Gojo quickly arranged for someone to bring Bai Li back to Jujutsu High.
Sukuna held Little Fox, his gaze fixed on him.
Little Fox kept his head down, looking all around the floor as though there were some treasure down there. His big tail swished back and forth, but he simply refused to look at Sukuna.
Sukuna stared at the back of Little Fox's head for a long time, but ultimately didn't ask.
He rubbed Little Fox's head firmly and let the matter drop.
If Little Fox wasn't telling him, at least that meant it wouldn't hurt either of them.
Once he took over the body and completed his incarnation, nothing about its past would matter anymore.
"It's fine. You don't have to tell me."
It was only a secret. As long as Little Fox stayed with him, that was enough.
Hearing that, Little Fox instantly relaxed. He breathed a sigh of relief, then obediently raised his head and nuzzled Sukuna's hand.
It wasn't that there was anything wrong with this human called Bai Li...
It was that Bai Li... was his "current life."
He was one of the countless lives Little Fox had lived through his repeated reincarnations over the past thousand years.
After Little Fox died for the second time a thousand years ago, he lost his final tail and never woke again.
Over the following thousand years, his soul was reborn again and again, becoming all kinds of life-humans, birds and beasts, plants and trees... spending a thousand years accumulating a new "one tail."
And in this life, he had become an ordinary human, Bai Li.
This human had housed his soul and had once been his vessel. Through Little Fox, Sukuna could acquire this body without any resistance, and Little Fox could make up for everything