Didi Substitute Fighter

Chapter 17: Didi Substitute Fighter. Late at night.

Megumi Fushiguro rushed to the hospital, his face tense.

Not long ago, he had received a call from his stepsister, Tsumiki Fushiguro.

On the phone, Tsumiki had said in a panicked, frightened voice that some kind of monster seemed to be watching her near the hospital. She was terrified.

Megumi's heart clenched when he heard that.

Because he could vaguely hear the roars of cursed spirits from the other end of the call!

Realizing that his stepsister had been targeted by cursed spirits, Megumi did not have time to think. He immediately rushed toward the hospital.

But when Megumi arrived at the hospital, he noticed something strange.

It was very quiet here. It did not seem like there were any cursed spirits around.

Following his memory, Megumi hurried to Tsumiki's hospital room. The moment he entered, he saw his stepsister standing alone before the window.

He called out softly, testing the waters.

"Tsumiki?"

Hearing his voice behind her, Tsumiki slowly turned around.

"You're here, Megumi."

Seeing that his sister was completely unharmed, Megumi looked her over in confusion.

"...Sister, what is this?"

Tsumiki gave him an awkward smile.

Lowering her head, she said, "I'm sorry. I lied to you. I wasn't actually in danger. I called you here because there's something I wanted to tell you in person."

Megumi felt relieved, though there was some helplessness on his face.

"You... couldn't you have just told me over the phone? Did you really have to call me all the way here?"

Megumi's tone seemed somewhat impatient at the moment, but he did not mean it that way.

He simply did not know how to get along with his sister, so his words came out a little cold, like a teenager going through a rebellious phase.

Tsumiki smiled at Megumi.

"Megumi, actually, I... am no longer your sister."

Megumi froze on the spot. A cold sweat instantly slid down his forehead.

"Y-What are you talking about? What do you mean, you're not my sister anymore?"

Looking at Megumi, who seemed unwilling to accept reality, Tsumiki—no, Yorozu—looked at him with some pity.

"You should have already guessed the reason, right? You just don't want to accept reality? How cute."

Megumi refused to accept this fact. He shouted:

"Who are you?"

"Me?" Yorozu pointed at herself. "My name is Yorozu. Maybe some old-timers from back then might still remember me."

Hearing the mockery coming from that familiar face, Megumi finally accepted it.

The person before him, who looked exactly like his sister, was not Tsumiki Fushiguro at all!

Like those incarnated players in the Culling Game, she was an ancient sorcerer!

Megumi looked at Yorozu with despair on his face.

"Why? Why did you lie to me when you woke up during the day?"

Yorozu tilted her head and thought for a moment.

"Hmm, yes. Why indeed?"

She smiled at Megumi.

"Because I found you too boring. I didn't want to keep playing with you."

The instant those words left her mouth, Megumi stood there completely frozen in despair.

However, at that moment, a figure suddenly appeared beside him.

"Who's there?!"

Before Megumi could react, he felt a powerful hand seize his jaw.

The next moment, something was forcibly stuffed into his mouth.

Then, Megumi felt his consciousness slowly fading away.

In the instant before he completely lost consciousness, he saw who had attacked him.

Although that face differed somewhat from the one in his memories, the distinctive markings on it let him recognize the person at a glance.

"Sukuna... Why are you here? What happened to Yuji Itadori...?"

Unfortunately, Megumi's questions received no answer.

Before that could happen, his consciousness had already completely vanished!

Megumi's body shuddered, and then Sukuna's distinctive tattoos began to emerge across his face.

A few seconds later, he raised his head again.

"Hahahahaha! This is the body I wanted!"

At that moment, Sukuna had finally obtained the body he desired.

Meanwhile, Jie Jian's body began to tremble.

Jie Jian was confused.

He had thought his challenge journey would end after Sukuna fed him his own finger.

But when his consciousness began to fall asleep, he did not return to that familiar system space.

Instead, he felt as though he had fallen into an endless black space. He could vaguely hear sounds coming from outside, but he could not move at all.

Suddenly, he felt as though his body could move again!

Jie Jian struggled to take control of his body. The next moment, he felt like his body had returned.

He abruptly opened his eyes and gasped for air.

"Hey! Sukuna was way too rough. That thing he fed me almost made me throw up."

Jie Jian thought he had returned to the system space, so he complained on instinct.

Just as he wondered why the system's challenge settlement notification had not appeared yet, he suddenly realized that something was wrong with his surroundings!

The system space was supposed to be brightly lit. Why was it pitch-black here?

Jie Jian raised his head in confusion and discovered that several figures were standing around him.

"Yo, you're awake. How do you feel?"

Kenjaku was the one greeting him. Of everyone present, only Kenjaku was willing to greet Jie Jian.

Jie Jian was in no mood to answer. He looked to the right and discovered someone looking down at him from above.

Although Jie Jian had never seen this face before, he immediately recognized the distinctive tattoos on it.

Wasn't this Sukuna?!

Sukuna narrowed his eyes at Jie Jian, his gaze seeming somewhat dangerous.

Jie Jian remembered that he seemed to have slapped Sukuna across the face. He gave an awkward smile.

"Heh, can we make peace?"

Sukuna answered Jie Jian with a swift slash.

Sukuna had always responded with force to people like Jie Jian, who disrespected him.

"Hey! Fresh account, don't mess with me!"

Jie Jian had no way to defend himself. He could only shout that one sentence before suffering a regretful defeat.

And so, before Jie Jian had even figured out what was happening,

his challenge journey officially came to an end.

System space.

Jie Jian shook his head as he got up in the space.

The feeling of a slash passing through his body was quite strange. It was very different from dying with a splat after falling.

Even at the end, he still had not figured out what had happened.

How had he gone from being controlled by Sukuna on the streets of Tokyo one moment to ending up somewhere that looked like a hospital the next?

Just as he was full of confusion, his all-purpose system provided the answer.

"The host's body was taken over by Sukuna. He later went to the hospital in your body, used Tsumiki Fushiguro to lure out Megumi Fushiguro, and switched back into Megumi Fushiguro's body through a sneak attack."

"Oh!"

Jie Jian nodded in sudden realization. So that was how the story had unfolded.

Sukuna really was something else. What was the point of switching bodies? He could have just fought Satoru Gojo with his own body.

Maybe when Sukuna got beaten to death later, Jie Jian could even get credited with an assist.

Just as Jie Jian's thoughts ran wild, the system's settlement began.

"The challenge has ended. Settling your results now... Settlement in progress..."

Jie Jian's attention was drawn to the system's voice, and he immediately rubbed his hands together in anticipation.

"What reward will I get this time? I fought Sukuna, after all. The reward should be pretty generous, right?"

Although the "fight" Jie Jian spoke of was merely slapping Sukuna across the face while Sukuna was unable to spare a hand,

he had still properly landed an attack on him.

However, the moment he saw the reward list, Jie Jian froze in place.

Not because there were too few rewards, but because there were too many!

There were so many rewards that he could not even finish reading them!

Failures: 11

Cause of death: Killed by a slash while fighting Sukuna

Evaluation: What a pity. The opponent was critically wounded—you almost won.

Rewards: Massive increase in cursed energy, greatly improved cursed energy usage techniques, greatly improved combat skills, greatly improved resistance to damage, Technique: Undying Thunder, Skill: Reverse Cursed Technique

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