The Story Begins-Megumi Fushiguro and Yuji Itadori / Sukuna Is Instantly Defeated-An Unexpected Bonus

Clearly, this move was one of the hallmarks of a Special Grade: Domain Expansion.

Hidden in the shadows, Choso was watching the battlefield from a distant safehouse through special means, a faint smile appearing on his face.

Everything happening now was his handiwork.

The Cursed Spirit born in this abandoned hospital had originally only barely reached Special Grade. It might have been able to deal with ordinary sorcerers, but against other Special Grade sorcerers, it would have stood no chance whatsoever.

To keep this abandoned hospital Cursed Spirit from being defeated so easily, Choso had specially strengthened it, greatly increasing its power. With his help, it had also mastered Domain Expansion.

Though Choso still did not hold much hope that it could defeat this newly promoted Special Grade, at the very least, its strength should be enough to probe out some useful information.

As long as he could figure out even one piece of information about the opponent's cursed technique, domain, or the Cursed Spirit residing within her body, then the resources spent cultivating this Cursed Spirit would not have been wasted.

With Geto Suguru's body now under his control, Choso was actually somewhat reluctant to simply abandon a Special Grade cursed spirit capable of using Domain Expansion.

But for the sake of testing this new Special Grade's abilities, Choso ultimately chose to give it up.

This Special Grade cursed spirit's domain effect was this: when it activated Domain Expansion, it incorporated its cursed technique's ability to steal other people's organs into the domain, using the domain's sure-hit effect to temporarily remove all organs from everyone inside except itself.

After their organs were removed, the victims' bodily functions would not immediately fail, but would continuously decline from their original state.

If the domain could be broken or the Cursed Spirit casting it could be completely killed within a short period of time, the body would recover. But if the battle could not be ended quickly, the organs would be permanently removed.

Combined with the Cursed Spirit's ability to resurrect repeatedly, ordinary sorcerers would definitely find an opponent like this exceptionally troublesome.

So, how would this newly promoted Special Grade respond? Would she deploy her own domain to negate the other's domain effect? Or would she use her cursed technique to swiftly kill the Cursed Spirit?

Under Choso's watchful gaze, and amid the Cursed Spirit's excited roars, Seele, who had been enveloped by the domain... showed no unusual reaction at all.

Seeing this, Choso immediately furrowed his brow.

As a Special Grade who could defeat Gojo Satoru, she should not possibly have failed to notice the abnormalities in her body. So why had her expression not changed in the slightest?

Was she simply disregarding the domain's effect, or did she have some other method?

Unaware of the changes in Choso's thoughts as he lurked in the shadows, Seele truly had not noticed anything wrong with her body.

After all, the instant the Cursed Spirit before her deployed its domain, Seele had already entered a Quantization state. Though she appeared to still be standing within the domain, she had actually used Quantization to evade the Cursed Spirit's Domain Expansion from the very beginning. It had never affected her at all.

As for the domain's sure-hit effect, Seele could freely enter the Quantum Realm after activating Quantization to evade harm. She and the Cursed Spirit before her could practically be said to exist on entirely different planes.

If she was not even inside the domain, what sure-hit effect was there to talk about?

Naturally, Seele felt nothing at all from the domain's effect.

Once she realized that the domain she was in did not seem to grant the Cursed Spirit itself any significant enhancement, Seele immediately made her move.

Splat!

The Power of Creation belonging to the Herrscher of Life and Death covered her scythe. Combined with Quantization's defense-piercing effect, Seele instantly appeared before the Cursed Spirit. With a flick of her hand, she effortlessly tore the Cursed Spirit's body apart once again.

That Special Grade cursed spirit's formidable body might as well have not existed at that moment.

"Aahhhh—!!!"

The torn-apart Special Grade cursed spirit howled as it revived once more, raising several thick arms to counterattack. Yet its all-out strikes passed through Seele's body as though striking an afterimage, unable even to interfere with her movements.

As Seele raised her scythe once more, its body was severed into two pieces again.

Just like that, every time the Cursed Spirit revived, Seele killed it once. Its body was torn apart by the scythe, revived, then torn apart again. Its desperate attacks all struck empty air, unable to affect Seele in any way.

At first, Choso still held out a faint hope, thinking that perhaps the other side might reveal some additional information.

But soon, Choso turned away and voluntarily severed his connection with the Cursed Spirit.

There was no point in watching any longer. It would only be a waste of time.

"It seems I'll have to be even more cautious with the plans going forward."

A Special Grade cursed spirit capable of Domain Expansion had ultimately only managed to reveal that the opponent possessed a cursed technique that seemed capable of ignoring all attacks while also allowing spatial movement. He did not even know the exact details of the technique, or whether it possessed any other derived abilities.

Gojo Satoru alone had already been troublesome enough, but Seele now made Choso feel even more constrained.

Conservatively speaking, she possessed a cursed technique that could both ignore attacks and enable spatial movement. Judging from what she had displayed, she could even evade domain effects.

Unless one could discover its weakness, there was simply no way to counter such a technique. And on top of that, she possessed the power to instantly kill a Special Grade cursed spirit with a casual gesture...

"...Sigh."

To be honest, Choso was already starting to want to give up on this era, but for the sake of the plan, he could only continue onward for now.

The Story Begins: Fushiguro Megumi and Itadori Yuji

Ding! Detected that Seele has eliminated a Special Grade cursed spirit for the host. Reward: 2,500 points.

Hearing the system notification in his mind, An Xiu knew that Seele had passed the Special Grade sorcerer assessment.

Honestly, if possible, An Xiu wished these kinds of assessments could happen a few more times. After all, one Special Grade cursed spirit was worth 2,500 points. Four Special Grade cursed spirits would be enough to purchase a Herrscher of Life and Death authority at full price, or any other item in the system store at the same price.

And that was without counting discounts... Seele's entire set of abilities had only cost 8,900 points while discounted. Optimistically speaking, four Special Grade cursed spirits would be enough for An Xiu to manifest another new clone roughly as powerful as Seele.

Unfortunately, while there were quite a few Special Grade cursed spirits, there were not all that many either. They were difficult to find if one actively went looking for them. Before An Xiu had transmigrated into this world, the Director's Office had possessed some information on Special Grade cursed spirits, but nearly all of them had long since been handed over to Gojo Satoru to deal with.

As a result, the Special Grade Imaginary Cursed Spirit used for Seele's assessment was the only piece of Special Grade cursed spirit intelligence the Director's Office had gathered recently.

Whenever An Xiu thought about it, he could not help feeling pained. All those Special Grade cursed spirits Gojo Satoru had wiped out years ago were huge piles of points in his eyes.

For now, he could not rely on the Jujutsu World's intelligence network, so if he wanted to find Special Grade cursed spirits, he had to turn his attention to events from the original story.

As it happened, An Xiu had now found an interesting place.

"So this... is the school Itadori Yuji attended before joining Jujutsu High School in the original story?"

Although the setting had never mentioned the precise location of the school attended by Itadori Yuji, the protagonist of Jujutsu Kaisen, before he joined Tokyo Jujutsu High School, the school's name had appeared at the beginning of the story.

Moreover, Itadori Yuji himself had said that he was from Sendai. After narrowing down the general area and the school's name, An Xiu had managed to find the school's exact location online.

And if An Xiu remembered correctly, when he had received notice about the Special Grade assessment information, he had chatted with Gojo Satoru for a while. During that conversation, Gojo Satoru had mentioned that one of his students was going to retrieve a Special Grade cursed object.

So, judging by the timing, today should be the day the story began.

With that thought, An Xiu decisively contacted Seele.

Using ordinary transportation, An Xiu could have reached the destination before dark, but it would have been far too slow. Seele's Quantization was much faster by comparison.

The straight-line distance from Tokyo to Sendai was only a little over three hundred kilometers. In An Xiu's previous life, that would not even have taken him out of a larger province. For Seele, it was merely a journey of several minutes.

Evening, atop the teaching building of a certain school.

"You actually swallowed the cursed object!"

With his hands poised to summon shikigami for an attack, Fushiguro Megumi looked at the bewildered Itadori Yuji standing opposite him, feeling deeply conflicted.

Honestly, judging from how the other boy had suddenly transformed from an ordinary person into someone who could casually one-shot Cursed Spirits, along with his abruptly changed aura, Fushiguro Megumi was certain that the curse sealed inside the cursed object had taken over his body.

According to the Jujutsu World's rules, Fushiguro Megumi should immediately execute him just as he would exorcise a curse.

But Itadori Yuji's innocent appearance did not seem like a disguise by the curse, which made Fushiguro Megumi hesitate greatly.

After all, from their brief contact that night, Itadori Yuji was undoubtedly a good person—someone Fushiguro Megumi believed should be saved.

To kill such a person with his own hands, especially when Itadori Yuji no longer seemed to be possessed by a curse...

Damn it!

Just as Fushiguro Megumi endured the injuries he had sustained fighting Cursed Spirits earlier and struggled through an intense mental battle, a voice suddenly came from behind him.

"Yo, what's going on here?"

"Gojo-sensei?"

Looking at Gojo Satoru, who had somehow appeared beside him from behind, Fushiguro Megumi wore a stunned expression.

"Why are you here?"

"Losing a Special Grade cursed object isn't a trivial matter, so I came to take a look. I didn't expect to find this scene."

As Gojo Satoru spoke, he examined the half-kneeling Fushiguro Megumi before shaking his head.

"You're really a mess. Looking so battered and bruised is pretty pitiful."

"Even if you don't know how to comfort people, you don't have to make snide remarks."

Fushiguro Megumi's mouth twitched. Yes, this was the familiar Gojo-sensei. For a moment just now, he had actually thought the man might be reliable for once.

"Also, I didn't expect you two to be here. It seems that even if I hadn't come today, nothing would have gone wrong here."

After surveying the surroundings for a moment, Gojo Satoru looked toward a corner off to the side and slowly spoke.

"There are... other people here?"

Realizing what Gojo Satoru meant, Fushiguro Megumi hurriedly followed his gaze. An Xiu and Seele emerged from a nearby corner.

"We were merely taking a trip around Sendai. We happened to sense some activity over here, so we came to take a look. Don't mind us."

An Xiu spoke casually.

"Mr. Gojo, we meet again."

Seele smiled and greeted Gojo Satoru as well.

"Um... may I ask who you all are?"

Feeling that several people he did not know had somehow suddenly appeared on the rooftop that had originally only contained himself and Fushiguro Megumi, Itadori Yuji scratched his head in confusion after being ignored for a while.

Beside him, Fushiguro Megumi, who had barely managed to support himself as he rose from the ground, also looked toward Gojo Satoru.

"Gojo-sensei, who are they?"

"Oh, this is An Xiu, a sorcerer who recently joined the Jujutsu World. And this is Miss Seele. She also recently joined the Jujutsu World, and she's a newly promoted Special Grade sorcerer."

Gojo Satoru introduced them in a relaxed tone, but Fushiguro Megumi's eyes had already widened.

"A newly promoted... Special Grade sorcerer?"

"Mm, she should have completed her Special Grade assessment today. The Director's Council should issue an announcement tomorrow."

"By the way, I'm the one who brought both of them into the Jujutsu World."

Ignoring Gojo Satoru's shameless attempt to take credit for himself, Fushiguro Megumi stared blankly at Seele beside An Xiu for quite some time before finally coming back to his senses.

As a first-year student at Tokyo Jujutsu High School, he was already an exceptionally young sorcerer in the entire Jujutsu World. Yet the girl before him looked even younger than he was. She had become a Special Grade sorcerer at merely middle-school age?

He knew that more than eighty percent of a sorcerer's strength depended on talent, but the gap was simply too great. It was even greater than the difference between Itadori Yuji and his Divine Dogs.

Sukuna Gets One-Shotted, an Unexpected Delight

"So, where did that Special Grade cursed object go?"

Temporarily setting aside An Xiu and Seele's identities, Gojo Satoru began asking about the cursed object's whereabouts.

Gojo Satoru did not suspect An Xiu and Seele's reasons for coming here. First, given their strength, neither had any reason to covet the cursed object. Second, Sukuna's finger truly had little use for ordinary sorcerers.

For Cursed Spirits, however, Sukuna's finger could indeed be considered an immense tonic. But considering the strength of the curse residing within Seele's body, would it even need such a thing?

Gojo Satoru felt that, based on the personality he had observed, it would most likely find it disgusting.

"Um, if you mean that long-nailed finger, I already ate it."

Although Itadori Yuji had likely caused trouble based on Fushiguro Megumi's earlier reaction, he was not so lacking in courage that he would refuse to admit what he had done.

"Oh?"

Hearing Itadori Yuji's words, Gojo Satoru stepped forward and carefully examined the pink-haired youth before him, then nodded.

"It really has completely merged with you. Pretty impressive that you could even eat something like that."

It was difficult to imagine what sort of mindset a normal person would need to have in order to eat something as psychologically unsettling as Sukuna's finger at first glance.

"Boy, you used your own strength to suppress Sukuna's consciousness earlier, right?"

"Uh, do you mean that guy who tried to take my body just now?"

"That's right. Can you switch him out? Bring yourself back after ten seconds."

As he spoke, Gojo Satoru stretched his body in place.

"But that guy is dangerous, isn't he?"

Seeing this, Itadori Yuji realized that Gojo Satoru intended to fight the person inside his body and spoke with a worried expression.

"Don't worry. I'm the strongest..."