Bony Boy goes to JJK World
Hi there, Author here. Just a quick response to a comment that was talking about the guardians healing themselves. I don't remember whether I had Shalltear healing or not, if I didn't then that was a mistake. My bad. Also wasn't she pretty much untouched until the Domain Expansion? Hmm... can't remember.
As for Cocytus, I didn't think he could do that without using an item, but maybe that's wrong. His sheet and Wiki page didn't lead me to believe he could heal since he's more of a warrior, but I guess smaller amounts of healing would be possible even for a warrior if you think about Yggdrasil, but then again, someone like Takemikazuchi would be the type to optimize the NPC for damage output so maybe he can't? I'm not sure.
Gargantua is a different beast though. In this story, Gargantua is a gigachad with 50 million HP so letting it heal goes against the balance I had in mind. Don't worry though, maybe I was not clear on the last chapter that Gargantua was on, but even after fighting for an hour, the guardian hadn't sustained much damage, not even 4% of the total HP and that's fighting Maharoga.
Demiurge didn't take any damage at all so he didn't need to heal and neither Mare nor Aura got hit either. That's all of the guardians until now so relax everyone. I still have some fights to F up, so you should store that criticism for the latter chapters XD.
Enjoy the chapter, peace.
-Lots of spoilers on JJK read at your own risk.-
Gojo's pov
Gojo was sitting down on the steps leading to the castle. He slowly opened his hand as he channeled some of his cursed energy to check his condition.
"Alright, one hour of rest is enough to face the curses on the next layer, the guardian will have to wait a few more though, but I'm sure that can at least move around in the sixth layer without many issues. I should also make sure that Toji doesn't get a huge lead too... wait, maybe he exorcised the guardian for me? Hm... " Gojo said as he finally got up and entered the teleportation zone. He stood there for a few seconds before disappearing.
"Finally. I thought he would never leave. " Yuki said as she walked to the huge castle in the distance.
Thanks for the curses in the fifth layer, she was aware that Gojo was resting near the door so Yuki decided to just wait it out until Gojo left. 'A 10-minute rest is not enough to recover fully, so he's either been here for a good amount of time or he's not that tired. Whatever the case, I have to get to the sixth layer before the guardians are defeated. I can't make the same mistake that Junpei did. ' Yuki said as she started running forward.
Gojo was teleported to the next layer and immediately found himself falling to the ground. 'Teleported this far above ground? Is Momonga becoming sloppy with his Domain? ' Gojo thought as there was no reason to believe that a jujutsu sorcerer who could make it all the way to this layer could die simply by gravity. He immediately activated his cursed technique to seemingly hover in place as he used the Six Eyes to search for the door.
First Gojo looked at the forest beneath him, he saw multiple curses pretending to be trees, rocks, and bushes, but no sign of a powerful cursed spirit so he only spent a few seconds before he changed to a swamp area ahead. 'The curses there are a bit stronger... maybe low special grade/ high first-grade? A letdown from the previous layers though... what could Momonga be planning? ' Gojo thought as he looked and moved his attention to a huge building next to the swamp.
'It's a huge stone structure in the middle of nowhere. The door is bound to be there so that means Toji would have gone there immediately. Since I can't hear any sounds of fighting that means he's either dead or... shit. ' Gojo thought as he released his cursed technique and started falling to the ground. 'He might have activated another bullshit trap too! Toji could be on the ninth layer by now! '
Gojo surrounded himself with cursed energy the moment he touched the ground, after that, he kicked the floor as hard as he could and lunged forward. Gojo was now running at top speed which allowed him to ignore most of the curses that were on that floor only choosing to kill the insectoid ones since they could keep up with him.
"What a rude intruder. Didn't even try to fight at all and just dipped. Why is he in such a hurry? " Aura thought as she saw Gojo running in the distance.
The guardians could feel whenever someone entered the layer and so Aura attempted to ambush the intruders before they could reach the actual fighting arena. Unfortunately, that didn't work this time since Gojo was teleported too far away from where she was. "Damn it, we underestimated him, Mare. I should have just run as soon as he showed up. Now he's gonna make it to the amphitheater without any problems." Aura said as she touched the side of her head.
"S-sister, that's not a good idea. The intruder was using some type of spell or skill to scout the whole area. If you hadn't hid it could have turned into a 1v1. " Mare said through the use of the spell Message.
After Gojo appeared on the floor, Aura immediately asked Mare to prepare the pop monsters so that she could engage him, but it didn't take long for Mare to realize that the intruder was not like the one they had just defeated. Once he noticed the jujutsu sorcerer flying, Mare used a combination of Detect Magic, Greater Arcane Eye, and True Seeing to observe Gojo. The guardian quickly understood what Gojo was doing and thus asked Aura to hide for a moment until the intruder was done.
Mare, however, didn't expect that Gojo would simply run straight to the amphitheater right after. "He did that because he thinks there's no reason to not do it. That intruder is underestimating us! " Aura said as she started running after Gojo.
"Wait, Sister. There's another intruder. " Mare said right as Aura felt the layer being pierced by an unknown presence.
"I'll check it later. After we beat the intruder that's going after you. " Aura said as she continued running.
"You shouldn't, Sister. What if this is the one we are waiting for? " Mare said with a flustered voice.
Aura immediately stopped running and turned around. She then took a step in another direction where the new intruder was teleported to. Aura was about to take another step only to stop right as her feet left the floor. "You can handle him by yourself, Mare? " Aura asked as she looked at the amphitheater.
"O-of course, S-sister. I can do it no problem. Just go ahead and check who it is. " Mare said as he took a deep breath.
"I'll go back as fast as I can, Mare... be careful. " Aura said as she jumped on a tree.
"Yes. " Mare said as he removed his hand from the side of his head and prepared to fight the intruder. "Alright... alright. I can do this. HEY! I can do this. HEY! HEY! " Mare said as he pumped his fist high in the air.
Yuki's pov
"So this is the sixth layer. A big forest, just like Ainz told me. " Yuki said as she quickly jumped on top of a tree to search for the guardian's location, however, it wasn't necessary since she immediately saw something jumping between the trees. Yuki quickly jumped to another branch to take a good look and once she saw that the curse coming over fit the description of a dark elf, she smiled.
"Finally. Mission complete. " Yuki said as she jumped down before placing Yuji and Junpei on the floor. Soon afterward, Aura got closer to them while pointing her bow at them.
Yuki then placed her hands in between her breasts and pulled out a piece of cloth with Ainz's flag on it. "You can come down. " Yuki said as she stretched the cloth while making sure that Aura could see it from far away.
The guardian quickly placed her bow back in the inventory and jumped down. "You're late. Super late! Two other intruders made it here already. " Aura said as she walked over to Junpei.
"Well I ran into some trouble and-"
"Whatever, just tell me which one of them is the vessel. " Aura said as she pulled out a small pouch from her belt. Yuki was left speechless as the small cursed spirit simply ignored what she was saying.
Aura walked over to Yuji and then pulled out one of the most dangerous cursed objects, Sukuna's finger. "Alright human, say ahhhh... " Aura said as she started shoving the fingers down Yuji's throat.
"One, two, three, four, five... and seventeen. It's done so I'm going back to fight the intruder. You do whatever you want now. Bye bye. " Aura said as she waved her hand at Yuki before turning around and running away.
'It's going to take just a couple of minutes, Mare. Hold on. ' Aura thought as she imagined her brother fighting the intruder on his own. Of course, Aura didn't think that Mare would lose, but still, she didn't want to leave her brother to fight by himself. They were meant to fight as a team, after all.
"Wait, Junpei is... " Yuki tried to call out to the guardian who didn't care about the group anymore. Once the fingers had been delivered, it was back to defending the layer as usual. The only difference would be that they could not engage Yuki or Junpei, as Ainz instructed that they would be given free passage, nor could they engage the player who ate the fingers. At least, until he entered the amphitheater.
"Oh great. What am I going to do with Junpei... " Yuki walked over to the armored boy, grabbed him, and placed him on her shoulder. "Guess I'll have to take him to Ainz later -" Yuki stopped talking once she heard something moving behind her.
"Took your sweet time, woman. You almost made me think we wouldn't get here at all. Though I guess if that happened, you would be the one suffering from the binding vow. " Yuki heard a deep voice coming from behind her. She already knew what she was getting into so the shift in tone, the amount of cursed energy, and the fact that Yuji was covered in tattoos were expected, but Yuki still couldn't help herself as her legs began to shake. The fear she felt from looking at the Sukuna was completely different from anything she had ever seen. "Ha ha ha ha. No need to be that frightened woman. I'm under a binding vow here remember? I can't move around. " Sukuna said as he began stretching his back while still on the floor.
'So this is... twenty fingers... Sukuna... ' Yuki thought as she slowly took a few steps back. 'He's completely different from before... this is simply... too much... ' Yuki immediately compared the density of cursed energy that Sukuna displayed when they first talked a few weeks back.
Yuji stood up and casually ripped apart his shirt before walking toward Yuki.
"The deal was that- "
"An hour? I know. I won't move from here for 60 minutes, that hasn't changed. After that though, I'm free to do as I please, right? " Sukuna said as two extra eyes opened underneath his regular eyes. He then ran his fingers through his hair as he took a deep breath.
"Still, the air here sure is tainted. Well, I guess I should have expected something like this from the Domain of a cursed spirit. I'll have to beat him before feeling some fresh air. " Sukuna said as he cracked his knuckles.
Yuki's eyes glanced at Sukuna and then at the forest behind her. "I'll be going then, Sukuna. Seems like you remember what Ainz told you and so I'll- "
"Wait a bit. What about the invitation? I'm not an official player yet, right? Even if I was, I can't get the reward without it so... hand it over. " Sukuna said as he took a step toward Yuki who quickly jumped backward.
Yuki created a meter gap between them before saying, "My team is Yuji, Junpei, and I. You'll have to wait until someone else gets here. " Yuki stared at Sukuna who immediately tilted his head.
"Hm... yeah. It's coming back to me now. The curse said it would bring a team with one missing member for me to join. If forgot..." Sukuna said as his expression went from a eureka moment to a sadistic smile. Yuki soon realized that Sukuna was lying about forgetting the instructions. " That means I don't need you at all, right? Ha ha. "
"Why the confused face? You thought I wouldn't do this? And don't you dare blame me for this, it's that moron's fault for not binding me properly. He should have predicted this. Or maybe he just didn't care about you two from the beginning. If that's the case, he deserves some praise. I'll compliment him before I crush his skull. " Sukuna said as he placed both of his hands together and focused his cursed energy around him. "Do you have anything you want to tell him? A few insults, maybe? I'm feeling very generous today so I'll hear you out for a few seconds. "
Sukuna saw as Yuki started running away as fast as she could. "Too slow. If you wanted to escape you should have run right after feeding the fingers. Though if you think about it, this is also your fault for taking too long to get here in the first place."
'This can't be. Ainz wouldn't do this to me or Junpei he must have... could he really have overlooked this?! No way. He must have known about it and just... ' Yuki tried to rationalize what she was seeing mind went blank. Her life flashed before her eyes as she began to truly hate Ainz for betraying her.
Sukuna then released his cursed technique at both Yuki and Junpei aiming to kill both of them because he was pissed off that they took too long to feed him the fingers and also because he found it to be kinda funny. The cursed energy moved through the air, but right when it was about to hit them, Sukuna felt his body freezing up. The cursed energy that was surrounding him quickly dispersed as a huge magic circle appeared under him.
"Maybe he's smarter than I thought... the deal was for me to stay where I awoke for 60 minutes, but I guess that wasn't about staying in the same location...I did took a few steps no problem after all... Is the condition about staying out of the game? If that's the case, that filthy curse could consider killing a player as playing the game which means I just... well done, for a cursed spirit, that is. Here I was thinking that I had a loophole in my hands. Ha ha ha. " Sukuna said as he suffered a penalty for trying to attack a player. His cursed energy would be sealed for the remaining 58 minutes. "Now I can't even fight back if someone tries to beat me, but I guess that I couldn't do that even before the penalty though. " Sukuna said as he tried to exit the magic circle only for his feet to be burned by a small spark.
"Can't even take a single step either?! He really tightened the leash huh... going through so much trouble just to protect a bunch of humans that I'll kill anyways." Sukuna said as he looked at his destroyed toe. He then looked at where Yuki was only to find that she had already left a few moments before. "The woman is gone too. She didn't even say goodbye though, what an impolite whore. She needs punishment... I'll have to remember to not kill her right away once I catch her. " Sukuna said as he placed his hands in his pockets.
