Chapter 41: Shibuya: The End
Third Person P.O.V
"Hello Choso-chan~ Sorry to forget about you, I was a little excited." Megumi walks leisurely to the immobile Choso, talking merrily even if he is about to kill her. In his mind it's not like he is mocking her, it's just that he thinks this is a better way of acting toward his fallen foe.
He doesn't have any enmity against her, so why should he act mean or evil in her final moments?
Of course, she doesn't take his kindness very well…
"You bastard!" She coughs "Kill me already…" She says in a resigned tone.
All her brothers are dead, she is the eldest sister and she is the last one remaining. To her, this is incredibly painful. She thinks that she should have been the one to die first, it's only right.
"Relax, I will do just that. You don't deserve any more suffering." Megumi states calmly before turning to Hitomi and giving a nod. "Make her smaller."
"Okie Dokie." Hitomi answers with a smile.
With a touch, Choso's body twists and deforms, shrinking till she is a dried doll.
In an almost respectful way, Megumi takes her from Hitomi's hands and brings her close to his stomach.
"Too bad, Choso-chan was cute…" He comments before a line appears on his abs and a huge mouth swallows Choso in one gulp.
*Ding* Megumi closes his eyes as he feels the new power running in his veins, running through his blood. He gained the Blood Manipulation Technique
He raises a hand and blood starts leaking from his palm "So it escapes from the pores, from the sweat glands…" He plays with a small amount of blood, making it take a different form, and solidifying it before making it liquid again.
"Not that different from my darkness…" He found that it was pretty easy to manipulate it, maybe because he already has experience with his own shadows, that is like black ink, or simply because with his and Sukuna's talent, there are few things that he can't master on a whim?
With some claps he cleans his hand and turns around, ready to go back.
"With the exception of losing Dagon and the Prison Realm, everything went perfectly. I will give myself an S-." He jokes before signaling to Hitomi to follow him. He walks on a wall that was suddenly painted black by his powers and he teleports to another shadow far away.
......…..
On the edge of Shibuya, after everything calmed down and the Barrier was dispersed, the Sorcerers gathered together. Not only the sorcerers that were here from the beginning but also the recently arrived Sorcerers of Kyoto and even the former subordinates of Geto.
"I already told you, it's not Geto-sama. Something took over his body." Hasaba Hanako, the most outspoken of Geto's twins, says. Her voice carried with indignation.
"And despite that, you have no proof to confirm your claims." Principal Yaga speaks in an austere voice
"But at the same time it is almost unbelievable that Gojo would commit a mistake." Utahime finally says "I don't like the bastard, but she is very merciless and decisive when she needs to be."
"Unless she has hidden it from us. Su-chan was her best friend after all." Mei Mei comments with a mysterious smile
"She didn't let me take care of Suguha's body." Shoko states calmly while puffing out some smoke "I'm only stating a fact. I also don't believe she would hide it… From me at least." Despite all that, Gojo and Shoko get along well with them to be accomplices in certain things.
"So you really believe someone took Geto's body?" Yaga asks again, dubious.
"Nothing is impossible in the Jujutsu World." Shoko shrugs
"Just wait! That hot guy also knows the truth." Hanako argues back
"Hot guy?" Mai raises an eyebrow, her woman intuition knowing exactly of who they are talking about.
"Yeah, the one with dark hair and with the strange laugh. Super hot…" Hanako explains
"Yeah, hot." Mimiko her twin sister adds in an emotionless tone
"..." Mai and Maki narrow their eyes to those two girls "From where do you know him?" Maki is the one who asks
"He was having some talk about Sukuna's fingers with the Curses. He took us and sent us away…" Hanako doesn't hide the fact
"He promised to help us." Mimiko adds emotionless
"Of course he did." Maki huffs "That damn horndog. You two, just go away before he comes back. You don't want to be in his sight for longer." She counsels them "You too, hag." Maki says to Geto's ex-secretary, Suda Manami.
"But… I'm not old…"
"Nuh-uh, we are not going anywhere till he retrieves Geto-sama's body." Hanako almost shouts, her face a little angry. Even Mimiko is showing an unwilling face.
"We are saying this for your own good… Don't get involved with him." Mai sighs and facepalms. Those two girls have no idea.
"Don't get involved with who?" Suddenly they hear his voice, startling them a little..
Turning their head to the ground, they see a small puddle of darkness expanding slowly. Only the bridge of his nose and above are exposed, like he is some sort of water predator.
"Talking behind my back, huh? You guys need some discipline~" As he says that in a teasing manner, he emerges from the shadows like he is walking up some stairs.
After more of his body was exposed, they finally paid attention to the differences.
"What happened to you?" Mai asks while Maki frowns
"Trying to be cool?" Nobara asks in a mocking tone
"I ate Sukuna, saved the world and now I'm the strongest without a shadow of a doubt." He laughs with himself, he is in such a good mood that he is laughing at his own silly jokes.
"You did what??"
"Saved the world…"
"No, that part about Sukuna!"
"Ate her and gained her powers… Didn't I tell you guys that this was my plan from the beginning?" He is genuinely confused. He didn't hide this fact from them.
"Yeah, yeah… But we never thought that you would really do it." Maki answers
"Now you hurt my fragile heart…. Have some confidence in your man." He puts a hand over his chest. He then noticed the people of Kyoto and turned to them with a smile "Girls, did you come all the way here to see me?" He opens his arms and walks in the direction of Miwa and Momo, the Broom Girl.
"You wish! We came here to help!" Momo answers immediately, putting her broom between her and Megumi
"Then you came too late, I already solved everything." He smiles, not voicing his thoughts and calling the people of Kyoto bums, with the exception of Todo.
He also turns to Utahime and gives her a meaningful smile, a smile that makes her do her best to hide her blush… He can't say bad things about his girl. 'She is a support' He thinks, but is just him being biased because Utahime is now his woman.
"Sup Todo." As he is dapping Todo, someone finally addresses the elephant in the room.
"Why are you with her?" Junpei asks in an estranged voice while pointing at the Human Disaster Curse.
"Oh her?" Megumi also acts surprised, like he forgot about her "I tamed her. Hitomi-chan, chair!" He says and then gives a command.
Everyone widens their eyes as they watch the fearsome sadistic curse get on all fours and Megumi sits on her back.
"...."
"See? Tamed…" He crosses his legs like he is sitting on a throne.
"How do- Why do you- You know what? Forgot that I asked anything…" Nobara was starting to question him, but at some point, she noticed that she kind of already knows the answer, and she doesn't want to hear his cocky voice.
Slowly but surely, her perception of reality is being changed because she's spending too much time with Megumi.
"That…" Junpei doesn't know what to feel about that.
So Megumi butts in to not give him the chance to form a bad opinion about this whole ordeal "Look Junpei, you don't like her, okay. But she is useful and now she is mine. So just forget about the past and ignore her from now on."
As he says that he slaps Hitomi's ass and she does nothing, beyond moaning a little. He did that to prove his point.
"She is my slave now after I brainwashed her with my powers." He says shamelessly
"So you indeed brainwashed me…" Hitomi looks at him over her shoulder
"Yes, and there's a problem with that?" He asks in a challenging tone while raising his eyebrow
"Hmm, nah. Don't care." She eventually shrugs after thinking for a little.
"That's what brainwashing does… A pity I couldn't take all of your friends…" He sighs but he doesn't appear to care that much.
After that, Principal Yaga and the others "interrogate" Megumi about what happened. He was the only one who went "deep" into the situation, so he is the one that knows best. They also asked about what the twin's adoptive daughters of Geto talked about.
"Ah yes, they are right. Someone took over her body… I sent my father to hold her till I arrived but she ran away." He confirms their words easily
"Your father? I met him…" Maki says in a strange tone while staring at him
"You did? Did you kill him? Impressive…" He nodded and congratulated her
"..." This is not the answer that she was expecting
"Your father? Do you have a father?" Nobara asks, confused. The older ones who know the full story are also interested.
"There is some old lady that has a technique that morphs her body, or of someone else, into a dead person's body… Apparently, she wanted to use the strong Heavenly Restriction. Too bad she underestimated it, and her son, or whatever, ended up possessed by my father's information." Megumi gives a brief explanation "It was not really my father, only the memory in his genes or something…" He waves his hand dismissively at Maki
"... he was acting pretty robotically." She says
"Then the old hag died and the technique ended. Damn, Heavenly Restriction is very OP, he kept himself alive through sheer bullshit." He nods to himself "By the way, the identity of the one that is using Geto's body is-" He was about to reveal some juicy information when he heard the loud sound of an engine approaching
Narrowing his eyes he easily identifies the newcomer and pays attention to when she gets out of her bike and looks at her ass.
"Hello, boys and girls~" Tsukumo Yuki shouts at them animatedly "What happened? Hello, Todo-kun. Oh, Megumi-kun~ I didn't know that you had this kind of fetish." She smiles teasingly while giving a look at him sitting on Hitomi.
Megumi is not one to get shy so he answers shamelessly "I will always be an S… Be ready."
"Me? Ready? Why?" She gives him a big grin and asks like she didn't understand his words
"Just warning you…" His grin is as big as hers.
"..." Some of the girls look at the interaction with dead eyes. The guy shoots in all directions.
"Nice tattoos, by the way." Yuki compliments
"It's from Sukuna."
"Are they permanent?" Maki frowns when the subject is touched, giving him a look.
"They are too much…" Mai adds
"I'm not going out with you if you look like this." Nobara also says
"It's not a phase… It's a lifestyle." Megumi rolls his eyes playfully but in the end, he deactivates his "King of Curses mode". The two extra eyes close, his remaining eyes go back to the normal color, the tattoo disappears and his nails lose the black color too. "Happy? Tsk Tsk" He acts like a teenager whose mom ordered him to change clothes
"Much better." "Yep" "Happy" They all agreed.
"..." He deadpans as those girls that don't understand what 'being cool' means "Anyway, I was talking about the real perpetrator of this whole thing. Those guys…" He points at Geto's group, the twins, and the other two "...and even the curses are being used by Kenjaku."
"Kenjaku?"
"This is his original name, maybe…" Megumi says in a nonchalant way "His, or her technique allows him… Fuck it, I'm gonna call it her. Her technique allows her to possess other people's bodies by putting her brain in them. That's why the stitches on the forehead. It's a perfect possession, gaining memories and even the Cursed Technique. One of her older identities was of the infamous Kamo Noritoshi."
"Me?" The ones that don't know history, look at the actual Kamo Noritoshi, the student of Kyoto.
"Kamo Noritoshi is considered the most vile sorcerer that ever lived…" Utahime enters teacher mode and explains to the young ones "He committed many heinous and taboo acts, he is the shame of the three clans, to be erased forever."
"So Kamo Noritoshi is still alive, that can't be good." Mei Mei comments with an easy smile like this whole thing has nothing to do with her.
"More like Kamo Noritoshi was not Kamo Noritoshi." Megumi says "It was probably Kenjaku since the beginning… He took the body of one of the members of the Three Great Clans to have the resources to do her research. He targeted the one with the weak members." He says without caring about calling the Kamo clan weak in front of their heir.
"..."
"This would conveniently clean the slate of the Kamo clan." Mei Mei chuckles in amusement.
"Convenient, but who cares?" Megumi shrugs again, those political things are too boring to him. "What matters is that Kenjaku sealed Gojo."
"We need to rescue her." Surprisingly, Utahime is the one that said that
"And the scary part is that sealing Gojo is just a small part of her plan… Gojo would be in the way to something bigger that she is planning." Megumi comments while scratching his chin "Too bad she miscalculated… I exist." He says with utmost confidence "Whatever plan she has, I will make sure that it will fail."
Right at that moment, like on cue, something happens… The sky lights up in a mysterious light and an equally mysterious symbol blocks the stars.
"... son of a bitch. How did she do that?" Megumi frowns, everyone else is looking surprised at the sudden phenomenon.
"Ah, it's that thing!" Hitomi exclaims in a slightly surprised tone, not that she appears bothered.
"Explain…' Megumi turns to her.
"Well… Remember that I awoke Junpei-kun's potential? She provided me with a lot of test subjects to do that and kept them for other purposes. I remember those symbols on their forehead." Hitomi says in a casual tone "She must have used them to start that." The that in question is still a mystery to everyone but Megumi, but everyone understands that can't be anything good.
"So he sacrificed them or something like that?" Megumi asks in a calm voice
"Probably yes, to power the kickstart of that." Hitomi answers her guess
"How many?" Megumi narrows his eyes
"I don't know… Hundreds… Almost a thousand…" The Human Curse shrugs without a hint of empathy.
"..."
While everyone is cursing Kenjaku for his vile act, thinking how this is really in alignment with the Kamo Noritoshi of the past, Megumi has a different thought.
'Hm, in a certain way, I made things worse…' Despite getting to that conclusion, he doesn't feel that bad.
He saved the arguably most detestable villain of this universe, and as a consequence of that, almost a thousand innocent people died. Talking about the butterfly effect… In the future, he will pay attention to those things more. As much as he discovered that he enjoys seeing the effects his actions have on the world, he can't be caught lacking and unprepared.
He expected Kenjaku to have a plan B, she was concocting the Culling Game long before Hitomi even existed. But he was thinking along the lines of Kenjaku putting up more Binding Vows on the Culling Game in herself.
No, she made others pay the price for that. He can't blame her, he would do the same.
He doesn't know the whole principle but Kenjaku probably utilized those unlucky individuals, and Hitomi remnants of Cursed Energy and Technique, on their bodies, to access Tengen's Barrier system and start the Culling Game.
"This can be bad…" He comments but internally he is glad 'She didn't let me down~ And here I already made peace in having to go find every participant with Hitomi-chan'
*Ding* "Hm?" There's a sudden notification on his Company Device
[Yorozu(T6) from Jujutsu Kaisen has been Captured]
[You gained 30 credits]
'Say what?'
Many thoughts cross his mind, like why she was captured immediately and not Kenjaku, even though the two possessed people that he has captured… But that was not important now.
Megumi suddenly stands up, startling a little everyone, and makes a handsign of wings.
"That was the symbol that appeared on my sister's forehead…" He says, to act like he is surprised and to explain to the rest.
While everyone is disgesting the new information, the ground beneath him is covered in shadows and two enormous wings emerge from it, like a bird breaking the surface of a lake.
With a flap of its powerful wings, Nue, which is now the size of a bus, takes off immediately, carrying Megumi and Hitomi.
He left them behind without even taking Maki and the others.
......
Megumi P.O.V.
It's very late, but who cares? I invade the hospital without passing through the receptionists. Traveling through the shadows, I'm untouchable and undetectable.
I found my sister sitting on the bed, with disheveled hair and hospital clothes, saying something.
"No… No… I'm not gonna let you use my body. Don't even ask." Tsumiki murmurs seemingly to herself, but I know who she is talking to.
"Don't you trust me? Do you really think I would do something bad?" A second voice says, much more mature, but at the same time chirpy
"I don't know… Just to make sure…" Tsumiki answers weakly "It's better to wait for my brother… He understands these things better than I do…"
"Are you a little baby? Having to wait for his permission?" The other voice mocks "Just let me feel the air once again… I was dead, you know? I just want to feel alive again completely…" She says almost like she is crying
"I... I…" Tsumiki is almost folding, she is simply too nice.
Luckily she has me…
"Don't trust her." I finally intervene, emerging from the shadows.
"Megumi!" Tsumiki was a little startled by my sudden appearance but her face immediately morphed into a happy one after seeing me
"Onee-chan…" I say in a low voice as I approach and hug her "I missed you." I really did. I care about a few people, but the ones that I allow myself to care for, I go for the full experience "I visited you almost every day. Did you hear me?" I ask, still hugging her.
Tsumiki's body is still in top shape, thanks to the Perks.
"I'm sorry, I slept most of the time…" She answers, resting her chin on my shoulder after I settle into a more comfortable hugging position.
"Most of the time?" I ask intrigued
"Sometimes I wake in a strange place… Talked with Yorozu and then went back to sleep…" She answers.
"..." So was she interacting with Yorozu in her Inner Domain? Like when I visited Sukuna? "This Yorozu was put inside your body by someone to try to resurrect her. She is trying to possess your body." I explain "Don't give her a centimeter."
"Hn… I'm sorry Megumi, I kinda agreed with her in sharing our body a little…" She says guiltily
"..." So that's why it took so long for her to awaken on her own.
She and Yorozu were arguing all this time and she eventually relented. The thing is Tsumiki had the upper hand all the time, but she didn't do anything with Yorozu. She is simply too kind. "It's okay… There's a way to remove her from your body." That's why I captured Hitomi after all. "I will help you get rid of this crazy woman."
"Who is crazy?" Finally, she stopped hiding. Now I can see clearly that she is talking from a mouth on Tsumiki's cheek "I won't accept being slandered by a pervert that lusts over his own sister!"
"We are not blood-related…" I deadpan. Theoretically, she is already captured, but she doesn't have a good impression of me.
First time something like this has happened, but I guess it will not be the last, I read the rules that it's possible to lend the Stamp to my retinue and let them capture other targets.
She has literally no impression of me, other than Tsumiki's memories.
"I'm not slandering you, I know that you are crazy, Yorozu." I say with a mysterious smirk
"How do you know my name?" Now she looks taken back
"I had some… altercations with Kenjaku and Sukuna."
I can only see her biting her lips in frustration because of my knowledge, probably thinking that Kenajku betrayed her in some way. But those feelings are easily put aside when I mention Sukuna's name.
"What? Sukuna?? Is she reincarnated already? Do you know where she is? Who she possessed?!" Yorozu asks excitedly and anxious
"Obviously I know… I'm her host." I try to reveal dramatically, but it's a little hard when I'm talking to Tsumiki's confused face.
"What?!" Yorozu exclaims in surprise, the mouth in Tsumiki's cheek opening at an almost comical level "But… But you are still here!" She accuses
"Because I'm not just some bum that can have his body taken…" I roll my eyes "No offense Tsumiki. Know that most people didn't have a chance against those sorcerers." It's true. I think the only ones that are not completely possessed are Yuji and Hana, that angel girl.
"This doesn't make any sense!" Yorozu is still in denial,
"Well well, someone is not accepting reality" I chuckle "If it's really so hard for you to accept that Sukuna can't possess my body freely? Imagine when I tell you that I defeated her in a Ritual Battle and absorbed all of her powers."
"You what?!? Now I know that you are lying, Sukuna would never lose, you scummy prevaricator-" She was cursing me till I activated my King of Curses mode to shut her up.
Tsumiki still keeps her confused face, because she doesn't know what we are talking about, but once again Yorozu's mouth goes agape. She is surprisingly expressive, this one.
"Like I said, there's no Sukuna anymore…" But it's kinda boring to play with her when I can't see her true expression, so I just jump to the end "It's what I would say, but it's a lie. I will bring Sukuna back… But why are you so interested in her?" I feign ignorance
"We are lovers." She answers immediately with so much conviction that it even tricks Tsumiki.
"Bullshit… Sukuna is my woman." I call her out immediately.
"You are the one bullshitting! Sukuna and I have a pure Yuri love! Only I can help her deal with her loneliness" How the heck do you know about Yuri? Ah, Tsumiki's memories.. Hm, so Tsumiki has this kind of knowledge~ Zeha~
"Ah shut up, she doesn't need help to deal with her loneliness. Your whole interest in her is wrong from the start. And what she likes is hard, long, and thick…" I mock with a smirk.
"Shut up! As if my lovely Sukuna would be sullied by a dirty man like you!" Oh, is Yorozu a misandrist? After Naoya, she appears. It seems that my challenges to prove myself as the greatest pro-sexist are never-ending.
"Bitch please, the only good yuri is when a man goes in the middle and corrupts the girls with the power of D. That's your only chance to be together with Sukuna, that is not my woman. You can be our concubine…" I continue teasing her happily.
But my good mood is interrupted…
"Megumi… What are you saying? And who is this Sukuna woman?" Tsumiki asks with a gentle expression on her face.
"..."
.......
The next day I was summoned to have a meeting with the higher-ups to report what happened in Shibuya.
Yesterday I kinda solved things with Tsumiki and Yorozu. For now, Hitomi can't do much. She is good at manipulating souls, not transferring them. So my sister and Yorozu will be stuck together for some time, but I believe not for long, Hitomi-chan is talented.
Even more so while sharing my perks. But it's not a bad thing for Yorozu and Tsumiki to be fused, this whole thing is helping Tsumiki in becoming a Jujutsu Sorcerer. I will try teaching her the basics later.
My relationship with Yorozu is still awkward, but she will fold when I fuck her via Bluetooth when Tsumiki and I have our eventual intimate moment. Zeha, who told you to share a body with my sister?
The good thing about all of this is that I succeeded in that Bonus Objective and gained an intact copy of the Inverted Spear of Heaven! This is one of my assurances, with this I can rescue Gojo without Angel.
I only need to finally meet Tengen. But before that…
I walk inside the room of the Higher-up's, and as always they are behind those paper screens, trying to act all mysterious.
I don't give them a chance to start, I played their games for far too long.
"Don't even talk…" These are the first words that leave my mouth as I walk into the middle of this joke of council.
At the same time, I flare my Cursed Energy and emit a wave of Conqueror's Haki.
I go into my King of Curses Mode and coldly stare at them "There's no reason for you all to exist anymore."
Red lilies bloomed beautifully on those white paper screens.
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Author's Note: Now it's reaching the end, but maybe there will be a good number of chapters yet. I want to see if I can do some nice interactions with other characters… Sky girl, angel girl, Yuki, Hajime…
By the way, Merry Christmas(late) and have a good New Year(Early)
Bye Bye, till next time.