[JJK] The Player Raises Me

(3) Kaonashi Only Wants A Friend

"Ough..?"

From the gradually opened door, a tall, dark figure appeared, half of it's body peaking out and looking around curiously while the bottom half was still on the other side of the door.

Slowly, it's white mask which should represent it's face, studied the surrounding and, eventually, caught sight of something which peaked it's interest.

Or someone, to be exact.

With deep blue eyes like a mysterious lake, black hair which shone with a blue gleam when hit by the light in certain angles, a child looked towards it with curiosity and anticipation.

Ah, that should be the one who called out to him. Kaonashi felt the connection they had immediately.

No longer hesitant, the dark being stepped out of the door and stood in front of the child.

"Ah." It said, conveying many deep emotions with a single sound, it's loneliness, happiness in being called specifically, and longing for a companion.

Unfortunately, Shimizu didn't understand.

Nor could the curse spirit.

"What-" Upon the wreckage of what was previously a nice bench beneath a perfect shade under a tree, a familiar pink head appeared.

Oh, Kusuo-nii is back! Shimizu took note distractedly.

Then, Saiki took one look at the cockroach-worm hybrid writhing in front of him and popped out of existence again.

For a moment, the world seemed to pause and all three left at the scene looked at each other awkwardly.

Kusuo-nii... You traitor!

"Food poisoning...? KruuooGHHHhh!!!"

"Ah."

...

In a place very far away, a pink haired teenager sat upon a sandy beach facing a vast ocean.

In this world, there was very few things that Saiki Kusuo didn't know. And if there was something he didn't know, it was because he chose not to know about it. But, even then, there would be things that would catch him unaware.

Like things which didn't exist before, suddenly existing out of nowhere, such as a different dimension merging with an already existing dimension so seamlessly that no one but him in the world noticed, or a pair of brothers suddenly becoming neighbors that his parents seemed to know for a long time when he was quite sure that they only appeared around 2 years ago.

And the worst part was the horrid things they brought with them.

Those things called Curses.

They were disgusting things produced by the negative emotions emitted by humans, normally unseen unless one was close to death or was a Jujutsu Sorcerer, and would cause bad luck or even death to the people they chose to attack.

The good thing was that really strong curses rarely appeared in the area where Saiki lived and the weak ones usually didn't attack unless he looked directly at them, so he gradually learned to just pretend they didn't exist.

The bad news was that, if he ever got attacked by a curse, he could only choose to escape and, no matter how hard he fought them, he wouldn't be able to deal damage to them since his powers had no cursed energy.

Only cursed energy can fight against cursed energy after all.

Really, why was this happening?

Initially, he should've had a normal life, going to school normally, graduating normally, getting a very normal job, and then dying as the most ordinary man you could find.