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March, 2018
Kenya, Africa
It was just a normal day, like any other day of the week. Same blue sky, same aroma from the street vendor and restaurant, same noises from the nearby street full of cars and people going through their day. Nevertheless, there's this underlying feeling of something going to happened at any moment today. Okkotsu Yuta, who is living in Africa for a few months now after being sent here by the Jujutsu higher-ups is very much not have a good feeling. From the moment he wakes up early today due to a nightmare of Rika. He has not having the bestest of day so to speak. As he walked up to Miguel for their mission today, he recalled a rather weird dream he had yesterday where.. people? Or curses... something, he really doesn't know. The dream had these 'people' with bizzare body like a fully pink person, a giant guy with weird hand on his back and a massive black body monster with his whole brain exposed. Many of them were wearing weird outfits as if they're some kind of hero from comic book. The dream seemed to take place in a dome like structure with a lot of different area. They seemed to be fighting that massive black monter. There was one figure in particular that stuck out the most. The person in question had long blond hair, his massive build and stature dwarf over him, his jacked muscle can be seen through his blue, yellow and red stripe oufit. His punches were powerful, even in the dream he still can feel it. He had no memory of his face, but after he's finished. He's looking directly towards him. 'What a strange dream' Yuta thought absentmindedly while following Miguel.
As they were walking, Miguel hold out a paper and took a single glance at it and explained that their mission for today is to exorcise a curse in an abandoned mansion. Yuta only nodded in response. It has only been a week or so since Yuta had regained back his Special Grade status after his curse with Rika had been broken. The 16 year old pays no mind to it. To Yuta, his status as a 'Special Grade' means absolutely nothing to him. He's still just a sorcerer at the end of the day. Though Miguel had different opinions about that.
After fifteen minutes, they finally arrived at the location of the curse. The mansion is massive in Yuta's opinion. The intricate building clearly had been abandoned for a long time. Vines and plants root had taken over the pavement and walls. "We'd be going in and searched the first floor first, then up the second floor." Miguel said and Yuta nodded. They've already did countless mission together. This will be no different. Or so he thought. The sinking feeling rises back up again immediately as he enters the mansion. Yuta stalled for a bit until Miguel snap him out of it. "You okay there?" He asked. "Uhm y-yeah! Just had a feeling, nothing to worry." Yuta stuttered, Miguel only raised an eyebrow and continue inside.'What with this weird feeling today' Yuta wondered as he and Miguel searched the first floor.
The mansion is big, there's way too many room he thought. They've only been here for thirty minutes and they still haven't finished the first floor. The rotting wooden floor is disgusting, molds were growing everywhere, rats and coacroches everywhere. Revolting at the smell of the mansion, Yuta try to focus on the mission. The mansion, it's definitely abandoned.
After finishing the first floor and finding absolutely nothing, they went up the second floor. The moment they went up there, an intense cursed energy could be felt. Yuta and Miguel looked at each other. 'So it's been up here the whole time huh' It was getting weird why they were feeling zero cursed energy before. Yuta and Miguel tracked the energy to the room where it is being emitted. Miguel ready his black rope and at the same time Yuta held out his katana. Seconds later, Miguel kicked down the door revealing only an empty room with an inconspicuous mirror on the floor. "Huh?" Yuta let out. 'Where's the curse' He scanned the room but no curses can be seen. Miguel look confused for a moment, until he remembered "Ah, its a cursed object, my bad i forgot" Yuta looked at Miguel with a look that scream 'how did you forget something like that' Yuta walked inside and looked around the room again, finding small mirror on the floor in the middle of the room. It's definitely emitting the cursed energy they felt before now that he knows they're looking for an object."I think its that mirror right there." He said to Miguel. They walked to the mirror and Yuta picked it up. The design of the mirror is interesting to say the least. The mirror is small, only the size of his palm. It's ragged edges and dirty handle means its probably an old mirror. Yuta turned the mirror around to see its back. It's also dirty, the silver plating had seen better days. There's also a letter embedded behind it that seemed to be an 'C'. Yuta thought nothing about it.
"How can this mirror have this much cursed energy?" He asked Miguel while he inspect the mirror again, turning it around once again meeting with his own reflection. "There are many cursed object with cursed energy in this world, though this is the first I've seen to hold that much. And don't just picked it up like that." He sigh as he try to take the mirror from Yuta. However, as Miguel approached Yuta and try to take the mirror. The mirror suddenly glowed a blinding white light, brightening the gloomy room. "Yuta!" Miguel yelled and Yuta was instantly consumed by the light along side the mirror.
As Miguel finally regained his sight back, he found himself alone in the room without Yuta nor the cursed mirror anywhere. As he frantically searched the entire mansion for Yuta, somewhere beyond the universe, a sorcerer wakes up to a whole new world with a mirror in hand, waiting for a new story to be told.