"We should sell cursed pies," said Flint, welding a pastry crust shut with holy fire.
"We're in a recession," said Spillglass, already drunk off spiritual rum raisin.
"It's for outreach," said Father Asher, standing in front of a poorly drawn banner that said "Suffer Not the Sweet Tooth."
Marrow: "I made a meat pie that screams when you cut it."
Thorne: "...I hate all of you. But I'll protect you with my life."
Juno handed out flyers laced with healing sigils. Problem is, she accidentally used a summoning rune as a QR code. So instead of RSVPs… they got something else.
Meanwhile, Yuji was mid-mission with Nanami — that first big curse in the abandoned theater, where Mahito's experiments were starting to manifest.
Nanami in his suit, Yuji watching cursed wombs struggle in existential horror.
But elsewhere in Tokyo — in a completely unrelated church/carnival hybrid — the Crimson Communion is blasting opera music and trying to exorcise an ice cream truck that's been possessed by a vengeful dessert spirit.
Gojo hears both cursed energy spikes and sighs so hard his blindfold lifts an inch.
"Why does everything cursed feel like it's wearing clown shoes lately?"
Turns out, Juno's QR-summoning flyer didn't call one curse.
It called three.
And they all showed up mid-bake-sale, climbing out of the whipped cream fountain like zombies in a Willy Wonka horror remake.
Screams erupted.Pies launched.Flint grabbed a flaming baguette and yelled, "THIS IS WHY WE DON'T SKIP RUNE CLASS."
Thorne somersaulted off a table, sliced through a cursed cake monster, then yelled, "I SWEAR TO GOD IF YOU CURSED THE CUSTARD AGAIN—"
Gojo appeared just to steal a cupcake and then vanished again.
Back on his mission, Yuji catches wind of the out-of-control bakery battle through cursed energy interference.Nanami squints at the signal.
"This has... dumb energy."
"Like, dangerous dumb?" Yuji asked.
"The kind where something explodes for emotional reasons."
So naturally, they detour.
In the distance, Mahito watches the Communion from a rooftop, eyes wide.
They're fighting three mid-grade curses using:
Breadsticks as throwing knives
A holy rolling pin (possessed)
A karaoke machine that screams back
And a blender being spun like a cursed Beyblade
Mahito is genuinely speechless.
He watches Juno get tossed into a cotton candy web and cast a cleansing spell with a hand full of sprinkles.He watches Spillglass summon a "Vodka Familiar" made entirely out of regret.He watches Thorne yell therapy at a curse until it dissolves into childhood memories.
Mahito whispers:
"What the fuck… are these people."
And for the first time in his cursed life—he hesitates.
But curiosity wins.
He shape-shifts.Melts into a bystander.And walks right into the Communion, disguised.
Yuji and Nanami arrive at the gates just seconds later.
Yuji's eyes go wide. "We're too late—he's already inside!"
Nanami pulls out his watch. "Then we exorcise everyone who looks like a threat."
"...That's all of them."
"They'll thank us later."
Mahito blending in with the Communion crowd — wearing a borrowed apron that says "Bake It Till You Make It."
He smiles, humming along to the cursed choir's off-key rendition of "Ave Maria."