Chapter 6: Why not just become special grade? "Huh!"
Kasumi Miwa cried out in surprise.
"J-Jie Jian, you're saying I chose you?"
"That's right!"
Jie Jian confirmed what Kasumi Miwa had said.
"Why do you think I appeared here?"
"Because your intense desire to grow stronger, to fight alongside your friends, and to defeat Sukuna with your own hands moved the world."
"The world answered your wish. In the end, it chose to send me to help you make that wish come true."
Kasumi Miwa froze.
She remembered the campfire gathering before her rebirth.
She remembered that "foolish" wish she had made while lying on the grass.
So... someone really did hear me?
"But... I can't do it." Kasumi Miwa lowered her head, her voice choked with tears. "I couldn't even cut through the skin on Kenjaku's hand. How could I possibly stand a chance against Sukuna?"
"That was the old Kasumi Miwa," Jie Jian said. "You're different now."
"H-how am I different?"
"Now you have me!"
Kasumi Miwa raised her head and stared at the mouth on her face in the mirror.
"Can you really help me beat Sukuna?"
"No." Jie Jian shook his head. "I'll help you beat Sukuna yourself."
"I'll support you from inside your body, but the one who actually swings that blade will be you, Kasumi Miwa."
Kasumi Miwa fell silent.
A moment later, Kasumi Miwa drew a sharp breath.
"All right!"
"Oh?" Jie Jian sounded a little surprised. "You've come around already?"
"It's not that I've come around." Kasumi Miwa clenched her fists. "I just don't want to keep being that useless Miwa anymore!"
In almost every battle before her rebirth, she had never played a decisive role.
She had had enough of being that person.
"This time, I'm going to be the one