Chapter 4 — I'm Doing Jujutsu Kaisen in the Naruto World
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"Praise the Evil God!" everyone shouted in unison.
No matter what the Takihata Cult Leader might actually be thinking, in front of others, the glory of the Evil God outweighed everything else.
Unreasonable?
Exactly—it should be unreasonable!
If people cared about logic, who would go and believe in an Evil God whose very existence was still questionable?
So, in the eyes of these cultists, any irrational phenomenon became the most reasonable thing in the world the moment it was linked to the Evil God.
Don't believe it?
Two shining examples were right there in front of them. Even something like an Immortal Body existed—what else could possibly be impossible?!
It was precisely because Akagi Shinji understood the Evil God Cult's way of thinking that he dared to use the strategy of "you're all idiots"—by pushing everything onto the so-called Evil God.
As long as it involved their faith, no one would dare question whether what he said was true or false.
After all, as long as Akagi Shinji insisted on his story, was the Evil God—whom no one had ever seen—really going to jump out and expose him?
Of course, this only worked when it came to praise or "displaying divine miracles."
If he dared to slander the Evil God, there would be no need for verification at all—these people would tear him apart on the spot.
Things unfolded exactly as Akagi Shinji had expected.
Even if some harbored doubts in their hearts, not a single person foolish enough stepped forward to question him.
Instead, they all joined in praising the Evil God's mercy and greatness.
When it came to playing dumb, everyone showed perfect tacit understanding.
After the formalities were over, the Takihata Cult Leader began asking about the details of this newly bestowed curse technique from the Evil God.
Akagi Shinji answered frankly—he said what he could, and what he couldn't, he simply said he didn't know. After all, he had only just obtained this power from the system and genuinely didn't understand it very deeply yet.
Want more information?
Go ask the system yourself.
Faced with Akagi Shinji's open and unguarded demeanor, the Takihata Cult Leader felt a headache coming on.
It seemed that this new curse technique could only be used by Shinji himself for now. There was no way to spread it, nor could it be handed over to Hidan.
As for whether what this man said was true or false, the Cult Leader had no intention of digging deeper for the time being.
Without tearing things apart, he knew he wouldn't get anything valuable anyway. It was better to continue using a gentle approach—guiding and brainwashing him bit by bit.
As long as Akagi Shinji could still be used, as long as he fought for the Evil God Cult, then all those minor details simply didn't matter.
The Cult Leader believed he had Akagi Shinji firmly under control.
What he didn't realize was that Shinji was fundamentally different from all the people he had controlled before.
"Crimson Blood Manipulation? Hah! My Immortal Body combined with Death Possession Blood is the strongest!"
After lying around like a corpse for quite a while, Hidan finally "faded back" and stood up again, his face full of dissatisfaction.
"Heh."
"What are you laughing at?! As long as I get your blood, I'll kill even the Sage of Six Paths! Bastard!"
"Mm-hmm. Good luck~"
"AAAAAH! I'll kill you! I swear I'll kill you!"
"Oh? Anything else?"
"..."
Akagi Shinji's extremely perfunctory attitude nearly made Hidan spit blood from sheer rage—multiple times.
But then again, if Hidan really had a way to deal with him, he wouldn't have been reduced to barking threats all this time.
As long as Akagi Shinji didn't betray the Evil God Cult, the Takihata Cult Leader would never truly allow the two of them to fight to the death.
So Hidan was furious—but all he could do was rage helplessly.
"You just wait! This isn't over!"
[Ding, Bond Value +1]
After hastily throwing out a threat that carried zero intimidation, Hidan stormed out in a rage.
This wasn't elementary school—who would be scared by something like "wait till after school"?
Still, that sudden increase in bond value was genuinely unexpected.
So this was the correct way to trigger it?
Akagi Shinji shrugged and didn't respond any further. Instead, he took advantage of the time to seal the blood that had flowed out of his body into the provided sterile bags.
One of the drawbacks of Crimson Blood Manipulation was that the amount of blood inside a human body was limited.
To avoid the absurd situation where the enemy wasn't dead yet but the user died first from blood loss, practitioners usually released and stored blood in advance, using it during battle.
Naturally, Akagi Shinji had thought of this too—so he sealed it up first and avoided wasting it.
At this moment, although his face had grown increasingly pale from the massive blood loss, his eyes shone brighter than ever.
Because he suddenly realized—
His Immortal Body might allow him to bring out the true strengths of Blood Manipulation even more effectively!
...
The next day, in addition to the mandatory experiments and training he had to cooperate with, Akagi Shinji gained an extra task—
Developing the applications of Crimson Blood Manipulation.
Clearly, compared to Death Possession Blood, which guaranteed death as long as blood was obtained, Crimson Blood Manipulation was neither as simple nor as unreasonably overpowered.
On the contrary, it was far more flexible and versatile, with its destructive power depending entirely on how the user chose to apply it.
This meant he had to devote far more time to developing it, unlike Hidan, who could act without a care in the world.
Another noteworthy point was that—perhaps due to flaws in the Evil God Cult's forbidden experiments—although both he and Hidan still possessed chakra, the difficulty of performing ninjutsu had increased by more than a hundredfold.
It felt just like Naruto back in the academy days—every attempt to use a jutsu was disrupted by some unforeseen factor, resulting in failure.
According to the cult's researchers, this was likely due to some kind of mutation in their chakra pathways. During hand seals, chakra flow would become abnormal, leading to frequent failures.
This was the current stage of conclusions the Evil God Cult had drawn from their observations.
Of course, the curse technique Death Possession Blood was a complete exception.
Akagi Shinji wasn't even sure whether the Evil God Cult had first created such a bizarre curse technique and then decided to modify the human body—
Or whether they had developed this curse specifically for the sake of the so-called Immortal Body.
He suspected that the reason he couldn't learn Death Possession Blood was because he himself was actually a failed product—a half-finished experiment.
If not for that transmigration incident, Akagi Shinji should have ended up just like all the other unlucky souls—dying a miserable death.
If he hadn't luckily obtained Crimson Blood Manipulation from the system, it probably wouldn't have taken long before he was labeled a "semi-failure."
Because of this, Akagi Shinji felt both slightly relieved—and slightly depressed.
Relieved that he had successfully gotten through this crisis and had, at least for now, gained a certain degree of self-preservation in this terrifying world.
Depressed because it seemed that, from now on, he could only walk down the path of curse techniques all the way to the end.
I'm Doing Jujutsu Kaisen in the Naruto World?
What a headache.
It really made him want to complain.