"Sending three students to do this is a bit too much," Sōgo Shihoin, sitting in his office. "Those three kids are the kind that worry me."
Sōgo Shihoin was still quite worried about Yuji Itadori, Nobara Kugisaki, and Megumi Fushiguro, even though Sōgo Shihoin was quite experienced in teaching and had previously taught geniuses like Hōshō Ryo and Byakuya Kuchiki...
However, the situations of Hōshō Ryo and Byakuya Kuchiki are different from those of Yuji Itadori and the others...
The unique nature of the Soul Reaper world grants Hōshō Ryo and Byakuya Kuchiki the ability to leapfrog in power once they master Bankai. Once they achieve Bankai, the number of beings in the entire Soul Reaper world capable of harming them becomes extremely limited...
But this world is different. In this world, people's combat power mainly depends on their innate Cursed Technique. There are no ways to become stronger in a short time. Even if you accumulate your Cursed Energy Cursed Energy and make it grow continuously, without talent, it is difficult to comprehend the ultimate technique of this world: Domain Expansion!
In other words, whether a person in this world can become stronger depends mainly on talent, comprehension, and fate...
So, to be honest, Shihoin didn't have much to teach Yuji Itadori and the other students, including the Kidō Sōgo Shihoin was good at... Even if Sōgo Shihoin wanted to teach them, Yuji Itadori wouldn't be able to learn them...
"Calm down," Masamichi Yaga Master calmly. "This is an order from above..."
"The arrangements from above..." Sōgo Shihoin smiled slightly, "... it feels somewhat familiar..."
The powerful figures in this world Sōgo Shihoin of the Central 46 Chambers of Soul Society. Not only did he lack strength, but he also had a lot to deal with throughout the day.
Finally, guess what... all of them in the Central 46 Chambers... died.
"Something's wrong..." Just as Sōgo Shihoin was chatting with Principal Yaga, a staff member dressed in black rushed in.
"What's wrong? Why are you so anxious..." Masamichi Yaga looked at the newcomer, his brows furrowed slightly, and a bad premonition immediately arose in his heart.
"Huff... huff... huff..."
" Yuji Itadori... is dead." The man in black, panting heavily, answered anxiously.
"Dead?!" Sōgo Shihoin frowned. "When I handed him over, he was still a breathing, living person! How did he become dead after I gave him to you? You have to give me an explanation!"
"This..." The staff member looked panicked. Only when he faced Sōgo Shihoin could he truly feel the oppressive aura that Sōgo Shihoin exuded.
" Satoru Gojo! Calm down!" Masamichi Yaga grabbed Sōgo Shihoin's shoulder. "Don't be impulsive, let's go to the scene first."
"It's alright, I'm calm. I just want to have a proper talk with the person who came up with this plan, to reason with them." Sōgo Shihoin shrugged. "Although I haven't spent much time with Yuji Itadori and the others, they call me 'teacher,' so I naturally consider them half my students. Now that someone has killed one of my students, I have to do something, otherwise people will think I'm easy to bully."
"Nobody thinks you're easy to bully, quite the opposite..." Masamichi Yaga shook his head slightly, "Everyone knows that you, Satoru Gojo, are invincible."
"Even though I'm invincible, people still bully me?!" Sōgo Shihoin even more annoyed. "I don't think they believe me. I have to find a chance to kill them all and show them what 'invincible emperor' really means!"
"Calm down! Calm down!" Masamichi Yaga grabbed Sōgo Shihoin's shoulder and shouted to the staff member, "You should get down here! Don't stay here any longer. I'm afraid I can't hold Satoru Gojo back. If he gets agitated, he might slap you to death."
"What?!" The staff member froze, then his face changed drastically, and he took off running towards the door.
" Gojo, isn't it enough to have that guy deliver the message?!" Masamichi Yaga watched the staff member leave the room, then released his hand from Sōgo Shihoin's shoulder. "So, let's talk about your thoughts now. I'm talking about Yuji Itadori's death..."
"To be honest, I don't really believe it." Sōgo Shihoin smiled slightly and expressed his opinion.
"As expected, you don't believe me." Masamichi Yaga nodded slightly; he also felt that Sōgo Shihoin might not believe it.
"To be honest, Yuji Itadori won't die so easily." Shihoin still wore a relaxed smile. " The King of Curses within Yuji Itadori won't let his hard-won perfect body just disappear like that... Although Ryomen Sukuna fulfilled Yuji Itadori's potential, Yuji Itadori also fulfilled Ryoumen Sukuna. It's hard to find another person in this world who can perfectly bear Ryomen Sukuna's power. Perhaps... to put it more conspiratorially, Yuji Itadori was actually created by someone to be a host for Ryomen Sukuna."
" Yuji Itadori was artificially created to be a host for Ryomen Sukuna?!" Masamichi Yaga's expression changed drastically. "If this is true, it's truly astonishing. What kind of organization could cultivate such a perfect host as Yuji Itadori Yuji Itadori, and how did they interfere, making him eat Ryomen Sukuna's finger and become its Ryomen Sukuna?! Besides, why would they throw Yuji Itadori, a fully-cultivated Sukuna vessel, at us? Could there be some kind of conspiracy?!"
"It's probably to control those Sukuna fingers we have, right?!" Sōgo Shihoin reasoned. "Since someone cultivated Yuji Itadori, their goal must be to completely revive the Two-Men Sukuna, which requires twenty fingers from the Ryomen Sukuna. It would be difficult to directly steal the fingers from us, right? But giving Yuji Itadori to us and making us willingly feed Yuji Itadori the fingers is much simpler, isn't it?!"
"So... feeding it to Itadori's finger was a mistake?!" Masamichi Yaga exclaimed in shock, "Damn it, we've fallen for their trap."
"It's not exactly falling into a trap." Sōgo Shihoin shook his head slightly. "It was an open scheme, and we had no choice but to do it, but it's alright... Since they gave Yuji Itadori Yuji Itadori us, we'll outmaneuver them and completely recruit him to our side. Yuji Itadori... he has the potential to grow into a Grandmaster Cursed Technique."
"I understand." Masamichi Yaga nodded. "If Yuji Itadori fully masters the power of Ryomen Sukuna, then he can indeed become a deterrent."
"Isn't that right?" Sōgo Shihoin smiled slightly. "In that case, even if I disappear one day, with Yuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, Nobara Kugisaki, and other young people around, the world of Cursed Technique won't be in chaos."
"That makes sense..." Masamichi Yaga nodded slightly, then sensed something was amiss, "You can disappear?!"
"Of course! This isn't my world after all." Sōgo Shihoin shrugged. "This is your world. My world is in Soul Society..."
"Ah..." Masamichi Yaga opened his mouth slightly, looking at Sōgo Shihoin, who didn't seem to be joking, and didn't know what to say. When he heard Sōgo Shihoin talking to him about the future and Yuji Itadori, he had thought that Sōgo Shihoin had finally regained his senses and realized that he was Satoru Gojo. Now it seemed that not only had he not regained his senses, but he was even heading towards a worsening trend... "Then you'd better keep up the good work. Going to Soul Society won't be easy!"
"It really isn't easy!" Sōgo Shihoin, he understood perfectly. He'd been searching for his way home for so long and still hadn't found it. "The road ahead is long!"
"Indeed..." Masamichi Yaga thought to himself about how to cure Sōgo Shihoin's illness and let Sōgo Shihoin know that he was actually Satoru Gojo, not someone else, and that his home was Tokyo, not some messy Soul Society.
"Sigh..." Sōgo Shihoin thought about how to leave this world and return to his own world, the world where Soul Reaper is everywhere.
"Alright, that's enough." Sōgo Shihoin slowly stood up. "I'm going to check on Yuji Itadori and the others."
"Then goodbye..." After saying that, Sōgo Shihoin disappeared instantly from Masamichi Yaga's side.
"He left as quickly as ever." Masamichi Yaga Sōgo Shihoin disappear. "Sigh... he didn't even have a sip of tea."
Under the gray sky,
"Is Itadori dead?" Nobara Kugisaki and Megumi Fushiguro stared silently at the body before them, now devoid of a heart. A human without a heart is, without a doubt, dead.
"Hey!" Just as Nobara Kugisaki and Megumi Fushiguro were in silence, Sōgo Shihoin suddenly appeared beside them, put his arm around their shoulders and smiled slightly, "What's wrong? Why do you look so serious?!"
" Gojo- sensei!" Nobara Kugisaki and Megumi Fushiguro were both shocked to see Satoru Gojo suddenly appear. " Gojo- sensei! Itadori! Yuji Itadori... he's dead."
"I know," Sōgo Shihoin gravely, "This is Cursed Technique!"
"Do you understand now? The price of life!" Sōgo Shihoin said solemnly, "If you are not strong enough, your comrades will die. If you cannot escape, your comrades will die while covering you. Do you understand this heavy price?!"
"We... understand."
Nobara Kugisaki and Megumi Fushiguro exchanged a glance and answered at the same time.
"Very good..." Sōgo Shihoin, "You've finally grown a bit."
" Gojo- sensei!" Nobara Kugisaki stepped in front of Sōgo Shihoin. " Gojo- sensei! I want to become stronger! Please let me become stronger!"
"Idiot! Where would you find such a method?" Megumi Fushiguro grabbed Nobara Kugisaki. "Don't be impulsive."
"A way to become stronger?!" Sōgo Shihoin stroked his chin. "It's not impossible..."
"Huh?!" Megumi Fushiguro was taken aback.
"It wasn't like that before," Sōgo Shihoin smiled slightly, "But it's possible now... provided you're prepared to gamble with your lives!"
"Gamble with your own life?!" Nobara Kugisaki for a moment, then her gaze hardened. "I can!"
"Me too." Megumi Fushiguro. Although he didn't know what method Sōgo Shihoin had to make him stronger, since Sōgo Shihoin said he had a way, then he must have a way. He had complete trust in Sōgo Shihoin.
"In that case... you all go back to the dorms and wait for me." Sōgo Shihoin. "I'll go take care of Yuji Itadori's matter first."
"Then goodbye..." Sōgo Shihoin hoisted Yuji Itadori's corpse and vanished instantly in front of Nobara Kugisaki and Megumi Fushiguro.
Medical Clinic of Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu High School
"Yo~" Sōgo Shihoin greeted the lazy woman in the infirmary.
"What?" The woman glanced at Sōgo Shihoin and then lost all interest. "Oh, it's you? What do you want? Did you get hurt?"
"Look at this, is there any hope?" Sōgo Shihoin had learned about the woman in front of him from his notes. The woman in this infirmary was named Shoko Ieiri, a classmate of Satoru Gojo, and also one of the few people in the world of Cursed Technique who could use Reverse Cursed Technique to treat patients. She was a very powerful character.
"He's dead." Shoko Ieiri frowned slightly as Shoko Ieiri looked at Yuji Itadori, whose heart had been removed. "You didn't think I knew any resurrection magic, did you? The kind of technology that can bring the dead back to life."
"Hahaha... I knew it wouldn't work!" Sōgo Shihoin. "Then it seems I'll have to take matters into my own hands."
"Huh?!" Shoko Ieiri frowned slightly. "What are you implying? You're saying you've mastered medical techniques even more powerful than mine?!"
"No! It's not a medical technique, it's a resurrection technique." Sōgo Shihoin shook his head. "It's the kind of resurrection technique that can directly bring the dead back to life, but it's only applicable to Yuji Itadori."
"A resurrection spell?!" Shoko Ieiri exclaimed incredulously. "Are you kidding me?! Where would you find such Cursed Technique?"
"Open your eyes wide and watch carefully~" Sōgo Shihoin said, placing his hand directly on Yuji Itadori's body. "Now, it's time to witness the Miracle."
"Gurgle gurgle..."
From the pool of water... Yuji Itadori hurriedly scrambled to his feet, coughing incessantly...
"Cough cough cough..."
"Hateful!"
"I almost died..."
Yuji Itadori wiped the water stains from the corner of his mouth, looking around at the mess with a puzzled expression.
"Hahahaha... Is this heaven? It looks like Hell..."
Yuji Itadori stood with his hands on his hips, observing his surroundings.
"Kid!" However, just as Itadori was being arrogant, a voice from the sky called out to him, "This is neither heaven nor Hell. This is my Innate Domain. Congratulations, kid, we're now in the same world."
"Eh?!" Yuji Itadori heard the familiar voice, looked up, and immediately saw the Ryomen Sukuna sitting on the high throne of bones, looking down at him.
"You... you wouldn't happen to be Ryomen Sukuna, would you?!"
Yuji Itadori asked somewhat uncertainly.
"Boy, who else could it be but me?!" Ryomen Sukuna sneered. "After being bullied by you so many times, now you've finally fallen into my hands."
"No way..." Yuji Itadori's face turned pale. "Since you're Ryomen Sukuna, isn't this really bad for me?"
"Anyway, you're doomed." Ryomen Sukuna nodded. "I'll kill you here a hundred times, no, ten thousand times."
"How scary..." Yuji Itadori took a few steps back, looking as if he had been frightened.
"Alright! You brat, stop pretending. Let's get serious..." Ryomen Sukuna, tired of teasing Yuji Itadori, said bluntly, "Do you want to be resurrected? Give me a straight answer. If you do, I'll resurrect you right now."
"You'd really be that kind?!" Yuji Itadori looked distrustful.
"Hehehe..." Ryomen Sukuna chuckled smugly, "Of course, there are conditions. As long as you agree to one condition, I'll resurrect you, how about that?!"
"Heh..." Yuji Itadori chuckled softly, "You mean, as long as I nod here, agree to your demands, sign a contract with you, and fulfill one of your conditions, I can be resurrected?!"
"That's right." Ryomen Sukuna nodded. "Isn't it simple?!"
"Heh..." Yuji Itadori chuckled coldly, "But... I refuse!"
"What?!" Ryomen Sukuna seemed completely taken aback that Yuji Itadori would refuse.
"I was clearly killed by you, you should have resurrected me!" Yuji Itadori pointed at Ryomen Sukuna and shouted angrily, "Why should I fulfill your conditions?! It's completely unfair, so unfair to me!"
"Huh?! Fairness? You're talking to me about fairness?!" Ryomen Sukuna seemed completely taken aback by Yuji Itadori's disagreement. Yuji Itadori felt it was unfair; a normal person would have already signed a contract upon hearing about something good. "Are you a child?! You bastard!"
"I will defeat you right here!" Yuji Itadori declared to himself. "Once I defeat you, you will be resurrected!"
"You want to defeat me in my Innate Domain?!" Ryomen Sukuna didn't expect this child to be so brave. "Hahahaha... Fine, I allow it. Come on! As long as you can touch me, I will unconditionally give you a chance to revive."
"You said it!" Yuji Itadori's face flashed with excitement. "Then here I come!" Yuji Itadori said, and was about to Ryomen Sukuna, who was sitting on the tall skeleton.
"Whoosh!" However, before Yuji Itadori could advance, he was Ryomen Sukuna.
"You lost..." Ryomen Sukuna yawned and said listlessly.
"Wow, this match is really exciting!" Just as Ryomen Sukuna was utterly crushing Yuji Itadori, a smiling figure slowly appeared between Ryomen Sukuna and Yuji Itadori.
"You bastard!" Ryomen Sukuna's expression changed as he looked at the figure. "How did you get in?!"
Five thousand~
(End of this chapter)