"Enjoy your youth properly, you foolish disciples!"
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"Enjoy your youth properly, you foolish disciples!"
"I have to admit, despite his problematic personality, Gojo Satoru is indeed a good teacher," Mahito sighed.
"Did you go to spy on Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High School again?" Kenjaku said. "Even I wouldn't dare to spy there recklessly. After all, part of Tengen's barrier is located there. If I went, I would be discovered one hundred percent. You've made good use of Gojo's meddlesome nature, Mahito."
That's right. Far from forgetting Miyuki, Mahito valued her greatly.
After all, she was the one who could have first-hand contact with Gojo Satoru. Before this, Kenjaku found it extremely difficult to monitor Gojo. Even though he had indeed corrupted some of the jujutsu higher-ups and could use various coincidences to prevent Gojo from discovering him temporarily, he never dared to conduct direct surveillance.
Kenjaku had this confidence: if he were to engage in a direct confrontation with Gojo Satoru, he would undoubtedly die.
As long as he could see Gojo Satoru through Miyuki's eyes, Mahito felt immensely reassured, and Kenjaku could proceed with his schemes without worry. Everyone really liked Miyuki.
"Miyuki, you've done an excellent job as a spy! Everyone is very grateful to you!"
"Now, this must be the place." Mahito looked up at the building he was about to enter. A hospital.
Kenjaku smiled. "That's right, this is the place."
He paused, then said, "The incarnation body of the 'ancient sorcerer Yorozu' is here. If you Want to restore your Kirigiri within a week, you can only rely on her… of course, provided she is willing. I think you are well aware of the price involved."
Mahito nodded, smiling. "Ah. Yorozu deeply loved Ryomen Sukuna. If I Want her to serve me, then reviving Ryomen Sukuna is a necessity… I am prepared."
Mahito stared at the woman before him.
She lay on the hospital bed with her eyes tightly shut, her long black hair spread across the pillow. It was noon, and sunlight from outside the window fell on her face, which seemed frozen in time. She was a high school student when she lost consciousness, and three years had passed, yet her face remained that of a high schooler.
Mahito glanced down at the medical chart, which bore her name: [Tsumiki Fushiguro].
Kenjaku looked at her and smiled. "Good, it seems the incarnation ritual I set up hasn't been interfered with… then again, in this world, aside from Tengen personally intervening, I don't think anyone else could have discovered it."
"A barrier has been placed on her. Someone must be protecting her remotely. If the barrier is broken, the caster will immediately know something happened here. I'm not sure who set this barrier. The worst-case scenario is that Gojo Satoru himself set it.
After all, given Gojo's meddlesome personality, he might personally set a barrier to reassure his student."
Kenjaku explained with a smile. He reached out and gently brushed the woman's forehead. A certain cursed pattern appeared there.
"My task is complete." Kenjaku made a gesture of invitation. "Mahito, the rest is up to you."
Mahito gently touched Tsumiki Fushiguro's forehead and activated his Cursed Technique—Idle Transfiguration.
Suddenly, Tsumiki Fushiguro's eyelids began to tremble. The heart rate monitor beside her started beeping. Kenjaku casually passed his hand over the monitor; a silent surge of Cursed Energy activated, and the sound ceased.
The cursed pattern on Tsumiki Fushiguro's forehead vanished like smoke.
Kenjaku's eyes opened slightly, staring intently at the scene before him. This was the ability he had been anticipating.
Granting perfect rebirth to an incarnation body—this was something even Kenjaku himself couldn't achieve. In the original work, only Mahito possessed this ability. Before that, incarnation bodies could only be selected and undergo a three-year transformation process. It wasn't until Kenjaku betrayed and absorbed Mahito's abilities that all the souls within the incarnation bodies awoke at once.
Now, Mahito possessed an Idle Transfiguration stronger than in the original work. He would only do better.
Tsumiki Fushiguro slowly opened her eyes, staring blankly ahead. Mahito withdrew his hand, frowning in thought.
Kenjaku eagerly stepped forward. Looking at Tsumiki Fushiguro, who hadn't spoken yet, he greeted her: "Should I address you as Miss Fushiguro now, or Miss Yorozu?"
Only then did Tsumiki Fushiguro snap out of her daze. She tilted her head, looked at Kenjaku, remained silent for two or three seconds, and then slowly said, "It's you, Kenjaku.
You kept the Binding Vow between us and revived me in the future."
Kenjaku's pupils contracted slightly as he smiled. "It seems it's Miss Yorozu."
Tsumiki Fushiguro smiled. "Since I have been revived in the modern era, just call me 'Fushiguro.'"
"As I thought." Kenjaku sighed. "I was just thinking, if it were truly Miss Yorozu herself who had come from ancient times to the present, her first words wouldn't be greeting me, but eagerly asking about Lord Sukuna's condition… Mahito, your Idle Transfiguration is a bit too perfect."
Indeed. In front of those who didn't possess a fanatical faith in Ryomen Sukuna, Kenjaku would ordinarily refer to him as Ryomen Sukuna or Sukuna. But the moment he encountered someone with genuine, heartfelt faith in Ryomen Sukuna, he would immediately switch to calling him Lord Sukuna.
"I didn't expect your so-called 'incarnation body' to be like this either," Mahito said slowly. "So, all the incarnation bodies you prepared… are all reincarnations."
Over the past millennium, Kenjaku made Binding Vows with many outstanding sorcerers for their future revival. Most sorcerers found this incredible because, even though they stood at the pinnacle of their era, 'revival' was still a distant concept. Not only Kenjaku, but even Mahito, whose ability essence was soul manipulation, couldn't achieve true revival.
So, what exactly was Kenjaku's method of revival?
The example of Itadori Yuji in the original work actually hinted at Kenjaku's means of revival.
Itadori Yuji's previous life was the brother devoured by Ryomen Sukuna. Ryomen Sukuna could even directly use his brother's Innate Technique—the flame arrow technique Fuga used during his decisive battle with Jogo in the original work. This indicated that within the soul, Ryomen Sukuna and his brother had essentially fused into one. This was also why Ryomen Sukuna could use Itadori Yuji as a vessel.
Kenjaku did the same thing to the other ancient sorcerers.
He found the reincarnations of those ancient sorcerers in the modern era and awakened them one by one through special rituals. Although it was the same soul, because it had gone through reincarnation, the world recognized it as an extremely similar but different person, thus requiring adjustment.
This was the real reason why Tsumiki Fushiguro had been in a coma.
This also explained why, in the original work, when Yorozu awoke, she said she could receive Tsumiki Fushiguro's memories and emotions from her brain without any side effects, and that if she wished, she could live on seamlessly as Tsumiki Fushiguro.
Because they were originally the same person!
Mahito's original idea was to revive the ancient sorcerer Yorozu as a Half-Cursed Spirit—that is, extracting her from within Tsumiki Fushiguro's body and creating another body for her to use, just like Mahito himself.
Compared to using an incarnation body, Mahito believed this was true revival, more perfect than so-called incarnation body revival. Because no matter how compatible an incarnation body was, it could never be truly flawless. Even in the original work's final stages, with Ryomen Sukuna's skill, wasn't he still unable to completely digest Fushiguro Megumi? A so-called incarnation body could never achieve truly perfect revival.
But when Mahito actually got his hands on it, he discovered the truth of the "incarnation body." Honestly, he was stunned.
The incarnation body was also a reincarnation vessel… what a genius idea this was! It truly was the "perfect resurrection" as Kenjaku had promised—perfect beyond perfection!
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