Transformed into Fu Hua at the Start

Gojo Satoru spoke as he reached out to touch the black Curtain. The amplified Reverse Cursed Technique in his hand had already condensed, but the instant it struck the Curtain, it rebounded and hit his own hand instead.

Although Limitless kept him from being injured, the situation still surprised everyone.

Amber, however, knew what was happening and directly reached a hand toward the Curtain.

As expected, her hand slipped through with ease.

"What is this...?"

Utahime looked at the two of them. Though she asked aloud, she had already formed a guess.

Gojo Satoru naturally understood as well. Not only did he understand, he was so angry that he laughed.

"I see. In exchange for letting anyone enter and leave freely, it has gained the ability to completely seal out 'Gojo Satoru.'"

Gojo Satoru stated the Curtain's nature.

"So that was it..."

Utahime's expression darkened completely. For the Curtain to possess such specific targeting, the opposing Curse User had to be extremely skilled. Moreover... the technique did not distinguish between people. Everyone could enter except for one person. Such a Binding Vow could generate tremendous resistance against the person being restricted.

With Gojo Satoru banned, the only ones they could rely on were...

Utahime looked at Amber. "Shier, come in with us! Gojo, find a way to get inside as soon as possible!"

"Of course. And I'm very curious about the sorcerer who put up this Curtain."

Gojo Satoru smiled, but his voice was already filled with an ocean-deep fury.

Amber knew that Mahito should be attacking the Director's Office right now, but... she did not bring it up. It was not because she had forgotten the plot, but because it simply had not occurred to her to mention it.

After all, even if the Cursed Spirits obtained the finger, it did not matter. She would never allow Ryomen Sukuna to emerge. Either she would imprison him for the rest of his life, or she would have Xiao Shi deal with Ryomen Sukuna later. No matter how powerful he was, he could not possibly survive after his consciousness died, right?

As for the people from the Director's Office who would die because of Mahito's attack... Amber did not even realize that.

Deaths that did not happen before her eyes felt unfamiliar and abstract to her. She could not even think of them.

As the three entered, stagnant, viscous Cursed Energy immediately enveloped them. The sensation made Amber instinctively uncomfortable, though it had no real effect on her.

Utahime broke out in a cold sweat. "This Cursed Energy... could there be a Special Grade...? How is that possible...?"

"Hey, hey, hey! Why didn't Gojo Satoru come in?"

An arrogant yet disappointed voice sounded from ahead. A bald man slowly descended the stone steps, disappointment and dissatisfaction on his face. But after spotting Amber, his eyes quickly lit up. "Haha, but with such premium goods here, I don't need to argue with that wine-and-meat monk."

His naked, burning stare made Amber uncomfortable and displeased. Utahime stepped in front of Amber as well. "What do you want?"

"Woman, do you think I'll tell you just because you asked?"

The bald man laughed at Utahime's question.

"You two, go find the students first. Prioritize protecting them and retreating. Avoid fighting if possible."

Gakuganji stepped in front of them. "With this vessel's technique, retreating should not be difficult."

His words were not pleasant, but his desire to protect the students was genuine.

Amber had no intention of arguing with him. She planned to deal with the Curse User in front of them first so the three of them could act together. But at that moment, towering flames rose in the distance, and Amber's heart sank.

Why was Jogo here!?

Gakuganji and Utahime naturally saw it as well. The terrifying Cursed Energy made both of them shudder as they stared at the distant flames in disbelief.

"Shier Fulei! Hurry and support the students!"

Gakuganji shouted, but Amber had already vanished from where she stood before he finished.

Why was Jogo here? Amber understood that the original plot had changed, but she had never expected those changes to put her classmates in mortal danger.

Thanks to Jogo's attack, Amber did not even need to determine the direction. Using phase traversal, she reached the center of the eruption in the blink of an eye. The scene before her filled her usually gentle heart with rage and terror.

Even in her previous world, she had never truly gotten angry over anything. In fact, aside from occasionally seeing idiotic remarks online, she had never felt much anger at all.

"So you've finally come, the other vessel."

What should have been a dense forest had become an open field of smoke and ashes under the flames. At its center, the Volcano Head Cursed Spirit, steam constantly billowing from his head, smiled.

Beside him stood a white Cursed Spirit with no eyes, only two branches extending from where its eyes should have been. She gazed sadly at the dead plants around them.

Jogo understood Hanami's feelings, and his smile immediately faded. "You came at just the right time. Unknown Cursed Spirit, our fellow kin, how satisfied are you with our welcome?"

Amber looked grimly at the corpse on the ground, its chest pierced through by high temperatures. The hammer in its hand and the chestnut-colored short hair still revealed who she had been.

Fushiguro Megumi and Itadori Yuji stood on either side of Nobara's body, covered in burns of varying severity. Todo stood in front of them, one of his arms already missing.

Finally, two charred figures lay on the ground, their features no longer recognizable.

"Shier... little sister..."

Hope appeared in Yuji's previously blank expression. He held back the tears in his eyes. "Noba... Nobara, she...!"

"Leave it to me..."

Amber's face was stiff as well. Black Amber had once said that resurrecting someone in this world would not be difficult, but actually seeing a companion die before her eyes filled her with panic. A faint reverence for life rose within her, and for a moment, she even forgot to maintain Shier's persona.

The other me... I... what should I do?

Amber ran to Nobara's body. White light shone in her hands as Nobara's body rapidly underwent repair and Creation. Her heartbeat had returned, but she did not wake up.

That was abnormal. The power of Creation could restore a body to its most perfect state. The body could affect the mind, so with her body fully restored, she should naturally have awakened.

Don't be so anxious. You've already done it.

Black Amber's tone was unhurried. This world has souls, so the power of the Herrscher of Death and Life can even resurrect the dead. But souls have strength and integrity as well. You don't need to do anything else. Just wait for her soul to merge with her body again.

More importantly...

Black Amber's voice brimmed with killing intent. You can revive the other two first, then properly deal with those two little pests who don't value their lives.

She could sense Amber's emotions just now. Therefore, Jogo and Hanami, who had caused this result, had already been placed on her kill list.

Come Play with Shier

"Nobara is all right now... She'll wake up soon."

Amber's voice was muffled. Naturally, no one thought there was anything strange about that. What felt wrong to them was something else entirely.

"Wait...? Nobara's life signs vanished just now. That means she should have been dead!?"

Fushiguro Megumi's motion to summon Mahoraga halted slightly. He wanted to believe Amber's words, but all his common sense told him it was impossible.

"It's common knowledge that Reverse Cursed Technique cannot resurrect someone who has already died."

Todo Aoi, standing in front of them, looked back. "But it's also common knowledge that Cursed Energy cannot heal the human body. For a Special Grade, perhaps common sense exists to be broken."

Precisely because he understood Special Grades and had encountered three of them face-to-face, Todo Aoi had the clearest understanding of what a Special Grade meant. Put simply—just believe in them without conditions.

Whether it was Gojo Satoru or Okkotsu, both possessed utterly unreasonable techniques. Geniuses like them had appeared to shatter the rules of the Jujutsu World.

Why had Kenjaku completely stopped trying to kill Gojo Satoru, even though he had once been able to set a trap for the Six Eyes?

It was not that he had never considered it. It was that he had already failed.

The Six Eyes who should have been killed by Fushiguro Toji had not only revived, but had also reached an unprecedented height that no previous Six Eyes had ever attained. Gojo Satoru's existence had made Kenjaku give up on assassinating him, because there was no one in this world who could defeat Gojo Satoru. The only one who had any hope was Sukuna.

But that had been before.

Kenjaku, who had been watching the Juvenile Detention Center, naturally knew that Sukuna had displayed his Domain Expansion. Gojo Satoru might already have been researching ways to counter a Domain Expansion.

Kenjaku never doubted whether Gojo Satoru could succeed.

Besides, even if Sukuna really could kill Gojo Satoru, it would mean nothing to Kenjaku.

How would Gojo Satoru die? By reviving Sukuna! How would Sukuna revive? By Gojo Satoru dying.

He had to make Gojo Satoru unable to remain active before reviving Sukuna, so counting on Sukuna to kill Gojo Satoru was a joke.

Back to the matter at hand.

Hearing Todo Aoi's words, Fushiguro and Yuji seemed like deflated balloons. The exhaustion brought by such extreme emotional swings left them temporarily unable to muster much strength. But remembering that two Special Grade Cursed Spirits still stood before them, they forcibly pulled themselves together.

Jogo had been monitoring the situation as well. When he saw a technique capable of resurrecting the dead, alarm bells immediately rang in his mind. Such a technique was an obstacle that had to be eliminated for Cursed Spirits. If humans could resurrect so easily, their fear of Cursed Spirits would disappear entirely!

Jogo, who did not understand that one person could not save everyone, had already regarded Amber as the savior of Old Humanity.

"Stop right there! You damn brat!"

Jogo immediately extended a hand toward Amber. Scorching flames erupted from his palm with all his strength. Yuji moved without thinking, intending to block them, but he was far too slow.

Todo Aoi instinctively wanted to clap and switch Amber away, only to realize that he was missing one hand.

Fushiguro Megumi also wanted to chant the incantation to summon Mahoraga, but how could he possibly chant faster than the approaching flames?

All three realized their actions could not make it in time, their eyes splitting with rage as they watched the flames draw near.

Yet the surging flames ultimately stopped before everyone, because a petite figure stood there.

She had short black hair and wore a luxurious black-and-red dress. Though it was in a Lolita style, its accessories were crimson eyeballs, completely opposite to anything cute or sweet. With one hand blocking the flames in front of her and a pair of iron claws floating behind her, the girl appeared not delicate and lovely, but eerie and sinister.

"Shier... little sister... no?!"

Yuji instinctively thought the person before him was his junior, but from the corner of his eye, he saw that the girl was still beside the corpse in the distance.

"Please! The other me!"

Amber had no attention to spare for the two Special Grade Cursed Spirits. She had no time to concern herself with the beings that had killed those classmates who had treated her so gently and kindly.

The only thought she could muster toward the two Cursed Spirits was to kill them.

But she had no time for that. More important than anything else was reviving everyone she could see.

The authority of the Herrscher of Death and Life was incredibly convenient. Even though Amber had not fused with the Herrscher Core and become a true Herrscher, she could use its power at the system level, so she simply called for the Navigator to take over.

The Navigator was an intelligent AI. It could do everything that could be done with extracted items. For example, when it had used the Fu Hua Character Card before, it could perform every technique. Although it could only execute them rigidly, that did not mean its ability to apply them should be underestimated.

If an item could not be used, it could not use it. But if an item could be used, it could use all of it.

Using the authority of Creation to construct a body identical to herself for Black Amber to use was child's play.

Black Amber had not expected to come out under such circumstances. In truth, although Amber's emotions had initially filled her with immense fury and placed the enemy on her kill list, she quickly calmed down.

Rather than venting her anger by killing them herself, it would be better for Amber to resolve them with her own hands. Negative emotions were too common to Black Amber. A little more or less made no difference. Rather than letting herself vent them, it would be better to let Amber do it.

After all... this would be the first time Amber truly killed a sentient being.

Every life she had taken before had been under circumstances where the other party was little different from a beast. She had never killed a being capable of true communication and interaction.

Creating a body now and asking Black Amber to deal with the two Cursed Spirits was certainly because Amber had no time to care about them. But why did she not have time? Killing them first and then reviving them would not have been difficult.

In the end, it was her subconscious resistance at work.

She wanted to kill them, yet did not want to stain her hands with blood. She was both cowardly and lacking in resolve.

But that was all right. These were not things one could adapt to all at once. Weakness was not a flaw either. The only reason to correct it was to prepare for the harsh situations she might face in the future. As long as one walked alongside battle, weakness was something that had to be cast aside.

But... it did not matter even if she did not change.

With me, the Crimson Kite Immortal, and that other self-proclaimed Immortal here, would she not be allowed to be weak?

(Character thoughts, do not project them onto the author.)

"Honestly, what am I supposed to do with you..."

Black Amber, who had been used as a weapon, did not feel upset. Instead, she felt happy to be relied upon.

As the corners of her lips rose, the faint scarlet gleam in her eyes exposed her chilling killing intent.

Watching Jogo's expression turn ugly in an instant, and Hanami assume a guarded stance as her technique gathered at her side, Black Amber's smile gradually became bloodthirsty. "Then... my toys, come play with Shier~ I'll make it hurt... hurt a lot."

Teasing

"Don't get so cocky! You're nothing but a curse that has existed for barely any time at all!"

Jogo could not stand such provocation. All his patience rested on the premise that the other party was one of his own kind. Once that premise was gone, whether the other party was human or Cursed Spirit, his patience was extremely limited.

He was a curse that had existed since humans began to fear the earth. Though he had not always truly taken the form of a Cursed Spirit, he had possessed a vague consciousness.

Whether it was fissures, cliffs, or volcanoes, as long as people feared and hated them, Cursed Energy would continuously flow toward him. It could be said that he had existed for more than a thousand years.

"Haha."

Black Amber did not mind his rebuttal or fury. After all, the stronger his reaction was, the more entertaining it would be to toy with him.

"Then let this curse that has existed for barely any time properly experience the methods of you old relics."