Chapter 94

Nanami leaves the job of dropping the anti-sorcerer curtain to Ino, Yuji, and Megumi. Working out that the guards protecting the commissioned curtains would station themselves somewhere glaringly obvious, the trio strikes the roof of Shibuya Tower and ignites a battle for control of the barrier.

Yuji slams a full-force right into the curtain and it does not so much as flex, proving how tough the barrier is even as Ino marvels at the boy's power. Megumi wants to hunt for a weak point, but Yuji recalls how the barriers at Meiji-Jingumae worked: staying outside the curtain raises the risk of being spotted while also boosting its strength. From that logic Megumi deduces the protectors must be perched somewhere completely exposed. Atop Shibuya Tower at 10:01, Jiro Awasaka and Ogami's grandson scan the city, expecting Transfigured Humans to intercept anyone who approaches, only for Nue to descend on them with Ino and Yuji riding it.

Yuji wields a wire borrowed from Maki, splitting off from Nue's flight path so the cord wraps the curse users together. The grandson hauls Ogami clear, but Awasaka is swept off the building entirely, wondering as he falls whether the sorcerers cracked how commissioned curtains operate. Before the climb, Yuji had shown Ino the broken curtain from Meiji-Jingumae, revealing that a barrier technique sits dormant inside the cursed object and activates once charged with cursed energy. Ino destroys one stake on the roof, but Awasaka still carries two of the three, so the curtain holds. Yuji binds him tighter and drags him down at speed.

Yuji snaps the wire, dives into the building, and yells for Megumi to dismiss Nue, dropping Awasaka more than forty stories. Ino stays up top to face Ogami and her grandson, lowering his mask and declaring it time to start earning his grade 1 rank. On the street, Yuji and Megumi find Awasaka's corpse far too intact for such a fall. Megumi floods the area with cursed energy and orders the old man up. Awasaka quits playing dead, smiling and griping that today's kids show no respect for their elders, while Megumi reminds Yuji they have no time to waste.