Chương 43: OH! THAT’S A BASEBALL!!
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700 Power Stones = Extra Chapter.
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2 Days After the 'Goodwill Invasion Incident'.
7 AM, Tokyo Jujutsu Tech Baseball Court.
Megumi leaned against the wall with his hands crossed, he had opted out of competing in the baseball match and instead was just watching his classmates have fun. He had more important matters to attend to, like keeping an eye on a specific duo out of the corner of his eye.
Surprisingly, Maki had chosen to continue in the match but was told to put on weighted restraints to at the very least somewhat normalise the disparity in physical strength between both teams and even all the members of her own team.
Maki brought her arms together and pulled them back, raising her leg as she did so as she got in a perfect Baseball pitching pose. Following that, she moved her body forwards and stomped her foot at the ground, causing a small crater to form as she did so.
She heaved her body forwards with all of her strength, and threw a baseball at her target with pinpoint accuracy, a sonic boom being left in the wake of her now lethal projectile.
The baseball shot forwards with remarkable speed and accuracy towards its distracted target, the ball broke the sound barrier one more time during its flight, drawing the attention of everyone in the area except its target.
"Brother, please promise me this one thing. If I hit this home run, you'll pitch-!" Todo's heartfelt request was brutally cut off when his face was met by a baseball moving at Mach 3.
His body turned with the force of the impact, the sounds of a great rupture reverberating throughout the air right afterwards. Todo's jaw was immediately dislocated, causing blood to spurt out his mouth as he was laid out on the ground.
"T-TODO!" Yuji cried out, throwing himself towards the taller man and grabbing him as he fell down.
"Your jaw got broken!" He said, grabbing onto his back and inspecting his injury.
"B-Bwoder, you- need to- You need to-!" Todo blurted, barely being able to string a sentence together or even speak normally.
"I need to do what Todo, DO WHAT?!!" Itadori almost begged him to answer, it was almost a primal need for him to know what seemed to be his Best Friend's final wish.
"Nice Pitch!" Momo called out in appreciation for the strong throw, causing Miwa who was standing besides her to chuckle awkwardly.
And it seemed like she wasn't the only one who found the throw to be a perfect throw as many more of the students from either school called out as well just seconds later.
"Nice Pitch!" "Nice Pitch!" "Nice Pitch!" "Nice Pitch!"
Itadori Yuji watched as one by one, each of his classmates congratulated Maki on her throw with even Megumi watching on in amusement and laughing at his brother's painful circumstances.
"Todo, you.. are seriously hated!" The pink haired teen muttered while looking at his friend's nigh broken form, not understanding why he was disliked so much.
Yuji heard faint footsteps approaching his location, looking up towards, he saw Megumi approaching with his hands in his pockets.
"Oh! Megumi, can you please heal him? He doesn't deserve this pain!" He asked, lifting the man upwards as if he was making an offering to the gods.
"Don't worry about it Yuji, that's what I'm here for." He chuckled, summoning his Tranquil Deer by his side.
The shikigami formed from shadows within an instant, looking around for a moment before it leaned its head down and touched Todo's head with its antler.
The soft glow of Reversed Cursed Technique permeated through the air as positive energy flowed from the massive Deer's antlers and into the broken sorcerer's head.
The sounds of small fractures could be heard as Todo's jaw was forced back into place with a sickening crunch, the once weary and broken man shot up from his place with renewed vigour.
"Thanks Fushigobro! I knew you'd have my back!" The scared man thanked as he was pulled up to his feet by Yuji, grateful for his good friend's aid in his time of need.
"Not a problem on my end, although I think she might have something to say about that." Megumi answered, gesturing to the right with his thumb.
The two of them followed his line of sight and watched as Nobara threw Maki another baseball, the black haired woman proceeded to lean backwards again and Pitch the baseball towards Todo's face with even more force behind it than before.
"Oh, that's not good-." Todo didn't manage to finish his sentence before he was thrown backwards once more as a sonic boom reached beside them.
"T-TODO!" Yuji screamed in surprise, before running to where he was thrown and holding the scared man again.
"Nice Pitch!" "Nice Pitch!" "Nice Pitch!" "Nice Pitch!" "Nice Pitch!"
Megumi laughed in amusement as the same situation occurred again for the second time in one minute. He looked towards Tranquil Deer for a moment and pointed towards the two Best Friends.
"Keep healing him up after every time he gets his shit rocked, this is too funny to let end just like that." He ordered before walking off to lay against a tree in its shade.
He watched out of the corner of his eyes as Satoru walked past the duo of Principal Gakuganji and Principal Yaga, before the older man told Yaga something which prompted him to get up and walk off in the direction of the white haired man.
Grinning, he melded with the shadows around him and disappeared from view. He moved silently within the shadows as he quickly made his way towards the sitting older man.
A moment later, he emerged from the shadows again as his grin was overcome with malicious intent. Megumi stepped over the small bench Gakuganji was sitting on and sat beside him, drawing a surprised gasp from the old man.
"Z-Zen'in Megumi? What are you-?" The principal demanded, his complete and utter surprise being evident in his voice and demeanour.
"Shhhh. Give me a second." Megumi shushed, bringing a hand up into the pose of a Curtain which drew even more surprise from the old man.
"Conceal within thine shadows, deeper than night. Shroud all that must remain unseen."
Gakuganji watched as the curtain fell around them, turning to face the special grade sorcerer beside him with a great sense of foreboding.
Most worrying of all was the grin on the black haired man's face, it reminded him too much of another man who had brought him the same sense of fear about a decade prior.
"What's wrong, seen a ghost have you?" The black haired man asked, although he knew full well why he was so taken aback.
"What is the meaning of this?"
"Your name is Yoshinobu Gagukanji and you're 76 years old. You're the 5th Principal of the Kyoto Jujutsu Tech Municipal School and although you aren't recognised as a sorcerer anymore, you still retain about the strength of a Semi-Grade One or a Grade 2 Sorcerer." Megumi stated, looking onwards towards his classmates as they continued their match of baseball.
"What are you-?"
"You don't actually live in the school but you live in the Kinkaku-ji Buddhist temple nearby, and you usually get to the school at around 7 am everyday on the dot." He continued, that grin of malice not leaving his face for a moment even as the old man's body started being covered from head to toe in sweat.
"Your favourite food is actually Tempura Vegetables and your least favourite is horse meat of any kind. Your hobby is playing the guitar and you're looking for a drummer that can match your beat. Your musical inspiration is Jimi Hendrix and you own many of his Albums which you keep proudly on display in your living room."
To describe the sense of horror and disbelief that flowed through Yoshinobu Gakuganji as his whole life was laid bare would be an exercise in futility. He looked to undergo many emotions in the span of a few seconds, countless questions flooded his mind but he knew that only one would be necessary.
"What Do You Want?"
"Good to see the message got across. You will be my eyes and ears with the inner council of Jujutsu HQ. Every little thing I want to know, every lie told, every secret buried; if those old farts you call 'Elders' so much as stub a toe I want to fucking know it." Megumi commanded, it was already a done deal as far as he was concerned.
"...And if I refuse?" Gakuganji asked, although in his heart he knew what the answer would be.
"This is a Specialised Curtain of my own design – by forgoing everything else, the insides of this curtain are completely in perceptible to all those outside it. To those outside the Curtain, it would look as if there was no one in here..." He explained, watching in amusement as Todo was using Boogie Woogie to avoid another baseball thrown from Maki.
"So if I were to just.. reach forwards and snap your neck. I could just hide the body inside my shadow and walk off, no one would even know you disappeared." Megumi stated, his right arm moving like a snake as his hand wrapped around the back of the principal's neck and squeezed lightly.
"COUGH COUGH Y-You wouldn't d-dare kill me-!" Gakuganji coughed out, being barely able to breathe even from the light grip, to him it was as if a steel hydraulic press was clamped around his neck, ready to turn it into paste.
"Look around old man, do you see anyone that could stop me? Do you see anyone who would stop me? And let's not kid ourselves with your 'Students', we both know none of them would have the balls to do anything." He continued, eyeing up the Kyoto students one by one.
"Let's take Kamo for example. I'm pretty sure I could ask that Spineless Half Wit to Jump and he'd just ask how high." Megumi said, actively keeping his tone as low as possible and making threats to maximise his intimidation.
'Ugh, I should probably let up on him though… Although his existence pisses me off, he didn't do anything wrong to me specifically. Do I need to apologise? Nah, I'll just get Rin to get him contact with his mom. That's enough of an apology for him.'
"You're a Monster…"
"I Know."
Megumi took a moment to allow the man at his mercy to think, to let the reality of how helpless he was at the moment truly sink in. Watching on as his face slowly turned blue from the lack of oxygenated blood reaching his brain, all without blinking once.
"And besides…" He continued on a minute later, removing his hand from the older man's neck as he did so to allow him to breathe easy again for his next question.
"Do you Honestly think you have much of a choice here?"
Principal Gakuganji was silent for a moment, too busy greedily huffing air to try and catch his breath after being deprived of his ability to breath for so long, before he eventually sighed with a mixture of frustration and resignation.
"...No."
"Good, glad we're clear on that. Get on with it then, I have better things to do than sit around here with you." Megumi commanded, he left no room for negotiation or backing out.
"I Vow to devote my Whole Being, Body and Soul to the one known as Megumi Zen'in. His will is my command and I will be sure to never betray him knowingly or of my own will and accord." Gakuganji vowed, putting his head down as he did in a show of defeat.
"Perfect; now, for your first task. You will transfer Aoi Todo, Kasumi Miwa and Arata Nitta to my Tokyo Jujutsu Tech School." He ordered, raising a finger with each name to illustrate his point.
"B-But-! I-.. Very well." The principal stuttered at the outrageous request, yet despite how much it would inevitably irreparably damage his school's roster and established systems, he simply could not deny Fushiguro Megumi his demands.
However, Megumi Fushiguro was not completely satisfied with the older man's tone. So he chose to show this by simply unfurling his hold over his Cursed Energy slightly, letting it seeth and wash over the old sorcerer's body.
"I-It will be done as soon as possible, Z-Zen'in-sama." Gakuganji almost shot upwards into attention at the sudden pressure being placed upon him.
"That's better." Megumi said with a chuckle, lightly slapping the principal's back as he did so.
He took no small amount of pleasure in the torment he was instilling into the older man, considering that he ordered for Yuji's death and has been a pain in his side for a long time.
Deciding that he was about done wasting his time with him, Megumi stood up and straightened his shirt before taking a step forwards away from the bench. He turned his head slightly and looked at Gakuganji from the corner of his eye.
"Don't worry, my people will be in touch and make sure you know what to do and where to squeal. You all will learn to fall in line soon enough. It won't be too long now after all, before your 'World of Sorcerers' becomes my own Jujutsu Society."
The curtain covering the two of them faded away soon after right as he walked off in the direction he saw Maki go to after the baseball game had been completed.
He left behind a beaten and broken man whose whole body was covered in sweat as it sunk in how the world he had spent so long upholding would soon all crumble to dust under the iron will of a Single Man.
Megumi made his way towards a nearby building, he could swear he saw Maki and Nobara enter it a few minutes earlier.
'I should call Rin, she said she already got the location of that weapon and sent me the address but I need to check for the other thing I had her get.' He wondered
Walking past Todo who was once again sprawled out on the ground in agony, Yuji held his bleeding form with a dramatic expression of complete and utter tragedy.
"Brother! Hang in there!"
Tranquil Deer huffed in annoyance as she came up to the two of them again, leaning her head down and touching the scared sorcerer with her antlers for what seemed like one too many times.
Megumi slid open the door and walked into the inner hall of the gymnasium, eventually he saw both Nobara and Maki standing a few feet away from each other, both with crimson faces and ruffled clothes.
He stood there quietly, taking in their embarrassed faces as an amused grin covered his face. From where he stood, he could see that Maki had used her superior speed to move away from something or someone, especially considering the odd change in air pressure he felt when he had entered the room.
"W-What are you doing here Megumi?" Nobara asked while moving some of her hair to behind her right ear, trying to act unaffected and failing, Badly.
"I'm here to get Maki for a bit of a mission, but this is just hysterical – Nobara and Maki, sitting in a Tree K.I.S.S-!" Megumi teased, raising a hand to cover his face as he did so but was cut off by having to dodge a punch.
The fist he dodged went on to pierce straight through a wall causing it to crumble to rubble in an instant, although all that did was cause him to laugh even harder.
"Aw~, what's wrong Maki? You going all Tsundere on me now?" He continued on, dodging a clump of rubble right afterwards.
"You got a mission for me you said? We'll get to that in a sec, for now? Dodge." Maki growled, blurring ahead with full intent to separate his head from the rest of his body.
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An Hour Later.
"Dunno why you're still so pissed, Maki." Megumi chuckled, his hands held together behind his head as they entered a derelict building in the edges of the Saitama prefecture.
"Shut the hell up before I decide you're not worthy of breathing again." Maki grumbled under her breath, walking ahead of him and obliterating the front door with a casual flick of her wrist. "Fucking Cock-Blocker."
"Pffft, you'll get over it in a bit. Especially when you see the little surprise I got ready for you in here." He explained, walking inside the building with her following him right after.
"Uh-huh.. What is this place anyways. Looks like the kinda place people get kidnapped to and gutted open to be harvested for their skin or somethin' in a horror movie." The black haired woman asked, she had a disgusted look on her face as she walked through the grimy remains of what used to be a meat shop.
"You're right on the money actually. This is the Workshop of a Curse User named Juzo Kumiya, we're here to get you to his Masterpiece. Supposedly he created a Special Grade Cursed Blade, one even you could use to its fullest extent." Megumi revealed.
With that revelation, he stepped through a plastic curtain and found what must be the remains of a Human after being stripped of most of their flesh.
"As you can see, he ain't the kindest guy around. He's getting executed in Jujutsu HQ soon if my info is right too." The black haired man raised a hand towards the violated remains before a roiling flame sparked out of his bare hands, without the need to channel an Incarnation.
'This new Mutation is useful – generation of both Fire and Water at the palms of my hands whenever I want to. Don't think they'll be useful in a fight against anyone that is strong by themselves but hey, who am I to complain about a free boost?' He watched as the skeleton was turned to ashes, a small mercy given to those that suffered without a chance to protect themselves.
Megumi had evolved once more, this time with the essence of his shikigami 'Max Elephant'. Granting him a large boost in physical strength and bone density. Along with that, he had gained the ability to output Water and Flames from his hands at will.
"Yeah no kiddin'." Maki muttered, her disgust towards this building seeming more evident than before even as she felt a subtle shake in the ground.
"Let's not stop here, I think I can feel the Cursed Tool in there. You go get it, I'll deal with our 'hosts' while you do so." Megumi pointed towards a door in the far corner of the room.
"You felt them too, huh? Alright, I'll go get it, be back in a sec." Maki walked into the room to look for the Cursed Blade that her comrade spoke of.
The doors behind him were thrown open as several men with shabby clothing and messy dispositions burst into the room, immediately starting to shout orders in sync as they did so.
"OI! Who the fuck are you bitch face, what are you doing in our brother's hideout? HUH?!" The two of them shouted out in unison, spit flying from their mouths.
"Quiet. Your presence is Revolting enough without you speaking out of line."
The shadows around them coiled and bubbled over after Megumi spoke those cold words, his crimson eyes lit up the dark room around them as four long, serpentine malformed shadows formed at his side.
"Orochi, kill them and leave one breathing." He ordered, and the shadows obeyed their Master as four large Serpents made of pure shadows burst forwards towards their prey.
The curse users tried to defend themselves but it was all in vain, it wasn't that the serpent's hide was too strong and thick. Quite the contrary, their fists and blades speared straight through the body of the shadow beasts, however they simply reformed right after.
They simply could not hurt them.
Megumi had done this by summoning his 'Great Serpent' without fully manifesting a stable form, expanding his attack range without risking destruction as well as allowing him to make as many copies of the shikigami as he'd like.
The trade-off was that the shikigami could not operate independently from his shadow, but he compensated for this with his immense cursed energy by providing and forcing structure into their bodies with the power of his Cursed Energy reserves and Guidance of his Encyclopaedic knowledge over his Cursed Technique.
Within moments, all the Curse Users were slaughtered without any trouble, leaving behind only one of them who was currently trying to beg for his life.
It was all in vain though, as he was simply ignored and muzzled by shadowy constraints that formed around him from the 'Orochi' constructs.
Maki walked back into the room, Special Grade Cursed Tool in hand.
"Cool Blade, what's its name?" Megumi asked even though he already knew the answer, he could almost feel Kage shaking slightly in shadow as if begging him to have a spar with her now that she has a Cursed Tool worthy of her strength.
"Dragon-Bone."
Dragon-Bone is a thick single-edged blade with three engine-type holes in the back. The blade is connected to a highly mechanical hilt. The bottom section beneath the holes is covered by the extended handguard, which has several square shapes protruding from it.
In contrast to the hilt, it has a much less mechanical handle where the sword is gripped. The handle appears to be covered in stitched-together cloth and is decorated with a ribbon at the end of the hilt.
This cursed tool has the ability to build up kinetic force as well as cursed energy. Dragon-Bone can eject both forces back out of the three engines to propel the blade at the user's will, granting it far greater cutting power than normal.
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Maki swung the blade around in her hands, as if trying to get used to its weight and handling. Grinning in delight as she did so, Juzo Kumiya might have been a disgusting sack of flesh, but there was no denying that he knew exactly what he was doing with the creation of such a pristine cursed tool.
"Wanna try it out? Got you some target practice." Megumi gestured to the side with his thumb at the captured curse user.
"Do I ever?" Maki asked with a grin, walking up towards the lamb to the slaughter without a care even as he wiggled in vain to escape.
SHIK!
With a single swing of her Blade; the Curse User, along with the wall behind him, was sliced apart in an instant. It didn't stop there either as the force of the swing went on to cut open the side of the building and open up a clear path for the two of them to exit.
"Oh~, you weren't wrong. I could get used to this." She sighed out in satisfaction, she rested the Special Grade Blade on her shoulder as the two of them walked out of the building, courtesy of its new quick express exit.
"When have I ever lied to you?"
When the two of them walked out, they saw a Black Car speed into the street before them with speeds that must have been 50 Kilometres above the speed limit.
The door of the car flew open as from it emerged Rin Otomo, she reached back into the car for a moment before pulling herself out with a small urn in her hands.
"Young Master! I humbly apologise for my tardiness, I will make no excuses!" Rin cried out as she sped forwards, Urn in hand and somehow slid on the ground to stop just in front of Megumi while on one knee.
"Please accept this late delivery of your request, I will take any punishment you see fit for this folly of mine." She raised the urn in her hands as if she was making an offering and awaited his response.
"It's not a problem, Rin. It wasn't an easy task that I gave you after all, get up. Did you get it with the 'modifications' I asked for? I know they were rather last minute." Megumi questioned as he forced her to stand up on her two feet before grabbing the urn out of her hands.
"Ah, yes Young Master, it wasn't much trouble. The talisman is already in place." She explained, pulling her hands to rest behind her back in attention as she waited for him to continue at his own pace.
"What's that?" Maki asked, curious as to what he was holding and also trying to find a place to holster her brand new Cursed Tool among her other 2 Special Grade Cursed Tools in 'Playful Cloud' and the Black Rope.
"Another gift for you, I knew that travelling around with so many different tools would be less than convenient. So I thought ahead and commissioned my people to find a specific curse for you, it took a while but they found it eventually, in Brazil of all places." Megumi explained as he reached a hand into the urn.
He then pulled out a fairly long purple curse with segmented serpentine body, it was the same type of curse that Toji Fushiguro and eventually Suguru Geto had used. On its body was a detachable Talisman that would allow the user to make it capable of being seen by even non sorcerer eyes.
"This is an Inventory Curse that can store many different objects within its body. You can freely interchange your weapons by putting them in and taking them out of the curse's mouth. The curse can also shrink itself within its own body, allowing you to ingest it so people can't detect the curse energy it emits." Megumi offered the curse to Maki, who grabbed it tentatively and looked it up and down.
"Huh, it's kinda cute. In a weird 'I wanna crush you into paste!' sorta way." She said, squashing its face slightly before placing it around her neck where it proceeded to slither around until it got comfortable.
"Thanks Megumi, I'm sure it'll be really useful." Maki thanked with a genuine smile as she inserted her Cursed Tools into it, happy to have a more convenient way of transporting her tools around.
"No Problem." He replied, he was glad that she liked it without much issue.
"Oh and before I forget – Rin, thank you for your work. I know it wasn't easy finding one specific curse type out of millions throughout the whole world." Megumi said, a small grin covering his face as he turned to the Amber haired woman.
"Please don't thank me Young Master, I live to serve you after all. Your wish is my command." Rin simply bowed her head, she was content with merely being able to help him in whatever way possible.
"Well then, my 'wish' is for you to go on a break for a week. You've been working your ass off for too long, go get some rest. You're no use to me if you're tired and weary after all." He ordered, knowing exactly what to say and how to say it to make sure she would listen.
"I- Very well, if that is what you want." She acquiesced with an even deeper bow, proving Megumi's theory immediately correct.
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700 Power Stones = Extra Chapter.
Author's Note:
With that, Megumi has a Rat in the Inner Council that'll squeal whenever he wants him to.
Todo and the other two are coming to Tokyo while the rest of the Bums stay where they are.
And finally, Maki has a Special Grade Blade that can keep up with her Pure power along with an Inventory.
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