Chapter 23

"MOM!"

The kids were quick to gather around Yua as she returned from her treatement. Suguru smiled as he approched her but still kept his distance. Being in such a relationship is confusion.

"Yua, how is everything?" Suguru asked of her.

She sighed. "I'm healed… but… not in the head on the matter…"

He understood completely. She is able to still have children, but the trama inflicted upon her wasn't going away any time soon.

"If you need anything…"

"Pops, you live in the same house as we do, she'll let you know!" Rook said in a sarcastic tone.

He snickered to that and nodded. "Ah, right…"

"So, how have things been here?"

"Oji and I went hunting… I am getting board of eating pork…" Rook said in a rather tired tone.

"Pork?" Yua asked and turned to Suguru.

He smirked about it. "Training regiment Sukuna has him on. But that got put by the wayside for the past few days…"

She was curious now. Suguru snickered as did the kids, they brought Yua to Sukuna's residence. But you could hear a screaming infant from a few feet from the door.

"Ooo, Ryoto has some pipes!" Yua snickered. She decided to go in and see if she could help. The kids and Suguru remained outside as they sighed aloud.

Shin appeared worried. "Mom's not competely better…" he said with concern.

Suguru nodded to him. "You're right, she's not." He said gently.

"Then, what do we do to help?" Mochi asked.

"This isn't something you can help with, this is your mother's fight. I know how you feel, I don't know what I can do to help her. But at the moment, I think I am looking at the only children she will bare"

The three froze to this, Rook appeared rather dissappointed.

"Like hell I am staying the youngest in this group!" he protested. Yet he sighed, realizing how childish he sounded.

It was then, Suguru noticed how quite it became.

Looking to Sukuna's residence, it was quite. Yua came out a few minutes later, holding Ryoto over her shoulder. "I'm going to baby sit for a while…" she whispered.

Suguru pointed back inside the house, but Yua smirked. "Both are passed out,"

He found that strange. Certainly, Sukuna knew a technique that would prevent him from needing sleep right? But a child has burned him out? There will be jokes to make about this later, for now. Suguru opted to help Yua babysit.

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Elsewhere…

"Are you serious?"

He was just given the news now. Why? Because Kenjaku decided to test other ideas out. But, he is now realizing he made a good call in leaving the jujutsu sorcerers behind. Every pawn he had left, have been destoryed. He tried to call up the reserves and those in hiding, but no one answered him. Kenjaku sighed realizing now that the jujutsu council has fallen.

It didn't matter, he's working on a new test subject… well… subjects.

In fact, he was in England now, looking over the process.

"Baldr, are you sure of this?"

Kenjaku smiled as he turned to the underling.

"This is a known jujutsu I saw in Japan, it is similar to a revival technique the divine are capable of doing, but we have to modify it just slightly." He explained. The technique came from one Grannie Origami. She was able to copy information of the dead and implant them on to a vessel. She used 'grandchildren' to do such a technique, when in reality they were merely brainwashed humans.

However, this technique ended up causing her death. She summoned Toji Fushiguro and he took over his vessel rather easily.

After learning of this, Kenjaku has researched the technique a little more carefully. Which is why he is here and now.

The dragon slayers have some divine users in their ranks, but none have any sort of power that could bring the dead back to life. Luckily for them, Kenjaku had come up with a method, but he needed a lot of materials.

"For example, I need vessels, living people." Was the first order.

The slayers didn't waste time in gathering vessels. And due to the sensative nature of this, they decided among their weakest to become the test subjects.

In the end, Kenjaku had merely two to start off with.

"We are rather divided right now, Baldr. Will these do?"

He was dissappointed, yet, he can't let them know that. "Two are better than none" he tried to say in a positive tone. He went to the lab and found his test subject strapped down.

"THIS ISN'T FAIR!" the man yelled. "I'M NOT WEAK!"

"No, but I do believe you two are not favored around here…" Kenjaku said offhandedly. "Now then, you are going to cooperate. And when this is said and done, you are going to head to Japan as an elite squad. From here on out, you are not just hunting dragons, but sorcerers as well… Not to worry, I will brief you on the matter, but first things first."

He began to start his experiment.

Kenjaku opted to use curse energy since he understood the method better. But first, he took two capsles and shoved them into the back of the throats of his subject. They each swallowed one, containing the remains of his targets.

Then he started the incantation. Their bodies began to glow oddly, but he swore there was some sort of fire that erupted during the process. Perhaps that was part of it? He wasn't certain, yet. When the incantation finished, the two subjects were smoldering. Steam was coming off their bodies as their apperances completely altered to that of his targets.

He walked around and peered at them, smiling. "Ah, it worked." He said with great satifaction. "How do you feel?"

The young man stepped off the table, he broke the leather strapping with ease as he walked about for a moment, rotating his arms and head to test out the range. "Not bad… who is this guy?" the slayer got a good look in the mirror, a young face stared back at him. He had good features and appeared remarkably strong. "Not bad…" he even went as far as looking down his pants, he appeared rather content with that as well…

"Now, this is the body of one Shin Tooru. An infamous clan in Japan who helped Ryomen Sukuna's rise to power. This young man here is from the last generation of that clan, he possessed no technique or curse energy, but has heavenly restrictions." Kenjaku explained.

"Heavenly restrictions?"

"How about you battle the same slayers that forced you into this position?"

Suddenly, a wicked grin came over the dragon slayer…