Jujutsu World: Unlocking Killer Queen at the Start, Part 43

The Sushi Restaurant was right before his eyes.

He could already see the sign above its entrance. Just as Yu Haibara was thinking this...

He noticed a monster crawling out of the Sushi Restaurant's sign. Its enormous blue-black body resembled a mountain of flesh.

On closer inspection, it also looked a little like a mackerel with human arms. "A monster-uh, no, a cursed spirit."

As though it had noticed Yu Haibara's astonished expression...

The six eyes on the mackerel cursed spirit's head narrowed in comfort, and disgusting noises occasionally escaped its mouth, as though it were clamoring about something.

"This is ridiculous. I just wanted something to eat."

The fishy stench emanating from the cursed spirit lingered beneath Yu Haibara's nose. He knew he had to do something.

There was no time left to consider whether he could beat it. The cursed spirit had already squeezed almost its entire body out.

If he let it emerge, everyone in the Sushi Restaurant would likely fall victim to it. "Here goes nothing!"

There was no more time for Yu Haibara to think.

As though it had caught the scent of a jujutsu sorcerer on Yu Haibara...

The mackerel cursed spirit widened its six pale, dead-fish eyes and charged toward him on its thick human limbs. Yu Haibara immediately turned and ran.

The street was crowded with a constant stream of people, and the terrain was complicated.

He needed to lure the mackerel cursed spirit somewhere suitable for fighting. Under Kento Nanami's influence...

Yu Haibara had also learned to analyze combat information.

Just as Yu Haibara was thinking this, a thick arm suddenly emerged from the ground and grabbed his right foot. "So fast!"

Yu Haibara's pupils abruptly contracted.

His momentum sent his body pitching forward uncontrollably. But Yu Haibara did not panic.

The instant he fell, he braced himself with his left hand, then sharply twisted his waist and back, trying to wrench free of the mackerel cursed spirit's grip.

But the mackerel cursed spirit's arm was unexpectedly strong, gripping Yu Haibara's ankle hard enough to make it ache. Realizing he could not break free...

Yu Haibara gritted his teeth and braced his body with his left arm. His right fist, brimming with cursed energy, slammed into the mackerel cursed spirit's arm. If I can't break free, I'll smash it!

Bang!

The mackerel cursed spirit's arm was harder than he had imagined.

Yu Haibara's full-strength punch felt as though it had struck a steel plate.

Fortunately, the punch still had some effect.

The mackerel cursed spirit loosened its hand in pain.

Yu Haibara hurriedly broke free, put some distance between them, and faced off against the mackerel cursed spirit in the alley. "Damn it, my cursed energy barely even tickles it."

Yu Haibara felt somewhat frustrated. His cursed technique was too ordinary.

His cursed energy only just met the minimum standard, too. Although he had already used his full strength...

He had failed to inflict any fatal damage on the mackerel cursed spirit. A slick, sizzling sound suddenly rang out beside Yu Haibara's ear.

After a brief moment of surprise, Yu Haibara discovered that the mackerel cursed spirit's arm had actually emerged from the solid ground. Not far away, the mackerel cursed spirit was plunging its arm into the ground.

"You're kidding. It can do that?" Yu Haibara was a little dumbfounded.

The mackerel's eyes, full of "intelligence," rolled, and its enormous mouth opened wide. "Wasabi!!!"

Yu Haibara: "???" "Wasabi!!!"

The mackerel cursed spirit repeated itself.

"Wasabi, fine! Why are you yelling so loudly?!" Yu Haibara finally made out what the cursed spirit was saying.

Although he did not understand why the mackerel cursed spirit was so obsessed with wasabi, Yu Haibara knew...

It definitely would not let him go easily. After all...

A jujutsu sorcerer with cursed energy, in a cursed spirit's eyes...

Was also a rare delicacy compared to an ordinary human. "Wasabi!!!"

The mackerel cursed spirit let out a roar.

The arm on the ground suddenly lunged for Yu Haibara. At the critical moment...

Yu Haibara leaped with all his strength, performing a backflip to put some distance between himself and the mackerel cursed spirit again. But now, he had nowhere left to retreat.

Behind him was the alley's dead end, blocked by a concrete wall. Besides...

He could not simply run away.

Otherwise, given the resentment of the cursed spirit before him, an even worse incident was certain to occur.

Seeing its arm's attack miss...

The mackerel cursed spirit charged at Yu Haibara like a tank gone berserk.

Saliva flew from the tongue dangling beside its mouth, and waves of fishy stench rushed straight into Yu Haibara's nostrils on the wind stirred up by its charge.

Yu Haibara suddenly realized a very serious problem. This thing is angry!

The mackerel cursed spirit had already pounced.

Yu Haibara ducked, narrowly slipping past the mackerel cursed spirit.

This made the six dead-fish eyes atop the mackerel cursed spirit's head roll again. This slippery monkey...

Had dodged its attacks again and again. It was already beside itself with rage. Yu Haibara took out his phone.

He quickly called Suguru Geto and held it to his ear.

But just then, a thick arm suddenly shot out from beside him and snatched his phone away with inconceivable speed. "Wasabi!!!"

The mackerel cursed spirit made an agitated noise, its six eyes rolling rapidly. "Oh no!"

Watching the mackerel cursed spirit seize and crush his phone, Yu Haibara's heart sank.

"I'll have to fight with my back to the wall." Coming back to his senses...

Yu Haibara solemnly adjusted his stance.

His gaze remained fixed on the mackerel cursed spirit before him, his concentration absolute. He could not escape. Unless he gave this fight everything he had, he would die here.

"Why did you have to show up now, you ugly cursed spirit?" "Don't underestimate the power of someone who just wants to eat!"

Yu Haibara roared and swiftly swung his fist into the mackerel cursed spirit's arm. Whether anger had unlocked his potential or not...

This punch actually smashed the mackerel cursed spirit's arm clean off. Bluish-purple blood gushed out.

The mackerel cursed spirit howled in pain.

Under Yu Haibara's incredulous gaze, four fleshy lumps swelled on the mackerel cursed spirit's body. Pop, pop!

The lumps burst open, and four arms extended from them. This thing actually evolved another four arms! Yu Haibara had no time left to marvel.

The mackerel cursed spirit attacked again. Excluding the arm that had been broken off earlier...

A full five arms, controlled by the mackerel cursed spirit, reached for Yu Haibara from all sorts of tricky angles.

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Chapter 73: Killing intent, Satoru Gojo vs. Toji Fushiguro!

(Sob, sob, please subscribe.) Yu Haibara had already anticipated this.

He could tell that the mackerel cursed spirit only cycled through a few methods of attack. It attacked its enemies by controlling arms that could freely lengthen and stretch.

Yu Haibara ducked beneath the enormous cursed spirit hands coming from either side. But before he could adjust his stance...

The arms that had just missed suddenly turned, then emerged behind Yu Haibara, seizing his legs and waist from an extremely awkward angle.

"Fuck!"

Yu Haibara swore in desperation.

But just then, another arm extended from the mackerel cursed spirit's body and pressed down on his head. "Wasabi!!!"

Yu Haibara tried to struggle, but he could not exert any strength at all. "Wasabi, tasty!"

The mackerel cursed spirit dragged Yu Haibara toward it with its arms and opened its gaping maw. "I never thought I'd get eaten by a mackerel!"

A smile that could have been laughter or tears appeared on Yu Haibara's face. Something like this had happened on his very first day of school. Being a jujutsu sorcerer really was a dangerous occupation.

"Well, well, isn't that my adorable junior?" A flippant voice rang out.

That voice... seemed a little familiar.

Yu Haibara struggled to raise his head. "Gojo! And Nanami!" Yu Haibara cried in delighted surprise.

"Wait, am I already dead?"

Yu Haibara foolishly patted his own face. "Ow, that hurts! So I'm not dead yet." The corners of Kento Nanami's mouth twitched.

He had never been good at expressing his feelings.

But seeing Haibara looking so adorably clueless, he still found it a little hard to hold back. "Were you planning to eat my adorable junior?" Satoru Gojo took off his sunglasses and stared at the mackerel cursed spirit with the ghost of a smile.