The Area was gloomy as the rain began to pour down from the dark clouds from above.
"Our window verified the cursed womb three hours ago. Once 90% were successfully evacuated, they made the call to seal off the center. Citizens within a 500 meter radius have been evacuated as well."
An older man said this with a serious look on his face, "Um Mr. Ijichi, question. What's a window here?" Izuku asked the now named Ijichi.
"A windows, is a member of Jujutsu High who can see curses. They aren't sorcerers though" Ijichi explained to Izuku who nodded his head.
"Alright let's continue, Detainee block 2. At present , five Detainees remain there with the cursed womb. If the cursed womb is the type that metamorphosis, we predict it will become a special grade cursed spirit" Ijichi said.
'Special Grade....' both Fushiguro and Nobara thought.
"So normally, a jujustu sorcerer will be assigned to a curse of similar grade?" Izuku asked.
"That's right and Gojo-sensei would be dialed in today for this" Fushiguro said while having a slight headache which Izuku saw.
"I feel like there's a but in this" Izuku said with Fushiguro sighing while saying Gojo was on a Business trip and this made Izuku sweatdrop from that.
"To be honest he's probably not someone who should be wasting time at a place like Jujutsu High." Fushiguro said
"Unfortunately, we're constantly short-handed in this business. You'll often have to undertake missions beyond your power. The current case, however, is an abnormal one, and most urgent. Do not fight under any circumstances. If you encounter a special-grade, your options are either to run or die." Ijichi stated with Izuku and Nobara were both shocked by these words.
"I'm sorry...but Just listen to your fears, Do not forget that your mission here is strictly the verification and rescue of survivors" Ijichi said.
Suddenly a random women from the crowd begins to cause a fuss, "Excuse me! Excuse me, where's Tadashi?!" The woman asked.
"Stop! Stay Back!" A man stated while blocking the woman path.
"Is Tadashi... Is my son Tadashi ok?!" She asked with tears in her eyes.
Izuku looks at the woman as his eyes begin to water.
"Please calm down!..."
"Hey, stop it!Let go of me!", the woman said as swatted away the hands of the man.
"Please stay back! It's dangerous!"
"Just Let me through!"
Ijichi saw the commotion and let's out a sigh, "She's a guardian who was here to visit. Please step away. There's a possibility that someone has spread poisonous gas throughout the center. We cannot share anymore details at this time."
"No...", She said with a tremble as She begins to break down and begin to cry.
"Why? Why is this happening?!"
As Izuku saw this, he begins to get serious, "Fushiguro, Kugisaki.We're gonna save them!"
"Of course we are." Nobara simply said.
And with that, the trio then began to make their way inside the detention center but they were stopped by Ijichi.
"Be careful.I'll put up my veil.
Emerge from darkness, blacker than darkness.Purify that which is impure."
As the chant was said, A black sludge begins to form in the sky and expand which made Izuku being amazed, "Woah, it looks like it's nighttime"
"It's a veil.There's a residential area nearby, so this barrier conceals us from the outside world." Fushigoro said towards Izuku who nods his head.
"Ignorant" Nobara said which was directed towards Izuku who stared towards the girl.
"Hey don't give me that look, Perv!"
Which made Izuku sigh while looking away missing the slight pink that dawned Nobara's face.
Fushiguro then performs a hand sign, "Gyokuken!" As soon as he said that, A white dog emerges from Fushiguro's shadow and howls.
"He'll let us know if the curse is gets close."
"Oh, I see!" Izuku said as he kneeled down towards the white dog and started petting.
"Good boy, good boy! We're counting on you, okay?" Izuku said with a smile on his face.
The door to the detention block then opens, "Alright, let's go" Megumi said as the trio began to through the detention block.
But suddenly, Megumi told the others to stop and as that was said along with the sudden halt, they observed the detention block to be distorted with several buildings merged together.
"What is this?" Nobara questioned.
Izuku narrowed his eyes at the situation, "...Isn't this a two story dorm?" Izuku asked with Nobara saying that they should calm down while saying that its a maisonette.
'No, it's not, It's the deployment of an innate domain due to cursed energy, it's my first time seeing one this big.' Fushiguro thought but then he suddenly realized something was wrong.
"Where's the door?!" He yelled out which made the trio to see that the door was gone.
'Well that's just dandy' Izuku thought.
'My my, so how are you and your minions gonna get out of here, brat' Sukuna said within Izuku's mind, but all he got was silence from the boy which only made him laugh.
"How?! We just came in through here, didn't we?!" Nobara yelled out while grabbing Izuku by the arm.
"Huh, what are yo-!?"
Before Izuku could finish what he was gonna say, he got pulled by the girl.
"What do we do? Ah, what do we do about this?" Nobara saying this while doing a little dance with Izuku simply being the one getting pulled in but he didn't fight it since he can tell the girl infront of him will hit him with her hammer.
"It will be fine, The dog remembers the scent of the entrance." As Fushiguro said that Nobara stopped her little dance and let go of Izuku's arms and started petting the dog which it enjoyed since its tail was wagging happily.
"Good boy! Have some jerky!Have all the jerky you want!" She said while Izuku was trying not laugh with Fushiguro being irritated by the behavior.
"You are way too calm!" Fushiguro said while Izuku placed a hand on his shoulder,"You really are dependable, Fushiguro.Thanks to you, we'll be able to rescue the people and save ourselves, too" Izuku said this while smiling which caused Fushiguro to be silent for a second.
"Let's keep moving" He said this while having a small smile on his face.
A few minutes went by and they make their way through the detention block walking through the vast corridors until... they stumble on three corpses.
Izuku rushes towards the corpses and was in shock at the state of them.
"Atrocious." Nobara said trying not to feel sick at the sight.
"That's... three people, right?" Megumi asked.
Izuku grabs the shirt of the body to look at the name tag, bearing the name, Okazaki Tadashi, remembering the words of the lady outside
'Is Tadashi... Is my son Tadashi ok?!'
Izuku's hair covered his eyes, "Let's take this body back."
This got Nobara confused at the words that came from Izuku.
"It's that women's son."
"But" Nobara tried to speak but Izuku interrupted her.
"His face isn't to badly mangled.His mother won't accept it if we tell her he's dead, but we don't have a body."
The back of his hoodie was suddenly dragged by Fushiguro, "We have to find and verify two more.Leave that body behind"
"Don't joke around! We turned around, and the way we got in here was gone! We won't be able to come back for it later!" Izuku yelled out.
"I didn't say come back for it!I said leave it behind! I have no intention of risking my own life to save people I had no intention of saving in the first place!" Megumi yelled back which got his collar grabbed by the Izuku.
"No intention of saving him? What do you mean?!"
"This is a juvenile detention center, Jujutsu Sorcerers are granted access to all information about the scene beforehand. This Okazaki Tadashi hit a little girl on her way home from school while driving without a license.It was his second offence of driving without a license, yet he still chose to do it despite the heroes warning him otherwise.I know you're struck on saving lots of people and guiding them to proper deaths.That was your goal before all of this, to be a hero that saves everyone But what are you going to do when someone you saved kills someone else in the future?"Megumi asked with him feeling Izuku's hold on his collar tighten.
" If that's true, Then why did you bother saving me?!" Izuku yelled, but he didn't hear an answer from Megumi.
"Hey the two of you Cut it out! Christ, what are you two doing?!You're both idiots!Think about the time and place if you-"
Before she could finish, she was sunk into the ground with Izuku being a bit to slow to reach out for her.
"Kugisaki!" He yells out.
'No way!Demon Dog should have sensed the curse!' But as he looked towards the wall, he saw the Demon Dog's head sticking out of the wall"
"Izuku!We're running!We'll search for Kugisaki la-" but his words were put to a stop.
Both didn't say a thing, as on the left side of Izuku and the right side of Fushiguro, a curse was seen standing beside them. Snake like in bottom appearance.
'There's no mistaken it,It's a special-grade....damn it, I can't move' Megumi thought.
'Move! Move! Move! Move! Move!' Izuku thought and in that moment, Izuku remembers the words of his Mother, hearing her kind loving tone.
'Help others.'
With a quick motion, Izuku grabs Slaughter Demon and attempts to slash the special-grade but, in a split second, his left hand was sliced off.
"Izuku?"
Izuku simply stares at his severed hand but for some reason...he couldn't feel any pain.
Meanwhile we see Nobara walking through a corridor unknowing of where she was, "Damn it, where am I?It's so dark I can't see a thing."
She suddenly sensed something and gets in a fighting stance, "The Curse's presence!"
She stares at the curse, bearing several faces of morphed babies and eye balls.
"How can there be so many?!" She exclaimed as she got ready.
We cut back to Izuku and Fushiguro, where Izuku grabs the belt from the blade holster.
"I can't escape after it's gotten this close!"
Saying this as he wraps the belt around his severed hand, "Hey Sukuna! How about a little help here!"
But as soon as he said that he suddenly felt a jolt of pain within his mind and Sukuna appeared on his face, "Not happening"
This made Izuku's eyes widen but then heard Sukuna continue, "look brat, even if I'm part of you and you die here you gotta remember that there are eighteen other fragments of my soul...still though, I'm having trouble trying to compile your body...fine then, I'll help you, if you want to switch, go ahead and switch...but once you do, I'll kill that brat before the cursed spirit can!Then I'll go for that woman!She's a lively one so I'll have fun with her."
" I'm not going to let you do that." Izuku said which got Sukuna to laugh.
" I bet but if you're too focused on me, your friends are going to die."
The cursed spirit in front of them charges and fires an attack, causing an explosion in between them, this made Fushiguro's ears to ring at the sight of the attack
'It's not jujutsu, He just unleashed pure cursed energy.' Fushiguro thought while trying to cancel out the ringing from his ears meanwhile the Special-Grade can only laugh at their despair.
Through the ringing, Izuku can be heard saying his name.
"Fushiguro!Fushiguro!Fushiguro!Take Kugisaki and get out of here!I'll keep this one busy until you two are out.As soon as you're out, give me some kind of signal.Once you do... I'll switch with Sukuna."
"You know you can't do that! Not with only one arm against a special-grade!"
"You're right but Look closer.It's having fun.It's obviously toying with us,I can at least by us some time."
But Fushiguro could only refuse what Izuku was saying until Izuku shouted his name and turn towards him, with a calm smile on his face.
" please" Izuku said towards Fushiguro, Who reluctantly nodded his head, even though he hated the thought of leaving his classmates fighting alone against the monster in the front of them.
With that, Fushiguro jumps in the hole caused by the explosion, descending further down in the detention block.
"Nue!"
The shadow emerges from his back forming itself into a bird like creature and Fushiguro begins to run through the corridor.
'Don't die on me, Izuku, Kugisaki!'
He puts his hands together and performs a hand sign, " Gyokuken!"
A black dog then emerges from his shadow, running alongside him, "Find Kugisaki!"
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We cut back to Nobara staring back at the curse, holding one nail in her left hand, " This is my last one.Jeez, I should've brought a lot more with me." She simply said.
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Izuku stands in from of the Cursed Spirit as it rips the cloth from its bottom half revealing its legs.
Izuku laughs a bit, " Trying to say it's easier to move around in your underwear?"
But he started to think, 'What do I do, though? I have no clue how to use cursed energy, But for now, that's fine because I just have to buy ti-'
But his thoughts were interrupted as the cursed spirit fires another cursed energy attack at Izuku, launching him into a wall causing him to cough up a bit.
'What was that? A cursed energy barrier?'
The cursed spirit jumps in the air and fires a point blank attack at Izuku, causing him to fly through the wall.
The cursed spirit towers over him from a distance as it prepares to fire another attack.
Izuku upon seeing this, stands back up and prepares to block the attack, the Result, was His fingers disintegrating from the energy of the attack, even though he perseveres, his mind was going through a lot.
*Ow, ow, ow...**It hurts, it hurts, it hurts! Why am I...**If only I hadn't picked up that finger back then...**If I hadn't eaten it...**If only...**If only...**Stop!**Don't think!**No! No!**I want to run! I want to run! I want to run!**I don't want to die!**If I died here...**If I actually died...**Would that be a proper death?!*
Don't think!!
The force of the attack pushes him and in that moment, all he hears... are the words of his Mother.
'Help others.'
*Have I...**Gotten so weak?*
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Meanwhile We cut back to Nobara, who was seemingly hanging upside down, staring at the face of the curse, "I know your face now. I swear I'll curse you!" She yelled out as the curse lifts her in the air and prepares to eat her with her having a face of disgust.
Until she was grabbed away from the curse and the curse holding her before was bitten by a large snake, then a cursed frog was seen that grabbed Nobara and places her in its mouth.
"We're escaping, Kugisaki!" Fushiguro says.
"You know, I hate frogs"
"Well that's too damn bad!"
Back with Izuku, the Special-Grade makes a triumphant landing standing in front of the blooded and beaten Izuku who simply felt broken! "I was so full of myself,I thought I was strong,I thought I was at least strong enough to choose when I died...But I guess I was wrong." Saying this as he stares at his hand, the fingers having disintegrated off.
"I'm weak!" He yells out as he stands up from his crouched position, "I'm far too weak!Augh, I don't want to die!No! No way!" He continued with a desperate tone in his voice.
He begins to have flashes appear in his mind, "I want to prove that I can make a difference! I want to continue living so that I can hang out with those who I call my friends!...but... I'm going to die!"
Tears begin to flow down his face.
'A proper death? Yeah right! Why do I have to be so naïve!'
He thought as he begins to remember the words of Principal Yaga, [Jujutsu sorcerers never die without regret.]
'...Still, I want to be able to say that my death was a proper one....So all the hate, fear, regret...Let it all out...And put it in your fist!'
His fist begins to emanate a red glow as he let's out a roar amd rushes towards the Special-Grade and readies an attack.
But as the attack makes contact and the ground begins to break apart...his fist was caught by the special-grade, who can only laugh at the feeble attempt from Izuku's attack.
"Damn it!" He cursed out as he stares at the curse, until he hears a howl making his eyes widen.
'That howl...It's Fushiguro's signal...Alright...Sukuna, let's switch'
'Finally'
Izuku begins to display a sinister smile as tattoos begin to appear on his face, this made The Special-Grade upon noticing steps back while Sukuna simply sighed, "What a thoroughly annoying brat...but I gotta give him points for his display earlier although He's obviously screwing with me."
Saying this as He walks towards the curse and places a hand on his shoulder, "Hold on a moment. I'm thinking right now...I wonder on what I can do to make that brat regret this?"
'If I went after him, the brat would just switch back right beforehand,So the thing that would cause him the most trouble...Is probably this.I'll put things back the way they were.' While thinking he walks away from the Special-Grade.
"Hey, lets go kill some kids"
The curse jumps back As Sukuna's fingers begin to regenerate, he motions his finger for the curse to follow him.
The Special-Grade, concerned for its own safety, begins to charge an attack, this annoyed Sukuna as he turns back to see the Special grade fire his attack which made him regenerate the other hand completely and block the attack with ease.
"Ah, shit. I healed this one, too."
The Special-Grade was shocked at it's attack being blocked.
" You don't like walks? Well, cursed spirits are usually suppose to stay where they're born.Fine, fine. In that case..."
Sukuna seemingly disappears from the Special-Grades sight.
" You die here!"
Saying this as he slams the curse onto the ground, "Oh? What's the matter?You're not finished already, are you?" He said mockingly which made the Special-Grade to give him a face of anger.
"That's it. Come on, try harder."
Sukuna then slams his foot onto the Special-Grade, causing the floor beneath them to shatter, While they were falling, the Special-Grade grabs onto Sukuna's leg, "Even a cursed spirit...would miss their arm, right?" As he said this while waving the Special-Grades arm that it made it cough up blood as the Special-Grade gets submerged into the water and the rubble.
We cut back outside with Fushiguro.
"Please expand the evacuation area to ten kilometers."
"What about you?" Ijichi asked.
"I'm waiting here for Izuku to return." Megumi answered.
"I see, After I take Kugisaki to the hospital, I'll return as quickly as possible." but Megumi simply shook his head at what Ijichi said.
"No, there wouldn't be much point in you staying here,If you want to do something, please ask them to send over a sorcerer grade 1 or higher.Not that I imagine any are around.We don't want the heroes catching wind of this."
"I'll do what I can. Later." Ijichi said as he drives off, leaving Megumi there.
'If the worst case happens..It's my responsibility to end him' Megumi thought with tightened fist.
We cut back to Sukuna.
"Hey, did you know? We're both classified as Special-Grade, apparently.Both you and me. Man."
The cursed spirit hangs above, all limbs cut off and ingrained into the wall but the Special-Grade escapes from his captivity and regenerates his limbs.
"Good job, Special-Grade.Keep trying, Keep trying."
The Special-Grade jumps down and does a landing, smirking at Sukuna.
"You look happy.Want me to praise you?But healing with cursed energy isn't that hard for cursed spirits, unlike humans.Neither you nor this brat Really understand What curses truly are, so This is a good opportunity, so I'll show you...what real Jujutsu is."
'Watch carefully...Izuku'
"Domain Expansion"
The sound of a water droplet was heard and then the sound of flowing water was seen circling around with Sukuna being revealed and dawning into different clothing while something was behind him.
"Malevolent Shrine"
As the Special-Grade, upon witnessing the sight of the Domain gets sliced up into several pieces with Sukuna , who simply walks towards the Special-Grade, "I was planning to cut you into three slices, but you're really weak, Oh, yeah, and there's this.
He puts his fingers in the hole in the Special-Grades chest and pulls out the finger inside it, "I'll be taking this."
Saying this as he walks away while the Special-Grade was set on fire, "It's over Kid"
But he got no response,"This sucks! If you're going to switch, just do it already!"
And yet he got no response which made him curious, "Hey What's the matter with you, Izuku?"
And yet no response which caused him to sigh, "of all the days to not talk to me...I guess I should do something while I have a bit of control"
Saying this with a sinister smile on his face.