A Bizarre Adventure That Begins in Jujutsu Kaisen

As everyone crowded around the camera screen, eagerly looking at the photos, Theo finally spoke his mind:

"Why is it that every time we get together for an event, someone takes the opportunity to commit a crime?! Where do all these moles come from?!"

"Theo, he might not be the traitor," Gojo Satoru added. "From the beginning, I felt that those crows with cursed power were a bit strange, and I thought it was something mysterious."

But...her crows probably don't have that level of concealment barrier, right?

"Of course, it has nothing to do with me!"

Mingming had a rare haircut today that allowed her eyes to be visible. She had quietly observed the entire wedding ceremony, and this was the first time she had spoken.

"Controlling crows is very mentally taxing, and on an occasion like today, I must maintain my respect for Xia You-san."

"Then... what exactly are those crows...?" Xia Youjie also came over.

Actually, he had sensed something was wrong when he discovered that Theo had activated the "six eyes" concept, but he was the main character today and couldn't afford to be distracted.

"Leave it to me."

Before the words were even finished, Theo's figure had already appeared in mid-air in an instant through distance manipulation, shouting loudly, "Don't move!"

The moment the curse took effect, the curse transmitted through sound waves struck the designated target precisely, and the seven abnormal individuals mixed in with the ordinary crows froze in place instantly.

Theo darted through the air, his palm glowing faintly with blue light.

The low-powered "Azure" formed a gentle gravitational field, smoothly separating the seven stiff crows from the flock and capturing them all in its hand.

Even though they noticed something unusual from a distance, they discovered an even deeper anomaly upon closer inspection—these crows were actually already dead, just moving corpses!

They were "puppetized" before they died, maintaining a false sense of life only through spells.

However, normal "puppet manipulation" should be the type that involves controlling mechanical puppets and remotely outputting magical power, like Kokichi.

Even if the scope of the procedure expands, it shouldn't expand to this extent...

This is like leaping from the realm of "object manipulation" that controls inorganic matter to the style of "necromancy" that controls organic matter.

Moreover, if you can control crows... theoretically, you can also control people, right?

Like the human puppet of "Sasori of the Red Sand", it does not require a complicated processing procedure or puppet strings.

None of the known holders of "puppet manipulation" possess this ability, and they cannot do so even with the most stringent restrictions.

Dio's mind raced, connecting clues in a flash, and he could only conceive of two possibilities:

Firstly, there are the top-tier sorcerers who have transformed themselves into puppets and have survived from ancient times to the present.

Secondly, due to the curse that amplifies after death, a certain human sorcerer's abilities underwent a terrifying qualitative change after becoming a top-tier cursed spirit.

Just as Theo was deep in thought, all the puppet crows lost their vitality, like game characters disconnected from the internet.

So decisive... did they cut off all remote connections directly?

After a quick second to sort out his thoughts, Theo lowered the raven puppets, which had turned back into corpses after being disconnected, back to the ground.

"It's a puppet, created by modifying a living organism." He said succinctly. "Miss Ieiri, immediately organize an on-site autopsy to understand its parameters and structural details. I'll trace its origins to see what happened."

Having said that, Theo took out an ordinary wooden stick from the shadows, endowed it with the concept of a "divination tool," and silently asked, "Where is the mastermind behind this?" He then released his grip and let the stick fall freely.

The stick first trembled slightly vertically, then, as if propelled by an unseen hand, began to fall in the northeast direction, specifically 13 degrees east of north.

He immediately opened Google Maps on his phone and quickly swiped his finger to calculate.

This angle...

No way, it's Tokyo?

Theo quickly reported the calculation results and continued to issue instructions: "Wu, Tokyo is in your hands now."

If the enemy cannot be found for the time being, maintain high-mobility patrols until further notice from me.

"No problem~ You can trust me to handle things." After saying that, Gojo Satoru rapidly ascended to a height that would not affect the buildings on the ground, pushed his acceleration to the limit in an instant, and disappeared from the spot, leaving only a faint sonic boom afterimage.

Without pausing, Theo bent down, picked up the stick, and once again activated the simplified "Staff Divination".

He closed his eyes and concentrated, asking himself:

Where might the enemy that Wu failed to capture on the spot be hiding or returning to?

The wooden stick seemed to be drawn by an invisible force, and began to rotate slowly and steadily.

A few seconds later, the rotation stopped, and one end of the stick clearly pointed 39 degrees south of west.

Matsuyama in Shikoku? Or Kumamoto in Kyushu?

But his intuition told him that neither of those answers was correct.

It can't be Oita in Kyushu, can it...?

Wait, if the angle of 39 degrees south of west is perfectly accurate...

No way...

Draw a straight ray along this angle on the map; the endpoint is Shimabara City in Nagasaki Prefecture!

Shimabara... is really interesting!

Theo tapped the spot on the map with his fingertip; even as a native of Zhengguo, he was very familiar with the place name.

Because on July 1st of this year, the anime "Fate/Apocrypha" was just released.

Although the plot of "The Amazing Higashide" has polarized opinions, the "villainous boss" in the work is none other than Amakusa Shiro Tokisada, who has completed his transformation into a human being.

Even setting aside this work, Amakusa Shiro's influence and presence in modern popular culture are far more deeply ingrained in people's minds than Taira no Masakado's vengeful spirit, which exists only in textbooks.

A classic boss in the fighting game series "Samurai Shodown," a central character in the fantasy novel "Makai Tensei," and a frequent character in the "Fate" series...

Furthermore, given that he and Gojo Satoru had recently broken the power ceiling for human sorcerers, the Cursed Spirits would likely receive an unprecedented boost.

In other words, the two possibilities just speculated—ancient sorcerers who have survived to this day, and a super-grade cursed spirit formed after death—may be both possible!

Even a near-first-class like Yukichi can expand the range of control over mechanical puppets to all of Japan.

If Amakusa Shiro was a top-tier puppeteer in life, and after being killed by non-cursed means, he then underwent a curse that intensified after death, transforming him into a top-tier cursed spirit...

His strength would probably be hundreds or even thousands of times stronger than those cases of first-level sorcerers who transformed into special-level spirits recorded in the archives!

This level of undead resurrection... is kind of exciting.

Hey, don't make me get too excited!

Dio tossed a coin, silently wondering: Is Amakusa Shiro Tokisada the mastermind behind this incident?

The coin rose to its highest point, but before it fell, it suddenly exploded in mid-air without warning, scattering fragments everywhere.

Interesting, he even possesses anti-divination techniques or spells?!

But nothing happened when the divination was performed on the location and direction; the only thing that happened was when the divination was performed directly on him...

In other words, he now has companions.

In my first two divinations, he either shielded me from information or used some other means, but I indirectly obtained the answers by pointing to people around him or his collaborators.

Theo quickly put away his phone, turned around and briefly instructed the group: "Pay attention to intelligence updates, be on standby, and be ready to move at any time."

"Yuyu, take me to Shimabara—right now, immediately!"