Chapter 117 – 105: There Are Ways to Invite Death
“Domain Expansion · Auto-reclusion and Round Perfection!”
The dark giant hand submerged everyone, and when they came back to their senses, everything around had turned dark. Chains formed by intertwined arms faintly visible surrounded them at the center.
Ahead of them stood Mahito, stepping on the palms of opened hands, with a gentle smile as he gazed at the few people before him.
“Thank you, nameless jujutsu sorcerer.” Mahito spread his arms wide, seemingly wanting to embrace Lin Qi.
He gently pressed his palms together: “Boundless Transformation…”
Lin Qi sighed helplessly: “You’re really courting death aren’t you?”
Suddenly, Mahito sensed an extremely violent soul aura, his eyes flashing red; the scene created by the realm of birth had vanished and was replaced by a world constructed from mountains of corpses and oceans of blood.
The sudden change in scene left Mahito rooted to the spot.
“You actually touched my soul, dare you not?”
A deep, magnetic voice echoed above, prompting Mahito to look up with widened eyes, staring at the man seated on the Bone Throne made of countless bones.
“Where is this!?”
Yuuji Itadori reacted immediately, looking up at the white bone throne; the man resembling him but with eyes and black patterns all over his face.
“Sukuna!”
This blood-red world, Yukinoshita Yukino had been here before, albeit the former owner of the world then was Lin Qi instead of Sukuna.
“This time, considering you dragged these people in, I’ll let you off for now.”
Sukuna smiled maliciously before fixing his gaze on Lin Qi who still looked casual: “Well, if it isn’t my counterfeit.”
After losing to Lin Qi during their battle in the juvenile facility, Sukuna had been thinking about the existence of Lin Qi for some time.
Not only did Lin Qi share the same curse energy as him, even his techniques were identical. Besides his appearance, Lin Qi seemed like another version of himself in this world.
Clearly, having another ‘himself’ existing in the world is impossible; Sukuna had no offspring in his lifetime and inheritance through techniques was therefore eliminated.
So, there was only one answer left, Lin Qi must have somehow stolen his power and techniques just like how he had stolen Fushiguro Megumi’s Ten Forms Shadow Technique.
It’s a legitimate fake.
“You seem excited.” Lin Qi grinned, “Did feeding you a finger make you think you’re invincible?”
“You might get away with it, but your students are all under my attack. Can you guarantee you can save them all?”
Their conversation almost fried Masamune’s CPU.
What situation is this?
Is this person’s strength on par with Sukuna’s?
Why call him a fake… So his techniques are indeed like Sukuna’s slashing technique?
Doubts swarmed his mind, but he felt unable to meddle in this conversation. The pressure and presence from the man seated high atop the Bone Throne were overwhelmingly intense.
Under that aura, thoughts were frozen, making it hard for him to even think.
Hearing Sukuna’s threat towards Lin Qi, the black-haired girl behind Lin Qi immediately displayed her worry, lifting her hand and slightly pulling his sleeve: “Mr. Lin Qi…”
“It’s fine, don’t be afraid.” Lin Qi comforted, sensing Yukinoshita’s concern.
Sukuna’s threat was indeed effective since they were standing within his realm of birth. Even though Lin Qi could counter by deploying a domain, doing so required time, leaving them vulnerable to Sukuna’s attacks.
Still, the youth with the black hair kept a carefree smile, unconcerned about Sukuna’s threats.
His confidence stemmed from an earlier system prompt.
Detected foreign force invading host’s soul, exterminate?
Hence, the reason why he deemed Mahito’s deployment of domains as him courting death.
Since understanding the system’s existence, Lin Qi discovered that its protection over the host’s soul was extremely strong, even issuing warnings when he attempted to forcefully take over Yukinoshita’s body.
Although the warning had no effect on him, it hinted at the importance the system placed on protecting souls.
Lin Qi speculated that the system likely also relied on his own soul.
First, send out everyone aside from Sukuna and Masamune. Lin Qi ordered.
Understood.
Shortly after, Yukinoshita and two others suddenly felt a repelling force, without giving them much time to react, the next moment they found themselves back inside a dilapidated house.
“A! We came out!” Yuuji exclaimed.
“What’s going on?” Junpei Yoshino wondered aloud, somewhat confused with his understanding of the jujutsu world being slightly higher than Yuuji’s—being completely immobilized with fear when dragged into the domain.
In front of them, Masamune’s domain still existed. From the outside, it appeared as a completely black barrier similar to a curtain.
“What should we do now? We’ve escaped but Mr. Lin Qi is still inside!”
Yuuji swiftly reacted, rushing towards Masamune’s domain and pounding repeatedly against the boundary, trying to break it apart.
“Stop wasting effort, Yuuji. Mr. Lin Qi has already sent us out,” sighed Yukinoshita. “Do you think he needs our rescue?”
If it were the case, that would be ideal, yet reality resulted in him rescuing him again…
“Huh? Is it really nine?” Yuuji paused awkwardly, then replied, “Yeah, I was too hasty.”
“For now, let’s rest and wait for Mr. Lin Qi to come out from there.”
The black-haired girl sat down in a relatively clean spot, starting to rest her eyes.
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放学，然后成为咒术师：
After school, then become a jujutsu sorcerer.
