"Bringing Jujutsu Kaisen to the Naruto World"

"Praise Lord Jashin!" everyone shouted in unison.

Whatever Cult Leader Takihata might have been thinking, before the others, Lord Jashin's glory took precedence over everything!

It made no sense?

That was exactly the point!

Who seeking reason would worship an evil god whose very existence was in doubt?!

So to these cultists, anything that made no sense became the most reasonable thing in the world as long as Lord Jashin was involved!

Didn't believe it?

Two glaring examples stood right before them. If even [immortality] existed, what could possibly be impossible?!

It was precisely because Akagi Shinji understood how these Jashin Cult members thought that he dared to take the "you're all fucking morons" approach and pin everything on this so-called "Lord Jashin."

After all, as long as it concerned their faith-Jashin-no one would dare question whether his words were true.

So long as Akagi Shinji stuck firmly to his story, could this Lord Jashin, whom no one had ever seen, suddenly pop out and expose him?!

Of course, that only applied to praise and "displaying miracles." If he dared slander Lord Jashin, there was no question that these people wouldn't bother verifying anything. They would simply tear him apart in a fury!

Things unfolded exactly as Akagi Shinji had expected. Even if some harbored doubts, not a single person was foolish enough to step forward and question him.

Instead, they began praising Lord Jashin's mercy and greatness together!

When it came to playing dumb, they were all perfectly in sync!

Once the formalities were over, Cult Leader Takihata began asking about this new jujutsu Lord Jashin had bestowed.

Akagi Shinji was perfectly candid, too. He told them everything he could, and simply said he didn't know when it came to anything he couldn't reveal. After all, he had only just received this power from the system and genuinely didn't know much about it.

Want more information? Go ask the system yourself, if you're so capable!

Faced with Akagi Shinji's utterly open demeanor, Cult Leader Takihata found himself with a headache.

It seemed only Akagi Shinji could use this new jujutsu. For now, it couldn't be taught to the others, nor could it be passed on to Hidan.

As for whether this fellow was telling the truth, Cult Leader Takihata had no intention of digging deeper just yet.

He knew he wouldn't get anything valuable out of him without openly turning hostile. Better to keep using a gentle approach to win him over and brainwash him.

As long as Akagi Shinji remained useful to him and fought for the Jashin Cult, none of those other minor details mattered.

Cult Leader Takihata believed he could keep Akagi Shinji firmly under his thumb, unaware that Akagi Shinji was unlike any of the people he had controlled before.

"Blood Manipulation? Hah! My immortality combined with Death Controlling Possessed Blood is the strongest!"

After lying motionless for ages, Hidan finally "faded" back to his normal color, stood up again, and spoke with a disgruntled look.

"Heh."

"What are you laughing at?! As long as I get his blood, I can kill even the Sage of Six Paths, you bastard!"

"Uh-huh. Good luck."

"Aaaaargh! I'll kill you! I swear I'll kill you!"

"Oh, was there anything else?"

"..."

Akagi Shinji's utterly dismissive attitude nearly made Hidan cough up blood in rage several times.

Then again, if Hidan really had any way to deal with him, he wouldn't still be making empty threats to this day.

As long as Akagi Shinji didn't betray the Jashin Cult, Cult Leader Takihata would never actually let the two fight to the death.

So Hidan could only seethe in helpless fury!

"Just you wait! This isn't over!"

[Ding, Bond Points +1]

After hastily leaving behind a threat that wasn't remotely threatening, Hidan stormed out in a rage.

They weren't elementary school kids anymore. Who would be scared by a threat on the level of "meet me after school"?!

Still, that extra Bond Point really was a surprise.

So this really was the right way to do it? Akagi Shinji shrugged and said nothing more, instead hurrying to seal all the blood that had flowed out of his body in the bags that had been brought over.

One drawback of Blood Manipulation was that a person's body contained only a limited amount of blood. Precautions were needed to avoid the absurd outcome of dying from blood loss before killing the enemy in battle.

Users would usually draw and stockpile spare blood beforehand, then bring it out to use during combat.

Akagi Shinji had naturally thought of that, too, so he simply sealed it up first rather than let it go to waste.

Although losing so much blood had left his face even paler, his eyes shone brighter than ever!

He had suddenly realized that his immortality might allow him to make even better use of Blood Manipulation's advantages!

The next day, besides the experiments and training he had to cooperate with every day, Akagi Shinji had another task: developing ways to use [Blood Manipulation].

Clearly, compared with [Death Controlling Possessed Blood], which guaranteed death once the target's blood was obtained, [Blood Manipulation] wasn't nearly as simple, brutal, or impossible to counter.

On the contrary, [Blood Manipulation] was far more flexible and versatile. Its destructive power depended entirely on how the user employed it.

That meant he needed to devote more time to developing it, rather than being as carefree as Hidan.

Another point worth mentioning was that, perhaps because the Jashin Cult's forbidden experiments were incomplete, although he and Hidan still possessed chakra after surviving the modifications, casting ninjutsu had become more than a hundred times harder.

Much like Naruto at the Ninja Academy, whenever they tried to cast ninjutsu, some unexpected factor would interfere and cause it to fail.

Regarding this, Akagi Shinji learned from the Jashin Cult's researchers that their chakra pathways had most likely undergone some kind of mutation, causing their chakra to flow abnormally when they formed hand seals and leading to frequent failures.

That was the preliminary conclusion the Jashin Cult had reached after observing and studying them over this period.

Of course, the jujutsu [Death Controlling Possessed Blood] was an exception.

Akagi Shinji wasn't even sure whether these Jashin Cult members had first created the peculiar jujutsu [Death Controlling Possessed Blood] and only then thought of modifying human bodies.

Or whether they had developed this jujutsu specifically for "immortality."

He suspected the reason he couldn't learn [Death Controlling Possessed Blood] was that he was actually a failed product, an unfinished one.

If he hadn't transmigrated that time, the person named "Akagi Shinji" should have died miserably, just like all those other poor bastards.

Had he not been lucky enough to receive [Blood Manipulation] from the system, he probably would have been labeled a "partial failure" before long.

Akagi Shinji felt a little relieved and frustrated about that.

He was relieved that he had made it through the crisis and gained at least some initial ability to protect himself in this terrifying world.

Yet he was frustrated that he would probably have no choice but to follow the path of jujutsu all the way from now on.

"Bringing Jujutsu Kaisen to the Naruto World"?

What a headache!

He couldn't help wanting to complain!