Don't Fuck with the White Mage (Jujutsu Kaisen - Utahime Iori SI Chapter 17)

"We are 20 minutes till destination, Utahime." Mei Mei answered. "Did something happen?" She asked, picking up on the severity in my tone.

"Yeah." I said back with finality. "A lot happened."

I told her about the Special Grades Curses, Tanaka encountered. I told her about the specific three whose powers make them the most dangerous of this mission.

"So yeah, basically we have a fucking Curse that acts as the tankest tank to exist with the highest vitality stat present. A healer that can fucking reverse time. And a literal goat devil evil priest looking muthafucker, that can rip the soul outta your body and turn it into a Cursed Spirit. So yeah! ...You may have sensed that I'm a little bit on edge." I concluded my explanation.

"Wow. I haven't heard you talk so freely since you lost the Old Man in a music battle, and decided to just try and, what were your words, try and stomp his Cursed Technique with your Reversal on full blast." Mei Mei said with some merit. There was some odd giggling in the background.

"Yeah, yeah, I remember and... Wait you said 'we' is someone there with you?" I asked.

"Ah, yo Senpai! Gojo Satoru here!" I blinked at that. What are the odds? "And I'm sorry for not saying anything but... that was the most entertaining mission debriefing I've ever heard, hahahahaha!" Satoru then just started laughing without holding back.

"Satoru-san, huh. Nice to meet you. Wish it had been under better circumstances. Although I did hear from Geto-san that you needed a full day to rest?" I asked to make sure.

"Ah, Senpai already asking about me? I'm blushing." Satoru's tone had a mock embarrassed note to it, like he was actually blushing.

I felt my eyelids twitch.

"Oi, brat! Be serious for the mission. Joke afterwards!" I said reflexively.

"Eh?" I could feel him blink in surprise.

I quickly coughed. Damn, I'm usually more polite and restraint than that. Guess learning about Proto-Mahito is stressing me a bit.

"What I mean is, how well is your fighting capacity? If you're low on Cursed Energy or you're still fatigued I can get you back to a hundred percent." I explained.

"Ah, no worries, Senpai. You don't need to be that concerned about me. Although... already using my first name? Obvious concern? You know those rumors are probably a joke started by someone trying to be funny, or desperate, right?" Satoru said slyly.

I raised an eyebrow at the obvious annoying bait, as my expression went into a dry look.

This whole talk is gonna be this derailing and annoying, isn't it?

"Woah. For some reason I feel like you have a really disgusted look on your face." Satoru said in joking and warily tone.

"That's because I am." I replied.

"Ouch." He said matter-of-factly

"Also my former teammate is from the Gojo Clan. If I just keep referring to you as Gojo, it's just gonna get confusing." I said out loud.

"Did you say something, Utahime?" Tanaka looked in my direction.

"Not you!" I said back.

"Wait, wait Courage the Cowardly Gojo is there?" Satoru joked. I saw Tanaka frown and flinch at the label, then step away to not hear the conversation as he just focused more on the sleeping Sana.

"Please don't call him that, and yes." I answered.

"Hahahahahaha!" Satoru just laughed some more. "So you're saying about giving me a Full Restore, but you don't need to Senpai. By the time I get to the fight I'll be at 100% naturally." He said and I could feel his cocky grin.

"That's just it. I don't think we have time to wait for 20 minutes." I said back gravely. "That Meguru needs to die as quickly as possible. But above that Iyashi is far too dangerous to give him any time to transfigurate more Sorcerers, or worse get more skilled with his abilities. These Curses seem specifically geared to learning how to work as a team and improving quickly. Not to mention them having a Respawn Button means they a much greater and faster understanding of their abilities by facing death and coming back from it, over and over again." I explained.

"Yeah." Satoru said back, his voice thankfully serious now. "Sorcerer get stronger the more their lives are on the line. Actually dying and returning, they likely would get stronger very rapidly." He said. "At least we can count on that Meguru to have the slowest growth of them." He chuckled. "So what's the plan, Senpai?"

"Utahime, we'll need to the southern area of Urasato now. Nari, Shoto, stay with Tanaka and Sana, till another team come to you. If Sana wakes up and seems relatively well, retreat back to the nearest town." Kamo-sensei ordered.

"Right!" I said, heading with the group as they finished catching their breath and regrouping and were ready for battle again. "Can you teleport?" I asked bluntly.

"Hmm, ah. Yeah, but I was saving it for an emergency. Although I guess this qualifies, and Senpai can MP Restore me-"

"Good. Get the entire the helicopter and Mei Mei and appear a few meters above where I am. I'll transform the helicopter itself into a Cursed Tool while buffing you back up." I said eagerly.

Good. With both Satoru is back to one hundred, and Mei Mei offering aerial support, then we can storm the Cursed Spirits before they can deal too much damage.

Our group was dashing at top speed toward the southern containment area. With the short break I recovered a good bit of my energy, and buffed the group so they can use the excess Cursed Energy to physically reinforce themselves much higher than they normally could.

"Ah, Senpai." Satoru sounded a bit bashful, although it was obvious he was play-acting. "I know this Gojo Satoru is so awesome and all, sadly that awesomeness is only for me."

It took a moment for me to digest Satoru's words, as we came on a scene from hell. The Sorcerers were overwhelmed by the Cursed Spirits. They were still holding on, fighting for their lives, fighting against body controlled comrades, or those that were turned into a Cursed Spirit, or becoming some monstrous amalgamation like a Frankenstein experiment.

I saw black and white snakes fly into a poisonous pond made by Snake Skin, then flying and ramming into a Sorcerer, causing their body to start to suffer necrosis from the poison, that spread from the affected area.

I saw Sorcerers with bees stuck to the back of their neck, marched to Goblin Maker who devoured them, to create unique mage or shaman-looking like goblins with Cursed Techniques.

Rust Cloth was zipping fast around the battlefield launching continuous mini-corrosion waves like a doppler-effect. It not only weakened any barrier made, but did so to Sorcerer's techniques as their body strengthening from Cursed Energy.

At the poison swamp were four Snake Skins were capturing and dragging people into the swamp. All of the Snake Skins visible were fake. Some where normal naga looking creatures, others had a Cursed Spirit for a lower half, but those were either fake looking lighter with lighter Cursed Energy inside them. Or they were victims of Goblin Maker remade to looked like Snake Skin to add to his ambushing.

"Everyone go out and bring me anyone injured!" I dashed toward Colony that was standing back from everyone trying to disappear in the background.

The fuckers are way too good working together. I thought with a growl.

I grabbed a Bee Curse that came near and crushed it in my hand. My weapons that I was having hovering near my thus far came to life and began firing.

"I see." I said to Satoru on the phone. "So basically you're useless till you get here."

"Eh?" Satoru blinked at the comment.

Colony looked surprised at me before laughing in delight. That laughing stopped when it saw any Bee Curse that came near me disintegrate. It looked worried when upon concentrating Cursed Energy in my body over and over again, while amplifying it, the condensing and amplifying again.

With Will-O-Wisp cloak covering me, I looked like a Sorcerer covered in dense burning layer of Cursed Energy.

Rust Cloth came at me, coming near trying to weaken my Cursed Technique and energy with his presence, and even try to slash at me. Even a near-miss would disrupt a Sorcerer's Cursed Energy. It looked gleeful, as if it thought my actions were a desperate dash.

I grabbed it's arm, and with nothing by strength, pulled it from its path causing it to let out a shriek of confusion. I let go, grabbed it's leg and with a concentrated blasted of my Curse Reversal, ripped one of its legs apart.

It cried out in sudden shock and disbelief.

I threw it back toward some of the Sorcerers on my team, who started to engage the massively disadvantaged Cursed Spirit.

Colony looked scared now, trying to run away.

With a dash I cracked the ground, and launched myself at Colony. It attacked with its spear that was covered in Cursed Energy with some property to it. Poison or paralysis. It didn't matter what.

Mid-air I switched my Cursed Energy into Positive Energy, batted the spear away with a floating shotgun, reached and grabbed Colony by the neck, much to its terrified screaming.

"Gojo Satoru. Before anything, I would like to say that I genuinely do respect yours and Geto Suguru's capabilities and status as Special Grades, as your roles keep many people, ordinary and Sorcerers alike, safe." I said.

"Errr, I'm flattered?-"

"And I usually I'm much more polite to my peers and kouhais, but this situation is specially stressful." I slammed Colony into the ground, grabbed her tongue, and just flooded the bitch with my Reverse Cursed Technique. "So I apologize if my next words were harsh."

Colony couldn't even scream as it was exorcise by Positive Energy burning it inside and out. I could feel it's connection to every Bee Curse that infected a human. I pushed my Cursed Energy along that connection. Then reverse that energy. The Bee Curses exploded with Positive Energy that healed their victims as the curses themselves burned and died.

Then with a blast of Gathering Hallowed Belt's purification version, the Special Grade Cursed Spirit Colony was dead.

The air in the battlefield immediately changed.

The Cursed Spirits started to work less coherently, as if something that was easing the sense of cooperation was gone.

I witnessed a small bit of Colony's Cursed Energy leave again with Meguru's link. I studied it, analyzed it, memorized it, and tried to destroy it. I was too late again. But Colony was still down and out for a while.

"One Special Grade is down, we can do this!"

"Push them back! Push the back from the barrier!"

"Send the injured to Utahime!"

The spirits of the Sorcerers began to rise again as the first injured reached me and I got to work.

"Errr, Senpai? You're kinda reminding me of old man Yaga now." Satoru said on the phone. A chuckle and a mock-nervous laugh in his voice.

I took a deep breath, thinking carefully on my words.

"It's fine that you can't teleport with Mei and copter and everything over." I said. "I understand that it's not a matter of fear or worry that you don't have enough Cursed Energy or the like. It's not that you wouldn't, you just simply couldn't." I said pointedly. "Mei Mei, I'll see you when you get here."

"Roger that." Mei Mei seemed to hold back a laugh as she said that.

I hanged up the call.

With maximum output, the first near-death Sorcerer to come close to me was instantly revived. All those within my range were began to heal as well.

Time to heal. No one dies under my watch.


"It's not that you wouldn't, you just simply couldn't."

Click.

The call closed.

Satoru blinked at the words said to him. He didn't hear anything said afterwards.

"...Did she just...?" He said to Mei Mei, but mainly to himself.

It's not Satoru have never heard other Sorcerers be rude or insult him, or say scathing remarks behind his back but...

That was just it, they never said it to his face.

"Pfft, what is she, twelve? Saying I can't do it. Was that a sex joke? Senpai should have been more mature than that. Isn't she a lady?" Satoru complained as he leaned back into his chair while looking out of the cockpit window.

"True." Was Mei Mei's simple answer.

"I mean really, that was just so rude!" Satoru whined.

"Uh huh." Mei Mei nodded with a neutral smile. Eyes ahead on the road.

"Saying 'it's not that I wouldn't, but that I couldn't'. Please I totally couldn't have teleported all of us there you know. I'm conserving my energy for the fight. I'm being responsible, isn't that what I'm suppose to do! Heck, that's what Principal Yaga is always shouting at me about." Satoru said dramatically, waving his arms around as he talked.

"Commendable."

"Exactly!" Satoru exclaimed. "I mean, if I use an untested part of my abilities that would just be stupid. Utahime was just being really childish with that parting remark. Heh, I thought she would be much more mature than that." He chuckled and smiled.

"Of course."

"..." Satoru sat silent as he watched the ground and scenery pass him by.

Him and Mei Mei just sat in silence waiting for Urasato to come into sight.

"..." Mei Mei just hummed as she flew the helicopter.

"..." Satoru was pouting like a child, trying to appear calm, but his mind running a mile a minute.

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"LIKE FUCKING HELL I CAN'T DO IT! I'M GOJO FUCKING SATORU, AND IF I WANT TO TELEPORT A GOD DAMN FLYING HELICOPTER, WHILE MAINTAINING ITS FLIGHT AND STRUCTURAL INTEGRETY AND EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE IN IT, I DAMN WELL CAN!"

"But Satoru-san. That's not something you've ever tried before." Mei Mei acted shocked and surprised. Her acting was terrible and lackluster. "Then again all of Utahime's Techniques are something she achieved in spur of the moment where failure was more or less death."

"PHASE. TWILIGHT. EYES OF PRAJÑĀ. CURSED TECHNIQUE LAPSE: MAXIMUM CURSED ENERGY OUTPUT: BLUE!"

Cursed Energy enveloped the helicopter. The craft seemed to lurch for a moment as if it was a cartoon and was suddely pulled back, then lurch forward.

And then it disappeared.


I felt it above in the sky.

A distortion in space. It reminded me of Limitless and I smiled.

"Good. Looks like he can do it if he tried." I said to myself, much to my comrades' confusion.

The moment the helicopter manifested in the sky, before it could start to fall I activated my Domain.

"Bestowing Kagura."


Satoru blinked as he saw the battlefield around him. All the Cursed Spirits and Sorcerers.

Utahime really didn't explain how dire the situation was. Or maybe she thought she can handle it until he arrived.

Then she activated her Domain, and Satoru's eyes were greeted to the infamous miko's inner world.

A world of tranquility and peace. Even if the fog of the sky or the ground were ominous, it gave a sense that hope or calm will arrive soon.

"...Beautiful." Satoru found himself saying before being conscious of it.

He could see how the Cursed Energy flowed within the Domain, what Utahime's Cursed Technique did when it touched anyone with in.

Any Curse unlucky enough to be in her radius wasn't ripped apart, like they would with Blue. No the process was much more fluid than that. It's as if they broke down into their particle elements. As if the Curses were mist dispersed by light shined on them, or a dream that evaporates when the dreamer awakens. It almost looked peaceful.

All of this happened within the millisecond the Domain was cast.

In the next moment, Satoru who's body felt light, and sleepy from the exhaustion of the move he just pulled was shot back up wide awake.

The Positive Energy was flooding him in such a manner that... No. His own Cursed Energy was amplified, a hundred times over, her Cursed Energy moving along side his, almost like a partner, or a dance with his own Cursed Energy. Then her Cursed Energy would turn to Positive Energy moving along his own Cursed Energy pathways. That way she didn't need to have knowledge of how to heal someone's body, because their own body provided her Cursed Energy the answer to do it. She worked with another person's Cursed Energy to amplify, to heal...

Or to erase. He realized with a chuckle. And with how her Cursed Technique has her Cursed Energy moving side by side with someone's Cursed Energy... she can probably teach people different Techniques that only use Cursed Energy with this, like Reverse Cursed Technique. I wonder if she realizes this?

Satoru's Cursed Energy kept rising and being amplified continuously, over and over. First the 12% he had left turned into 24%, then 48%, then 96% then finally 192%.

"Woah!" He cried out excitedly.

The next moment, Satoru saw how Utahime's Cursed Energy infused the helicopter, the attacked guns, missiles and the minigun along with its case. Watching the process of infusing Cursed Energy into an object was fascinating as well.

Infused Cursed Energy into the object. Amplify and compress. Amplify and compress. Again and again and again.

He could see how each time she amplified the Cursed Energy while its in the object, the Cursed Energy would sweep into the item more and more, becoming a more fixed part of it.

Until finally the object 'came alive' so to speak by becoming a Cursed Tool.

A few seconds later the Domain went down. The entire process took five seconds in total.

Gojo Satoru couldn't stop his grin at seeing someone so magnificent.

"Sorry, Mei-san! Gotta fly!" He cried out with a wide grin.

He quickly got up from his seat, took the minigun outta the suit case and flew outta the aircraft. He saw where UTahime was at, saw the metal suitcase near her and... Wait!

THAT THE MISSILE LAUNCHER! He thought with a made grin.


I let out a sigh and wiped the sweat from my brow. Now to get my minigun and work together with Mei Mei and Sat-

I felt the suitcase next to me with the ATGM suddenly fly out of my control. I tried to wrestle it and...

"That's Limitless. Which fucking!" I looked around at which shithead Gojo thought to try and take my weapon from me and...

"Hahahahahahaha, Mei-san! Mei-san, you're right! This is so much fun!" Satoru shouted as he laughed and rained cursed bullets all Cursed Spirits with perfect accuracy with-

"IS THAT MY FUCKING MINIGUN!?" I screamed.

I looked up at the grinning Satoru in the sky firing my fucking minigun at the Cursed Spirits with abandon.

The next instant, whatever hold my Will-O-Wisps had over the suitcase was gone and it fell to the sky.

"SATORU!" I shouted. "GIVE ME BACK MY MISSILE LAUNCHER! MY FUCKING MINIGUN! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THAT SHIT COST ME? IT TOOK MONEY AND FAVORS FOR MEI MEI TO GET IT FOR ME SO FAST! HEEEEEEEEY!"

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Bullets went flying. Curses were dying.

"STOP FIRING AND GIVE ME BACK MY MONEY YOU LITTLE SHIT!"

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"


Gojo Satoru was having the time of his life.

Why didn't anyone tell him using Gun Cursed Tools was this much fun? Heck, the minigun being a Cursed Tool infused the bullets with Cursed Energy automatically, and fired at ten times the speed of a regular minigun. And the bullets themselves being Cursed Tools, thus had hell of an explosive power once they hit something.

It was like firing 500 Cursed Energy bombs per second.

Satoru smiled at Utahime's cheering, opened the Missile Launcher and...

"Oh sexy genius girl." Satoru marveled at the ATGM. This Cursed Tool, from seeing the Cursed Energy within it, Utahime seemed to have infusing and amplifying Cursed Energy within it from the start of the mission.

And now?

This thing didn't just amplify the Cursed Energy the user put in it on it's own, nooooo! The missile itself could taken in someone Cursed Technique, use it for its own, and allow the user remote control of that Technique even after being fired.

"Everyone!" Satoru shouted. "Get away from the snake pit, because I'mma firing my missile!"

"ITS MY MISSILE! SATORU!" Utahime shouted.

"Wow, she has some lungs on her. Cursed Technique!" Satoru infused his Cursed Energy into the ATGM and uploaded his Technique into the projectile. "Missile Blue!"

BOOM!

The missile bursting with Cursed Energy blasted toward Snake Skin and it's giant poison swamp. All Snake Skins, fake and the real one looked on with shocked eyes at that sudden doom that arrived with no warning or explanation.

A shining light, a giant and loud explosion, and then an implosion sphere was born where the poison swamp was.

A giant blue sphere 20 meters wide existed where Snake Skin and its swamp once were. Just drawing in air and anything near.

"Holy shit, this control!" Satoru said with wide eyes and a giant grin.

He could control the implosion Blue sphere. He knew that would happen, but experiencing it was something else!

He had the sphere let go of any people. It's gravity and pull only worked on Cursed Spirits. The present Special Grade Curses cried out, trying desperately to run away, to escape but it was inevitable. From Rust Cloth's useless struggle, to all of Endless Two's snakes and mirror to even the smallest, fastest and sneakiest goblin of Goblin Maker, all were grabbed by the implosion Blue sphere and dragged to their deaths.

All through out it was Gojo Satoru's cheerful laughter at his new toys, and Iori Utahime's shouts of frustration at her lost money.