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"W-what?"
Yuji was new to this "Sorcery" thing, so it's not like he wasn't expecting to be surprised.
Still, when he entered the juvenile detention center with his new classmates, he didn't expect one bit to end up in a random forest at night.
He might have thought he ended up somewhere in Germany if he was familiar with geography.
'Interesting' Sukuna said inside Yuji's mind.
Yuji noticed he was separated from his classmates. So he logically shouted their names.
"Kugisaki! Fushiguro!" when no response came, he shouted even louder. "Kugisaki!!! Fushiguro!!!" Once again, no response came.
Until now, Yuji has only used 1% of his vocal cord's power out of respect for people's ears. However, it would seem the situation would force him to shout the loudest he can.
"KUGISAKI!!! FUISHIGIRO!!! KU-KU-KU KUGISAKI!!! FU-FU-FU-"
"Shut the fuck up brat!" Sukuna manifested a mouth on Yuji's neck.
"Congratulations, brat. You managed to drown out my thoughts with your indecent shouting. So shut your mouth for a second and open your eyes. You won't find your pack here."
"Huh? What do you mean by that?"
Sukuna's mouth already disappeared and once again he returned to silence.
"Don't just say ominous things without following them up with anything." Yuji complained
'Maybe if you weren't so dumb, you wouldn't need an explanation.' The king of Curses responded without talking out loud.
"Ghrr… Fine, if I admit I am dumb. Will you tell me what the hell is going on?"
'What a fool, just by saying that you already halfway admitted it. But, if you let me take over your body for 1 hour right now, I'll tell you later brat.'
"! Like I'll agree to that, even though we are in some random forest, you will find someone to murder somehow and then laugh at me for agreeing to your shitty deal. Besides… Who's to say you will tell me after that?"
Sukuna mentally sighed 'How infuriating, you truly know absolutely nothing about Jujutsu.
Sorcerers can use cursed energy to seal pacts known as binding vows. Breaking binding vows is very risky and can result in severe penalties, even for me. So if you agree to my deal we'll be making a binding vow and I will be guaranteed to share with you the information I promised.'
"...Fine, I guess I'll agree if you promise to not hurt any person during this hour… And if you say what you know during the hour you have control of my body."
'I agree to those terms… we have a deal then'
Yuji felt a little tingle in his soul and Sukuna took over his body a moment later, opening his two additional pair of eyes under Yuji's normal eyes. Not one second passed before Sukuna ripped off his shirt. "Shitty brat, you forgot to specify me not to do this"
Yuji could tell this was going to be a long hour, but at least it would be worth it If he figured out where he got launched.
***
"To start with, any sorcerer should be able to tell we aren't on Earth anymore."
'Huh?'
"Instead of there being cursed energy in the air, there is instead a kind of neutral energy. Normally this energy shouldn't be able to exist, but here, even without humans a combination of both cursed and positive energy is periodically created in the air. The opposite energies stick together and create a neutral energy particle no sorcerer has seen before, until now."
"Lastly, when we entered this world a foreign object attempted to enter our combined soul so I stopped it. Just thought to let you know, since you were unable to even sense it you worthless brat. That's pretty much everything." Sukuna said with a bored expression on his face while taking a calm stroll through the forest.
"I wanted to take over since we are in a different world, but it doesn't seem this is any place of note… although, I can sense some cursed energy coming from there."
Sukuna quickly appeared where he sensed the unusual gathering of cursed energy.
"A wolf? With a horn, it's not a spirit since it has a physical body, but cursed energy is running rampant through it nonetheless."
.The 'Wolf' Jumped away on instinct when it felt Sukuna's presence, it then began to growl defensively.
"Well, I'm bored, might as well find out if this thing bleeds."
Sukuna raised one finger and on cue, the creature's head separated from its neck.
A fountain of blood also followed and the headless body hit the ground.
***
Sukuna continued to explore the forest, killing any creature unfortunate enough to end up on his way. He was going at a fast pace, so it wasn't long before the trees made way for what seemed like an endless grassy field. And in the distance, there something was promising.
"A dirt road, finally, around 30 minutes already past, I wouldn't want to waste all my time exterminating wilderness"
The King of Curses began to run across the road, even with only two fingers to his vessel. He had no trouble moving at around the pace of a racing car.
…And it wasn't long before something interesting appeared, no, not the huge tree next to the road. But the massive single-horned flying Whale hovering in the sky.
"Rgahhhh!!!" The White while screeched when it was hit by a barrage of white energy coming from the side. Not courtesy of Sukuna, but from the task force it was engaged in battle with.
"Finally, something that looks interesting, I can tell by the amount of cursed energy it has, that it's very powerful. I would like to fight it… but those people are stealing my fight."
Sukuna looked at the group battling the whale in disdain. He would slaughter them all or something if he didn't make that pact.
He noticed the energy cannons preparing another volley.
"If I'm not allowed to hurt these people, I'll simply make their jobs harder."
Sukuna dashed to in front of the cannon row, their operators froze in fear as their survival instinct kept them from moving when they gazed upon Sukuna. The King smirked.
"It's good that even in another world, the fodder knows their place"
Sukuna pointed an open palm towards the row of cannons.
"Dismantle"
A Moment later the cannons that were partially loaded with mana exploded in flames, The unfortunate gunners who happened to be too close were engulfed in the flames. The rest of the operators were either knocked to the ground or began to scurry away from the former cannons.
"Does it count as hurting them if they were too stupid to step away from my target brat?" Sukuna began having a headache.
"Now that they won't weaken my prey, time to deal with the cavalry."
The Next on Sukuna's hit least were the lizards that men were using to chase the whale around the battlefield and hit it with spells. If he only targeted the Lizards who weren't considered people by the pact he made, would it matter if their riders happened to break their necks while falling off?
By this point, Itaordi caught on that Sukuna was doing his best to stretch the terms of the pact, he tried to wrestle back control of his own body, but since the pact was still long underway, Sukuna kept full control.
The King dashed in front of a pair of knights who were shooting fireballs at the whale. They barely had time to process the presence in front of them before their rids fell limp, both cut in half. Sukuna didn't bother sticking around and continued dashing across the battlefield, cutting down the mounts the soldiers were using to fight the whale. However, all was not well for Sukuna.
His previously impeccable speed was now reduced to that of a mear highway safedriver. He had to make multiple cuts to fell one of the ground dragons that soldiers were using to get around.
"Stupid brat, you aren't getting back control now, so stop struggling!"
Yuji made the strongest effort he could to Sukuna. He unconsciously managed to reduce his cursed energy output by over 50% This ended being Yuji's first instance of using cursed energy.
***
By now, the riders caught on to the man rampaging across their force. Two riders on top on one mount put a reckless plan into action.
Sukuna turned his head towards someone who was riding towards him.
One was a girl with blue hair, and the other-
"A boy with black hair, and with cursed energy!"
Since Sukuna was attentive he knew by now these were two things that no one else in this group of people he was disrupting possessed.
"Show me what you have got!" Sukuna opened his arms to the side and didn't move from the path of the charging ground dragon, the boy held no weapons in his hands. But he soon opened his mouth
"I can return by-"
Sukuna was almost confused by why he didn't finish his sentence, but the spike in cursed energy in that boy quickly clued him in.
'A curse that activates when you try to say something forbidden'
Sukuna deduced correctly.
'And the reason for that is…'
Upon noticing the immense amount of cursed energy concentrated in one spot, The White whale quickly flew to attack both combatants.
"Hahaha! I'll have to thank you later for that boy!"
Sukuna jumped in the air to avoid the charging ground dragon, and to face the Whale head-on.
He put his hand in a fighting stance and seemingly stood in the air awaiting the charging whale.
"Now, Show me what you have got! Cursed Whale!"
The whale let out an ear-piercing screech as it charged Sukuna with its downwards-facing curved horn. It was no problem for Sukuna to jump on top of the whale to dodge the attack, smirked towards one of his eyes before slashing Its hide with cleave.
Blood splatters, but the damage was superficial at best. Sukuna noticed another gash of similar length on its head, yet that one appeared deeper. Unless whoever had done it was stronger than Sukuna. Something was amiss.
The Whale shook Sukuna off his hide and the Cursed King landed back on the grass after doing a backflip.
"My cursed technique doesn't seem to do much damage against you it seems."
This time, instead of charging head-on. The Whale simply opened his mouth. A moment later, white fog laced with cursed energy enveloped the battlefield. Sukuna held his head with one hand.
"Is a headache all you can give me, or is this some kind of distraction?"
There was also screaming coming from soldiers all across the battlefields that ended up coming in contact with the fog. The Whale flew back to gain distance and Sukuna pursued. It opened its mouth again and this time, it let out a different kind of fog. Unlike the previous one that had some cursed energy in it. This one was practically made of cursed energy.
Sukuna opened his eyes wide.
"I can't let this technique hit me!" he put his hands forward to launch a barrage of cleaves and dismantles. But this only served to slow down the approaching fog.
'I don't have enough time to cast ■ so I am left with no choice.'
Time seemed to slow down as the air grew thick, Sukuna put his fingers together in front of himself.
"Domain Expansion: Malevolent Shrine"
Normally, the radius of Sukuna's barrierless domain could reach a maximum of 200 meters. Still, out of the need to preserve cursed energy and maximize the chance of stopping the fog, Sukuna chose to limit the domain to only around 25 meters.
Well below the radius that could reach The Whale or cause collateral damage.
Nevertheless, The rapid barrage from his domain instantly evaporated the deadly fog. To save cursed energy, Sukuna quickly dispelled the Malevolent Shrine, and yet. Simply catching its glimpse let everyone on the battlefield know that Sukuna was likely the most dangerous foe there.
Also, Sukuna wouldn't have to wait for his technique to recover from the use of a domain, as he already repaired it by experimentally taking neutral energy from the air, and separating it into negative and positive energy. All he had to do was to apply the positive energy to the part of his brain where his cursed technique was stored, and he could use his cleave and dismantle like usual.
And just in time too, as the whale spread out its weaker fog across the battlefield and let out a battle cry. Sukuna felt a change in the cursed energy of the Whale. And when he looked up he knew why.
"Hahaha! So you cloned yourself. Not bad, but If I'm guessing correctly I still just need to target the main body."
The Whale's clones attacked the weakened soldiers While Sukuna and the main Whale stood off. Sukuna with a wide smile on his face, and the Whale with a predatory look.
Sukuna dashed forward and the Whale showed its teeth. It attempted to bite him but Sukuna was able to dodge and land on the Whale's forehead.
"I guess I shouldn't be surprised a big guy like you is a little slow."
The Whale narrowed its eyes at Sukuna and attempted to shake him off, Sukuna latched onto its hairs.
"Wo! Hahaha, you sure have muscle in you!"
Sukuna let himself be tossed off, did a backflip for style points, and while still falling in the air. He brought his hands together and then spread them apart. The Whale was hit by a wide slash that damaged both of its eyes.
"RGHAAAH!!!" The beast screamed in agony, and Sukuna used the opportunity to dash forward and hit the Whale's left eye with a barrage of rapid dismantles. Thus, he made that eye useless. But before he could celebrate, the Whale spun around in surprising speed and hit Sukuna with its massive tail.
"Gha!"
Sukuna barely had time to raise his hands before the tail hit him again and knocked him high into the sky with surprising speed. The now one-eyed Whale quickly rose to meet the damaged Sukuna in his parabolic flight path, and it… Swallowed him whole. After that, the whale celebrated its new dinner by continuing its battle against the army below it.
And inside the Whale's stomach… Sukuna used his fingernails to latch onto the walls and avoid falling into the stomach acid.
"Hahaha, it's like I'm in a domain right now."
He already got some acid splashed onto him, and the 3rd degree burns he quickly healed just weren't good for his skin. So he decided to avoid taking a swim.
Let's see… Now that I'm here, I could finish the beast off, but how about I wait a bit and let it cause some more casualties to the people fighting it? Hahaha, when I finally kill it, what will you think when you see the field of bodies I caused in your body?
"Oh, and before I forget"… Sukuna 'walked' on the air by using dismantle right below his feet. He then picked up the only solid object found in this acidic place, a lonely 1000-year-old special-grade cursed finger of Ryomen Sukuna. "I'll just do this quickly…" He swallowed the disgusting object and went back to gripping the stomach's walls.
As to how this special grade object found its way inside the whale's stomach?
When Sukuna was explaining this world to Itadori Yuji, he didn't tell everything. For example, he didn't mention how all 18 (now 17) of his fingers, were transported all across the world at the same time they both were.
***
"By all the shaking happening, I'm sure we can both tell the battle is far from over… but, I'm sure you also sensed our pact just ended. So, I guess we can switch right now and you can take a bath in this lovely acid… or you can let me handle the situation a little longer, the choice is yours, brat."
"...Are you having trouble responding?"
'He knows he can respond, mentally, yet he is choosing to keep silence for now… wait, no, he is trying to do something else instead.'
And as Sukuna predicted, Yuji did try something. On Sukuna's backhand, a mouth and a single brown eye appeared.
"Ah, I finally got it to work, feels weird using this eye when I can also still see from all the other 4 eyes."
"Don't be too proud brat, and besides, unless you plan to take the backseat in this body I don't see how this is of any use to you."
"Oh, I guess you have got a point, I just thought this would be cool."
They both felt a massive shake and the movements stopped.
"I guess we have been knocked to the ground, I don't want to let them finish this beast off, so how about I show you how to make Sushi?"
"Sure! Go ahead!" Yuji responded excitedly.
"Tch, I was going to do it anyway." He brought his fingers together in the required sigil…
"Domain Expansion: Malevolent Kitchen"
'Did he just say kitchen?' Yuji thought and soon the shrine rose from beneath the depths of the stomach acid.
This time, Sukuna didn't bother limiting his domain's range, though it was limited to around 80 meters by the fact he still only had 3 fingers. and soon, tens of thousands of slashes engulfed the Whale and surrounding grass, it was a miracle no person was in the range of the slashes. But the sharp instincts of the old man that was almost in range also helped. In the chaos, a massive tree was chopped down from the domain's effects.
Splash, Splash, Splash
A rain of blood and chopped sushi-sized whale meat came down all around Sukuna who was standing in the middle of a giant blood puddle. He caught one piece in his hand before tasting it… he soon made a disgusted face and spit it out. Yuji now realized Sukuna was serious about making Sushi.
"It's terrible, did this whale only eat garbage before today?"
The chef did not approve.