Curse Back: From Demonic Hollow to Heroic Spirit Summoning.

The underground experimental area of ​​the Institute of Oriental Folklore.

Yingzhi is listening to an old professor report on his recent research progress.

"speak English."

After listening to the old professor reading the divine book for more than ten minutes, Yingzhi finally couldn't help it.

The old professor, who was interrupted by Yingzhi, paused for a moment and subconsciously looked at Yingzhi's clear, foolish...confused eyes.

"I'm sorry I forgot you haven't even started college yet. I got so excited that I used a lot of technical terms."

The old professor scratched his head a little embarrassedly, not only because Yingzhi was the sponsor who provided them with research funds, but also because he actually treated a child as a person with whom he could have a conversation on an equal footing.

When Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru are not around, Eiji often behaves in a maturity that is not in line with his age. In addition, he develops quite fast. If Eiji's face was not so childish, no one would mistake him for a child.

I opened my mouth to retort that I might not be younger than you in my previous life, but then I thought that wouldn't that be even more embarrassing.

Yingzhi closed his mouth helplessly.

This scene made the old professor laugh cheerfully, apparently imagining Yingzhi's attempt to refute just now as that of a stubborn child.

"In short, we have discovered a property of cursed power: cursed power is subjective."

After saying this, the old professor's body trembled slightly.

This old professor originally worked on energy weapons research, but later on, because of a statement from the island country’s father, the island country had to cut many projects.

The research projects of senior professors have also seen significant funding cuts.

The frustrated old professor chose to retire and enjoy his remaining years.

Yingzhi, who received the news unexpectedly, had a strange idea in his mind.

Energy? Weapons?

Cursed power should be considered a kind of energy, a kind of energy for individual combat, and cursed tools can be considered weapons that use this energy.

After this idea came up, it kept lingering in Yingzhi's mind. Later, Yingzhi simply prepared the same glasses as Zenin Maki's, which allow ordinary people to see cursed spirits, and went to visit.

The old professor, who was idle at home and doing nothing, was very depressed. When cooking, he either cut the potatoes too thick or cut his hand. When cleaning, he made water marks everywhere and accidentally broke a vase.

Under his wife's disdainful gaze, the old professor could only drink tea and read newspapers every day.

Let him go out and play?

The old professor who has been doing research all his life doesn’t know what to do.

My children have their own jobs and I feel embarrassed to disturb them.

At this time, a strange boy came to him and showed him a world he had never seen before.

This immediately piqued the old professor's interest.

After an in-depth conversation with Yingzhi, the old professor immediately agreed to help Yingzhi with his research on cursed power.

At first Yingzhi was very happy until he saw the equipment purchase list handed over by the old professor.

Trembling, Yingzhi took out the bank card that Gojo Satoru had given him and looked at the balance on it. Yingzhi, who had never smoked since his rebirth, suddenly wanted to light a cigarette to calm down.

This is also the reason why Yingzhi began to accept a large number of commissions for exorcism of cursed spirits.

Scientific research really burns a lot of money, but fortunately, exorcism of cursed spirits can also make money quickly.

After studying those devices with his younger brothers, Yingzhi directly called Gojo Satoru.

There is no way, some are restricted, and some require connections.

After all the equipment was ready, many assistants were hired. Yingzhi didn't worry about it, and the old professor found all the people himself.

He captured several level 4 cursed spirits for research, bought several sets of cursed spirit restraint devices, and hired two low-level sorcerers to manage the cursed spirits.

After going through the whole process and spending so much money, Yingzhi almost wanted to quit.

"Curse power is subjective, otherwise how can we control it?"

Yingzhi looked at the old professor speechlessly.

You spent so much money and this is what you came up with?

Hearing this, the old professor sighed softly.

"Yes, curse power is originally idealistic. How can we, who have studied materialism all our lives, feel embarrassed?"

After saying that, the old man touched the jade dog beside Yingzhi with some disappointment.

The world view and values ​​that the old professor had believed in for decades were shattered, and it took him a long time to adapt.

"Can you see?"

Yingzhi was a little surprised. Although the old professor was wearing glasses now, they were myopia glasses, not the cursed glasses used to observe cursed spirits.

"That's right, that's why I said that cursed power is subjective."

"Once I understand cursed power subjectively, I will be able to gradually observe it."

Yingzhi was a little skeptical. If one really knew enough about curse spirits to be able to observe them, then why did Zenin Maki in the original work need to wear glasses to observe curse spirits?

Having received education related to cursed spirits and having killed a large number of cursed spirits, do you dare to say that Zenin Maki doesn't understand cursed spirits?

Summoning Maruko from his own shadow, the old professor did not notice that there was another shikigami in front of him.

It was Jade Dog's behavior that made the old professor notice something was wrong.

"Look at the little guy, have you summoned a new Shikigami?"

"That's right. If you really understand the cursed power and can see the cursed spirits and shikigami as you said, then why can't you see Maruko?"

"Because I don't know Marika's image, size, and the nature of her cursed power, I can't imagine Marika's appearance in my mind, so naturally I can't observe Marika. But I knew what the Jade Dog looked like when we first met."

Hearing this, Eiji remembered the scene in the original work where Nanami taught Yuji how to observe the remnants of evil.

The filth was there, but Yuji couldn't see it before Nanami taught him. After Nanami taught him, Yuji could see it.

"Boy, do you know Schrödinger's cat?"

"heard about it."

"You can study that when you have time. Now come and see my research results."

After saying that, the old professor took Yingzhi to a laboratory.

There is a metal box in the laboratory, and inside the box is a fourth-level cursed spirit that exudes coldness.

"Matsushita-kun, let's start."

"Yes, Professor."

After saying that, the researcher named Matsushita turned on a switch.

The space in the box seemed to have some fluctuations, and Yingzhi could see that the air in the box was slightly distorted.

The level 4 cursed spirit that was emitting cold air all over its body began to howl in pain.

"This is?"

"An electromagnetic wave."

"Electromagnetic waves?"

"Yes, you can understand that we are heating the experimental device through this electromagnetic wave."

"induction cooker?"

No, that's a box inside.

"Micro-wave oven?"

"...It's different, but you can understand it that way."

As if noting Yingzhi's confusion, the old professor continued.

"At the beginning, we had a question: why can the curse spirit penetrate matter and yet physically attack and destroy it?"

Yingzhi remembered the cursed spirit that came down from the ceiling through the wall and injured Fushiguro Megumi at the beginning of the story, and also remembered the cursed spirit that appeared through the wall but grabbed a child and threatened Nobara.

"When a young researcher proposed the idea of ​​idealism, we quickly verified it and found that the cursed spirits were also observing themselves in this 'idealistic' way."

"It thought it could pass through the wall, so it did. It thought it could touch something, so it did. Later, we did a test. The researcher who didn't wear the glasses shot directly through the cursed spirit, but the observer who wore the glasses shot a bullet that made a hole in the head of the cursed spirit."

"This makes us more convinced that cursed spirits and cursed power exist in the form of idealism."

"But this kind of idealism has great limitations. It cannot exceed their cognition, otherwise the cursed spirit will not be able to maintain its body and will collapse."

"Through research on the filth left behind after the cursed spirits disintegrated, we discovered the special energy that makes up the cursed spirits."

"Later, we began to study this special energy and found a way to interfere with it."

"For example, this cursed spirit."

The old professor pointed at the cursed spirit that was already beginning to disintegrate in the laboratory.

"According to the curse spirit illustration you gave me, this curse spirit was born out of people's hatred of severe cold. After repeated studies on it, we found that if we observe it and apply electromagnetic heating to it... we can destroy the stability of its energy structure and kill it."

After thinking about it, the old professor gave up using professional terms and instead explained it using what Yingzhi thought was a microwave oven.

"No use of cursed power?"

"No magical power was used."

After hearing the old professor's affirmative reply, and knowing that he indeed did not see any fluctuations in cursed power in this large "microwave oven", Eiichi believed it.

They did find a way to inflict damage to the cursed spirits through science without using cursed energy.

Anyway it's a good start.