TSCJTTM CH11 The Strongest First Year Student

Rudra started taking on more and more missions after Itadori's "Death", completing them with incredible speed and efficiency. Everyone from Jujutsu High's administration department thought that it was an issue of "Survivor's Guilt", but since it made him work like a more efficient sorcerer no one was interested in trying to talk him out of it.

To Rudra, it didn't matter what rumors talked about him as long as it got him missions with powerful Cursed Spirits. He single-handedly contributed to 10% of the total missions completed by all Jujutsu Sorcerers in that year within those few weeks after Itadori's supposed death.

Megumi and Nobara came a few times to invite him to join the training for the 30th Annual Kyoto Sister-School Goodwill Event, but Rudra declined the invitation for training and replied that he will directly come for the event.

The large number of missions he took and the Cursed Spirits he consumed led to a huge amount of skill points flowing his way. With it, he was finally able to redeem two of the most expensive skills he created since gaining his Skill Creation powers: Curse Manipulation and Void Mirror.

[Curse Manipulation]

[Users can create, shape, move, control, interact and manipulate curses, any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to one or more persons, a place, or an object. They might also be able to manifest curses or the cursed as energy or a force to achieve various effects. They can effectively curse anything they wish and might be able to exert power over things that have been cursed.]

[Among the most common effects of curses are misfortune/bad luck, various sicknesses, infertility, physical defects/ugliness, etc. when affecting people, breaking or working wrong or causing problems when used on objects and tendency to draw various disasters for places. Traditional magical curses include transforming the victim fully or partially into an animal/monster that fits the offense, blood-lust, insanity, unstoppable rages, unhealing wounds, misshapen/inhuman offspring, and a whole host of other effects.]

[Curses are well known to create and induce supernatural anomalies. Anomalies are capable of warping reality too, such as dimensional rifts appearing on any surface like the ceiling, wall, or floor, and among other things like various objects appearing out of thin air, etc. They can even manifest curses as energy or powers itself.]

[Void Mirror]

[Creates a mirror of the size imagined by the user from void energies. The mirror can reflect all energy-based attacks back to the caster. The attack that needs to be reflected can't be more than three times as strong as the void mirror made by the user.]

On reading the power description of the Curse Manipulation skill, Rudra had initially thought that he made some mistakes during creating the skill. However, on deeper comprehension, he realized that Curse Manipulation's true ability was manipulating the source of power all Cursed Spirits draw upon.

Since he could control their source of power, he could affect any and all curses in turn, weakening them by a huge margin if they went against him.

Meanwhile, Void Mirror was the simplest skill in the description but the hardest to use in reality. Since its ability was so direct and simple in concept, the power it wielded was enormous and the cost of using the ability matched its effects.

When he had cast this ability during a mission against a semi-special grade cursed spirit, it had drawn 98% of his cursed energy in an instant for a single cast. Luckily for Rudra, that reflected ability was the strongest technique of the Cursed Spirit and the sudden reflected ability had caught it off-guard, ending in its destruction.

This event made Rudra put a mental warning on this ability to be only used in a desperate circumstance and only while having not drained his cursed energy source by using other strong skills or techniques. Its absolute nature made it a double-edged sword that could be his greatest trump card to save his life or the very thing that kills him.

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Days passed and the time for the 30th Annual Kyoto Sister-School Goodwill Event drew even closer. With only a few days left before the event, Rudra finally decided to stop completing missions like a maniac.

Unknown to him, the staff of the administrative department had a little celebration for the fact that Rudra was temporarily ceasing his insane rate of completing missions. Because of him most of them had not even gone home for many days as they were under enormous work pressure. Tons of reports and details had to be managed by them because of Rudra, but now they could finally take a breather and relax.

On hearing that he was no longer going on missions immediately, Megumi and Nobara came to visit him. Nobara pestered and taunted him for an entire day before persuading him to come and have a training match against them and the 2nd year students.

In her own words, this training match was necessary to see what was Rudra's current level of power as a Jujutsu Sorcerer. Rudra felt it was too bothersome to explain to her what he was currently capable of, hence he simply agreed to him. He felt it would be nice to show them a little of what he was capable of and broaden their horizons.

When they reached the training grounds, Maki, Panda, and Inumaki were waiting for them. Maki strode forward towards them with a spear propped up on her shoulder.

"Yo!! So this is the infamous junior of ours who refused training and instead went on to create a record in the Jujutsu High's records for completion of most number of missions in a month." Maki said in a taunting tone as she looked at Rudra with a wide grin.

"Nice to meet you," Rudra said with a casual smile. His mental age was far above that of Maki and he would not get sucked in by these tricks.

Maki sobered up slightly on seeing Rudra's composure, "Hmm, seems like you weren't just lucky and have some real skills. I challenge you to a duel then. Let's see if you are truly up to the mark as you claim."

"No.."

"What? You are refusing? How can you back down from a challenge issued to you? Are you even a man?" Maki responded with a barrage of comments.

Rudra laughed softly before responding, "You misunderstood me. I meant to say was you alone will not be a challenge, Maki-senpai. Let Panda-senpai and Inumaki-senpai join you. Only then will we be able to have fun."

The surrounding around Maki suddenly turned so chilly that Panda started shivering with a comical scared look on his face.

"Brat, are you looking down on me?" Maki said with a voice colder than ice.

"Not at all Senpai. It is just a statement of facts. I am not interested in a false sense of pride or flattery. I say things like they are in reality."

"Good. Let's see if you can keep that attitude up after you get your beating." Maki said as he turned to Panda and Inumaki and nodded. They came forward and flanked Maki on either side.

Megumi and Nobara tacitly backed off from this 3vs1 battle. This battle would only bring benefits to them. On one hand, they would be able to gauge exactly what was the distance between Rudra and themselves.

They had always known he was strong, but he had never been pushed in a corner. Even in the fight against the special grade, they had felt that Rudra held back and let them shine a bit. He had kept himself mostly in a supporting position as if to watch out for some threat that could have manifested at any moment.

On the other hand, they would also see the full extent of their senior's abilities in this battle. Despite the good intentions of their seniors, they both had slight dissatisfaction in their hearts because of the grueling training and beatings they had gone through these past few weeks at the hands of their seniors.

If Rudra was truly able to bring the seniors down a peg, both of them would cheer for him secretly in their hearts.

"I will announce the start of this match." Nobara called out as Rudra faced off against the senior trio, "Ready? Begin!!"

The moment Nobara said that Maki and Panda rushed toward Rudra with their full power. Maki had thrust out an attack with her spear, coming towards him like a guided missile. Panda followed her closely, his face scrunched up as he moved his huge body with nimble steps.

Just before Maki could reach Rudra, Inumaki pulled down the zipper of the high necked collar that covered his mouth and shouted at Rudra, "Stop!!"

Rudra immediately felt layers of Cursed Energy form around him like shackles. With Maki only a few tens of feet away, this was a solid strategy to score at least one good attack on Rudra.

'Too bad that you three encountered me though.' Rudra smiled inwardly, 'Curse Manipulation!'

Immediately, the shackles melted like snow in the presence of the sun. Inumaki's eyes widened and he hurriedly yelled out, "Takana!! Tsuna Okaka!!"

Before Panda and Maki could go through the meanings of Inumaki's safe words in their mind, Rudra had already made his next move.

"Cursed Technique Extension: Demonic Sealing Chains!!" Rudra called out. Immediately, tens of thick ominous-looking chains, coated in a dark misty aura, burst out from his back. They were formed using dense cursed energy and they made the surrounding grow darker and ominous by their mere presence.

Before Maki or Panda could dodge, the chains had reached them and soon they were completely wrapped up like dumplings, leaving only their heads out. No matter how they struggled, the chains didn't budge at all.

Panda grew even more worried when he realized after a few moments that these chains were draining his cursed energy. He was a cursed corpse, if his core was completely drained then he would simply become a doll.

Inumaki tried breaking the chains with his Cursed Speech, but Rudra used Curse Manipulation to simply strip the cursed energy contained in any of the words that left Inumaki's mouth. Inumaki could only repeatedly try out various words with a dumbfounded look on his face.

"Maki-Senpai, am I still bragging like a brat?" Rudra crouched in front of wrapped up Maki with a grin on his face.

Maki struggled a lot internally but finally, she had to admit that she was not a match for this enigmatic and freakishly powerful junior of hers.

"Fine. You defeated me, but you are still a brat." Maki said as she turned her face to the side and pouted in annoyance.

"Umm, Rudra-kun?" Panda called out at that point, shaking and twisting like an embarrassed middle school girl, "Can you disperse off these chains now? If they absorb more of my energy I might really die you now?"

Rudra laughed at Panda's antics and dispelled the chains surrounding Maki and Panda, while at the same time dispelling the Curse Energy Filter he had placed on Inumaki's words using Curse Manipulation.

In a freakish moment of coincidence, Inumaki had been looking at Panda at that very moment and had been saying the words "Roll Away!!". As a result, the moment Panada was freed from the chains, he was hit by Inumaki's words and was sent rolling away while he howled "Noooo!!!"

Seeing this, Rudra and Nobara could not hold back but laugh out loud at the comical situation, even Megumi gave an amused smile. Maki looked at her juniors and clenched her fists while smiling.

"This time's Kyoto Sister-School Goodwill Event is going to be truly great," Maki muttered.