Sukuna has been living inside of Megumi's body for over eight years, over a third of the kid's life. While his peers have gone on to become fully-fledged adults and many of them have already died or had children, he remains trapped inside of his body. He has not been able to move or even blink and had to suffer the hell of watching and experiencing Sukuna slaying his sister and the closest thing he had to a father, followed by these years of nothingness.

At some point, Megumi began to imperceptibly wear down the wall that existed between him and Sukuna. He's not sure when he got the idea, but it took Sukuna a very long time to notice because he was so accustomed to proximity to Megumi's soul.

The purpose of this was to trap Sukuna. While he can eject his own soul from Megumi's body, he can't eject Megumi's soul. Only Megumi can do that. So attaching himself to Sukuna means Sukuna can't leave him, ensuring that he doesn't ruin another person's life.

Megumi is desperately worried about Ryosuke Okkotsu, because he knows Sukuna would love to have that body.

Sukuna had become aware this was occurring during the last year, but didn't know the extent of the issue until he started thinking about jumping ship and started to feel things out during his conversation with Yuji.

Sukuna says, "Obviously, it's a deal that works for everyone. Assuming Reksten's body is suitable, I'll take it. This increases our available fire power to assault Alghera by both giving us Reksten's power and by allowing you to rejoin the efforts. Surely, you're not concerned about Reksten's wellbeing."

Megumi stands up and dusts himself off. "I don't care what happens to that guy. He came here to hurt Gojo's daughter. Whatever the worst fate he can suffer is, I hope it happens to him. But I'm not just going to let you out."

Sukuna's expression drops. "…what? What do you mean you want to keep me in here? Don't you want to live?"

"Of course I do! As long as you're trapped in this body, I can ensure you die in it. If you go into Reksten, you'll probably leave it when you find something better. Or, you'll use Reksten's technique to kill innocent people and collect their techniques. I know you've got your eyes on Yuta and Maki's son."

Sukuna says, "Isn't he just fascinating? His whole body can morph like that? I've honestly never seen anything like it!"

Megumi adds, "I know you want a path to Mahoraga. I'm not letting you leave this body so you can make Ryosuke suffer what I've suffered. It stops here. You can find some other way. What is even the purpose of saving the world from the Great Curses just to let you burn whatever is left?"

The King of Curses is just legitimately, fully, and inexplicably confused that he is being denied the right to leave the body he violently possessed so many years ago. The fact Megumi found a way to keep him inside without him noticing until it was too late is infuriating, and this?

If Megumi found a way to dissolve the barrier between them, it stood to reason that he might have been able to perhaps take control of his body from time to time. But that's not what he did; he used his strength on this endeavor instead, turning his body into a prison Sukuna could not escape from without his permission, and now that permission was being denied.

"I'll let you out, only if you agree to my conditions," Megumi answers.

What?

This wet noodle who has been laid out in his own shadow, who hasn't participated in this world for over eight years, who supposedly gave up—this kid is going to give Sukuna conditions?

No part of Sukuna's plan will work without changing bodies, and he needs to execute his plan successfully in order to compensate from the outrageous loss in total power caused by the death of Yuta Okkotsu.

"I'm not agreeing to any conditions. If you don't let me out, we'll all just die together."

Megumi answers, "You'll accept my conditions, because the only thing you care about it is killing the Great Curses. This is an opportunity that's only going to come to you one time, right now. It's not like you can leave this foreign asshole running around threatening to out Sayuri. One way or another, he has to go. If you get stuck in here, you'll just have to kill him.

"And you really, really, really want his technique. Well, you can only have it if you accept my conditions."

Sukuna clenches his teeth. "You damn brat."

"You're the one that came here. This is my body, and you're my prisoner. Did you think that you would suffer no consequences for using a body that didn't belong to you? For using power that didn't belong to you?"

There wouldn't have been consequences if Megumi had truly given up.

After so long, Sukuna is both impressed and enraged that Megumi is going to exert his will on him.

Sukuna says, "If you put too many conditions on me, you're the one who will have to pay."

"I have two conditions."

"What are they?"

"The first one is that for the rest of your life until you leave this world permanently, you can only use your own technique except when fighting the Great Curses or people allied with them in some way. Against any other curse, or sorcerers, or civilians, you can only use your innate technique. This means you can't use the technique-stealing technique against anyone unless they're on that side already."

There are not words for how pissed off Sukuna is at the level of limitation this condition would create. It would keep him from stealing techniques from the Jujutsu Society, or using stolen techniques against them. Since Megumi knows very well that Sukuna will blitz through mastering even the most difficult and powerful techniques, he clearly knows that if Sukuna obtains the ability to continually acquire techniques, he will become unkillable.

Megumi says, "There's no reason for us to go through all this just to rotate out which unkillable demon will terrorize us."

"I'm never going to accept that condition. You're out of your mind."

"Well then, I guess we can just stay here together until this body dies and we'll both die together. You will perish trapped inside of two separate cages you can't escape from. What a fucking king you are."

Sukuna took a swing at him, but he disappeared into the shadow and reappeared behind him.

This was worse than anything Yuji had ever done to him; it was clear that Megumi had chosen to use his very life to shackle Sukuna in whatever way he could.

Megumi would open the cage door only if Sukuna accepted having his wings clipped forever.

Sukuna asks, "What's the other condition?"

"You have to spare the little ones. I know you have incredibly bad intentions toward both Ryosuke and Sayuri. If they grow up and decide they want to fight you to the death, then fine. But you don't get to make that decision. Our generation is the reason you are here, and we are the ones who will deal with you when the time comes. You're not going to run around and torment another generation of young sorcerers. The people you have to fight have all been getting ready for you, and we're not kids anymore."

There were not words for how unacceptable these conditions were and how much Sukuna wanted to be outside of Megumi just so he could rip him apart with his bare hands.

At the same time, Sukuna realizes that the extended period of time he has spent in this body that doesn't belong to him with an occupant who apparently never gave up is going to continually become worse for him. If he stays in the body another ten years, and the Geat Curses are killed, there's no guarantee that Megumi won't be able to take control of the body by then.

It is his, after all, and despite his general silence, he's clearly found ways to manipulate how Sukuna exists within it.

Is Megumi letting him drive because everyone including him knows Sukuna will help them close the books on the Great Curses, only to imprison him in the end the same as if he was still in Yuji's body?

IS HE THE ONE WHO IS BEING USED?

The possibility occurs to him as he stands there staring at Megumi that his real options might be staying in this body and becoming trapped or leaving it with conditions that will restrict him forever.

Megumi asks, "Are you scared? I know you experience fear, because you couldn't face Gojo with only your own strength. I've been here in this place, and I've learned everything about you and how you fight and how you think. You may not have been aware, but things have been happening here in the shadow."

A monstrously huge and unmistakable silhouette forms behind him.

It was Mahoraga, except he was made completely from shadow.

The idea that Megumi has found a way to summon his dead shikigami again? A change in the calculation, certainly.

But Sukuna can't use Ten Shadows, and staying in Megumi's body means they won't have his ability at their disposal.

If Sukuna switches, he'll add Reksten's power to their pool and Megumi's, without losing anything as far as Alghera is concerned.

The presence of a mature Ten Shadows user with Mahoraga certainly compensates for Okkotsu's absence.

If he doesn't switch, he'll have to kill Reksten, Megumi's technique will go to waste, and Sukuna might end up trapped and powerless in this body.

Megumi clearly plans to kill him as soon as the current issue is resolved, and Sukuna just finds that very brazen of him.

The two teenagers he first met when he opened his eyes in this era remain the biggest pains in his ass, but this was unexpected, unprecedented.

Sukuna practically growls at Megumi.

Megumi adds, "I know the reason you want to kill that little girl is because she makes you feel human and that disgusts you because you're that fucked up. That little spot in your cruel, deranged heart that allows you to feel a few fleeting moments of joy won't go away, not even if you kill her. You'd still feel, except you'd feel like shit."

"Moments of joy?"

Megumi says, "I live in here, so you can't deny it to me. Taking care of a child is a deeply meaningful human experience for both the guardian and the child. To think you would be able to do this and nothing would ever change about you is stupid."

"What do you know?"

"I was raised by the man who killed my father."

Sukuna freezes and Megumi asks, "What? Did you think Gojo, as a seventeen-year-old jerk, took me in because he liked me so much? I was an opportunity for him. But where we started isn't where we ended. You'll be different too, but don't worry. You could never become like Gojo. You don't have that kind of potential. That's why you had to use two techniques to face him. You'll probably just hate the only part of you that's vaguely human until the day you die."

Megumi pissing him off so much he thought he might spontaneously combust due to uninvited insight, insults, threats, and demands was surprising and Sukuna was not happy. He thought Megumi would be thrilled at the idea of becoming free. But he's not.

Sukuna abruptly terminates the conversation and leaves, and hears Megumi laughing at him, which is strange, because even before he took the body, it was rare to hear him laugh. He didn't have a sense of humor, but he sure as hell was laughing at Sukuna.

Of course, part of this is Sukuna's own doing. He broke the rule that states that in order to exist in a somewhat workable form, a soul must have a body. Kenjaku discovered that in very specific cases, it didn't have to be the body one was born with. This was breaking the spirit of the natural human law on a technicality, like skating on a razor's edge on an invisible pact that all humans lived under.

There are consequences for breaking rules, even if only on a technicality. Maybe this technicality allowed him to exist in a world he didn't belong to, but there would be a price to pay for it. He had been trespassing for almost nine years now, taking years from Megumi's life and living them as his own.

If Megumi really had given up, and really had just been laying there inert all this time, he would have beaten most of the consequences.

Sukuna is mad.

Mad about all of it.

Does he hate Megumi more than Yuji? Maybe!

Instead of sleeping, he paces the floor in his room, angry, which is audible because of his heavy feet on the wood floors.

He is fuming. Enraged. Ready to fight.

The probability that they'll randomly encounter someone who has some sort of technique that might allow them to be a vessel again in the next decade is slim. Yuji was literally made to contain him, Megumi was suitable both because of his bloodline and because of the nature of Ten Shadows. There aren't other people he's encountered out in the world that could tolerate him, or if they could, they wouldn't be suitable as vessels.

He doesn't believe, for instance, that he could merge with Sayuri due to the peculiar nature of her technique.

If he doesn't escape from Megumi, he might end up unable to control him or leave by the time they can assault the Great Curses.

But he can't do that without making concessions.

Sukuna was fully planning out what he was going to do with this new body that can rip the techniques out of the bodies of other people. He was thinking about how even though many people have probably been trying to game out what they were going to do about him, they'd be unprepared and unable to contend with Sukuna with a constellation of stolen techniques.

In his current form, he can only use his own innate technique, so it's not that Megumi is taking anything from him but potential and the right to do whatever with the kids.

He tries to talk himself down, but he's just blind from anger that Megumi, after all these years, is suddenly showing that he has grown up, he has become strong, and he's not going to let Sukuna get away with the things he did back then.

When he finally manages to sleep, he has what can best be described as a rage rest and awakens pissed off and incredibly energized.

The party travels to the Shibuya settlement using their respective mounts, a little dragon curse for Sukuna and the kid, and a big feathery mess that maybe looks more like a dinosaur than anything for Yuji.

One of Shibuya's defining characteristics as a settlement is a large, perfectly round lake. It looks unusual on approach.

They have to walk under the top of a broken skyscraper that was too heavy to move in order to enter the settlement, and as they do, Sukuna briefly remembers Mahoraga throwing it at him.

Sayuri asks, "This place has so many tall buildings! Have you ever been here before?"

"I've been here before," Sukuna answers, "How about you, Yuji?"

Yuji glares in response.

Shibuya was the best place to evacuate most of Tokyo-2 because it wasn't very far and because they shared essential services like water and electricity, so moving them from one place to another wouldn't strain the infrastructure. The tall buildings had plenty of space to set up futons, so while it wasn't pretty, everyone had shelter.

At the new site they'd chosen as the next Jujutsu Society headquarters, sorcerers were both unsettled and sort of relieved to see Sukuna enter what used to be the second floor of a mixed use building; this floor was full of offices.

Maki Okkotsu is stone-faced and keeping her son close.

Sukuna reveals the identity of his brat only to Toge Inumaki, Shoko Ieri, Atsuya Kusakabe, and Maki Okkotsu while the kids wait in the hallway for them to talk, in order to ensure that Jujutsu Society doesn't start looking for the kid and accidentally unearth her existence to strangers.

Tore Reksten, as far as they know, came to Japan alone. If he came with a group, they don't know where the group is or who they are, so it's possible information might be able to leak that way, but if Sukuna occupies Reksten's body and reads his memories, he'll be able to find and kill others if they exist.

Big if—he's still mad about everything.

Shoko Ieiri seems so angry that Gojo's baby is in the hands of Gojo's killer, but she's forever a non-combatant. Sukuna actually thinks Shoko is the smartest person in the Jujutsu Society, but she can't fight, and it's dangerous to be in that state within an organization where everyone else can kill you.

Kusakabe is worthless as an elder in many ways, but he's basically the main person training young sorcerers.

Inumaki can't say much, but his violet eyes seem angry too.

The others quietly ponder if Sukuna is to blame for this, but Sukuna clearly didn't know about the risk sneaking up on them or he would have dealt with it as there had been some exposure on a matter he desperately wanted to keep a secret. If he had known about Reksten, he would have killed him before he made a mess.

Maki says, "Reksten sent a messenger saying he'd come here on Saturday, and if we didn't hand over the girl, he'll make good on his threats. He's purposefully coming to a densely-populated settlement because he knows we won't fight him here, and considering how dense the urban landscape is around here, it'll be hard to intercept him before he gets here. It's impossible to guess what direction he'll approach from. Posting people out to try and scout out his location would put them at risk."

Sukuna answers, "We don't need to do that. We can use Six Eyes to find him. He's got a ton of cursed energy and a bunch of cursed techniques in his body. He's going to be a very big blip on the proverbial radar."

"She's a little kid. Is that even possible?" Kusakabe asks.

He explains, "If Sayuri is actively looking for him, she'll be able to see him from a thousand meters away, even through walls or buildings or underground. She should also be able to tell us if his body has been corrupted in some sort of way, and how many techniques are in it. She can't read what the techniques are yet, but obviously she's still very useful."

"I was wondering why you brought her," Ieiri answers.

Sukuna says, "I keep her within my reach at all times."

"That's abhorrent. You killed her father," Kusakabe comments.

"Someone recently reminded me that Megumi was raised by his father's killer. Ironic, am I right?"

Yuji glares. "Who reminded of that?"

"Megumi, oddly enough. We had a little chat for the first time in a while. He was very rude for some reason. You can tell Gojo didn't take time teaching him proper manners."

Now everyone in the room is mad at him and Sukuna basks in it. He can't have them thinking they're friends, after all.

"What's the plan?" Shoko says, lighting a cigarette.

Sukuna answers, "I haven't made my mind up yet."

If Reksten is a suitable vessel, Sukuna knows he's going to accept Megumi's offer to make him eat shit.

He's really pissed off about it, but he doesn't feel like he has a choice. Sukuna feels like he needs to escape from this body before Megumi manages to gain control of it, and the probability that they'll encounter another suitable vessel is slim.

That's ignoring the calculus of this situation specifically.

His choices are to eat shit or eat shit, so he'll probably just eat shit. It's the price Megumi will force him to pay, for all the years of his life that were taken.

Sukuna takes binoculars, and the brat, and Kusakabe accompanies them to the roof of the tallest building still standing in Shibuya.

Sayuri takes off her glasses and slowly scans the area, as far as she can see. "I don't see anyone who has a great amount of cursed energy. Not like the people we were just meeting with. No one with more than one technique in their body like Mr. Itadori or you. Some weaker sorcerers, following a road coming in from that way. Two, with a group of people without cursed energy."

"Probably traders," Kusakabe answers.

After she finished scanning the area, Sukuna sets a digital timer to go off every half hour.

She settles in on the roof with her backpack, which has some books.

Kusakabe watches with his own binoculars, but things seem fairly normal as far as he can tell. He doubts that either he or Sukuna are going to see anything before the kid does, especially considering the fact that it's clear Sukuna has been training her to use Six Eyes and he has confidence in her ability to spot a freak like Reksten from far away.

She scans the area again a half hour later.

Kusakabe finds the odd duo very normal looking in a way. He wouldn't say Sukuna acts like an actual parent, but he does seem Sukuna gets annoyed as hell at the kid before spraying her with sunscreen from the bag when he notices her cheeks getting red.

He talks to her and she's friendly, kind of funny. She tells him about whatever he asks, and seems fine. There's evidently a servant in the house who takes really good care of her, and another one who is described by the child as 'not being good with kids.'

He makes the mistake of asking her what she's reading about, and she proceeds to explain everything going on in her book, which is about aliens, and written for adults, discussing whether aliens exist and why humans have never communicated with them.

"Do you ever think about aliens?"

"No."

She looks up at Sukuna, who asks, "Am I even in this conversation?"

"Do you think about aliens?"

"No."

"Have you ever heard of Fermi's Paradox?" she asks.

Sukuna sighs. "I don't want to hear about what some nerd wrote about aliens."

"He killed more Japanese than you."

"Doubtful."

"He built the nuclear bombs that were dropped on Japan."

Sukuna is eating snacks from the backpack, and Kusakabe can tell that this is a daily occurrence for Sukuna. As a teacher, he knows curious students are a peculiar kind of trouble and they take so much patience. The King of Curses is unaffected by this absurdity and thoughtfully considers his response.

"Why does this murder nerd think we don't talk to aliens?"

"One of his theories is that intelligent species destroy themselves before they meet each other."

Sukuna answers, "So this nerd created a means for humans to kill themselves and then sat around wondering if that's just what everyone does? That's some real Kenjaku shit. He would find this conversation delightful."

"Why do you think we haven't encountered aliens?" she asks.

"They probably don't visit our planet because they don't want to be asked questions by annoying children," Sukuna replies.

Sayuri answers, "Maybe they looked through their telescope and saw you and thought, 'what a freak, nobody talk to Earth.'"

They are interrupted by the timer beeping, and she stands up, takes off her glasses, and looks around again.

"There is a group of five sorcerers traveling off the main road. None with multiple techniques. I've seen one of them before. At the market in Kyoto. I forget his name, but he has a tattoo on his neck, and you said he worked for the Rising Sun faction."

Sukuna doubted he ever told Sayuri his name in the first place because he'd also forgotten it, but Kusakabe knew who they were talking about.

She suddenly drops onto her belly and says, "They have binoculars and they're looking this way."

Kusakabe is already leaning against a voltage box and is out of line of sight, and Sukuna crouches.

"A group of sorcerers from the Rising Sun faction? That doesn't sound good. We don't trade with them. Their sorcerers aren't allowed in Jujutsu Society settlements," Kusakabe explains.

The Jujutsu Society and the Rising Sun are adversarial, with settlement populations that are almost equal. They were initially one big faction, but the Jujutsu Society made what Sukuna believed to be a mistake and went out of their way to protect the imperial house.

There is a man who perhaps is technically the son of the last emperor and would be emperor if Japan still existed in some sort of fashion. When the Jujutsu Society decided to protect an emerging group of settlements, they brought this man into their fold because in trying times, it was easy to lean on tradition and superstition.

In the first couple of years, people everywhere were mostly trying to find ways to survive, scouting locations where basic services could be available, dealing with fallout from a major nuclear accident that happened during the tumult, trying to find out who could make what, how to trade with each other, what infrastructure they'd fight to keep, and so forth.

Most settlements were communal, with people sharing as a means of survival, but once things started to stabilize, currency notes were adopted, and movement of critical basic commodities was sorted, things started to change.

A question arose:

Who should society benefit?

The emperor began a movement that promoted the idea that they were living more miserable lives due to 'Dead Weight,' and that the future would be a more horrible place if they disposed of this dead weight and prioritize productive members of society.

To be clear, this was always bullshit, from day one. Even though it seemed like society had receded into the past somehow, a couple of people with some fields and modern agricultural equipment could grow enough food to feed thousands. Japan was rich in clean water, factories that could produce goods with limited human workers, the oceans were even more bountiful with less humans to feed, and so forth.

The emperor made promises that lives would be better, and they would enjoy more luxuries if unproductive people were forced to leave.

After a devastating population collapse, this amounted to a campaign to kill orphans, who would become productive adults in years, and disabled people, who could usually contribute in some sort of way anyway.

The settlements of this alliance ended up splitting into two groups: the Jujutsu Society and the Rising Sun faction.

Many able-bodied men went with the emperor, and established settlements that are eighty percent men in their prime. The Rising Sun turned out to be a government built to benefit the emperor more than anyone else, so the separatists that formed it now work for the benefit of one person while they live in settlements where there are functionally no women they can marry, which was a much more serious human problem than feeding extra mouths.

The other settlements, which have a more humanitarian view, aren't friendly with the Rising Sun because they're publicly known as being a bunch of assholes who think they should get to choose who lives and who dies.

The Rising Sun is adversarial toward the Jujutsu Society and the residents of the Rising Sun believe things have gone wrong for them because the settlements split.

There were consequences beyond this; before the split smaller settlements were continually joining the alliance, but after, if a smaller settlement wants to join the Jujutsu Society's settlements, the Rising Sun will threaten to burn it to the ground, so this issue is at the core of the fragmented system. If the split hadn't occurred, it was possible most if not all of the major settlements would have come together under one banner already.

What the Rising Sun does have is a group of sorcerers who get to live big like the emperor in exchange for protecting the settlements and doing whatever the emperor tells them to do. Some of them are foreigners who came from overseas because as a sorcerer, Japan was really the place to be.

Sukuna doesn't give two shits about how any of the politics shakes out as long as it doesn't affect him or his goals.

But, it's suspicious to have a pack of their sorcerers skulking about with binoculars right after the Jujutsu Society just suffered the catastrophic loss of both Tokyo-2 and Yuta Okkotsu.

He has no idea if they're somehow linked with Reksten or if they came because they smelled blood in the water. Sukuna doesn't have the patience for complications, but he has the girl continue to watch them to see what they do.

The girl leans over the edge, looking at something passing much closer.

"What is it?" Kusakabe asks.

Sayuri says to Sukuna, "They're a lady with a baby inside of her that has the same technique as you."

Kusakabe lets out an audible little "oof," as Sukuna peeks over the edge with the binoculars.

"Is that so? Which one?"

"Tall, black hair, purple shirt, standing under the sign with the strawberry on it."

Sukuna notes she is a tall woman with a big ass and a little baby bump, and he considers Yuji rather desperately trying to figure out how he and Sukuna are related. Worst Uncle in Japan wonders if Yuji was trying to game the chances his kid was going to come out with four arms, and for some reason, he thinks it's hilarious that Yuji probably worries about stuff like that.

Baby Yuji throwing the dice and rolling the same technique as Sukuna implies that his technique is hereditary and will probably continue into future generations if Yuji has more descendants.

Kusakabe knows Yuji does not want Sukuna to know, but the kid just freely spoke it out into the air without knowing any of the facts. It's a clear demonstration of how dangerous it is for Sukuna to have control of Six Eyes.

Sukuna is meanwhile considering his own plans. He intends to attack Alghera by the time that Sayuri is twenty, hopefully sooner if her power matures earlier, so this upcoming brat won't be old enough to be part of this story. But certainly, pulling his technique means the kid will probably be somebody in the world that comes after.

There are stirrings that Zenin clan's bloodline will survive, that the Gojos could potentially still make it, and while the Kamo clan has a few living members, hard to imagine they'll ever beat a bloodline that's carrying their techniques and Sukuna's.

Tough break for all the sorcerers who thought they'd get to live without the Big Three lording over them, because they're living in an intermission between ruling Gojos and they don't know it.

Yuji having a baby is an interesting development.

Sukuna wants the tea: did he do it on purpose, was it an accident, what was the drama, who is the baby mama, is he pleased to have a tall woman with a big ass, is she niece-in-law? He doesn't care, he's just nosy. He needs all the gossip, but he suspects nobody who knows anything about anything is going to tell him about it.

He tries to get answers from Kusakabe, who definitely has some information about this emerging situation, but Kusakabe declines to answer his questions.

They spend the day on the roof, and at night, the kid naps between dings from the timer.

At three in the morning, Inumaki is sitting on the roof in the place where Kusakabe had been and is half asleep when the timer goes off again.

Sukuna opens his eyes to make sure the brat does her check, and as her eyes scan the area, she leans forward.

"I see him. The man with multiple techniques. He's with the other sorcerers we were looking at earlier. Eight hundred and thirteen meters," she says, placing a pencil she'd been writing with on the ledge to indicate the exact direction.

It's still more than a day before Tore Reksten is going to come to Shibuya to collect Sayuri, so catching him with his pants down now while he's evidently doing some sort of business with enemies of the Jujutsu Society is quite an advantage.

Sukuna asks, "Can you tell me how many techniques are in the body?"

"Six. The innate technique, plus five others. One of them…one of them is strange."

"Strange in what way?"

Satoru Gojo could read the techniques of others, but Sayuri doesn't know how to do that. She has explained that she is able to perceive that information exists but compares it to a foreign language she doesn't know how to read. She was able to sense someone they ran into at the market had some shared information with Sukuna, but she didn't know what was shared. It turned out he had a basic, minor cutting ability, so she identifies this one piece of information as 'can cut.'

The information from Six Eyes is therefore seemingly relational and she will only learn how to read like Satoru Gojo over the course of a long time and only if she encounters many techniques.

Sayuri says, "I've never seen any of the information before."

Sayuri has met most of the Jujutsu Society sorcerers, saw Yuta and Rika and their copied techniques, has encountered many sorcerers in Kyoto, and sees varied cursed spirits all the time.

Reksten has a technique that is, in its entirety, completely different from any technique she's encountered.

"It's Limitless-shaped? But not Limitless?" she tilts her head to one side.

There are six techniques in the body.

The innate technique – the 'stealing' technique.

The second technique he was observed to use was an elemental ice technique. Yuji said he wasn't as dangerous with it as Uraume but used ice spikes to make the battlefield a bit hazardous.

The third technique allowed him to teleport around the battlefield. There seemed to be a time limit because he was never seen doing it less than five seconds apart even if teleporting would save him from being hit.

The fourth technique was some sort of technique that was basically just 'explosions.' He can make explosions with his hands, and this one was nasty, but Yuta countered this by continually injuring his hands as quickly as Reksten could heal.

The fifth technique was sort of like cursed speech, except he etched words in the air and they manifested as curses.

This was a really solid toolkit by anyone's estimation, but every single one of those skills shared 'information' with some technique that Sayuri has seen before. The question of the Sixth technique is whether he used it in his battle against Okkotsu and it simply wasn't observed.

"Are there six souls in the body?"

"Just one."

"So he kills when he etches the new technique into the body. Fascinating. I bet it would be noisy in there if he didn't."

Although these techniques are powerful, they don't explain how Yuta died. One of the most interesting things about Yuji's retelling of events is that they don't know why he died either. They were standing there, watching it happen, but according to their accounts, Yuta's movements became slowed, stunned maybe.

Yuta seemed unaware of these moments, leaving them to believe he suffered damage to a part of his brain that's difficult to heal with RCT.

The child's sense of pause and description of the Sixth Technique as being dissimilar to any other technique she's ever observed while also having something about it that does remind her of her own ability seems contradictory, but Sukuna believes right away that the reason Yuta Okkotsu died is hidden in this information.

Limitless earned its crown in part because it's extremely weird and virtually impossible for a person to comprehend if encountered in the wild.

Sukuna stands up and stretches. "You're going to go down and stay with Maki until I'm done."

Sukuna and Yuji meet a few minutes later and prepare to fight.

While Sukuna would prefer to go alone and didn't feel he needed Yuji, the fact Yuta Okkotsu was killed by Reksten was a fact worthy of respect. There's also added riffraff from the Rising Sun with him, and if one of them had a technique that allowed them to tip the scales in one way or another…talented sorcerers sometimes lose their lives because they're arrogant and they make mistakes.

Sukuna is arrogant, but he knows he needs to put some respect on Reksten for his accomplishment.

They decide to descend into Shibuya Station and follow the train tracks through the tunnel to come out behind the group.

Carrying flashlights, they step down an escalator that is frozen in place, and Sukuna says, "This place brings back memories, am I right?"

"Just shut up."

"You're really no fun. There's a smell down here…"

Yuji answers, "This place never got cleaned up. That's why it's off limits. On the bottom level, it's gross. All those transfigured humans, mummified. Bloodstains everywhere. The Jujutsu Society collected their bodies because the corpses of sorcerers are dangerous, but Tokyo got evacuated after that."

As they make their way through the station, there are chilling reminders of that night, which was for all practical purposes, the night that changed human history forever.

"You're responsible for separating the others from Reksten and killing them. Don't let any of them live."

"You don't want to try and save them for the plan?"

Sukuna answers, "These people don't want to change the world back to the way it was. They want to rule it the way it is. Any sorcerer who can accept being ruled by cursed spirits should be eliminated. If I were you, part of a generation that's rapidly disappearing, I'd want to settle up what I can. Because if you die, Baby Itadori will have to live in this world."

"…the fuck? Who told you?"

"Wouldn't you like to know?"

Yuji almost throws his flashlight but manages to refrain as he realizes there's a perfectly good explanation as to how he found out. "Sayuri could see it."

Sukuna asks, "Were you trying to figure out if Baby was going to have a normal amount of arms?"

"I mean…you're gross to look at. We'll get to see it on sonogram in a few days."

"If it did have four arms, would you get rid of it?"

Yuji answers, "Maybe. It would probably suck living like that."

"You'd kill it as a favor? Kind of a monstrous thing to say, but maybe we're more alike after all in that both of us want to kill our unwanted relatives."

Sukuna is sure that his extra bits are actually some sort of conjoined twin thing where eating his twin caused him to merge somehow, but he decides to just let Yuji think about it.

There are places the station has been caved in, areas that are flooded or blocked with debris, and signs that there had been people somehow living in the upper levels despite how gross it is.

They turn a corner to a hallway, where Nobara Kugisaki's blood still remains in a pool on the floor. Ahead, thick, almost powdery caked residue from surrounding a pile of mummified transfigured humans.

Kento Nanami's blood is mixed in with this.

All these years later, it's interesting to revisit this place.

They continue down to the belly of the beast, the bottom level where Gojo fought the special grades, and then walk up the tunnel. There are so many mummified transfigured bodies on that level that it's basically impossible to walk between them, but stepping on something like that is nasty business.

When they get to a big crater that joins the track with the surface, caused by a battle during the cataclysm, they jump up and after a brief discussion, make a mad dash to the group, which is sitting around a battery-powered heater in the base of a building that still has walls but little else.

They have sorcerers on watch, and the appearance of Yuji, perched on the broken wall is startling.

"Hey guys, what's going on?" Yuji asks.

Yuji's sudden appearance makes them jump, but even more alarming is the fact that from behind them, an incredibly eerie, monstrous four-armed silhouette is cast over the camp, from the moon casting a long shadow over Sukuna.

The King of Curses hasn't been a player on the board during this era; when humans were running for their lives, trying to find holes to crawl into like mice, or dying from disease or being killed by each other, he just…didn't participate. There was a period when most sorcerers didn't even know where he was, and there were rumors that he'd been killed by Alghera.

Then it became known he was just hanging out near Kyoto, and over time, they realized he'd just stay there and do whatever it was he was doing as long as they didn't bother him.

Yuji watched them fidget in terror for a few seconds at the idea that they'd brought the demon out, but then there was a moment of confidence like they were sure they'd be just fine because their demon was greater.

Tore Reksten is tall, pale, and has reddish-blond hair, green eyes, and a rather imposing build.

The others Sukuna has seen before, coming and going from Kyoto or other places, and he scrapes them into the category of 'generic trash,' not worthy of dividing his mental energy.

"So you're the one who killed Yuta Okkotsu?" Sukuna asks.

Tore himself seems both arrogant and somewhat nervous because even little sorcerers on the other side of the world learn about the Sukuna. He's almost a creature of myth in sorcery outside of Japan, while within the country, he remains a piece of their history—something terrible that once happened in Japan a long time ago.

At the same time, he'd faced the Jujutsu Society and cut the organization's literal head off, so he felt some confidence.

They try to attack all at once, but Yuji splits the group, and Sukuna sends Tore dodging a series of slices that are blocked by an ice wall that Sukuna crashes through.

It's clear from the start that he can only wield one technique at a time, which is kind of a disappointment. One person with ten guns is less effective than two people with one gun each, after all. There's obviously vast utility to having access to multiple techniques, but what really would have been interesting is if he could wield at least two at a time.

The ice technique is fairly generic, probably one he picked up early. Ice is an incredibly versatile element because one can use it to make an ice slick, and all sorts of dangerous implements.

Unfortunately for Tore, Sukuna had the experience of having known Uraume, arguably one of the most intelligent and powerful elementalists of the Heian Era.

Tore doesn't have anything for him that Uraume hasn't done to him a thousand times in their little scraps. The ice slick doesn't cause him to fall; he knows how to use it to conserve his momentum and move much faster than normal, and if Sukuna slices the ice at the right angle, he can create clouds of razor sharp ice shards that cut as well as glass.

He skates around on the soles of his shoes, and as a point of mockery, does a little jump like he is an Olympic figure skater and not a mass murderer.

Ice seems to be his preferred technique, but they reach a point of stasis after only a couple of minutes when it becomes clear that Sukuna isn't amused or challenged by it at all and knows how to use the ice against him.

"You are the king? Is this the thing that you are called when they call you," he says.

Sukuna answers, "Your Japanese is shit."

"It is my third language."

"It is the tongue every great sorcerer has spoken."

But then suddenly, Sukuna is hurt.

It's one of the weirdest things he's ever experienced in his life, because in one instant, he is talking and in the next, there are ice spikes sticking out of every part of his body and almost his head, which is ringing because he has evidently been struck by Tore's steel-knuckled gauntlet.

Sukuna extricates himself immediately and began healing, trying to understand what he just experienced.

It feels unnatural.

In the instant that he got hit, there was a rock stumbling through the air, and it hit after he was injured, striking a streetlamp with a strange clinking sound.

Has he been hit by the mysterious Sixth Technique?

His brain has maybe flashes, of things happening.

Is this how Yuta died? Trapped in some sort of…what was it exactly? Did Tore start moving so fast he couldn't be seen? No, if that was the case, the others would have observed him either moving at this speed or he would move so fast he would be too difficult to see. Nothing like this was observed.

What everyone saw was that Yuta seemed stunned during periods when he was injured.

He considers how the Sixth Technique is not like any technique that Sayuri has ever encountered, and yet somehow also simultaneously like Limitless in some way.

It happened when Sukuna came in close, so whatever it is, it seems to be triggered by proximity. Maintaining distance is easy when a stationary object is involved but needing to stay a set distance from a moving opponent, especially one with lots of different tricks in his bag, was a surprising challenge.

And Sukuna's attacks seemed to never hit.

It almost reminded him of Limitless.

The fact that Reksten can teleport is especially dangerous, as Sukuna has to move around so fast that he's gone by the time Reksten finishes teleporting, which has a gap time of about one second.

There was a gust of wind, and a little scrap of paper blew across, and as they were fighting, Sukuna attacked at the same time as this scrap of paper neared Reksten, and Sukuna saw both of them seemingly stop. It wasn't exactly a physical stop, more like a soft slowdown.

Somewhere in the back of his head, he's realized that there is something bizarrely similar to Limitless about this ability.

Yuta Okkotsu clearly struggled with this puzzle, but Sukuna has the additional clues that there definitely is another ability, and something about it is extremely weird.

Whatever it is, he definitely has to be close to Reksten in order for him to use it.

Sukuna ponders this odd technique while they scrap, but he's careful to not get caught again.

Out of the corner of his eye, Yuji is doing what he was told, and Sukuna is weirdly surprised at how dangerous of a brawler he is, although it's been a while since he saw Yuji fight.

Sukuna gets caught by the Sixth again and emerges absolutely bludgeoned—this is exactly how Okkotsu died, and while he coughs up chunk blood from his insides, he ponders what the mystery is.

Like Limitless, and yet not like any other technique the brat had seen at the same time?

Limitless was essentially the ability to bend some facets of reality. The infinity skill allowed a person to slow down objects approaching the user just like Reksten, but Sukuna could tell the way it worked was quite different.

Sukuna considers it, careful not to get caught for a third time.

Since Reksten can't use more than one technique at a time, or it seems that way, Sukuna wonders about these periods where he comes close and suddenly, he's injured and there's nothing in between.

It's really a fascinating mystery.

There are lots of sorcerers who have techniques that seem unstoppable, but they're actually gimmicks and as soon as one figures out how it works, it's not a problem anymore.

He doesn't think that Okkotsu necessarily got killed by a gimmick, but Sukuna has more information than Okkotsu had, including reports from others who saw the fight and the clues that the technique is exotic and somehow different from and similar to Limitless.

Limitless is a weird, reality-bending abomination that humans probably shouldn't be allowed to have.

Maybe that was it?

The brat recently forced him to watch a DVD documentary they found in town about black holes and she wanted to talk about it afterward—'what do you think is inside of a black hole?'

Something was said, and to paint the matter in the broadest stroke, reality was essentially the three dimensions and all the matter and energy inside of them, and a fourth dimension, time.

If Limitless allowed its users to warp the nature of matter and energy—the three dimensions, it seemed feasible that it was probably possible for a human to be able to manipulate the fourth as well.

This would leave him with an exotic power, the ability to warp time, but also, in nature, it would be like Limitless. If he stole Limitless and Sayuri's eyes, he'd probably become an enemy of incredible power.

Sukuna says, "Coming to Japan was a mistake. You should have stayed overseas and enjoyed your silly little trick."

"Silly little trick? Do you think you figured it out?"

"You can distort time in a radius of one hundred and seventy centimeters around you. This is invisible to others watching from the outside because their time is not altered, and impossible to discern to the person it happens to due to how distorted their time is."

His expression falls, and Sukuna raises his hands.

"Even if you know how it works, you can't—"

Sukuna brings his hands together. "Like I said…you shouldn't have come to this land. Domain Expansion: Malevolent Shrine."

He hears Nephew has heard his words and is currently hauling ass out of the area as fast as possible.

Sukuna's domain with special conditions fires off and fills a space only big enough to enclose Sukuna and Reksten, meaning the tens of millions of cleave and dismantles were sent over the course of a minute, from every direction and angle possible except from the knees down.

Infinity was stopping power, absolute as long as the user could maintain it, and Satoru Gojo could maintain it indefinitely. This was slowing power, finite; Reksten could slow the attacks down, but he could not eliminate or stop them completely. He had been slowing the attacks down and moving out of the way, but if he's surrounded on all sides, there's nowhere for him to move to.

It additionally probably takes massive amounts of cursed energy to maintain this distortion, and without Six Eyes, it seems incredibly unlikely that he can maintain warped time persistently. The more likely explanation is that he reapplies it as needed, but if he lets it slip, he'll instantly be cut to pieces so small it would effectively be liquification.

If he tries to use his teleport ability, because he can only use one technique at a time, the instant he tries to switch, he'll die. His innate technique, due to its nature, has weak domain amplification, and expanding his domain won't do anything because he is already standing inside of another. Even if he could negate the sure-hit factor, it wouldn't matter because he mathematically, literally, is basically at the center of a vortex made entirely by slicing attacks. Sukuna doesn't need sure hit; he can be sure he'll be hit because there are that many attacks aimed at him.

Reksten turns carefully, realizing that he's going to be cut every imaginable way the instant he falters, but sees there's a path to escape. If he drops to the ground and crawls on his belly, he can escape from the slice trap.

"Megumi Fushiguro, I'll accept your terms. Release me."

Reksten, faced with the attacks slowly, slowly approaching him, starts to very carefully kneel through the trap toward the ground, unsure of why he has clearly been given an escape. He considers trying to use Temporal Distortion on Sukuna as soon as he slithers out of the trap, but right now, Sukuna's consciousness is the only thing directing the constant attacks bouncing around inside of the domain, seeking to destroy him. If he bends Sukuna's time, there's no guarantee that this will continue to happen, and he might get sliced up anyway.

Sukuna is known to praise enemies that impress him in some way, so he feels at first that he's been given a route to survival out of respect for his strength, but the look on Sukuna's face says otherwise.

Sukuna bites a finger off and slams Reksten's head into the ground as soon as it's outside of the trap, and then shoves the finger in and drags him out like a ragdoll.

At first, he didn't know what was going on, or why Sukuna was forcing his finger down his throat.

Sukuna had been through this process two times before, so it was smooth sailing. Yuji naturally resisted him, and Megumi found ways to make things difficult over time, but Reksten was completely unprepared and due to the fact that his own innate technique wasn't strong as much as it allowed him to steal strength, moving in was quite easy.

His domain disappeared as his consciousness shifted, a loud thud in his ears as his old body hit the ground.

Tore Reksten finds himself standing in blood up to his shins, looking up at a tower of bones with a monster perched atop it.

"What is this?"

"My innate domain. Get out."

Sukuna senses some resistance, a lot of yelling in another language he's sure he'll be able to understand once he reads Reksten's memories, but at present, he only says, "Stop yelling in that strange tongue. It doesn't even sound like a real language."

Reksten's body really wasn't as good as Megumi's; for one thing, it's older. It's less genetically gifted, considering that Japanese sorcery lines have been selectively breeding for a very long time. But he now has a whole bag of tricks, including Temporal Distortion.

Reksten had the ability to bend time, and that was the best he could do?

On the outside, Yuji stands confused. His opponents have all been killed, and he stands still as he watches the changes taking place in front of him.

Maybe confused isn't the word for it; truthfully, he knows exactly what's going on. He remembers well the horrifying sensation of having his body taken over that first time, and he knows that Sukuna has jumped bodies. For a split second, he's scared to check on Megumi…he has no idea if Megumi can even take control of his body again after so long.

Megumi's body seems to be struggling, no longer held in it's mutated state by the mutant, and Yuji uses his RCT to heal Megumi's body, which starts to shrink and bend into its original shape. Extra eyes disappear from his face, and then the extra arms too.

Sukuna's new vessel was simultaneously undergoing those changes for the first time.

When Megumi opens his eyes, it almost feels like being born again. It's been so many years since he could even control his own eyelids or look at what he wanted to look at.

"Fu-Fushiguro? Is that you?"

He sits up. "Yeah. Hey Itadori. Long time no see, I guess."

Yuji is faced with a flood of emotions, excitement, relief, and remorse, but before he can apologize or cry or hug Megumi, the other man puts a hand up.

"Whatever you're thinking about doing, don't. Everything is fine. I know everything that's happened, and as far as my life is concerned, I don't think you made any wrong decisions. Sukuna is helpful. We don't need to have a lot of drama."

Yuji pulled him into a bone-crushing embrace and held him for a very long time while somewhere in the background Sukuna was regrowing his extra arms and distorting Reksten's body out of shape.

Megumi pushes him away and stands, dusting himself off. It feels so strange to suddenly be fully alive again, finally separated from the demon.

Megumi knows one thing Sukuna was right about; Reksten should have stayed out of Japan, enjoyed the power of having such a rare ability, and not tried his luck in the land where monsters were made and destroyed as a matter of normal business.

Yuji hugs him again.

"Enough already! I didn't go anywhere. I've always been here. Everything is fine."

Truthfully, he doesn't feel fine, but he's not going to breakdown about it, no matter how much he wants to, because he knows he'll have to hear Sukuna laugh at him.

Sukuna lets out a rather loud and insane laugh once he gets settled into his new body and tears his shirt open.

The other two men roll their eyes, and Megumi says, "Very excited that weirdo is not going to be tearing clothes off my body in public every time he gets happy."

Sukuna answers, "Are you self-conscious about having your tits out or something?"

Megumi turns his head and says, "Why are you so happy? The only thing you accomplished was inheriting another cage you won't be able to get out of. You are hemmed in on every side.

"Yuji, also…since Sukuna really doesn't want you to know, he looks like that because he ate his identical twin in the womb. It's conjoined twins situation. Your dad was the reincarnation of his dead twin."

Sukuna narrows his eyes. "You really do ruin everything."

"Gross…" Yuji mumbles.

Sukuna gives him a rather incredulous stare. "Who among us hasn't eaten a fetal sibling? Probably just Megumi."

Suddenly, something has shifted.

Things felt like they did before, overwhelming contempt from Megumi and Yuji piled high in response to Sukuna's mere presence in the world. Megumi wasn't like everyone else; he'd been dormant during this age that wore everyone else down to nothing. The fire is alive and well within him.

They hate him, and he hates them too.

They are the reason he opened his eyes in this age, and all these years later, they still stand in defiance of him, believing that they will be the reason they close forever.

It's infuriating, and he forgot how instrumental Megumi was to everything.

The familiarity of being filled to the brim with pure bloodlust energizes Sukuna, but he can't kill them. Not yet, anyway.

When they return to the settlement, he finds his brat sleeping on a futon next to Ryosuke, holding hands in their sleep. They're sleeping in a big room full of kids and women who had evacuated from Tokyo-2.

In exchange for taking the body he is in, he's had to surrender the right to hurt and kill the brats. That means he won't live in Ryosuke's body, and despite the effort he has to make to care for and raise Sayuri, he won't be able to kill her once he's done with her.

It's incredibly inconvenient, but getting out of Megumi's body was important, and the Temporal Distortion ability, while not as potent as Ten Shadows or Limitless, is an incredibly useful tool.

Megumi's return to the playing board probably means there's no way Maki will bring Ryosuke to him for training. Sukuna is a little sour about that as he's learned training another person is an incredibly powerful way to control their power.

Sukuna pouts a little that the brat went to sleep while he was fighting, instead of staying up.

Maki is sleeping on the other side of her son, and looks like a newly widowed women at the moment, sleeping with puffy eyes and a puffy face, a sign that as cool as she was earlier, she is suffering.

He collects his child quietly simply because the only thing worse than a room of sleeping children is one with children who are awake.

As she follows him into the hall, she quietly asks, "What are you wearing?"

"I changed bodies."

"Eww. You're like a hermit crab."

"What's a hermit crab?"

She sighs. "I can't explain everything to you."

Sayuri has asked him thousands of questions since they met, but if he has questions for her, sometimes she acts like she just doesn't have the patience for it.

"Your scent is different. I don't like it."

"You'll get over it."

Their path is suddenly blocked by Megumi, who Sayuri recognizes as the soul that used to be Sukuna's roommate. With his body back in its natural state, she notes that he looks like a very big version of Ryosuke.

"I want to talk to her alone."

"I'm not going anywhere," Sukuna answers.

Megumi glares, but isn't going to fight in the location they are in. "Fine."

He bends down and says, "Hey. So anyway, I'm Megumi Fushiguro. It's good to meet you, Sayuri."

"Hello."

"I don't really know how to say everything I want to say. It's probably best for you to stay with Sukuna for now because your life is so valuable, and a lot of stuff is going on in the world. But I want you to know two things:

"First, in exchange for taking his new body, Sukuna isn't allowed to hurt you even after your binding vow is over unless you start it. So you don't have to worry about him hurting you when we move beyond this horrible time with the Great Curses. Sukuna isn't allowed to kill you.

"And second," he holds up two fingers, "I want you to think of me as your family from now on. Not just me either, there are people in our group who are going to be caring about you and thinking about you all the time. If you ever need anything, no matter what it is, you can come to me."

He pulls her into the most awkward hug, because he doesn't like hugs and isn't good at giving them, and she's not really used to getting them. There's an awkward dance of 'where do my hands go,' but they manage somehow.

Megumi has been watching Sayuri for months, so he clearly has different feelings about her than she does, as this is the first time she's ever been aware of him as anything except the other soul that lived in his previous body.

Still, it is potent for him to tell her that he cares about her and other people care about her, because she's just a little kid who is still digesting the fact the entire reason she was made was so she could be killed.

Sukuna pulls her out of the embrace by her hair, although not hard enough to hurt her. "We have things to do."

It's surprising to him, to see Megumi say such emotional things.

Sukuna takes the girl and they head to Yokohama, where Reksten's travelling party was, made up of four members of his clan. Now that he's read Tore's memories, he knows that he didn't exercise an appropriate amount of discretion when it came to knowledge about Sayuri.

He told the four members of his clan and two others travelling with them.

He also told the so-called 'emperor' of the Rising Sun faction, as part of a deal where he insisted that he'd be able to eradicate the Great Curses if he got his hands on Limitless Six Eyes. Reksten was looking to eradicate the Jujutsu Society and plunder the powerful cursed techniques they have, and he was very unsurprisingly fixated on Ryosuke, a second priority after capturing Limitless Six Eyes.

Sukuna had no way of knowing how many people the emperor told. It seems reasonable to assume that he told some of his top advisers, and maybe sorcerers who work closest with him.

For the inner circle of the Jujutsu Society to know about Sayuri was annoying, but none of those people are going to betray or leak information about Sayuri. It's different for someone else to know, and since Sukuna doesn't know how far the containment issue runs, there's really only one way to clean it up.

Kill everyone.

He takes the kid with him, to kill the traveling party.

They try to fight at first, and they try pleading for their lives, and after that, they try running.

She's clearly upset that he is killing people in order to keep anyone from finding out about her but follows along because she doesn't know what else to do.

Sukuna doesn't have any particular moral feelings, but he tries to explain that it is a matter of math; every human life in this world has two futures: one where she survives to adulthood and helps eliminate the Great Curses and one where she doesn't.

Every. Single. Person.

A small handful of people who are jeopardizing the future of humanity over a power grab that was denied to them, in the grand scheme of things, don't matter. Things are always sacrificed in the name of survival, and it was fair to sacrifice the ones who created the trouble for their own selfish reasons.

Sayuri is quite distressed, and he decides she won't be able to emotionally stomach watching him killing the Rising Sun faction into extinction. He thinks he'll probably have to leave her in Yuji's protection for a few days.

After finishing with the travelling party, he moves on to a different errand: Rika.

Sukuna intends to try to trap Rika in an 'empty vessel,' a blade he took from the Gojo clan estate when he was looking around. It was basically the highest-grade potential vessel for a potential cursed weapon, a large broad-bladed western-style sword made from enchanted steel. It's possible it might be able to contain Rika.

But when he arrives at the ruins of Tokyo-2, which are…quite ruined, to put it lightly, Rika is already gone.

Megumi knew Sukuna was going to try and gain control of Rika by trapping her curse in a weapon, so he made it his business to make sure that Sukuna was denied that power-up.

It's infuriating really.

He returns to Shibuya to bitch at them for killing Rika just to keep him from obtaining her power because losing that power was just a loss against the Great Curses.

If he had to play nice and cooperate, he felt like everyone should.

"We didn't kill her," Yuji answers, when Sukuna finds him.

"Then what did you do to her?"

"Wouldn't you like to know?"

Sukuna says, "I'm sure I'll find out one way or another."

"Damn right you will."