Curse Back: From Demonic Hollow to Heroic Spirit Summoning

The underground experimental area of the Oriental Folklore Research Institute.

Yingzhi is listening to an old professor report on the latest research progress.

"Speak human language."

After listening to the old professor reading the heavenly book for more than ten minutes, Yingzhi finally couldn't help it.

The old professor, who was interrupted by Yingzhi, paused for a moment and subconsciously looked at Yingzhi's clear and foolish voice.......Confused eyes

"I'm sorry I forgot that you haven't gone to college yet. You got so excited that you used a lot of professional terms."

The old professor scratched his head a little embarrassedly, not only because Yingzhi was the sponsor who provided them with research funds, but also because he actually treated a child as an equal to talk to.

When Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru were not around, Yingzhi would often show maturity that was not in line with his age. In addition, he developed relatively fast. If Yingzhi's face was not so immature, no one would treat Yingzhi as a child.

He opened his mouth to refute that I may not be younger than you in the last life, but after thinking about it, wouldn't it be even more embarrassing?

Yingzhi closed his mouth helplessly.

This scene made the old professor laugh cheerfully. Obviously, he imagined Yingzhi's behavior of wanting to refute just now as a stubborn child.

"In short, we have discovered a property of cursed power, which is idealism."

After saying this, the old professor's body trembled a little.

The old professor used to do research on energy weapons, but later, because of the island country's father's words, the island country had to cut many projects.

The old professor's research project was also cut a lot of funding.

The frustrated old professor chose to retire and enjoy his old age.

Yingzhi, who got the news unexpectedly, had a strange idea in his mind at that time.

Energy? Weapons?

Cursed power should be considered a kind of energy, a single-soldier combat energy, and cursed tools are weapons that use this energy.

After this idea came up, it has been lingering in Yingzhi's mind. Later, Yingzhi simply prepared the same glasses as Zenin Maki that allow ordinary people to see cursed spirits and visited.

The old professor who was idle at home and had nothing to do was very depressed. When cooking, he either cut the potatoes too thick or cut his hands. When cleaning, there were watermarks everywhere and he accidentally broke a vase. Under the disgusting eyes of his wife, the old professor could only drink tea and read newspapers every day.

Let him go out to play?

The old professor who has been doing research for a lifetime doesn't know what to play.

The children have their own jobs, so it's embarrassing to disturb them.

At this time, a The strange teenager found himself and showed himself a world he had never touched. The balance above, Yingzhi, who had never smoked after rebirth, suddenly wanted to calm down. This is why Yingzhi began to pick up a lot of money. After the equipment was uniform, I found a lot of assistants. This

Yingzhi was not worried. The old professor himself found people.

"The power of magic is subjective, otherwise how can we control it?"

Yingzhi looked at the old professor speechlessly.

You spent so much money and you came up with this?

Hearing this, the old professor sighed.

"Yes, the power of magic is originally idealistic, which makes us who have studied materialism all our lives feel ashamed."

After saying this, the old man touched the jade dog beside Yingzhi with some disappointment.

The world view and values that he had believed in for decades were shattered, and it took the old professor a long time to adapt.

"Can you see it?"

Yingzhi was a little surprised. Although the old professor was wearing glasses now, they were myopic glasses, not the glasses used to observe cursed spirits.

"That’s right, this is why I said that the power of magic is subjective."

"When I understand the power of curse subjectively, I will be able to observe it gradually."

Eiji was a little unconvinced. If you really know enough about curse spirits, you can observe them, then why does Zenin Maki in the original work need to wear glasses to observe curse spirits? She has received education related to curse spirits and has killed a large number of curse spirits. Do you dare to say that Zenin Maki doesn't understand curse spirits?

He summoned Maruko from his shadow. Sure enough, the old professor didn't notice that there was another shikigami in front of him.

Or was it the behavior of the jade dog that made the old professor notice something strange?

"Judging from the little guy's appearance, have you summoned a new shikigami?"

"That's right, if you really understand the power of curse and can see the cursed spirits and shikigami, then why can't you see Maruko?"

"Because I didn't know Marika's image, size, and the nature of her cursed power, I couldn't imagine Marika in my mind, so I couldn't observe Marika. But I knew the appearance of the jade dog when we first met."

Hearing this, Eiji remembered the original story where Nanami taught Yuji to observe the remnant.

The remnant was there, but Yuji couldn't see it before Nanami taught him. After Nanami taught him, Yuji could see it.

"Boy, do you know Schrödinger's cat?"

"heard about it"

"You can study that when you have time. Now come and see my research results."

After saying that, the old professor took Yingzhi to a laboratory.

There was a metal box in the laboratory, and in the box was a fourth-level cursed spirit that exuded cold air.

"Panasonic, let's get started."

""Yes, Professor."

After saying that, the researcher named Matsushita turned on a switch.

The space in the box seemed to have some fluctuations, and Yingzhi could see that the air in the box was slightly distorted.

The level 4 cursed spirit that exuded cold air began to howl in pain.

"This is?"

"An electromagnetic wave"

"Electromagnetic waves?"

"Yes, you can understand that we are heating the experimental device through this electromagnetic wave"

"Induction cooker?"

No, that's a box inside.

"Micro-wave oven?"

"......It’s different, but you can understand it that way."

As if seeing Yingzhi’s confusion, the old professor continued

"At the beginning, we had a question: why can the cursed spirits penetrate matter and yet physically attack and destroy it?"

Eiji remembered the cursed spirit that came down from the ceiling through the wall and injured Fushiguro Megumi at the beginning of the story, and also remembered the cursed spirit that came through the wall and grabbed a child to threaten Nobara.

"When a young researcher proposed the idea of idealism, we quickly verified it and found that the cursed spirits were also observing themselves in this"idealistic" way."

"It thought it could pass through walls, so it did. It thought it could touch something, so it did. Later, we did another test. The researcher who didn’t wear the glasses shot directly through the cursed spirit, but the observer who wore the glasses shot a bullet that made a hole in the head of the cursed spirit."

"This makes us more convinced that the curse spirit and curse power exist in the form of idealism."

"However, this idealism has great limitations and cannot exceed their cognition, otherwise the cursed spirit will not be able to maintain its body and will collapse."

"By studying the remnants left behind after the cursed spirits disintegrated, we discovered the special energy that makes up the cursed spirits."

"Later we began to study this special energy and found a way to interfere with it."

"For example, this cursed spirit.

The old professor pointed to the cursed spirit that had begun to disintegrate in the laboratory.

"According to the curse spirit illustration you gave me, this curse spirit was born out of people's hatred of severe cold. After many studies on it, we found that when we observe it and treat it......Electromagnetic heating can destroy the stability of its energy structure and kill it."

After thinking about it, the old professor gave up using professional terms and instead explained it using the microwave oven term that Yingzhi believed.

"No use of magic power?"

"No cursed power was used."

After hearing the old professor's affirmative reply, and the fact that he did not see any cursed power fluctuations in this large"microwave oven", Yingzhi believed it.

They did find a way to harm cursed spirits through science without using cursed power.

In any case, this is a good start.