"Father, did you call for me?"
Isayama Yomi arrived at her father, Isayama Naraku's, study.
"Mm, Yomi."
Isayama Naraku smiled and nodded at his proud daughter.
"How have you been getting along with Noriyuki lately?"
"Oh, that. It's going alright."
Isayama Yomi's face flushed slightly when Izuna Noriyuki was mentioned.
The marriage between Izuna Noriyuki and Isayama Yomi was a political one.
Although Isayama Yomi had initially stated she would prioritize the bigger picture when Isayama Naraku first proposed the alliance, she had actually felt quite uncomfortable about it.
Izuna Noriyuki felt the same way.
Even in ancient feudal times, many people took drastic actions out of dissatisfaction with political marriages.
Let alone in the modern era with its open-mindedness.
Therefore, both Izuna Noriyuki and Isayama Yomi were resistant to this marriage.
They had even fought over it.
However, with Tsuchiya Kagura's clumsy help, the two eventually let go of their dissatisfaction with the arranged marriage and began to get to know each other seriously.
They eventually fell in love.
After all, both Izuna Noriyuki and Isayama Yomi were gentle souls.
"That's good to hear."
Isayama Naraku smiled kindly.
With his rich life experience, he naturally noticed his daughter's subtle shyness.
Yomi was not of the Isayama family bloodline, so it wouldn't be easy for Naraku to pass the position of Isayama Family Head to her.
He wanted Yomi to look after the next head of the Tsuchimiya Family, Kagura, so that Kagura would gain the support of the current and next generation of Tsuchimiya Family heads.
He would then pass down the family's Cursed Tool to Yomi, allowing her to gain merit by exorcising powerful Cursed Spirits.
The Lion King represented Naraku's attitude and was also his way of protecting Yomi.
With the Special Grade Summoned Spirit Crimson Lotus by her side, Yomi's safety was guaranteed as long as no unexpected situations arose.
Finally, he arranged for her to marry into the Izuna family.
While the Izuna family wasn't particularly strong in combat, their intelligence gathering capabilities were quite good. With their support, many hidden arrows aimed at Yomi would be blocked.
Isayama Naraku himself had fought his way up through sheer strength. He believed his daughter, who was even more capable than he was, wouldn't fear open attacks, just like him. With Izuna Noriyuki watching her back against more dangerous hidden threats, Yomi would be able to firmly secure her position as the Isayama Family Head.
"We will have a distinguished guest visiting the Isayama family tomorrow. Yomi, please prepare yourself to welcome them with me."
"A distinguished guest?"
Yomi was curious about who this guest her father mentioned could be.
After all, her father's status was top-tier in the entire northeastern region of the Island Nation.
Someone her father would call a distinguished guest...
"Is it a high-ranking official from Jujutsu Headquarters? Or one of the Three Great Families?"
Yomi whispered her guesses in confusion.
"Heh, no need to guess. Take a look."
Yomi curiously took the documents her father handed her.
Special Grade Jujutsu Sorcerer
Ten Shadows Technique
Zenin Family...
To maintain the reputation of the Three Great Families, the Zenin family deliberately emphasized the Ten Shadows Technique in their public relations, deliberately downplaying their Heroic Spirit Summoning abilities.
Eiji didn't mind this. For one thing, strength was the most important thing, and as long as it didn't harm him, they could say whatever they wanted. For another, it allowed him to keep some of his trump cards hidden.
After all, information about a Jujutsu Sorcerer's abilities was also very important.
"Special Grade..."
If only I had Special Grade strength too...
Isayama Yomi quickly pushed the unrealistic fantasy out of her mind and continued to flip through the documents.
...
The next morning, Eiji got into a car heading towards the Isayama residence.
In addition to Altoria and the butler Shuji Zenin, Eiji brought Medea with him on this visit to the Isayama family.
After carefully studying the information on the Isayama and Tsuchimiya families, Eiji discovered that although both families possessed the ability to create Cursed Tools from Cursed Objects, as well as seal and command Summoned Spirits, they likely only knew how to use these abilities and could not reproduce them.
Otherwise, why would they still be using only the Lion King and Byakurei after thousands of years?
Therefore, Eiji brought Medea, who could create and command Summoned Spirits and was skilled in crafting items.
If the two families could not provide the technology Eiji desired, he would have Medea attempt to research and replicate their techniques.
Today, Medea was not wearing her usual purple mage robe.
Instead, she had changed into a dark blue trench coat and a light brown long skirt.
She looked capable and composed, like a professional woman.
A phone call broke the silence inside the car.
"Young Master Eiji, someone from the Isayama family just called. There are Cursed Spirits on our route, and Jujutsu Sorcerers have already been dispatched to exorcise them. They hope we can wait for a bit."
Shuji Zenin concisely reported the contents of the call to Eiji, omitting all the polite greetings and pleasantries they had exchanged earlier.
"Cursed Spirits are blocking the road?"
Eiji became interested.
"Yes. Recently, Cursed Spirit incidents in the northeastern region of the Island Nation have increased significantly, surpassing the trend of the past few months."
It's important to remember that the past few months were typically the period with the highest number of Cursed Spirits and the most concentrated outbreaks.
Now that the high-incidence period for Cursed Spirits was ending in other regions, the northeastern part of the Island Nation was standing out, and Cursed Spirits were expected to continue for several more months?
"Do you know the reason?"
"The Isayama family is also unsure."
Shuji Zenin paused.
"However, a similar situation occurred three years ago. At that time, a large number of Cursed Spirits suddenly appeared and surged towards the city. The Tsuchimiya family, the Isayama family, and other local Jujutsu Sorcerer families mobilized their entire forces to barely quell that disaster, but the local Jujutsu Sorcerer families suffered heavy losses."
Eiji recalled the information he had seen in the files earlier.
Three years ago, the current madam of the Tsuchimiya family was ambushed by a Curse User while exorcising Cursed Spirits and was severely injured.
The head of the Tsuchimiya family had been investigating the whereabouts of that Curse User ever since inheriting the Summoned Spirit Byakurei.
If this abnormal outbreak of Cursed Spirits was similar to that situation.
Eiji stroked his chin, lost in thought.
Perhaps his plan would be much simpler than he imagined.
Was it a case of "the greater the storm, the more valuable the fish"?
The Lion King and the Summoned Spirit Byakurei were, after all, the guarantors of the two families' millennia-old traditions, and obtaining their technology would undoubtedly be very difficult.
Eiji had made extensive preparations for this.
But if the two families were struggling to protect themselves, the situation would be different.
Although he couldn't replicate the actions from the Naruto series, where the Third Hokage watched his allies, the Uzumaki clan, be destroyed and then "benevolently" took over the custody of the Uzumaki clan's core legacy.
However, obtaining some technology through trade was not an issue.
After all, the disaster three years ago had already caused heavy losses to the Jujutsu Sorcerer families in the northeastern region.
The strongest Tsuchimiya family now had only two members left.
Most of the Isayama family's Jujutsu Sorcerers had died in battle. After recovering from his serious injuries, the family head, Isayama Naraku, could no longer fight on the front lines. The family's strongest current combatant was the Level 2 Jujutsu Sorcerer Isayama Yomi, who wielded the Lion King.
If another such event occurred, they might truly face extinction.
"Let's continue moving forward."
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