DEMON

Sero hummed to himself as he stretched out his tape and put another talisman on it. Behind him, two piles of tape coated in shimenawa languished behind him.

"I'm afraid to ask, given how everyone else's moves have turned out so far, but what exactly is the point of covering up all the sticky parts of your tape?"

Sero giggled and said, "You'll see."

"That's what worries me."

Sero put on one last shimenawa, stood, and stretched. "Perfect! Now we lay the bait."

Sero yanked on some tape. Mineta came flying into the room, bound, gagged, and tied to a rotisserie. Sero set Mineta over a fire, turned him slowly, and called out, "Oh boy, I really hope a demon doesn't show up and make off with this untouched, holy virgin."

"Screw you!" Mineta said through the gag. "I'm not a virgin, I'm a dirty, dirty boy who gets with all the girls!"

The lights dimmed. Wind rustled in the enclosed room, and the walls rattled ominously. A crimson vapor swirled in the room. From it stepped out a horrid, three-legged ogre with two gaping mouths on its head, and one massive eyeball on its chest. The eyeball twitched violently and set its gaze on the Mineta rotisserie. Black tar dribbled off its twin chins.

"Mmm… what a tasty looking virgin!" One mouth squealed. The other mouth rumbled deeply, "And already cooked for us too."

Sero raised the twin trails of tape. "Hero Move: Sealing Art of Demon Duct Detainment." The tape moved of its own volition, coiling about the demon's three legs like boa constrictors. The demon squealed and groaned as the bonds tightened.

"My cursed technique combines tape and shimenawa to create the ultimate trap. Any demon caught in it cannot free themselves."

The demon wrenched its arm, and the shimenawa glowed. The tape constricted even tighter, crushing the limb in a spray of black ichor.

"Oh, did I forget to mention?" Sero grinned. "The more you struggle, the tighter it gets."

"Screw you!" Both mouths screamed. "When I break out of here, I'm going to rip your limbs off and make you watch me eat them!"

The demon thrashed. The shimenawa lit up, and for a second, the bindings loosened. The demon howled and charged forward, only for the tape to slam shut around it, crushing it in a shower of miasma and filth. The shimenawa, smoldering slightly, drifted to the floor. The black sludge compressed at its heart dissolved, leaving behind only a finger.

Sero picked up the finger. "Eww, gross, is that the last guy this thing ate? Should we give it a burial?"

Itadori Yuuji jumped through a window, snatched the finger, and swallowed it in one gulp.

"Ugh, taste never gets any better. Thanks tape dude!"

Itadori leapt out another window. Sero and Aizawa stared after him in wordless horror.

"Did he just…"

"How about we forget this ever happened and I make my hero move, like, a tripwire."

"A-plus and deal."

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I didn't realize I needed a MHA/Jujutsu Kaisen crossover until I wrote this.

Also, if those Japanese talisman things aren't called Shimenawa, please be considerate. I have a cultural learning disability called being American.