Choso had nodded with a smile on his face, and he had walked into the Inventory and had brought out all of his younger brothers, who were connected to him by blood, and they… were all his precious family.
"Alright, let's go."
Yuuki had put the Spear of Heaven back into his pocket, and he said with a smiling face while looking at Yuki Tsukumo, who had been leading the way in front, "The remaining Death Womb Nine Brothers are all stillborn fetuses, so there isn't much of a problem to bring them out, and you know, it's better to return them to their original owner than to keep them as collectibles, right?"
"It's up to you, and you're also a Special Grade and are on equal footing with me, so there's no need to explain so much, and I trust Todo Aoi's best friend's judgment."
Yuki Tsukumo had continued to lead the way in front after speaking, and Yuta Okkotsu had looked at Yuuki, who had been walking over, and he said, "Why has your hair turned white? Just what happened in Shibuya? You should tell me about it."
"Hair…"
Yuuki had touched his snow-white ends of hair, and he said with a smile, "Isn't it very cool to have white hair recently? This is a technique."
This remark had naturally attracted the attention of Maki Zenin and the others, and they had a look of disbelief on their faces, and this guy was truly speaking nonsense to divert their attention at this moment, and he had clearly been exhausted to the point of death and had been unconscious for four days before waking up.
"Oh! Is that so, then you should help me get white hair when you have time after you've returned, Yuuki?"
Yuta Okkotsu had touched his ends of hair and had said, "I've also always wanted to try having hair, whose color is different."
"...Mm, I definitely will when I have time."
The smile, which had been raised at the corners of Yuuki's mouth, had been mixed with some helplessness, and he enjoyed the joy of being with his companions, but he was also afraid of them being injured…
Yuta and the others also possessed this kind of feeling…
Protecting the people, who were important to them, even if they had to risk their own lives.
Taking a Leave of Absence
I'm sorry, and I'm truly unable to withstand being infected, and my head is hurting to death, and I'm taking a leave of absence today…
Alas, I don't know just when I'll be able to make up for the previous ones.
They had walked to the end of the small path, and everyone had stepped onto the elevator, which had been leading to the depths, and if they hadn't known that this was multiple spaces superimposed together and the space at this moment was complex and changeable, then they should be at a position of about two hundred meters underground at this moment.
"Click—"
Yuki Tsukumo had walked out and said as the heavy elevator door had been opened, "The place, where Tengen lives, is ahead, the Tombs of the Star Corridor."
It could be seen that the end of the elevator was three giant stone doors, and the flat stone brick path had been stained with blood stains, which had already turned black, and it seemed that some war had been experienced here over a decade ago.
Yuuki, who had checked the report of the Hidden Inventory Arc, knew that this was the place, where the Star Plasma Vessel had died eleven years ago;
Toji Fushiguro.
The traces of the war were still present at this moment even though over a decade had already passed, and the blood, which had been dried on the ground, seemed to be telling the unforgettable tragedy at that time;
After all, people dying would always add to the sadness.
The people, who had been passing by, had glanced at the eye-catching blood stains on the ground, and they also hadn't said anything, and they had followed behind Yuki Tsukumo to go and see Tengen-sama;
They had stepped into the middle stone door, and the end of the path was a boundless blank space.
"Is this the place, where Tengen-sama lives?"
Nobara Kugisaki, who had been standing beside Yuki Tsukumo, had looked around and said, "How come there's nothing here."
"This is troublesome."
A look of difficulty had been revealed on Yuki Tsukumo's face, and she clearly hadn't expected that Japan would already be like this at this moment, and this Tengen, who didn't interfere with the present world that much, was actually still able to sit still, and wasn't he afraid that that guy's plan would succeed and he would use Cursed Spirit Manipulation to control him, who had already become a half-cursed spirit?
She had also been a backup Star Plasma Vessel back then when the assimilation of the Star Plasma Vessel had failed, but she hadn't yielded to the Star Plasma Vessel's fate as she had already been a Special Grade sorcerer, but rather, she had directly rejected reshaping this guy's body information and had let him live and die on his own.
So she really hated this immortal guy, and moreover, this old guy might also be avoiding her because of the reason back then, so he had sealed the Barrier and wasn't seeing them.
The vast and boundless white space had covered the people, who had been walking in, and Yuuki had seen at a glance that this Barrier seemed to be hostile to him.
"Is this the main hall?"
Yuuji Itadori had looked around with doubt, and the space here seemed to be extending infinitely, and they couldn't see anything with the exception of endless snow-white.
"Is it because too many of us have come?"
Panda asked with doubt.
Yuki Tsukumo: "No, he's rejecting us..."
"No, he's wary of me."
Yuuki had raised his head and was staring intently at this illusory space, and he opened his mouth and said, "I've been able to sense from the moment that I entered this Barrier that someone has been scrutinizing me.
Tengen!
You're peeking at us from the deepest part of the Barrier upon our first meeting, and do you think that I can't sense it? Are you underestimating the ability of this wood clone of mine, or are you saying that I should have my main body come and talk to you personally? And forcefully change the appearance of this Barrier Domain?!"
Yuuki's low words had been echoing in this vast and boundless Barrier.
This had caused Tengen, who had been hiding in the deepest part of the Barrier, to sweat profusely, and he had started to reorganize his judgment of the Special Grade sorcerer, Yuuki, who had been staring intently at him through the Barrier;
He had also seen fragments of the things inside Shibuya, and this guy had not only slaughtered over a dozen Special Grades alone, but he actually also had such a deep attainment of Barrier Techniques at this moment.
But it was just that he had lived for too long and had witnessed many things, and he had also seen Yuuki being used by Fake Geto, and he didn't want to be used by that guy, who had been playing with people's hearts.
But at this moment, it didn't seem difficult for him to kill him, and what was most important was that he dared to do this.
He, who was a barrier technique sorcerer, wasn't good at fighting…
That was right, and even though he had survived for a thousand years, he was only maintaining the stability of the Barriers of Japan at this moment, and it was because his main body had already fused with this country, and he was only possessing the projection of cursed energy and techniques at this moment.
This was why he didn't care about the present world, and he was completely unable to participate in the present world…
It was all because the Star Plasma Vessel had been killed by Toji Zenin eleven years ago, and that guy, who had been a nullification of cursed energy, had destroyed the cycle of cause and effect between him and the Star Plasma Vessel, and it had caused the assimilation of his body to fail and he had become like this.
Tengen had also appeared before everyone as the Barrier had been opened, and he had looked at Yuuki with a smile with his face, which had already transformed into the appearance of a cursed spirit, and he said, "It's nice to meet you, Special Grade sorcerer, Yuuki, whose bloodline is flowing with the unknown."
The expressions of the people, who had been seeing Tengen for the first time, had been somewhat surprised while looking at Tengen, who had been wearing white clothes, had four eyes, and whose appearance was already no different from that of a cursed spirit, and even Megumi Fushiguro, who had some understanding of him, had the same expression.
'Tengen is a cursed spirit...'
These words had been echoing in everyone's minds.
"Why didn't you come out directly from the start? Tengen."
Yuki Tsukumo had raised her own question, and she had a premonition that this guy wouldn't have appeared before them at all if it hadn't been for Yuuki's threat on the side.
"It's not like you and I are meeting for the first time, Yuki Tsukumo."
Tengen had glanced at Yuki Tsukumo, who had been questioning him, and he had turned his head and had looked at Yuuki, who had been on the side, and he said, "You're very dangerous, and I don't want to meet you or communicate too much."
"Oh?! Is it because I know that you're only a combination of cursed energy and memories before me? And your true body has already fused with this world?"
Yuuki's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan had been revolving slowly in his eyes, and he was looking directly at the owner of this Barrier before him.
And these words had naturally also attracted the attention of Yuki Tsukumo and Yuta Okkotsu, who were also Special Grades, and this guy before them had not only transformed into this existence, which was close to a cursed spirit, after the assimilation with the Star Plasma Vessel had failed, but he had even lost his body!!
"That's why I said that I really hate you, and the hearts of people, whom I can't even see through, are actually completely clear under those two eyes of yours."
Tengen had said without any restraint, "You had a Contract with Geto Suguru back then, and I suspect that you might be on that guy's side."
"Geto Suguru?"
"A Contract??"
The people had clearly shifted their focus after hearing the words in Tengen's mouth.
Yuki Tsukumo had been concerned about the name of the owner, who had been controlling Geto Suguru's corpse; Maki and the others had been concerned about his Contract with that Geto Suguru, and just what kind of relationship was it, and the people's gazes had gathered on Yuuki, and it seemed that they had been pursuing the Contract with that Geto Suguru.
Yuuki had said honestly after contemplating, "No, and I also don't know the specific contents of the Contract, and anyway, it's not an important matter in my eyes."
"Just like destroying my Barrier at this moment and then handing my body, which has already been transformed into a cursed spirit, over to Geto Suguru?"
Yuuki had raised the corners of his mouth and had said honestly while facing Tengen's questioning, "Then I'll kill you without any hesitation, and I'll dispel that Contract, and then I'll kill Geto Suguru, and I'll guarantee that there won't be any traces of you in this world."
Yuuki's words had caused the hair on Yuki Tsukumo's body to stand on end.
'This guy, is truly an unyielding maniac.'
"That won't do, Yuuki."
Yuta Okkotsu, who had been on the side, had said, "If Tengen-sama is killed, then Barriers, which are the foundation, will be difficult to deploy again, and the cursed energy that is consumed will increase linearly, and this kind of dangerous thought isn't good."
"I know, but the world that I'm fantasizing about won't have the war between sorcerers and cursed spirits, and I'll release all of the information regarding cursed spirits and give the intelligent cursed spirits identities."
Yuuki had understood after the battle with Jogo that they had only been jealous that humans could survive under the light, and they were also the things that this planet had gestated, but they had to hide everywhere from the sorcerers, who called themselves "justice";
They had been jealous, and that was why it had been like this.
If it continued to be like this, then the thousand-year hatred between sorcerers and cursed spirits would never stop, and he had to be a pioneer, and only the people, who had experienced war, would know that pain.
This pioneer remark had naturally attracted Yuki Tsukumo's attention, and she had been thinking about the feasibility of his path in her heart, and although she didn't really understand this guy, she could basically eliminate the guess that he was talking big;
Saying big words was for people, who had no ability and had dreams, but this guy wasn't an incompetent person, and Yuki Tsukumo's heart hadn't been that surprised when he had said that he would suppress five Culling Game Barriers alone, and it was because she had personally seen the giant creatures, which didn't belong to this world;
The slug sage that he had mentioned was still staying in the center of Shibuya at this moment with its size, which was over a thousand meters, and it would flatten everything inside if it entered that game, and there was no doubt about suppression in that aspect, and let alone that terrifying shikigami, and he himself possessed a technique, which could flatten a radius of one kilometer, and it was already amazing.
This guy… was planning a terrifying plan...
"Are you serious?!"
Maki and the others, who had been on the side, had asked with doubt.
"Yeah, it's fine for cursed spirits to exorcise cursed spirits, and although they're the same kind of creature, their own definitions are completely different, and there's no problem for me to use this to distinguish between intelligent creatures and lower creatures."
Yuuki had waved his hand and had said, "Since they all possess the thinking abilities that are common with humans, then what's the difference between them and humans after giving them normal identities and then using human laws to bind them? What do you say, Tengen."
Yuuki's smiling eyes had caused Tengen, whose expression had been troubled at this moment, to be stared at intently, and what this guy had been saying wasn't wrong, but the disadvantage was that even if he completed the reform, it would only be stable in the era, where he and Gojo Satoru were alive…
He said, "The method that you're saying is indeed feasible, but how can the lifespan of humans compare to that of cursed spirits? And who can bind them throughout the long years?
The Contract will be discarded casually like toilet paper if either of the two sides of the Contractor dies.
What you're fantasizing about, is only an ethereal world in the end, and people can't be trusted in this world, let alone curses."
"Contract?"
Yuuki had said with a smile, "I am the Contract itself, and I also don't need to solicit your opinion, and you, who have survived for a thousand years, know just what it is that can seal Gojo-sensei, right?"
"Of course, but the appropriate Contract is that Yuta Okkotsu, Yuki Tsukumo, and the leader of the Death Womb Nine Brothers, two of you three must stay here and serve as my guards."
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