Chapter 5
Back at the domain…
Sukuna was contemplating it all.
Sitting in silence in his home he has focused, meditated and tried to understand what he has now. After all, lady Tiamat does not break her agreements! The moment he assisted her, she unlocked his elemental power. Instantly, he knew what he was connected to, but now… how to use it.
"It's one thing to have that energy opened to you, it's another to have it explained as to HOW to use it!" he protested.
He knew Chusi has been keeping a close eye on this, she was giggling at his outburst. "It takes time, even my family never perfected elemental. Then again, I think we were already over powered as it were…"
"Tsk, as if that is possible for a sorcerer. But you said your family dabbled in this too did they not?!" he demanded.
"Dabbled, but never perfected." She explained. "The closes one was my uncle who taught you about herbs, remember? Although he never got elemental power, he always said he could see spirits guide him as to what was good for what."
"Damn it, I got tricked…" Sukuna muttered. "I'm going for a walk."
He needed to clear his head, after all, this power is not easy to call upon, control or even gain. He is aware he has to make contracts with elemental spirits… but who would want to with the likes of him? No, he has to get basics down, there are some things he can do WITHOUT a contract with spirits, however, to figure that out…"
He paused as the brat returned with his brat.
His former vessel was trying to explain something, yet his son appeared rather disgusted and disturbed by it all.
Curious.
Sukuna decided to get a closer look to see what had happened. He waited for the brat to leave, as his son stood there, stunned and confused by it all. "You look ill," he announced breaking the boy out of his blank state.
He turned to him, bewildered and asked. "Have you eaten curses?"
Sukuna paused. "Huh… good question, I can't quite recall that I have… bathing… that's another story…"
His look became even stranger. "You bathed… Never mind…" he said and waved off the conversation. "But you didn't eat them to your knowledge?"
"Why?" Sukuna asked.
"Dad… ate one,"
Sukuna peered over at the brat but nodded. "Child, remember, he ate mummified parts of me. I wouldn't put it pass that brat that he could eat an elephant. He eats DRAGONS like snacks" He said bluntly.
It got the boy to laugh aloud to it all, he settled but was still a little disturbed by what he learned today. "Dad said he ate them all the time, but, he stopped when he was turning into a dragon… Today was the first time he ate one in a while…"
'So the brat can do that too… it may explain how he was able to match his curse energy to mine during the trial of body and soul…' Sukuna thought to himself.
"He took me curse hunting today… it was… interesting, but I only got to kill one… Not to mention, I couldn't really show off what I could do…"
"Oh?" Sukuna peered over, curious. At the same time he could perhaps learn a thing or two from the child. He is using only elemental power to fight, if he observes the boy enough, then perhaps he can better understand the technique of it all.
"Did you have a method you wanted to try out?"
The boy peered at him oddly. He still doesn't trust him. Which is very understandable in Sukuna's mind, he wouldn't trust himself either! "Well, it's rough…"
"All techniques start out rough." He said bluntly. "The fact is you have something you wish to improve upon, would you consider my opinion on the matter?"
Odd thing was, the boy appeared tempted.
He looked at him, deeply thinking but then sighed aloud. "I don't know how much of a help you'll be, but fine," he said. "Let's go to in the open field there."
There was a large, flat land that was near by the homes in the domain. Sanso has been tempted to turn it into farmland, but Sukuna could care less about it. He and the boy were silent as they made their way over. Sukuna stood there and waited to see what the boy had in mind.
"Now, as I said, this is rough… you're going to laugh."
"Probably,"
The boy sighed. He turned to the snow and arched his right hand over it. The snow moved to his command, complied before him until… it appeared to be a snowman.
"Is that it?" Sukuna asked. "It's a mere child's snowman, what of it?"
Then, he child snapped his fingers.
"Snow golem, please move three feet to the right."
This was when things got interesting.
The snowman moved on its one, shifting itself three feet to the right as was commanded of him.
"Snow shikigami…" Sukuna whispered.
NOW he was interested.
He kept looking over the snowman and nodded. "A sound concept, and, why snowmen?"
The child shrugged. "It's the only thing I could think of."
But then, a new idea came to mind. "Let's push this farther… you interested in what I have to say?"
The boy nodded. "I'll listen, what did you have in mind?"
Sukuna's smile turned wicked…