𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐄: 𝐠𝐨𝐣𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐮 𝐱 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫

(viii) gossipy curse

"y/n are you listening?", nanami asked the girl who was very clearly zoned out.

"uh yeah, you're assigning maki and toge-kun to go with me right?", she replied, zoning back in

"are you sure you're up for this?", he questioned

"yeah of course", she nodded, getting up, "we'll leave in 15 minutes. tell them."

he sighed, discarding his suspicions.

"after all, at her best, she's stronger than me"

y/n walked to her room, changing into a fresh pair of clothes and adjusting the shoulder brace she was wearing.

"bye kuro", she waved and the dog barked in response

"y/n senpai", maki called and inumaki gave her a nod, which she returned

"let's go", she said, "i've got the location for the curse. it's a grade 1 curse, so you get to watch me exorcise it yay. i'll let you guys get your hands dirty too though, don't worry."

maki nodded, not saying anything even though she was low-key excited to face a grade 1.

"y/n senpai, how does your technique work?", she asked as they got into the car

"are you familiar with the gojo clan's technique 'infinity'?", she enquired

both of them nodded.

"so you know how that ability manipulates distance?"

"yeah?"

"i figured out a way to manipulate time instead.", she said

"how?!"

"the time an object takes to approach me will be finite right? my technique divides the finite time into an infinite number of parts. so what seems like a fraction of a second to everyone else will feel like an eternity to my opponent."

"how could you even perfect that kind of technique?!", maki was really struggling to hide how impressed she was

"well i've been working on it a long time. since i was in high school actually.", she explained

"ohhhh"

"we're here", the driver said, stopping by the location y/n had finally determined.

they got out of the car, and she took a deep breath, remembering her last humiliating fight. god, they were gonna regret ever pissing her off.

they walked into the abandoned building before them, staying on guard for the cursed spirit to appear before them. the ground floor was blank, but she could clearly sense an accumulation of cursed energy so she knew the location wasn't a bust.

"well well", a creepy-as-fuck voice addressed them as they reached the third floor

"i've been looking for you", y/n looked at the spirit before them, her lips curling into a smile

"really?", the spirit asked. it had a human like appearance, even though its skin was far too pale to belong to one. it possessed piercing black eyes and had a stitched up arm. "well i'm honoured that the zenin clan's weapon came looking for me"

maki turned to y/n at these words, "what does he mean by-"

"i'll explain later maki", y/n said, "focus on the exorcism for now"

maki nodded.

"you think you can exorcise me", the spirit almost laughed, "cute. i can see why gojo satoru fell in love."

"for a cursed spirit, you sure are gossipy aren't you?", she asked, accumulating cursed energy in her wrists.

she nodded to inumaki, who turned to the spirit. "don't move"