A/N:
Hey, wanted to apologize for the late chapter. I was getting railed by tests and exams and took yesterday to rest. So, in exchange, I decided to make this my longest chapter yet, and hopefully my best one. It does have a small couple-day-long time skip, followed by another and a POV change, so if you're wondering why I'm skipping so much its because the others in the culling games are pretty fucking weak. The next chapter will have a special grade OC new sorcerer with crazy potential and power, but yeah. Also, I'm taking quite the creative liberties with JJK, so keep an open mind, I promise it all makes sense.
With out further ado here it is:
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1st Person POV Shinji November 5th
It took a couple of hours for Ryu to wake up after our fight, and the next three days were nothing special.
Uro and I found another nice house pretty close to the one Ryu blew up; it even had a bigger backyard connected to the same forest.
We raided a couple of the nearby grocery stores and helped Ryu find a place just down the road from us. The guy was a surprisingly chill neighbor, and he picked up the modern era a hell of a lot faster than Uro did.
Speaking of the pinkette, she had taken a keen interest in movies of all things.
Apparently, it reminded her of the theater she watched, and when we weren't points hunting, we often spent nights on the couch just watching and talking about movies.
I wonder what would happen if I introduced her to tv…
Actually, as much as I love binge-watching movies, I think Uro would drag me into a never-ending show binge when she finds a show she likes.
I shuddered at the thought of her watching One Piece. Because when the girl commits to watching something, or doing something, for that matter, she does not stop until she achieves it.
But on the topic of points hunting and achieving goals, I was WAY ahead of Uro in points. I was at a solid 45 points so far, while she was only at 30.
But Ryu surprised us as he was only at 20 points. He, of course, when asked about why he was so low in points he just lit up another cigarette and said that he only went after those he thought might be a fun fight.
But points hunting brought up an interesting dilemma.
I wasn't growing.
Okay, that was a touch of a stretch. We all spent time together and shared what we knew about jujutsu every day. And I learned from studying Ryu how to send blasts of cursed energy that, while lower in output, were a nice addition to my arsenal.
It was really hard for me to learn because of my energy's nature, but it gave the grey beam a shaky look that made it harder to block the thinner I made it.
And my reinforcement was getting stronger by the day. I was by far the fastest and strongest member of the team, to the point that a one-on-one spar against me was a death sentence. So they came up with the next best solution.
After about a day of convincing, they decided to 2v1 me.
Which was happening right now.
"You're sure you two want to do this?" I asked, kinda wanting to back out of this. I might be stronger than them individually, but the fight against Ryu showed me just how much numbers can make a fight a one side beat down.
"Absolutely positive," Ryu said with a grin and a cigarette hanging from his lips. He cracked his knuckles, "You know I've been meaning to repay you for those 'black flashes' as you call them."
He was still wearing the same open fur leather jacket, and his pompadour still rooted to his head.
"...This will be fun," Uro said, sending me a narrow-eyed stare. She had also taken more and more to modern clothes, but she definitely preferred outfits that were more… 'open to the sky' as she had called it.
She was wearing a thin, form-fitting, slightly see-through black top over a sheer black harness-style bralette, with thin gold belt buckles holding it to her. She had bright white waist-high baggy white sweatpants that flared down the bottom and light brown sandals.
Her pink hair flowed down her back and slightly covered her gold hoop colored earrings. She still had her leather choker on, and the whole ensemble looked amazing on her.
So much so that I got slightly distracted, and had to jump to the side with a vibrating leg to dodge a huge pink beam of cursed energy flying straight for me.
It carved through the terrain where I had just stood, and as the beam cleared, I saw Uro pulling herself towards me. She skidded to a stop with a fast right straight to my head; her reinforcement had also improved over the past couple of days.
I swiveled my head left, dodging the blow. She grabbed my shoulder and tried to slam a knee into my chest. My left arm shoved the knee aside, and my right arm lashed out with a rising elbow.
She pivoted back onto her back foot, dodging the blow by a hair's breadth. My left arm slammed into her torso, and space cracked cataputling her straight at Ryu, who was charging another blast of cursed energy.
Ryu smirked and tilted his head to the side, firing the blast, curving it around Uro, who was righting herself and grabbing the sky to stop herself.
I smirked and channeled my technique into the ground. It rippled 5 meters tall and exploded backwards, blocking the blast. And I tapped the air to my right with the back of my palm, cracking it and destroying the rubble before it hit me.
I watched as Uro pulled back, gearing up to catapult herself on a sheet of stretched space. I grinned and snapped, overlaying the sound's vibration with the faster destabilizing counter I made when I first fought Uro.
I vibrated my back leg and kicked backwards, flying forward as Uro started forward, falling as the counter wave reached the space she was grabbing.
I reached her falling form and sent a devastating right upper cut to her falling head. It connected squarely, and her head snapped upwards and back. I then threw my hips down and lashed out with a left roundhouse to her chin.
She flew sideways, and I saw Ryu pointing at me, grinning and charging a highly concentrated beam. His grin turned into a full-tooth smile, and he changed to pointing at Uro and fired.
The densely packed beam shot straight for her, and she grabbed the space it was shooting through, twisting around and curving the beam straight for me. I threw my torso level with the ground as the beam arced over me.
I righted myself as the beam dissipated, right in time to see Uro pulling herself toward me with an axe kick.
I used my counter in my arm as I blocked her downward kick with a raised forearm. The ground cracked below me, and she grabbed the space of her other leg and pulled it up into a strong right kick to my chin.
I raised my eyebrows, and I caught her rising foot with my palm. She grinned and threw her hands up, before throwing them down, a pink beam of energy curving along them.
'What the–,' my thoughts were interrupted as the beam slammed into my head and snapped it backwards. But I held onto Uro's bottom foot, shifting my other arm to grab her other leg.
There was still a thick layer of smoke on my head, so I couldn't quite see her, but I turned and slammed her down to the ground with all my might. I heard her gasp out as the smoke cleared, and I threw her skywards away from Ryu and me.
I turned to Ryu, and I could feel that the right side of my face was heavily burned and damaged, so I placed my right hand on my face and created a ball of positive energy to heal it quickly. I glared at Ryu, who was charging yet another beam of cursed energy to fire at me.
My eyebrow twitched at the asshole spammer, and I vibrated my leg and kicked, closing the distance in an instant. I slapped the shit out of his face, cracking space on impact, but holding back and shooting him through multiple trees into the forest.
I felt Uro close the distance behind me, and I used Quake to swivel around while dropping into a leg sweep, a half meter into the air to account for Uro's hovering. But in my haste, I forgot to activate my counter technique.
Uro noticed and pulled my leg down and away from her. I was almost thrown off balance from the shift and barely managed to block the kick she sent at my neck by crossing my arms. I used my counter to stop her from landing a Thin Ice Breaker.
She pivoted and threw a punch down and over my block, but I moved my back arm and caught the punch. I pulled her arm down and lashed out with an elbow to the face with the same arm.
Her head snapped back, and her nose started to bleed. I extended my arm and whipped my forearm at her neck, and her other arm barely stopped it from connecting fully. I smirked regardless and turned my arm over, blasting her away with a full-powered quake from my palm.
I punched in the direction of her moving form and sent a devastating shockwave at her with my technique.
She flipped through the air for a moment before pulling herself towards me. My eyebrows furrowed, 'Is it just me, or is she getting faster?' I asked myself in my head. She landed a foot in front of me and sent a lightning-quick jab at my head.
I parried the blow to the side and drew her arm back as she lashed out with a similarly fast right straight for my skull. I slapped the arm away, and weaved back narrowly dodging the leg she whipped out at my head.
'Whoa,' I thought, surprised at her sudden ferocity as she used the momentum to turn and throw a strong back kick to my chest. I caught it with both arms, but she used that as a pivot point to throw the same leg as before into another roundhouse to my head.
I had a crazy idea and headbutted at the blow, shattering space before impact and interrupting her blow.
She then pulled herself forward in an impossible twist, folding and leveling a hook to my face. My head was pushed sideways, and her outstretched fist grabbed at space and pulled, throwing another stronger uppercut to my chin.
BLACK FLASH
Black lightning erupted from the blow, and I was sent skywards, forced to let go of her leg as I flew. 'FUCK!' I screamed in my head, 'She never did that in canon.' I thought as I stared down at her as she marveled in her new state.
My heart hammered against my ribs, not quite from fear, but from excitement and pride.
Her head snapped up at me, and she made direct eye contact with me in a euphoric grin. And she pulled herself full tilt towards me.
I Aerostepped to make more distance, flying up and feeling a gigantic concentration of cursed energy shoot out from the forest floor.
I turned my head in that direction and used Quake to shoot myself out of the path of the beam. Only for the beam to radically curve and shoot straight back at me. I grunted in annoyance and threw a fist forward as a translucent sphere surrounded my fist.
The beam exploded backwards, but the explosion curved away as Uro barreled through the explosion. My eyes shot open as my hands panicked to form a block as she sent a left hook at me.
My shock tripled as she curved her own fist straight into my ribs.
BLACK FLASH
'MOTHER FU–,' Spit flew from my mouth as I shot backwards, 'GODDAMNED IT TWO?! SINCE WHEN?!' I screamed in my head.
Was this because of me that she suddenly started hitting black fucking flashes?!
"You said that you can use positive energy to cause the reverse effect from it, right?" I heard her call to me in a gleeful voice, bringing up what I had told her in training a couple of days ago. "So then what happens if I use positive energy from mine?"
Her palm stretched forward, and I felt RCT pulse in her, "Reversal Technique," She intoned dully, almost robotically, "Sunyata Step." The space in front of her darkened and sucked inwards.
BOOM
A loud boom emanated as Uro teleported right in front of me, slamming both palms forward. Space cracked, and I was sent tumbling through the air. It took three quakes to right myself and still enough to land on a platform of cracked space.
I rubbed at my jaw before screaming back to Uro, "So you're gonna tell me what the hell that's about, right?"
"No clue," She said before smirking and reaching her palm forward, "But–," her palm erupted black, and another loud boom emanated as she appeared in front of me so close I could feel her warm breath on my face while placing her palm on my pec, "–I like it."
I could feel her trying to activate Thin Ice Breaker, cursed energy surging against my chest, but I'd already activated my counter. Her palm pressed uselessly against my chest, as her eyes widened and she realized her technique had failed.
We were close enough that I could see her pupils dilate, feel her breath hitch. I gripped her wrist and smirked. "Don't get cocky."
I raised my right fist as a translucent sphere surrounded my fist, "Tell Ryu to dodge." I said, ramming my fist full strength into her chest and cracking space for a meter in every direction.
She exploded backwards, a vapor cone forming around her flying form, RCE already desperately fixing the damage, straight at Ryu's position on the forest floor.
I breathed out. This fight was harder than I thought.
But I smirked, charging a beam with a large amount of cursed energy. I really hope she told Ryu to dodge as I asked.
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3rd Person POV Ryu 1 minute ago
'Damn, hes gotten even stronger.' Ryu thought, getting to his feet after Shinji punched him away. 'Sure, my reinforcement has gotten better after all that training, but it's been marginal. His, however…'
He jumped onto a tree branch and saw Shinji blow over the tree line, 'Oh, looks like Uro got a good hit in,' He grinned, taking a drag from his cigarette. 'I'd be amiss not to help.' He thought while charging a blast of cursed energy.
He shot the granite blast the instant it was finished forming, and Shinji dodged it narrowly with that weird air cracking.
Uro, who was already pulling herself towards Shinji, curved the beam back at him, and he had to punch and rupture the blow, and Uro pulled the explosion away from herself and punched the gray-haired youth.
Black Lightning erupted from the blow, and Ryu's eyebrows shot up, 'That's what Shinji did to me… He called it a black flash, I think? Said something about making you a better sorcerer.' The pompadour-wearing man, though scratching the back of his head.
He shook his head before hearing a loud boom as Uro teleported in front of Shinji, 'Uhh, that's new,' he thought in shock, watching Uro send Shinji away with that space break thing she did.
She teleported in front of him again, and he punched her.
Right at him, at blistering speeds, 'What the fu–.' his thoughts were cut off by Uro slamming into his chest, and taking him to the forest floor. "Oww." He groaned out as Uro hurriedly got off of him with a disgusted look on her face, "Oh, what'd I do now–"
He was cut off as a beam of grey energy washed over him.
As the smoke cleared, Ryu's scuffed-up form glared at Uro through the clearing smoke. He huffed and turned to re-engage Shinji before Uro stopped him with a firm call of "Wait."
He stopped and turned to her, "What?" He asked.
"...are you even trying?" She asked him, almost snarling.
"...Excuse me?" he asked, an edge to his voice.
"Are you even trying to improve?" She clarified, "Because so far out of the three of us, you are the only one who seems content with what they can do."
"I'm–" He started, only to be interrupted by Uro once more.
"I don't care," She said simply, "Just know that as you are, some day very soon Shinji will see what I can."
"And that is?" He growled out.
"That you're holding us back." She answered in a dead voice, "Without RCT, he has to hold back from accidentally killing you. Which means his, and by extension, my growth, is slowed." She turned to jump right back at Shinji, who was moving towards us once more.
"I WILL make the most of this second life of mine, and you will NOT stop that." She growled out, before pressing her palm towards Shinji, "Do you not wish the same? To taste the best desserts of the world?"
She never let him answer, instead activating her strange new teleportation technique.
Ryu grit is teeth at his damaged pride. The truth was she was right.
He remembered what Uro had said about RCT in one of the training sessions after Shinji had asked her for the thousandth time.
'Desperation, huh?' He thought, glancing as the two engaged again, 'Ahh, what the hell."
He jumped straight for them.
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1st Person POV Shinji 5 seconds ago
I think I understand how Uro's reversal works.
And if I'm right, its down right busted.
See, reversals took the conceptual base of a technique and flipped it, but only the base and not the whole technique.
Like how Gojo's red was still a sphere like blue despite being the reverse, the effect is just the opposite.
So mine would be… stillness? I mean, that is the conceptual opposite of vibrations, which is the core of my technique, so maybe?
I shook my head, pushing the thought away for when I wasn't fighting two special grades.
Uro's normal technique lets her make the sky tangible and manipulable. So the reverse of the base most concept of that, would be to make the sky INtangible.
In effect, it would create a pseudo-vacuum of space that pulls her forward, and the boom is her technique, stopping activation after she pulls herself through, and space becomes tangible again and explodes outwards as a result.
I gulped at just how ludicrous the thought was, before shaking my head and dashing for the two who seemed to be having a conversation of some kind.
Honestly, I was more excited than anything by Uro's growth, but I was also very happy that we agreed to no domains because it was a 2v1. Because, if Uro's increased ability to manipulate space in her domain also carried over to her reversal…
I shivered at the thought.
I refocused on the fight at hand as Uro teleported once more. The move must be pretty draining because she was already panting slightly.
I decided to press the advantage for once and lashed out with a strong right to her head. She smirked and pulled her head away from the blow, while throwing a rising uppercut to my head.
I smacked the uppercut away with my left hand, a small application of my technique. I saw Ryu jumping towards us and decided that it was better to isolate the 1v1 against the destructive man.
My right arm crashed backwards, and my elbow cracked the space behind it. My arm blurred forward and into Uro's chest as a translucent sphere encased my hand, and space fractured.
She was sent flying once more, and I gave Ryu my fullest attention.
I threw my hands up and shot down towards him with Quake. He caught my knees as I tried to slam him down with a double knee drop. But he failed to anticipate that I would activate my technique on impact and shoot him down regardless.
I held back a touch so as not to hurt him too badly; he was a bitch to heal.
A large dust cloud erupted from the spot he landed, and I slammed into the ground a meter or so in front of him.
He lay there for a moment as the dust cleared, staring at the sky, "...You held back just now, didn't you?" He asked sadly, and my eyebrows shot up. I didn't think I made it that obvious.
"By your reaction, I can already tell that you did." He sighed, "Stop," he commanded, starting to get to his feet. "If I die, then I die. I already told you that I lived a good life and that I am searching for dessert, so if you kill me, then so what?" He asked as he stared me dead in the eyes.
"I am here for the best fight of my life, and I will NOT be denied that on account of your pity," he stated as he took a deep drag of his cigarette, a blast forming on the end of his pompadour.
I stared at him a moment longer before sighing and closing my eyes.
How dare I?
How dare I deny him the one thing he wanted and needed to grow?
He wanted an all-out fight for a spar, needed it to grow beyond what he is now. And I was denying him that.
And honestly, so what if I killed him?
I would just heal him and use vibrations to start his heart again, and if that didn't work, then…
I shook my head. Who am I kidding? I would make it work.
I closed the distance in an instant with a vibrating leg, throwing a left flicker jab that he met by releasing the blast of cursed energy.
Space cracked, and his blast imploded backwards, and his head snapped back.
I stepped in with a right overhand encased in the translucent sphere of my technique. He just narrowly got his arms up in time to block the blow, but was still launched away from the impact as space fractured.
I Aerostepped and closed the gap in an instant, fainting another flicker jab that he threw both arms into a block in front of him to stop. I smirked and used my left arm to grab one of his arms, using my superior strength to rip his arm wide.
I vibrated my right hand, crashing it into the center of his chest. He spewed blood from his mouth, but tried to retaliate with a wild right haymaker. I flipped backwards under the blow and used my momentum to throw a rising kick to his chin.
The blow impacted squarely, space cracking, and the man was sent skywards.
I jumped above him with Aerostep and slammed a vibrating fist into the guard he hastily threw up as he spun to face me directly.
CRACK
There was a loud, disgusting cracking noise as his forearms shattered, leaving him wide open to the right hook Shinji sent at Ryu's jaw that shattered space.
I aerostepped once more after him and slammed both vibrating fists into where I had just hit him.
I watched him crash through the forest, feeling his signature weaken drastically.
I winced. I might have taken that a touch too far.
But I shook my head; it was what he wanted after all. 'One down.' I thought to myself.
BOOM
A loud boom echoed behind me, and I turned in time to get rocked by Uro's surprise attack from my blind spot. Space cracked, and I flew backwards, 'This is gonna be fun,' I thought, resolute to enjoy this fight and check on Ryu later.
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1st Person POV Ryu
Everything hurt.
I couldn't move, and my arms were destroyed.
I think I'm dying.
That first punch definitely obliterated my ribs, and that second one completely shredded most of my organs.
Just how much was he holding back?
Nah, that wasn't it. While that blow did significantly more damage, it was more than it was almost directly hit my vitals at a way more concentrated force.
If his normal hits scrambled your insides, that weird vibrating punch minced whatever they hit. In this case, my vitals.
I could have taken a couple more if he hit somewhere else, but as it was, I don't think I've got much longer.
I stared at the sky and clouds once more.
I should be happy. I've done everything I wanted to have the best fight and hardest fight of my life. Although this one was a bit disappointingly short, the one a couple of days ago was nice.
But for some reason, there was still this nagging hunger. A never-ending desire for more. To correct how easy that fight was for Shinji, and to keep fighting him and Uro all day, every day…
I wheezed in a breath. As fun as that sounded, I wasn't going to make it that far, but he wanted that; he wanted that so badly.
My vision started to go dark at the edges, and I fought for them open.
'You've eaten enough,' a voice whispered in my head, 'Let go.'
'No… that's… that's not right.' I thought back, 'I want… I want to live. I want TO FIGHT!' I screamed within his own head.
I focused on recalling every word Uro had ever said about the reverse-cursed technique.
I pictured two granite blasts colliding in his brain, but nothing happened.
My vision swam and darkened more.
'No… Not yet… Please… Please, JUST LET ME KEEP FIGHTING!'
My anger and desperation waged within my mind.
And in a moment, all went still.
My cursed energy slammed into itself within my brain, and I felt the negative aspects of the energy cancel, leaving only a warm stream of energy.
The world became clear, so much clearer than it ever had.
The clouds reflected the sunlight, and it beamed through the trees onto my face.
I felt the warm breeze tousle my pompadour, and I was reminded of the day I first met my wife in my past life.
I felt the energy fix my vitals first, stitching and mending them into place before stitching together my ribs.
My forearms came next, and I took a deep, satisfying breath in.
I stood and closed my eyes, feeling myself in the moment and smelling the forest.
"Life really is beautiful." He said, and his eyes opened and snapped onto Shinji and Uro's fighting forms.
"And I am so hungry."
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1st Person POV Shinji
Something is off.
I noticed it instantly from Ryu's downed position, even as I fought off Uro in hand-to-hand.
Something about his signature was changing, and then I felt it.
The spark of the reverse cursed technique.
I grinned. It looks like I won't have to heal him after all.
I slipped Uro's jab and felt him charge another blast from where he stood. I felt him shoot off four blasts of cursed energy, two at me and two at Uro.
I sent a jumping knee to Uro's chin, and she barely managed to catch it with both hands before it hit her.
That unfortunately left her open to my follow-up tomahawk elbow, crashing straight into her forehead.
She was launched down, and I had to quickly use both Quake and Aerostepp to dodge the fastest and strongest beam of cursed energy yet.
I felt it start to curve at the edge of my awareness, but I was forced to focus on the next beam that he shot off at me. I punched it before turning and punching the beam that was curving back for me.
Just in time for a loud boom sound to ring out, and Uro to slam one of the beams shot at her at me. The blast broke through the hasty double armed guard I threw up, and the second shot she curved at me hit me directly in the face.
Uro used the moment of lost focus to kick me down.
BLACK FLASH
And yet another spray of black lightning erupted, 'Okay, three is a bit FUCKING MUCH!' I yelled in my head as spit flew from my mouth.
But Ryu, it seems, also took the chance to fire another full-powered beam at me, and the wave of destruction washed over me.
I slammed into the dirt and activated ground break to soften the blow, while rolling to my feet.
'Damn,' I thought to myself, feeling every burn and injury on my body.
Uro flew down panting heavily, incredibly drained from the fight and repeated usage of her reversal for the first time.
I smirked, "I just realized that move is really draining, but it's the only way you can outpace me in terms of travel speed, sooo see ya." I vibrated my leg and made a dead sprint for Ryu's signature through the tree line.
"WAIT!" She yelled behind me, but I had already disappeared from her sight.
I had to side-step as another blast of cursed energy fired straight at me, carving through the forest around us.
I closed the distance as the beam finished dissipating, and he barely managed to block the closeline I leveled at his neck as I flew by.
I swung my arm forward and sent Ryu flying through a series of trees, trying to force as much distance from Uro as possible.
I appeared in front of him again, sending a lightning-fast jab to his head that he parried by the skin of his teeth.
He lashed out with a straight to my head, and I slapped the blow away, only to be surprised as he charged an extremely dense blast of cursed energy almost instantly.
It was by in far the fastest blast he'd fired against me to date, and it hit me right above my left eye.
I felt the skin rip off my skull as my head snapped back. I bit back a scream of pain, instead electing to slam a head butt into Ryu's head.
I slapped his other arm away with an application of my technique, before leveling my right vibrating fist into his shoulder and decimating the joint.
I sent a flurry of vibrating punches to his chest: a jab to his ribs, a hook to his stomach, a hook to his liver, and a final crushing blow to his ribs once more.
He vomited out a copious amount of blood, and I could feel his RCT work overdrive to heal his wounds.
Unfortunately, RCT was a draining thing, especially for a first-time user.
And he panted heavily as he finished healing his wounds.
I created a healing pod barrier, as I had come to call them, around myself and fully regenerated. I was getting pretty tired, too. Fighting these two together proved way more draining than I thought.
There was a harsh boom as Uro teleported close, panting even more than before.
Poor girl looked like she was going to collapse.
Ryu charged another desperate fast blast, but far more prepared I threw my torso level with the ground as I saw him charge it and watched as it arched over me and right at Uro.
Her eyes widened at the speed, and her exhaustion showed as she was unable to redirect a blast for the first time in the fight.
The blast hit her squarely and launched her away, and I was confident that she was the first out of the fight.
I righted myself and charged at Ryu's exhausted form.
His sloppy block was easily shattered by my first right straight, and the following left hook knocked his head to the side.
He stayed standing, wobbly, but standing. I panted as I swung a high round house to his head, and his block was rendered mute by the cracking of space that resulted.
He flew through a couple of dozen trees, knocked out.
I collapsed to a sitting position.
I stared at the sky and started to chuckle.
It turned into a full belly laugh, as I fell to my back. Ryu and Uro had just given me ten times the excitement any of those losers outside did.
God, this new life of mine was so much fun.
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3rd Person POV (Time Skip) November 9th Somewhere under Jujutsu High
A white, seemingly infinite room of white gave the room a uniquely isolated feel. In every direction white stretched everlong, with the one exception of the door to leave the room.
The tall blonde form of Tsumiko Yuki stared down the mutated form of Tengen. Her four pupil-less eyes stared back unrelentingly at the blonde. Choso, Yuji, Megumi, and a pale teenager of average height with short straight black hair parted down the side.
Yuta Okkotsu has a lean, athletic build and a weary posture that masks his underlying strength. His face is framed by messy, jet-black hair, with deep shadows under his large, dark eyes that give him a look of constant exhaustion.
He wears a signature white, high-collared Jujutsu High jacket with dark, loose-fitting trousers and simple sneakers. A black strap across his chest secures a katana bag to his back, with the sword's hilt visible over his shoulder.
Next to him stood the beautiful form of Maki Zen'in, still recovering from her encounter with Jogo.
She was taller than average with an athletic, muscular build that showed the countless hours she spent honing her physical prowess. Her scarred, but pretty face was punctuated by the round rimmed glasses and framed by her short green hair.
She wore a black shoulder cape over her form-fitting black combat outfit. A brown belt held her outfit together, and it contrasted sharply with the rest of her black combat outfit.
The atmosphere was tense. Tengen had just finished explaining the rules of the culling games, and every person had their own thoughts on the matter.
Maki was considering how to use Megumi's new position as Zen'in clan head to steal their armory of cursed tools. The corners of her mouth twitched up at the thought of their faces when she would confiscate their whole arsenal of weapons.
Megumi was still processing the fact that his sister would die soon if they didn't change anything.
Yuki was aching to ask Tengen questions, but sidelined those thoughts for a more appropriate time. She might also have snuck a few glances at the resident pig-tailed curse, but that was neither here nor there.
Choso, meanwhile, was thinking about his younger brother Yuji and how proud he was to be his brother. He was also thinking about asking Tengen some questions of his own, too, but he was still riding the high of Yuji calling him big brother for the first time.
Their thoughts were broken by Megumi's voice cutting through the silence, "So if we can't stop the culling games by killing Kenjaku, then the only way to save my sister is to take her out of the game."
Everyone's head turned to the blackette, and he continued, "You said that if you spend 100 points, you could add a rule, right?" He asked rhetorically before continuing, "So can't we add a rule that lets players leave?"
"It's possible," Tengen's layered voice answered quickly, a touch too quickly, "But you would have to negotiate the wording and conditions of leaving the game with the game master."
"Then that's our plan," He responded instantly, "We need to get 100 points before the month ends to make an escape clause."
Yuki sighed, "Okay, but we can't transfer points to each other, so the best course of action is to funnel points to one person." She stated matter-of-factly, "With Choso and me staying to watch over Tengen, that leaves one of you as the point bearer."
"I can—," Megumi added instantly before he was interrupted by Tengen.
"Something has happened," She started, "There has been a change to the rules, someone by the name of Kashimo has added a new one."
Every person's head snapped to her expectantly. "It seems that he has added the rule that players can now see information on other players." She started narrowing all four of her eyes, "The rule stipulates that others can see a player's points total, what colony they are in, and what rules each player has added."
"That…" Yuki started, only to be interrupted by Yuta.
"—Makes things a lot more complicated." He finished for her with a sigh, and all eyes turned to him. "If we can see players' colonies and point counts, we can target players with either low or high points and avoid or kill the highest-ranked players."
He turned to Tengen once more, "Can you see people's points?" He asked, and she nodded silently, "Who's at the top? And their points total?"
"Currently, the one who made the rule, Hajime Kashimo in Tokyo colony No. 2, is still in the lead with 70 points, after deducting the 100 points, putting them at a raw total of 170 points." She started, and every person took a shocked breath in.
She continued regardless, "But in second place is someone by the name of Newgate Shinji with a total of 95 points in Sendai–"
"Wait, Shinji?" Yuji asked before hitting his palm with his fist, "Oh, I remember him, he was the silver-haired guy with the weird yellow eyes, right?"
Both Yuki and Choso stiffened at the mention of the weird boy, but for two entirely different reasons.
Choso was pissed that the silver-haired boy had deceived his precious little brother and was working for Norotoshi Kamo.
Yuki was more on edge about the boy because of that weird vibrating part of his cursed energy, and oh yeah, Kenjaku had said the boy could erase souls. Plus, there was a serious disparity in his reserves and his technique output that night.
"Who is he?" Tengen asked, surprising everyone with her lack of knowledge on… well, anything.
"You mean you've never heard of him?" Yuki asked, putting a hand on her hip, "He is an incarnated sorcerer from the past, with a technique that makes cracks in the air that cause a shockwave." She said before shrugging, "But that's just a guess, only got to see it a couple–"
"I'm afraid that's not possible," Tengen said with absolute authority, "Of all the incarnated sorcerers I can presently think of, there is no one by the name of Newgate Shinji."
That gave Choso, Yuji, and Yuki pause, and all turned to stare quizzically at her, "While it is possible that I am simply unaware of this particular sorcerer, it is highly unlikely that I would be unaware of someone of that caliber."
"And what caliber is that?" Maki asked, crossing her arms under her chest and shifting her weight on her hip, "95 points is a lot sure, but how strong is this guy really?"
All eyes turned to Yuji, who had recognized him initially. Yuji saw everyone staring at him blankly and realized they wanted him to tell them, so he scratched his chin, "He's… He's uhh," he stuttered out, trying to find the words, "He's really strong, helped a bunch against Mahito, saved Mister Nanami, and Sukuna said something about him being interesting."
Now that last statement caught everyone present off guard, but Yuji continued regardless, "And he beat the crap out of that ice lady too." He said, thinking back to the worst night of his life.
Choso was fast to support his brother, growling out, "It's true, the boy is indeed strong," He trailed off, "But he is working with the enemy, Kenjaku confirmed that himself."
"Or he was trying to turn us against each other," Yuki said, humming, "It works for the whole causing the most chaos possible, thing he's got going on."
"Either way, he's dangerous," Yuta spoke up for the first time, turning to face Yuji, "Do you think he can be reasoned with?"
"Yes," Yuji said without a second's hesitation.
"Then I'll go to Sendai and try to make contact and try to recruit him," Yuta said flatly.
"And if he doesn't agree?" Yuji asked.
"Then I will eliminate him and take all the points in Sendai."
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A/N:
Aaaaand done, wow that took a very long time to write out, but I'm really happy with it overall. I hope you enjoyed my idea's on what Uro's reversal would be and if your wondering what Ryu's reversal is it is also similarly broken. Uro's reversal can also be used for damage, but she decided she didn't want to risk what that might do to Shinji.
Yes, the next chapter will open with a movie night, but it will end with a nice fight then go into Yuta, so yeah, stick around, comment if you enjoyed it. Also, I saw a Hikari in MHA fic, so I want to say that idea was my own, I didn't copy them, but I will write it better than they did, no offense. That will be after the force fic, which I have already started to write.
Speaking of that fic I had an interesting idea, and I'd like your thoughts on it.
Abeloth love interest.
Now I know that sounds fucking crazy, but I think I could make it work and compelling so let me know if you like that or Female Gojo better as an FML. Or if you'd like to see both, I don't want to write harem, but I think it would be an interesting challenge to make work. But I get that 95% of the time, the only reason people write harem is that they're horny.
Trust me, that would NEVER be the case here; relationship dynamics will always try to be as natural as possible. If I ever went down that road, it would be because the characters click and each challenge the others thematically and emotionally.
Anyways I hope you all enjoyed. Let me know what I can do to improve, and if you enjoyed, have a great night.