Chapter 30: Chapter 030 - Ryōmen Sukuna
My whole life has been about death, sorcerers, curses, and of course, fights.
At the beginning of my life, I was cursed, my face was deformed, I was born with four eyes, two of mine and two that belonged to my twin; my body received small arms that were attached to my torso. Although, sadly, I could only see with the one eye that wasn't deformed.
Many labeled me as a living curse, death attempts, murder attempts, all directed at me from the very beginning by those people who had tried to get rid of me.
It is possible that I have been a curse from the very start of my existence; my mother repudiated me, cursing me for having killed my twin and for having been born in this abominable form.
These deformities surely accompany me.
The murder attempts are becoming more and more frequent; it was clear to me from the start that my family only wanted to get rid of me, a disgrace to their beloved family branch.
I only wished for them to die.
That they die in a mission in the worst possible way.
That they die and go away so that I can laugh at them.
Die.
And just by wishing it, barely by waving my hands in their direction, the movement appeared, and all those who were my family appeared with multiple cuts; the house at that address where they were gathered disappeared.
I, only a five‐year‐old child, killing multiple jujutsu sorcerers, watching their bodies torn apart, their faces becoming disfigured, some of their organs bursting out from the cuts I made, their eyes… losing that shine and the lively expression.
It was the first time I committed a murder.
And it felt so good.
I had never smiled.
But now, looking at them, I flashed the best smile I could have given in all this time.
A spontaneous joy
those who hated me and showed me violence.
I only repaid them with more violence, watching my own masterpiece in maximum splendor.
My family, who died at my hands, were a family of sorcerers who, although they were not renowned, had material and information from which I educated myself; I obtained the information and everything that could sprout. After that, I simply continued to educate myself and experiment, curious about cursed energy and everything it could offer me.
If they had taken the time to educate me, they would know that at least the youngest of the Ryōmen family was a prodigy in jujutsu sorcery.
I left that house, I remember perfectly that putrid smell of the days I left on the bodies, and before leaving there, I admired my work one last time.
I continued on my path as a sorcerer in the Heian era; everyone avoided me and indicated that I would be an ill omen wherever I went, it seems that it is not only the sorcerers.
People hate me.
Humans are so disgusting.
I really do not wish to be human, but in the end, I ended up incarnated in one.
I was lost for so long, but I... my desire not to be human tainted my mind, and each time my true essence continued to spring forth from my being.
When I least expected it, I became a jujutsu sorcerer, just as my tiny and weak family had been; there I met strong and prominent sorcerers.
But these people… despite being at the pinnacle of jujutsu, I discovered and dismantled everything that cursed energy provided me; I learned the secrets of domain expansions.
I discovered the true essence of cursed energy. No one looked down on me anymore; everyone appreciated me with respect and great admiration, even though my face was deformed, even though I had two extra small arms.
Everyone looked at me with respect.
It is a shame that I am not a conformist person; I desired more.
Greed grew as I saw that when you reach the master peak of jujutsu, you can no longer do much more to become strong.
My human body could no longer give me more than what I desired… a human body remains just that; I wanted to advance further at the pinnacle of power.
I did not want to be seen with respect, vividly recalling the human death at my hands, I always exorcised curses. But it was not the same.
I am getting tired of the monotony.
This human body was so weak…
That I no longer wanted to be a weak human; I want to be something superior to it.
A curse.
A curse that will bring renown, that when they hear my name, people scream agonizingly, run for their lives, amid fruitful destruction.
Yes…
Instead of a smile, it excites me to see their faces lost in nothingness. Their empty eyes, devoid of that light I once gazed at so jealously, now I will tear out one way or another.
Instead of compliments, let them give me their best insults. As they have always done throughout my life.
Let them try to oppose me.
I do not want to be a mere curse.
Because I want even the curses themselves to fear my name…
I want to, be…
The king of curses.
the peak and mastery of the entire world, to whom no one opposes my being and all are cute toys with which I can have fun.
They themselves foretold the negative evils that could occur in the world wherever I went.
And I will only fulfill their wishes.
...
Everyone died at my hands.
It is no longer so fun…
Is this what it means to be the strongest of the Golden Age?
I personally destroyed both humans and curses; on my journey I met a small boy named Uraume, he is the only "human" essence I could have by my side.
And only because I discovered that the boy knew how to perfectly cook humans.
Something I have discovered is the act of stealing the cursed energy of sorcerers and their cursed techniques, although I have only obtained one cursed technique called ' Gōzen '.
At first I thought it would be useless, since its original bearer was terribly bad at fighting and just killing him made me feel pity; even so, I did it.
And I ate him.
By eating human bodies, I have discovered how to steal their cursed techniques and their CE, it was quite fruitful.
From that point, I stopped eating human food, and I preferred to eat humans.
It is much tastier and better for me. They are such dirty animals, but their meat is the best I have ever tasted in my entire existence.
Since I began consuming human meat, it is when I realized that I was finally losing my human traits, the small arms I carried on my torso grew and muscles formed, finally becoming a unique part of me, one that I could control; they are no longer useless arms that constantly reminded me that they belonged to my twin, they are now strong and full of vitality on my part. And also, another second mouth appeared in my stomach, which helps me perfectly to eat the sorcerers much faster.
On my body, more tattoos appeared than what my CE contained; the useless eyes I had for decoration, I can now see through them, having four kinds of rather unique visions.
I ended the Heian Era, no one here amused me.
I became the strongest of all, and I quickly finished off those who would be my toys; it was a pity on my part to see the ground and notice that there was no longer any ground, human rugs obstructing the soft earth.
Multiple humans scattered on the ground.
When I became a curse, and no longer a human, that was when I decided to form my fingers, where I divided my power. A sorcerer named Kenjaku promised to bring me back to life after a thousand years, we made a binding vow so that this pact would become real.
I hope that the future will be more exciting than what this sad era could offer me.
...
The future, indeed, everything had changed.
I, of course, did not change.
I continued killing as I had always done.
It is my only joy in existence; the humans themselves had said that I would be the omen by which everyone would be condemned.
I am only fulfilling their wishes.
I have killed so many sorcerers and destroyed countless lives with my own hands; I think my face hurt from having that smile; I am much happier than before.
But this time… I thought that everything would be the same as before; I was incarnated in a human body, I once again had my deformed face and my four arms, and my companion mouth in my abdomen.
I thought I would have to sleep for another thousand years when the total destruction of the jujutsu world and all the people in this area was completed.
I never expected that the boy I had always mocked since I was incarnated a thousand years ago would be the one to defeat me,
He was the one to defeat me, using my own technique when I used to defeat all my enemies.
When I was expelled from Megumi's body, I looked at his face before everything darkened.
That boy… carried the brilliance that I could never extinguish, no matter how much I tried; that brat was Yūji.
" h-h-hello? " that thin and pathetic voice, his appearance had changed, but his soul was the same; there was no doubt, that brat was Yūji.
" Is anyone there? " Hearing his silence and stupidity bothered me quite a bit, it was annoying; perhaps those sorcerers only changed his appearance.
Oh… maybe Yūji is already dead, and by having a soul as strong as mine, his soul reincarnated along with my essence.
Possibly it is that part.
" Who are you? " Hearing him speak again made me give a slight smile.
" Can't you recognize me? How strange, how unprecedented… " I began to feel out my territory, without rising from my throne, analyzing the appearance of this Yūji, or this brat with no awareness of anything.
Red hair, red eyes with lilac tints, and he has the same marks under his eyes.
So it is true, this brat cannot let me out, I am locked in his soul.
Although his appearance changed, his eye style and some of his features remained the same.
This brat is not Yūji, but his soul is the same.
" I, no… I don't recognize any of this; I think I'm dreaming very strangely " I got up to stare at him intently.
" HAHA! Don't lie to me, brat! That is undoubtedly a good joke you have pulled for a long time! Despite dying at my hands on that occasion, now you behave like an ignoramus! How… pathetic " I continued to feel out; I know that when a soul reincarnates, its memories may reactivate, it only has to spend more time with me and experience it.
I will have to force him to remember in order to take possession of his body, because otherwise I couldn't; it is as if something were blocking me from his area.
" I… really, I don't know who you are… I can't remember " I got up to stare at him intently.
" HAHA! Don't lie to me, brat! That is undoubtedly a good joke you have pulled for a long time! Despite dying at my hands on that occasion, now you behave like an ignoramus! How… pathetic " I continued to feel out; I know that when a soul reincarnates, its memories may reactivate—it only has to spend more time with me and experience it.
I will have to force him to remember in order to take possession of his body, because otherwise I couldn't; it is as if something were blocking me from his area.
" I… really, I don't know who you are… I can't remember " I looked at his personality; this brat is so… pathetic and weak, nothing compared to when I knew Yūji; Yūji is someone so cheerful and full of determination, even though he was in front of me, his screams in my face amused me; even though I vented on him, he was a good source of entertainment.
Just seeing him made me nauseous, because this brat in front of me behaved exactly as I did when I was human.
Pathetic and weak.
I expect nothing more; this brat will never remember, if even looking at me does not unlock his memories, then I will have to extract him from here, piercing through his body as I crouched to be face to face with him. Since this Yūji was just like the previous one, with those characteristics I described, only that I was bigger than him.
" You are so pathetic that I pity you, get out of my home, brat, you are not fun " was all that I whispered to him.
It is the first expression that I like, seeing him look at me with fear, as if it were death itself coming to harvest his soul.
He disappeared from my soul, and I was left alone again; I looked at the blood that remained on my hand.
...
And I was left alone once again; I have noticed something strange here.
There was a moment when that brat no longer resembled what I knew of him; now he was in his true form, the palpable emotion on my face.
Have his memories awakened?
" Finally your subconscious has awakened, finally! Now with this, all my power returns to me, haha! " is the only thing I could think of to regain my transformation in my body; I was very excited, that weak and pathetic boy who trembled before me was no more; once again I saw that brilliance that I could never extinguish from Yūji, his serious face and his determination ignited within me the glow and the constant malice that I could never quench.
With a leap, I reached in front of him, excited.
" I don't care if you obtain all your power, because just as you obtain it, I do too… haven't you realized something, Sukuna? " Hearing him so seriously made me miss him; it was clear that I understood the first thing: our souls are fused, if he obtains something, I will obtain it; if I obtain something, he will obtain it.
" I am sure that you are still the perfect vessel for my return, brat " I said this with a huge smile on my face; talking with him felt like the good old days, that brat did indeed change a lot, and having someone to talk to is refreshing.
" You may have reincarnated again in Japan, but you still have my soul within you, which gives me the possibility of returning to life and to plague with death and beautiful, heart-wrenching chants from the people " I resumed speaking upon noticing the seriousness of the brat; it is what I assumed had happened, this new Yūji still has features as I remember, but his overall appearance has changed, and since I have not been able to see anything outside, I must suppose that we are both of an older age, and that the brat truly died in his fight with me.
" You are mistaken, Sukuna, your soul is now also part of my soul; you will never be able to possess my body again… because we are no longer in Japan, nor in the world you had known " that surprised me; my smile wavered as I clenched my hands, although it is clear that we are no longer in a place we had ever known, after a long time, everything can change!
Well, it is the first time that Yūji reincarnates; mine is the second time, nothing that cannot be controlled.
" Brat, but still, you have placed yourself in the position for me to kill your soul and possess your body, be a good vessel and die as miserably as before " I no longer wanted to speak further; it was a pleasant encounter, but now I was preparing to launch my favorite technique, even though I enjoyed close combat more, I wanted to put an end to all this theater and take over Yūji's body once more.
But I stopped when I saw that this brat, both he and I were surprised, that from his back, multiple chains burst forth and all headed toward me! I felt them immobilize me perfectly, and when I tried to move to get rid of them, they only tightened with more force, making me clench my jaw; I looked at the brat with fury, "has he been born into a new family of sorcerers!?"
" What the hell is this? An innate technique? " I reproached him, but he too seemed surprised.
" Th-this… damned shit, is taking my cursed energy " Although once again, when I tried to use dismantling, these damned golden chains were absorbing my CE at an enormous speed! This brat has a very dangerous innate technique for curses and sorcerers.
" If you don't believe me, I can still feel pity for you; I will let you watch by my side, as you did before; after all, I am you, and you are me; from now on, every soul of mine that reincarnates and transmigrates from body to body, you will too " I looked at him, kneeling on the ground, as I looked up.
That damned brat was looking down, just to manage to see me.
I clenched my hands with more anger as I observed him; the inner rage only made me feel even more uneasy.
But it seems that I will have to keep my pride for a few moments.
" You are so pathetic that I pity you, get out of my home, brat, you are not fun " was all that I whispered to him.
It is the first expression that I like, seeing him look at me with fear, as if it were death itself coming to harvest his soul.
He disappeared from my soul, and I was left alone again; I looked at the blood that remained on my hand.
...
The brat finally let me out of my soul area; unlike before, I do not have the power to manipulate his body at will, my mouth did not materialize; I could only open the eyes that were sealed beneath his.
This area was strange, very strange for me.
When I discovered that we were not really in Japan, indeed, we were not in Japan, we were not in our world.
I really do not care if we reincarnate in another place; the only good thing about this is that we have our cursed energy intact, and from what I have seen, in Yūji's soul area there is something that troubled me.
Floating mirrors and floating platforms, an empty coliseum, and white cubes and… infinite. Some cubes as well, each of which had blue eyes, those damned eyes… blue just like the sky that was present in both areas.
Those cubes, similar to the kingdom's prison, as if they had their own consciousness; when they appeared near Yūji's soul to do something, they stared at me intently, waiting for me to enter, or dare to do something.
That brat has received a fragment of Gojo Satoru's soul, and that is why cursed energy increased beyond what we already had.
His soul, which was once empty, now had things that Gojo Satoru's soul would have.
It is as if he had an extra protection; I will not be able to interact with his soul now.
But I tried not to pay attention to that area, and I focused on the new things here.
In this world, there existed other energies.
Chakra.
When Yūji began to handle chakra, that is when I finally had access to it; at the first contact, my enormous smile was evident, the tattoos I had, and that had changed a bit, now became thicker and elongated; manipulating chakra and breaking it down is something that I will enjoy immensely.
The brat did not have very good knowledge, but when things about chakra were explained or when doing jutsus as they said, I interacted more with this energy.
I have noticed that cursed energy and chakra do not merge in a single being; even I, who touch chakra, find that this energy is violent with me, it has corroded me in an instant, but despite it destroying me, I could not remove my glorious smile.
Playing with the energy of chakra, if only I had used it when fighting all the sorcerers, everything would have been so easy to manage.
Although they have told Yūji that chakra is not molded by making gestures, I have noticed the differences.
Yes, it is not molded in different ways if you want to change the nature of chakra; chakra is only pure energy, and for filthy humans to handle it and use it in that manner is a waste.
As a curse, I do not need to adhere to their techniques.
I have noticed that I can move chakra just as I do with cursed energy; unlike CE, it is much easier, more fickle, although Yūji has an abundance of chakra, thanks to my help in dominating chakra in his stead.
Yūji easily learned to manage and shape chakra, because I did him that favor.
It is preferable that he improves his body and takes good care of it until he decides to go out and play for a while.
The handling of chakra was quite simple, although because of that I ended up without my body multiple times; I tried to change its nature, but it is difficult to do so, something prevented me.
I tried to use my CE in combination with chakra, but it is such a unique repulsion that I have never seen; chakra and cursed energy do not get along, it is something so horrible that even I felt threatened.
But I never gave up.
By handling chakra and trying to break it down, I have noticed that my appearance was once again beginning to change; my deformed face that once looked like a piece of a mask was now united with my skin, and my hair grew so long that it made me miss it.
I have discovered something: that brat, when he uses the six eyes, when I look alongside him to see what he sees, he has not realized this, but I did.
Cursed energy and chakra merge into one and couple in harmony through another mysterious energy; this energy is everywhere, in the sky, in the earth, in nature, everywhere.
But this idiotic brat does not realize it and cannot sustain it.
That is the only thing we need for cursed energy and chakra to form a new system of power, one in which everyone will be able to kneel at our feet and rule this new world.
But this brat is so idiotic that when I try to persuade him, he only insults and ignores me.
I have also seen the area effect it has when CE and chakra are combined; the brat, with a cursed technique he once wielded, blood manipulation, was born with it in this new body, so he can use chakra and CE without depending on that mysterious energy.
It's a pity that he can only use it for a few moments, but in those moments he can easily kill what would take me days; so many deaths in a few moments is incredible, but this brat limited his use and barely managed them.
The world here is so chaotic and death is so easy; if I had been born here first and not in the world I know, I believe I would have been someone very happy.
To see death, and everyone happy about that death, is a hidden glory within me.
This brat is so weak that he only cries and feels bad about it.
He is getting many friends, many acquaintances, a lot of family.
The first time I met the man with orange hair, something was drawing me in; it was those eyes, I only knew the bearer of the six eyes.
But those eyes that that orange-haired man had made me desire more.
Again, my desire for power and to be king once more was calling me; my nature did not change, if only I had those eyes, everything could be possible; the mastery of chakra at which I have so often failed, my instinct told me that everything could change if I had them.
But Yūji refused me, and sometimes he did not let me out; he kept me locked inside my soul area.
He hasn't said it, but he sees that lilac film and that man with curious eyes like his parents. I say this because in his soul now there were small images of them as portraits, alongside the other weak humans.
How pathetic.
Yūji is once again beginning to believe that he will have an easy life.
It is so pathetic.
I will only have to remain here, waiting for something fun to happen. Because everything Yūji does, I only watched from time to time through his own eyes.
Sitting on my throne for when it is time for my own personal entrance.
...
How fun.
This is so incredible and wonderful.
After a long wait, of eight damned years, finally everything is starting to become fun.
Yūji was suffering, and a person appeared who, due to so much cursed energy around him, is powerful; he has surpassed Yūji in technique and control! So much experience only made my body boil.
I am excited, longing to be let out.
I had tried in all these years to escape and take control of the body, but Yūji's soul was unbreakable, and whenever he did, he would bind me with those chains; it was as if his subconscious knew that I had been plotting an attack on his soul, and all those damned blue eyes watched me, as if they had a life of their own.
Now, watching that man's fight with Yūji, if Yūji did not care about those stupid humans, he would have managed to win so easily, having so much power, the six eyes; if he only delivered a blow with a purple strike combined with chakra, he would devour the entire damned forest.
But Yūji is still so… human.
I like that man.
He knows how to threaten and have a plan through another plan.
I squeezed some skulls that were in my area.
" Come on! Knock out Yūji! If you do it, finally, I will have the freedom I have been waiting for all this time; I will thank you in person by killing you, come on " he whispered ecstatically as he saw how they had cornered Yūji, with one threatening the life of his companion and another having captured his sister.
It was clear that Yūji, with all his suffering, decided to go for his sister.
But when he did, Yūji, blinded by rage and anger, remains human; it is so pitiful.
That man, who looked more like a snake, attacked Yūji from behind; he would have managed to dodge him, but Yūji is so naive and never guards his back.
That man bit his neck, and when he did,
I understood Yūji; I have felt this kind of pain only because I manipulate cursed energy and chakra. My body, being basically cursed energy.
But this time, it is very different.
This…
What he did to Yūji contains this kind of energy! Yes, this is all we needed! That snake-like man injected something into Yūji that contains that unknown energy!
The balance of power! Yūji's soul is undergoing a mutation; both my soul space and his are trembling terribly, possibly because Yūji is in a state of mutation, his own body cannot withstand the cursed energy and chakra that are merging with the help of that energy.
Both are forming a new energy with that which the man did. Although it is possible that they will not finish fusing, since even though he did something to Yūji, I cannot detect more of that third unknown energy.
But I saw something strange; that same man appeared in fragments before me, I showed for the first time that I am here, with a trace of surprise.
Could it be that an inferior being is entering the palace of this king?
" This place, it is the first time I see a soul like this; every place I enter is dark and empty " I heard the voice of that man, it is raspy and in no way resembles how Yūji fought.
I don't care, it is weak, very weak; there's no point in fighting because this soul fragment is just that, it cannot execute anything; it is a shell.
" Thanks to you, for giving me this offering, I will not waste your soul; everything you have to offer me, I will gladly accept it " I spoke amidst small laughs, savoring the new experience of his chakra, and if he had unique techniques imbued in that small fragment of his being, I got up and, at my unique speed, I arrived behind him; I was too fast, after all.
This is my domain.
And in a moment, I used my powerful technique, the "cut that cuts the world" that small soul fragment disappeared in an instant, I command within my soul that any inferior being who dares to enter without invitation, they are so greedy.
That repulsive human fell to the ground; he didn't even have time to react to the overwhelming force of my technique, and instantly I took small fragments of his body.
At first, I analyzed its strange texture, white skin, small scales, that is what I could see, but I did not care, immediately, I put that piece of meat with blood into my mouth, tender meat that I had missed for a long time, which disintegrated upon contact with my molars.
It has a flavor so profound that it delights me; its wickedness surpassed what I imagined from a human being, it is so delicious.
And as soon as I finished eating it, I felt that I was being filled with that unknown energy, that energy mutating my body; I believe I had grown a little more, my complexion became somewhat paler, more than it already was; in my muscles, I conceived a few techniques, not all, after all, this soul shell only had little knowledge, it was like a backup life.
How interesting, the only thing it could provide me was the third synergy and some weak techniques. A pity.
" This is delicious, now I just want to play with him for a moment " I licked my lips, feeling powerful and with pleasant strength; I looked outside, Yūji was still agonizing, his body, which I had noticed was unique, was mutating and dying multiple times; within him, aside from having eliminated that parasite, our soul still trembled.
I think it's time.
I saw how Yūji fell into his unique soul space, fainted, but before falling he glanced at me out of the corner of his eye.
And I simply smiled at him as if he had entrusted his entire being to me.
" Sleep well, Yūji "
That space of eyes, mirrors, and floating places trapped Yūji; now that Yūji is asleep, I can exercise dominion over his being.
Forcing those very objects to imprison Yūji until I finish having fun.
It is time for me to go out and finally dominate this place.
Where I must demonstrate to everyone what it meant to be a king.
I want, besides that person, to find more with whom I can play; I will have a lot of fun with this man. And with anyone who dares to oppose me.
I closed my eyes, and let my soul connect with our body.
Everything is ready for me.
Because the king will awaken once more.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
[This is a bit of context on how Sukuna fused and everything Sukuna thought about what he had with Yūji; I also implemented a bit of fanon backstory for Sukuna since we really do not know his past, so I hope it does not bother you
Illustrations of today!
— Images]
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.