I'm sorry if the passage of time doesn't match up with cannon. For example, I've got no clue how long it took for the Culling Game Arc to begin directly after Shibuya. When Yuji and Megumi enter Tokyo Colon 1 that is.
Also, we're near the end of the JJK Arc of this story. Just to tell you guys, when entering the next world, Kokichi will be nerfed. For both reader enjoyment and to make it possible to build up tension. He will not loose any power, it will only be restricted and I'll try and make it seem like less of a cop out.
Also, the next world will have a pretty high average for power, so no worry.
Also, I'd like to respond to one, specific review.
By 'Fuck Names' on Chapter three, saying that Kokichi's presence didn't change much from cannon.
Yeah, kind of. Well, Choso is dead, Nanami survived, Jogo died much earlier resulting in no fight between him and Sukuna and lastly, Kokichi himself is still alive. If you're unhappy with how he didn't change anything from cannon, then you'll love this chapter. Also, the main reason I didn't want to change the broad strokes of Shibuya was because it's been a while since I read the manga, only having read the last few chapters when they came out, so I didn't quite remember what needed to happen for Sukuna to incarnate into Megumi.
I stalked through through the metallic and cold corridors of my new base. It had a main room that was big enough to fit three trucks that you'd enter if you went in through the front door. It was more a lounge, sofas and potted plants we'd scrounged up from nearby decorating the normally empty bunker-like room. Then, it had two corridors that extended outwards from both the left and right side. One lead to a complex of prison cells I had requested for Cyn to built because I inevitably planned to keep some people out of the picture but not dead. The prisons where, when infused with some Cursed Energy, capable of robbing somebody of all their senses and cuts their ability to move their body. It was a very localized effect and I couldn't move the technology into a puppet because it's requirement is for somebody to be in a perfectly cube-shaped room.
I round the corner into the second hallway which had three rooms, two on the left wall and one on the right that was as big as the former two together. The larger room was my living space, looking like a woodland cabin with the help of Solver-tech that created illusions and formed some plundered objects into a fake cozy fire and a sofa area that had a usable TV and an L-Shaped couch complex. At the far end wall was a long table where my designs for puppets lay and the actual puppets and their parts, along with other cool tech I will find, is stored in one of the other rooms. This one had higher security and used Cursed Energy identification as an entry requirement. Inside, like hanged men, where dozens of bare puppets and a floor decorated with random parts my technique told me where useful.
The last room was for Cyn... what was in there was a mystery to me.
For real, even with my Solver I couldn't access her cameras.
Oh yeah, most of the Tech in here is Solver compatible, per Cyn's design, and all the traps in the walls- Lasers, pits and spikes- could be remotely activated if she or I found it necessary. I entered the lounge as I had the image of my half-finished robot-Toji puppet in mind, trying to figure out the minute details and missing recourses I needed to get him working.
As I left my room, I could faintly hear the news reporter of the channel I had randomly picked talk about the gigantic barrier in Sendai and the two Tokyo Colonies.
In the lounge, with wine glass in hand, sat a now completely dressed Cyn. She still had her normal dress on, it was just fixed now. She grinned creepily as she saw me and waved. "H-Hi big brother!" I flinch. Still don't like that, though it is somewhat self imposed.
I nod towards her. "I'm heading out, gotta try and find Hakari first." That was the plan, get him on my side to have at least one ally in this incoming Culling Game.
V1 was still being repaired by a silver Mechamaru-lite I made to act as maintenance in here. Speaking of Mechamaru... The wooden puppet was revealed as part of the wall shifted. It was are and it's main function was duplication, which was a pain in the ass to get working. It could make dozens of bare copies of itself that had each one of it's weapons or simple, original ones.
I motioned it to follow me.
"Bye, b-big bro-" I closed the door on her before she could finish.
Now in the open air, I consulted my... phone. It had a shit ton of texts from Miwa, saying she wasn't allowed to leave Kyoto and how the higher ups are demanding me execution.
Huh, so somebody is probably on their way here. And judging from the recency of the texts, it's probably in a few hours... maybe I shouldn't have give her a map to my secret hideout. God, I was so racked with emotion when seeing her that I didn't think straight. It's no matter now, I activate the illusion for the door and sit down on a stone bench I created with the Solver.
Maybe I could finally figure out how to apply Reverse Cursed Energy into my Cursed Technique while I wait? I'd been struggling with that ever since I got back home that week ago.
While I try to do that, I think about the current state of things. Tens of millions of Cursed Spirits have been released in Tokyo alone and the official statement on Cursed Spirits that are 'limited to Tokyo' had been released and the expansion of the barrier had already happened. 'Suguru Geto' has once again been sentenced to death, Gojo has been deemed an accomplice in the Shibuya incident and any attempts on unsealing him are declared a crime, principal Yaga is also sentenced to death and finally, Yuji's death sentence has been reinstated and he is to be killed.
In addition, I've been sentenced to death too, for treachery and the endangerment of all participating in the Kyoto sister school goodwill event, which I just found out now. While Yuta is Yuji's executioner, there was no announcement that I know of on who is mine, so I'll be damned if I know who's coming.
Regardless, I've reached a level of strength that's approaching special grade. Toji Fushiguro's heavenly Restriction robbed him of his Cursed Energy in exchange for physical prowess. My own was the reverse. I got rid of it's negative and, through the system, have reached similar levels of strength, though a noticeable amount lower than the Sorcerer Killer himself. Along with my black hair, the Cursed Spirit around my shoulder and the weapons in it and finally the fact I have a Heavenly Restriction makes me seem like Toji reborn.
Well, where it not for Maki but her strength is one of a different nature.
Speaking of my arsenal, I'd added an assortment of normal weapons to it. Crafting puppets requires the creation of their weapons and as such, I've created a weapon of all types. I even stole a hand gun from a nearby store! All the electricity is out and Cursed Spirits now roam the streets like flies, so nobody bothered to stop me.
Having briefly trained with them, I even got a skill.
[Weapon Mastery] Level 23/100
This skill encompasses the mastery over every type of weapon imaginable and it's level rises faster when more types of weapons are used.
I'd trained a good bit in all my other skills, too, but I had yet to open my Domain. It was something I felt needed a special moment. I've got my stockpile of RCE up to the full and am ready for any fight. I sense a Cursed Energy signature approach and sigh, standing back up and taking out a normal, sharp broad sword attached to the Chain. Good thing I'm hiding it's back end in my Cursed Spirit, so I just have an infinite chain. No need to start off with the Spear yet, this could be easy.
I felt the signature flicker behind me and if I could not sense Cursed Energy as well as I could now, I wouldn't have noticed them prepare to punch my lights out. When their fist was just a hairs breath away, I twist around, grab the hand and twist their arm to slam them into the ground like a plastic doll. Turns out... it's Naobito, the head of the Zenin clan. Huh, so I'll need to kill him regardless. He flickers from his position on the ground and into an offensive stance a bit away from me. "You are sentenced to death due to treason, Kokichi Muta." He seems almost bored right now, in fact, he breaks his stance in favor of taking a sip from a big alcohol jar. "I thought I could kill you-" I don't care.
I need to train this up and I'm not sure I'm all that much faster than him, so... "Domain Expansion." I can see his eyes widen as he starts to run towards me. My left hand, in a straight palm, meets my other palmed hand, though it's fingers are curled downwards. "Lord of Control." He had almost reached me, was about an arms length away but then the inky darkness of my domains outer barrier overtook the world around us.
Then, with the sound of a stage light turning on, a circular area on the floor around us was lit up with fluorescent light to reveal a dingy cabin floor. I'd always liked the cabin aesthetic. Do you know that sight when you're standing inside a clock tower and can see the clock from inside? All that machinery and such? Yeah, a gigantic, building sized version of that appeared behind me. It's cogs and other machinery to make it function extend into the inky blackness beyond our light.
Then lastly, above us, littered like sprinkles where many of those test doll artists or, well, dollmakers use, hung on thin strings.
I already feel myself grow stronger, the general amplification of power immediately noticeable. Then, the normal feeling of my Cursed Technique which was always centered in a puppet, was now overflowing in this area. I knew... I was in my Domain. Because I knew the schematics and designs perfectly, I summoned Toji.
It was like a remade version from the Doll Devil from Chainsaw Man. It's mouth had those lines downwards and bland, dead eyes but he was otherwise the Toji Fushiguro I knew. It took 100.000 CE to summon him in here, along with the 150.000 to open my Domain, which is fucking crazy. "W-How? You indignant bra-" His skull was crushed by the bare hands of the doll version of the Sorcerer Killer in a flash. I let my domain unravel, Toji vanishing and the barrier breaking with the sound of glass shattering.
Now, I just languidly stood here. When I was about to contemplate my next moves, a quest notification overtook the sight of Naobito's gruelled remains on the almost sizzling concrete ground.
You have finished your first major arc and are now entering your second. As such, you will me given a set of major quests that must be completed before the time frame of this 'Arc' has passed, which is until the end of the last arc of JJK, currently.
{M} [The Strongest]
Free Gojo Satoru and either kill or beat him in a fight.
Rewards: Six Eyes, 25 to all stats
{M} [King of Curses]
Kill Ryomen Sukuna completely, including all realistic chances of resurrection through remaining fingers.
Rewards: Shrine, 25 to all stats
{M} [Copy Cat]
Kenjaku has lived long enough, end his plans and destroy the brain.
Rewards: 1.000.000 MAX CE, Cursed Spirit Manipulation
{M} [My Shadow]
Destroy the Shikigami known as Mahoraga through any means necessary.
Rewards: Summonable Shikigami 'Mahoraga', 20 to all stats
{M} [Hate]
When all else fails...
Burn down the world of Jujutsu Kaisen after completing all other quests before leaving for another.
Rewards: Cursed Spirit Jogo's powerset, 20 to all stats
-OR-
{M} [The Emperor of Mankind]
Wherever you tread, life prospers...
Before leaving for another world, set the world of Jujutsu Kaisen up for a prosperous future.
Rewards: 500.000 HP, 20 to all stats, Upgraded Absolute Solver
That's... wow.
I sigh, currently, it's the 13th of November. All the fights in the three colonies are happening already. I don't plan on interfering with Yuta's or Maki's as neither need my help and Maki needs her battle to fully unleash her strength and break free of fate. I'd heard that the Zenin clan had been slaughtered over the messages from Miwa, which included her saying that the guy I just killed was excluded as he was on route towards me and had been meeting the higher ups before that.
I had planned on doing something with the colonies to hopefully trigger a quest but this changes things. I should focus on the quests, specifically Gojo's one. So, I need to let things happen for the next few days until I can meet up with the main group again... Of course, they'll need me when Sukuna does his thing, but I'll be there then. I'll be registered as a player but I don't care. As long as Sukuna doesn't get to do his thing, I'm fine with that.
I sigh, heading back inside. More training. Sukuna is near.
-Yuji Itadori-
Two Days Later
Looking over Tokyo from the roof and past Megumi's sister, he sighs nervously. At least Nanami was here with him, else that court case in Higuruma's domain could have cost him a lot and he'd be in a situation similar to his friend Megumi. The past days had been hectic after Shibuya... he'd rather not think about that incident.
First, his upper classmen Yuta had come to kill him. Nanami and he had fought valiantly after they where hiding out but in the end, they stood no chance when Yuta went all out with his Shikigami Rika. Meeting Tengen after, they'd come to the decision of trying to implement four rules. The recruitment of Hakari on Tengen's recommendation was relatively hard. The gambler had been enraged when Nanami's 'anti-fever' personality had confronted him on the rooftop but in the end, their battle had convinced the third year.
Luckily, when they'd entered the Tokyo colony barrier, Nanami had been dropped off near him and only a short walk with that guy from his school later had made them meet up to face Higuruma. When he was sentenced to mass murder, he'd wanted to initially blurt out his confession. After all... he was the reason...
But Nanami had sighed in exhaustion, the resigned face was still fresh in Yuji's mind, and had easily fought against the mans Domain. After winning, the gavel bearing sorcerer had questioned Yuji why he wanted to confess, which had brought them to an alliance through Higuruma's respect and newfound perspective.
After finding Takaba, a... failed comedian with a quirky superhero costume, with Nanami at his side, they'd quickly found that angel girl carrying Megumi and had joined them to travel to where he had talked with the Angel, and found out that said angel, who was the incarnated Sorcerer inside the winged girl, wanted to kill Sukuna.
Though he, of course, resigned himself to admit that fact and finally be killed, they where assaulted by the military.
That battle didn't take long and at some point, Nanami, Megumi, he and the Angel had made it to the roof of the building. Luckily, Megumi's sister had appeared in front of them right then and there after they got confirmation of her entry.
"I transfer 100 points to Tsumiki Fushiguro." He hears his friend call out.
His heart soars. Is this it? After his sister is out of the picture, they can free Gojo and he can be judged via Angel's supposed feat of being able to exterminate Sukuna. Then, Kenjaku will be taken care of by his sensei and he will have rid the world of a great evil, granting many the king of Curses would have killed a natural death. He will have avenged the fallen. Kugisaki an-
"I spend 100 Points to add a rule. Players are now able to freely leave the colonies, unrestricted."
Their hearts stop. He can see the sweat start to form on his friends face. "W-Who in the world are you?" He heard him ask.
They hear the unnatural and uncanny laughter of a now widely grinning Tsumiki. "I'm your big sister! HAHA-!" He remembers. Incarnated sorcerers, if not assimilated, retain the hosts previous memories. Why did they assume Tsumiki would incarnate like Yuji did with Sukuna all the way back then? Where they that foolish?
He can hear his hope shatter.
As Megumi's sister grows moth-like wings on her back and starts flying away while they give chase, he hears a voice he had not expected.
"Enchain." Sukuna calls out from a newly formed, fanged mouth on his cheek.
His world turns black.
-Kokichi Muta-
How? I had arrived too late. I was in range to see Jacob's Ladder descending, indicating that Sukuna had already been incarnated in Megumi. Arriving on that rooftop only to find the dead body of Nanami confirmed it.
It was my laziness.
My assumptions.
They will cost me everything. I need to get a grip. I need to kill Sukuna. I've let him incarnate for no reason other than thinking that everybody will be fine with how I've let Shibuya end better than before. I just didn't want to get my hands dirty, didn't want to put in any work. I still had the mentality from my life as Luke. A life of leisure and only mild work, one filled with obstacles that could be overcome with the easiest path. And as the dominant personality, it had overtaken my mentality.
I had trained but I hadn't thought to act. I should have been here when they entered the Tokyo colony. I should have brought all my puppets and Cyn.
No... not ever again. I will leave this world better than before and when I enter the next, I will be a force to be reconned with. One that will change the tides without fear of invalidating it's foresight. I had also gotten the notification that, somehow, Mei Mei had decided to start streaming that fight to the entire world after Sukuna incarnated in Megumi. No clue what I had changed to incite that, but sure.
I sense the explosive Cursed Energy of Ryomen Sukuna near me and immediately flash towards it, appearing in what seems to be the entrance to a parking lot.
Never. Again.
I'm behind the now black-haired form of the King of Curses, a continuously bleeding Yuji stepping towards him with wide, determined eyes. To his left, having appeared just after me, was the scarred and short haired form of Maki Zenin.
I will kill Ryomen Sukuna. I like Megumi and all, but I'm not ready to bet more and more lives on his survival. For me, the lives of the many and the lives of the few is a debate I really don't care about, though I like preventing unnecessary deaths. I want to kill Sukuna, more than anything, so Megumi stands in the way. Sorry, Yuji. With the Inverted Spear of Heaven in my hand, the Chain of a Thousand Miles attached to it and leading into the mouth of the purple inventory Curse on my shoulder, I dash forwards into the turning king.
With my high Cursed Energy Control, I sense the slashes coming. I lean out of the way of one and cut one apart with my spear, making Sukuna frown. Maki had rushed forwards and had kicked Sukuna through the wall to our left. Yuji as cut up and bleeding, but his Reversed Cursed Energy was starting to heal him. "Kokichi?" I hear her affirm.
I nod. "Yeah."
She and I lock eyes and for a short moment, it feels like we're back in Kyoto. Just students. "Where have you been, you missed quite a lot." Her flat tone of voice proclaims.
I look downwards. "I'd been stupid. But I'm fixing my mistakes now." I then dash forwards into the rubble where Sukuna had flown into.
Finding the King of Curses standing in the street, unharmed, he finally speaks. "You're annoying." I feel another set of slashes and twist in the air with the help on discharged Cursed Energy, letting go of more and more of the chain until the spear was meters away from me and cutting up the ground in the continuous twist and spins. With that momentum, I grip my chain tightly again and swipe it towards the marked man. He dodges to the side and, while leaning to the left, sprints towards my now grounded form.
"What kind of Jujutsu is in your eye?" I can hear him ask with slight interest as he reaches arms reach. I dodge a languid right hook, throwing my own with strength and speed incredibly enhanced through my immense Cursed Energy pool. He catches it with his palm and twist it, forcing my side to open wide. He reaches for my Inventory Curse but I twist my right arm backwards and up with surprising flexibility, wrapping the chain and spear around the outstretched arm.
his four eyes lock onto it but I grab the still wrapping spear by the hilt and stab it into his side, the spear anchoring the mass of chains on his arm to his body. I see him start to move the arm holding my failed hook but I had already forced myself free of it's grip, landing two hooks in his abdomen. I see him visibly flinch. I command my Curse to clamp down on the chain as I rip the spear free and start pulling. I start feeling cuts open all over my body as the kings technique impacts me but I force myself through it, healing the wounds as quick as possible. A second later, and my sheer force has twisted off the right arm of Ryomen Sukuna.
His wide eyes where an image I'd treasure forever. "You're... not as small of an insect as the rest." I hear him say as he dashes backwards with a palm strike at my chest, knocking the air out of my lungs and propelling me into the building behind. Next to him, Uraume appears and just as she started to speak, she was launched away by a drop kick from Maki, launching both back out of our range. Sukuna's eyes narrow but I'm just glad that Maki trusts me enough to let me do this.
I can feel Yuji approach behind me as Sukuna performs a very familiar hand sign. "Yuji, get Angel and make your way back to base. Free Gojo." I then use my Solver to teleport him outside the Colony, taking a good bit of my CE. As shadows rise up from behind the King of Curses, a large, white and heavily muscled figure rising out of it, I sigh.
[Absolute Solver] Level 56/100
For the past two days, I'd been training nothing but the Solver for exactly this situation. As the strongest Shikigami Mahoraga appears I pool about 100.000 CE in my Solvers Eye. "NULL." I call out and, not letting the Shikigami and Sukuna tag-team me, I summon a black hole double the size of the adaptive creature on it and Sukuna's position. I feel my eye explode with blood, vision immediately darkening and loosing the ability to use the skill for now.
Sukuna, right half missing in a perfect circle, is already rushing towards me, eyes wide with attentive focus.
But no wheel nor any Shikigami followed. I could only survive that NULL due to Sukuna being at 10% of his current max strength at the minimum due to Megumi's resistance. But that was enough for me to take out one of his best tools.
Quest Complete!
{M} [My Shadow]
Destroy the Shikigami known as Mahoraga through any means necessary.
Rewards: Summonable Shikigami 'Mahoraga', 20 to all stats
I feel my physical and intellectual power explode again, the world slowing down even more with my increased INT and the possible movements I could do this very second increasing as well as the effectiveness of all my five senses. YES! I was betting so much on completing this quest in this fight! My INT now sat at a staggering 99, maybe even surpassing the King of Curses relative ability in that regard as the world slows down to a crawl. My physical stats weren't up to snuff, so I had the same problem that many Sharingan users had. I could not do anything with the slower perception as my body was too slow to react. But that gap between my body and my perception wasn't as big as it could be, so I still had the edge over many.
I may also not have the Ten Shadows and contrary to my belief of the ability to use Shikigami's abilities without summoning them being a Ten Shadows exclusive power, I know that I can currently use the wheel of perfect harmony without summoning the Spirit. It defies the rules of Jujutsu. It makes no sense. But that would be only the second time I've done that due to my system. Because... I also have no Technique burn-out after using a domain, something I found out after killing Naobito. But my domain is inferior to Sukuna's and so, I'm not keen on wasting CE right now.
But... "With this treasure I summon, Eight-Handled Sword Divergent Sila Divine General Mahoraga." Sukuna had reached arms reach again but when I started chanting, his eyes were wide with shock and confusion.
"What?" I can hear him question as, in a flash of light contrary to the shadows of the Zenin technique, the hulking form of the Shikigami appears a second time. His large, open and snarling mouth laying below a face rid of any features except four, wing-like appendages extruding outwards and any hair replaced with a large tentacle. Below his neck was some kind of necklace attacked to his very skin and his right hand had a sword filled with Reversed Cursed Energy attached by bindings and cloth.
I could hear it's primal thoughts. It both awaited orders and was primed to strike at the King of Curses to protect me. I also knew it's current base-line of strength. All it's physical stats, when I converted them into the numerical system of measured strength I use via my immense INT, eclipse the 150 mark. It also remembered it's time as Sukuna's servant and as such, knows a lot about how to fight the King. So, I simply command it to do so.
It would be Shibuya all over again, but this time, it was a 10% limited, 15 finger Sukuna against both Mahoraga and me. The large sword-arm of my Shikigami, which I find extremely cool by the way, separates the angered Ryomen Sukuna from myself, creating a short-term barrier as my hands come together. this would be a gamble but even if I loose the clash, only he would feel the burn out until, of course, he cooled it off faster like in the manga. "Domain Expansion: Lord of Control." The inky darkness expanded all over us.
I heard Sukuna start his own. "Doma-" Mahoraga interrupted him, slamming him in the side with his other arm. I immediately summoned the Toji puppet along with three Mechamaru's. "I will kill Ryomen Sukuna." I reaffirmed my promise to the world as my Shikigami blitzed forwards to the still mid-air King of Curses and pummeled him into my wooden floor, cracking and breaking it open as a crater of splintered oak boards is formed. I and Toji-puppet had already flickered there in time to see Sukuna's raised hand, cutting up Mahoraga.
I heard the sound of the wheel starting to creek as it processed the information of the technique. I saw Sukuna start to get up but Toji-puppet had already appeared over his grounded body, a normal katana in hand. It was cut apart by Sukuna's technique but that didn't matter as Toji-puppet simply sat down on the kings chest and started a barrage of strikes to his four-eyed face.
But, a second after that had started, he was a pile of wooden and mechanical blocks on the ground through Dismantle. But just as Sukuna was rising up again, hands coming back together as his eyes were wide with fury, my chained Spear of Heaven had reached the bottom of it's arc and cut away his recently regenerated right arm again.
I saw him lock eyes with me, something clearly present before he jumped out of the way of the swiping sword of Mahoraga. Through the shadows of my domain, he summoned a mass of rabbits. Four beams of power incinerated them, all three Mechamaru's blasting their Ultra Cannon from their outstretched hands. "Domain Expa-" Sukuna tried again as his arm had, once again, regenerated. But, from above him, another Toji-puppet had slammed him back into the ground, creating yet another crater in my Domain.
My newly obtained Shikigami wasn't lazy during that time and had, once again, flickered over to the King of Curses. This time, Toji-puppet was fist fighting a rapidly swinging Sukuna as the incarnated sorcerer had stood up far faster, and so Mahoraga stabbed his RCE sword through the chest of the possessed Megumi, the clothes of Sukuna's vessel, which were already drenched in blood, tearing open at the front as my wooden floors are dirtied with yet more of the life-giving liquid.
I could never have won without Mahoraga but now that I had the Shikigami, I doubted much could contend. I need to destroy his brain so he can't use Reversed Cursed Energy to regenerate again. Mahoraga's arm as chopped off as Sukuna slid out of the sword, casually destroying my Toji-puppet with a few swipes of his arm along the way.
Then...
*KER-CLANG*
The wheel above the summoned spirits head turned and Cleave was adapted to. I felt myself change, too as I knew I'd inherit the same adaptation if I chose to not toss it away, where I to take the wheel for myself. When I saw Sukuna in the air again, his hand was back in the sign of his domain and this time, Mahoraga couldn't reach him in time and my spear, attached to the chain, was also still on it's was up there.
"Domain Expansion: Malevolent Shrine." My outer barrier immediately shattered as the world was bathed in red light. My enhanced senses saw the red and white lines appear all around us as the city scape of Tokyo Colony one returned. My Shikigami was only affected by Dismantle, which he, too, was adapting too now. I, myself, was already in the position of the Simple Domain, the blue energy line already extended outwards.
It wasn't holding out great.
But neither was Sukuna, the King himself standing atop his terrifying shrine and mountain of skulls with a battered and bleeding body. I sighed, letting Reversed Cursed Energy already circulate my body as I let go of the Simple Domain and dashed upwards towards the disgraced one along with Mahoraga. I immediately felt myself be littered with cuts, my arm already half-way separated before I could heal it. I was even blind for a split second as my eye was cut in half before it healed.
By we reached Su- the man was below the chest of Mahoraga, his hands on the beasts chest and chopping away at it. My spear, cutting through the roof of his domain as I slugged it from my left to my right side, forced Sukuna to flicker away before being beheaded as my spear impacted the concrete street, which was also being littered with slashes and cuts.
As I turned to continue the path of my Spear into the king, who had flickered below me now, I saw an explosion of ice in the distance. Probably that Uraume girl and Maki. I didn't focus on it long, though as I tanked two big slashes of Sukuna to my arms, having reinforced them with my immense pool of CE, and launched my spear towards the man, my eyes wide with adrenaline.
"You are-!" I heard him start to say but I wasn't one for words in a fight of equal powers as my spear cut off his left leg as he failed to completely dodge it. I saw shadows collect themselves below him but I wouldn't let him. He would die right now.
Mahoraga had regenerated and was behind the extremely limited king of Curses in a second, sword hand a hairs-length away from the back of his head. I was in front of his face, too, handle of the Inverted Spear now in my hand. I saw him start to submerge himself in the shadows but we where just too fast, leaning slightly downwards to stab both our weapons through his head.
His eyes were wide, having lost due to his belief that he would easily beat a nobody like me, not needing or even contemplating fleeing when seeing my take Mahoraga through seemingly unknown means. Then, they rolled to the back of his head as I used 10.000 discharged CE to completely blow apart his brain. The domain vanished immediately and all that remained was a panting, exhausted me and the beheaded corpse of the King of Curses, marks now vanishing and being replaced with the corpse of Megumi Fushiguro.
I vanished Mahoraga and took his wheel for myself, feeling it's comforting presence above my head after. "I did it..." I muttered as I sat down on the sliced apart street, buildings falling and collapsing from the damage inflicted by Sukuna's domain. "Fuck..." I breathed out, wanting to let out my frustration. I was low on RCE now, even a bit lacking in normal Cursed Energy now that I'd had to tank his domain through a Simple Domain which was, in hind-sight, a stupid move.
I still need to get rid of his other fingers. I flickered over to where I felt the presence of that ice chick to find her on the ground, battered and bruised with Maki standing above her like a godly figure, a mound of spiky ice on her shoulder. I approached. "Hey." When she turned, her eyes were wide.
"Did you...?" She asked the empty air.
I nodded, dragging the corpse behind me. "Killed him, yeah..." I flickered over to the ice lady, knowing she had recently collected the rest of the fingers to offer them to Sukuna after he'd done that weird bath. I took out a scroll from her unconscious body, rolling it out to find four fingers. I focused on my Solver with my RCE, feeling my eye return to strength and slowly regaining vision.
"You okay?" I heard Maki mutter from my side as she approached. "And what's with the wheel? Wasn't that from that one Shikigami?" She asked before continuing on as I regained strength in the Solver slowly. "I also don't think the rest will be happy that you killed Megumi. I personally... don't really care that much but Yuji may." She finished as I blinked away the blinding light with my Solvers Eye.
"NULL." I muttered as I vanished the fingers inside the all-consuming black hole. It may be powered by Cursed Energy now, but that doesn't negate it's reality defying powers. As such, I can easily get rid of these fingers like any other object. Sukuna still had one finger, I think but with the majority of his chances of incarnation gone and his allies truly defeated, his chances would be near zero. And the system agreed.
Quest Complete!
By destroying all but one finger, which is unlikely to incarnate in the next 1000 years, you have effectively rid the world of the threat of Ryomen Sukuna when he was at his weakest.
{M} [King of Curses]
Kill Ryomen Sukuna completely, including all realistic chances of resurrection through remaining fingers.
Rewards: Shrine, 25 to all stats
[Shrine] Level 1/100
This Cursed Technique has three main facets. One is the 'Cleave', which is a slashing power that works upon physical contact and adjusts it's strength to the target. 'Dismantle', which is a ranged slash that is appropriate in power to the Cursed Energy imbued and finally the 'Divine Flame', which is a destructive flaming arrow that can only be fired after both Cleave and Dismantle have been used.
I smirk. I've just achieved strength unknown to this world.
-2 weeks later-
It's... been a while. Kenjaku had died, not by my hand but by Gojo's. After being freed, he went on to secure his friends corpse and destroy the living brain inside it. I had retreated into my base, not really caring about Cursed Spirit Manipulation since I would be leaving this world soon. My last mission is to challenge Gojo to a fight before I accept the notice I'd gotten seven days after Sukuna's defeat.
You have reached the peak of Jujutsu Society!
Do you wish to proceed to the next world?
Y/N
I have yet to do anything, wanting to finish up with at least the Six Eyes. Things had calmed down again, Tengen's barriers are shakily reinforced by squadrons of barrier sorcerer trainees, the publicity of Cursed Spirits in Japan is being outweighed by Jujutsu Sorcerers presence and the global conflict between America and Japan's sorcerers had calmed down after my absolute show of power that had been seen by the entire world through Mei Mei's pay-per-view streaming sight.
I'd just trained the past two weeks, while also getting closer with Cyn. It's gotten a lot less uncomfortable to talk with her and the 'brother-sister' thing had been relegated to an inside joke. Now, my power level sat at the highest of all Jujutsu and I'm ready to finally address the camp of my friends that had been set up outside my base. The only reason they hadn't stormed in here is because of my protections.
I'd almost said it was because of orders from the higher ups but they'd all ben slaughtered by Gojo, so that would be... yeah. After just around a month of being in JJK, I've reached this:
Kokichi Muta
CE: 1.550.000/1.550.000
RCE: 1.000/775.000
HP: 10.000/10.000
VIT: 100
STR: 92
DEX: 110
INT: 124
[Puppet Manipulation] Level 100/100
[Simple Domain] Level 100/100
[Binding Vow] Level 1/1
[Martial Arts] Level 100/100
[Absolute Solver] Level 100/100
[Cursed Energy Control] Level 100/100
[Dancing] Level 32/50
[Reverse Cursed Energy] Level 100/100
[Domain Expansion: Lord of Control] Level 100/100
[Weapon Mastery] Level 100/100
[Shrine] Level 67/100
Complete dedication to the mastery of all Jujutsu with the help of an overpowered system had propelled me to new heights. Combat was trivial and I hoped to find a challenge with Gojo before I left. But before I challenge him...
I enter the living room of my base to find Cyn, smiling at me. "A-Are you finally confronting t-them about leaving?" I sigh, that was the hard part. Right below the message that I could leave, another had popped up.
Along with leaving for a new world, both your base, any persons bound to you and two people can be brought with you!
I had given up on the last quest- or rather, the last two quests- that required me to either burn the world down or set it up for a better tomorrow. I had no clue how to do the latter and lacked the heart for the former, so I just left it like it is.
I sigh as I turned to Cyn. "Yeah... hopefully, by the end, you'll have two more people to bother besides me."
Her smile widens. "Chuckle." She says before returning to her new found iPad. She's been enjoying causing suffering in digital worlds... let the demons to his demons, I guess.
I crack my knuckles and neck, before opening the front door. Immediately, a blur of blue slams into me. My initial thought of it being a Lapse Blue, for whatever reason, is proven false as the bubbly face of Miwa looks up at me. "Why~?" She draws out with a teary expression. "You could have been with us." She sniffs as I pat her head.
Behind her is Yuji, expression dark but held back by both Maki and Gojo. Todo had shown up too, stumpy hand replaced with bandages but still retaining his bright smile. Momo, on her broom, is pretending to not care.
I almost tear up with the girl in my arms. "I'm... here now." I say before Todo had suddenly appeared behind me, slapping me on my back.
"You're a Special Grade Sorcerer, you know?" He proudly proclaims as he grins down at me.
I nod, seeing Maki approach as Gojo talks with Yuji out of ear shot. "You worried me when you up and left back then." She narrows her eyes.
I chuckle but nod. "Yeah... I've done a lot of stupid things recently but everything turned out great, didn't it?" I then lock my eyes with the magnificent blue ones of Gojo. I then return my gaze to the rest. "Hey..." I take that jump I've been fearing. It'll be hard... "I can't stay here."
Their goodbyes where hard to witness. I had explained the bare minimum, that I'd be going away to a realm they couldn't follow through Jujutsu and that, at max, I could take two people with me. Miwa had been the first to want to come with, though she profusely apologized to the rest of our class. They didn't mind and, in fact, Maki had decided to come too. I had been confused but she'd just said that she had nothing she wanted out of he journey as a Sorcerer anymore. She'd gotten her revenge, she'd reached freedom and now she was planning on going sight-seeing and relaxing. But now that I've given her a great opportunity, she was fine with joining Miwa.
Momo and Todo weren't much torn up about it. Todo knew we'd separate in our careers and Momo pretended to not care, looking away to hide tears. I had shrugged and approached Gojo. Yuji had left, shooting me a frustrated glance, but left on order of his sensei anyways. "Gojo, you overheard, right?"
He straightened up. "Yes. I guess I'll be the strongest again, huh?" I chuckle.
"Speaking of which, I want to battle. Just to see where I stand."
For a moment, an intense tension builds up around us. His eyes on mind. Our Cursed Energies bubbling up before...! "I concede." He says plainly.
I stop. What? "Huh?"
I hear him laugh. "You'd win... though I hate admitting that." He shakes his head. "I saw what you did with Sukuna and all of that just a month after your performance in Shibuya? Yeah, you'll win." He shakes his head. "Well then, I've got a generation to train. You three have fun with your multi-dimensional adventure." And he flickered away.
I was stunned.
Through a technicality the system is barely counting, you have completed a quest!
{M} [The Strongest]
Free Gojo Satoru and either kill or beat him in a fight.
Rewards: Six Eyes, 25 to all stats
[Six Eyes] Level 1/1
The Six Eyes allow one to perfectly control ones own Cursed Energy while also observing any external Cursed Energy through a lens of imported data and immediate understanding, allowing for immediate understanding of Jujutsu upon visual contact.
Heh, I chuckle to myself as my vision changes. Everything turns vibrant, the bleu hue of Cursed Energy residuals becoming immediately clear and the black hole of Cursed Energy that is Maki making it obvious where she was in contrast to the lighthouse that is Todo. I chuckle, taking out the bindings for my eyes I had prepared, the white cloth similar to the bandages Gojo wore in the incident a year or so ago. Before I turned to meet the eyes of the two remaining women, the other two classmates having left with Gojo, I bound my eyes.
I was just a mix of Toji and Gojo in appearance now, wasn't I?
I turned towards them. "Well then, let's go."
"Where exactly? Like, I know you said you where... dimension traveling but how exactly does that work?" Maki asked as she turned to follow as my futuristic door hissed open.
Cyn stood ready inside, her lack of Cursed Energy something to take note of. "Y-You brought friends, brother dear?" I hiss in cringe.
"Not... when... why?" I stumble as I lead them towards the hallway as fast as possible. "Cyn, love you and all, but god damn you need to know when to just... not say some things." I then wave my hand as I collect myself. "You wont even notice we've left... probably."
Maki shrugs. "Sure. But who's that? I get that her name is... Cyn, you called her? Yes, but why does she look... like that?" Maki asks as we reach a point where we should be out of earshot of Cyn, but her widening grin at Maki's comment makes that theory seem shaky.
I shrug, quickly making something up and mixing it with a bit of the truth. "I had a little excursion in another world before coming to Shibuya and picked her up. She linked herself to my Cursed Technique and is, for lack of a better term, a pseudo puppet of mine now." It's what she kind of was, with the solver and all. I also find that the Six Eyes, as long as there is any Cursed Energy around, let me easily see through the bandages I've put around my head.
Miwa, having just observed until now, speaks up from besides me. "What's with your eyes? Ever since... Shibuya, you've had something up with them... you don't have to tell if you don't want to." Her meek add-on to the sentence was hastily made but noted nonetheless.
Maki adds in. "I'd like to know too." She leans to the back wall of my cottage room as we arrive inside, both scanning the area for a few seconds before Miwa comfortably nods and sits besides me on the sofa and Maki, as mentioned, makes her was below the TV and in front of us to the wall.
I shrug and start taking them off. I trust these two a lot. I've saved Maki twice and she's obviously fond enough of me to go on a life-long journey and Miwa... we're kind of in a situation. "Well... where do I start?" I say with a light chuckle, revealing my recently gained Six Eyes to both.
The girls mouths proverbially hit the floor. "You've got the Six Eyes?! Since when, Kokichi?" Maki asks as she plops down herself on the other end of the L-Shaped couch thing... honestly no clue what to call it anymore.
Miwa was in similar shock, getting closer and closer to my face up until the point I start to lean away, anti-social instincts from two lives now carrying my interaction. "Now that I can see them up close... wow." Her breathy tone was hot and worrying at the same time. God damn.
I nod. "Okay... well, you know my explosive growth in power from the last few months?" I begin as I scan over both.
Mika scoffs. "Who doesn't anymore? You're the talk of the... everywhere, man. You killed Ryomen Sukuna and Gojo publicly stated you as the strongest. He was kinda miffed about it, too. It was pretty funny." She trailed off at the end.
Miwa frowned and shot at her female companion. "Was not! Mister Gojo's worries over his statue where founded in reason!"
Before they could bicker more, I sighed audibly. "Can I continue?" Both stop, glare at each other before nodding towards me, still curious.
"Well... my growth in overall strength has something to do with how I resurrected." I had read plenty of Gamer Fanfiction in my life as Luke, which I still find a bit of a waste of time now, and many hoard their secrets of rebirth and their System, when applicable, forever. I find that stupid. If you have people you trust, give them the info of your power. They could have perspectives on it you don't and help you grow. "Ever since I woke up..." I take a deep breath. "and this may sound strange- who am I kidding? This is down-right unbelievable even by Jujutsu standards... anyways, ever since I woke up in the ruins of my Ultimate Mechamaru: Absolute, my life has been working like a Video Game."
Silence.
"Huh?" Maki asks. "Sure you haven't been just playing too many? This place seems like the kind to spend two weeks playing games instead of helping out..." Her accusatory tone was met with my flat stare.
Hm... how to prove it? "I'm serious." She blinks a bit before sighing.
"I've seen... weirder Cursed Techniques." She tries to reason with herself.
Miwa, having laid her head on my lap for some reason- guess Jujutsu Sorcerers who've survived the shit they have have less reservations about social taboos-, speaks up. "I thought your Cursed Technique was puppet control?"
I nod. "It is. This... Gamer System, for lack of a better term, is not of Jujutsu in nature." I note.
Maki quirks an eyebrow above her scarred face. "You're saying a god blessed you?" She began, obviously ready for another rant.
I shake my head in exasperation. "Maybe? I have no clue anymore, to be honest." I take another breath. "But it's the explanation for my sudden hold on the Six Eyes and even how I saved your life Maki. Back in Shibuya, remember?"
She squints before her eyes shoot wide open. "Yeah! You used Reversed Cursed Technique back then already!" She chuckled. "Man, when I saw you back in the Exchange Event, I never pegged you for a guy who can do all of that already."
I nodded. "I couldn't. I unlocked it right then and there when you where about to die." She frowned at that, considering the implications.
Before a smirk overtook her previously serious expression. "Man, you learned such a hard technique just to save me? If I didn't know any better..." She glanced over to Miwa. "...Nah, if she's fine with it, I wouldn't mind." I had no clue what that meant. I had some theories but my sense of self-worth was far too low to consider them.
"Well, anyways, this 'System' gives me Quests." I continue.
And as has been the trend, somebody butts in. Miwa, this time, as Maki has relegated herself to... looking at me with an expression I had never seen before? Closest I could get to figuring it out was a mix between contemplative frowns and admiring nods and smiles. "How do they look?" She asks, a purely vanity focused question.
I shrug. "Ever played an RPG?" Silence. "Well, it's a blue, translucent box filled with text." Maki nods and Miwa smiles up at me from he position on my lap. She's so god damn adorable. "Anyways, the only down side to the system is that I cannot train my physical strength and even mental prowess manually anymore." I see Maki frown, thinking it a curse. "The only way to grow in those aspects is through the rewards I get from the System, in form of Stat-Points."
I give them a few seconds to absorb that before continuing. "To elaborate, I can call up a status screen, so to say, which displays all of those attributes, along with my Cursed Energy and overall health, in a numerical value." Maki nods, liking the idea.
"It would be nice to know that." She says softly before waving her hand in a motion to let me continue.
"Yes, so, these quests give me an increase in overall strength and, while extremely useful and down-right overpowered, it's not the best thing such quests can give me..." I ominously finish.
Miwa perks up. "What do you mean?" Maki's wide eyes seem to indicate that she's figured it out.
"The Six Eyes... you challenged Gojo, and if you had a quest to win a fight, then your reward could hav- oh my god." Her mutterings turn inwards as her gaze is fixed on me intently now.
I nod. "My reward for beathing Ryomen Sukuna was his Cursed Technique." I just toss that into the room, getting slack jaws from both parties.
"So... not only do you have your own strength, but his as well!?" Miwa perks up with shining eyes, somehow excited for me.
I nod again. "Sure. Now, the last thing about my system is the aspect of Skills. In short, everything that you could classify as a skill, for example Reversed Cursed Technique or my normal Cursed Technique, have short descriptions and a level up to 100... most of the time, but I digress. If I level a skill to 100, it means I've achieved mastery." I don't mention the skills that have only 50 levels or my Heavenly Restriction and now the Six Eyes that only has one.
Maki and Miwa, a bit mentally exhausted and done with this, just nod, accepting it as fact. They trust me entirely too much. "Well... I guess I'll get on with th-"
Maki shakes her head. "I want to know what all you can do." She then shrugs. "Curiosity and all." The physically gifted girl adds on.
I sigh. "Sure." And take a deep breath. "Well~! Together with a skill of mine that's called 'Cursed Energy Control' being level 100 and my Six Eyes, I have perfect control over my absolutely massive Cursed Energy reserves, which stand at a grand total of 1.550.000 CE." I see Miwa gaze up at me with rapt attention and Maki just nods. "I have a level 100 skill in weapon mastery and if it's skill description is accurate, I'll be a master at any weapon I pick up." That should be an entire power itself, it's that strong. "Then I have two Cursed Techniques, Sukuna's Shrine and my own Puppet Manipulation, for which I have my Domain Expansion." I then finish up with a shrug. "Along with my Reversed Cursed Energy and my immense physical strength, that's i- ah, wait. I have my Inventory Curse, it's Cursed Tools and the summonable Shikigami Mahoraga." I then nod. "That's it."
Maki smirks. "I may loose... but we're fighting." I chuckle and nod.
I crack my knuckles as I motion for the blue haired girl in my lap to rise up. As she does so, I call upon the game screen. "Well... I'll get on with the world switch."
"Is that also a game thing?" Miwa asks as she sits cross-legged on the couch now.
I nod. "Yup." Both nod and we all tense as I press the 'Y' option. A bright, white light engulfs us all.
Well... that's it for Arc 1! I have general Plot Points planned out for Arc two but they can be interchangeable regardless of where our team heads to, so any suggestions are appreciated in regards to the next world.
Kind of unhappy with the goodbyes, they're definitely rushed, but I'm a bit lacking in my overall JJK worldbuilding knowledge and didn't want to describe a couple people who, while mattering in the grand scheme of things, don't matter to Kokichi. The next world, if nothing else is suggested, is one I know far more about and can accurately describe.