Bab 44: Shared Mission
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We surpassed 150k words with this chapter folks! Where has the time gone huh?
This is Truly our Jujutsu Kaisen.
700 Stones = Extra Chapter
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3 Hours later.
Megumi leaned back in the front chair of the black sedan, he was mostly tuning out the idle chatter from the one brain celled duo sitting behind him.
The one driving the car was Akari Nitta who had temporarily taken over Rin's duty as his Auxiliary Manager during her mandated holiday, although it had been a surprising call considering how it was on short notice.
"Fushiguro-san, I heard that my little brother is being transferred over to your Tokyo branch soon. Do you have any idea about that?" Akari inquired, trusting that he would have the answers that she desired.
"Ah, him. Yes, he's being transferred to Tokyo soon, along with two others of his classmates." Megumi revealed, a grin hiding a tinge of malice covering his face as he remembered the 'deal' he had struck with the old geezer.
"Principal Gakuganji and I had a little.. Heart to heart. We agreed unanimously that Arata, along with two of his classmates, would find much better company and growth under.. different management."
Yuji and Nobara listened on into his words with squinted eyes, both trying to figure out what he was really saying. They then turned to the other and looked into the other's eyes with a nod of tacit approval, as if they shared the same thought without having to talk.
'Heart to Heart? Agreement? Doesn't he mean Extortion and Threats?' They thought collectively, feeling a small bead of sweat fall down their foreheads.
"Although, even though he is a first year, he isn't going to be a student with the three of us. He'll be training under Shoko in the way to become an actual on the field emergency Medic. He should fit right in with his cursed technique." Megumi explained.
"Wait, wait. Who else is gonna join our school?" Yuji asked, his brain having just caught up to all of the words that Megumi said.
"Oh yeah, who is it?" Nobara questioned, it seemed like she had processed all the information given by Megumi at the same time that Yuji did.
"Todo and Miwa."
Megumi answered before he paused a second later and reached for his phone as he had been reminded of someone more important and ignored his classmate's shouts. He pulled out his phone and scrolled till he found the page of someone very near and dear to him.
"Well I'm glad he has someone like you rooting for him at his side, Fushiguro-san." Akari thanked genuinely, although her thanks was not required and fell upon deaf ears as he started to tune them all out.
'Looks like Shoko's enjoying Hawaii, the beach looks nice. And of course she has her Heineken at the ready.' Megumi chuckled slightly as he watched the picture Shoko had on her profile.
The picture was a side selfie of Shoko in a two-piece swimsuit with a comically large hat, she was currently laying down under an umbrella with 2 bottles of Heineken, one in her left hand and the other being held in between her thighs as she took the selfie with her right hand.
Behind her was a small veritable mountain of empty bottles, the bodyguard Semi-Grade One sorcerer he had hired for her protection and to serve as her guide had an expression of pure bewilderment but stayed his post nonetheless.
'Leave it Shoko try to blaze new boundaries in what the Human Liver can handle, at least I know she's having a good time. I just hope she doesn't have a 'Drunk Shoko' moment and flatten the western seaboard.'
When Megumi tuned back into their conversation when the car had stopped, he exited without much fanfare and looked around, frowning slightly as he did so.
The sign on the main gate held a title emblazoned onto it; 'Saitama Municipal Urami East Junior High'.
"Alright, the home of that Morishita dude was a bust, hopefully here we'll get better answers." Yuji called out as he stretched his arms, walking to be by Megumi's side along with the other two of their small group.
The quartet entered the grounds of school and walked around for a few minutes before Nobara found a duo of two students resting inside of an empty hallway as they shared a cigarette.
"Oh look, we got two punks over there! Let's go teach 'em some discipline and beat 'em up." She declared with way too much cheerfulness in her voice.
However, all she could do was stand there nonplussed as the two of them dropped the cigarette and jumped up from their place in terror. They marched forwards 3 steps before bowing and shouting with all their heart.
"Good Morning! We Humbly Apologise for not Greeting you properly!"
To this Nobara and Yuji simply chuckled in haughty satisfaction, thinking the two punks to be bowing to them in reverence.
"Heh, that's more like it." Nobara commented.
"One's Aura is hard to hide, huh?" Yuji nodded his head along.
"We haven't seen you in too long, Fushiguro-san!"
Now that took the wind out of the one brain celled duo's proverbial sails, they turned to face Megumi with disgruntled expressions.
"...This is my sister's old school." He revealed dismissively.
The two of them blurred towards him with immense speeds before starting to squish his face with both their hands in annoyance before demanding answers.
"What the hell? Since when do you have a sister?!" Nobara demanded.
"Yeah, why did you never tell us you had a sister?!" Yuji agreed.
"Screw this, let's just ask them." He then said after turning away to point at the two punks.
"You're right; Idiot A, Idiot B, what'd this guy do to you?" She acquiesced and asked, still keeping her grip on Megumi's shoulder as she did so.
"To us? Nothing. But everyone in the school knows about him – one time he came to pick up his sister from school and ran into her being confessed to by a guy that wanted to take her out on a date." One of the two punks explained, letting his friend continue the story.
"He proceeded to break the guy's right knee, the poor dude still walks with a limp 3 years later last I heard. After that, no one dared upset her for the next few years till she left the school, although there were some of the girls who were trying to find him again." The other punk revealed.
Nobara and Yuji both turned to Megumi with horrified expressions, the unspoken demand for answers caused Megumi to sigh.
"He held Impure thoughts about my sister, he had to be taught a lesson. Truthfully, he deserved worse than he got, he should be counting himself lucky." Megumi announced, not feeling even an ounce of shame.
"Dude.. He only gave her a flower and asked her out on a picnic…" One of the punks muttered with horror evident in his voice.
However, Megumi Fushiguro didn't seem to be phased in the slightest as he simply declared:
"My Purpose Standeth Unchanged."
He then walked forwards towards the two punks and looked them both in the eyes, uncaring of their very evident fear.
"Now, I'm gonna need the two of you to start telling me everything you know about this school's dark secrets. Every bad rumour and gang, I want to hear it now..."
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Several Hours Later.
Yasohachi Bridge Underpass.
'Never bothered to come here before since this curse has nothing to do with Tsumiki's curse, and it'll also serve doubly as a good chance to let Yuji and Nobara grow as sorcerers.' Megumi thought as he walked down a slope to reach the bottom part of the Bridge's underpass.
Behind him were the aforementioned duo of sorcerers, they looked around with curious expressions at the seemingly quiet and peaceful atmosphere of what was supposed to be a cursed spirit hot spot.
'I thought about saving Choso's brothers at some point, Kechizu and Eso. But I've decided against it, they'll serve better as fuel to the fire that is Nobara's and Yuji's Potential and Strength. If they can hit at the very least one Black Flash as they did before, it would be a worthy exchange, especially so for Nobara.'
He looked around and found the place where the curse would most likely be located, but he didn't say so and took it as an opportunity to test the pink haired teen's knowledge.
"Yuji, this is the mission location but we can't see any sign of the curses. Can you explain why this is the case?" Megumi asked, turning around to face him and crossing his arms in expectation.
"But isn't it obvious where it is? It's-" Kugisaki pointed out, beginning to answer his question for him but was stopped by the black haired man's interjection.
"Ata-ta-ta! I know that you know that I know, and I know that you know. I want to know what he knows." He said, not caring to hide his intentions or that he was being needlessly complicated with his wording.
"My head hurts.." Yuji rubbed his forehead slightly in thought as he wrapped his head around what Megumi said.
"But uhhh, it's over there underneath in the crossway in between the bridge's underpass and the river, right?" He then called out as he pointed towards a small river directly beneath the large bridge.
"Ya-huh, and why is that?" Megumi probed further, he looked as if he was a teacher guiding his young ward to the answer without giving it to them outright.
"Uhhhh… Because of rituals and stuff! Symbolic or Spiritual things like that have a lot of meaning in Jujutsu, so even crossing a river or breaking a mirror can be a catalyst to activating or incurring Jujutsu and Curses!" The pink haired sorcerer answered cheerfully, fully sure that his answer was right.
"Good and what do you suppose would happen if we went into said passage?" The black haired man prompted again, wanting to cross off one final thing off his checklist.
"We'd get transported into an Innate Domain again like with that finger dude! And it'd be an incomplete one too 'cuz of how long the Domain is being casted!" Itadori answered, this time without hesitation since he had built up the confidence that he would be right.
"Mhm, all correct. Good work Yuji, looks like you've actually been paying attention in our lessons." Megumi confirmed with a smile, happy that Yuji had internalised the lessons he had given him.
"Not like we had a choice, that blind folded idiot is a shit teacher. Figures, geniuses are known to be bad at explaining things. Sum' about them never needing to be told the specifics cuz it comes naturally to them an' allat." Nobara grumbled in annoyance at his words.
She then scoffed, remembering the 'lessons' that Gojo had given them which consisted of him explaining things once and expecting them to immediately get it without further elaboration. And then his look of confusion when they asked him to explain it again.
"Yeah, Satoru struggles a bit with teaching the fundamentals and basics of Jujutsu knowledge. Ask him to show you how to cast a Domain or use a Lapse Technique and he'd be able to do so in a heartbeat. But ask him to explain how they work and he'd stumble over himself."
Megumi chuckled as he imagined him stumbling over words in an effort to answer a simple question about the basics, before he then started leading them towards the gateway into the barrier.
However, he was forced to suddenly dig his heels down and focus on not falling over when Yuji had surprised him by jumping up and grabbing onto him from the back, holding onto him as he laughed cheerfully.
"It's fine though, cuz we have you here to teach us whatever we need instead!" Yuji declared, catching Megumi completely off guard with his light-hearted demeanour.
"Haha, whatever you say Yuji." Megumi laughed as he balanced himself to try and not fall over from the sudden weight.
"God you two are dumb, focus up will ya? We're on an important mission aren't we? Lives are on the line!" Nobara chastised, although she was holding back a small laugh herself by hiding it behind her hand.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever you say Nobara!" The pink haired teen called out before putting strength into his arms and used Megumi's body as a jumping off platform, sending himself flying upwards into the air.
Yuji did a somersault and a frontflip in the air before landing perfectly on one knee in front of the two of them, he pulled back his sleeves before speaking once more.
"Let's go exorcise some curses!" He declared, a grin of confidence covering his face.
This grin was wiped off when he received a surprise kick to the back of the head from a disgruntled Nobara Kugisaki, causing him to fall over onto the ground before him.
"HAH? What was that for?!" He shouted, pulling himself up and turning to face her with an annoyed expression.
"Who died and made you the leader, huh?!" She demanded, pulling back her own sleeves as if getting ready to box him.
"When did I say I was the leader, Bitch?!" He retorted as he came up to her and banged his head against hers.
The two of them stayed like that for a moment, their foreheads pressed together as they seemed to be on the verge of fighting but were stopped when a hand was placed on both their heads.
"Calm down now, this is nothing to fight over you two." Megumi placated, trying to get them to focus.
It was as if a flip had switched with both of them as they turned to him, their previous animosity towards each other being all but forgotten.
"You want what he's havin'?!"
"Yeah! What she said!"
Megumi simply stared at them in amusement at the two of them, it seems like everyday they proved to him how unhinged they were.
"Yeah alright, whatever. In you go!" He announced before lifting the two of them by the top of their heads and simply throwing them forwards across the gap between the bridge and the river.
He watched as both their screaming forms disappeared from view as they entered what must've been the Innate Domain of the curse, he sighed before shaking his head right afterwards and walked in after them.
"What am I gonna do with these two?"
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700 Power Stones = Extra Chapter.
Author's Note:
This Truly might be their Jujutsu Kaisen. You love to see it.
Anyways, IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!
Shorter Chapter than usual I know but I have an explanation that you wanna hear.
Considering that I'm moving to the UK on the 19th to study Medicine, I won't have as much time to grind out my usually 3k ~ 5k long chapters as I often can.
So from now on, if a chapter can be finished in about 2k~ words then it will end there. But if a chapter is deemed important enough to need more time put into it then it will be.
Realistically, most chapters will be at their normal length but I won't extend them if I don't deem it necessary.
It was either this or you guys getting like 1 or 2 chaps a week, so when looking at it that way, the choice is obvious no?
Anyways, that's all from me for now. Have a Good day, all of you!
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