The dream about himself wasn't actually a nightmare, but for Itadori, this dream was very strange and even made him feel fear.
In the final moment of the dream, the other person's eyes looked at him and concealed many things he couldn't understand: pity, sadness, hatred, and expectation.
Although Itadori was usually carefree, when it came to moments like this, his remarkable intuition could sense things that ordinary people would find hard to notice.
And now, his intuition told him that for an instant, the other person had thought something.
"If you die right now, it might be for the best."
Thinking this, Itadori felt cold sweat instantly soak his back, and his breathing became rapid.
Moonlight streamed through the window onto Itadori's face, and the sweat from his forehead rolled down his cheeks and fell onto the blanket, allowing him to recover from the shock.
Yuji Itadori looked at the moon outside the window, recalled everything that had just happened, showed disbelief, and said in a daze:
"What the hell... is this?!"
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One day, sixty-eight years later, in a hut on the top of the refugee mothership Rummel's Nova, Yuji Itadori and the boy Rummel Maru stood together before the cursed spirit holy being of Rummel—Karian.
Looking at the alien creature before him, bound by cursed energy, Itadori Yuji found it hard to believe that the other party had actually lived for two thousand years. But now, talking about it was meaningless.
Because it would bring disaster to the entire region and even the entire universe.
Yuji Itadori, who had lived for sixty-eight years, had recently gone to the moon together with the warriors of the Descender tribe and the current head of the Shadow Flow ninja, Yuuta Okkotsu, to challenge a created lifeform called the Black Dragon of Nishida Kagetatsu—Gilbaris.
As for the outcome, Maru wasn't clear. They only knew that in the end, only Yuji Itadori returned from the moon alive.
No one wanted to ask what had happened to Yuji Itadori. Everyone knew it was meaningless. Anyway, Gilbaris would need at least several hundred years to fully recover and begin purifying the entire universe. So what did it matter?
And for Yuji Itadori, all of this should be blamed on him. If it weren't for him, Nishida Kagetatsu wouldn't have been able to defeat an opponent that Nishida Kagetatsu had already defeated.
Now that sixty-eight years had passed, although Gilbaris had only recovered to 12.8%, it was still not something they could defeat after losing Da布拉 and Yuuta Okkotsu. Itadori fully understood that he had lost the only chance to bring back Big Brother Locke.
Perhaps he would never be able to save Locke, trapped in Gilbaris's core. And the entire universe would face the true end after Gilbaris fully recovered.
Just as he was desperately wanting to end it alone, the teenager Rummel Maru proposed a completely new plan.
Use his technique—Chaos Time—to reverse the future.
"Is it really possible, Maru? Can your technique go that far?"
"If you place a binding vow at the cost of your life, you can definitely do it. But I don't know how far it can go, and I don't know how much information I can carry back. But it's already our only way."
"...I'm sorry. I still can't do anything. It's too powerful. Without Big Brother Locke, without Gojo-sensei, whether it's Earth, the galaxy, or even the entire universe, it will be in crisis."
"It's okay, Mr. Itadori. This is no longer an opponent that ordinary living beings can defeat. Neither you nor Dabra could beat this guy. That's why he decided to erase the traces of his own existence to destroy him. If it weren't for that cursed devil Kijuro, if it weren't for that 'Chronicles of the Pacified Demon Realm,' maybe things would have been different."
"If, I mean if, if I release the binding vow of abandoning everything, can I leave as much information about the future as possible in the past, to the past me?"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Itadori. I really don't know. Reversing time is something I've never thought about. I'm not sure how far I can go. I can only do my best. This is what we have to sacrifice our lives for. Without this resolve, we will only face failure."
Yuji Itadori looked up and met the serious eyes of the other person, suddenly understanding.
It turned out they were the same type of people. They had long had nothing, and both were people who had been stripped of everything by fate.
The kindness etched into his bones still made him want to remind.
"Maru, you're different from me. You still have time. You still have a future. You're still young enough."
Before Itadori could finish, Maru sharply interrupted him.
"I know, Mr. Itadori. But this is voluntary. As long as I can change all of this, as long as everyone has their place and can live normal lives... I think that's enough."
The moment their eyes met, they both saw the desperate resolve in each other's eyes. To change everything, they were willing to give up all their firmness.
Seeing this, Itadori completely abandoned the idea of persuading the other person. In his mind, only the dreams of his youth and his grandfather's final wishes remained.
He wanted everyone to experience a proper death, and he wanted to die surrounded by people.
"Then let's begin, Maru. Let's overturn everything."
Turning to the hand offered by the other person, Maru nodded, shook it, and began to activate his technique.
"Let's go, Mr. Itadori. Let's... change the past and overturn the future!"
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At this moment, in the Star Palace.
Tengen was searching for traces of Kenjaku through the national barrier, but for some reason, a sense of foreboding kept haunting her, making her subconsciously look back.
Just as she broke her connection with the barrier and stood up, a small dark spot suddenly appeared beside her. In the next moment, a powerful cursed energy exploded into a vortex, penetrating inward with an overwhelming pressure.
Before Tengen could react, a hand had already reached out from the vortex. Immediately after, a thin old man with three eyes tried to squeeze half of his body out of the vortex of cursed energy. The moment he saw Tengen, a bright light suddenly burst from his eyes, and he shouted loudly:
"Don't search for the 'Chronicles of the Pacified Demon Realm'! The real 'Chronicles of the Pacified Demon Realm' was destroyed by you long ago! Beware of the demon, Kijuro! Don't let the Black Dragon appear in this world!"
But when he saw Tengen staring at him with a blank face, he was instantly overcome with despair and roared:
"Damn... I came too early? But this is the last time, I... there's no time left! Please don't forget, you must not—"
Before the words could fall, the vortex of cursed energy suddenly dissipated before Tengen's eyes, without a trace.
Tengen, realizing what was happening, only had time to use her barrier technique to engrave a few words from the "Chronicles of the Pacified Demon Realm" onto this body, and under the correction of the world, she completely forgot all of it.
"How strange. What just happened? Is there something wrong with my memory?"
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