The next day.
“500 million.
Give me 500 million, and I’ll sell you my child.” “What if he has no cursed energy like you, and never awakens a technique?” “My son will awaken a technique.
If he inherits the family’s Ten Shadows Technique, I want 800 million.” “Hahaha.
I’ll give you one billion if your son awakens the family technique.” Makoto never would have guessed it.
The reason this man had arranged to meet the head of the Zenin clan was to sell his own son in one package.
“Then one billion.
Give me the money, and Megumi is yours to do with as you please.” There was not a trace of attachment in Toji Fushiguro’s words.
“The money will be transferred to your account soon, but don’t expect all of it at once.
If your son fails to awaken the family technique and I ask you to return the money, I’m afraid you won’t.
After all, no one in the family can kill you.” Naobito Zenin, the current head of the Zenin clan.
His cursed technique was unknown, his age was unknown, and his hobby was drinking.
It would be fair to say he loved alcohol as much as life itself.
When Toji said he wanted to sell his son back to the Zenin clan, Naobito showed not the slightest resistance.
The Three Great Families valued inherited techniques to an almost pathological degree.
If a child in the current generation awakened the family technique, that child would automatically become a candidate for the next head of the clan.
If no one in the current generation awakened the inherited technique, then the strongest sorcerer would inherit the position.
In other words, Naobito Zenin was the strongest sorcerer of the Zenin clan’s current generation, a Grade 1 sorcerer.
However, he was in no hurry to bring Toji Fushiguro’s son back.
Under normal circumstances, a child’s innate technique awakened after the age of four.
If Toji Fushiguro’s son did not inherit any technique, there would be no need to bring him back at all.
Whether Megumi Fushiguro would be welcomed back would have to wait until after he turned four.
What Naobito was curious about now was Makoto, who had come with Toji and was sitting to one side as if none of this had anything to do with him.
“If I remember correctly, this is the first time you’ve brought someone to meet me.” “What’s the story?
Is this brat your student?” Naobito could not help paying attention.
He could not sense any cursed energy fluctuations from Makoto.
That was abnormal.
Even ordinary people had faint traces of cursed energy.
Like the passersby around them, if one sensed carefully, one could always find it.
But Makoto had none.
No matter how Naobito observed him, he could not find even the slightest trace of cursed energy.
There was only one possibility.
Like Toji Fushiguro, he was born with zero cursed energy, a bearer of Heavenly Restriction.
“Another Heavenly-Restricted Tyrant?” “Student?
Who knows.
He asked to come this time.” Asked to come?
“Young man, what business do you have with me?” Naobito stared straight at Makoto, as if trying to see through him.
Makoto had not spoken from beginning to end.
His body constantly carried an aura that kept strangers away.
In the future, he might become another Toji Fushiguro.
“Cursed tools.
He said I could get cursed tools from you.” “I see.
So you’ve come to trade with me.
That will cost quite a bit.
Did your teacher explain that to you clearly?” He deliberately said teacher, wanting to figure out Makoto’s relationship with Toji Fushiguro.
“How much?” Makoto did not respond to the bait.
He did not know how close these two were.
If he denied it, would the other man refuse to sell him cursed tools?
Besides, in a certain sense, Toji Fushiguro did count as his teacher.
Naobito did not press the issue.
He said directly, “That depends on the grade of the cursed tool.
If it’s Special Grade, prepare at least 500 million before we can even talk business.” “If it’s a special cursed tool like the one in Toji’s hands, the price will be even higher.
Do you have that much money?” Toji Fushiguro possessed a Special Grade cursed tool that filled all sorcerers with dread.
The Inverted Spear of Heaven.
Its effect was to forcibly cancel cursed techniques that were currently active.
Because of its unique nature, Toji often used the Inverted Spear of Heaven like a shield to defend against an opponent’s technique.
It could both attack and defend.
“500 million…” That was indeed a price that made a person want to turn around and leave as soon as they heard it.
Japan’s economy had yet to recover.
One hundred million yen in the present could be used like 300 million yen or even more twenty-three years in the future.
“When I have enough money, I’ll contact you.” The two sides exchanged contact information.
With their transaction concluded, neither side had any intention of eating together, so they each left.
On the way back, Makoto, who had been silent for a long while, could not help asking, “Are you really going to sell your own son to the Zenin clan?” “What’s the problem?
He was a Zenin to begin with.
Put nicely, I’m just letting him return to his roots.” “That sounds pleasant enough.
If the Zenin clan is so good, why did you run away in the first place?
You even changed your surname.” Makoto did not know much about the Three Great Families, but he knew enough.
Through his contact with Naobito Zenin, he could tell that the Zenin clan was an icy family that treated inherited techniques as everything.
If Megumi Fushiguro successfully awakened a technique after the age of four, he would be taken back to the Zenin clan and separated from all his relatives.
Who knew what he would experience there?
“He’s my child, not yours.
I don’t need your permission for what I do with him.” Toji scratched his hair irritably, then added, “He’s destined to awaken a technique.
Those two women in the Fushiguro household will only become burdens to him.
Returning to the Zenin clan is the best outcome for him.” It was impossible to say he had no feelings at all.
After all, Megumi was the child he had with the woman he had truly loved.
But it was obvious that Toji Fushiguro did not intend to drag a burden around with him.
In his own arrogant way, he decided to send Megumi Fushiguro back to the Zenin clan.
“By the way, how are you planning to earn that 500 million and more?” “Why not start working with me now?
Shiu Kong can introduce you to jobs.” Shiu Kong was Korean.
He had once been a detective, and now he moved among various curse user groups, working as a broker and information dealer.
Through him, one could access almost every bounty job.
He was also Toji Fushiguro’s main partner at the moment.
“I have my own method.” Makoto had his own plan, and he did not intend to make contact with the Jujutsu world’s underworld so early.