LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 33: Double Sided
Itadori Yuji walks through the streets of the shopping district without a destination in mind, he is just walking... Moving his feet while thinking. And he has a lot to think of...
His life took a turn to the weird in the last months after his grandpa died, and sometimes he can't make sense of it. He feels like one of those shonen MCs who are suddenly thrown into a super secret world without prior knowledge.
He feels a little lost even with his mother helping him. Sometimes she does things or asks him to do things that he doesn't understand. He is always willing to help but it can be a little stressful.
So he finally had permission to go out and he is using it to clear his mind.
"Maybe I should watch a movie..." Itadori says lightly while looking at the, starting to dusk, sky.
"Itadori-kun...?" Right then a hesitant voice calls him from behind, a girl's voice. Without even turning he already feels like he knows that voice... A classmate...
"Hm?" Turning with a raised eyebrow he easily confirms that he is right "Oh! Ozawa, right?" He noticed the differences in the girl, obviously, but it was not enough to make him comment on it.
An indescribable expression. Passed over Ozawa's face before she speaks "Yes, right. We are far away from Sendai, so I was not sure if it was you..." She confesses weakly
"You're also here... So you moved here?" He asks with a light smile
"Yes... and you?" She moves a hand through her hair "Did you leave Sugisawa school?"
"Yeah... I'm kinda getting homeschooled now..." Itadori answers hesitantly, his hand rubbing the back of his head
"Oh, homeschool? You don't look the type... I mean! You're a really popular- I mean, sociable guy, so I thought... I-I... I thought that it would not be your thing." She stammers as she tries to put her thoughts in words that would not offend him.
"Hahaha!" Thankfully Itadori is not that easily offended "I get what you mean." He dismisses her concerns "It's just that I moved in with my mom after my Grandpa passed away so... It's easy for us this way."
"Oh..." Ozawa shows a sad expression. "I'm sorry for your loss... and for making you remember it." She wants to bury herself in the nearest hole
"It's okay, it's okay. It has been some time already..."
They talked a little more about their actual situation, which was a little awkward for both sides... Itadori can't reveal much and Ozawa is rightfully nervous about talking with him.
"I... I wanted to talk more, but I have a place to be..." Ozawa says regretfully, she takes a piece of paper from her purse and writes something in a hurry. "Here" My number!" She extends her two arms and pushes the paper at him.
For some reason, her face is incredibly red, and she can't look him in the eye.
After making sure he grabbed it she says "Text me if you want to talk!" And she ran away without looking back.
"..." Itadori is a little baffled but didn't think much of it.
He looks at the paper, noticing something strange... Turning it up he realizes that it's not simply paper, it's a picture. A picture of the two during their graduation from Middle School.
Seeing right now, he finally noticed how much Ozawa had changed outwardly. Now he is a little embarrassed in not commenting on it. Girls wanted a compliment or two about their appearance, right?
He will remember to say something via text later, he nods to himself and puts the picture in his pocket.
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" I'm home~" Itadori says as he enters the secret hideout where they are temporarily living now.
It's not exactly a home, but old habits die hard, so he still says those words.
Itadori then hears some shouting and fighting and hurries to check on it.
'Again? I thought we got over this...' He thinks when he sees his "mother" and "sister" fighting.
When Itadori arrives at the source of the sounds, he finds his sister shouting at his calm mother, Hitomi watching everything with an amused smile in the corner.
Things are about to get physical, but he jumps in the middle
"What is happening here?" His arrival makes Choso stop
"Eso and Kechizu are dead." Choso says in a surprisingly contained voice, her eyes never leaving their mother.
"What?" This hits him surprisingly hard.
In truth, he is still a little weirded out by the whole situation, but the three bizarre new siblings treated him with nothing but love, a strange love that he couldn't reciprocate immediately.
One of the reasons that he went out, was to be alone for a little while.
"Are you sure?" He asks. Surprisingly, hearing of their death hurt more than expected...
"Yes... I can tell..." Choso gives a tight nod "And she is the one that sent them to their death! I knew we couldn't trust her!" She points angrily at their mother.
"Mou~ That's unfair..." Kenjaku sighs sadly "How could I know?" She raises her hands in surrender
"Grrr~" Choso is about to attack again but Itadori asks
"How did they die?"
"They met Jujutsu Sorcerers during a mission and were eliminated." Kenjaku answers "I just received their names..." She looks at her phone "Yoshino Junpei, Kugisaki Nobara, and... Heh, Fushiguro Megumi."
"..."
Itadori is having complicated feelings right now.
He feels guilt that he didn't reciprocate the good feelings of his strange brothers when he had the opportunity to do so.
The person who killed them is Fushiguro Megumi too... He knows him. Fushiguro saved him and his school friends once. He doesn't know if he can hate him, but it sounds unfair to not hate him after he killed his brothers.
And worse... He is a good part of the reason that Eso and Kechizu went on that mission. To retrieve Sukuna's finger...
Heck, he is the one who smoothed things over between his siblings and their "mother".
He is really in an awkward place right now.
"It's not your fault, Yuji." His big sister's voice shakes him off, his face must have betrayed his feelings "In the end, it was our choice to walk down this path. The blame falls mostly on me..." Choso says with tears running down her face.
They woke up and were presented with some choices... They decided to ally themselves with Kenjaku and the other curses for a set of reasons.
First, they didn't think that they could freely live in human Society. Their appearance is a great obstacle.
They also need to rescue their other siblings... They don't think that the Jujutsu Sorcerers would give them willingly.
And obviously, there's Yuji. The newest addition to the family was with Kenjaku, even if they hate and don't trust her, they can't leave Yuji with her alone.
She also presented a good argument...
"I want to create a new era of Jujutsu Sorcery. Where everyone is a jujutsu user, this way curses will cease to exist... In this world, hybrids will be accepted." Is what she said
Her research with Cursed Wombs was an attempt to advance humanity to that next step.
Choso doesn't like it, but it was their best chance... She can hold back her animosity for her brothers. She chose this path for them...
"... and that killed my brothers." She continues to cry in silence
"I can understand that you hate me, Choso-chan." Kenjaku says with an infuriatingly calm smile "But I was surprised as you with Eso and Kechizu deaths... There's an imperceptible feeling in my chest right now... I only noticed after they were gone." She says with a hand over her heart.
Her words only work to infuriate Choso but Itadori can understand her.
"As your mother, I will also understand if you want to go on your way, Choso-chan." She says
Choso scoffs "I will not leave Yuji alone with you!" She exclaims "And I will also use you to get my revenge!"
"Ah, that's great!" Kenjaku claps one time happily "I don't mind you using me. What is a parent if not someone that facilitates their children's endeavor, right?"
"..." Choso is still glaring at her.
"And you, Yuji? Are you gonna help your sister in avenging your brothers?" Kenjaku asks with a mysterious smile.
"..." Choso also looks at him.
"...I don't know." Yuji says honestly "I feel like we could understand each other if we just talk... I am new at this, and I don't know how deep the enmity between curses and sorcerers runs, but if you can understand each other we may solve things without the need to fight... I have some things to ask them."
"..."
He looks at them "Anyway, I want to meet them face to face." He says with a face full of resolve.
Clap Clap Clap
Kenjaku claps at his words "You're absolutely right, Yuji. You need to see things for yourself and make your own conjectures. But Tsk Tsk you are a little naive "She moves her index finger from side to side "To talk with people as an equal you need strength, you need strength even to drag them to the conversation table..." She explains
Then with a hand on Yuji's back, she guides him to sit at a small table.
"As your mother, I will help you with that... We have enough time till October 31." She removes something from her sleeve, a piece of cloth.
"I admit, the result will be unpredictable even for me. But I'm incredibly curious to see what is gonna happen." She can't contain her excited smile like a kid opening a gift during Christmas
She unravels the piece of cloth on the table in front of Yuji...
Inside the cloth, there are 10 of Sukuna's Fingers.
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Megumi P.O.V.
I finish my morning training after successfully going through all Jujutsu Techniques.
"Yeah, I'm ready." I close my fist, feeling my power.
I don't think I can get stronger than this till Halloween, there's less than a month till the Shibuya Incident.
I mastered everything that I have to master, my Domain Expansion is complete too... Even though the Finger Bearer didn't last long enough, I can confidently say that it is usable.
"It's the perfect counter to both Sukuna and Gojo." I can't help but smile.
I go take a bath, thinking all the time if there's something more I can do.
What comes to mind is the Waifu Catalog, I have a lot of credits... But I don't think any Defense can help me now, and I want to save credits to buy the Defenses needed for my next world.
A new Template would take too long to level up and I don't want to clumsily use a new power. Companions can't help me during the Ritual Battle with Sukuna either.
Recently I only bought [Talent Sharing] to help the girls and two new lures [Potpourri] and [Alluring Whisper]. The reason for me wasting some credits?
Well, it is a gift to my girls.
And I also altruistically need to capture more people... Shibuya is at the door? Wouldn't it be better if Nobara could share my Talents and Defenses?
See how selfless I can be? Maybe I don't have the vocation to be a Contractor, after all!
Anyway, Nobara is this close to falling. But I don't think she is the type to say "I love you" that soon.
Yes, I can Stamp her, but now it's a matter of pride to make her confess.
Oh, there's that little trip to Kyoto soon, right?
Should I Stamp the girls from Kyoto then? I confess that I didn't invest much of my time in them, but I'm sure I can seduce them now. It's the Love Confession part that is tricky tho.
The girls of this world are a little... Ugh, how to say this? Less likely to get butterflies in the stomach? They are no Hinata, if you get what I mean...
Getting out of the bath I remember that I have something to ask Gojo.
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"Give me Sukuna's finger." I extend my hand to her
"Good morning to you too." She shoots back with an annoying smile.
"I said that when I entered." She must not have heard me, with her blindfold I don't know if she was sleeping or simply chilling.
She is sitting in a very comfy chair so-... Wait a damn minute, is this the moment of the Hidden Inventory Arc Flashback?
"Sukunas finger? Didn't all of them get stolen during the Goodwill Event?" She plays dumb "By the way, the results of the autopsies came back. Those two curses are the Death Paintings." She tries to change the subject.
I gave the bodies because it would be weird to keep them, Nobara and Junpei had to report things correctly after all. And I have no use for them, I only need to eat Choso after completing Sukuna's mission and I will have the better version of the Kamo's Clan Inherited Technique: Blood Manipulation.
"Oh year, cool... Now, Sukuna's Finger." I extend my hand even further
"Why do you think I have a finger of Sukuna?"
"Oh please, you obviously would keep one with you to prevent the unforeseen circumstance of me completing the set, and indefinitely delaying that future talk with the higher-ups." I say with a roll of my eyes.
There's no danger of an execution looming over my head, but I am an unprecedented case, so it would make sense that she keeps me away from completing the mission.
"Hmm, you're right. I have one that was not stolen." She admits with a flat face
"So, please~~" I repeat myself
"I don't know~ You have been behaving really badly lately, Megumi-kyun~" She shakes her head, a small smile on her face "You have become a bad boy~ going around flirting with random girls, forgetting about lil old me~ When was the last time that we have a good talk?"
"..."
"My fragile heart was shattered seeing you becoming a delinquent... How can I trust Sukuna's finger to you? What if Sukuna is influencing you badly?" She whines, pouting even
"...what do you want?"
She rests her chin on her fingers while turning her face to me, after some time she finally smiles widely "Hm~, let's go on a date!"
"..." I can't help but stare at her weirdly "What does this have to do with anything? It doesn't make sense."
"Obviously it makes sense!" She denies fast "I need to make sure you're still your normal self! So let's go on a date! You pay!" She grabs my arm.
Oh shit., the teleportation...
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"Aren't you filthy rich?" I ask as we walk through the streets of Tokyo. She is making me pay.
"Gender roles, Megumi. Gender roles." She says like it's obvious
"Only when it's convenient, huh?"
How can you be a good sugar mommy this way, Gojo? Tsk Tsk~
"It has been a long time since we went out like this~" She says with a smile "I miss this."
"You miss dragging me around to your missions when I was a kid." She did that a lot. It was a pain in the ass... Sometimes she would forget about me and leave me stranded in the middle of nothing, then she would say that it was some sort of training.
"This too, since you entered puberty I can't do that anymore..." She pouts "You don't even ask for training anymore."
"Obviously, it would be meaningless without us going all out." I scoff "And I don't want to reveal all my cards till our battle."
"Our battle? Oh..." She looks confused at first "Our bet! You are really taking that thing seriously, huh?"
"Obviously, and you regret not doing the same." I stare at her deeply
"Haha! Don't worry, don't worry. I will take you very seriously" She laughs "Hm, but what should I ask of you after I beat your ass?..." She makes a show of pondering like victory is already hers.
Truth to be told, if we fought now... It would be 50/50.
I'm very confident in my physical strength coupled with Domain Amplification. But Gojo is Gojo... She is not a boss in a videogame that would take a beating that easily.
She would come up with some ludicrous way to create an opening... And she only needs one opening, and then I'm cooked.
In canon, Gojo was doing a 1v3 against Sukuna, Mahoraga, and Gege... And almost won.
But after I beat Sukuna... I look at her and smile
"I will win." I say, simply as that. I can't see myself losing.
"..." She stares at me blankly, as always her expression. It's hard to read her expression when she is wearing her blindfold, and if she is not super expressive, you really can't figure her out.
"Ooohh~" Eventually, a big shit-eating grin spreads on her face "I will love to see you try~"
"Your Six Eyes will allow you to see it in 4k."
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Going back to the dormitory to sleep because Gojo said something about us traveling tomorrow, but she didn't say any details.
I can guess what it is and can understand the secrecy.
"Oh, going for another night snack, Chubbysaki?" I see Nobara walking through the dorm, in her night clothes but with a hoodie over it.
"Shut up, Fuckerguro! I was putting the trash out, I don't like waking up early to do this." She angrily shouts back
"Chill lady, is it that time of the month?" I ask in genuine worry
"..." She stares at me with dead eyes, slowly raising her hammer... Where did she put that thing? Oh, in the pockets of the hoodie.
Smart, never be caught lacking without your weapon.
"I'm kidding..." I raise my hands in surrender "Here's some chocolate tho..." I offer her one of the leftovers of today's date with Gojo.
"..." She looks at me like I'm making fun of her, by offering chocolate and insinuating that she has PMS, but ends up snatching it from my hands anyway.
She is funny~
"Don't smile, you creep!" She shouts one last time before going back to her room "Are you following me?" She turns around again
A fair question...
"I just want to make sure you arrive safely at your room." I say innocently, but really not fooling anyone.
"..."
"..."
We look at each other for a few seconds, and then she scoffs and turns around to continue her walk.
Well, well... If this isn't a green pass, I don't know what it is.
Hurrying a little till we are walking side by side, I start talking "You know... You were pretty cool that night?"
"Huh?" She looks genuinely confused, turning to me half-bite of her chocolate.
"During your battle with the Special Grades..." I explain "It's said that people show their true selves in dire situations, and your true self is kinda cool." I admit "I dig a chick that smiles crazily when she is going for the kill."
I remember the fight between Yuki and Kenjaku, and Yuki choosing not to use the Reverse Cursed Technique to continue pressing on the Old Sorcerer and even pulling the big guns with that Black Hole...
Whew~, it may be weird, but she was fucking hot at that moment.
Yeah, she was all bloodied, and some of her limbs are mingled in a mess of flesh, but is not about the body... That's why I can't 100% agree with Todo's focus on a woman's physical body.
The attitude is a big factor too.
"...you're weirder than I thought, Fushiguro." She eventually says while looking at me strangely "You get weirder and weirder every time."
"It's called character development, I'm discovering these things about me now too." I shrug, but as we arrive at the door of her room, I hit her with a sudden Kabedon.
*Bam* I slam my hand in front of her, stopping her from reaching her room, as she turns to face me my arm stays hovering above her shoulder.
"Now, as the one that awakened this side of me, shouldn't you take a little of responsibility?" I smirk while whispering in her ear.
Time to test these new Lures... Oh, she shuddered~ [Alluring Whisper] is OP too!
"Hmpf, this has nothing to do with me." She turns her face away from me.
Dear, then why are you not simply walking away? You want me to press a little more, right?
So prideful~ That's why I can't bear to simply Stamp her, it would destroy this little game of ours.
As she turned her head away, I could still see her blushing cheeks tho, though she exposed her neck to me and obviously, I will take advantage of that.
"C'mon" I give light kisses on her neck before whispering in her ear again "Last time you left me hanging, how unfair was that?" I pout childishly before nibbling her ear.
There's nothing childish in what I'm about to do. She scoffs at my words and at my hands that already found their way to her lower back.
"You deserve to be chemically castrated, you sex mania- Mphf!" I stop her mean words, by turning her head with a finger in her chin and stealing her lips.
The fight in her is brief like her surprise, in no time she is reciprocating the kiss enthusiastically. Too prideful to give the first step, too horny to stop after it started.
My hands go beneath her hoodie, we don't ever stop to breathe while our tongues battle for dominance, her hands also start roaming in response to my wandering digits.
"Oh, no bra? Are you hoping for it? Maybe you would be okay with a late-night visit?" I tease as we pause our kiss, kissing each other's faces and neck.
"Shut up, no girls sleep wearing a bra." She denies it easily before biting my shoulder when I pinch her nipple.
"Is that so? So obviously you are wearing panties, right?" My hand travels South, passing her soft and smooth stomach, and I can't help but give a squeeze that earns me an even harder bite, my fingers go under the waistband of her shorts...
And bingo! No panties.
"Well, well~" I tease in her ear.
"Shut up!" She makes an angry face, but her blushing only makes it adorable.
Even her ear is getting red at this point.
"If you want a booty call, just text me." I say as I start pleasing her lower mouth.
"Hm~ Who needs you? Anh~ I can just use my electric toothbrush." She says between moans, nothing convincing
"Geez, I will get jealous." I increase the speed of my digit that is teasing her little bean and also slide a finger inside her wet folds.
"Mmmph~" To hide her moans, she kisses me again, but her legs buckling is a good indicator of how effective my fingers are.
We kiss passionately enough to slightly bruise our lips, Nobara's hands rubbing my crotch with equal enthusiasm, she is squeezing me very tightly... She is close...
"Ahn~ I'm... I'm..." Her body stiffens...
Zeha~ But I suddenly stop.
I move away from her.
"Hm?" She spots a confused face, looking for a kiss, needy.
"Sorry, I need to go. Bye." I wave at her before turning and walking away.
"..." Ah, I wish to see her face, but don't look back, Megumi. Don't look back!
"Fu-Fuckerguro!" She shouts behind me.
Do you really think that you can blueball me and not suffer the consequences?
Even my girls had to pay after that Sex Strike. It's how Maki learned to twerk, you know?
"Yeees?" I turn to her slowly.
The sight is great, she is all disheveled, red face, fuming...
"You... You..." She points a trembling finger at me
"There's a hickey on your neck." I warn her innocently "On the place where it meets the shoulder..." I point at the position in my own body.
"!" Her hands go there to cover it. "You bastard..." She says in anger.
Hey! I am at least nice enough to put it on a spot you can hide.
"Ieiri-san can get rid of it." I give a piece of advice before continuing to walk away.
"As if I could ask her to do that!! ARRGGH!!"
I think she busted a vein...
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Third Person P.O.V.
The trio of first-years takes a train to Kyoto in silence.
"What is the mission?" Junpei asked "I think I missed the briefing..."
"You didn't miss a thing, we are not told the content of the mission..." Megumi explained "It's secret and to avoid any leaks. We are going to discover what this is all about in Kyoto. In truth, we will not even stop at Kyoto's school, we are gonna meet someone in another place."
"Oh, sounds important."
"It probably is..." 'It's nothing, we are not gonna do shit.'
"By the way, Fushiguro-kun..." Junpei approaches me cautiously. "Why is Kugisaki-san glaring at you like that?" He whispers
"..."
Nobara is glaring murder at Megumi, she is generating enough Cursed Energy to create some curses even though it's not possible because she is a sorcerer. There's even a dark aura around her.
She also didn't say a word to Megumi all day.
"She confessed to me but I rejected her because I'm a loyal guy." He answers
"..." Junpei looks at me with a flat face "I think every word in that sentence is a lie."
"..."
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"A traitor?" Junpei asks in shock and the trio of students meets one of Kyoto's teachers, Utahime Iori
Right now, they are in a secluded area of Kyoto. Unexpectedly, Mechamaru doesn't stay at Kyoto's High School.
"And the traitor must be from Kyoto." Nobara adds after Utahime nods gravely.
Everyone there is smart enough to figure out why people from Tokyo were called instead of Kyoto solving this issue internally.
After another grave nod, Utahime says to them "Follow me. I don't want to believe it but everything points out that the traitor is Muta Kokichi, or Mechamaru like you guys heard him being called."
Like always it's an abandoned building, they walk through some Hidden passages that Megumi can roughly guess that connect with Kyoto High School, and then they go down a long flight of stairs.
It seems that it's possible to reach this place through Kyoto High School, but Utahime is leading them through another passage so that Mechamaru could not detect them.
They hurry up, with the exception of Megumi who is going at his own calm pace, and then they prepare themselves for a fight when Utahime stops in front of a door.
*Bam* But knowing that would be a waste of time, Megumi kicks the thing out of the hinges, revealing the empty room.
"He got us..." Utahime comments regrettably
"He is smart..." Megumi comments off-handedly "With this amount of dust he abandoned this place months ago. Didn't anyone come to check on him?" He asks
"In the beginning, there would be Weekly visits from the staff to bring Muta Kokichi the necessities, but with time he became more independent and we stopped. Now I know why he pushed to be like that..." Utahime says with a frown
"Now what?" Nobara asks
"Now nothing." Megumi says "He bailed, we can do nothing."
"Muta Kokichi is capable of controlling his puppets with an incredible range thanks to his Heavenly Restriction." Utahime explains why it's over. "He could be anywhere in Japan now."
"I see..."
"That's too bad."
They say this but the only one that seems to really care is Utahime, having her student being a traitor must be a little shocking at least.
"Let's go back and report..." She says while turning around "I also need to classify Muta Kokichi as a Curse User from now on."
"..." Megumi watches her departing back with a stone face.
Some would think that he feels guilty for not helping Mechamaru, with his knowledge it would be easy to help... But why should he go out of his way to do that?
He doesn't remember exchanging even 10 words with Mechamaru.
And it is not like he would deny the help... Megumi talked about solving Maki's Heavenly Restriction during the Goodwill event of last year close to Mechamaru on purpose.
Did the Puppet User come to ask him anything? Advice? Help? No.
Two Goodwill Events... Two opportunities... Mechamaru could have reached out to Megumi at any time.
He never did.
Maybe because he had that pride to solve his problem on his own? Then Megumi will respect that and let him do just that. The guy went to Tokyo and instead of talking with Megumi, he ranted at Panda about how his life sucks and that he and Panda are not the same.
Could Megumi save him now? Maybe... He only knows that he is on a bridge... If he reeeeally wants it, he could maybe go on a search for all the bridges in Japan and try finding them right now.
He will not do it though.
There's no "S" on his chest, he is no hero.
Imagine trying to save someone that does not want to be saved. And his only way to save someone is by stamping them, he bet Mechamaru would refuse and do his own thing anyway.
He saved Nanami and Junpei because he didn't have to go out of his way. If Junpei's situation escalated like in canon with Yuji, Megumi would beat the shit out of him instead of trying to talk.
And with Nanami, he asks Ijichi to warn him if he saw Mahito, discreetly of course, if Ijichi never called him for any reason and Nanami died... Too bad.
And the main focus was capturing Mahito, now Hitomi, he helped the two more as a bonus.
Junpei's mom he saved because she was hot and nice, and she gave him food.
Now he watches the sad Utahime, for an instant his thoughts go into the "I could've helped" scenario but they disappear just as quickly, instead his eyes go down to watch her butt.
'That Miko outfit is hiding gold, I'm sure of it.' He thinks, Mechamaru is completely out of his mind.
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Somewhere in Japan
Ultimate Mechamaru breaks off the surface of the water, standing on its colossal height and without wasting time it blasts a part of the bridge with a cursed energy beam.
"Hahaha! That's more like it! I thought you ran away!" Hitomi, the Human Curse, shouts excitedly, changing forms as she dodges the giant mecha attacks, looking for an opening.
Inside the cockpit, Muta Kokichi works through his strategy... Defeat, or at least wound, Hitomi and Kenjaku, and then break the Curtain to contact Gojo Satooru.
"This is a test... A last trial on this thorny path..." Kokichi mutters while grabbing a tube and pressing some buttons "If I pass this test, I can finally walk together with them..."
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On Kyoto High School
The trio of students from Tokyo will spend the night after this unsuccessful mission.
Megumi walked through the halls of the school, he didn't find Todo, so he was thinking about what to do now.
"Let's go tease Nobara." He decides with a satisfied smile.
But when he was changing direction to his (almost) fuckbuddy room, he hears some sobs.
"A woman is crying..." His Contractor instincts take over.
No, not to console her... But to take advantage obviously. Women in a fragile emotional state are easy prey.
Following the crying sounds he turns in a corner to find Miwa Lasumi sitting on a bench, trying very poorly to control her tears.
"So you heard, huh?" Megumi's voice scares Miwa, making her jump in her seat as she raises her head to look at him.
"Fushiguro-kun..." She starts saying, but noticing that her face is still wet she turns around to hide her tears, and the probable mess that she is right now.
She feels Megumi sitting beside her while she is trying to clean herself.
"I'm not the best at it, but if you're blaming yourself with some silly thoughts like 'I should have noticed', stop... It's not your fault." He says softly.
"..." Miwa's shoulders tremble "Why... Why would he do it? Why would he not ask for help?"
'Because he has a poor impression of everyone from Kyoto(it's canon) and an inflated impression of himself' Megumi thinks but he does not slander the (probably at this point) dead guy.
"Only he can answer that, like everyone I can guess that he wanted to solve his health problem... He must have thought that was worth changing sides." He says. It's not a secret that the other side has Hitomi.
"..." Miwa goes silent again, her shoulders still trembling from time to time.
Megumi puts a hand on them, she jumps a little but calms down, his hands providing a soothing feeling to the girl.
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Hitomi is enjoying herself playing with the giant robot.
She is simply too fast for Ultimate Mechamaru to land a hit on her, and she is attacking the giant frame, taking it piece by piece, like she is opening a gift.
"Yes~, It's different~" He says in a happy voice as she turns her arms in wings to jump higher from a grab motion "Since I fought him, I'm different... This one can't evoke the same feeling of fighting Fushiguro Megumi."
She says that but she is not disappointed. It's only confirmed that Fushiguro is special in some way.
"If I meet him again I will have my answer..." She flies at high speeds, reaching the cockpit.
"Domain Expansion... Self-Embodiment of Perfection"
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"It's okay, just cry everything you have to cry..." Megumi pats Miwa's back as she leans on him "But promise that from tomorrow onwards you will not let this sadness bring you down." He says in a comforting tone
"Mn" She nods in his chest.
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Kokichi escaped Hitomi's domain using a tube that held a single use of Simple Domain, then hitting her directly in her soul.
"I will win!!" He shouts triumphantly when he attacks lands
But to his surprise, suddenly Hitomi explodes in a mass of flesh.
You know... When a Target is captured, the Company will heal the Target one time(Body Tune-up) and in the case of the capture being done very early in the timeline, bring the Target to the expected Tier. Like how it happened with Maki.
So... When Megumi captured Hitomi, even though he prevented her from achieving Domain Expansion like in canon, he inadvertently helped her reach her canon potential.
The mass of flesh retreats in a compact humanoid form.
It means that he made Hitomi as strong as when she fought Itadori Yuji in Canon.
In her new form, Hitomi smirks and dashes towards the cockpits at ridiculous speeds.
Megumi fucked Mechamaru up...
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Miwa is inexplicably feeling very good being in Megumi's arms right now. She feels like the bad feelings are going away, or at least being suppressed by a better feeling.
"Don't worry, I will stay with you till you feel better." Megumi says, close to her ear as she allows the bad feelings to be washed away
Inwardly he sends a telepathic message and some good vibes to Mechamaru.
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"I will win... and Join everyone... in the sun..."
The cockpit was busted open mercilessly, Hitomi's wide smile covers Kokichi's vision.
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'Don't worry... I will take care of her, lil bro'.
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Author's Note: It's not easy being a man in a world with a Contractor.
Let's hope Mechamaru can't watch Megumi clapping Miwa's cheeks from the airport or with that Mini Mechamaru thing. For his own good.
At least, he died freed. Megumi could only cure him by capturing so… Death or Slavery?
Till next time.
Bye Bye