If you only watched the anime, it would be incredibly easy to fall into a massive misconception: that there were a lot of Special Grade sorcerers, or at least a lot of people with Special Grade combat power.
After all, during the showdown with Sukuna in the original story, Grade 1 sorcerers were treated worse than stray dogs, and Special Grades were practically walking everywhere.
But in the actual reality of the jujutsu world, Special Grade sorcerers were exceedingly rare.
On paper, there were only four officially recognized Special Grades in all of Japan.
And every single one of them was a highly eccentric individual.
Barely any of them obediently listened to the jujutsu higher-ups.
Grade 1 sorcerers were, in fact, the true central pillars of the jujutsu world.
Furthermore, one shouldn’t overestimate the combat strength of the so-called “Great Families.” There was no denying that the major clans possessed deep historical foundations and immense wealth.
But their actual, sheer combat power?
Mediocre at best.
Take the Zenin Clan, for example, one of the esteemed Big Three Families.
What was their fate?
They were completely slaughtered by a not-even-fully-realized Heavenly Tyrant—Maki Zenin.
If a single Maki could completely wipe out one of the Big Three Families, it went without saying what true monsters like Satoru Gojo could do.
It clearly illustrated exactly how much weight the so-called jujutsu higher-ups and their controlled families actually held.
Therefore, Gojo didn’t give a single damn about the higher-ups’ threats to deal with Ronawa.
If those embarrassing old fools actually managed to track her down, it was a total coin toss as to who would end up killing who.
Compared to the humiliating existence of the higher-ups, Gojo was actually far more concerned about Suguru Geto.
Geto was the only one who posed a genuine threat to Ronawa.
If she was found, kidnapped, and corrupted by his old friend, Gojo would cry a river.
Because of the massive storm he had kicked up, the entire jujutsu world was in an uproar, actively hunting for Ronawa.
Consequently, Ronawa just straight-up embraced the NEET lifestyle.
She stayed home every day, doing absolutely nothing but playing around and ignoring the chaos outside.
Honestly, it was a incredibly comfortable way to live.
Even better, Ronawa had discovered a major exploit in her mechanics: she didn’t actually need to witness death in person.
Observing it indirectly counted as “witnessing.”
For example, when she watched the news and saw a report about a disaster and how many people had died, she could feel her cursed energy growing.
This discovery basically opened the door to a brand-new world for her.
As a result, she completely shifted her daily routine away from gaming and began aggressively doomscrolling and scouring the internet for news on fatal accidents and disasters.
The higher the death toll, the happier she was.
As incredibly cursed and dark as that sounded, she honestly couldn’t help it.
She was literally farming cursed energy just by watching the news.
It was impossible for her to keep a straight face.
At this rate, it wouldn’t be long before she could go back out and mess around.
She only needed to be strong enough to handle Suguru Geto and the higher-ups.
The difficulty curve was so much lower!
You had to hand it to Special Grade cursed spirits—their growth rate was insane.
Some people might think that a Special Grade cursed spirit was born with peak Special Grade power.
In reality, they weren’t; even Special Grades had to level up.
Take Mahito, for instance.
When he was first born, he was nearly beaten to death by Kento Nanami.
It was only through step-by-step growth that he gradually accumulated true Special Grade combat power.
Ronawa was no different.
She was a Special Grade, yes, but she still needed to grow.
The good news was her leveling speed was completely broken.
At her current pace, she’d possess genuine Special Grade combat power in a matter of months.
And note: “Special Grade” here did not mean Special Grade cursed spirit.
It meant scaling to a Special Grade sorcerer.
After all, the bar for a Special Grade cursed spirit was honestly way too low.
Did anyone actually think a standard Special Grade cursed spirit was on the same level as a Special Grade sorcerer?
Theoretically, they were supposed to be in the same tier.
Practically?
A cursed spirit facing a sorcerer of the same official grade was just a random mob waiting to get farmed.
Forget same-grade matchups; cross-grade exorcisms happened all the time.
Aoi Todo, back when he was still officially a Grade 1, had soloed a Special Grade cursed spirit.
That alone proved how heavily the scaling favored sorcerers over spirits.
And it was precisely because cursed spirits were so overwhelmingly weak compared to identically graded sorcerers that Megumi Fushiguro looked like such a massive liability.
The guy was a bona fide Grade 2 sorcerer who almost got killed by a Grade 2 cursed spirit.
Absolute fraud behavior!
Of course, it wasn’t that there were zero powerful curses.
The Disaster Curses, for example—those four unregistered Special Grades—could generally hold their own against ordinary Special Grade sorcerers.
Mahito, in particular, with his infinitely limitless potential technique, Idle Transfiguration, was practically destined to become the King of Curses.
He possessed the innate potential to rival Satoru Gojo and Ryomen Sukuna.
But Mahito himself was just too terrible at the game.
He took a god-tier hand and played it like absolute garbage, ultimately ending up getting eaten by Kenjaku.
A completely embarrassing skill issue.
Whether it was Gojo on the side of justice, or Sukuna and Kenjaku on the side of evil, their attitude toward cursed spirits was universally the same: use them up and throw them away.
It was fundamentally a war between human sorcerers, yet cursed spirits made up 99% of the casualties.
It was plain to see how dangerous the jujutsu world was for a cursed spirit, and how nearly impossible it was for one to survive.
But things were different now.
Because Ronawa, an unparalleled anomaly, had entered the chat.
The unique conceptual status of the “Cursed Spirit of Death” granted her a virtually uncapped ceiling for growth.
Paired with her outrageously overpowered innate technique, Death of All Things, she had a very real chance of becoming the true King of Curses.
An entity on the exact same tier as Gojo and Sukuna.
In other words, Ronawa was the sole hope for cursed spirits everywhere.
Only when she grew up and took over would the cursed spirits of this world finally see some good days.
Aside from watching the news and witnessing death, Ronawa was actively researching and developing her innate technique, Death of All Things.
Without a doubt, it was a completely overtuned, game-breaking ability.
It could conceptually bestow death upon anything.
When she had sparred with Gojo earlier, she had used it to very nearly crack his Limitless.
After all, in her eyes, “space” itself could die.
Later, against Suguru Geto, she had applied the exact same logic.
By killing “distance,” she successfully achieved instantaneous teleportation.
And that was nowhere near the limit of Death of All Things.
Those were just basic test runs.
In reality, the technique’s target range was frighteningly vast.
Any conceptual construct could be killed by it.
It felt a bit like the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
But fundamentally, it operated on a higher plane than the Mystic Eyes.
The prerequisite for the Mystic Eyes was understanding.
You had to comprehend a target’s nature before you could perceive its lines and points of death.
Death of All Things required none of that.
She didn’t need to understand the concept.
She didn’t need to know the underlying mechanics.
If she wanted it dead, it died!
That was what made the technique so tyrannical.
Furthermore, the targeting parameters were virtually limitless.
It could be applied to anything as micro and tangible as a physical object, a human, or a cursed spirit.
Or it could be applied to macro, abstract concepts.
Like space, distance, time…
and even killing intent!