[Kenjaku barely gave it another thought before those lips belonging to Kaori Itadori spread into a fervent grin, and she answered you without hesitation.]
["I accept."]
[One reason she could agree so readily was that, as a Curse User who had survived for a thousand years, she understood binding vows-absolute contracts founded on cursed energy and causality-better than anyone.]
[Once you conducted your transaction in this form, there was essentially no possibility of concealing anything fundamental or betraying each other.]
[Although there might still be room to maneuver and exploit loopholes in certain minor details of implementation, once the binding vow was established, nothing could go wrong with the overall direction.]
[Moreover, what you were now asking her, even forcing her, to help accomplish was precisely the ultimate undertaking she had spent over a thousand years painstakingly planning!]
[The only difference was that the core of the indescribable entity of chaos born at the end of that plan would be you, rather than Tengen as originally intended.]
[For Kenjaku, not only did this entail no substantial loss, but your involvement also filled the most uncontrollable gap in her plan's fighting strength, letting her glimpse deeper pleasure and possibilities.]
[In truth, you knew perfectly well that defining the binding vow's terms as broadly as you just had would indeed leave a certain amount of room for a schemer like Kenjaku to maneuver.]
[But to you, who had already undergone several simulations and traversed lengthy timelines, these so-called "variables" were already within the scope of what you could control through absolute force and information.]
[All you sought now was this undertaking's absolute success in the end.]
[Thus, a degree of leniency in the binding vow's conditions could be considered a concession you made in exchange for her wholehearted efforts to advance the