How to replicate the cursed speech technique? By Okkotsu Yuuta

Results: "The study has identified a correlation..."

"Yuuta."

"Yuuta."

Little whispers were heard around him, but the young man refused to open his eyes due to the exhaustion on his body.

Two people called out to him, but Okkotsu refused to leave that darkness. Somehow it reassured him.

"Yuuta."

But among all the whispering, Okkotsu could make out someone's cracked voice, and his eyes instinctively opened.

In front of Okkotsu stood Maki, Ieiri, and Gojo. They were conversing in quiet tones about the curse. But by sensing the aura of cursed energy behind Yuuta, they looked at him.

"What a way to say hello. Can you ask her to leave?" Gojo mentioned as he watched the two giant claws coming from behind the wall.

Yuuta quickly took a deep breath and stroked his ring with his thumb to ask for her withdrawal.

"Two days unconscious and apparently you've already lost your mind," Maki mentioned before Yuuta could apologize. However, the young man was stunned by her words.

Two days?

Ieiri-San walked over to him to start checking his vitals. "Luckily it was nothing serious, you just overexerted yourself. Besides, when you got here you had a wound on your vocal cords, but your cursed energy already healed it."

Yuuta was used to injuries, plus he could master his recovery technique to avoid waiting too long to heal. 

But what had interested him most was not his state but how he had arrived at the school.

"Who took me out of that place? I can hardly remember..."

Suddenly, images of that night hit him. 

Blood, darkness and cold lips covered him.

Yuuta did not know how to react. Inumaki had taken the lead and kissed him to share his cursed speech with him, which had been a great success because they were both...

"Inumaki-kun! How is he doing, where is he?" Yuuta asked worriedly.

Gojo lifted the corners of his lips in amusement before shaking his head. "Calm down, he's fine. He's used to breaking his vocal cords on missions like this."

While that master's words were meant to reassure Yuuta, the young man only felt his hands ball into fists as he thought about how useless he had been that night. His weakness had caused Toge to reach his limits.

Ieiri noticed that change in the young man and decided to give him a moment. "Your signs are going well. Just keep resting these few days and you can go back to training as usual."

Okkotsu nodded, listening to her words slightly before thanking her and watching as she withdrew.

Maki also sensed a strange feeling from her friend. She did not know how to tell him that he was still a great sorcerer, so she decided to give him time to recover.

"Rest well. Next week we'll start your training again," Maki mentioned before patting the young man's shoulder.

Yuuta smiled slightly at the woman before thanking her.

But as the two women left the room, the mood changed from a neutral one to a heavier one.

Gojo sat on the nearby desk chair, watching Okkotsu through his black bands, analyzing what to say. 

But after a few seconds, the master smiled.

"So, you kissed him," Gojo declared.

Yuuta did not know why, but his lips almost lifted; however, as he tried to avoid that, a strange grimace settled on him.