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To Inumaki, the lovely boy with gorgeous amethyst eyes.


49. Under the Golden Rain

Scandalous. This is scandalous!

Nishimiya Momo felt her jaw starting to numb. She had just witnessed Maguro kissing a helpless Cursed Speech User!

This is despicable of her, to go so far as to take advantage of a helpless Inumaki Toge.

Just as she is about to stand up and stop her, her senpai, Kamo, woke up.

"N-Nishimiya-san," Kamo stuttered, struggling to sit up while still under the guise and belief that he is heavily injured. But when he sits up, nothing happens. He felt around his body for any expected injuries, but there was…none. No dizziness, no pain, wait, not even broken bones or difficulty in breathing and no-

Oh, a golden shower, Kamo thought to himself, distracted with the beautiful view of the golden net-like barrier and the golden rain. What day is today for such a lovely divine view? Is he dead?

Kamo gulped. This is heaven, isn't it?

"Kamo-senpai!" Nishimiya exclaimed, torn between wanting to give the Reverse Cursed User a piece of her mind on moral rights and harrasement before Kamo looked up at her. The scar on his face. Earlier, it was there.

They were gone now.

"Y-Your face… your wounds are all healed," Nishimiya stuttered in shock, not daring to believe her eyes.

"It appears so," Kamo looked himself all over, finding all the small scratches and heck, even years old scars are gone. He looked up and around the strange golden net-like barrier and felt waves of this strange energy he used to feel whenever someone used a Reverse Cursed Technique on him. It was something indescribable. Something that he guessed, only people who have experienced it will be able to understand him. "Are you hurt, Nishimiya-san? And where are we anyway?"

Nishimiya huffed in disbelief, her eyes wide open in shock as she looked up and down at Kamo. She had been there, holding her hand on a large wound on his head. But now, he looked clear as the time before the competition starts.

It had started to rain this golden amber drop when this Maguro starts to sing earlier. People are dying and she sits there singing like a Cinderella. She had heard from rumours that she is Tokyo's new asset apart from Yuuta Okkotsu, being one of the rare few that could use a Reverse Cursed Technique. But singing? What's with that?

So, seeing her sitting there whilst Kamo is left bleeding out infuriates her.

Until she watches Maguro leaned down to kiss Inumaki Toge, the Cursed Speech User!

Her face heated up, ashamed that image of them kissing kept rewinding itself in her head on auto repeat. How to get this thing to stop!?

She lifted both of her hands to cover her face but wait.

Wait.

The scratches on her hands disappeared.

They're not there anymore.

The golden rain dripped on one particular scare on her hand, and it disappears as the golden liquid seeps into her skin.

As if it were never there to begin with.

Nishimiya Momo froze. Her Reverse Cursed Technique goes this far? Even to heal up years old scars?

She wanted to scream. Mai has got to see this. She has plenty of scars. She has got to get these!

DESTINED TO COLLIDE

On the other side of the fight, Sukuna awakens.

"So, the last heir has awakened the Golden Barrier," the King of Curses chuckled. "The only one left who can reverse all my curses as long as the human remains alive. What luck to be alive now, Ita-boy. What luck! Hahahahaha!"

DESTINED TO COLLIDE

Sliding her hand down to Toge's throat, Maguro lightly pressed on his windpipe to get him to swallow the liquid.

To get him to drink the liquid was a feat. Toge isn't exactly light and holding him up already pushes her to her limit with her strength. She'd reckon she might get herself some nice muscles if this goes on any longer.

Slipping her tongue into his mouth, Maguro lets the liquid in her mouth flows faster into his. The golden liquid was cool to the touch, and it remained the same temperature in her mouth. This should ease the pain in his throat while this golden liquid worked its remedy with him. The taste, however, was an otherworldly, mouth-watering taste.

She recalled in her early, younger years, that her parents had fed her with this peculiar honey brought back from the market. Wasn't really something that peculiar, actually, but its taste was something that no other honey she ever had in her life has that texture and flavour. A very flowery taste. Very floral. Might taste a little like a Lily flower or something, or a sweet blossom in the field.

And it was then, Toge's tongue moved against hers.

Surprised, she squeaked.

She was about to release him when he held her back down with his hand. Fingers easily slide behind her neck, Toge sits up and pulled her towards him, returning the kiss passionately.

She opened her eyes, only to find his glittering amethyst staring back into hers openly. His irises were dark.

Very, very dark.

She whimpered when Toge tightened his grip on her and deepens their kiss.

He was still, despite his current predicament, awake. He merely closes his eyes to rest a while. He knew Maguro is trying her best here, the familiar feeling of her cursed energy fluctuating around them as her voice pulls out the positive cursed energy from within her. It felt warm, and it made him all the sleepier.

It was then he felt the warmth surrounding them flows out of her in waves, feeling her weaving the barrier with her Casting it out with that lovely voice and song. But he didn't know that she managed it all alongside her Reverse Cursed Technique. He did feel her holding a hand to his lips but, having closed his eyes, he didn't know he was to open his mouth to drink it.

Maguro didn't say anything after all.

Then surprise, surprise. Maguro kisses him.

Even after they've started dating for weeks already, they were still both shy with each other. But between them, Maguro was the far more reserved one, glowing red whenever he leaned into her face. He grows to like that, teasing her often with nose rubbings and butterfly kisses. She would squeak and turn red but would look up at him through her lashes and smiles shyly.

So, for her to be this forward, it was very surprising for him.

A pleasant surprise for him, dare he think about it?

Until he felt a cool liquid flowed into his mouth.

It was the loveliest thing he had ever tasted in his entire life. The taste was so overwhelmingly floral, like honey, but sweet and lovely. It made him felt as if he's floating on a cloud. A drug, then?

No. Not drug. Doesn't taste very chemical for it.

Until he opens his eyes.

Maguro had hers closed, but he sees the tears in her eyes, and the golden barrier net she had weaved around them on the roof. It appears to rain amber liquids. A new type of barrier. He had never seen one with the likes of these.

And it was the loveliest Technique he had ever witnessed in his entire life.

Toge felt his throat healing up. Must be the liquid's help.

Then, her tongue slides in.

Can't really blame him, but he lost all semblance of rational right then and there, and his inner desire's control broke.

Sitting up, he held her close to him and pulled her face up to his, kissing her deeply under the golden rain as he loses himself in her. Slipping his tongue into her mouth, Toge hungrily lap up the liquid she had fed him earlier and heard her squeak as she gripped his shoulder and the lapels of his shirt tightly.

He had wanted to kiss her like this for so long, and he had patiently waited for his little Maguro to warm up to him more. And since she has shown him such a welcome wakeup call, he had to return the favour, no?

Inumaki Toge is a very patient person. But this time, Maguro broke the dam blocking all his control and desire for her. Though it wasn't intentional, but what's done is done.

Maguro is his after all.