streets being filled with a senseful dread everywhere, everyone just being scared and feared from curses, the destruction that humanity caused to themselves was irreversible.
kat: despite everything that happened somehow ppl are still able to advance technology in this trash world, im glad i was born before the outbreak cuz even now im genuinely not built for this shit.
*kat takes out his phone and goes onto an app named "MANILA"
kat: it's really convenient that the government made this, in our areas there are couple of stalls you can go to and synchronize your phone using a qr scan to this app to book areas and have a places to stay anywhere u want, im guessing because the aftermath of the outbreak caused a lot of people to become refugees and flee, and in these deserted world where terrifying curses roam everywhere the government of many countries came up with this system to give people their own stay.
*phone beeps
kat: but it's really just a hoax to use people for their own resources and goods as in an apocalyptic world like this, it's obvious that people aren't gonna just accept random ass bums that just leech in ur place like a lil dog, you have to fight for your own spot here.
*High earning errand accepted: Exorcise 4 grade 5 cursed spirits roaming around the district of San Juan, location tracked, VP Potential: 2000.
kat: there are multiple offices in each districts of manila, they basically work as an organized landlords and use a certain kind of system called "value points" with their technology, they're essentially assessing if you're worth keeping in their district or not and these offices are shady as shit, our value points are given through completing errands (for "rats" that under 18 of age.) and tasks (for "fixers" above 18 of age.)
*You have 3 hours to complete this errand, failure will deduct your VPs. (value-points) [Recording mission from the Magandang Will office.
kat locks his house and walks along side the dirty and dull roads of his place, seeing small kids playing football and poor sick old laying on the ground, and cursed residue sensed all over the place,all he felt was the frustration of not being able to do anything for his own people.
A tantrum breaks out to nearby guard in the distance from a folk nearby.
"THIS IS RIDICULOUS!! I CAN BARELY MANAGE ON MY OWN AGAINST CURSED SPIRITS AND NOW IM BEING FORCED TO EXORCISE THEM?? WHY CAN'T I JUST KEEP DOING THE ERRANDS?"
"Keep your tone down you peasant, rules are rules and if you can't deal with it then just leave this district you weakling."
"But that's not fair at all! not everyone is built for combat are you stupid!?"
"Last warning."
....
kat: You're evicted and put under suspension and watch if your VPs goes into the negatives, the office doesn't really give a shit about people and just barely do the minimum of what the government pulled out for obvious reasons, you dont pay with real money to stay, but to upkeep your quotas which are dirty ass works for the government, you do get paid money but it's pocket changes. the only real shit amount of money you're getting paid is by doing extremely high "bituin" rated tasks/errands for the government, which are rated difficulty based off amount of "stars" in translation of the errands.
Kat checks his phone as he walks through the shabby town,
Household N.24 VP Quota: 0/200, total VP: 1050/3000 monthly.
kat: I was worried because april was almost ending, but with this highly rated errand, I should be able to pay it off.. this is my first time attempting to exorcise a cursed spirit, my mom and younger brother can't do everything for me now and if i wanna help my family out.. i need to stop doing useless errands and do something actually impactful..
Kat picks up a conversation from a group of people, as he walks.
"Don't be silly, let's just keep doing what we do usual and the earnings will rack up in no time! the share will be equally separated"
"As long as nothing goes wrong, hopefully we don't lose anyone this time."
...
kat: my dad taught me how to swing a bat and use it in combat, it was for self-defense and i kept practicing his arts home, although i never really put it in practical use.. it took a lot of convincing for my family to allow me on such a dangerous errand.. but i need to do something, as my dad isn't here anymore, with us barely keeping up the quota.
Kat calls out to a nearby, familiar jeepney that he rides everyday, he goes on it and gives him the location of the place.
Kat: thanks sir, ill be back soon so no worries!
Kat gets off his jeepney and starts going around the district of San Juan.
Kat: *coughs* ugh, this place isn't governed and still being cleansed by our district so we might meet some fellow rats here, and the cursed residue here is a lot stronger than our place.. ugh what a wasteland..
Kat continues walking through the stench of cursed spirits and smell of dread splattered all over the place, wrecked buildings, destroyed towns, burning cars, ash roads, an unpleasant sight to anyone travelling here.
kat walks by a corpse with immense cursed residue accumulated over the center of his heart's position.
Kat: Poor soul, may you rest and reincarnate in a better world.
Kat claps his hands 2 times and hover his palms over his heart, exorcising the residue and silencing the corpse, he sees a newspaper from the corpse's hand was holding onto, kat gently took it and skimmed through the news.
"NEWS BREAK! IMPORTANT! A SECRET ORGANIZATION NAMED JUJUTSU HIGH FROM JAPAN HAS BEEN RAIDED AND LEAKED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE WORLD, A MAGICAL POWER CALLED CURSED ENERGY..-"
Kat: This is an old newspaper, what was he doing with it..? well it seems that the state of sorcery in this world has changed drastically in contrast of when calamities like Satoru Gojo was alive, it's grown to be a lot more complex and refined, but i guess it's still the same concept, i've read a lot about these at home.
Kat approaches closer to the approximate location of the cursed spirits.
I'm getting chills, this rambling is helping me ease down but i don't think i can ignore it for long, the cursed energy here is not normal, it's.. suffocating.. i wanna get out.
I can sense the cursed energy accurately here because in my family, only I have awakened a cursed technique when i was 7 years old. Even with the outbreak the rules still implies, only humans with the innate talent of manipulating and managing cursed energy has good chances of having their own cursed technique, just like how talents are gifted.
*A sound muttering grows louder and louder in the distance kat is walking to.*
Kat: ..but the amount of fear spread caused cursed spirits to grow exponentially during the outbreak, the balance of the world shifted and naturally caused more early-born humans to awaken cursed techniques for adaptation and survival, but even with that.. cursed spirits has grown to be A LOT more stronger than usual.
*a sound mutters louder and louder as kat keeps walking, kat gets occasional shivers as he walks slower and slower there.*
kat drops the newspaper on the ground
the back reads: "A sorcerer fixer has confirmed that over the years, cursed spirits has grown immensely more terrifying in shape, power and techniques. Kujo Gojo, one of the remaining descendants has confirmed that a grade 1 cursed spirit before the outbreak, is equivalent to a grade 5 cursed spirit after! Is this-.."
kat: *gulp* ayo im kinda fried bruh..
A cursed spirit mutters..
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Kat: *takes out his bat*, Whatever it takes.. in this accursed world of sorcery, I will.. fight? i kinda wanna run..
- To be continued.