Tsukumo Yuki.

The name is not unfamiliar. After all, Tsukumo Yuki is a Special Grade sorcerer. One of the

only

three Special Grade sorcerers in the world, the others being Satoru-niichan and Geto-san.

Tsukumo 's position was rather unusual, in that she was

not

an active sorcerer who took missions. Her presence in Japan could be characterized by the lack of it, given her consistent, year-round absence from the country as she traveled the world without bothering to report her whereabouts to anyone.

' But better an absent, globe-trotting sorcerer who refused to take missions than a genocidal curse user. Not that 'genocidal curse user ' is a very high bar to surpass to begin with, Shiki supposes.

Still, none of this explains

why

Tsukumo Yuki is

here

right now, standing in front of her. The sorcerer 's words had made it abundantly clear that this was no mere coincidence.