To Live Without Curses

Chapter 1: "What Kind Of World Is This?"

~No One's POV~

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

"Ghhrg..." A man grunted in his sleep, reaching out for the noisy alarm clock.

"Yuta! It's now morning! Don't you think you should get up and go to school?" Someone asked him.

"Hmm... Let me sleep a little more..." The said Yuta proceeded to turn his back around the person that asked him.

"Yutaaaa, Maki-san will definitely be angry once she hears this, she's the class president, remember?" The person said and shook Yuta.

"Wha? Since when did Maki-san became a class president...?" Yuta stood up and faced the person with groggy eyes.

"Huh? What do you mean? She has always been the class president duh!" And with that said, Yuta's eyes widened.

"W-What-" Yuta rubbed his eyes to check if his eyes were fooling him.

But his eyes didn't. The person sitting beside him, right in front of him was the one and only,

"INUMAKI-SENPAI!?" Yuta yelled out while falling off of his bed.

"What? Why do you look like you saw a ghost or something?" The said Inumaki jumped off the bed and joined Yuta on the floor.

"B-But you can't speak-!"

"Oh so what am I doing now? Barking?"

"N-No but how..."

"I'm a human so yes I can speak!"

"Y-Yes I know that! But normally, you don't speak because of your curse..."

"Are you dreaming? What curse?" And with that, Yuta's mind wandered with a lot of questions.

~Yuta's POV~

'What curse?' what do you mean Inumaki-san? This world was always filled with curses, alive or dead. Curses are already normal to all of us jujutsu sorcerers at this point. So why, are you asking me what are curses? You should know that Inumaki-san, more than I do, since you've killed a lot of curses than I could ever imagine. So why...?

Unless... This is a dream, isn't it?

"Oi Yuta! Stop spacing out would you? We only have 20 minutes left until class starts!" Inumaki yelled.

"U-Uh yeah, I should go to the bathroom now..." I answered.

"Finally, you've snapped out of your not-so-normal state!" He said with relief.

Just what kind of world is this?

~7:00PM~

I thought that was just the weird thing, but no, there was something more weird.

"Ugh! How many times do I have to tell you!? Did you undergo amnesia or something?" Inumaki answered to my question, now obviously looking mad.

"I'm sorry, it's just that I wanted to hear it one more time..." I answered, scratching the back of my neck.

"WE. ARE. DATING." Inumaki said one more time, and that was clear to me now.

Inumaki? THE Inumaki Toge? Dating? Me? The two of us?

Even though I found Inumaki attractive, I still couldn't believe my own two ears and Inumaki-san. This world that I'm staying in has already confused me much, and then now my relationship with Inumaki within it.

I question, if this world is true? If this part of my life is true? If this kind of environment is true? That I'm not just dreaming?

I wish I wasn't. If I were to be honest, I would've preferred this kind of world than the world I was born, raised, and lived.

I wish this was all real. No deaths, no pain, no curses, and no Rika.

That's right, what happened to Rika in this world?