Levi looked down at Haruta Shigemo and nodded.
“Exactly.
Since I have no cursed energy and not much strength, I had to burn off his limbs to keep him from escaping.”
“Of course, you guys deserve some credit too.
This guy’s cursed technique is called [Miraculous Storage].
It stores little bits of everyday luck to be used in critical moments.”
“You probably felt it when fighting him—he’s clearly weak, but he repeatedly avoided being finished off through sheer luck in one hit at the crucial moment, right?
That was him using his stored luck.”
“Since he was besieged by you all, his luck has been completely drained.
That’s how he fell into my hands.”
Levi casually explained the details of Haruta Shigemo’s cursed technique.
Haruta Shigemo was stunned.
He sniffled, his eyes welled with tears, and he asked in confusion, “How do you know my cursed technique?”
“I didn’t even know my own cursed technique, and I never gave it a name…
I just thought I was always lucky.
It turns out luck has to be stored…?”
Levi gave a confident smile.
“Don’t underestimate my intelligence network!”
The three people opposite him fell silent.
Maki opened her mouth, but she didn’t know what to say.
There were too many contradictions in Levi’s words.
What did he mean, ‘Since I have no cursed energy to restrain him, I burned off his limbs’?
Does your performance look like someone without cursed energy?
And why do you know more about someone else’s cursed technique than they do themselves?
This obviously wasn’t extracted through torture; he had a complete grasp of the opponent’s information from the start.
Maki Zenin only felt that the man before her was becoming increasingly mysterious.
Naobito Zenin, however, narrowed his eyes.
“Kid, are you a Heavenly Restriction user too?”
So far, the Zenin family had produced the most Heavenly Restriction users.
As the name implies, a Heavenly Restriction is a binding vow one is born with.
This restriction cannot be reversed or defied; one gains extra power at the sacrifice of something else.
Toji Fushiguro and Maki Zenin both sacrificed cursed energy in exchange for physical enhancement.
But this didn’t mean that sacrificing cursed energy could only enhance the body.
What a Heavenly Restriction loses and gains is completely random…
just like a cursed technique.
Moreover, the commonality was that if they had offspring, there was a chance it could be inherited.
Maki Zenin’s eyes flickered.
She hadn’t expected him to be the same kind of existence as her and Mechamaru.
But what was this man’s Heavenly Restriction?
Judging by his ability to clearly know others’ cursed techniques, could it be that he sacrificed cursed energy in exchange for the ability to obtain information?
“Yes, my name is Levi, and I am a Heavenly Restriction user.”
Levi introduced himself and immediately shifted the conversation back to the glasses.
“How about we make a deal?”
Levi felt that before awakening cursed energy, glasses that allowed him to see cursed spirits were very useful.
“As long as you give me the glasses, I’ll guarantee that the old man behind you won’t die during this incident.”
“If he doesn’t die, then even if Satoru Gojo—who backs his students—is sealed, your father won’t dare to kill your sister.”
Maki Zenin looked at Levi with a stunned expression.
What was this guy talking about?
What did he mean by saying her father wouldn’t kill her sister as long as Naobito Zenin didn’t die?
Was he even speaking a human language?
Because it was so absurd, Maki Zenin believed eighty percent of it instantly.
She knew Ogi well enough to believe it.
It was true.
If Naobito Zenin—the only one in the Zenin family who still counted as human—died, and her teacher Satoru Gojo, whom she could turn to for help, was unable to act, that beast Ogi Zenin really would be capable of killing Mai.
Ogi Zenin had always viewed the twins, her and her sister, as a disgrace, even hating them to the bone.
Naobito Zenin naturally understood his brother’s temperament as well.
The drunken look on his face faded as he narrowed his eyes at Levi.
“Young man, where exactly did your information come from?”
Brat, kid, young man.
Naobito Zenin had changed how he addressed him three times in a short span.
He was the type to treat people according to their status, but it wasn’t annoying; instead, he seemed quite straightforward and honest.
Levi chuckled.
“I told you, don’t underestimate my intelligence network.”
Now the three of them were certain that the man’s Heavenly Restriction must be a buff related to intelligence.
Maki Zenin cast a complex look at Naobito Zenin behind her.
Although she always called him a ‘dying old man,’ Naobito Zenin was indeed the only person in that disgusting, dark Zenin family who could protect her sister.
It was hard to say that she would have survived and grown up healthy without Naobito Zenin’s contribution.
It was just that she had been too young in the past, like a child thinking she would always have the protection of her elders, and that those elders would seemingly exist forever, just as they always had.
“Thanks for the warning.
I’ll look after the old man tonight,” Maki Zenin said, bowing her head slightly.
Naobito Zenin immediately complained, “Hey, hey, it’s a hundred years too early for me to die.
What the hell can you do to protect me?
It’s more likely I’ll be the one protecting you.”
Because she suspected Levi had an intelligence-related Heavenly Restriction, Maki Zenin fully believed his words.
But even if it were fake, just the warning alone—making her truly realize the malice Ogi Zenin harbored toward her sister—had already been a huge help.
Maki Zenin reached into her shirt and pulled out a pair of round-framed glasses.
Levi remembered that in the original Shibuya Incident, Maki Zenin was eventually defeated by the special grade cursed spirit Jogo.
Not only was her body burned and her hair scorched off, but her red-framed glasses were also destroyed.
These round-framed glasses were the ones Maki Zenin wore when she returned to the Zenin family after recovering from her heavy injuries, and they were also the pair she wore during the prequel, the Yuta arc.
It seemed that after updating her glasses, she had kept the previous ones as spares.
Maki threw the glasses over.
Levi raised his hand, caught them with precision, and put them on.
Finally, the field of cursed spirit corpses appeared before Levi’s eyes.
And they were slowly dissipating.
“I can finally see cursed spirits.”
Levi let out a relaxed sigh of relief.
Now he didn’t have to worry about a sneak attack from Mahito.
“You’re the real deal, Maki.
What else is there to say?”
“Don’t worry, that old man behind you definitely won’t die today.
I’m a man of my word.”
Just then, a cold sneer suddenly reached their ears.
“Is that so?”
Everyone immediately looked up toward the source of the voice.
There stood a petite woman with white hair, dressed in a kimono, on the rooftop.
Her pale eyelashes covered eyes devoid of emotion as she looked down at the crowd below.
“Yo, Sukuna.”
Levi greeted the white-haired Sukuna.
The hearts of the other three were instantly jolted!
This person is actually Sukuna?!
Isn’t Sukuna sealed inside Yuji’s body?
And why does this man named Levi know Sukuna?
Then, Sukuna’s figure flickered and suddenly vanished from the spot.
When she reappeared, she was already behind Naobito Zenin, wearing a cold sneer.
“I’d like to see how you’re going to save this old geezer tonight!”