They returned to the dorm from the amusement park.
Sukuna watched Itadori finish getting ready for bed, hesitating for ages without saying anything.
It was bedtime, which meant it was time for the usual routine again-
-eating a finger.
But... but he still didn't want to eat it...
He hadn't recovered from the nightmare of the fifth finger yet.
He watched Itadori pull the sixth finger, the one he'd picked up that day, from his pocket, feeling hesitant.
"It's okay, Sukuna. If you don't want to eat it, we won't."
As though he knew what Sukuna was thinking, Itadori smiled and reassured him.
He looked at the finger in his hand-Sukuna had already sealed away its cursed energy.
But to be safe, he took a strip inscribed with jujutsu for sealing from the drawer and wrapped it around the finger, layer by layer, just like Sukuna's Finger had been wrapped the first time he'd seen it. Then he put it in a little box likewise inscribed with a sealing cursed technique, and finally tucked it into his uniform's inner pocket.
He'd bought both cursed tools some time ago in case he ever needed them, and now they'd come in handy.
"There, all done~"
He patted his inner pocket and made an OK sign in front of him.
Watching Itadori, Sukuna felt a faint stir in his heart.
[How did you know I didn't want to eat it?]
Itadori thought about it. The answer seemed pretty obvious-
From the way Sukuna hadn't mentioned the fingers once since waking up last time, to how he'd said he didn't want to talk about it when Megumi Fushiguro asked that day whether he'd remembered anything, to how he hadn't asked to eat the finger even after seeing Itadori take it out this time...
"Lots