The King of Curses Can't Stop Me from Becoming an Idol Ch. 14

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The salon owner, who was already familiar with her, immediately greeted her when she arrived and took her to a private room.

"Kiki, why the sudden urge to dye your hair? You've never dyed it before," the owner asked with a smile.

Saki, of course, couldn't tell the truth, so she nervously explained, "I just suddenly wanted to try it."

The owner didn't probe further and quickly brought over a color chart for her to choose from.

She, like her brother, had black hair, but unlike his black eyes, hers were a lighter amber color, which looked especially beautiful in the sunlight.

After the owner's strong recommendation, she chose a flaxen color that matched her eye color. Then, after more than three hours, she successfully changed her hair color and got a cute wheat-like perm.

This was another waste of time that Sukuna couldn't understand.

Saki didn't think it was a waste of time at all. She was very pleased with her new hairstyle, admiring herself in the mirror for a long time before skipping happily back home.

Sukuna couldn't stand seeing her so happy and spoke maliciously, "You'd better go find the finger right now if you don't want someone to die because of it."

Saki stopped and, suspicious, asked, "What do you mean?"

"Special-grade cursed objects are often placed in places prone to curses after being sealed, as protective items. But that's after sealing. Once the seal is broken..." Sukuna's smile grew wider. "It will become bait, attracting curses."

"Ah, right, the seal is the white cloth wrapped around the fingers. Once you remove it, the seal will be broken."

He shouldn't have revealed this now; telling her would make it impossible to guide her into unsealing it, but he was so pissed off. Plus, since the girl had already encountered sorcerers, she would probably find out soon enough. He decided to tell her directly, just to mess with her.

Sure enough, the girl's pupils shook, and she immediately ran off to find the finger.

Ryomen Sukuna, who had been frustrated for half a month, finally managed to score a point. He laughed as he watched the girl frantically searching the streets for the finger.

Saki retraced the route she had taken when she ran home, searching twice back and forth, but she still couldn't find the lost finger.

There had been two fingers in total, but not one was found.

It was understandable, though, since it had already been nearly four hours since she dropped them. The fingers were either taken home as treasures or thrown into the trash as garbage.

"Ahh, why didn't you tell me earlier? What do I do now?" She was so frustrated.

"Heh, don't worry. Wait until someone nearby dies from the curse, then go to the scene and search," Sukuna taunted her intentionally.

Saki didn't want anyone to die because of her. After thinking for a moment, she pulled out her phone and decided to ask the professional, Gojo Satoru, for help.

They had exchanged contact information last time.

However, before she could dial the number, a car slowly passed by her, and Sukuna suddenly spoke up, "One of the fingers is in that car."

Although Sukuna wanted to teach her a lesson, the finger was nearby, and he had no reason not to say anything. If he could recover it, he would.

Saki quickly glanced at the car—it was a garbage truck collecting residential waste.

Five minutes later, Saki managed to convince the driver to let her search through the garbage by claiming she had something in the truck.

When the driver opened the truck's compartment and looked at the pile of trash, Saki fell into silence.

How could a beautiful girl go digging through trash like that, especially right after she had done her hair? She looked all pretty and smelled nice.

Saki quickly pulled out her phone and dialed Gojo Satoru's number.

Yeah, she still needed help.

Not wanting to directly ask him to come help her with the trash, in case he thought it was too dirty, she tactfully explained that she had found Sukuna's finger, but the situation was complicated, and she couldn't recover it herself.

The importance of Sukuna's finger was clear, and Gojo immediately dropped what he was doing and rushed over.

Twenty minutes later, Gojo stood before the trash-filled truck, silent, before quickly pulling out his phone and calling his students.

"Come quickly, there's an important task here that you need to handle."

The staff, seeing that they hadn't started going through the trash, couldn't help but urge them on.

Seeing this, Gojo made a quick call, and soon the staff received word to retreat, leaving the garbage truck to them.

The two of them patiently waited for the unlucky students to arrive to sift through the trash.

During the wait, Gojo asked how Saki had found Sukuna's finger.

Saki briefly explained what had happened earlier that day, and also mentioned that another finger was missing.

"Ha, hahaha," Gojo burst into laughter after hearing her story.

Saki silently shot him a disapproving look.

Gojo managed to stop laughing and comforted her, "Don't worry about the finger. Unless the seal has already loosened, it's hard for ordinary people to undo the seal."

Though he was more concerned about the curse spirits she had mentioned.

"Did you say there were three curses with a human man? They were sitting at a table, having a normal conversation?"

Saki, relieved to hear that the seal wasn't so easy to break, happily answered his questions.

"Yeah, but I didn't hear what they said. I got burned by the curse with the volcano head the moment I got close."

"Are you sure he was human?" Gojo Satoru asked again, unsure.

"Definitely," Saki nodded, "He had a glass of water the waiter brought him on the table. A normal person could see that, so he must have been human."

Gojo's expression turned serious. The information Saki provided hinted at two key points:

—Some curses have high intelligence and can communicate normally with humans.

—Curses and human sorcerers have colluded.

These were not good signs. Combined with the fact that Saki and Itadori Yuji had both consumed Ryomen Sukuna's fingers, it raised troubling questions.

One person was an accident, but two? Was it still just an accident?

He had a bad feeling, a growing sense that someone was plotting something that could bring disaster to the world of sorcery.

"Then why didn't you exorcise all those curses that burned you?" Gojo asked regretfully.

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