Kenjaku Took Things to the Extreme

Choso looked at Jie Jian with a hint of wariness in his eyes.

The previous intelligence had at least been semi-public. Anyone determined enough could have found it out.

But this new information was a little absurd!

How did an ordinary, unremarkable sorcerer like him know all this?

Unlike Choso's wariness, after hearing Jie Jian's words, Hajime Kashimo instantly lost some of his interest in Choso.

"Only a Grade 1 Sorcerer? That's a little boring."

He shook his head and called out to Choso, "Move aside. Go back and train some more. I'm not interested in you. Sukuna is the only one I want to find right now."

Behind him, Jie Jian curled his lips.

What did he mean, Choso was only a Grade 1 Sorcerer?

He made it sound like he could definitely beat him.

Hadn't Kinji Hakari, a Grade 1 Sorcerer, sent him flying with an elbow?

That was a bit too cocky, Kashimo.

Jie Jian's little movements did not draw the attention of the two people facing off.

Or rather, they noticed, but they had more important matters to deal with right now.

Faced with Kashimo's proposal, Choso rejected it without hesitation.

"But I refuse! As long as I'm here, I will never let you hurt Yuji."

Choso's declaration made the already impatient Kashimo even more dissatisfied.

His face darkened as he looked at Choso.

"You innately evil Kamo brat. Looks like I'll have to deal with you myself."

"Don't call me that name! My name is Choso!"

Immense cursed energy surged from both of them. Kashimo gripped his weapon as his unique lightning cursed energy began to dance across the surface of his body.

Choso was not about to back down either. He pressed his palms together, ready to fire Piercing Blood at Kashimo at any moment!

Just as the atmosphere reached a breaking point, Yuji's hand gently landed on Choso's shoulder.

Seeing Yuji step out from behind him on his own, Choso anxiously shouted,

"Yuji, step back. Leave this person to me!"

However, Yuji said nothing.

He walked out from behind Choso and looked calmly at Kashimo.

After Sukuna had used his body to slaughter so many ordinary people in Shibuya, he had fallen into confusion over his own life.

He did not know what purpose he had in this world.

He had heard Jie Jian's words as well. Though he did not know the man before him, Choso was most likely no match for him.

He did not want anyone else to be put in danger because of the Sukuna within him, so he did not want to accept Choso's help.

Yuji stared at Kashimo, cursed energy churning around him.

"Choso, thank you for your help. But this is my own matter. It has nothing to do with you. Let me face it myself."

Choso froze in place. He wanted to explain his relationship with Yuji, but when the words reached his lips, he did not know how to say them.

After all, he had only felt the call of bloodline from Yuji. He could not explain their exact relationship at all!

However, at that moment, Jie Jian suddenly spoke from the corner.

"Uh... actually, you two aren't completely unrelated."

Jie Jian's words drew everyone's attention. Yuji looked at him in confusion, not understanding what he meant.

Choso looked at Jie Jian in disbelief. Did he really know even such secret information?

Even Kashimo's face flashed with confusion as he slightly turned his head to look at the intelligence master behind him.

Seeing everyone focused on him, Jie Jian gave an awkward smile.

"Why are you all staring at me...?"

Choso was the first to lose patience. He asked Jie Jian, "You said Yuji and I are related? Do you know something?"

Seeing the question in Yuji's eyes as well, Jie Jian lightly cleared his throat and spoke with some pride.

"Of course I do. Don't underestimate my intelligence network!"

He began,

"You all know Kenjaku, right? His ability is brain-swapping. He can transfer his brain into a corpse and obtain a new body."

He pointed at Choso. "Back when Kenjaku controlled Noritoshi Kamo of the Kamo Family, Choso was a special life-form born from his body and the Cursed Womb: Death Paintings. So, in a sense, Kenjaku is Choso's father."

Jie Jian then pointed at Yuji.

"After he could no longer use Noritoshi Kamo's identity, Kenjaku took over Kaori Itadori's body."

"Kaori Itadori?"

Hearing that name, Yuji Itadori instinctively repeated it.

For some reason, he felt as though he had heard that name somewhere before.

The next moment, memories buried for years surfaced from the depths of his mind, and he suddenly raised his head.

Holy shit! Kaori Itadori was his mother's name!

Seeing Yuji's expression, Jie Jian understood that Yuji had figured it out.

He pointed at Yuji and made a somewhat sinister guess.

"Yuji, you guessed right. Kaori Itadori was your mother. The cause of her death is currently unknown, but I'd say it most likely had something to do with that old bastard Kenjaku!"

"After that, Kenjaku controlled your mother's body and had you with your father, Jin Itadori. So, in a sense, Kenjaku is your mother."

Without waiting for Yuji to ask anything, he pointed at both Choso and Yuji.

"So, Yuji, you and Choso are, in a sense, half-brothers with the same mother but different fathers... uh, no! Same father but different mothers... no, that's not right either!"

Jie Jian's words suddenly caught in his throat. He had no idea how to determine the familial relationship between Yuji and Choso!

After scratching his head in place for several seconds, Jie Jian suddenly had a flash of inspiration and slapped his hand.

"You're biological brothers with different fathers and different mothers! By age, Choso counts as your big brother!"

The words "big brother" completely shattered Choso's final emotional defenses. At last, he understood exactly what his relationship with Yuji was!

He looked hopefully at Yuji, not knowing how Yuji viewed their relationship.

Would Yuji accept him as his biological big brother, despite their different fathers and mothers?

Choso's expression entered Yuji's view, and Yuji looked at him in disbelief.

He had never expected them to have such a relationship!

No wonder Choso had initially wanted to kill him, only to stop at the very end and then help him unconditionally ever since.

"B-Big brother."

Yuji instinctively spoke those two words.

Upon hearing "big brother," Choso seemed as though he had been struck by something.

He could not help taking two steps back. Trembling, he spread his arms and shouted at Yuji.

"Yuji!"

Watching Yuji and Choso recognize each other as brothers, Jie Jian shed tears of emotion as well.

It had truly not been easy!

Only, Kashimo's expression beside them was somewhat strange.

He frowned, wearing the expression of an old man staring at a phone on the subway.

He had never expected Kenjaku to be so perverted!

He had actually pretended to be a woman and had children with someone else.

As expected of a sorcerer from a thousand years ago, capable of easily doing what others could not.

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