Little Fox's eyes dimmed.
He had more or less guessed what Sukuna had said. He had been prepared for it.
After all, if doing something in the "past" really could change the future so easily...
Then the whole world would probably be completely different when he returned.
Perhaps neither he nor Sukuna would wake up twelve years later the way they had now, and he would never have come to the "past" in the first place.
-That would create a time paradox.
But no matter how prepared he was, having it spelled out so plainly still hurt a little.
He stayed silent for a long while before speaking softly.
"Even if that's true, I still have to tell them..."
"At least I have to save this world's Geto first... That way, this world's Gojo won't lose his best friend."
"No matter what, I have to save Geto. That's Geto we're talking about."
He argued in a tiny voice.
"It isn't a waste of effort."
Since he had come here, he had to do something.
He was already here. Not helping Geto would be the real waste.
He would save this one first and worry about the rest later.
As for the Geto in their own world... There would be a way.
He dragged his chopsticks around the bottom of his bowl, silently venting his emotions.
Only after a long while did he slowly speak.
"San-san."
Sukuna: [Hm?]
Following the principle that if he was unhappy, no one else should get to be happy either, Little Fox said quietly,
"Actually, you got one thing wrong."
"That wasn't really why I told Gojo and the others about 'Ryomen Sukuna'..."
He had considered the possibility of parallel worlds long ago, too, so when he told Gojo and the others about "Ryomen Sukuna," it