Third Person P.O.V.
Tokyo No.1 Colony
This is the place where originally Megumi and Itadori entered to search for Higuruma and get him to add a rule, but this time, the one who entered this colony was Maki.
This was personally arranged by Megumi, thanks to his knowledge of Higuruma's technique. Higuruma's Domain will be useless against her and his closed-ranged fighting style has no chance against Maki.
"But I have no idea where to go…" Maki contemplates after entering the barrier. "Oh, a free fall…" Her face doesn't change even though she finds herself in a strange situation
Then she notices something even weirder, a dude waving some Marshalling Wands, one of those glowing sticks that people use to conduct planes in the airport.
"Does that have something to do with his techniqu-hm?" Her enhanced senses captured something approaching her at high speeds, enough to make her brace herself.
*Bam* *Crash*
A woman with hair like a turbine crashes against Maki, headbutting her stomach and hitting a skyscraper with her back.
"..." But Maki simply looks down on the woman with impassive eyes and puts her in a headlock. "What do you think you are doing?" Her voice sends shivers down the curse user woman's spine.
Entering the building after crashing against a glass wall, Maki puts her feet on the ground for leverage and doesn't budge an inch more even though the woman's turbine appears to be going all out.
"A new rule was recently added… Do you know a guy called Higuruma? The one with 100 points?…" Maki asks very calmly, her strong arms can easily twist the woman's neck or do worse.
"I...I..." The woman is in a state of fright because all of her efforts and struggles to get out of the headlock are proving futile. It's not that she doesn't want to answer Maki's question, it is just that her brain barely registers it amidst her panicked thoughts.
In the next instant, Maki detects another something, or someone, approaching her from the opposite direction.
"What the fuck?" Maki turns her head to see helicopter propellers covering all of the corridors and advancing at her.
At the same time, the woman in her grasp reignites her turbine hair and tries to force her into the propellers "Hahaha! Now you are done for! This is our unavoidable pincer attack!!" The woman looks so sure of herself
"..." But Maki's expression remains unbothered. Beyond the strange situation of fighting two "aviation-types", this whole thing is not worth a raised eyebrow,
*Thuk* *Bam*
Maki simply raises her leg and kicks the center of the propellers without letting go of the woman.
"Aurgh!" The propellers stop, revealing a middle-aged man who falls unconscious on the ground.
"Eh?" *Bam* Maki also slams the woman into the ground, making her lose consciousness too.
Then she disappears from her position and drops off in front of the third individual, the one that was signaling to the flying couple.
"Look, I put them to sleep because they can escape by flying, so I will get a little angry if you can't answer my question and I need to wait for them to wake up…" Maki cracks her knuckles while glaring at the poor guy.
"Hiiiih!" After seeing the other two being dropped like flies, this third one is really scared. "I will say it! I will say it!" He dropped down to his knees and raised his hands high in the air in surrender.
"Higuruma… The guy with 100 points. Where is he?" Maki doesn't ask if he knows where Higuruma is, she asks the question directly, without giving the chance of fake lack of knowledge.
"Higuruma? It must be the guy in Ikebukuro… He made the theater his base of operations." The guy explains quickly "The strong players take resources and the best locations for themselves."
"Hm." It makes sense and Maki is surprised that she found a clue so easily "Lead the way, and I must warn you… Last chance to say the truth, if you lie to me, I will make you eat your own teeth." She threatens.
"I'm telling the truth! I'm telling the truth!" The guy pleads
"Lead the way then."
"Okay, okay… My name is Amai Rin, by the way."
"Who cares about your fucking name? You should be worried about your teeth."
..............
Much like in canon, Amai didn't lie. He leads Maki to the right place and she finds Higuruma easily enough.
He is soaking in a bathtub, with clothes and all.
"Did you ever take a bath with your clothes on?" He asks after noticing someone approaching.
"This is sexual harassment…" Maki deadpans while walking down the stairs.
"Oh, I'm sorry… I didn't notice that you are a woman." Higuruma says in a similar tone.
"Fuck you."
"You can open a case against me now. You have a 99.9% chance of winning…" Higuruma sighs and goes back to looking at the ceiling
"You don't look like a reincarnated sorcerer… So you are a modern person that awakened a Cursed Technique?"
"Sorry, can't talk with you… I would charge 5000 yens for every 30 minutes, but as the accused, I can't represent you." Higuruma continues with the same bored and calm tone of voice.
"I really want to ask for a favor, but if you are not listening I will have to beat you up first." Maki's small amount of patience is already depleting.
"Aw man, just when I started hating working for free." Higuruma sighs while standing up from the bathtub.
He raises his hammer and "Domain Expansion… Deadly Sentencing."
"!" Maki's eyes widen a little while she is surrounded by a courtroom. She is surprised by the fact that this recently awakened sorcerer can already use a Domain Expansion.
She knows that in the next instant… *Puf* The Domain will disappear because it will not find a target.
"Hm? That was not supposed to happen." Higuruma looks a little perplexed, even though his face doesn't show much emotion.
"It's like Hakari, huh?" Maki asks
"..." But her opponent does not understand her
"A technique imbued with a Domain… But it doesn't have a sure-hit effect." She explains "Sorry but there's more to Jujutsu than you think… Like exceptions."
"Oh, I see. For some reason, you can't be affected by my technique." Higuruma catches on fast. "Okay then, let's do this the hard way."
"You are not gonna like this either…" She squares up. "By the way, couldn't you have aimed for this cursed spirit?" She asks, gesticulating to Inventory Curse around her waist.
"A baby can't be prosecuted…" Higuruma answers as a matter of fact.
"?"
After that, the two don't have anything to say to each other and Maki dashes at Higuruma, delivering a powerful kick. But he blocked it by enlarging the handle of his hammer.
But that was not enough to stop him from receiving the impact of the attack and being sent flying to a wall. Fortunately for him, Higuruma is already very proficient in Cursed Energy Manipulation and was able to protect his body from injuries.
Even so, that will not be enough to protect him from Maki. She doesn't even need a weapon, she only plans to subdue him.
It gets a little trickier when Higuruma shows his mastery of his weapon. Exchanging hands, changing shapes in a limited way…
'So it's part of his technique too…' Maki thinks after she tries to put him in a headlock and the hammer goes back to his hand with enough energy to try to poke her eye. "I will need to hurt you a little…"
And she does just that. Disappearing from her spot, she reappeared behind him, a karate chop flying to his neck. But Higuruma twists his upper body enough to try to spear Maki with the ending of his weapon.
She changes targets and bitch slaps his weapon and with minimum movement she moves her leg and kicks him in the stomach. Higuruma doubles over in pain, not expecting such a strong strike from her. He also finds it difficult to predict her movements, like he did with the other sorcerers he fought, because she has no signs of cursed energy.
Even in pain, he tries to counterattack, but Maki is faster. Her hand hitting his neck…
"Chill out… When you wake up, we will talk." It's the last words Higuruma heard while falling unconscious.
......….
"Oyy" *Tap* *Tap* "You slept for 10 minutes already." Maki is not patient enough to wait for long so she started slapping Higuruma's face to wake him up.
The lawyer groans and protests but he finally is aware enough to understand his situation. He is being restrained by a chain, but his hammer is by his side, so it's a very sloppy and casual detainment.
"Now… you are alive. I didn't kill or torture you. I think that should be proof enough that I don't mean any harm…" Maki starts.
"Because you still need me to do something."
"You are smart… You're some kind of lawyer?" She asks, tilting her head.
"I was some kind of lawyer." He says with some strange weight in his voice.
"I'm not interested in your mid-life crisis, dude. Hear me out and then help me…" Maki waves dismissively before starting to explain. "Listen here, dude. As a modern guy, you must understand how this Game is fucked up… I'm with a big group that wants to stop it, but we may need time. So to avoid the Rule 8 punishment, we want you, who already has 100 points to add a rule that allows people to give away their points."
"..." Higuruma listens carefully "Stop it, huh?"
"Yes."
"I really was a lawyer you know… Before all this…" He started but Maki interrupted him
"I really don't wanna listen to your mid-life crisis rant, unless you will add the rule."
"...youngsters these days… Fine." Higuruma sighs "Kogane. Add a rule… A player can transfer any number of points to another." *Pling* With that the small shikigami that accompanies every player appears and does as commanded, taking away 100 of Higuruma's 102 points.
"...That was easy." Maki comments and he releases him from the Thousand Miles Chain.
"Yeah, yeah… If that's all… Bye." Higuruma stands up and starts walking away
"I can at least hear the reason why you agreed so easily…" Maki says while eyeing his back.
"..." Higuruma pauses "Nothing much… I don't have any use for the points… You know, the surplus 2 points that I have come from the judge and prosecutor that I killed before the game…"
"..."
"Your rule is not that bad for me… At least, I don't need to kill anymore." And with those words he walks away.
............…
In the Sendai Colony, Yuta just defeated the top reincarnated sorcerers from there, sparing their lives and getting enough points for more rules.
"Kogane… Add a new rule. Players can leave and enter the colonies freely." He says.
That was an idea of Megumi, remembering the rule that Yorozu added to the game.
They can't stop the game with only the rules, but they can add enough so that they can maneuver more and have more options.
They already know that there are no rules that allow the players to leave permanently without paying a great cost, so they will aim to be the source of all this trouble.
Kenjaku… Now they need to find her.
Unfortunately, Kenjaku is not even in Japan at the moment.
............….
The group of sorcerers from the Jujutsu Schools divided themselves among the many colonies. Their mission was to accumulate points, find allies between the newly awakened sorcerers or reincarnated ones, and obviously look for Kenjaku.
Panda ended up being a tremendously unlucky one who met Kashimo Hajime, one of the strongest among the players.
"Are you saying that Sukuna is dead? Bullshit." Kashimo looms over Panda, his doll-like body all haggard and cut
"I'm telling the truth, Megumi-kun defeated him." Panda doesn't hide anything. He remembers Megumi's comments about Sukuna being a possible target of many old sorcerers.
So he instructed everyone to tell the truth and if they had any problem with that, to go for him.
"And where is this… Megumi?" Kashimo asks
"Outside… He is not participating in the Culling Game… for reasons." Panda is not about to tell him every single detail.
"Now that is a problem… Do I need to win this thing to leave? Or will this Megumi come if I hold you hostage?" Kashimo scratches his head with an annoyed expression "I reincarnated 400 years later to meet the guy and he is dead… How unlucky I am?"
Indeed, unlucky…
"Oy, that was my student that you're bullying…"
"!" To Kashimo's surprise he didn't even notice the presence of the one who spoke before they revealed themselves.
Turning around he sees a woman with long white hair and blue eyes staring at him.
"Gojo-sensei! So you are really safe!" Panda exclaims "I thought Megumi-kun exploded you or something…"
The Strongest Sorcerer of 400 years ago and the Strongest Sorcerer of the Modern Era exchange glances.
Panda is not the only one that had an unlucky meeting.
.............
Tombs of the Star Corridor
"So you're saying that I will get young again if you stamp me with this thing?" Tengen asks in a surprisingly professional voice, even though they are discussing her possible slavery
Megumi. Yuki and Her are seated around a small table, in a small but cozy room. This whole place was built with Tengen's expertise in barriers and using the energy of the Tombs, which is a nexus of cursed energy and the barriers of all of Japan.
"What is the logic behind it?" Yuki asks while eyeing the small dark stamp, rolling it on her hand
"The logic is that you will be able to share many things with me." Megumi answers calmly, even though he is eating the rest of the Death-Paining Cursed Wombs like they are snacks.
At least he is using his secondary mouth, which he is opening in his palm, to eat them.
As expected, he is not gaining any groundbreaking new technique. All of them are blood-based Cursed Techniques and Choso-chan was the best one.
But free things are great.
"It is still surreal…" Yuki comments while holding the stamp.
"Don't stamp yourself carelessly, it's irreversible." Megumi warns, despite himself, he wants to do things the way he wants to do things.
And he wants to seduce Yuki the hard way.
"I can't say more till you are part of my group." Megumi shrugs
"Your harem, you mean." Yuki teases, showing a smirk.
"Meh, depends… I captured Jogo and my brother this way too." He shrugs again and answers calmly "It's all about love, but it can be forced with the Stamp…"
"so you want to add me to your…" Tengen was saying but he interrupts
"...my retinue. You will go back to your prime and stop being a target of Cursed Spirit Manipulation. With that, we will be one step ahead of Kenjaku."
"And what will this entail?" Tenge asks
"Nothing much… If you are hot, I will make you my woman." He answers honestly "Probably gonna make you ally with Gojo to change the Jujutsu World too… It can boost your powers and maybe you will be able to shoot down the Culling Game." He adds the last part after some thought.
"Hmm, this does not sound that bad." Yuki purses her lips in concentration.
"So I will be under your control instead of Kenjaku. What would change?" Tengen asks
"It changes that I don't want to do the Merging. Don't worry, I don't need to abuse your power… I have enough." Megumi answers calmly
"It's something that I need to consider with caution." Tengen says back
Right at this moment Megumi's tone shifts "You are misunderstanding… You kinda don't have a choice." He raises his eyes to look at Tengen
"..."
"Stamp yourself, Tengen." Megumi stares at her with hard eyes "I'm not giving any chance to Kenjaku. Don't worry, it's harmless… It will not be if you force me to do it."
The situation gets tense in this small room in the depths of the Tomb. A fight could break out at any moment.
Tengen would not have any chance, but maybe Yuki can interfere…
A battle between Megumi and Yuki can happen even before Kenjaku appears.
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Tokyo Colony No.1
"..." Maki has the deadpan face of the deadpan faces while staring at Takaba Fumihiko's prancing around like a fool.
After completing her mission she went around to find new people and maybe search for Kenjaku, she ended up finding the group that originally fought Canon Megumi.
And while she was beating them up, Takaba jumped in the middle.
"Don't ya fellas have any shame in teaming up against a girl!??" He shouts heroically while striking a pose "Don't worry, missy. I'm gonna save yo-Eh?" Then he takes a better look around
Maki's opponents are all beaten up, and lying around, some unconscious and others agonizing in pain.
"..."
"..."
The two stare at each other in silence.
"Little Missy, don't you think that you are too rough on your elders??" Takaba finally shouts and points at Maki "Don't worry, fellas! I'm gonna save you!"
"...you changed your speech too fast." Maki deadpans.
"I am an ally of Justice! And Justice is adaptable!!"
"No, it's not."
"Hah! You're a great straight person, girlie! We are gonna get along!"
"Please don't." Why is she always surrounded by weirdos?
.........….
In Colony number 2 of Tokyo, a fight broke out between the strongest of their respective generations.
"There was no Six Eyes, limitless combo user from the Gojo clan in my generation!" Kashimo shouts, a big smile plastered on his face, as he continues to attack.
"Then you have a new experience after a long time, old man." Gojo says cockily while the two fight in close quarters.
Electricity zaps through Kashimo's body as his limbs move so fast that they create afterimages.
Gojo blocks the attacks perfectly, Kashimo is using Domain Amplification so he can touch her.
"Electricity even though you are using Domain Amplification… So you are like Megumi. With cursed energy of a different property." Gojo says after noticing the effects of electricity on her forearms.
Normally, when someone is using Domain Amplification they can't use their Cursed Technique. But when someone like Kashimo or Megumi uses it, it's not a big loss because their raw cursed energy is already somewhat impressive.
"The guy that killed Sukuna, right?" Kashim says back, still showing his big smile "I'm going go after him after I deal with you."
"Oh, Megumi solved the Sukuna problem? Cool… a pity that you are not gonna meet him, ever." Gojo still keeps her calm, but cocky, expression
The two fight using this whole pier. Kashimo zig-zags around the place using his body boosted with electricity, taking advantage of the many obstacles around to try to hide from Gojo's vision and attack from a blindspot.
He knows about the Six Eyes and is trying to work on a countermeasure against it, but he is still underestimating the eyes and the user.
Gojo can clearly see the traces of his cursed energy around the place, her eyes follow Kashimo's route and she can even somewhat predict his next step.
Gojo extends her hand and a blue light shines out, the huge container surrounding them coalesces around Kashimo, crushing itself into a small ball.
The reincarnated sorcerer narrowly escaped being crushed by the Blue attack when a red light engulfed his vision, Gojo was already on his escape route, fingers outstretched on her opponent's face.
*Boom*
The Red hits Kashimo squarely, but the reincarnated sorcerer is still able to put his arms in front of him to brace for the impact.
He was sent flying through dozens and dozens of meters, his back hitting containers and walls, till he finally stopped. His arms bleeding and there are two huge gashes on the ground from where he tried to keep himself from being sent flying, using his feet that are also a little haggard after all that.
"You are strong…" Kashimo breathes heavily but still shows that same excited smile on his face "Were you always like this?"
"Hm? More or less… I had a setback that pushed me forward by a lot, but I was always the strongest." Gojo answers casually.
"I see… And how do you feel about it?"
"Lonely…" Now Gojo sees what kind of talk they are having.
Kashimo Hajime, like her, was also at the top of the Jujutsu World. That is a rare moment for the two…
"You too, huh?" Kashimo laughs "I even went as far as to accept Kenjaku's deal to come to this Era… And you? Did you despair too?" Kashmo shows a knowing smile.
"..." Gojo doesn't like reliving this moment but she answers all the same "Yes." She remembers losing Geto.
"And what did you do afterward?" This interests Kashimo… What would someone do in the same situation?
He was unique in his era. No one to ask for yourself or even have a heart-to-heart talk.
"I decided to raise strong companions." Gojo answers
"! Raise?" Kashimo's eyes widen before he starts to laugh maniacally "Hahahaha! That's so great! It seems that were the strongest pretty early in your life… Too bad I was too old." Kashimo looks at his hands, now rejuvenated because of the reincarnation "Raise, huh? I never thought about that… But given that I wanted strong opponents, it's not weird that I didn't think this way."
"..."
"You are aiming for something greater than self-discovery, right?" Kashimo understands.
They only exchanged some words, but he understood. That's an understanding that only the strongest can have between each other. It was the same with Sukuna and Megumi… It was the same with Gojo and Sukuna in Canon.
"Aaah~ Too bad you are also seeking for an answer." Kashimo sighs, finally showing a somewhat serious expression "I was hoping that Sukuna would have an answer… But this is good enough."
"..."
"Maybe accepting things as they are is the answer… And doing your own thing." Kashimo says cryptically before looking at Gojo "I was saving this for Sukuna, but it will not be a waste to use on you…"
The reincarnated sorcerer raises his hand and makes a handsign, his intentions obvious to anyone.
"Domain Expansion… Lightning Cage."
"Mythical Beast Amber."
Gojo also answers in kind… "Domain Expansion… Infinite Void."
At the same time the Domains clash, Kashimo's body changes into one of living lightning.
The truth is that Kashimo has no necessity for a Domain Expansion, when he activates his technique, his body is capable of moving at the speed of lightning. There's no human on this earth that can evade attacks at a thousand mach, so the sure-hit effect is useless and only a waste of cursed energy, and unnecessary risk,
But against Gojo it's different.
He can't use Mythical Beast Amber with Domain Amplification, so he needs to use the Domain Expansion as a deterrent against Gojo's Infinity.
Kashimo dashes forward, desiring to end Gojo in a swift, but devastating, strike. One good attack of his lightning-like body is all he needs to win this battle.
But he is still underestimating Gojo…
Gojo Satooru is not only strong because of the Six Eyes and Infinity. She is a strong and talented Sorcerer in her own right.
Faster than Kashimo, Infinity Void overwhelms his domain and hits the reincarnated sorcerer, stopping him in his tracks.
Inside the vast and space-like Domain, Kashimo's lightning features were illuminated by a Purple light. Red would be enough, but Gojo is showing respect to her equal from 400 years ago.
"...Purple."
In the battle of the strongest of different generations that occurred in the Colony number 2 of Tokyo… Gojo Satooru wins.
............…
Now back to Colony no.1 of Tokyo.
"Leave me alone, you weirdo!" Maki is running away from Takaba.
"Missy, you have a lot of potential… Come to the good side." Takaba says sagely while pursuing her.
It seems Maki finally found her match… She can't get rid of the comedian, no matter what she tries.
She tried to hit him, stab him, and even bury him in the ground… But he seems immune to everything.
He crawled from the ground like a zombie, ghostly wisp and everything.
She even tried to cut his legs, but her cursed tool was reflected… then he flexed his quads, revealing that he was super muscular beneath that ridiculous costume.
For some reason, he was oiled up and copper, like a bodybuilder.
Now Maki gave up… She doesn't want to get involved with this guy.
At this point, she also noticed that this guy was not a villain… Just a weirdo, so she will not use the Inverted Spear of Heaven against him.
She is also a little afraid of the spear having no effect on him… She doesn't think that she can take that mental damage. She also doesn't want to taint that sacred weapon by using it against this guy.
"I already spared those guys, just leave me alone!" Maki shouts as she speeds on the streets of Tokyo, almost breaking the sound barrier. But Takaba can still keep up with her, for some reason…
'Why do I always meet these weirds?!' She shouts in her heart.
"Nooo! You're perfect for my routine! You can be the straight man!" Takaba shouts while running with a strange form, flailing his arms around and a trail of dust being left behind him.
"No! Find another one! You and Megumi are perfect for each other! Go meet him!" Maki shouts, throwing Megumi under the bus. Her boyfriend can deal with this trouble.
Maki was so stressed that she didn't even notice that she entered an alley without an exit. She is always preparing herself to jump from wall to wall when another voice reaches her ears.
"Did you say… Megumi?"
Maki turns around to see a blonde girl with angel wings landing behind her.
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Author's Note: Hello there.
Let's present the new characters, too bad Megmi is not on the Culling Game but life is made of choices.