Jujutsu Kaisen: Shadow King

『21:44』

Shibuya Station, Tokyo Metro.

Exit 13 (outside the tent).

Tap! Tap! Tap!

Step up the stairs one by one.

Nanaha Kento had no distractions in his mind.

‘Being angry about my own incompetence will never happen in my life, no matter in the past or in the future.’

‘I just need to concentrate on killing all the evils that reveal the cruel reality to me.’

On the overpass.

A pool of blood caught Nanami Kento’s eyes. Upon closer inspection, there was a pair of familiar glasses completely stained scarlet in the pool of blood, but the owner was nowhere to be seen.

“…”

The scene of Haibara Yuu on the verge of death flashed through his mind. Nanami Kento looked up to the sky, closed his eyes and sighed, but no rain could wash away the sadness and resentment in his heart.

“You are provoking me, right!”

Nanaha Kento rarely had a fluctuating tone, and shouted angrily.

But at this moment.

A hand came over from the side and picked up the glasses in the pool of blood.

Nanami Kento was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look.

But he saw.

Ichichi Jietaka, with a torn suit and blood all over his body, was just fine.

He took out a piece of glasses cloth with blood stains on the corners but still relatively clean from his pocket and wiped the blood clots on the glasses that had not yet completely solidified.

"Private Marseille!"

"Mr. Nanami, I've kept you waiting!"

Ichichi Jiegao put on the damaged glasses and scratched his head apologetically: "Ah~ I've been looking for glasses nearby, and I was blind. I didn't expect it to fall right there, ahaha!"

Nanami Kento: "= ="

"The blood on your body..."

"Ah, this!"

"I was attacked from behind by a curse master and stabbed. I almost died!" Ichichi Jiegao recalled with fear and was thankful:

"However, fortunately, the shikigami Miss Jiduoluo of the Zenin family master arrived in time, eliminated the curse master, and then saved me with the "reversal technique."

"Where is Jiduoluo now? Since Zenin senior is now sealed, she should not be able to move for too long." Nanami Kento asked.

Ichichi Jiegao looked regretful: "Sorry, I don't know, she left in a hurry."

"Is that so?"

"I understand."

Nanami Kento nodded in understanding, and did not ask more about the matter of Jiduoluo, but explained his purpose: "Ichichi, I need you to report to the higher-ups..."

...

『22:02』

On the way from Meiji Jingumae Station to Shibuya Station on the Metropolitan Subway.

Tap! Tap! Tap!

The crisp footsteps echoed in the dimly lit tunnel.

Mingming put one hand on his waist and the other hand holding an axe, and walked slowly towards the curse master wearing a green frog headgear who was crawling backwards on the ground in front.

The wall of the tunnel.

A pile of bloody and unknown objects was stuck on it in the form of slag.

There was no trace of extra blood, just like a mural, which was evenly painted on it with absolute crushing force.

The opposite side of the tunnel.

Huiyuan Xiong crossed his arms and stood still.

He blocked the curser's retreat with the momentum of "one man guarding the pass, ten thousand men cannot open it".

"Do you know what my spell is?"

"It's just 'controlling crows'."

"Very weak, right?"

"Except for the advantage of flying, it is weaker than your 'dog manipulation' in any other aspect."

"So I worked hard since I was a child so that I can fight even without spells."

"'All this is not in vain', now that I can easily defeat you, I can't help but think so."

"Stop it!"

"I won't participate in this matter, please spare my life!"

The frog curser used his hands and feet, turned his back, and begged for mercy towards Mingming.

"Quiet."

At the other end of the tunnel, Huiyuan Xiong frowned and reminded: "Ms. Mingming hasn't finished talking yet. It's very impolite to interrupt a lady's confession of her past."

"Uh--" The frog-headed curse master fell silent upon hearing this.

Mingming smiled at Huiyuan Xiong in gratitude and continued: "I told myself that the value of a magician is not only the magic, but also the body!"

"But there is a limit after all..."

"The human body is too fragile. When it can't bear the torment of the will, it will stagnate or even collapse. It is impossible to become stronger endlessly!"

"Of course this makes me depressed!"

"It is precisely because of depression that I face my magic again, which allows me to be reborn and become a "first-level" magician!"

Papapapapapa!

Huiyuan Xiong was so moved that tears welled up and he kept clapping his hands. At the same time, he looked at the frog-headed curse spirit: "Clap your hands quickly, why are you standing there?"

"Ah?"

"Oh oh oh!"

Sitting cross-legged, the frog-headed curse master clapped his hands blankly.

Pa pa pa pa pa!

"Yeah."

"So obedient."

Seeing this, Mingming grinned and suddenly changed the subject: "But it's time to kill you. I just want to say something to kill time."

Said.

Mingming waved the giant axe with one hand and approached heroically.

"Huh?!"

The frog-headed curse master was stunned for a moment, and immediately sweated all over his body. He knelt down and begged for mercy to Mingming: "I'm very sorry for causing you trouble!"

"I won't do bad things again. At least... at least leave me alive!"

"Oh?"

Mingming paused for a moment, looked at Huiyuan Xiong on the other side of the tunnel, and asked: "Huyuan, what do you think the value and weight of life depend on? "

"Hmm..."

After hearing this, Huiyuan Xiong scratched his head and thought, and answered uncertainly: "It should depend on how much contribution you make to society, right?"

"Eighty points."

"Huh?" Huiyuan Xiong was puzzled: "Why?"

"That person once said that the world revolves around "oneself".

"The weight and value of life should first depend on how much it affects "me" as an individual, and then rise to the family, society, country, and the world.

"Nothing is more important than following your inner feelings."

The voice fell.

Mingming smiled and nodded again.

Looking at the frog-headed curse master in front of him who was banging his head on the ground:

"What about you?"

"I, I, I...this...that..." The frog-headed curse master was sweating all over his face, hesitating and unable to answer.

"People who take lives at will cannot immediately state their standards. "He walked to the frog-headed curse master in three or two steps, raised his axe, and declared:

"That's why you lose."

"By the way, for me, the meaning of life is to realize potential."

After that.

With a cruel arc on his lips, Mingming turned around and chopped the axe, showing his sharp edge!

But at this moment.

"Hehehehehe!"

"The upright die because of talking too much!"

"You didn't kill me immediately, but walked towards me slowly, which was your biggest mistake!"

The frog-headed curse master, who had been timid all the time, suddenly twisted his mouth, he maintained the kneeling posture of "getting down from the ground", put his hands together to make a seal, and laughed strangely:

"'Domain expansion·Robot dog ascends to heaven'!"