Twin Curse

At those words...

Kusakabe slumped straight to the ground, exhausted in both body and spirit.

As far as he was concerned...

Not giving chase was naturally the best option.

Next...

Kaneki told Tengen, who had reappeared, that they should move elsewhere, in case Kenjaku had only pretended to leave and would return to attack after recovering.

After that...

Everyone hurriedly relocated once again.

They had to avoid a counterattack.

"Sorry..." Kaneki began with an apology. "I didn't expect Kenjaku not to know how to repair burnout with Reverse Cursed Technique."

All he could say was...

He had given Kenjaku too much credit.

He hadn't expected Kenjaku to be completely incapable of it.

"It had nothing to do with you," Okkotsu said. "Even if you hadn't thrown that arm to Rika, I was planning to expand my domain."

In his view...

Expanding his domain had been the best choice at the time.

"What's done is done," Yuki Tsukumo said. "How should we handle things from here?"

"Take things as they come."

Kaneki spoke with a helpless expression.

Right now, they had no better option than to respond to whatever came their way.

With that, he summoned Max Elephant, Piercing Ox, and Tiger Funeral one after another to tame them.

Before long...

He had successfully tamed all three shikigami.

Now...

He had tamed all nine shikigami other than Mahoraga.

As for Mahoraga...

He probably couldn't tame him with his fists alone.

Once he finished taming them...

Okkotsu brought up something else.

He had personally experienced healing his brain with Reverse Cursed Technique.

Taking into account that Kenjaku's brain was his actual body...

He deduced...

Kenjaku couldn't repeatedly destroy his brain with cursed energy, then use Reverse Cursed Technique to reset his cursed technique too many times.

Otherwise...

He wouldn't have chosen to leave.

After analyzing the situation, Okkotsu said, "I'd estimate he can do it two or three times."

That number...

Was already a generous estimate.

If he had to give a single number...

It would be two!

Kaneki said, "In the future, Satoru Gojo only used this method of repairing cursed technique burnout with Reverse Cursed Technique four times."

Hearing that...

Okkotsu became even more certain that Kenjaku could only reset his brain twice, meaning he could expand his domain three times!

The others also agreed with that conclusion.

No matter how long Kenjaku had lived...

He couldn't surpass Satoru Gojo, who possessed the Six Eyes, in cursed energy control.

Just then...

Kaneki said, "Fumihiko Takaba may already be 'dead.'"

Hearing that...

Okkotsu understood what he meant.

With a shocked expression, he asked, "You mean... that woman in the suit?"

"Yes."

Kaneki nodded. "Her body probably belonged to Fumihiko Takaba."

The suit she wore was clearly menswear.

That was also why it didn't fit her.

Then...

Tengen gave them a brief account of Tachibana Mio's background, focusing on her cursed technique.

That cursed technique...

Wasn't powerful.

But it offered considerable room for creative use.

Something occurred to Kaneki, and he hurriedly asked, "Can her cursed technique break the twin curse?"

The so-called twin curse...

Meant that, in Jujutsu Society, identical twins were treated as a single body, sharing one portion of cursed energy and talent.

As long as both were alive...

Their cursed energy couldn't concentrate in one person, leaving them forever stuck at a mediocre level.

In the original story...

Only after Mai voluntarily took Maki's cursed energy away before dying could Maki become the second Heavenly Tyrant.

"Yes!"

Tengen answered after a moment's thought.

The shadow beneath Kaneki churned, and a severed arm emerged from it.

It was Tachibana Mio's severed arm.

Tachibana Mio knew Reverse Cursed Technique, so giving it to Rika would be useless.

Thus...

He could only eat it himself.

As long as he successfully broke the curse, Jujutsu High's side would gain a second Heavenly Tyrant and a second Uro.

Provided that...

Mai had Uro's potential.

"That hand..."

The more Okkotsu looked at it, the more familiar it seemed.

"That's right." Kaneki wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. "It's Tachibana Mio's."

Next...

Kaneki asked how to use this cursed technique to break the curse.

Only after learning how did Kaneki get to the main point. "I want Sukuna's Sokushinbutsu."

"Sokushinbutsu?"

Everyone exclaimed in surprise.

"In other words, Sukuna's original body," Kaneki explained.

A Sokushinbutsu...

Was a body preserved through special methods, achieving an imperishable, mummified state.

After hearing that...

Tengen also realized that Ken Kaneki didn't know where Sukuna's Sokushinbutsu was.

Unable to retrieve it directly, she simply gave him its location. "Sukuna's Sokushinbutsu is in the Flying Spirit Mountain Pure Realm."

A pure realm...

Referred to a higher-level barrier.

It could suppress the emergence of cursed spirits and greatly improve the precision of assistant supervisors' Barrier Techniques.

The Flying Spirit Mountain Pure Realm was nearly four hundred kilometers from the Tombs of the Star Corridor.

Even by car...

It would take several hours to get there.

"By the way."

After some thought, Kaneki put that aside for now. "Does anyone in the current Gojo Clan have an awakened Limitless technique?"

The others beside him immediately understood his intent.

Okkotsu said, "You need the Six Eyes to use Limitless. Without them, you won't be able to use it even if you acquire the Limitless technique."

He was speaking from his own experience.

Even if he copied the Limitless technique, he couldn't use it.

Because...

He didn't have the Six Eyes.

He couldn't control cursed energy with atomic-level precision, and without that precision, he couldn't use Limitless.

And...

The Six Eyes were a physical trait, not a cursed technique.

He couldn't copy them.

Even transplanting them into him would be useless.

"I know." Kaneki gave a slight nod, a bloody gleam flashing in his eyes. "But I'm different from you."

"No matter what cursed technique it is, as long as I can 'acquire' it, I can control it."

Hearing that...

Everyone looked stunned.

For him, it would simply mean a slightly longer cooldown for his Innate Cursed Technique.

When the time came...

He only needed to eat the brain of someone who possessed the Limitless technique.

[Brain Devouring] would then completely master [Limitless].

Even without the Six Eyes, his cursed energy control could reach the precision needed to use the [Limitless] technique.

The only drawback was that precise cursed energy control was just one of the Six Eyes' many functions.

Even if...

He mastered the [Limitless] technique...

Without the Six Eyes, he would still need a long time to reach Satoru Gojo's level.

"There is."

Tengen nodded and said, "Gojo Kongxu of the Gojo Clan awakened the Limitless technique."

Without the Six Eyes...

There was little difference between his awakening the technique and not awakening it at all.

"Then are there any well-preserved bodies of people who awakened the Limitless technique?" Kaneki asked again.

Out of consideration for Satoru Gojo...

He would avoid killing anyone if possible.

But if there was no other way, they couldn't blame him.

"Yes." Tengen nodded. "But I can't be sure where the Gojo Clan buried those bodies."

Although she was known as the Omniscience Sorcerer, she didn't know everything.

Her omniscience was relative.

In the original story...

She had been unable to pinpoint the location of the Angel, Hana Kurusu.

Kaneki felt a little disappointed, but didn't pursue the subject. He could find out once Satoru Gojo was unsealed.

He looked at Tengen.

"Does your [Immortality] make you immune to physical damage?"

"Yes."

Tengen nodded. "Only a handful of special entities can truly kill me."

For example, the Inverted Spear of Heaven and the Angel!

"Not even a domain's sure-hit effect can do it?" Kaneki asked again.

"Correct."

Tengen replied.

"No wonder you've lived so long..." Kaneki marveled. Tengen's cursed technique was conceptual.

And...

Even among conceptual techniques, it was top-tier, involving rules themselves.

"I want one arm from your real body."

Kaneki spoke.

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