Sukuna sat on the edge of the bed, rubbing his dizzy head as stars swam before his eyes.
He needed a moment...
He had never expected the space inside his innate domain to have this drawback. One sonic attack had left his head buzzing.
-The only upside was the incredible reverb... pretty good for singing karaoke?
Bah! It wasn't as if he would ever hold a karaoke session here with Yuji.
He simply flopped backward onto the bed-
Then scrambled back up less than two seconds later.
Nope, nope. Lying down made him even dizzier...
Sukuna stayed seated and waited for it to pass, vaguely hearing that best-friend fellow outside start explaining cursed energy control to Yuji.
Cursed energy control? They were doing a live lesson now?
...Wait... wasn't that the very part he and Gojo had never managed to teach him?!
Sukuna perked up, his dizziness forgotten, and quickly leaned in to listen too.
He could teach that white-haired idiot afterward! All those years as a teacher, and he couldn't even teach this!
After listening to Todo's explanation, Itadori understood.
So that was how it worked...
The cursed energy he had kept compressed in his abdomen slowly unfurled, filling every corner of his body with its powerful presence.
He clenched his fists, feeling the flow of cursed energy without any time lag, and guided it throughout his body.
The cursed energy escaping at the edges was swept back into circulation by the vortices the flow created. Even with cursed energy spread throughout his body, the drain was negligible.
His eyes brightened slightly.
-The barrier separating him from a Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer, which he had kept brushing against but never crossed, was finally behind him.
He had finally crossed that threshold, attaining the strength of a true Grade