They sat beside Yasohachi Bridge, waiting for night to fall.
With Sukuna urging him on inside his head, Itadori hesitated before speaking.
"Megumi Fushiguro, your sister..."
He paused.
"If she's injured, should we let Sukuna take a look? His Reverse Cursed Technique is better than Miss Ieiri's. Maybe he could heal her...?"
Megumi Fushiguro's eyes dimmed slightly.
"...She's not injured..."
It was a curse.
Seeing how worried Itadori and Nobara looked, he hesitated, then told them about his sister.
They knew neither the details of the curse nor its source.
When he was in his second year of middle school, his sister, who was in her third year, had failed to come home on time. By the time they found her, she was already unconscious, with a strange red mark on her forehead. She had never woken up. Aside from her physical condition not deteriorating despite her prolonged sleep, nothing else had changed.
That was everything they knew.
"Teacher Gojo had Miss Ieiri come examine her... but Miss Ieiri said there was nothing wrong with my sister's physical condition. She was even healthier than an ordinary person, as if some force had strengthened her... With no symptoms, there was nothing she could do. And since we don't know where the curse is, Teacher Gojo couldn't do anything either..."
They fell silent.
Itadori suddenly said, "Then, if we resolve this curse, could she..."
Megumi Fushiguro shook his head.
"These are two separate incidents. According to what Fujinuma just told us, my sister fell unconscious six months after the test of courage, so the timing doesn't match. Besides, none of the other participants developed a red mark or fell unconscious..."
Itadori said nothing.
Okay... We haven't even solved one problem, and now another's popped up.
My brain's running out of room...