Since We're Here

A flood of memories poured in, and Mysteries Morien quickly absorbed the recent experiences of his other two selves.

Just as he had guessed, the flow of time differed for each of the three of them, only briefly aligning within the Synchronization Space.

During this period, Star Rail Morien had experienced the longest passage of time, but the fewest events.

After leaving the space, he continued being bored aboard the ship.

Still, he could barely be said to have something to do.

Floating in the zero-gravity environment, he listlessly sorted through the memories of his other two selves.

Thus, aside from eating and sleeping, he spent his days studying the cursed energy and techniques brought by Morien, occasionally entering the empty space. Five days passed like that.

Over those five days, he completely sorted out all the memories and spent five days researching techniques, cursed energy, and the space itself.

He discovered that time outside did not pass while he was in the Synchronization Space. It could serve as a mental Hyperbolic Time Chamber.

He did not figure out much about the techniques, after all. There was no one there for him to test them on.

However, his control over cursed energy had deepened considerably.

Finally, when he entered on the fifth day, he saw another version of himself. Excitedly, he ran over and gave him a huge hug.

Then he got stabbed in the back.

After five days of tasteless nutritional meals, the first thing he tasted was sweet strawberry-flavored mapo tofu.

Meanwhile.

Time passed very slowly for Jujutsu Morien. More than ten hours here amounted to barely half an hour in the Jujutsu world.

After returning to reality, Jujutsu Morien relied on his enhanced body and reflexes to quickly find an area that was barely safe.

It was an empty convenience store.

In the convenience store's prepared food section, Morien found a few dishes and a self-heating rice meal. He spent half an hour heating them up in the store's microwave.

After finishing dinner, he entered the Synchronization Space with vacant eyes.

However, Jujutsu Morien was not the only one who had kept something up his sleeve.

"Hehe." A triumphant smile spread across Mysteries Morien's face.

"Take my Immeasurable Void Touch!"

Knowledge pursued people.

The knowledge the Hidden Sage had poured into Morien's memories surged into Jujutsu Morien's mind all at once.

Jujutsu Morien let out a strangled "Hurk," rolled his eyes, and nearly collapsed to the floor.

It was a counterattack.

A huge success!

They were still all bad guys.

Soon, the three exchanged memories and synchronized their abilities.

"Your day was really exciting," Star Rail Morien said enviously. "It was far more enjoyable than my entire five days."

"But now I have something to do." He revealed a satisfied smile.

After returning, Star Rail Morien decided to study every ritual, every spell, and every form of witchcraft.

Although, at the Mystery Pryer stage, he could only "understand" them, and ninety-nine percent of the Beyonder Abilities he had mastered were unusable.

But that was fine. At least he had something to do.

"You stacked up five days of loneliness, so why did your blue bar only go up a little?" Mysteries Morien joked.

He was referring to Path Power.

The driving force of the Path of Propagation was loneliness. Star Rail Morien had been shut in for five days, yet his loneliness had barely increased.

Still, it would be impossible to say it had not increased at all.

Being alone in a cramped room was painful, even if there was something to study.

"Because it was still fairly fulfilling. At least I wasn't doing nothing," Star Rail Morien replied. "It'll probably rise even more slowly from now on."

"Mm, that's not bad either." Mysteries Morien nodded.

In the end, they were all himself. He could not possibly hope for another version of himself to suffer.

He had only been joking just now. If Star Rail Morien could live a little better, he would actually prefer that.

"What a pity. You're only a Mystery Pryer, not a Melee Scholar." Jujutsu Morien sighed regretfully. "Mystery Pryers are so easy to absorb. Absorbing a Melee Scholar directly probably wouldn't be too difficult either."

"It still would be." Mysteries Morien understood that better than anyone. "My spirituality is too unstable."

Though the two of them shared the same memories, firsthand experience and recollection were ultimately different.

Just like how, no matter how Jujutsu Morien tried to screw over his other two selves, the one who suffered the most would only be himself in the Jujutsu world.

"I'm planning to buy the Melee Scholar potion at the hidden gathering in Tingen. I remember there's one beneath the Dragon Bar."

"A Sequence Eight potion won't be difficult to obtain once I know the ingredients."

He glanced at Jujutsu Morien.

"I hope I can advance before you participate in the Culling Game."

Jujutsu Morien nodded and casually thanked him.

He had decided to join the Culling Game.

After all...

Since he was already here.

"But the most important thing I need to deal with right now is the Shibuya Incident," Jujutsu Morien said.

"Oh, right." Star Rail Morien suddenly interjected. "If you plan to fight Sukuna, you might want to prepare yourself."

"Hm?" Jujutsu Morien looked at Star Rail Morien.

"The slashes within Sukuna's domain strike in every direction without a single blind spot," Star Rail Morien said.

"In other words, Sukuna's attacks will cover your little brother and bombard it continuously at a speed capable of reducing a house to dust."

Jujutsu Morien froze, then turned pale with shock.

"Oh no! Brothers, change of plans—I'm not fighting Sukuna anymore."

Jujutsu Kaisen world.

Shibuya, inside an ordinary 7-Eleven convenience store.

Morien opened his eyes and disgustedly pushed aside the food containers on the table before him.

He stood from the dining area in the corner of the convenience store, walked to the shelves behind him, took a bottle of yogurt from the refrigerator, opened it, and drank it all in one gulp as a mouth rinse.

There was no need to pay, because there was no one left in the convenience store.

The clerk had gone somewhere. In any case, the store had already been empty when Morien arrived.

He turned to look at the wall clock not far away.

9:22 p.m.

There was still quite some time before the Shibuya Incident ended.

"What should I do next...?"

Morien muttered to himself as he boredly tapped his head with the plastic drink bottle.

He had to do something.

Since he was already here...

Morien turned his head and looked around.

Wish power was everywhere. It passed through the walls and entered Morien's field of vision with perfect clarity.

The last time he returned from the Synchronization Space, he had noticed the mask on his face, as well as the wish power permeating the sky above all of Shibuya.

He felt that he could command this wish power, but he did not dare.

In Star Rail, absorbing too much wish power would lead to corruption and change.

The Trailblazer had a Stellaron to contain wish power. He did not.

Sure enough, after seeing another version of himself nearly get swallowed by wish power, Morien was certain that he could not absorb it.

Absorbing only a ship's worth of wish power had nearly made him lose himself. If he let the wish power surge toward him now, he would be a thousand percent unable to handle it.

Returning to the shelves, Morien took down two kitchen knives, tore open their packaging, left the knives in their sheaths, and casually stuffed one into each pocket.

Then he took a pack of tissues from the counter and wiped his mouth. He hung the mask from the side of his face back over the front, then pushed open the door and left the convenience store.

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