Along the way, Onoki and Yuki heard the full story of Eris and Sophia.
Twenty-five years ago, two archaeologists, a husband and wife, discovered some ancient temple dating back more than 2,000 years. After some research, they concluded that the buildings they found were an ancient temple to the Twelve Olympians.
This was a huge discovery, making headlines in national and international newspapers and bringing fame to the two archaeologists. At the same time, it revealed an old disaster to this country.
This temple contained an ancient library. While exploring the books there, a creature sealed in one of the books was released.
This was a great surprise to the two archaeologists, as the last thing they could have imagined was a young woman emerging from an ancient book and claiming to be Aphrodite, one of the Twelve Olympians.
The couple archaeologists had no idea what kind of monster they had unleashed. After more than two thousand years, one of the people who had ruled this land had returned.
Somehow, Aphrodite charmed the couple to help her free two others, Iris and Hermes.
After all, this era was very different from her time , 2,000 years back , so she needed their help to realize her plans.
Then she started her plan to free her husband, Zeus.
The family of four—the archaeologists, their two children—were oblivious to the danger they were causing.
However, it was surprising when it turned out that the oldest daughter of the two archaeologists possessed enough cursed energy to be considered a jujutsu sorcerer, and with Aphrodite's help, she was able to learn to control her new abilities.
Gradually, the scale of the work grew large enough to be noticed by a group of jujutsu sorcerers in this country.
A total of five sorcerers were aware of Aphrodite's true purpose.
"What do you mean, every cursed soul that dies goes to the cursed dimension?" Onoki asked curiously. This was new information he had never heard of before.
Even in the numerous books in the Kyoto jujutsu High library, there was no mention of what was called the cursed dimension. Throughout his travels, he had never heard of a place called the cursed dimension.
"Despite traveling all over the world, I've never heard of such a place. Can you explain in more detail?" Yuki asked, paying closer attention.
This was the first time she'd heard of the cursed dimension and it might be what she's been searching for all these years.
"We don't know much about it either. Everything we know about it comes from ancient books. The Cursed Dimension is mostly a place sperated from our world , it is filled with cursed energy and Every time a cursed spirit dies, it goes to the Cursed Dimension until it's reborn in our world" Sophia explained.
Onoki was surprised, not expecting something like a cursed dimension. On the other hand, Yuki was excited and started asking the two of them all kinds of questions.
The journey passed quickly, and they soon arrived at their stop, an abandoned train station.
There, they were greeted by five figures. The bidest of them stepped forward and spoke to Eris and Sophia, while his eyes remained on Onoki and Yuki.
He was nearly two meters tall, with big muscles and a bald head. He wore sleeves with shorts, and when looking at him, he looked like an orc from fairytails. At the same time, Onoki couldn't sense much cursed energy from him, but he didn't underestimate him.
Onoki turned his gaze to the remaining figures: three men and a teenage girl. None of them seemed special, so Onoki didn't pay much attention to them.
However, Yuki had a different take. In the blink of an eye, she was already asking about the cursed dimension and the information they had about it.
It was amazing how energetic she was about people she had just met, but her curiosity seemed to leave no sense of morality.
Onoki stood there, watching quietly. Sophia quickly finished her conversation with the large man before catching Onoki and Yuki's attention.
"Well, Sophia told me everything that happened. I'm sorry you had to come here without a proper explanation, but thank you for that. I'm Rolo by the way," Rolo said, shaking Onoki's hand.
Onoki, who was 1.73 meters tall, and he reached only Rolo's chest, so this was a rather funny sight.
"My name is Onoki Kamizuru, I am a special-grade jujutsu sorcerer from Japan." Onoki introduced himself before Yuki interrupted the conversation.
"What is your type of woman?" This question, which had previously been asked to Onoki, was now directed at Rolo, who suddenly stiffened.
The air was silent. Sophia, Eris, and the four on the side hadn't expected such a question.
"Huh...?!" Confusion was clearly etched on Rolo's face as he looked to Onoki to explain what had just happened. However, Onoki met his gaze with the same expression, not understanding what was going through this girl mind right now.
"Pretty girls, I think," Rolo answered uncertainly, not knowing if his answer was correct or not.
After Sophia had explained what had happened earlier on the beach, as well as feeling the cursed energy emanating from Yuki and Onoki in particular, he had hoped to that they can help against the enemy they were facing.
Now, he hoped he hadn't chosen the wrong answer.
"Pretty girls, well, that's fine," Yuki said, thinking of something. .
"Okay, let me introduce you to everyone here. As you already know, I'm Sophia, this is Eris, this is Rollo, and these are Latania, Miguel, Pablo, and Carso." Sophia broke the ice and introduced everyone.
Apart from Latania, who was just a teenager, the rest were grown man in their thirties.
After welcoming everyone, the group proceeded inside the warehouse. The inside was spacious and different from its old, shabby appearance from the outside.
In addition to all the necessities of modern life, there was a 3D map in the center of the warehouse. There, three different-colored fire torches were blazing brightly.
Onoki immediately recognized the map as a map of Greece, or at most, half of a map of Greece.
Seeing Onoki's focus on the map, Sophia said, "It's the map we used to locate cursed spirits or people with a lot of cursed energy. Unfortunately, we lost half of the map earlier."
This was one of the things Onoki had been curious about before.
"Who made it?!" Onoki was curious about that too. Thanks to his Reverse curesed Technique, he was able to easily create cursed tools, so he was curious about how others had created such cursed tools.
"We don't know. It's one of the cursed tools that have been passed down over the years. It's recorded in our ancient manuscripts and dates back a thousand years." At that moment, Latania stepped in, walking beside Onoki and explaining with a smile.
"How old are you? And what's your cursed technique?! Have you fought many cursed spirits before? I haven't fought many, but I'm pretty strong. Do you want to go shopping with me?" Latania beamed with joy and circled around Onoki several times, bombarding him with various questions.
This reminded him of Itohime, and Onoki wondered how she was feeling now.
"Leave the boy alone, Latania. We have a lot of things to take care of right now." Pablo grabbed Latania and forcefully pulled her away from Onoki. Although she tried to escape, she failed.
Seeing this, both Yuki and Sophia laughed lightly, but the mood was interrupted by a new person.
The locked warehouse door was opened by a bloody figure. He had several wounds on his body, and his right arm was missing. However, he strode forward with force.
"Joseph?!"
Immediately, rolo screamed and rushed forward , while the others seemed cautious and ready to fight .
But seeing him in that state lowered there gard a little bit .
Rolo grabbed the falling guy in his hands and examined his woundes .
The last words he said before falling unconscious in, "The Cursed Dimension Ritual has begun!!"