Sukuna, When Did You Get Here?

The scene of Yuji and Choso recognizing each other as brothers was undeniably touching.

But it did nothing for Hajime Kashimo.

He looked grimly at Jie Jian and asked a question he had wanted to ask for a long time.

"What was Kenjaku trying to accomplish with all this?"

Back when Hajime Kashimo was still relatively young, Kenjaku had already approached him and proposed making a binding vow with him.

But Hajime Kashimo had never trusted Kenjaku. He could never see through what Kenjaku truly wanted, and he had no desire to become just another pawn on Kenjaku's path.

Yet as he grew older and his life drew to an end, he had no choice but to eventually accept Kenjaku's terms.

Among the ancient sorcerers reincarnated through Kenjaku's incarnations in the Culling Game, probably few had truly been willing to make a binding vow with him.

They had only done so because death was near and they had no other choice.

Hajime Kashimo had previously thought that Yuji becoming Sukuna's vessel was an accident.

But upon hearing that Yuji's "mother" was Kenjaku, he immediately understood.

Everything had surely been orchestrated behind the scenes by that old bastard Kenjaku. Yuji becoming Sukuna's vessel was no accident either. There had to be some unspeakable secret behind it!

In response to Hajime Kashimo's question, Jie Jian casually said,

"It wasn't anything particularly special. He wanted to create a world inhabited only by sorcerers."

Jie Jian's words caught Yuji's attention.

Having yet to seek out Tengen, he did not know Kenjaku's goal. Hearing Jie Jian's description sent a chill down his spine.

He knew very well what sorcerers were like.

If everyone in the world became a sorcerer, just how terrifying would this world become?

He could not help asking,

"What exactly is Kenjaku's purpose in doing this?"

Yuji's question made Jie Jian pause. He scratched his head.

"Purpose? It seemed like there wasn't really one. Maybe he simply thought it would be fun?"

Fun?

Yuji found it utterly absurd.

Was he really dragging everyone in the world into a crisis of death for such a reason?

What kind of joke was that?!

Unlike Yuji's fury, Hajime Kashimo found it much easier to accept.

Recalling the few conversations he had had with Kenjaku, he suddenly felt that "for fun" was not such an impossible explanation after all.

Yuji took several deep breaths and looked at Jie Jian again.

At that moment, he had only one question.

"Why did Kenjaku target me? Me becoming Sukuna's vessel wasn't a coincidence either, was it?"

"It certainly wasn't." Jie Jian nodded. "It had to do with your grandfather, Wasuke Itadori."

"My grandfather?" Yuji froze.

He did not understand what his becoming Sukuna's vessel had to do with his grandfather.

Hajime Kashimo was interested as well.

"Was this Wasuke Itadori some powerful sorcerer?"

"Not exactly."

Jie Jian shook his head and stopped keeping them in suspense.

"You all know that Sukuna had two faces and four arms, right?"

Everyone nodded. They knew of Sukuna's most distinctive trait.

"There was a reason Sukuna had two faces and four arms. Before he was born, he was a twin."

Twins?

Everyone was stunned. This was the first time they had heard that.

Jie Jian continued,

"You should have heard that twins are considered inauspicious in Jujutsu Society."

"Twins weaken each other. The cursed energy that should belong to one person is divided between them, reducing both of their strength."

"While Sukuna was still a fetus, he devoured his own brother, preserving and strengthening his own power. That was also why he could later become the King of Curses."

Choso's expression darkened upon hearing this.

He could not accept someone harming his own brother for power. In his eyes, Sukuna's actions were absolutely unforgivable.

Jie Jian's voice continued.

"However, Sukuna's brother's soul did not disappear. He was reincarnated, and a thousand years later, he was reincarnated as your grandfather, Wasuke Itadori."

Jie Jian looked at Yuji.

"Your grandfather's body and soul were extremely special. He was born with the ability to suppress Sukuna.

That was why Kenjaku targeted your father, even going so far as to possess your mother's body and bear a child through him.

Only that way could a body be born that Sukuna could never completely possess!"

At that, Jie Jian suddenly smiled.

"So, strictly speaking, Sukuna could be considered your great-uncle."

Jie Jian's final "joke" did not make Yuji laugh.

He looked calmly at his own palm. He had not expected his origins to be so complicated.

Suddenly, a mouth appeared on Yuji's neck.

It belonged to none other than Sukuna!

"Who exactly are you? How do you know such things?"

Yuji's suppression of Sukuna was not absolute. As long as Yuji was not deliberately suppressing him, Sukuna could grow a mouth somewhere on his body.

At the same time, Sukuna within Yuji could use Yuji's body to hear and see everything happening outside.

So he had heard every word Jie Jian had said from inside Yuji.

Although he was the King of Curses, there were many things even Sukuna did not know.

He had not expected this man named Jie Jian to possess so much information!

He even knew that Wasuke Itadori was the reincarnation of his brother, something Sukuna himself had not known.

Overwhelming curiosity made Sukuna unable to resist growing a mouth on Yuji's body and asking who he was.

Sukuna's sudden appearance gave Jie Jian quite a fright.

"Su... Sukuna, when did you get here?"

Jie Jian was still somewhat afraid of Sukuna, the King of Curses.

He was unlike Hajime Kashimo. In that old man's eyes, there was no such thing as the weak.

Seeing the Sukuna he had longed to fight finally appear, Hajime Kashimo trembled with excitement, cursed energy surging through his entire body.

"Sukuna! You finally appeared. Come out and fight me!"

Sukuna did not even bother responding to Hajime Kashimo's provocation.

In his eyes, there was only one sorcerer worthy of his attention!

That was the strongest sorcerer of the modern era, the invincible Satoru Gojo!

As for Hajime Kashimo?

Just some nobody by the roadside, not worth wasting his time on.

Still, while he had no interest in fighting, teasing him was another matter.

He smiled and said to Hajime Kashimo,

"Sure. As long as you can let me out, I'll fight you."

Yuji looked at the Sukuna mouth protruding from his neck and finally snapped out of his thoughts.

Hearing Sukuna's words, he slapped a hand over the mouth and shouted,

"Don't even think about it, Sukuna! I'll never let you out again for the rest of my life!"

As Yuji focused his attention, Sukuna sensed his control over Yuji's body rapidly fading.

He smiled mockingly and prepared to retreat back inside Yuji.

However, Hajime Kashimo's words startled him into stillness.

"You can forcibly control the body for one minute, can't you?

If you don't find yourself another body, I'll kill your vessel!"