A huge wave of cursed energy burst out, tearing through the air.
The tree roots holding everything in place were sliced into a neat grid in an instant.
The figure stood up slowly, giving off a pressure that felt almost inhuman.
[Fraud Yuji]…
No, at this exact moment, he was the 15-Finger Sukuna from the Shibuya Incident!
[Sukuna] reached up and slicked his hair back.
His cold gaze swept over everyone present before locking onto a completely dumbfounded Jogo.
“You’re… Sukuna?”
There was no response.
[Sukuna] repeated in a flat voice:
“You’re holding your head too high!!”
He pressed two fingers together, pointing forward like a blade.
[Dismantle]
“BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!”
The exterior wall of the dormitory, already sporting a massive hole, was instantly cleaved by a horizontal fissure stretching from left to right!
A huge swath of the surrounding trees was sheared cleanly in half, launching into the air!
Jogo ducked as fast as he could, but the top half of his volcano-shaped head was still sliced clean off.
Hanami, who was nearby, got caught in the attack and ended up with a deep cut across her chest.
Purple blood ran down from his damaged head, but Jogo didn’t care.
He shouted, “We are not your enemies, Sukuna!! We only wish to bring you back to this world!!”
“You’re holding your head too high!”
[Sukuna] repeated the exact same line.
He had zero intention of communicating.
Kaito was pressed up against [Sukuna]’s stomach.
His tentacles had pierced the skin, forcing the sleeping [Fraud Yuji] program to give up control of the vessel.
Kaito knew from the very beginning that his Ten Frauds Technique was an anomaly.
Such an abstract, broken technique would never exist in the original timeline.
Considering his transmigration, it was safe to assume the Ten Frauds Technique was his cheat code.
Initially, Kaito had vastly underestimated his own technique.
Back in his old life, he loved debating JJK lore.
Subconsciously, he had a very high tolerance for how ridiculous cursed energy could be.
So at first, Kaito didn’t think there was anything weird about creating the Lower Half of Gojo.
It was just using a small amount of cursed energy to construct a real body, right?
Even though converting a single gram of matter into energy is equivalent to a Hiroshima bomb, and creating a half-body or full-body of Satoru Gojo should require an ocean of energy…
‘But cursed energy is basically magic bullshit anyway.
It’s not weird that it can do that.
The small amount of cursed energy I absorbed must be equivalent to the mass needed to create the Lower Half of Gojo.’
That was what Kaito had thought at the time.
But after creating [Fraud Megumi], Kaito realized something was very wrong.
He had siphoned less than a fifth of Megumi’s cursed energy—yet he managed to create a [Fraud Megumi] possessing a complete physical body AND a full, 100% reserve of Megumi’s total cursed energy? Follow the newest chapters on novelping.com.
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This completely broke the law of conservation of energy!
From that moment on, Kaito realized the Ten Frauds Technique wasn’t just absorbing equivalent cursed energy to sculpt a Fraud Shikigami.
It was more like…
making a wish.
He was paying a specific amount of energy to purchase the ‘right’ to make a wish.
Then, the technique granted him the full energy reserves and an entire physical body for free.
Aside from ‘wishing,’ Kaito couldn’t think of a better word to describe it.
Maybe he was making a wish to the fundamental laws of the Jujutsu world.
Maybe to the world itself…
Or maybe to some incomprehensible, higher-dimensional entity.
In short: trading a small amount for a massive payout was an established law within the logic of his technique!
Therefore, the [Fraud Yuji] that contained a 15-Finger Sukuna inside of him…
had been successfully wished into existence by Kaito.
However, the entity he had subjugated was [Fraud Yuji].
The successful subjugation target did not include the [Sukuna] residing inside him.
The best Kaito could do was use his Shikigami hijacking mechanic to make [Sukuna] register Kaito as a part of his own body, preventing him from attacking Kaito directly.
But everything else in the vicinity?
[Sukuna] would systematically obliterate them based on their threat level!
If this wasn’t the ultimate suicide-bombing technique, what was?
BANG—!!
Jogo’s body bent as he was thrown out of the room.
His feet dug two deep grooves in the ground before he finally stopped.
He coughed up more purple blood.
A ruthless glint flashed through the massive, singular eye that took up half his face.
He had heard Kaito’s screams perfectly clearly.
If this wasn’t the real Sukuna, then there was no need to keep it alive!
He would erase—
“WHOOSH!”
Suddenly, [Sukuna] was right in front of Jogo’s face!
Cloaked in cursed energy so dense it was practically pitch black, his physical form was blurred from sheer speed!
‘So fast!!’
That thought registered in Jogo’s mind at the exact same millisecond he was sent flying again.
A series of loud booms echoed across the area.
Jogo bounced off the ground, tearing up the dirt, and shot back into the air.
He was skipped across the land like a stone on water, leaving a trail of dust behind him.
[Sukuna] looked at the hand he had just used to hit Jogo.
Right after, he clenched his fist and bent his knees.
The ground under him cracked like a spiderweb as he shot toward Jogo again.
Hanami ran out.
Seeing the clouds of dust, she didn’t have time to think.
She just shouted one order to Dagon over her shoulder:
“I’m going to help Jogo! You stay here! Guard the items we took from the Cursed Warehouse! If it comes to the worst-case scenario, you retreat alone!!”
Without another word, Hanami turned and ran into the fight.
Dagon was confused.
With that monster’s aura, there was no way Jogo and Hanami could win, even if they worked together.
He wanted to help his friends, but he had to protect the cursed objects and keep the dead-man’s switch active to buy time.
He couldn’t let all their work go to waste.
But!
‘I cannot abandon my friends!’
“Puu!” Dagon’s heart swelled with determination.
His Cursed Womb body started to move…
“Oh. Giving orders? You really don’t know your place.”
An arrogant voice came from behind Dagon.
The real Sukuna—now in control of Yuji’s body—pushed his hair back.
Did that blob really think he would take over this kid’s body just to run away?
That was funny.
There was a much better answer right in front of him.
Sukuna stared at Dagon and commanded, “I can sense them. The fingers are on you. Hand them over.”
Inside the Innate Domain, a mountain of skulls and a lake of blood.
Watching Sukuna’s actions from within, Yuji frowned and yelled:
“HEY, SUKUNA! That wasn’t Kaito’s plan! If you act on your own, I’m taking my body back!”
“Brat.”
Sukuna stood on top of the mountain of skulls, looking down at Yuji, who was standing in the lake of blood.
“Are you really satisfied with just tucking your tail and running away?”
“That was Kaito’s instruction. I trust him!!” Yuji remained entirely unmoved.
“Tch—” Sukuna sneered.
“The weak always get an excuse from someone else before they run, and then use it to convince themselves.”
“Running away isn’t a one-time, helpless choice. It is the starting point of your pathetic and cowardly existence.”
“Say whatever you want,” Yuji replied calmly.
“Do as Kaito said, or I’m taking control back.”
‘DAMN BRAT—’
Sukuna narrowed his four eyes, hiding the small sign of annoyance at being challenged.
“And what if I told you that once I’ve gained this much of my power back, I’ll go help that bastard lump of meat?”