“Mn… This is troublesome.”

  It was unknowhe Nyoi Staff in his hands got restored to its pristiate.

  “Ugh, that’s it. I’ll start with the rules in this pce.”

  “This pce?”

  “Mn. Strictly speaking, it is a replica of where I died.”

  Kashimo pointed around him. There were destroyed high-rise buildings, exploded cars, shattered roads, and the likes.

  He began telling Aleph the rules ihis training space.

  “I don’t know how I got here. Only, it expihat this pce was not real. Look.”

  He pulled out one of the rebars in the ground and s in half. The moment, the snapped rebar was whole again.

  “You restore everything in this pce, whether it is ons or the piles of rubbles. The only thing you ’t do is to directly restore bodily injuries. Some medie might work. That, or other teiques.” He expined. "As for me, I tried dying o simply brought me back alive."

  There are several rules ihe training space. When Aleph enters a certaih sario, he would get kicked out from spabsp; It was pletely different from Kashimo's case, who was serving as the mentor ihis space.

  When Aleph dies, the cooldown will then apply.

  They also have a time limit of four hours. It would also result iion ohe time limit was surpassed.

  As to how he knew about these…

  “They came out of my mind. It’s out of nowhere, nothing short of a god’s feat.”

  For the first time, Aleph felt a sense of awe ing from Kashimo.

  “We’re finally doh this.”

  Kashimo stretched his right arm to a building pierced with a hole.

  “Expin what you got from your senses over there.”

  “That pce…”

  The remnants of the cursed energy seemed stubsp;throughout the ey. It resulted in it being far more ominous than most things Aleph entered.

  “There are two people who fought there? Their strength… it’s strohan anything I entered.”

  “Tsk, tsk. That’s the pce where Gojo Satoru and Sukuna fought. Shinjuku doesn’t look like that anymore, does it?”

  “...There might be a misception.” Aleph replied. “In my world, we don’t have a Shinjuku.”

  “...Ah?”

  It was the sed time Kashimo got caught off guard.

  “What I believe is that… we lived in different worlds.”

  “...”

  Kashimo fell silent and stroked his with his hand.

  ‘A different world… yet that kid has Nanami Kento’s cursed teique…’

  “Tell me, kid. What do you know about the Jujutsu unity?”

  “...None.”

  Kashimo sighed at this. It was his first time teag someone else. Although his experiences could serve a huge help, the way of teag (i.e., tag lessons) still had to be worked on.

  “Ugh… Let’s get going.”

  An impromptu history css came into being.

  *****

  Sorcery, or Jujutsu, came into being as a result of humans maniputing the ive emotions within oneself. These emotions ma as a form of energy known as cursed energy.

  The peak of sorcery (jujutsushi) came during the so-called golden era (Heian Period). Numerous teiques, cursed teiques, and strong sorcerers popped up oer another.

  Hajime Kashimo unfortunately did not live in that era.

  The notable thing he mentioned, however, was that one of the stro during the Heian Era fought at this exadscape.

  “I ’t believe how you reached Grade One without any knowledge. Your cursed energy trol, though, is endable.”

  Typically, it took long practiake cursed energy flow along the entire body’s veins. These details may seem small to others, but su instinctive thing to do was pletely unheard from someone who didn’t even know the on sense of sorcery.

  “I trai well. It came off like that.” Aleph replied. “So, what should I do first?”

  “Mn… You don’t have a problem with other sorcerers. Let’s go with the binding vows first.”

  For the few hours, Kashimo taught Aleph. Although they were unsure regarding how binding vows work in a different world, Aleph was able to pull it off. What came were the tricks behind each binding vows as well as how to properly create ohat wouldn’t backfire on you.

  By the time Aleph got ejected, his joints snapped several times. He fell asleep on top of his bed.

  “Time is synched…”

  He looked at the clod saw that exactly four hours had passed. Fortunately, he decided to test it out during the night.

  “Binding vows…”

  From Kashimo, Aleph discovered its true strength.

  “Someoh a simir cursed teique as me…”

  He also heard about the wielder of ratio teique, Nanami Kento. His ratio teique also divided it by seven-to-three.

  It could be cluded that their teiques are pletely identical.

  With a deep breath, Aleph decided to try creating a binding vow.

  ‘For the minute, I ’t use my cursed teique.' He thought. 'In turn, my cursed energy enha bees stronger.’

  In an instant, Aleph’s cursed energy enha increased by several notches. The loss of being able to utilize his cursed teique amouo such a crazy increase.

  A mier, he was able to use his cursed teique again, though he lost the multiplier to his cursed energy enha.

  “This needs more thinking.”

  For the rest of the entire night, Aleph listed hundreds of ideas while [Great Sage] pointed out whie was viable. Strangely enough, it felt as if it had “learned” something new for the first time.

  Most of its knowledge base was taken from its inal world, with the rest being in this world. However, it roven to be limited, such as when it could only list a probability when it es to the strengths of each MANTISes.

  Aleph was ined to think it was due to its voibsp;which resembled a gray-haired girl in his mind.

  ‘Prometheus…’

  Ier part of the Previous Era, MOTH did numerous measures. One of them was sending Prometheus—an AI—into the in of Herrschers. A part of the artificial intelligence was sent in order to make sure the Herrschers and their order of appearance wouldn’t ge in the era.

  Prometheus was one of the institutes’ major projects—ohat Mei has been w on for some time.

  Aleph’s thoughts tio fly until he reached Einstein’s office.

  Surprisingly, he found out that she was falling asleep on her chair.

  “Mn..?”

  She went wide awake the moment she sah.

  “It looks like I wasn’t the only one who didn’t sleep.”

  “The project’s progress reached a critical stage. The energy problem was already solved. All that’s left was the code… rather, the soul ihe vessel.”

  “I’d like to put something forward.” Aleph sat on the chair across her desk .”On the off ce it succeeds, and that they’re really living, we o set the ethics for them. I’m afraid they’ll be used by the higher ups for something harmful.”

  “Ethics… I’ll make sure to put it forward. Yawn…”

  Seeing her sleepy state, Aleph realized she wasn’t like Mobius. The tter had her body strengthened with honkai genes. Although they are only of chariot-css, they’re enough to support her uhy work habits.

  “I’ll take over for today. You use this time to rest, director.”

  “...I’ll e back within the hree hours.”

  Today, Aleph’s position was temporarily elevated for the hree hours.