Jujutsu Kaisen: The Sticky Rice Priestess from China

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Ye Qing is the twenty-seventh-generation direct heir of Hong Kong's Peng Ying Taoist Temple. She inherits a cracked compass that can collect baleful energy: resentment, corpse energy, and zombie energy. Every new mark on its copper plate means another "friend" has moved in.

At sixteen, she cleaves a Grade 3 Cursed Spirit in Kowloon Walled City and looks up to see Satoru Gojo. From then on, she attends Tokyo Jujutsu High and becomes Itadori's "sharp-tongued senior." She wears a modified Taoist robe with combat boots, wraps Five Emperor Coins around her peachwood sword, and carries a pouch of glutinous rice on her left wrist. On the surface, she's carefree, with a mouth even more troublesome than Gojo's. In private, the cold poison flares up every new moon, and only the ghosts in her compass can suppress it. She collects ghosts for two reasons: to fight and to stay alive.

Starting with Chu Renmei from "The House," she keeps collecting them: Mary Shaw from the American film "Dead Silence," the vengeful baby from the Thai film "The Unborn," Kayako from Japan's "Ju-On," Sadako from "Ring," an evil spirit from Korea's "The Wailing"... More than twenty spirits live in her compass.

But someone is following the route of her grandfather's seals and destroying them one by one. A seal in a Kyoto back alley has been removed, and her mother's handprint was left at the bottom of the pit. Only ash remains in a Chiba air-raid shelter. Someone has opened the hidden door in Chitose, Hokkaido. She's on the trail, and so is her pursuer. They're always one step behind, but somehow they keep finding the places she just left. Her mother died twenty years ago during an investigation into an "unregistered Special Grade" in Saigon. At the end of his notebook, her grandfather wrote: Saigon. Unsealed. Kenjaku watches her from the shadows. "In a thousand-year plan, I never accounted for a Hong Kong Taoist who raises horror movies as shikigami."

"There's still room in the compass." Ye Qing closes the copper plate. "One at a time."