Momo Nishimiya's mind went blank on the spot.
This was angel investnt.
A freshman sorcerer sponsorship.
Soone actually wanted to sponsor her?!
Who on earth would brave the pressure of the Three Great Families to sponsor soone like her, soone who had already offended Naoya Zenin?!
Momo Nishimiya hurriedly opened the envelope and, sure enough, found a docunt inside.
It was a [Sponsorship Certificate].
[Jujutsu High Sponsorship Certificate].
[Sponsored student: Momo Nishimiya.]
[Sponsorship amount: 10 million yen.]
"10 million yen?! Is this person out of their mind?!"
The maximum limit for freshman sponsorship was 100 million yen.
10 million yen.
That didn't just an the investor wanted to help her. It also ant they had judged her to be the most talented and promising Jujutsu Sorcerer among all the students.
W-Who was it?!
Who could possibly think so highly of her?!
Momo Nishimiya wanted to know who her sponsor was, but to her shock, this 10 million yen sponsorship was anonymous.
An anonymous sponsorship ant that the investor had no intention of letting Momo Nishimiya know who they were.
Could it be...
Could it be soone trying to curry favor with her father through her? Was that why they had chosen to sponsor her like this?
But if that were really the plan, then there was no way they would stay anonymous. They would have co knocking in person.
Momo Nishimiya simply could not make sense of it.
As a mixed-race girl, if you took away her father as a backer, then her status in the jujutsu world amounted to nothing. Much less earning the approval of so senior figure. No one would want to sponsor the little witch, because as a sorcerer, her strength simply did not asure up.
Although [Tool Manipulation] was an ancient technique with a long history, Momo Nishimiya's display of it was frankly pretty underwhelming. Aside from using it to ride her broom through the air, the only other thing she had was her ultimate move, [Tool Manipulation. Wind Scythe - Kamaitachi]!
Put simply, Momo Nishimiya could manipulate the legendary yokai kamaitachi and summon invisible wind blades to kill people without them noticing.
Do you know what a [Kamaitachi] is?
In Japanese folklore, if a person is walking down the road and a sudden whirlwind blows past, and when the wind dies down they discover cuts on their hands and feet like they were sliced by blades, that ans a kamaitachi has struck.
The kamaitachi is actually a terrifying trio of brothers. The first knocks the victim down, the second cuts the skin open, and the third applies dicine to the wound, so even after being slashed, the victim feels no pain.
Wasn't that insidious as hell?
If sothing could cut your skin open without you even noticing, then what difference was there between that and being able to slit your throat without you realizing it?
Fun fact, at a certain dragon-slaying academy, [Kamaitachi] was widely acknowledged as the strongest Kotodama.
It couldn't be helped. Wind techniques were just that strong. Even an expert like Naoya Zenin had wind blade techniques. Momo Nishimiya felt that if she trained for a few more years and really mastered it, then even Gojo would have to think twice.
Unfortunately, the current jujutsu world did not value this kind of technique that demanded extrely precise control.
They all thought Momo Nishimiya had put her points in the wrong place.
What the hell kind of way was this to use [Tool Manipulation]?
Just hovering around in the sky like a fly and throwing out wind blades?
Could you scrape any less damage than that???
So it was true that Momo Nishimiya had never received any sponsorship before.
If you ruled out her father's influence, then for an anonymous sponsorship like this to suddenly appear, there was probably only one explanation.
A lolicon had co calling.
Momo Nishimiya was not so ignorant spoiled rich girl.
She used to think her father had simply stayed in Arica too long. That there were not actually that many perverts in the world, that pedophiles were just a unique foreign taste, and that there were still more good people than bad, so there was no need to worry so much.
Later, after Momo Nishimiya ca to Japan to study, things turned out exactly as she had imagined. There really were no pedophiles here.
Because here, they were called lolicons!!!
Momo Nishimiya felt she had to go verify it imdiately.
This had to be a prank.
Maybe the whole thing was fake, a carefully laid trap by so lolicon. The sa kind of trick where compensated dating starts with paying for sothing as simple as holding hands, gradually eroding a girl's sense of money until she gets tricked straight into bed.
She absolutely could not accept money from such a shady source.
After all, anyone with half a brain could figure it out.
Who would sponsor Momo Nishimiya for no reason?
And sponsor her for 10 million yen, no less?
Momo Nishimiya knew full well that she was not so genius.
She had no impressive talent for jujutsu at all.
If not for her father's influence, then fundantally speaking, Momo Nishimiya was no different from Kasumi Miwa, who did not even have an innate technique.
So the little witch imdiately grabbed the sponsorship certificate and rushed straight to the academic affairs office to report it.
"Sensei! I need to report sothing!"
"Report sothing?"
Utahi Iori blinked several tis, then looked up in confusion.
"Soone forged the school's sponsorship certificate! And stuffed it into my shoe locker! They even forged the Jujutsu High crest too!!!"
The mont she heard Momo Nishimiya's description, Utahi Iori instantly dropped her earlier relaxed deanor and turned grave.
"Is this real?!"
"Here, take a look."
Momo Nishimiya handed over the sponsorship certificate, then tried to sound casual as she said, "Um... forging a sponsorship certificate is definitely way over the line, but if you do catch whoever did it, could you let et them?"
"We absolutely can't be careless about sothing like this. We do not allow sponsors to et with students."
Utahi Iori carefully inspected the sponsorship certificate as she explained.
"Why not?"
"There are a lot of reasons. First of all, sponsors co from all kinds of backgrounds. So Curse Users use sponsorships to launder money. If students et people like that, it could easily lead them down the wrong path."
Utahi Iori suddenly stopped talking.
She kept studying the sponsorship certificate over and over, then abruptly lifted her head and stared at Momo Nishimiya in disbelief.
"Momo Nishimiya... is this sponsorship certificate really yours?"
"Y-Yes..."
Momo Nishimiya had no idea why Utahi Iori was looking at her with such shock. For a mont, she was completely lost.
"That's incredible! Looks like so big shot is really fond of you!"
Utahi Iori sighed in amazent.
"10 million yen! A freshman sponsorship this large! I've only seen sothing like this a handful of tis in my life! You really can't judge a person by appearances!"
"Sensei, what does that an?"
Momo Nishimiya could hardly believe her ears.
"Does that an... this isn't a prank?"
"No, it's real."
Utahi Iori clapped her hands in congratulations.
"Congratulations, Nishimiya! You just hit the 10 million yen jackpot! Make sure you study hard and repay your sponsor soday!"
And just like that, Momo Nishimiya staggered out of the academic affairs office.
She clutched the sponsorship certificate tightly in her hand.
"Oh my god..."
"It's real... soone really does appreciate my strength..."
An indescribable emotion rose into her throat. Momo Nishimiya tried to hold it in, but she could not suppress the excitent surging up from the bottom of her heart.
It was a wild joy so intense that her whole body trembled with it.
The little witch could no longer keep walking. She could only crouch by the roadside, clutching the sponsorship certificate to her chest, biting down hard as she sobbed.
"Dad, did you see that? I really did it! No one's ever going to look down on us again! Your daughter isn't so Western mongrel anymore! I can use this money to wash away the sha on us..."
Momo Nishimiya had once thought money was such a dull thing.
She had also once thought there were countless things in this world money could never buy.
But now she finally understood. All of that had just been self-deception.
It was an excuse poor people used to hypnotize themselves.
Every bit of happiness in this world could be created through money!!!
Money was always the best proof of your worth!
With this money, no one at school would ever look down on her again. Those students who used to point and whisper about her, the discrimination and suppression throughout the jujutsu world, even Naoya Zenin himself, all of them would have to start respecting her na because of this sky-high sponsorship.
Thank you, naless investor-sama...
Thank you so much...
Thank you for recognizing , for recognizing soone like ...
Momo Nishimiya could finally figure out who must have given her this sponsorship.
It had to be soone with a grudge against Naoya Zenin.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend!
As the number one vanguard resisting Naoya Zenin at Jujutsu High, that investor had to have recognized her courage, recognized her dazzling rebellion against the Three Great Families. That was why they had invested such a huge sum in her!
Don't worry, investor-sama!
I'll use this money to secretly learn everything Naoya Zenin knows, then defeat him completely and utterly!
I definitely won't let you down!!!
...
"Young Master Naoya, everything's been taken care of."
After running around half the day, Oda finally called Naoya Zenin.
"Momo Nishimiya's sponsorship money has already been transferred. It was sent anonymously too."
"Good."
The voice on the other end was as cold as ever.
"And the other matter?"
"Uh... you an that Kasumi Miwa girl, right?"
Oda carefully checked the figures.
"That one can be transferred soon too. Also 10 million yen, and also anonymous."
"No."
There was a brief pause on the other end of the line.
"Make it 50 million yen."
"50 million?!"
Oda was so shocked he nearly dropped his phone.
"Are you questioning ?"
"N-No, of course not... how would I dare..."
The middle-aged man wiped at the cold sweat on his forehead.
Even as he said that, though, a storm had already erupted in his heart.
If investing 10 million yen in Momo Nishimiya was because she had a powerful and influential father, making her a useful piece on the board for the young master in the future, then just who exactly was this Kasumi Miwa?!
How could she possibly be worth an investnt of 50 million yen?!
Could her father be even more powerful than the U.S. military stationed in Japan?!
What kind of hidden monster was she?!
At once, Oda recalled that blue-haired girl back at the Kyoto Imperial Palace, shivering in the cold wind, then suddenly stuffing herself like a starving ghost reborn.
No...
An even more terrifying thought jumped into the servant's mind.
Could it be...
Had the young master taken a liking to her?!
"Holy shit?! Are you serious?! 50 million yen?!?!"
Not long after, an unprecedented scream erupted across Jujutsu High.
Then ca a deathly silence.
"Miwa?!"
"Call an ambulance!!"
"She... she's ascended..."
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