Chapter 7

**Extra Credit** (特別課題, *Tokubetu Kadai*?) is the seventh chapter of the *Jujutsu Shori* series.

## Summary

With the safety lever disengaged, the giant frog curses rush toward the students standing inside the arena. Allen activates his cursed claw in response, growing it to equal size to the reaper. It grabs the frogs face and Allen slams it into the ground. A second giant frog leaps toward Allen but Lena dropkicks it away. A third reaper follows behind and Allen throws one at his grip at it. Lena looks up at the bridge and barely sees a silhouette escaping.

The last frog out of his cage leaps at Lena but she avoids it and jumps up to the bridge. She calls out for Allen as the frog goes for a second hop and takes him by surprise. The reaper bites Allen's arm but he intimidates it by activating his cursed eye. Lena pulls the safety level, restricting the chains and dragging all the frogs back into the cages by their shackles Lena goes down to check on Allen but he insists he's fine and deactivates his claw.

Reeve runs back inside the large training room soon after. He runs up to Lena and bends over he's so out of breath. He asks what the commotion is all about. Allen climbs the latter up to the bridge while Lena says their zombie friend paid them a visit. Reeve reveals he got called out and ran back just as quickly to inform the two first years about that very subject. He takes them to Komui's room where Komui asks how Allen's first day of school has been. Allen says it's been exciting if not anything, always gotta stay on his toes. He adds there is a zombie running around Komui acts as if that's totally normal. Annoyed, Lena asks Komui if he had anything to do with Sid's disappearance but he innocently denies it.

Komui gets serious for a moment and does confirm that Sid was indeed turned into a zombie. They didn't want to say anything official until they were sure. Since Allen is new to the school he has some catching up to do. Komu offers him the chance to take on extra credit. For this assignment, he asks Allen and Lena with tracking down and subduing Sid. Once they've done that they need to ascertain the cause of his curse and find out what turned him into a zombie. Allen asks if this is really something he should be handling and Komui insists all the other sorcerers are out on missions. Komui gives Allen a uniform, saying this will be his first assignment and he should look the part. The uniform is old and too big for Allen but he puts it on.

Lena leads Allen outside of the tower close to the other much smaller church. Religious followers congregate for service there and there is a cemetery outside. Allen thanks Lena for taking the lead because he wasn't sure where to look inside the giant tower. Lena reminds allen that curses usually gather in places associated with negativity like a cemetery. It's a paranormal hot spot in the area and she figured they might be able to find a clue. He asks if it concerns Lena that they have cursed spirits running around but she assures Allen that no curses strong enough to be ranked with grades are allowed to be here. They're mostly just mischief-makers who cause small trouble if anything.

Allen and Lena look around until Allen notices Sid's name engraved on a tombstone. Confused, he asks why a gravestone was made if the initial belief around the tower was that he disappeared. Allen believes someone is possibly trying to cover up what's really going on with Sid. Suddenly, a zombified hand rises from the ground and grabs Lena's ankle.

Zombie Sid's full-body rises up from the ground and throws Lena at Allen in one quick motion. Lena slams into Allen and they both collapse while Sid comments that Allen must be new to the school. He adds that Allen gets top marks for making it this far but he's getting expelled early. The zombie grabs his own tombstone and holds it as his weapon. Allen gets up and runs at Sid, activating his cursed claw and clashing. Sid deflects Allen's attack with the tombstone. Allen is surprised at first but then he realizes Sid is imbuing the tombstone with his cursed energy.

Lena follows up behind Allen hitting Sid with her trip kick attack. However, he's able to block the third and final kick before forcing her away. Allen attacks again but Sid bashes him into the air before Allen can close the distance with a jousting motion. Before Allen has a chance to form another thought, Sid appears above him and throws the Tombstone on top of Allen, appearing to crush him into the ground. Lena grabs Allen before he crashes into the ground and admits she had no idea Sid was this tough, but he is a grade 2 sorcerer after all.

Sid makes bell tolling noises and tells the students they should use their skills and fight alongside him as zombies. Lena says Sid would never act this way however, it's his strength without his personality. Allen comments that Sid is a lot like the Hallows, a tortured soul acting against this will. He says that they have to find out what happened to which Lena agrees. Lena tells Allen to go and she'll follow his lead. Allen takes a deep breath and shrouds his body in cursed energy rather than just his claw, remembering that he has to improve all of himself and not just rely on brute force. He mentally tells himself that this it what it takes to become a good jujutsu sorcerer and his cursed energy spikes.

Sid tells Allen that class is over and its time to die. He rushes the newly appointed student in a similar motion to his previous grounded attack. Allen extends his claw and slams it into the ground, kicking up a giant cloud of dirt and dust. Sid rushes into the smokescreen, surprising him. Despite not being able to see, Sid is confident he'll be able to read any incoming attacks using the movement of the dust cloud.

Allen's arm comes flying through the cloud and Sid swings his tombstone to counter it. However, Allen suddenly deactivates his arm while still hiding in the dust. He slips to Sid's weak side and punches with his normal hand enhanced by cursed energy. Sid takes the hit and grins, blocking it with his own energy. He commends Allen for his clever approach but says not quite good enough. Suddenly Lena dives down and shatters his tombstone with an axe kick. Shocked, Sid realizes they wanted him to shift his jujutsu defense and stop funneling cursed energy into his weapon.

Then, Sid realizes that the tombstone isn't the issue. He looks back at Allen, who reactivates his claw and unleashes his Cross Grave attack. It causes another large explosion and creates a large fissure cut in the graveyard. When the dust settles, Lena regroups with Allen and asks if he got him. Allen doesn't believe so and says that Sid must have escaped underground. He falls onto one knee from exhaustion and Lena bends over to help. Sensing their weakness, Sid takes the opportunity to eject himself from the ground again. Sid tells Allen that he should never put all his energy into one attack as he dives down to strike them. Allen looks up at the zombie in the eyes and replies that he didn't.

Allen's giant claw rises out of the ground using the same hole Sid came out of. The claw grabs Sid and he asks how Allen tracked him underground. Allen says that Sid revealed his ability to burrow underground at the very beginning of the fight. That gave him the idea right away about how to beat Sid. They just needed a way to force him back underground first and lead him into a trap.

Lena says they've got a few questions for Sid while he's restrained. Meanwhile, a doctor with glasses and stitches sits in his chair in a dark laboratory. He turns the relatively gigantic-sized screw sticking out of his head and expresses frustration. The doctor takes a puff of smoke and says he just can't seem to get his head on straight.