Cold, persistent raindrops densely splattered against the glass, and everything in sight was drenched in the rain.
"Master, we have arrived."
Kenmyo, who had his eyes closed, opened them at this moment. In the driver's seat was Kamo Ward, one of his personal guards.
"I understand."
The silver Spirit of Ecstasy emblem on the front of the car symbolized its high value. As the vehicle for the next head of the Kamo Family, one of the three great Jujutsu World families, it naturally wouldn't be cheap.
Just a few seconds after the car came to a stop, the door next to Kenmyo was pulled open by Kamo Richie-Barrow, another member of his personal guard.
As soon as the door opened, the outside was noisy, mixed with the sounds of police cars, fire trucks, and the clamor of reporters. The car's soundproofing was excellent, so not much was heard with the door closed, but as soon as it opened, the difference was immediate.
"Lord Kenmyo."
The tall, thin man with dark skin wearing a raincoat held an umbrella in one hand and the car door in the other. He was there to escort his master out of the car.
"Thank you, Barrow."
Kamo Richie-Barrow originally wanted to hold the umbrella for Lord Kenmyo, but Kenmyo was not accustomed to others doing so, so he could only hand the umbrella to the Family Head.
"What's the situation inside the hospital now?"
Kenmyo could smell a pungent, nauseating stench of blood in the air even from here.
The hospital in front of them was completely sealed off, with a two-kilometer radius around it under strict martial law. Several large roadblocks stood at the main entrance, bearing the large characters 'No Entry'. The Metropolitan Police Department had surrounded the area.
This hospital was outwardly the Tokyo Metropolitan Fourth Public Hospital, with three inpatient departments and a maximum capacity of 1,100 beds, but secretly it was a large hospital directly affiliated with the Kamo Family.
It housed a super-large blood bank with a maximum capacity to store 6,000 blood bags. In the past, one-third of the Kamo Family's Jujutsu Sorcerer chose to store their blood here.
This was because Blood Manipulation could only be used with one's own blood. Before a Jujutsu Sorcerer went on a mission, they would come to the blood bank to collect their stored blood. The more blood they shed normally, the more blood bags they would take when going on a mission.
The Kamo Family had over a thousand Jujutsu Sorcerer, although most were ineffective Grade 3 and Grade 4 Jujutsu Sorcerer. Therefore, the Kamo Family had about three such blood banks built across Tokyo, and this was just one of them.
However, after Kenmyo took control of the Kamo Family, the blood bank suddenly became the most useless thing.
They were already dead, and one of the benefits of being killed was that they could consume their blood without limit. Even if all their blood was used up, they wouldn't die immediately and could continue fighting.
Kenmyo had already overseen the concentrated destruction of the other two blood banks after taking control of the Kamo Family, but before he could centrally destroy the Cursed Energy-infused blood stored by Kamo Family Jujutsu Sorcerer in this blood bank, a serious accident erupted here.
The entire hospital was completely covered by a semi-open Domain, and its image flickered in and out of sight in the heavy rain.
Moreover, there was a very clear sound, like a strong and powerful heartbeat, suggesting that something might be gestating somewhere in that hospital.
When Kenmyo asked his question, the middle-aged man in a bulletproof vest who looked like an on-site commander was Kamo Norimitsu, the father of Kamo Kenka, who had initially led the team to block Kenmyo. He was also considered a high-ranking member of the Kamo Family.
He immediately replied,
"Four teams entered the hospital at twenty-minute intervals and have all lost contact."
"Then, an hour later, the report from the family headquarters stated that three teams had been reborn in the family's Blood Pool."
The Blood Pool was the River of Death spring eye established by Kenmyo, located in the deepest part of the Kamo Family's territory, equivalent to a 'fountain' in a game, allowing fallen Kamo Family Jujutsu Sorcerer to revive.
Kenmyo did this because he feared Jujutsu Sorcerer would be killed again by their enemies after dying, and for secrecy. It would be disastrous if rumors spread that Kamo Family Jujutsu Sorcerer could not die.
Each Kamo Family team consisted of five Jujutsu Sorcerer with the strength of Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerers. Such a lineup was considered luxurious, something unthinkable in the eyes of the other two families.
"What did the revived people say?"
Killed Jujutsu Sorcerer retain memories from before their death; they wouldn't forget who killed them unless the power disparity was too great.
This meant intelligence sharing. Kamo Family Jujutsu Sorcerer could provoke enemies as much as possible to gain information while concealing their identities.
When Kenmyo left, these teams had just entered the hospital, so their timelines were staggered, and he hadn't received their information.
"It was an instant kill."
Kamo Norimitsu's tone was somewhat awkward as he replied,
"The only thing clearly seen was a blood-red light blade."
Kenmyo and his group walked and talked.
"So, it's Type B?"
"This subordinate also judges it to be so."
This was another reform Kenmyo implemented after taking over the Kamo Family: further subdividing the ranks of Cursed Spirits within the family.
Especially for Special Grade Cursed Spirits.
Kenmyo discovered that there were significant differences among Special Grade Cursed Spirits. Essentially, the gap between a powerful Special Grade Cursed Spirit and a weak one was as vast as the gap between a Grade 3 Cursed Spirit and a Special Grade Cursed Spirit.
So, for convenience, Special Grade Cursed Spirits were divided into three ranks: the strongest as Grade A, the middle as Grade B, and the lowest, like the Rainbow Dragon, as Grade C.
Although this encounter was with a Cursed Spirit capable of instantly killing fifteen Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerers, it shouldn't have been born yet. It might have just been an unconscious predatory instinct that killed all those people.
If that Cursed Spirit were in its complete form, it would have run out of the hospital long ago. How could the few people in the hospital be enough for it to eat?
Special Grade Cursed Spirits generally have intelligence similar to humans. This type of Cursed Spirit, as a single entity, can even be much smarter than humans.
So, despite its impressive record, it should still be a bit short of Grade A, only qualifying as a Grade B Special Grade Cursed Spirit.
Kenmyo estimated that this Cursed Spirit must have absorbed the blood bags of the Jujutsu Sorcerer originally stored in the blood bank, which is why it became so terrifying. Even before its full birth, its Domain had already unconsciously spread out.
The police cordon, set up in layers by the Metropolitan Police Department, was like air in front of Kenmyo and his group. In fact, when the Metropolitan Police Department officers saw them approaching from a distance, they immediately and deftly opened a gap in the cordon to let them through, even saluting them.
This was not only because the Kamo Family's sphere of influence extended throughout Tokyo, but also because their prestige was more effective than any other family's.
Kamo Norimitsu, the commander of this operation, in addition to being a mid-to-high-ranking member of the Kamo Family, also held the position of Superintendent General of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. There are fewer than twenty officers in all of Japan who can reach this rank, which is why he could wear the highly recognizable Metropolitan Police Department bulletproof vest.
With their direct superior there, how could these people not work diligently?
And at this moment, in the hospital's lowest level, the morgue, there were over a dozen gigantic, fleshy pipes, each about a meter in diameter, extending for hundreds of meters directly to the blood bank, continuously supplying blood from the blood bank to the Cursed Spirit.
Inside the bloodshot Cursed Spirit cocoon, a tiny figure was faintly visible. Irrigated by thousands of bags of Jujutsu Sorcerer blood, even the lowest-grade Cursed Spirit would evolve, let alone something that started as a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit.
The hospital should have been bustling with people—patients, doctors, and nurses. But all these people had now become food for the Cursed Spirit's growth, completely enveloped by a membrane, waiting to be devoured the moment it completed its transformation.
Kenmyo frowned, looking at the entire hospital, which was filled with an ominous aura.
All the birds had lost control; many birds on the ground flapped their wings but could no longer fly.
"Report!"
"The Jujutsu Sorcerer Association is asking if assistance is needed? They will dispatch at least a dozen Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerers for support."
"Refuse them. This matter can be resolved by the Kamo Family itself; the Jujutsu Sorcerer Association does not need to intervene."
But if one truly believed that the Jujutsu Sorcerer Association was genuinely coming to help the Kamo Family solve their difficulties, they would be mistaken.
How could that be? They were clearly coming to try their luck and see if they could get a bottle of blood potion.
Who made the small red bottle, which Kenmyo introduced and had an effect similar to Reverse Cursed Technique, so attractive?
Even a child knows that rarity makes things valuable. If too many blood bottles were released, would they still be valuable?
Those old men in the Jujutsu Sorcerer Association weren't that kind-hearted; they were all the type who wouldn't act without seeing a clear benefit.
This incident occurred within the Kamo Family's jurisdiction, so the people handling it were naturally the Kamo Family. Outsiders could just stay out of it.
Kenmyo and his group passed through the central garden and were now very close to the hospital's main entrance.
Kenmyo originally wanted his two personal guards, Kamo Richie-Barrow and Kamo Ward, to exorcise this Cursed Spirit.
However, Kenmyo clearly sensed that the Cursed Spirit, currently in its gestation period, seemed to be on the verge of birth.
If he sent those two in, they might not even find the way to the Cursed Spirit's location.
Now was not the time for assessments; it was better to nip the danger in the bud.
If a city were to be destroyed due to fighting a Special Grade Cursed Spirit, it would still be the Kamo Family's disgrace.
Furthermore, after what happened with the Ghost Train last time, Kenmyo already knew that he absolutely could not be led by the nose into a Cursed Spirit's Domain.
The more one followed the Cursed Spirit's line of thought, the more dangerous it became, and the greater the possibility of triggering a guaranteed death rule.
Those three teams were the best proof: despite being Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerers, they were all annihilated in an instant.
Therefore, if one had the ability, they had to be aggressive from the start, preferably with a single strike, to completely shatter the entire Cursed Spirit's Domain.
If it were a Domain opened by a fully mature Special Grade Cursed Spirit, it would indeed be a bit troublesome for Kenmyo to break through it.
He might even be unable to do it relying solely on himself without opening his own Domain.
But the Cursed Spirit before him was still in its fetal stage, not even born yet.
The Domain covering the entire hospital was its unconscious action. If he couldn't cut through such a half-baked Domain with a single slash, Kenmyo felt he might as well go back to farming.
"Forget it, I'll do it myself."
Kenmyo looked at the people gathered around him and said to them.
"You all raise the curtain, and make sure it's secure. Don't let it shatter from the aftershocks of my attack later."
"I'm going to cut down the Domain with one slash, along with that unborn Cursed Spirit."
Slicing a Domain with a sword—what arrogant words.
Yet, when spoken by the person before them, they were so convincing.
"We understand, Lord Kenmyo."
Kamo Richie-Barrow and Kamo Ward had already materialized their respective weapons, preparing to enter the Domain.
Upon hearing Kenmyo's words, they dispelled their Cursed Techniques and put their weapons away, a testament to their absolute trust in the Kamo Family's sole ruler.
After dismissing everyone, a sword appeared in Kenmyo's hand. He gripped it with one hand, his eyes fixed on the hospital, which seemed to be surrounded by an eerie, demonic aura, and took a deep breath.
"Then I'll give it a try."
Kenmyo stepped forward with his left foot, bending his body into a stance similar to a Battojutsu (Battojutsu) draw.
Kenmyo's blood-red Cursed Energy burned like flames, and a blood-red phantom appeared above him.
It was the same product that broke through the Kamo Family's barrier last time, except this blood-red samurai was slightly smaller than before, having shrunk considerably.
Kenmyo's outwardly released Cursed Energy gradually dissipated at this moment. No, it wasn't dissipating, but rather concentrating, condensing all the Cursed Energy onto the blade.
A crimson light began to appear on the shining blade. Along with the release of Kenmyo's Cursed Energy, the blade in his hand, imbued with holy power, also changed.
A violent, bloodshot eye opened directly from within the blade, staring wide and round, observing its surroundings. A slit also appeared on the blade, revealing sharp fangs.
Sensing this power capable of tearing apart its Domain, the Cursed Spirit in the deepest part of the hospital suddenly opened its eyes.
Driven by a strong instinct for survival, the Cursed Womb became a premature birth.
A human-like look of fear appeared in its dark eyes. It violently tore through the membrane in front of it, thrust its head out, and let out a piercing, infant-like cry. Immediately, monstrous black Cursed Energy erupted from the hospital.
"Has it been born?"
Kenmyo was not surprised by this; seeking advantage and avoiding harm is an instinct for living beings.
When facing a terrifying enemy, if one does not evolve quickly,
They will die, it's that simple.
"But, it's too late."
Kenmyo simply swung his arm, cutting horizontally.
The phantom behind him moved in sync, unleashing a slash.
The sword light unleashed by Kenmyo also transformed into a slash at this moment, erupting with terrifying destructive power!
With one slash, it annihilated the overwhelming Cursed Technique that roared at him like a raging tide, ready to drag him into its Domain, within that blood-red blade!
Suddenly, a massive crimson blade shot up from the ground like a spring onion, splitting the entire hospital in two down the middle.
The Domain was cut open.
Only a piercing shriek and an infant's cry were heard. All the subordinates present saw the once immensely powerful Domain shatter completely like an eggshell under their Lord Kenmyo's attack, becoming utterly vulnerable.
An infant-shaped Cursed Spirit gradually vanished in the terrifying slash, revealing its original form: an ugly stillbirth.
[You have killed a Special Grade Cursed Spirit (originally not Special Grade, it was promoted to Special Grade Cursed Spirit after absorbing a large amount of Jujutsu Sorcerer blood).]
[Cursed Womb: Death Painting - Sixth Child - Blood Spirit.]
[Gained points +120000]
Kenmyo raised an eyebrow.
Since taking over the Kamo Family, the first thing he did was read—the ancient texts passed down through the Kamo Family for thousands of years.
This seemed to be a monstrous creation made by their Kamo Family ancestor, Isayama Ken'yoshi, the most evil Jujutsu Sorcerer in history, using extremely wicked methods.