Chapter 32

Within the innate domain.

The tremors grew worst. Suiryu smiled with pride as the world falls apart around him. This was it. This was the final lesson Ryujin had taught him. It would be bittersweet. But at least, Sukuna would be stopped, even if it meant that he goes down with him.

"You are oddly happy about this aren't you? Wasn't that the soul shattering pressure points?" Tooru asked of him.

Suiryu merely nodded his head, but the smile didn't vanish. "He will be stopped," he said and sighed with relief. "He will be stopped…"

Yet, as the final pressure point was struck, Suiryu froze as nothing happened. Sukuna was still alive and laughing it off! Worst, he grabbed Yuuji and was going to crush him!

"NO!" He protested. Suiryu struggled with all his might, trying to break free, and yet, he found Sukuna's grasp upon him had grown tighter. "No… no please…"

Tooru cut off his vision from the outside world, she looked to him, grinning from ear to ear. "It's time," she said.

Taking into her hand, the dragon fang. Without any effort at all, she cracked it. "Wait, what are you…" Suiryu was blinded by this pure light blue light, and it continued to fill the domain…

#

Sukuna was drawn back into the innate domain.

Everything he possessed as gone, except for that speck that continued to linger. He lay there passed out on the ground. "You… why are you still here?" he demanded. "I am certain I already absorbed you… For that matter, what the hell have you done here!"

The domain was cracking, something was happening and yet, Sukuna didn't know what it was… until it took form.

He froze at the sight, the damn dragon has appeared once more!

"WHAT! You were suppose to be trapped within the BRAT! For that matter, you should be dead!"

Ryujin merely smirked. "It disappoints you so…" he said with a slight chuckle. "And yet, here we stand…"

"You… you keep interfering! What possesses you to keep trying to stop me you stupid lizard? You know this body is not going to last… I have one final trick up by sleeve. You get rid of me, that speck will have nothing! I will take all my curse energy with me!" He shouted proudly.

He did just that, absorbed everything this speck had managed to cultivate and contain within himself. Sukuna snickered as he glared at the dragon, but the dragon did nothing to stop him.

"I was hoping you would do that."

Sukuna paused, he turned and glared at the dragon before his eyes shifted to the passed out speck on the ground. "You're going to take over him, aren't you?" he asked, his greedy grin returned to his lips. "You're no better than me!"

Ryujin however turned to Suiryu. "That's where you're wrong. The refinement of this one, has impressed me. So much so, that I have decided something from the moment he came to be, and the moment Tooru gave him her pendent. This so called speck, is named Suiryu Itadori. And I won't be taking over him… he will be taking over me…"

Sukuna froze. "What did you just say…"

"It matters not, for soon, the child's body will alter, he will be rendered human but it must be so. Until the moment is right and everything is in place. I do owe you a bit of gratitude, Sukuna. Had it not been for you, I wouldn't have the pieces I need to make this possible."

He shook with rage. Sukuna screamed aloud before summoning every ounce of curse energy in his body. "I'LL DESTROY THIS BODY! YOU WILL NEVER HAVE IT!" he shouted.

"I was hoping you would do that too…"

The curse energy that was unleashed, was converted, Ryujin grinned as he reversed the power within the domain and permanently destroyed and expelled Sukuna from it!

The domain settled once more, Ryujin paused as he felt weakness. "That took a lot out of you…"

Peering down, he saw Tooru, the first one to ever take him into themselves to become his vessel. "I didn't think you would still be here…"

"What? And miss that show?" she snapped back. "The bastard had it coming, but now… what about this one? What about those around him, they must have seen it…"

"The matter is taken care of," Ryujin insisted. "For now, all that needs to be done is to ensure he and the others escape. The school is no longer safe, and the moment they learn he has no power… the others will be in great danger."

"Still, for that to survive Sukuna…" she said as she glared down at Suiryu. "You are still hoping, aren't you?"

Ryujin nodded. "We're not done yet,"

"Of course you would say that. Still, all that effort…" she said with a sigh.

"I believe it will be worth it, thank you once more for your assistance Tooru."

"Just keep your end of the deal!" she said in a warning tone.

Ryujin chuckled. "Of course, and that will be fulfilled far sooner than you think…"

#

There came a disturbance.

Gojo had just finished his mission when he swore he sensed Sukuna for just a moment. He warped back to the school yet paused as everyone was outside and yet, they appeared to be knocked out cold. "What the hell happened here?" he muttered.

But the strangest thing was Suiryu.

He emitted no curse energy!

"Suiryu… you're not dead are you?!" he demanded. Turning him over, he found the dragon tooth around his neck was cracked. The ear cuff he wore to hide his presence had snapped in two and lay on the ground. There wasn't a curse mark to be found and stranger still, where his extra eyes would have been, there is no marking or even opening for them. "He is human…" Gojo whispered.

Yuuji was a short distance away, and yet, he felt his strength was taken right out of him. He shrunk down to his previous infant size when he was first becoming a dragon. "What did you do Itadori?"

Slowly, everyone was coming too.

"Ugh, my head…" moaned Nobara. "Huh? What…"

Soon, everyone else woke, even the curse wombs were out before coming too once more. Choso peered about, he looked confused and yet he said. "Why are we all outside?"

"So… no one remembers how they got here?" Gojo asked.

"I thought… something serious happened…" Fushiguro muttered. "My phone is missing…"

"Yeah, it's over there, crushed to bits." Gojo said and pointed to the mess on the ground. "Okay let's get everyone back inside and sort this out."

As everyone began to leave, Choso was quick to pick Yuuji off the ground and carried him along. Gojo hoisted Suiryu over his shoulder, yet as he began to walk, he paused. On the ground, he saw a human heart with a nail in it… before it crumbled to dust. "Weird…" he muttered. But curiosity got the better of him.

He placed Suiryu back on the ground but checked his chest. There was no damage, since he is human, had that been his heart, he would be dead. With a sigh, Gojo decided to leave it for the time being. He has to see what happened to Suiryu.