Fate's self-correction

After parting ways with Itadori, Yue Liusi did not hurry back. Instead, he began working on his second mission.

Compared to the earlier mission of killing enemies, this one was a little troublesome. Grade 1 cursed spirits did not exactly grow on trees.

And creating grade 1 transfigured humans required Mahito to personally carry out the fusion.

He could hardly tie Mahito up and force him to work, could he?

While Yue Liusi searched for targets, outside Shibuya Station, the showdown between Megumi Fushiguro and Haruta Shigemo officially began following Toji Fushiguro's suicide.

Not far away, a mysterious volcano-headed figure watched the scene.

"How come I haven't run into a single human jujutsu sorcerer along the way?"

Dagon's death and his killer's escape had already infuriated him. After learning about Itadori, he had hurried over, only to find nothing again.

In his foul mood, he naturally wanted to vent his anger on human jujutsu sorcerers.

Yet Shibuya Station had been completely empty, and he had encountered nothing on his way out, right up until he arrived here.

And all he found was a weakling about to be killed by a curse user.

To be fair, that was hardly Megumi Fushiguro's fault. Forcing himself to open his domain had consumed too much energy, and then his own father had taught him a lesson. Having enough strength left to keep fighting for a while was already impressive.

Jogo was a little speechless. An opponent like this was not worth his time. Just as he prepared to leave, a figure suddenly slammed into a nearby wall.

Megumi Fushiguro, whose consciousness had already begun to blur, also caught sight of Jogo.

A cursed spirit!?

This cursed spirit was terrifyingly strong!

Megumi Fushiguro suddenly felt at peace, and the last shred of will keeping him going dissipated.

One for two. What a steal!

Meanwhile, Yue Liusi had just completed his second mission and remembered there was still a walking suicide bomb to deal with. Before his toes could touch the ground, a voice reached his ears.

"Furube, yura yura."

"I'll be going on ahead. You two had better do your best."

Megumi Fushiguro gave a savage grin, looking utterly unconcerned.

Eight-Handled Sword.

Divergent Sila Divine General.

Mahoraga.

BOOM!!!

Yue Liusi: ?

So he really couldn't handle any pressure, huh.

He instantly pulled back, landing atop a nearby building.

Megumi Fushiguro had not noticed Yue Liusi's arrival. The moment Mahoraga was summoned, a punch had already put him to sleep.

Looking down at the white monster with a golden, wheel-shaped magic circle above its head, Yue Liusi frowned slightly.

Mahoraga, the gatekeeper between the super and special grades.

"You bastard, are you kidding me?!"

Haruta Shigemo really was losing it. He had never imagined things would develop into a situation like this.

Nearby, Jogo was equally speechless at being caught in this unwarranted disaster.

The three-person subjugation ritual Megumi Fushiguro had set up had clearly included him, meaning he had to deal with this shikigami.

But...

Looking at the Sword of Extermination on Mahoraga's right arm, the positive energy coating it involuntarily made him want to back out.

But as Haruta Shigemo was beaten to the brink of death, Mahoraga had already set its sights on him.

BOOM!!!

Buildings collapsed and dust flew as Jogo was forced to fight Mahoraga.

In the distance, Yue Liusi quietly watched it all.

Jogo was not strong enough, and the matchup was against him too. He would probably be exorcised within a few exchanges, and Megumi Fushiguro would not survive either.

Yue Liusi had no confidence in taking on Mahoraga right now. Only a small portion of his chakra had recovered. Even at his peak, whether he could succeed using his trump card remained unknown.

Mahoraga could practically bathe inside Malevolent Shrine.

Better leave Megumi Fushiguro alone.

Watching the rampaging lava and the buildings continuously collapsing in the distance, Yue Liusi planned to observe a little longer.

Just then, he suddenly sensed something.

These fluctuations in that presence...

Yue Liusi's figure flashed, and he instantly appeared in the center of the battlefield.

By then, Itadori had already swallowed the last finger. Beside him, Jogo was still desperately resisting Mahoraga.

Itadori?

Yue Liusi could not help widening his eyes.

Where the fuck did you pop out from now?

"Mr. Yue, Sukuna said Fushiguro was in danger. I've already made a binding vow with him, so..."

Itadori's eyes lit up with joy upon seeing Yue Liusi, but before he could finish, his account had already been taken over.

And with Sukuna emerging in Itadori's body, Yue Liusi knew he could no longer stop what was about to happen.

"Hey, you..."

Watching Yue Liusi disappear again, Sukuna paused with his hand slicking back his hair, then turned his gaze toward Mahoraga and the already dying Megumi Fushiguro.

Better deal with what was in front of him first.

Elsewhere, Yue Liusi watched the two sides fighting from a distance, his eyes deep and unreadable.

Jogo, who had wandered to Shibuya's outskirts for some unknown reason.

Megumi Fushiguro, who encountered Jogo and immediately summoned Mahoraga.

Himself, watching the show from afar.

Sukuna, who was alerted by Mahoraga and lured Itadori over.

Megumi Fushiguro's impending death made Itadori so desperate to save his friend that he swallowed Sukuna's Finger outright.

Everything was such a coincidence.

And at this moment, everything had once again come full circle.

As though fate had played a joke.

Just like that, it had returned to its original course.

The corner of Yue Liusi's mouth twitched, and he could not help raising a hand to his forehead.

For all this to happen right under his nose-simply incredible.

As for the binding vow?

No shit. He would have saved Megumi Fushiguro even without a binding vow!

Besides, who knew whether Sukuna was exploiting another loophole in the binding vow? Whether the vow even worked was still unknown.

After all, when the Enchain binding vow was used, Itadori's finger had been severed and Angel had been knocked unconscious. Did that vow actually do anything?

Saying Angel was not human could barely explain it, but did Itadori not consider himself human either? After the Shibuya Incident, that might have been one thing, but when Itadori made the vow, he had still known nothing.

The art of language?

This was completely unreasonable.

Master of binding vows, history's greatest loan shark. He certainly lived up to his reputation.

So nothing that happened would surprise Yue Liusi.

"Fate's... self-correction?"

Yue Liusi murmured to himself and sighed softly.

Something he had intervened in and changed had actually returned to its proper course through another route, bringing about the original outcome once more.

Was it because he hadn't changed things thoroughly enough?

If he'd known, he should have thrown Itadori straight out of Tokyo.

Yue Liusi's conjecture was confirmed in the blink of an eye.

Looking at the fully expanded domain, he could all but conclude that Sukuna had clearly used his brains and fooled the jock again.

Malevolent Shrine's fully automatic slashes covered a radius of two hundred meters-a diameter of four hundred meters. Nothing would remain in such a vast area.

The dead would be practically innumerable.

And the truth was exactly as Yue Liusi had imagined.

Sukuna had proposed the binding vow himself. Its terms were merely to save Fushiguro and avoid harming people as much as possible. It did not even specify what would happen after Fushiguro was saved.

Itadori could originally have amended it, but the situation was critical, and time waited for no one.

After all, the entire binding vow revolved around Megumi Fushiguro.

Then being forced to kill people to save Megumi Fushiguro would not count as violating the vow.

He could kill people to save Megumi Fushiguro, and he could keep killing afterward.

That made the whole binding vow seem like a joke.

Yue Liusi quietly left.

Meanwhile, at the foot of a building elsewhere.

Shoko Ieiri looked up at the towering rooftop, feeling somewhat helpless.

She still had to climb the stairs. How... annoying.

What could she do when Yue Liusi wanted to observe Shibuya's situation from up there?