In The Academy As Sukuna

Ch 3 - Awakening of Cursed Potential

(POV: Ryomen Sukuna)

(25 Days Later...)

I was at the forest near my mansion.

As I punched the air, sweat streamed down my face, falling to the grass below.

Even though my punches were slow, and physically weak, they hit hard.

From my previous life, I knew some martial arts, which I implemented here, although it was a little difficult with such a weak body.

I wasn't able to improve my physical strength at all, which was probably due to the System doing something.

And... that is not good.

I punched the air with my right hand, using full force. There was a delay of 1 second before a loud boom echoed in the silent forest.

You see that? That's divergent fist.

At first, I was quite confused, since, as far as I could recall, divergent fist happened because Yuji had good physical strength.

I couldn't figure out why, but my best guess is that my control over cursed energy is so bad that even with such low physical strength, it happens.

I have been focused on only increasing my proficiency, which led to my control being absolute crap.

Anyhow, my Cursed Energy Proficiency is currently at 18.9% and I still have 7 days till the entrance exam.

I have noticed that the speed at which the proficiency increases has been steadily decreasing as it grows.

This will be quite a... "Problem," I muttered, punching the air one final time, my breathing ragged.

I took a deep breath, turning around to face the mansion, bathing in sunlight quite far away.

And what came into view was something that filled me with pride. There was a line of trees fallen, their trunks exploded in the middle.

This was, obviously, done by me. I was practicing punching with cursed energy, even though almost all of them were divergent fists.

I started walking back, down the road of fallen trees I had paved, as I opened the System screen, scrolling around to check if there was something different.

My eyes landed on the skill [Unshakeable Heart].

My footsteps made squishy sounds on the slightly wet soil as I walked. I sighed, this skill was quite difficult to deal with.

To make it clear, [Unshakable Heart] isn't like the thing in Overlord, it doesn't suppress my emotions, it is more like emotional control.

Although, sometimes those emotions still leak out, I'm not sure why.

However, the times when it controls my emotions, as per what I've observed, is completely random, which makes it hard for me to understand it.

There was a branch hanging a little high up, so I took a little head start and jumped, raising my hand.

My middle finger barely grazed the branch, and I silently celebrated.

I continued walking, the occasional rustling of leaves the only things audible besides my footsteps.

I did a little testing with the mana system of this world, and how my cursed energy would react to it, and it yielded some interesting results.

Some things I observed are that most of the medical devices make mana flow into you and detect the changes in the mana when it comes back.