Prebattle Special Training: "Healing Dragon Cannon" Tangtang Makes Its Debut

"Listen, you..."

Satoru Gojo looked down at the person occupying his deceased best friend's body, his eyes filled with icy killing intent:

"Instead of spouting all that useless nonsense, you'd better give your last words some serious thought."

As soon as he finished speaking, Satoru Gojo struck.

"Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue."

Just as Kenjaku's mind raced for a way to respond, another figure suddenly intervened in the fight.

Blue was deflected from its course and struck the surrounding ruins. Fragments flew as the already dilapidated buildings were torn into even greater disarray.

Kenjaku landed and steadied himself, then looked up.

"It's been a while. You've changed quite a bit... Megumi."

Satoru Gojo's voice remained flat, but anger was clearly rising in his azure eyes.

"Hmph..." Sukuna sneered. "Remember? I told you back then that once I got the brat's body, you'd be the first one I killed."

Sukuna and Satoru Gojo landed one after the other and faced each other down:

"Even though it's a different brat now, that promise still stands."

Satoru Gojo looked at him mockingly. "Heh, you coward. You ran away from Yuji with your tail between your legs. What a disgrace!"

"Bastard!" Before Sukuna could speak, Uraume charged at Satoru Gojo in a fury.

The next moment, there was a bang.

Satoru Gojo struck Uraume with a casual punch, sending Uraume flying back even faster than Uraume had charged in and embedding Uraume firmly in a wall.

"Who are you supposed to be?"

Just as tensions reached a breaking point, Kenjaku, emboldened by Sukuna's backing, stepped out from the side.

He said to Sukuna:

"Wait a moment. Before you fight him, you need to fulfill our agreement first."

Seeing this, Satoru Gojo instantly put on an exaggerated smile:

"Oh my, even the great Lord Sukuna has to take orders from a filthy rag~"

But his verbal mockery was one thing; inwardly, he was far less carefree than he appeared.

I wanted to retrieve Geto's body first... I didn't expect Sukuna to have made some kind of Binding Vow with the guy inside it.

"Seriously... what a hassle."

Still, there are a few things I want to do before the final battle with Sukuna. I might as well let things take their course.

Meanwhile, Sukuna, still watching Satoru Gojo's every move, couldn't help recalling what Yorozu had said:

"The absolute strongest... the loneliness of being at the top. The one who can teach you love is..."

At that thought, Sukuna nodded slightly and accepted Kenjaku's arrangement.

"In that case, let's set the date for the final battle on December 24."

Satoru Gojo stretched.

Kenjaku couldn't help teasing him. "Are you a romantic? Setting it for the twenty-fourth is pretty disgusting."

"Having two death anniversaries would be a hassle, after all."

Satoru Gojo gave Kenjaku a long look.

Kenjaku paused, then spoke again:

"...Do you think you can win?"

"Heh..."

"-I'd win!"

After Satoru Gojo returned to Jujutsu High amid everyone's cheers and told them about his agreement to fight Sukuna, they immediately began their prebattle training without wasting a moment.

By using Ui Ui's Cursed Technique and extending its target to souls, they could swap souls between different people.

By experiencing it firsthand, they could learn advanced skills from each other that they otherwise didn't possess.

Aside from Satoru Gojo, the original protagonists' training remained unchanged.

As for Shiratori Gotsu and Ryu Ishigori...

"Woo! This is my first time seeing things from so high up!"

On Jujutsu High's training ground, "Ishigori Wu" took in the "lonely view from the top," then raised a hand and flicked the "cannon barrel" on his head, wearing a thoroughly lecherous grin.

"Don't make that disgusting face with my face, you piece of shit!"

"Shiratori Ryu" spoke with a look of disgust.

"Ahem, all right, back to business."

"Ishigori Wu" put away that ridiculous grin, raised a finger, and turned serious:

"Ishigori, you need to use the experience of using Reverse Cursed Technique imprinted on my body to learn it as quickly as possible."

"As for me, I'll use your knowledge and experience with Barrier Techniques, Domain construction, and the like to perfect my Domain."

"Shiratori Ryu" looked somewhat puzzled. He touched his chin and asked:

"Aren't you already able to expand a complete Domain?"

"Tch..."

"Ishigori Wu" looked helpless:

"I still don't have enough experience in any area. Last time, I only barely managed to expand a Domain by stacking multiple Binding Vows to raise my chances of success."

"In other words, it was an improvised creation that would be hard to reproduce."

"Shiratori Ryu" recalled what had happened, then nodded in wholehearted agreement:

"That's true. I'd never seen anyone make so many Binding Vows in such a short time before."

"In a way, you really are something."

As he spoke, he habitually lit a cigarette and took a deep drag.

Then... Shiratori Gotsu's body, which had never been exposed to tobacco, reacted badly.

"Shiratori Ryu" widened his eyes and pounded his chest, coughing like thunder across Jujutsu High's training ground.

"You bastard, don't smoke with my body!"

"Ishigori Wu's" furious shout followed close behind.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

November 21, 6:00 p.m.

Another day of swap training had ended, and everyone's souls had been returned to their own bodies.

"Phew... finally."

Feeling the exhaustion in his body after Ryu Ishigori had put it through a full day's hard use, Shiratori Gotsu simply plopped down on the ground:

"How's your progress?"

He looked up at Ryu Ishigori beside him, who had held out all day and was now demonstrating how to smoke three cigarettes at once.

"I think I've pretty much got it. Let's try it."

"Okay."

Shiratori Gotsu stood up, activated Fate Track Binding Curse to add a "health bar" to himself, then gathered Cursed Energy and punched himself hard in the OO.

Vital hit! HP -2500.

He turned to Ryu Ishigori, who was staring at him dumbfounded:

"Don't just stand there. Fire at me!"

"​​Sss..." Ryu Ishigori suppressed the phantom pain, casually flicked away the three cigarette butts, and activated Reverse Cursed Technique. "Granite Blast: Reversal!"

A thick beam of white light shot straight into Shiratori Gotsu's face-HP +2500.

"Fantastic!"

"It worked!"

Shiratori Gotsu waved a hand to deactivate his Cursed Technique, then beamed with excitement:

"My guess was right!"

"Because your Cursed Technique is Cursed Energy Discharge, essentially a conduit directly to the outside world, you can use it to output Reverse Cursed Technique at high power."

Then, as if recalling something extremely funny, his excitement turned into a mischievous grin:

"Now I can spend the rest of my time concentrating on making the nifty little Cursed Tools we'll use to fight Sukuna."

"Oh, speaking of which, tch..."

The smile vanished from Shiratori Gotsu's face the next second. He rubbed his chin, looking conflicted.

"What is it?" Ryu Ishigori stared at him in puzzlement.

"When you discharge Cursed Energy, it's called Granite Blast. Wouldn't it be hard to tell them apart if you called it the same thing when discharging reverse Cursed Energy?"

Shiratori Gotsu looked so serious that Ryu Ishigori couldn't help taking the question seriously too:

"Now that you mention it, that's true. But didn't I already add 'Reversal' to the end?"

"But wouldn't that make people mistake it for Cursed Technique Reversal?"

"True..."

"Oh, I've got it!"

Shiratori Gotsu snapped his fingers. "You should know from this Incarnated Vessel's memories that a lot of modern online games have a character class called a 'healer,' right?"

Ryu Ishigori said, "What does that have to do with this?"

"Of course it has something to do with it!"

Shiratori Gotsu put on a solemn expression. "Think about it. Isn't a healer's job to heal their teammates from the back of the battlefield?"

"Yeah."

"So doesn't your cannon that discharges reverse Cursed Energy do the same thing?"

"Sss, you're right."

"So, with all that in mind, why not call this move..."

Shiratori Gotsu's eyes sparkled with wisdom:

"Healing Dragon Cannon!"

"Screw you!"

The instant the words left his mouth, Ryu Ishigori's elbow slammed into Shiratori Gotsu's face, sending him flying more than two meters:

"What the hell kind of freaky name is that? I really shouldn't have expected a piece of shit like you to say anything a normal person would!"

"But I think it's very sacred, and it fits perfectly!" Shiratori Gotsu rose from the ground, holding his face and looking defiant.

"Sacred, my ass!" Ryu Ishigori gritted his teeth.

"Well, since it's come to this, let's not settle it with words!" Shiratori Gotsu raised his hands and formed a seal.

"Fine! Bring it on! I'm going to blast you, you giant turd, to pieces today!"

The two summoned their Cursed Energy at the same time, and then-

"Domain Expansion!"

After more than a dozen furrows had been plowed through Jujutsu High's training ground, the fight finally ended with Shiratori Gotsu battered and bruised, begging for mercy.

Ryu Ishigori won the naming rights fair and square and officially named the move Frosting Blast.

After the farce over naming the move came to an end, the two quickly became good buddies again. While they were eating dinner, Shiratori Gotsu suddenly raised another question:

"Ah, I just remembered..."

"What do you think the Cursed Technique Reversal of Cursed Energy Discharge looks like?"