Chapter 26
They walked in silence. Yuuji however was a little worried as to what is about to happen. "He's really not acting like himself…" Yuuji whispered to Suiryu, yet he did so in dragon so Sukuna wouldn't understand.
'You think?!' Suiryu snapped back in the same tongue. 'I've never seen him look like… THAT! Have I ever looked like that?'
Yuuji shook his head, but there was something rather wrong with this. After all, he leading them away from the village, to the remote training grounds away from anyone.
Why is he leading them here?
Suddenly, he came to a stop. He turned around swiftly before taking a deep, and confident breath.
"Your mother is the biggest whore I have ever seen in my life, your wives are the ugliest creatures on this world. You two are so stupid, that you kept me alive as a pet and for what? I'll bet your children will grow up to be concubines and become the bane of this world's existence. The fact that you two reproduced should be a crime in itself for you are hideous and unworthy of such!"
They froze.
"What?!" Suiryu demanded of him. "What the hell has gotten into you!"
"Well, shut me up then you shit stain!"
"SHIT STAIN!? YOU'RE ASKING FOR IT!"
Suiryu was about ready to unleash hell, but Yuuji… he knew this wasn't right.
"Suiryu…"
"Are you not pissed off with him? What he just said about our mother, wives and children!?" he demanded.
"I don't regret what I put you though, brat! In fact, if I had the chance I would have done a LOT worst that what you endured! I would have made you wished you died along side me when I was purged. I would make you wish you never had been born!"
Yuuji felt it. Those worst struck him hard in his core, so much so he started to alter his body.
He grew himself to stand just taller than Sukuna, the King of Curses was smiling a wicked grin as he did. "That's in, get yourself as big as you can be, you need to be a big man to bring me down, don't you little boy!"
"Bro, that's a little much…" Suiryu even sounded concerned!
Yuuji however kept his focus on Sukuna. "Well, what are you waiting for?!" he demanded.
Yuuji unleashed his extra arms, when he was ready. He rushed Sukuna!
"Yuuji!" Suiryu shouted, and yet, he went silent.
Yuuji didn't go in for the strike, instead, his arms wrapped around him like an embrace!
He didn't intend on doing this, and yet… his body just reacted this way!
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING BRAT?! BEAT THE HELL OUT OF ME! DO IT! DO IT NOW! KNOCKOFF, YOU WANT TO DO THIS, START ALREADY! MAKE ME SUFFER!" he roared.
But Yuuji didn't let him go.
Sukuna struggled in his grasp until. He suddenly… broke down!
"Why… why are you not beating me!" he demanded.
"Because, the pain you feel now, is the pain I endured as your vessel, each time you took over me… each time you killed and hurt people using my body, this is the pain I felt. And now, you finally understand it."
It was dead silent.
"Fuck man…" Suiryu muttered.
Yuuji finally released Sukuna, he dropped to his knees before staring at the two of them. "I… remember everything." He confessed. "Before… and after…"
This startled them. "How?" Suiryu asked.
"The binding vow on his heart… the one yet to break… what was the condition of that?" Yuuji asked.
"Wasn't it to fall in love with your first love or something? Kenjaku was making them nearly impossible for Sukuna to break, let alone gain from another. I think that one would have been the most difficult and impossible to break." Suiryu explained. "But, Chusi is back, she still loves him and he loves her… I think."
"How could she though?" Sukuna whispered. "For that matter… why did you try to prevent me from knowing the truth?! YOU KNEW!"
"About the baby thing… yeah… I knew… after all, I was created after he went mad right? That was part of his madness, but to even recall that… not even I know how I did it. Still, I thought he would have gone insane again if he learned the truth," Suiryu explained.
"How… do I live with myself?" Sukuna whispered. "I have all memories, but they are fighting in my head right now, reminding me of what I had on both sides of calm and madness… I want both of those feelings to return… But… when I was in madness… I merely had power."
"It was all you wanted and desired, to be the strongest and for the world to fear you, what did that get you? A bunch of sicko devotees" Suiryu scolded.
"It was all I needed, for I didn't have to rely on anyone else… but then… these past memories… the ones with the Tooru family… Why… why… WHY IS THIS HURTING?"
Neither one could speak, and yet, for the first time. Yuuji felt sorry for him.
He then peered up into their faces. "Please… kill me?" he asked with great sincerity.
"No," they said flat out. "Or all of this is for nothing. There are still fragments of your belongings out there, your cult is still at large and will do anything to bring you back to your… 'senses' as it were. Besides, this is growth." Suiryu said. "You finally understand the pain you caused others."
Yuuji shrunk himself down, Suiryu turned to him and nudged his head back towards the village. They will leave Sukuna alone with his thoughts.