Jujutsu Kaisen: Shadow King

"Who is the person who keeps talking to me and distracting me?!" Yuji Itadori didn't hold back and looked at Nanami Kento like a woman in the boudoir.

"......"

No reply.

Nanami Kento looked solemnly at the scarlet blood on his knife and the "alien" corpse that still had its remains not far away and had not completely disappeared.

Then.

He looked at the "alien" that was fighting with Yuji Itadori.

At this moment.

Thunder and lightning flashed in the sky, and dark clouds gathered.

Boom--

A thick lightning bolt landed not far from the movie theater building.

The blue-white arc of light shone on the "alien", reflecting its originally dim shadow completely.

"The shadow of the entity..."

"Red blood..."

Nanami Kento murmured twice.

A terrifying guess came to his mind.

On the other side.

During the fight with the "alien", Yuji Itadori's fists were covered with dark cursed energy, and he recalled the instructions given by Geto Suguru before he left.

"......Yuji, your cursed energy will be delayed by a beat."

"Delayed by a beat?"

"Your cursed energy cannot keep up with your instantaneous explosive power, and your technique of retaining cursed energy is not mature, so it is easy to stay on the preset track."

"This instead forms an irregular cursed energy flow."

"Just when I realized that my fist hit, the cursed energy followed."

"In other words, one blow will cause a second impact."

"This is..."

"——Jingting Fist!"

Yuji Itadori punched out, hitting the "alien" in the chest, forming a dent that almost penetrated the body, and the cursed energy impact that followed directly smashed most of the "alien"'s upper body!

See this situation.

Nanami Kento came back to his senses instantly: "Is the original power far beyond that of ordinary people?"

"Although the initial attack has little cursed power, it has 120% of the power of an ordinary sorcerer. If the real cursed power is added later, the opponent will definitely be more exhausted than expected."

"And there is still room for growth. If 100% of the cursed power can be added to 100% of the physical skills..."

"As expected of that man's son, he is a good candidate for beating skills."

At this moment.

The "alien" knocked to the ground by Yuji Itadori was covering the broken parts of his body.

The pouring rain washed over its human-like face, and with its pitiful expression of crying, it was inexplicably a bit heartbreaking.

"Ben~ Bento~"

The "alien" struggled to stand up. Yuji Itadori suppressed the throbbing in his heart and wanted to step forward to give it a fatal blow, but was stopped by Nanami Kento.

"Yuji-san, don't give it the final blow yet."

"Look at this."

Nanami Kento showed a photo on his phone to Yuji Itadori.

In the photo.

It was the arm of the "alien" he was fighting, and there was a women's mechanical watch on his wrist.

"I took a picture of my opponent."

"Huh?"

"Won't the cursed spirit be photographed?" Yuji Itadori was stunned, and his eyes slowly widened as he seemed to realize something.

"Calm down and listen to me."

Nanami Kento said in a serious tone: "The opponent we are fighting..."

...

"It's a human."

"No, it should be said that it was originally a human."

"Just like the three people in the cinema."

In a room with dim surroundings and only surgical lights illuminating the bodies of two "aliens".

Ieiri Shoko, who was already familiar with the white coat, announced to the other end of the phone.

"Their bodies were forcibly transformed into this by the curse."

The other end of the phone.

On the second floor of Mao Ni Detective Agency.

Nanami Kento handed a wet towel to Yuji Itadori, who had been drooping his head and looked listless, and then sat back on the sofa and looked at the hands-free phone on the coffee table.

"If it was just that, I would have noticed it from the beginning."

"The two people who fought with us, their bodies were full of cursed power like cursed spirits."

"We can only go to the criminals and ask what this technique is about." While holding the phone between her head and shoulders, Ieiri Shoko put on gloves and used a scalpel to cut open the "alien's" crown:

"However, there are signs of tampering near the brain stem."

"I'm afraid it's to cause consciousness disorders and make people fall into a state of cognitive confusion, so that the modified humans can think of themselves as monsters from both their body and mind..."

"If even the brain can be modified, maybe people can be modified to use cursed power."

"After all, the relationship between the brain and cursed power is still full of mysteries."

"What a terrible technique~"

"By the way, that kid from Itadori"Are you listening?" Ieiri Shoko suddenly asked.

"Ah~ I'm here."

"To put it simply, the cause of their death was shock caused by the transformation. Don't get it wrong. It has nothing to do with you."

"Hey..."

Although he felt a little comforted, Yuji Itadori was still frustrated by his powerlessness.

Even through the phone.

Ieiri Shoko could imagine his gloomy expression, so she smiled and invited:

"Well~"

"When you are unhappy, just smile. This is what your father said."

"If you have time, bring your classmates and Nanami to the Gojo family to play. ”

“Sister has been researching new dishes recently~ Wu has been saying that he wants to break through the sky and so on. No one comes to help sister taste the dishes. I——”

The communication ends here.

It was Nanami Kento who took the initiative to hang up the phone.

Yuji Itadori was a little surprised by this.

Because this action was a little rude.

It didn’t seem like something he thought Nanami Kento would do, but now Yuji Itadori was immersed in deep sadness and self-blame, so he didn’t think much about it.

“No matter what the cause of death is, it is the death of others that is equally heavy to me.”

Closing the towel in his hand, Yuji Itadori gritted his teeth, veins popped out on his forehead, and rarely showed extreme anger.

“The cursed spirit who committed this crime is really too bad!”

“Not only did he take the life of others without authorization, but he also played with the corpse of others! "

'This kid will really get angry for others~' Nanami Kento looked at Yuji Itadori, his eyes filled with both relief and worry.

"That remnant is the bait."

"It's probably to lure us over."

"The other party is very impressive, probably has a considerable IQ, and is very likely the super-class 'special grade' cursed spirit group mentioned by Senior Getsu."

"It seems that we can't do it any more." Nanami Kento stood up and said seriously:

"Itadori, there may be a fierce battle next, it's already a battle for adults, if you want to withdraw now, it's still not too late."

Hearing this.

Itadori Yuji was stunned, then showed a confident smile.

"No!"

"It's my battle too!"

"I'm the son of 'The Strongest Magician·Zenin Mirai', how could I possibly run away from the battlefield!"

"That's a pretty decent answer. "Nanaha Kento praised: "By now, Haibara should have almost figured out their whereabouts, so let's cheer up!"

"Oh!"