[Hearing your cold command that left no room for negotiation, Yuji Itadori's once-clear eyes went wide with extreme shock.]
[He took half a step forward almost reflexively. So agitated that his voice carried an uncontrollable tremor, he questioned you loudly.]
["But... sir! Is this really going to be okay?!"]
["You know better than I do that the guy inside my body isn't someone you can reason with. He's constantly screaming inside my head about killing and eating people!"]
["If I hand control over to him, what if..."]
[Itadori's concerns were not unfounded. As Ryomen Sukuna's vessel, he knew better than anyone what brutality and madness ran through the bones of that King of Curses from a thousand years ago.]
[He had never feared getting hurt himself. He feared losing control and causing his companions or innocent civilians to be slaughtered.]
[You did not answer his questions immediately, instead standing quietly where you were.]
[Your eyes, hidden behind cold lenses, were like a bottomless, freezing pool, without so much as a ripple.]
[You merely fixed that penetrating gaze directly on Itadori's anxious, uneasy face, then slowly asked him a question in a low voice so steady it seemed capable of silencing every clamor.]
["Yuji, do you trust me?"]
[Those utterly simple words seemed to carry some magic that struck straight at the soul.]
[Yuji Itadori's breath abruptly caught.]
[Looking at your fearless expression, as though everything in the world lay completely within your calculations and control, he recalled the unmatched strength you had shown since he met you, and the protection hidden beneath your cold exterior.]
[Almost without hesitation, his violently wavering heart instantly settled, and he instinctively blurted out his answer.]
["Of course I trust you, sir... but..."]
[Before he could finish, your unquestionable voice cut him off coldly.]
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