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-CHAPTER 7-
- FUSHIGURO MEGUMI POV-
I only knew pain, my head was flowing rivers of blood and I was 90% sure that I was going to die.
I guess this is what Karma feels like… I slammed my bat into the faces of the Shikigami before it and now I was getting slammed into the ground until my head probably exploded.
I laughed. I freaking laughed. I guess it was very surprising because the elephant stopped using its trunk to hang me upside down and bring me closer to its eyes.
But I didn't care if it had stopped, I still kept laughing. "I had thought I was some kind of special chosen one or something! Getting reborn after dying! How great I was!" I spit in disgust. "Yeah right. I'm just a kid that's too high on his own success and look where it brought me! Getting pummeled to death by a freaking elephant of all things!" I was honestly just rambling at this point, resigned to my death.
-but I guess the Shikigami thought that I was finished anyway, and also was somehow offended by me(?) as it roared in anger and threw me using its trunk towards a wall which I crashed into.
Crack! "Aagh!" I yelled in pain as something broke on impact.
I coughed blood as I landed on the floor. The Shikigami, sure of its impending victory, just plopped down on the floor relaxedly.
-And that… that just enraged me. "You couldn't have just killed me faster?" I muttered as my head spun and my body began to get cold. But I wouldn't- couldn't die just yet.
I remembered my old mistakes, not letting rage take my sanity but rather used it as a fuel to keep the pain in check, focusing fully on controlling my CE.
Controlling my Cursed Energy….
So with the last of my CE I successfully reinforced my body and stood back up. But despite seeing this, the elephant wasn't threatened at all. Still sitting on the ground calmly.
That just enraged me even more. But one look down showed me why the Shikigami was so relaxed. Both of my arms were twisted and broken in unnatural shapes. There was no way I could use them to even throw a punch, not to mention summon someone.
Is this it? I was lost; despite this last attempt of standing back up, how could I ever hope to defeat it if I couldn't even attack it?
I looked at the shadows beneath my feet, remembering all the struggles I had gone through in the last few hours. Remembering my sister. Even remembering the annoying older brother figure that was Gojo.
Then I remembered what would happen to all of them… Tsumiki forever lost because a 1000 year old evil sorceress takes over her body… Gojo cut in half and killed by The King of Curses…
Wouldn't it be better if I just died? This way Sukuna would never take over my body and maybe Gojo could really defeat him…
But thinking that just felt wrong… like I was the old loser Megumi that would be ready to sacrifice himself for any smallfry… and I just refused to be a loser.
That was when inspiration struck my face. Maybe… That could work… and I may have just the right amount of CE required doing it.
I looked at the elephant. But it all depends on it underestimating me… Which isn't much of an issue I guess…?
I closed my eyes, feeling the shadows around me. Shadows were a minor part of the Ten Shadows Technique. Virtually thought of as only made for utility by basically every past user. But what was the Shadow dimension really? Was it just a plain flat world full of liquid shadows? Might be or might not be.
But I did not think so. And THAT was the point!
How an inherited technique differentiated from generation to generation all depended on the user of that technique! Like how Itadori's Shrine was much different than Sukuna's, the interpretation of a technique solely depended on the user.
Of course that would not change the nature of the technique. Ten Shadows was still just a technique that would summon Shikigami through shadows that were liquid. But what of the Shadow world that I can enter and exit at will?
I can open a portal to it from any shadow… and go anywhere in that world from any shadow…
And what if that world was not flat? After all, it was a scientific fact that flat worlds can't exist. So it has to be a sphere!
Despite being in immense pain, I brought both of my broken hands forward as if holding the hilt of an invisible sword, pointing it towards the elephant, and then holding it upwards. The joining of my hands in such a way made a small shadow inside it… providing the place I could open a small portal with…
And it was a fact that gravity affected all things except for me and my Shikigami in that shadow world. Like what happened with Reggie sinking into the bottom of the abyss…
So what if I opened a portal to the bottom of the abyss, the center of the shadow planet, where the gravity and pressure from the liquid shadows was just too much? So much that it compresses the liquid into solid?
I started putting as much CE as I could into the innate technique grafted into my body and soul, as I charged the attack.
The activation of CE in my hands and the constant buildup of it alerted the elephant that something was happening, and it stood back up charging up the water cannon to attack me.
Fuck! This is taking too much time to charge! But I quickly improvised. "I vow that in exchange for having to utter 'Fuga (Open)' every time I use this technique- the charge time for it should drastically shorten!" I yelled and-
CLICK! Having already charging it for 3 seconds, it finished instantly
As the elephant also finished its charging- fired. "NEIGHH!"
SPLASH! WOOSH!
Looking at my incoming doom, I was focused, narrowing my eyes and muttering. "Fuga (Open)!"
It was like time stopped for a moment before-
BOOOOM!
The roof of the warehouse blew up loudly as a gigantic pillar of pure darkness, one so pure that it lacked cursed energy, escaped my hand, not being able to hold it for long- risking certain doom if I tried to -I brought it down towards the Shikigami-
BOOOOM!
And my vision was filled by the giant pillar of darkness escaping my hand. Cutting, shredding and destroying everything in its path before stopping about 50 meters away and dissipating to reveal… destruction…
Controlled destruction. As everything was perfectly cut wherever the beam had touched. As if it was erased…
And-
CLINK!
I had just tamed my most troublesome Shikigami yet…. And got a super powerful ultimate attack that let me hit a lot above my weight, despite having shit CE reserves, output and control. It was perfect for me.
But I'm gonna die from blood loss so… I don't see how I'm going to come out of this situation alive… not to mention how basically every authority would've been notified already and would be well on their way here… both normal ones and Jujutsu ones…
But I just… I just couldn't stop myself from laughing despite it all. I had just fired a giant laser sword beam-thingy from my fricking hands. And not to mention how delirious I was from all the blood loss. I shrugged. "You know? Who cares?! Fuck those people! If I'm going to die anyway, let's at least try to live!"
And despite the low amounts of CE that I currently had, and the awful and critical state of my body, I wasn't ready to die. So despite what many people would deem as super reckless and suicidal…
I would have to tame another Shikigami. If I wanted to live…
"Round Deer here I come!" I chuckled as I performed the hand signs…
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