[Over the following months, despite the heavy pressure of investigating the mastermind and improving your own strength, you still unfailingly set aside a fixed amount of time to visit that secluded training ground and instruct Megumi Fushiguro.]
[After all, Megumi Fushiguro was still young. You could not expect him to complete every last bit of the practice you assigned him, so you still needed to train him personally on the specifics.]
[But you did not blame him for that. Everyone had been that age once, after all, and it was perfectly normal.]
[You had an exceptionally clearheaded and restrained plan for Megumi Fushiguro's current development.]
[You were even deliberately holding him back, not letting him attempt any deeper fusion and enhancement of Divine Dogs: The Well with other Shikigami through the technique's rules.]
[Your reasoning was very practical. Although Megumi Fushiguro had more total Cursed Energy than you, if he pursued nothing but the absolute strength of individual Shikigami and excessively stacked the Ten Shadows Technique's fusion rules, the enormous Cursed Energy consumption would drain the child dry.]
[That would not only greatly reduce his margin for error in actual combat, but also severely constrict his already immature ability to maneuver.]
[Rather than an invincible monster that could only exist for three minutes, you needed him to master ways to survive a prolonged battle.]
[So you took a different approach and devised another method of Subjugation tailored to him, one that practically amounted to cheating: using Cursed Tools.]
[Of course, you were not asking the young Megumi Fushiguro, with his weak arms, to take up blades and spears and fight Cursed Spirits at close quarters himself. Instead, you had his Shikigami use Cursed Tools, an unconventional approach that defied ordinary Jujutsu Sorcerers' understanding.]
[Now, under your careful instruction, all sorts