As Akumu was sent flying back into the tree that spawned from out of nowhere he thought, as he felt himself losing consciousness, "Im done. I have no cursed energy left. I was able to escape the last guy's domain thanks to Urushi, but there really is no one who can save us this time. Mabye Hikaru and Yumeno?? Nah there is no way, they would've arrived here first then. I guess this really is it."
As time seemingly began to slow down. Then suddenly Akumus's shadow appeared, standing behind Botan. He then said, "This guy is incredibly weak right now. Even with his domain open, it will probably collapse after a minute or two. But that's still enough time to kill, Urushi, Taori and those two unconscious idiots."
Akumu then said weakly, "If you want to swap, then I'm going to have to refuse."
"Why? You're too weak to take him on.", the shadow asked.
He responded, "That's the reason why. When we fought Mozu I ended up letting you take the reins to save our friends. And even against Haoran, I ended up letting you take the reigns again. My reliance on you is what makes me weak."
Mocking he asked Akumu, "So what are you going to do?? Get beaten up again?? Your friends will die if you don't swap with me."
Confidently Akumu shouted as one last burst of strength welled up inside him, "Right here, right now, IM GOING TO SURPASS MY LIMITS."
As time continued once again, Akumu leapt out of the tree while making a mad dash towards Botan. Seeing this, he shouts, "What can you do with what little Cursed Energy you have?? You and your friends are finished??"
As he said that, Akumu pointed a single finger at him. He then concentrated the last of his Cursed Energy into a compressed Black shot. As he prepared to fire his last attack, he felt a strange sensation in his chest.
As he looked down he saw a large piece of redwood, lodged in between his heart, leaking out blood from the tip. Behind him stood, what looked like a wooden golem that stuck its arm through his back.
Botan guaranteed hit effect, allowed him to spawn wood golem shikigami, which would only exist, the second they made contact with the enemy. Akumu was far too weak to minimise the damage, hence leading to his death.
Taori shouted, "AKUMU NO!", while Uurshi began to sink to his knees as his trauma from Hasashis' death, paralyzed him.
Then as if the light of hope shined in the darkness, a hole in the domain began to form. As it cracked, Taori felt an instant sense, of security and safety when she saw the man that descended from above.
When Botan saw him, however, for the first time since taking the leader position of the Daihatsu, he had felt fear. He shouted in anger, "Why are you here of all places?? Don't you have anywhere else better to be??"
As the figure saw the impaled Akumu, he took off his pitch-black tinted glasses, revealing his sapphire blue eyes. He then said, "You made a great mistake, hurting my comrades like this."
It was Gojo Owari, and he was pissed.
He quickly teleported to Akumu, while destroying the wooden golem, that injured him in one blast. Botan who was shocked shouted, "Your infinity can't save you in my Domain!"
Suddenly a mass of wooden golems suddenly spawned threatening to pierce Akumus' and Owaris' bodies. But in the same millisecond that they did, they were instantaneously destroyed.
Owari then cockily said while looking at him, "Did you really think that you could get me with this loser shit???"
Botan shrunk back in fear as his domain began to break open, revealing the now-ruined Daihatsu clan.
As he quickly tried to run away from the situation, Gojo teleported in front of him while saying, "You people are the scum of Jujutsu society. Because of people like you, so many people have. My sister is barely hanging onto the thread because of you!"
A powerful gravity then began to press onto, Botan. It felt as if several busses filled with bodybuilders were being dropped onto him all at once, instantly dropping him to the floor, while landing on his stomach. As the pressure only increased he began to cough up blood, while struggling to breathe, until eventually passing out.
As he did, Gojo immediately ceased his brutal actions, keeping him barely alive. He then said while scoffing at him, "You're lucky the higher-ups want you alive. Or else I would have killed you here and now."
As he looked down on the man, he quickly teleported back to Akumu, while picking him up on his shoulders.
He then said to Taori and Urushi, "Can you look after him for a bit? Im gonna take Akumu to Jihi real quick. I slowed the bloodless down, but I can't stop it completely unlike her."
He then disappeared just as quickly as he appeared, leaving questions unanswered. How did he find out where they were? Why did he come? What did the higher-ups want with Botan? And most importantly, did he pray today?
A couple of hours later
Akumu once again woke up in that familiar hospital bed. He was covered in bandages. As he sighed in disappointment he tightly gripped the hospital sheets, while shouting, "DAMMIT."
As he did so he finally noticed, Kenji, Omo, Yumeno, and Hikaru who were sitting in their own hospital beds just across him looking at him with a blank expression, while Hagone and Yukiko, sat making apple slices on his bed.
As he realized they all saw this he began to shout embrassingly, while the others laughed as they cringed.
After they all calmed down Akumu asked, "Where are we, and how long has it been?"
Kenji quickly replied, "It's been 2 days since we confronted the Daihatsu. We are also back in Jujutsu Tech."
In a panic, Akumu asked, "What will happen to our holiday??"
Omo quickly replied, "It's going to be cancelled. It turns out that the hotel we were staying at was being run by the Daihatsu as a side hustle. If we stayed there any longer we all probably would have been killed."
Disappointed, he asked, "Do you guys know where Tsushima island is?"
Omo replied, "How did you find out about that place?"
Being cautious about mentioning Senjuro's name he said, "A guy called Grant told me," Akumu replied. "He tried to steal EDEN, but I managed to take it back from him thanks to Urushi. Speaking of where is he?"
Yumeno said, "He and some other girl are under arrest for the crimes they committed while they were in the Daihatsu. They definitely won't be getting off with light sentences, but since they are strong sorcerers, they might be able to work it off if they do some work."
Omo then said, "Tsushima island..., It disappeared of the face of the earth 8 years ago. Nobody knows where it went too. It was there and now it isn't. We sent multiple sorcerers to go find it, but they all returned alive having found nothing."
Akumu didn't believe him. Grant.. that man, Akumu could tell by the way he spoke that he was telling the truth. Otherwise, what would he gain from throwing him on the ghost Island trail?
As if on cue, a man wearing an unzipped, long but thin coat bursted into the room holding a light blue video camera. He had a fade, as well as wore a long scarf that looked like it was made out of analogue film.
He then shouted, "I FINALLY FINISHED FILMING THAT REVENGE MOVIE!!"
In shock, Omo and Taori shouted, "Director Kasumi??"
In a surprise, everyone else shouted, "WHAT?"
He then quickly ran up to Taori at breakneck speeds while shouting, "Our binding vow that we made back then is almost complete! Now that your story has finished, tell how many stars would you give it out of 5!! PLEASE GIVE ME 5. IM A TALENTED DIRECTOR!!!!"
The confused Taori said, "4 I guess?"
As she said that, he began to crawl on the floor in a fetal position while crying tears of happiness, "IM SO GLAD TAORI-TAN GAVE ME 4 STARS!! THIS IS THE FIRST TIME SOMEONE HAS EVER GIVEN ME SO MUCH!!!"
As he quickly reasserted himself, he quickly sprinted over to Akumu while pointing the camera in his face.
He spoke, "I heard that you destroyed EDEN... I thought you might have some value as a side character but your actions have clearly proved me wrong. In my next movie, I absolutely will not have you partake in it."
Akumu only further spiralled into confusion as he thought, "What is this guy on about?? Is he high??"
As he turned the camera away from him, he then stuck it into, Hagone while saying, "You have lots of potential. Even more than that man even. Hes going to love this! I wonder what kind of a movie I could make out of you??"
He then began to jump up and down, in excitedly like a child while shouting, "I'm getting so excited thinking about it already!"
Everyone in the room then thought, "This guy is definitely insane. How did someone like him even become the director??"
As if reading their thoughts he said, "In life, I wanted to be a director... but I found myself applying for the wrong one! But I found so much potential for a great cutscene here, so I decided to stay!"
Kenji then thought, "Was that his attempt at humour??"
As the confusion in the room began to spiral out of control, a platinum blond-haired woman, who wore an unrestrained black straight jacket, with a zip collar that reached past her mouth, barged into the room.
Taori and Omo recognized them as the vice-director just below Katsumi.
Katsumi himself shouted upon seeing her, "WAIT, IM ALMOST DONE-"
As she unzipped her straight jacket revealing the snake and fang symbol, she then said,
"Don't move."
Suddenly a strange sensation erupted in everyone in the room as their bodies all froze. The platinum-haired woman, then grabbed Katsumi by the legs, before dragging him out against his will, never to be seen again for the foreseeable future.
After a minute or 2, everyone was able to relax again. Omo then said "That was Inumaki Akao. She is one of Japans, 8 special grade sorcerers excluding you Akumu. She inherited the signature Cursed Speech of her clan, which allows her to force anyone who listens to her voice to do as she wills. Unless you have more Cursed Energy than her guarding against it is virtually impossible."
Akumu then thought, "How scary. She is almost as terrifying as Gojo."
Hagone then said, "OHHh, you said that you fought Grant right Akumu?? While you guys were gone, me and Yukiko fought a Cursed Spirit that mentioned his name. I think his name was Gluttony?
Excitedly Akumu asks, "Grant said that his title was Pride. They must have been working together then? Tell me more about him."
Hagone responded, "To know the full story, im going to start from the very beginning. It was only 5 days ago, back when we just got back form Russia after the tournament ended..."
Everyone else in the room listened closely while Yukiko left in boredom. She was already there to experience what happened, and did not want to hear it again."