"If you can't kill that curse without moving, you're gay."
I froze, staring at the curse like it wasn't even an issue, a first-grade curse, definitely, but that didn't matter right now.
Akira proposed a challenge, I had to respond.
"Are you two serious right now?"
Shoko sighed, rubbing her temples and standing behind the two of us, probably looking at Akira and me like we were the dumbest people ever to exist.
The curse itself had no eyes, so it probably heard us since it turned in our direction. Two hands, the body of someone who made muckbangs for a living.
I felt the cursed energy gathering in its belly and I tensed. Its mouth opened, almost dislodging as it sent a white-colored energy rushed in our direction.
My cursed energy pulsed a wall of ice forming in front of me as it blocked the attack, only to crumple as soon as it was over.
I raised my eyebrow as it was already in front of me. For how fat it was, it was definitely fast.
Before it could bite down on me, a pillar of ice pierced the center of its body. The curse blurred as the sound of something being torn reached my ears and it disappeared, leaving behind its hand on the floor, its purple blood splattering on the concrete ground of the abandoned house we were in.
"Are you seriously not going to move?"
I didn't answer as I kept my eyes on the curse as it regenerated a part of its body.
"Nope~."
As Akira answered for me, I spread curse energy throughout my body, doing the same thing I did, the thing Gojo called me weird for, I still had to come up with a name, if it had any substantial effect, but now was not the time.
The curse rushed forward again and I took the opportunity to spread out an ice barrier surrounding us and trapping the curse in a circle of ice, a small arena, if you will.
The first-grade curse slammed into the ice and recoiled in seeming pain. So it was fast, but not at all durable, I should have gotten that from that Ice pillar I used to take off its arm, but whatever.
The part of the barrier it collided with shot out ice spikes piercing the curse's body and pinning it down before it could gather itself.
The shout of pain resonated in the area as the parts of the ice pillars broke off, turning into liquid and trapping the curse in a bubble.
The curse tried to escape, however, as soon as the outside of the sphere froze over and the inside followed a split second later, it stopped moving altogether.
"Not bad..."
Akira muttered, looking at the sphere of ice with a raised eyebrow.
And finally, after that excruciating and tiering battle, I could move again...
And so, I instantly, compressed the water molecules in the air, gathering them in his underwear, getting them wet, and instantly transforming the water into ice, freezing his underwear under his pants.
"AH! My underwear!"
Akira squealed as he fell to his knees, hands holding his crotch as I froze his underwear over.
"Fuck you, dude."
I sighed, rubbing my forehead in exasperation.
"What did I do?!"
He looked up at me from the ground as Shoko came over and stood next to me.
"Can you do this to the other two idiots too?"
I gave her a side glance and shrugged.
"Sure."
She hummed thoughtfully, looking down at the groveling Akira for a moment before smirking.
"Yuki, I think we're going to be great friends."
I looked down at Akira.
"As long as I freeze their underwear, I assume."
She chuckled and patted my shoulder.
"You can read minds too? I'm surprised."
I chuckled right back, sighing, raising an eyebrow in interest as she took out a pack of cigarettes and took one out.
"You smoke?"
I asked, curiously, ignoring Akiras pathetic whimpers.
"Yeah, want one?"
I looked at the pack, Marlboro Red... Did I really want to smoke, even in this new life that I have been granted? Did I really want to waste away my lungs?
"Can the reverse cursed energy heal lungs?"
She nodded.
"...Alright."
I took one cigarette from the offered pack and accepted the lighter.
"Can you unfreeze my underwear first, you dipshit?"
I looked down at Akira...
"Nah..."
I lit the cigarette, inhaling the smoke, letting it pass through my lungs, and exhaling it, leaving a cloud of smoke floating up to the sky.
"You're surprisingly good at this..."
Shoko pointed out, lighting her cigarette and inhaling the smoke too.
"Please... Mercy..."
I sighed, unfreezing the poor bastards underwear and snickering at him, watching as he breathed out a sigh of relief.