"This is...?"
Naobito Zenin frowned, repeatedly sizing up the wriggling head of black, sea-urchin hair before him.
"Hey, old man... don't recognize him anymore?"
"I paid you a billion for him, remember?"
Satoru Gojo spoke up then, explaining Megumi Fushiguro's identity to Naobito Zenin.
At that reminder, Naobito Zenin's thoughts plunged back ten years.
He had once made a deal with Toji Fushiguro, who had already left the clan.
The terms were that Toji would sell Megumi Fushiguro to the Zenin Clan when he turned six.
If Megumi Fushiguro awakened an inherited cursed technique, Toji wanted Naobito Zenin to pay an eight-figure sum.
Naobito Zenin had burst out laughing at the time and agreed on the spot, even promising Toji Fushiguro a ten-figure payment.
But he had not taken the deal too seriously back then.
After all, an inherited cursed technique like the Ten Shadows Technique was exceedingly rare.
Before that, the Zenin Clan had gone decades without another member inheriting the Ten Shadows Technique.
Not to mention that Toji Fushiguro had a Heavenly Restriction and did not even possess cursed energy.
Even if his child did have cursed energy, his talent for jujutsu probably would not amount to much.
But if it really was the Ten Shadows Technique, its value would far exceed a ten-figure sum.
Yet events often unfolded in just such a dramatic fashion.
Not long afterward, he received word that Toji Fushiguro's child had not only inherited a Cursed Technique, but that it was the Zenin Clan's prized inherited Cursed Technique—the Ten Shadows Technique.
Naobito Zenin had been utterly stunned by the news and immediately dispatched people, intending to bring Megumi Fushiguro back to the Zenin Clan as soon as possible.
By then, however, Toji Fushiguro had already played dirty and entrusted Megumi Fushiguro to Satoru