Because of Shun Gojo's arrival, the maids in the café kept sneaking glances in his direction.
After all, a guy with Shun's level of looks was extremely rare.
Which, of course, made quite a few other customers very unhappy.
Why is the maid I ordered always looking at him instead, damn it!
Shun himself was completely unaware of the hostility he had earned.
His mind was still replaying every little detail of his earlier encounter with the cursed Kurumi.
So far, the abilities she had revealed could be roughly grouped into two main parts.
One was the clone whose real body was extremely difficult to track.
The other was the so-called First Bullet that strengthened her body.
No.
Shun closed his eyes.
In his mind, he rapidly recalled the scene from back then.
At the same time, the special grade curse inside him, the system, began to show its value.
Because of that previous contact, the system had already given him the most basic understanding of the First Bullet.
After the bullet hit cursed Kurumi, her speed had indeed reached something close to teleportation for a short time.
However, that did not necessarily mean she was reinforcing her body with cursed energy in the same way he did.
Otherwise, there was no way she would have still been so easily pinned by the throat and forced down by him.
When Shun counterattacked, Kurumi's body had remained just as fragile as before she was shot.
His mind began to simulate at high speed.
In his inner vision, a single bullet carved with a strange "1" pattern was constructed.
This counted as one of the special abilities given to him by the system and by awakening Six Eyes later on.
He possessed an incredibly powerful capacity for mental construction.
Once he became familiar enough with a given curse, he could directly build the corresponding technique in his mind.
The First Bullet in his thoughts spun rapidly in that instant.
Then Shun traced every path of cursed energy flowing through it, the points where it paused, the places where it dispersed...
Huge amounts of fine detail and data spilled out nonstop.
It was like a computer analyzing the performance and structure of some machine.
At the same time, the system's voice rang repeatedly in his head.
"First Bullet, familiarity +1."
"First Bullet, familiarity +1."
...
Shun completely ignored it.
If it were not for this special grade curse's ability to quickly imprint techniques and a few other benefits, he would have already asked Gojo Satoru to exorcise it for him.
Sometimes, it was simply too noisy.
In a short while, a fully dismantled version of the First Bullet appeared in his mind.
Still missing a few modules?
He frowned in thought.
Looking closely, he could see the bullet had been broken down into more than a dozen separate modules.
Among them, one of the largest modules was marked with a giant question mark.
Just as I thought, this part belongs to her own technique.
Shun knew exactly where the problem lay.
This so-called First Bullet was not a curse in itself, nor was it a complete technique.
It was only one form, one usage method of that technique.
Like the stopping force produced when he used the Limitless Cursed Technique.
Without the most fundamental core, it was very difficult for him to completely reconstruct the whole thing.
The solution, on the other hand, was very simple. He just needed to fight that cursed spirit one more time.
In the battle, he would feel out her real technique.
Or he could force her to use many different moves so he could reverse-engineer the structure of her technique from the outside in.
In a sense, Shun's strongest ability was not Limitless, nor was it his versatile use of curses.
It was this power of analysis, simulation and reconstruction in his own mind, based on the system's records.
Right now, he was essentially a walking jujutsu computer.
Especially when he used the Six Eyes, his analysis speed and the depth of his deductions rose to an even higher level.
But if I consider that clock of hers, and add the factor of time...
Shun had not forgotten the most striking feature of her, that clock-like eye.
He substituted "time" into the previously missing module.
He let the mechanism of action skip directly to the final result.
Then...
All of the modules of the First Bullet suddenly lit up.
With a single thought, Shun sent them whirring back into place.
The reassembly was incredibly fast.
In an instant, a new First Bullet appeared in his mind.
At the same time, the system replayed the original First Bullet it had recorded, reproducing the scene from back then.
Two bullets were fired at once, both striking Shun's body.
The corner of his mouth curved up slightly.
Well... so that was all it was.
By directly ignoring the true core of her technique and substituting a similar end result using a different method, he could still reconstruct something very close to the real thing.
So the so-called First Bullet does not actually boost her physical power for a short time, it speeds up her personal time axis?
A First Bullet he had created himself now floated and spun above Shun's left hand.
Or rather, it shortens the distance between two time nodes.
Why was he able to reproduce such an ability?
Naturally, it was thanks to the effect of Limitless.
In a certain sense, space and time were deeply intertwined.
He was not truly shortening time, he was using the compression of space to create an effect similar to that of time being compressed.
"I really want to see that time-controlling technique of hers for real now."
Shun's interest in the cursed Kurumi only grew stronger.