My Senior Brother Is Still Being Tormented by His Golden Finger

(Unlimited comments are now open~ Feel free to comment~) As an old-fashioned relic burdened with a cursed spirit, reborn from the Taisho era, when computers and phones didn’t even exist, Kaigaku honestly couldn’t make heads or tails of his golden finger. Its childish introduction, flippant attitude toward the world, and the way it forcibly hijacked someone else’s brain all made it hard for Kaigaku to like. But the world he’d been reborn into was crawling with cursed spirits, and when he was on the verge of death, the System that answered his call became his only chance to stay alive. And so began his long struggle against a golden finger with a deeply twisted sense of humor. 【Ding-dong~ Welcome to the Mini-Game System~ Life is one big game! Find the trick and solve your way through the levels~】 【Life Simulator】 【Ding~ Drawing a talent for you now】 【Draw successful~ Your talent is: Potential (When family wealth is below 0, cursed energy +1)】 Kaigaku: ??? Is it making fun of me for being poor? Before he could give this ridiculous talent a thumbs-down, it activated automatically. A certain young man with tiny round sunglasses, seeing Kaigaku for the first time, widened his eyes in surprise. “Wow, your cursed energy reserves are incredible...” Kaigaku, who was so poor he ate cursed spirits, rolled his eyes at his own poverty. But when Kaigaku accidentally discovered how to exploit a bug, things quickly got out of hand. One day, the girl with the Heavenly Restriction had the first-year senior borrow her cursed tool for the nth time, then pretended to make a grand gesture of giving it to her. A whole headful of question marks appeared over her head. “Idiot! Is it fun to keep giving away things you borrowed from me?” Kaigaku said nothing. He just kept exploiting the bug. Family wealth -1 -1 -1, cursed energy +1 +1 +1 His immense cursed energy fed the blond cursed spirit clinging to him until it grew plump and healthy. Then one day, Kaigaku was dragged by a shameless scumbag adult to stand before another scumbag. “Hurry up, hurry up, Kaigaku! Use that move on him!” A vein throbbed on Kaigaku’s forehead. He took a deep breath and raised his hand. The cursed spirit on his body struck a pose along with him. “How rude. We’re the ones who are truly in love!” 【Dreamy Cottage】 【Beat match-three levels, upgrade your facilities, and get everything you want!!】 “Great!” Kaigaku had just sliced up the third Fly Head. He watched the cutscene as the three Fly Heads were mashed together and dropped into a pot. When the lid opened, an enticing, steaming-hot loaf of bread appeared in his palm. Suddenly, he had no desire to eat at all. A certain squinty-eyed young fox, on the other hand, happily held out a dark cursed spirit orb. “Help me out, Master Kaigaku!” “I want to dye this thing green... No, wait! Spicy!” 【Miracle Dress-Up】 【Become a styling master! Battle in your favorite outfits! The higher your rating, the bigger your bonus~】 Kaigaku expressionlessly put back the glittering, frilly dress and cute matching hair accessories he’d gotten from a ten-pull, picked up the white stockings and garter belt that had fallen on the floor, and began to question his life all over again. Dressing like this to fight cursed spirits? He’d rather go and s “Woohoo~ Magical girl transformation~ Your flower-fairy outfit can’t hold a candle to mine, Suguru~” “You don’t understand, Satoru. Stats are what matter most. My flower-fairy outfit has a full five percent more critical-hit bonus than yours. So the flower fairy wins.” The scumbag adults were having the time of their lives. Was becoming strong really contingent on turning into this kind of shameless scumbag adult...? Watching the two strongest sorcerers turn themselves into Christmas trees without a shred of hesitation, Kaigaku questioned the world for the nth time. His golden finger was absurdly hard to deal with, but incredibly useful. Kaigaku’s strength began to soar, while his reputation plunged off a cliff. “Sure, he threatened to kidnap me when we first met, fed me and Tsumiki meals made from cursed spirits, made everyone wear dresses before every battle, and has a really weird technique... But, yeah, Big Brother Kaigaku is our benefactor.” So said the prickly junior with the sea-urchin hair. “A pitiful scumbag who’s been led astray by studying under those two scumbag teachers. He’s always borrowing other people’s cursed tools and giving them away. Aside from that, he’s pretty reliable,” said the cursed-tool expert girl. “Salmon! Salmon!” The descendant of a cursed speech user held up a green sign with a big check mark on it. (A magical upperclassman who can produce throat medicine at any moment! Translated by Panda.) “He’s always being ordered around by Gojo-sensei to say weird things in front of me and Geto-sensei... But he’s very reassuring,” said the fourth special-grade sorcerer. “He can be a little too serious, and he really admires the strong... But he’s a good kid,” said everyone at Tokyo Jujutsu High. “He’s a variable. A variable in the world. A child whose growth everyone is looking forward to,” said the spicy teacher Gojo. “He’s the new hope of the jujutsu world, a junior worth entrusting with the future, and my proudest student,” said the teacher with the topknot, his eyes curving into a smile. Although he had no idea why he hadn’t forgotten his past-life memories when he was reborn, Kaigaku had decided to treat everything he knew about demons and demon slayers from his previous life as a dream and focus wholeheartedly on his new life... until one day, to his horror, he discovered that the companion cursed spirit he’d always called by the name of the junior he’d hated in his past life... was actually his reborn junior himself? Even in his dreams, Kaigaku kept trying to remember what he’d done to offend his junior in his previous life, making him cling to Kaigaku even after being reborn as a cursed spirit. But his junior acted as if he’d been betrayed, chattering on about a promise Kaigaku had never made. “What are you talking about, Big Brother?” Zenitsu opened his eyes wide and said with an utterly innocent air. “You promised me. If I found you, we’d never be apart for the rest of our lives.” He smiled, his eyes crinkling, and wrapped his arms around Kaigaku’s neck, pressing his cheek against the side of Kaigaku’s neck. “We said a lifetime. If it’s even one minute or one second short, it doesn’t count as a lifetime.” “Big Brother, this is a curse we placed on each other.” Content warnings: 1. Warning! Anyone may end up wearing women’s clothes! If that’s a dealbreaker, don’t hope you’ll be spared: run away now! 2. The protagonist is Kaigaku, Zenitsu’s older brother. Readers who absolutely can’t stand Kaigaku are advised not to open this. Kaigaku and Zenitsu are the main couple. Gojo and Geto, and Mob and Reigen, appear as secondary couples. Gojo and Geto feature heavily in the early part. Little Kaigaku is mistakenly reborn in a world full of cursed spirits, while little Zenitsu is reborn in a school-world without demons and dreams every night of being a cursed spirit attached to his big brother. They will transmigrate between worlds in the middle and later parts of the story. Their goal is to find a world where little Kaigaku can be happy. In the end, little Kaigaku will be able to travel between several worlds and get everything he wants. Check out my upcoming story, “Geto! Stop Stealing the Brain’s Stitches!” Here’s the blurb: After receiving his best friend’s final gift, an eternal rest, the cult leader Geto obediently went to hell. So he could keep an eye on his best friend, Geto worked hard and put in the effort, finally earning the respect of Hell’s Deputy Director. He became the deputy’s right-hand man, and from then on began his life as a little office worker in the underworld: working, slacking off, and secretly using the Purifying Glass Mirror, an underworld tool for viewing the living world, to binge-watch shows. What he hadn’t expected was that his life in hell would be smooth sailing, while the plot of the show he was following kept taking a turn for the worse. Trusting completely in his best friend, he suppressed the urge to barge through the gates of hell guarded by ox-headed and horse-faced wardens, gritted his teeth, and kept watching. Even when his best friend was exploited by the old fossils at Jujutsu Headquarters, attacked by cursed spirits, trapped in a cat carrier by the brain wearing his own body, and forced to go alone and fight an ancient zombie from a thousand years ago under the expectations of the entire jujutsu world, Geto gritted his teeth and kept watching. Until his best friend was cut in half at the waist by Sukuna, denied even a peaceful death, and had his corpse used by his students to attack Sukuna... He watched the story’s conclusion with a blank expression, crushed the remote in his hand, and punched a hole through the TV screen. The consequence of casually damaging Hell’s property was that, the next second, Geto’s soul was sucked into the shattered Purifying Glass Mirror, and everything went black. When he woke again, Geto was astonished to find that his soul had returned to the time before the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons. The jujutsu world was now rife with undercurrents. The Jujutsu Headquarters in the open had long been dissatisfied with Gojo-sensei, the strongest sorcerer, while in the shadows, a disgusting brain was plotting to seal Gojo-sensei, resurrect Sukuna, and destroy the jujutsu world. But as he looked at the leader of the Time Vessel Association, who knew nothing of this and was single-mindedly seeking eternal peace at the hands of his best friend, Geto, already traumatized by the events of his past life, decided he would take everyone down with him. He drew stitches on his own forehead, then got behind the wheel of a runaway truck. The brain was coveting his corpse behind his back? Geto put on a nurse’s uniform, wore stitches on his forehead, and went on a comedy show in his original body to show himself off from every angle! The brain wanted to manipulate everything from the shadows? Geto took over the body the brain no longer wanted and stabbed it in the back! The brain’s technique could fool the Six Eyes? Geto pointed to the stitches on his forehead and smiled at Gojo-sensei. “Just look for my scars.” The brain wanted to seal the Six Eyes? Geto struck with a chop, tossed it high into the air, circled around, and successfully ripped off the brain’s skull, throwing the toothy lump of gray matter into the Prison Realm. “Once you’re locked up, I’ll be the only brain around. I’ll inherit everything from you, Brain-chan.” Geto cheerfully waved to the imprisoned brain. With the brain’s face as a disguise, Geto spent every day sending one person after another into a rage, living freely and without restraint. However, Geto couldn’t for the life of him figure out why the Six Eyes, which shouldn’t have been able to recognize the brain, could always pinpoint him whenever he and the brain were together. “What’s so strange about that?” The person in question said, “J is J.” “Even without the Six Eyes, I’d still recognize J.” Gojo and Geto are the main couple. A story about Geto taking over the brain’s body and saving the jujutsu world with a runaway truck. There will probably be lots of jujutsu jokes. Probably. Lots of out-of-character behavior. Read with caution. Theme: Those who strive to live deserve the chance to be happy.