After showing off to his heart's content, Sukuna looked up at the enormous egg overhead with a delighted grin. He could feel the curse inside beginning to stir.
"Now, that just leaves this big guy."
He folded his arms and watched the egg with a smile, already planning how he would go on a killing spree once the curse inside emerged.
But-
Before long, he could no longer smile.
When he saw the extremely familiar-looking curse hatch from the egg and land in front of them-
The smile gradually vanished from his face.
...Could someone tell him...
...Why...
...Did this curse look exactly like the Special Grade cursed womb they had seen at the Juvenile Detention Center...?
An awful foreboding suddenly welled up inside him-
Wait... no way...
Could it... could it be-?!
His expression instantly began to crack.
...The Special Grade cursed womb at the Juvenile Detention Center and these gopher-like curses here should have been completely different types...
...The only thing they had in common was that they had all eaten his fingers...
So... the reason they looked the same...
There was only one possibility-
The light gradually faded from Sukuna's eyes as he stared at the curse-
As though he had uncovered some earth-shattering secret-
...Please don't tell him...
After these two curses ate his fingers...
-They had grown to look like he did a thousand years ago!!
...Goddammit!
He had looked like this monstrosity a thousand years ago??!
Sukuna stared at the curse before him. Its body was covered in muscle, its skin pale blue. Four dark blue fingers hung down from the top of its bald head, pressed against its face, with four eyeballs growing on the two fingers closest to the middle.
It didn't even have a nose.
Its mouth split open, revealing a