Gardener

Sanjuuni- Gardener is disgusted by a rotten finger in his cats mouth

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"Solo mission?" I asked

"Absolutely right! You see, there's around two fourth grade curses on the loose in an abandoned hospital. Should be pretty easy so I'm sending you in alone!" Gojo smiled

Sighing, I picked up my shovel and followed Ijichi out after waving Gojo off. The car ride was silent since I didn't know what to talk about until Ijichi nervously started talking about the weather and Ieiri. I forgot this person had the hots for her. I would too if I was straight. Thankfully, I'm gay. He asked me what it was like to learn under her so I talked a bit about her until we reached the location and I got out. Damn, this hospital looked so depressing, no wonder all the edge lords are here.

Going inside with Ijichi, I noticed he was quivering behind me. He stayed behind me as I exorcise a lot of curses which were definitely more than two and these were all grade three. How badly did people mess up the report. I sighed and continued taking care of the curses and letting my cat feed on the occasional one, scaring Ijichi from his sheer size alone. Suddenly, I heard a scream and turned around to see Ijichi disappearing into the floor. My eyes widened slightly as a ton of second grade curses started coming out. Why the hell were there so many?

"Kitty, it's eating time" I stated cold

"Meow" My cat eagerly purred.

My cat grew to be larger as I started running around and killing all the curses in sight before they could hit me. It was a problem when half of them would disappear into the wall and I was on a time crunch to find Ijichi. The second grade curses required me to use my technique to lull them into a permanent deep sleep and the rest were dealt with using rose seeds. I was losing a bit of steam until the floor gave way beneath me and it looked like I was in a falling elevator. A curse swung it's hand at me in the elevator as we were falling so I had to dodge and quickly decapitate it before lying on the ground.

The wind got knocked out of me as the elevator smashed into the ground, allowing a curse to jump on me but I rather quickly knocked it back off. Using my shovel, I got off the dusty ground which was great because the roof caved in and I need to use it to break the door. I wedged my shovel in between and pushed the doors apart. I stepped into an innate domain. Oh this did not look like the easy job I was given. Did innate domains only belong to special grade curses? Well I was fucked then.

The surroundings were super eery and dark, I was definitely in the parking lot of a basement. There were abandoned corpses to the left and right in their little spaces. It smelled disgusting. I grunted before treading quietly and listening out for cries. I heard Ijichi screaming so I quickly started running quietly across the hallways and found a large underground open area that looked like a sewer system with corpses stuffed in holes in the wall everywhere. Their rotten limbs occasionally sticking out.

Loudly, the restricted scream of Ijichi came through the air as I saw him being thrown in the air as a curse appeared from the roof. What the heck was a mutated child curse doing here? Without a second to hesitate, I leaped off into the air and cut down the mutated hand that had Ijichi. The face of the child started screaming before mutating in-front of me. Never have I ever wanted to drop kick a child in self defence twice but I might do that again today.

I could feel Ijichi's tears on my shirt as he cried into my shirt. He wasn't horribly injured but he wasn't doing great either. Clearly traumatised, he wouldn't be able to run out of here so I prioritised our escape and dodged all the rotten limbs that came out of the ground as I rushed towards the elevator but I smashed right into a hard barrier before appearing in the open area where we were thrown into a wall. It was painful but I shielded Ijichi from the harsh impact. The wall cracking beneath me and caving in slightly. I needed a few minutes.