[Night lay like a sheet of impenetrably thick black velvet, wrapping Sugisawa Third High School in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, tightly within it.]
[Because your brain, honed by countless simulations of life and death, had long since engraved this turning point that would change the course of the entire world with absolute precision, you and Kenjaku had naturally arrived in the school's shadows without a sound before anything happened, like two ghosts who had rehearsed the script thousands of times.]
[You passed through the silent, deserted campus and made your way with practiced familiarity to the Stevenson Screen in the corner of the athletic field.]
[You reached out and opened its door with effortless familiarity.]
[Under the faint moonlight, the Special Grade Cursed Object, Ryomen Sukuna's Finger, lay quietly inside, wrapped tightly in layers of yellowed talismans and radiating a nauseating, ancient cursed pressure.]
[Expressionless, you extended two fingers, pinched a corner of the Sealing Talisman inscribed with ancient cursed script, and then, with an almost imperceptibly light touch and just a little deft force, tore a slit in it that was almost invisible to the naked eye.]
["Rip."]
[With this minuscule damage, a fatal gap appeared in the formerly perfect closed seal. The King of Curses' viscous, malicious, utterly pure cursed energy began seeping out in wisps like gas from a leaking poison canister, gradually attracting the surrounding low-grade cursed spirits like flies drawn to the scent of blood.]
[The instant you finished, your movements suddenly paused slightly.]
[A thought flashed irrepressibly through your mind. In your memories of the past simulations in which you had not intervened beforehand, the seal on Sukuna's Finger had "just happened" to loosen at this very moment from "years of neglect," attracting cursed spirits and dragging Yuji Itadori into it all... had that