As Li Qing hurried toward the kitchen to personally cook for her son, Lu Mu slowly bent down and carefully lifted Lu Shu into his arms.
The movement was extremely gentle.
Too gentle.
As if he was afraid the child in his arms would suddenly shatter into pieces.
Meanwhile, Lu Shu silently let himself be carried.
Lu Shu: …This treatment feels strangely embarrassing.
Lu Shu: I fought Sukuna, survived fighting him for hours, and now I’m being carried around like a fragile kindergarten child.
Lu Shu: Life truly is unpredictable.
Lu Mu’s lips twitched slightly after hearing that.
“Kindergarten child?”
“You’re ten years old!”
“No…
mentally he’s probably older than me…”
That thought instantly made his expression strange again.
Soon, Lu Mu placed Lu Shu carefully onto the massive couch in the living room.
Lu Xie immediately grabbed the remote enthusiastically.
Lu Xie: “Shu’er, let big sister show you something fun.”
The giant 100-inch television turned on instantly.
Bright colors flooded the room.
A cartoon began playing.
On the screen, several stick-like animated characters were screaming dramatically while chasing each other with frying pans.
BANG!
BOOM!
AAAAAHHHH!
Lu Shu stared at the screen blankly.
Three minutes later—
Lu Shu: Finally.
Peace.
Lu Shu: I, Shinzu Hatori, a man in his third reincarnation,(in a way) survivor of Sukuna’s compressed domain, possessor of over hundreds of cursed techniques…am currently being forced to watch stickman cartoons.
Lu Shu: Heavens truly enjoy mocking me.
Lu Mu coughed awkwardly.
Lu Xie’s smiling face stiffened slightly.
“Stickman cartoons?!”
“This is one of the highest-rated family shows online!”
“I even picked the funniest episode!”
Lu Shu continued staring lifelessly at the screen.
Lu Shu: At least show me anime.
Lu Shu: Anime is hundreds of times better than this nonsense.
Even low-budget anime with PowerPoint animation has more dignity than this nonsense.
Lu Xie: “…”
A critical hit landed directly on her heart.
Meanwhile, Lu Mu’s attention drifted elsewhere.
“Third reincarnation…,Over hundreds cursed techniques…”
“This child…”
Lu Mu slowly realized something terrifying.
His son might physically be ten years old…
But mentally, spiritually, and emotionally he had already lived multiple lifetimes.
For some reason, Lu Mu suddenly felt slightly pressured sitting beside his own son.
Meanwhile, Lu Shu had already ignored the television completely.
Since nobody was talking anymore, he finally started organizing his thoughts seriously.
Lu Shu: Well then…
now that things are quiet, I should properly analyze why I lost against Sukuna.
The instant those thoughts appeared—
Lu Mu and Lu Xie unconsciously straightened their backs.
Even the cartoon noises suddenly faded into the background.
Their expressions became serious.
Especially Lu Mu.
A businessman’s instinct told him:
“Important information incoming.”
Meanwhile, Lu Shu calmly started mentally reviewing the battle that nearly destroyed the entire Jujutsu world.
Lu Shu: The first reason was my cursed energy reserves.
Lu Shu: At most, my cursed energy amount was around seven-finger Sukuna level.
Lu Mu frowned slightly.
“Seven fingers?”
“Why are fingers being used as measurement units?”
Lu Xie also looked confused internally.
“What kind of horrifying world measures strength using body parts?”
Lu Shu continued.
Lu Shu: Normally, that amount would already place someone among top-tier sorcerers.
Lu Shu: But compared to complete Sukuna, it was still far too little.
Lu Shu: The only reason I didn’t lose instantly was because my cursed energy efficiency was much higher.
Lu Shu: My cursed energy usage efficiency was around 150%, while Sukuna’s was around 90%.
Lu Mu’s eyes narrowed.
As a businessman, percentages immediately caught his attention.
“Efficiency…”
“Meaning Shu’er could produce more results using less energy?”
Lu Shu: Not only that, my cursed energy recovery speed was approximately 1.78 times faster than Sukuna’s.
Lu Xie nearly choked internally.
“Why is he calculating combat like scientific research?!”
“Can’t sorcerers just punch each other and throw fireball normally?!”
Meanwhile, Lu Shu continued analyzing himself coldly.
Lu Shu: If not for those two advantages, I would’ve died within the first thirty minutes.
Lu Mu’s heart tightened.
“Thirty minutes…”
“So despite all that power, he was still fighting a monster completely above common sense…”
Then Lu Shu moved on.
Lu Shu: The second reason was the lack of my own Domain Expansion.
The atmosphere instantly changed.
Even without understanding what domains were, Lu Mu and Lu Xie could feel their importance.
Lu Shu: Through Synchronization, I could copy domains from other sorcerers.
Lu Shu: But there was a major problem.
Lu Shu: When my cursed technique finally evolved enough for domain synchronization, I was already traveling overseas.
Lu Shu: And before the Culling Game, domain users were incredibly rare.
Lu Shu: Later during the Culling Game, I directly synchronized with several domains after entering them personally.
Lu Shu: As for the others…
Lu Shu: I obtained them through the cursed technique “Memory Path.”
Lu Mu and Lu Xie immediately focused harder.
Lu Shu: Memory Path allowed me to enter a unconscious or sleeping target’s memories.
Lu Shu: Using those memories, I could synchronize with every cursed technique, domain, battle experience, and sorcerer the target had encountered, fought, or killed.
Lu Xie’s scalp tingled.
“This technique…Isn’t this completely broken?!”
Meanwhile Lu Mu was already imagining terrifying possibilities.
“If Shu’er entered the memories of an important person…wouldn’t he gain access to countless secrets?”
“This ability alone could shake entire nations…”
Then Lu Shu sighed mentally.
Lu Shu: Through Memory Path, I gained over fifty cursed techniques during the Culling Game.
Lu Xie nearly stopped breathing.
“FIFTY?!”
“How does a human brain even survive that many information?!”
Lu Shu immediately answered her question unknowingly.
Lu Shu: And that leads to my next weakness.
Brain overload.
Lu Mu and Lu Xie immediately became serious again.
Lu Shu: To use a synchronized domain, I had to continuously maintain three active techniques simultaneously.
Lu Shu: First, my own cursed technique — Synchronization.
Lu Shu: Second, the original owner’s cursed technique.
Lu Shu: Third, the original owner’s domain itself.
Lu Shu: Normally, copied cursed techniques don’t require active Synchronization maintenance after acquisition.
Lu Shu: But domains are different.
Lu Shu: Domains are the pinnacle of jujutsu.
Lu Shu: They force the brain into absurd levels of calculation and processing.
Lu Shu: If my own cursed technique causes 0.8 points of brain strain…
Lu Shu: And another cursed technique causes 1 point…
Lu Shu: And Domain Expansion itself causes 3 points…
Lu Shu: Then the total strain becomes 4.8.
Lu Shu: The point where the brain gets completely fried like tofu is approximately 4.9.
Silence.
Lu Xie stared blankly at her little brother.
“So every time he used a synchronized domain…he was literally one step away from turning himself into soup?”
Lu Mu felt goosebumps spread across his arms.
Meanwhile Lu Shu continued mercilessly criticizing himself.
Lu Shu: Not only that, synchronized domains consumed nearly three times more cursed energy than normal domains.
Lu Shu: With my already limited reserves, using domains was horribly nonsense.
Especially because none of those domains truly belonged to me.
Lu Shu: Meanwhile Sukuna intentionally avoided using his domain during the battle.
Lu Shu: Not because he couldn’t.
But because he wanted to evolve further.
And he succeeded.
Lu Shu: That monster created a completely new type of domain mid-battle.
Lu Shu: Compressed Domain.
A one-of-a-kind domain unlike anything seen before.
Lu Shu slowly closed his eyes.
Lu Shu: While I…trained for one and a half months solely to learn Domain Expansion and still failed even after dying.
Not to mention past 2 years of learning.
Lu Shu: Truly shameful.
Lu Mu silently clenched his fists.
One and a half months.
That was all.
His son had fought the strongest monster in existence…
after training one of the hardest abilities in his world for merely six weeks.
And despite that—
He still pushed Sukuna to the brink of death.
Lu Mu suddenly felt an indescribable pride rise inside him.
Meanwhile Lu Xie looked at Lu Shu with sparkling eyes full of admiration.
Then Lu Shu continued.
Lu Shu: Another reason for my defeat was overconfidence.
Lu Shu: I trusted Gojo-sensei too much.
A slight emotional fluctuation appeared within his thoughts.
Lu Mu immediately noticed it.
Lu Shu: And later, I underestimated Sukuna after he possessed Tengen instead of Megumi.
Lu Shu: I overused Synchronization before the final battle.
And according to my Binding Vow, the technique became temporarily banned afterward.
The ban was over 6 weeks.
The restriction only lifted three minutes before Gojo-sensei died.
Then Lu Shu continued.
Lu Shu: Afterward, I synchronized with Maki and obtained her Heavenly Restriction physique.
Lu Shu: Because of that physique, my cursed energy reserves dropped to only one-tenth of my original amount.
Lu Shu: But my physical abilities skyrocketed beyond reason.
If I hadn’t synchronized with Maki, the battle probably would’ve ended within one hour.
Lu Mu’s breathing slowed slightly.
“So Shu’er intentionally weakened one aspect of himself just to maximize another…”
“This child…”
“No…This monster…”
Then Lu Shu’s thoughts gradually became calmer.
Lu Shu: But things are different now.
This life doesn’t have Heavenly Restriction suppressing my cursed energy.
Lu Shu: And because I relied heavily on physical combat before dying, the combat experience remains engraved into my soul.
Lu Shu: As long as this body develops properly…
I’m certain I can eventually recover at least ninety percent of my peak physical abilities.
Silence filled the room once more.
Lu Mu slowly looked at the skinny child beside him.
Weak body.
Thin arms.
Fragile bones.
Yet inside that body…
was a soul that once stood before the King of Curses.
Meanwhile, Lu Xie quietly glanced at Lu Shu with shining eyes.
“My little brother…”
“He’s unbelievably cool…”
Lu Shu slightly adjusted his sitting position.
Another bone in his leg made an unhealthy sound.
Crack.
Lu Xie: “…”
Lu Mu: “…”
The majestic atmosphere instantly shattered.
Lu Shu: …Damn weak body.
Chapter End