Just as Little Fox happily found the person he was looking for, a consciousness abruptly opened its eyes.
In the pitch-black space, Sukuna-Little Fox edition, wearing Itadori's face-suddenly woke up.
He stared blankly at the enormous glowing screen before him, taking a long moment to realize-
Oh, right... I was recovering my memories from a thousand years ago... wasn't I?
Memories-from a thousand years ago?!
His head snapped up toward the enormous screen in the dark space, his eyes fixed on the little fox frantically licking someone-
Th-th-that... that was me??!
His eyes went wide, and he sprang to his feet, only then beginning to vaguely remember what had happened-
He seemed to have spent a long time following his original self from a thousand years ago, with only a hazy thought in his mind that he needed to remember "Sukuna."
And just now, he had realized he had found Sukuna-and finally come to his senses.
He stared at the little fox clambering all over Sukuna on the screen and silently raised his hands to cover his face.
Help...
That was actually me...??
I'm going to die! Was I seriously that kind of fox??!
Was I really... ahem... that clingy with Sukuna before...?
Now that he remembered being Little Fox, thinking about everything "he" had done in those memories made him want to scrape out an entire innate domain with his toes from sheer embarrassment.
He did not dare lower the hands covering his face. His cheeks burned fiercely.
I'm doomed! If anyone finds out I used to act like that... how am I supposed to survive? They'll laugh me to death in seconds!
He could already picture Gojo and all the first- and second-years laughing and pounding the table!
Damn it, my sterling reputation!
He no longer dared look