Chapter 31

Sitting in a recliner on the beach, Yue Li, now known as Shinju, a special grade cursed spirit, was holding several tomes of secret records while listening to her companions discussing something important.

She was now a cursed spirit in the form of a woman wearing casual clothing with a black mask covering the upper half of her face.

The others were a little different. One of them was a patch face, and the other was one-eyed mountain head, while the last one was a monk with stitches between their forehead. There was also the presence of a tree face and octopus.

" Oy, what do you mean the plan need some modifications, we have all of skuna fingers, the special cursed spirit cursed womb one to five, and even all the records that Shinju asked to bring from their library. As of now, our second mole, that didn't even realize he was one, is bringing us informations that they seem to be checking the past known seals and other cursed objects. This is the perfect occasion to kill them. " Said the Jogo, the mountain flaming face.

" It's not that I'm against it but, three first grade cursed spirit and another special grade cursed spirit were dead by the time we got out, Hanami will have also died if we just sent her. Had Shinju not helped in providing the cursed spirits, we would have lost Hanami instead. " Answered Mahito, the patch faced cursed spirit.

" Not only that, but we will need to deal with Arata, the holder of the Chinese zodiac cursed technique. " Says the last one, he call himself Suguru Geto for now.

Shinju looked up from her tomes, and she remembered everything she had deduced about him and his techniques. He also seemed to have the ability of prediction. But he doesn't seem to know about her, so it could be limited.

His technique though were troublesome. A cursed technique that grants the ability of the Chinese zodiac could be called "Zodiac Manifestation."

From she had deduced, Zodiac Manifestation allows the user to channel cursed energy in a unique manner, manifesting the characteristics and abilities associated with each of the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac. The user can call upon the traits and powers of each zodiac animal, depending on the situation or need.

For instance:

- **Rat:** The user gains enhanced agility, speed, and heightened senses, enabling them to move swiftly and evade attacks effortlessly.

- **Ox:** Grants immense strength, durability, and stability, allowing the user to withstand powerful attacks and exert incredible force.

- **Tiger:** Provides heightened ferocity, agility, and predatory instincts, enhancing combat prowess and predatory capabilities.

- **Rabbit:** Bestows the ability to move swiftly and stealthily, as well as heightened reflexes and evasion skills.

- **Dragon:** Grants the user the power of transformation, allowing them to harness elemental abilities and breathe destructive energy.

- **Snake:** Provides flexibility, stealth, and venomous attacks, enabling the user to strike from unexpected angles and deliver potent venomous strikes.

- **Horse:** Enhances speed, endurance, and mobility, allowing the user to cover long distances rapidly and sustain prolonged battles.

- **Goat:** Grants resilience, healing abilities, and a calming aura, enabling the user to recover from injuries swiftly and provide support to allies.

- **Monkey:** Enhances creativity, agility, and adaptability, allowing the user to outwit opponents with clever tactics and improvised strategies.

- **Rooster:** Bestows enhanced perception, precision, and acuity, enabling the user to spot weaknesses and deliver precise, devastating attacks.

- **Dog:** Grants loyalty, heightened senses, and protective instincts, empowering the user to detect threats and defend allies.

- **Pig:** Provides resourcefulness, abundance, and fortitude, enabling the user to endure hardships and summon reserves of power when needed.

Each manifestation of the zodiac abilities comes with its unique strengths and characteristics, allowing the user to adapt to various situations and opponents by tapping into the diverse attributes of the Chinese zodiac animals.

The reverse technique, however, enables the user to summon a shekigami that is in the form of the zodiac sign filled with reverse cursed energy, the good news are the limitations, first the shekigami have the same types of conditions as the ten shadows technique. Second, the shekigami can be summoned, but he can't use the ability of the summoned shekigami.

Shinju doubts that he can use more than one shekigami or summons a shekigami and uses the technique of another shekigami.

But he can't overlap the blessings of two signs for now. The problem is his breakthrough speed. He seems to have no bottleneck.

With everything though, she began remembering how much time had passed.

It's been sixteen years, during that time, Shinju have gone through a lot, special the first eight years, before she became a cursed spirit. But in the second eight years, she had killed more than twenty million humans, how, wars.

' My technique is cursed heart thread creation, enabling me to manipulate all the threads that have my cursed energy, and use the thread to egnite the evil in men's hearts. It's easier to see it as handing a man a loaded gun and pointing toward the room that has his wife is with the plumber, but he doesn't know that. So, for 99 percent of people, they will shoot. Now the same applies but with a national scale. They killed each other, not to mention the wars were on before I was born, so... '

Shinju remember the time when they give order to send fighter airplanes and kill all the people. Even when the curse fighter came to investigate, they found nothing. ' But the best one are those who die wronged and I help them came back as a cursed spirit as long as they make an oath to listen to my orders, as of now I have more than 100 special grade curses, 1000 mixed between first and second grade. The best part is the ability to steal knowledge and deducing new one tanks to using the Maleficent Codex of Enhancement. ' it's a forbidden codex containing forbidden knowledge on augmenting cursed abilities. By deciphering its cryptic contents, Shinju can enhance her thread manipulation to levels previously unattainable, further amplifying her control over malevolence, allowing her threads to analyze the knowledge and create a thread of the mastered knowledge, several threads could be woven together enhancing the existing knowledge and deducing new one.

It was the Dark Progeny of Forbidden Research that has been created through forbidden research and experiments conducted by a group delving into the darkest aspects of cursed energy. They could document their findings in the codex, describing ways to augment and control malevolence, but it was cursed to always attract cursed spirits until it fell on her hands.