[As you watched Yuji Itadori sweat profusely from his violent emotional fluctuations, your gaze grew as deep as the overlapping shadows in the training room.]
[Although you had not observed the anticipated waveform of Sukuna's residual cursed energy in him, that did not mean this observation had yielded nothing.]
[On the contrary, you had arrived at a deeper, more hair-raising deduction.]
[If the cursed energy did not come from Sukuna's "overflow," yet this extraordinarily abnormal state of possession truly existed...]
[Your fingertips gently rubbed your chin as the chain of logic in your mind rapidly linked together.]
[Then, since this connection did not exist entirely in the physical links of flesh or cursed energy circuits, it could only exist on a deeper level-]
["The soul?"]
[The concept of the "soul" was actually not unfamiliar to you as you were now.]
[Your earliest clear encounter with the existence of souls had come when you previously acquired the cursed technique called the "Séance Technique" through "Phantom Parade."]
[For the first time, you had clearly and distinctly understood the contours of the "Root" that truly carried the essence of life and served as its ultimate blueprint once the body and cursed technique were stripped away.]
[You pushed up your glasses, your gaze sweeping over Itadori's somewhat immature yet extraordinarily tough body.]
[You were now beginning to realize that precisely because this curse possession was a deep erosion acting on the level of the soul, even exhausting every conventional and even cutting-edge detection method at the scene that night had not allowed you to truly observe the root of Sukuna's inhabitation.]
[Because it was not an "object" that the naked eye or simple cursed energy fluctuations could capture, but the superimposition of two souls within the same shell.]
[Itadori's current condition naturally reminded you