A/N : I previously uploaded the wrong one but now its fixed, read the previous one then this one
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Luffy waved his hands at the screen, confused as it displayed a word before vanishing, leaving him with a strange new energy flowing through him.
"Hmm, what's this?" Luffy looked down at his hands, which were now coated in black and white cursed energy swirling around them. He kept staring at his hands when suddenly...
"That's cursed energy," a voice said from behind him. The speaker was accompanied by two wolves.
"More monsters! Is that yours? You know, attacking people is bad," Luffy replied, picking his nose and pointing at the low-grade curse behind him.
"That curse isn't mine," Megumi responded, glancing at Luffy. He then looked him over again, confused by the sight of this guy in blue pants, a red shirt, and a straw hat with a dumbfounded expression. 'Who even is this guy...?' Megumi wondered.
"You seem like a newly awakened sorcerer. Step aside, I'll take care of this," Megumi said, glancing at Luffy, who merely shrugged.
Megumi focused on the Grade 1 curse in front of him. "It'll evolve into a Special Grade if we don't stop it from swallowing the finger."
"Huh? You can eat it?" Luffy asked, picking up Sukuna's finger. Without hesitation, he popped it into his mouth and ate it.
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"You idiot! Why did you eat it?!" Megumi shouted, jumping back and putting some distance between them, his eyes wide with alarm.
"Huh? Didn't you say you could eat it? And I was hungry..." Luffy said, confused. Suddenly, he felt something strange happening inside him, his body tingling as the cursed energy started to surge.
Soon, like a Super Saiyan, Luffy's body surged with a black and white aura swirling around him. His face twisted into a menacing grin, his voice deeper and filled with malice. "Bastard, what are you?" the entity inside him growled.
"Who are you?" Luffy asked, confused by the voice inside him.
"I am... NOOO!" the voice screamed before suddenly disappearing.
[Parasite killed. Traveler is free of any parasite.]
"What was that thing again?" Luffy muttered, as suddenly, new knowledge flooded his mind.
"Cleave and Dismantle... and reverse cursed energy manipulation?" Luffy grinned, showing a toothy smile. "Shihihi! Ash was right. This cursed energy stuff can really make me stronger!"
Luffy laughed out loud while Megumi stood frozen, his mouth wide open in shock, wondering what he had just witnessed.
"So, this thing hurts people, right?" Luffy asked as he looked at the Grade 1 curse, which was now trembling in fear. Without much thought, he waved his fingers at the curse. The cursed spirit was slashed into pieces, only to reassemble itself moments later.
"Huh? Why didn't it die?" Luffy asked, scratching his head.
"You can't just blast it apart and expect it to die," Megumi sighed. "You need to either infuse it with higher cursed energy or destroy its core completely," he added, watching in disbelief as Luffy had effortlessly torn the curse apart but failed to finish it off.
Luffy nodded, raising his hands to show the black and white energy swirling in his palms. "You mean this?" he asked, focusing on the cursed energy.
Megumi nodded cautiously, watching Luffy aim at the Grade 1 curse. "M-Machine gun... machine gun punch!" Luffy shouted, unleashing a rapid barrage of cursed energy-infused punches, firing them like a machine gun. The sheer force of Luffy's attack overwhelmed the curse, and it was obliterated on the spot.
[Calibration complete. Traveler's unique cursed technique is awarded.]
Luffy blinked as he realized he had lost "Dismantle" and "Cleave," but instead, he gained something new: "Gearshift."
"Hmm... it makes me shift into higher gears, but it's more complex with this cursed energy stuff," Luffy said, scratching his head, still trying to figure out the concepts of this strange energy.
Megumi looked at him in disbelief, his thoughts racing. Is this... his cursed technique? he wondered, still shocked by how easily Luffy had defeated the curse with an ability he'd just awakened.
"Yo! I'm here!" A third voice suddenly called out, and both Luffy and Megumi turned to see a man standing at the window, grinning widely with a burger in his hand. It was Gojo, who had arrived, seemingly unfazed by the chaos inside.
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"What is this?" Sanji asked, stunned as I watched Luffy eat the thing that made the protagonist special.
Luffy is now the protagonist in this world, isn't he? I thought, feeling a mix of surprise and confusion.
"This is the world of sorcerers," I begin explaining to others, snapping them out of their thoughts. "There are these hidden monsters called 'curses,' and people called sorcerers who deal with them and protect others."
"And now Luffy, after using cursed energy, has basically become a sorcerer," I continued.
Another person chimed in, Vivi, asking, "And what was that finger he ate?"
"That was part of a very powerful curse. Eating it made Luffy even stronger. He's now hosting the energy of Sukuna, the King of Curses," I explained, still processing what I'd just seen.
We all watched intently as Luffy met Gojo, who immediately took an interest in him. Gojo's usual light-hearted demeanor made the situation even stranger as he casually noted that Luffy had eaten Sukuna's finger but hadn't lost control. Luffy, with his same carefree expression, seemed completely unfazed by the fact that he'd consumed a part of the most dangerous curse.
Gojo then invited Luffy to join the sorcerers, testing him briefly, which Luffy agreed to after some consideration--When Gojo offered him food. How will Megumi manage with these two weirdos? I wondered, as they went off and soon met Yuji. The moment was wild—Yuji, like Luffy, possessed tremendous potential after eating one of Sukuna's fingers, don't know how he got another Sukuna finger when it was supposed to be only one at the scene. But unlike Luffy, Yuji was not fully in control as Sukuna could talk to them.
Gojo seemed intrigued by Yuji as well and decided to bring him along, adding another powerful ally to their group. Thus, Luffy was recruited as a Special Grade sorcerer, while Yuji—still learning the ropes—was enrolled as a Grade 1 sorcerer, awaiting the mastery of his cursed technique and Sukuna too.
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