"Dark red! It looks dangerous, and in the domain space, it seems like Ryuji is using some kind of sshing teique!"

  "Sshing teique?"

  Nanami said nothing, simply shaking his head.

  Clearly, the domain he was seeing was pletely different from what others were describing. If this wasn't some kind of illusion, then there was only one expnation.

  No one believed Nanami or anyone else would joke about something this serious.

  "This is impossible!"

  For thousands of years, there had never been a sorcerer who could open two domains.

  "Hahahaha!"

  Instead of , Gojo burst into ughter.

  "Iing! Really, really iing!"

  Upon realizing that Ryuji might be capable of wielding two domain teiques, Gojo's first rea wasn't panic, but sheer excitement. With his overwhelming fiden his own abilities, he wasn't oo feel threatened easily.

  "I inally thought Ryuji's teique was simir to Yuta's imitation teique, but it seems to be something even more advanced!"

  An imitation teique couldn't copy domains, nor could it bine multiple abilities simultaneously. But Ryuji seemed to have no such limitations.

  After a moment of silence, Gakuganji finally spoke up in the feren.

  "So… is there any ce we could recruit him?"

  Before, they hadn't thought too much about it. But now, if there was even a sliver of a ce, Gakuganji wanted Ryuji on their side.

  Unfortunately, when Gakuganji looked around, both Nanami and Gojo were shaking their heads.

  "That kind of guy won't sell his freedom for a few perks," Gojo said with a grin.

  The most intriguing thought, however, was Gojo's own curiosity. "I wonder… would he be able to use my teiques one day? My Limitless teique? Or maybe even my domain, Infinite Void?"

  The Limitless teique required specific principles to reach its full potential. But if it came to Infinite Void, it was a different story.

  "…"

  No one respoo Gojo's musings. They cked his strength, and more importantly, his unwavering fidence.

  Late at night, as quiet settled over the city…

  In her room, Utaha sat aloaring at her ptop with a helpless expression.

  "Is it really impossible for me to awaken a teique?" she muttered to herself.

  Despite knowing that Ryuji wouldn't treat her poorly even if she couldn't awaken a cursed teique, there ang of envy in her heart. Especially whehought of her friends Miko, Hana, and Mai all possessing unique abilities within their group. Even Yukino and Yumiko had awakeheir own teiques.

  Sighing, she leaned ba her chair, staring bnkly at the ptop s. Though she had bee a sorcerer, Utaha hadn't fotten her inal passion: writing light novels.

  She wasn't doing it for the money; it was something she truly loved. And even with her new life as a sorcerer, she tinued her work, though it was getting harder to bance everything.

  "I feel like my time is running out," she muttered, staring at the empty dot on her s.

  Should she give up?

  As she typed away aimlessly, her mind drifted. After a long stretch of silence, she let out another heavy sigh.

  "If only my cursed power could just… suddenly increase on its own," she typed, her fingers moving almost without thinking.

  After a moment, she looked back at her s. She had typed the thought aloud, though it had no bearing oory. She was about to delete it when—

  "Huh?"

  Utaha froze. She suddenly felt a strange surge inside her, as if her cursed energy had inexplicably increased. Given that she had only a minimal amount to start with, this sudden boost was startlingly noticeable—nearly doubling her initial reserves.

  "How… how is that possible?" she whispered.

  She looked down at the line she'd typed. Her eyes brightened with a realization.

  "No way…"

  Heart pounding, she deleted the sentence, but her cursed energy remaiable. Pausing only a moment, she tried typing something new.

  "It's going to be windy outside."

  Nothing happened.

  Had she just imagi? Or was it just a random fluke?

  Determiain, Utaha revised the sentence. "Outside the house, a strong wind will blow!"

  Still, no response.

  She rewrote it one more time, more specific this time: "In ten seds, a strong wind will blow outside my house."

  Ten seds passed.

  Then—

  Whoosh!

  A sudden gust whipped up outside her window.

  "That's it!" Utaha's eyes lit up. She had actually do. She had awakened a teique!

  Excitement flooded her, until she felt a sharp pain in her chest. She began coughing, crimson droplets staining her hands, and her fingers cramped painfully.

  "Backsh…" she realized.

  Ryuji had oold her that certain powerful teiques came with a risk of backsh. The strohe teique, the harsher the sequences, with some potentially costing the user their life.

  But Utaha was overjoyed, not afraid.

  The backsh only firmed that she had, indeed, awakened a cursed teique. If she hadn't used a teique, there would be no backsh.

  "Haha… Hahahaha!"

  Laughie the pain, Utaha wiped the blood from her lips. Her first thought was to rush and tell Ryuji. She quickly gathered her things, shoving a tablet int instead of a ptop, it would be enough for her writing.

  Even though it was dark, she didn't care. She wao show Ryuji her newfound power. She could only imagihe look on his face when he realized she'd finally awakened her teique.

  Elsewhere, another person was wrestling with simir thoughts, Eriri, sitting in her room, sighing as she stared at her sketchpad.

  "If only I could awaken a teique too…"

  Yukino's ice powers, Yumiko's fire abilities… Eriri ehem both.

  If only she could awaken a teique as well.

  But uaha, Eriri didn't have an all-ing obsession. She wanted a teique, yes, but she wouldn't let it haunt her. If it happened, it happened. If not, oh well.

  "Anyway, that pretentious writer didn't awaken a teique either!" she muttered smugly, thinking of Utaha. As long as she wasn't the only ohout powers, she could make her peace with it.

  Little did she know, her rival's situation had ged drastically.

  Humming, she picked up her brush, gazing bnkly at her empty sketchpad.

  "Ugh, the deadline's looming…"

  As an artist known for her suggestive art style, Sawamura had a submission deadline ing up fast. But with everything happenily, she'd been uo draw anything.

  "Really, I have zero inspiratiht now!"

  Holding the brush in her hand, she absentmindedly started drawing a rge, cartoonish cat on her bnk page.

  "Maybe it doesn't even matter anymore," she mused aloud. "With the woing crazy, who cares about deadlines?"

  Before she k, she had drawn a rge cat on the page. It was simple, almost childlike in its cartoonish proportions.

  Poof!

  To her shock, the cat moved, as if brought to life. It began swimming across the page and then jumped out of the sketchpad entirely.

  "Wha—?!"

  Eriri stumbled back, shocked. She wasn't sure if she was seeing things.

  As the cat leapt off the page, she tentatively waved at it, and the cat responded, ing closer to her.

  "Did… did I do that?" She could hardly believe it.

  She hadn't been trying to summon anything special, but there it was a rge cartoonish cat, fully alive and responding to her.

  "This… this has to be my teique!"

  Eriri felt a rush of excitement. Ordinary art didn't just e to life like this. She must have awakened a teique, and it seemed lio her drawings.

  In her joy, she began to ugh. The cat, as if uanding her excitement, began to prance around her, mirr her mood.

  However, just as she was about to celebrate fully, she felt an intense wave of exhaustion. Her cursed energy reserves were drained, and she colpsed to the floor.

  "Wha… I'm so… tired…"

  Without enough cursed energy to sustai, it started to fade, retreating bato the drawing as she y there, too weak to move.

  "Man… I'm just… so sleepy…" she murmured as she drifted off into an exhausted sleep, a faint smile still on her face.

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