Megumi Fushiguro's brain, which ran like a precision instrument, froze for the briefest instant before piecing together a truth that made his blood run cold.
The only reasonable explanation for that earth-shattering change in presence was that the pink-haired idiot had actually swallowed the Special Grade Cursed Object!
Crystallizations of extreme negative emotions, cursed objects were no different from highly toxic cyanide to ordinary people whose bodies had no resistance to cursed energy. In fact, they could cause an even more gruesome death.
And this was a Special Grade Cursed Object whose mere leaking presence could send cursed spirits into a frenzy on this scale!
In that instant of fear and shock, Megumi quickly replayed his conversation with Itadori during their battle.
"Only cursed energy can deal with curses..."
"Eating it will give you greater power..."
"So as long as I have cursed energy, I can help..."
He immediately understood Yuji Itadori's utterly absurd logic. This idiot had actually forced those two statements together and arrived at the despair-inducing equation of "eating a Special Grade Cursed Object = gaining cursed energy = being able to physically beat up cursed spirits"!
But even if that logic barely fucking holds together, what normal person's first thought in a life-or-death situation is to swallow a disgusting, mummified finger that's been sitting around for who knows how many years?! Is this guy even human?! Just how thick are his nerves?!
Yet amid his extreme shock and anger, an absurd, utterly ill-timed, even darkly humorous thought flashed uncontrollably through Megumi's mind. If Itadori ate and digested the Special Grade Cursed Object, then... wouldn't that actually seal off its presence perfectly and stop it from broadcasting that fatal temptation to wild cursed spirits?
But Megumi immediately clenched his teeth hard and forced that insane thought out