Gojo stood frozen in place, with his usual cockiness nowhere to be found because he was dumbfounded at what he had just heard. His mouth was wide open, trying to process what he'd just heard. The same disbelief was mirrored in Sukuna's face.
Gojo blurted out in a rush between skepticism and excitement, "H-Holy shit! Do you have a system, too?
Sukuna's crimson eyes narrowed, and he instinctively nodded, with incredulity flickering in his gaze before he continued his slow nod, trying to process the events, "Uh, yeah…"
Gojo's eyes lit up. "You're not gonna believe this, but I got lost and ended up in this place." He paused, noticing Sukuna's skeptical glare, and quickly added, "Ok, let me rewind a bit. I died and reincarnated with this body in the DC universe as Gojo. I was in Gotham, beating up thugs left and right, when I stumbled across Zoro."
Sukuna's eyebrows shot up at the mention of such a name, "Huh?"
"Yeah, dude! Zoro! From One Piece!" Gojo's hands gestured wildly as if trying to conjure the image of Zoro from thin air. "I saw him and thought he was another player, so I shouted, 'Hey dude, you got in the wrong verse!'"
Gojo mimicked Zoro's confused expression, saying it in a dramatic voice. "Then he yelled at me, '君は一体誰なんだ?'"
"I didn't understand a word," Gojo admitted, throwing his hands up. "I was like, 'what? I'm sorry, but I don't understand Japanese.' He just stared at me for a few seconds, then kept walking, looking for an exit or something."
"After a few seconds of following him, I realized I was in another place. I tried to go back, but everything had changed, and now I was in the Marvel Universe!"
...
Sukuna's eyes narrowed as he inspected Gojo from head to toe as looked at any sights that indicated he was in a crazy dream, maybe in a spell, perhaps he was dead, and his brain crafted such absurdity, "That's... the weirdest backstory I have ever heard. Sounds like plucked out of a fanfic."
Gojo laughed, clearly enjoying the absurdity of his situation, "I know, right? Out of all the universes, I ended up one occupied by another player! What was the chance!"
Sukuna began moving. Cleaning the mess they-... no, just Gojo had just made, and asked, a bit annoyed after realizing this was gonna cost some money, "So, what are you gonna do now?"
Gojo's carefree expressions and personality attacked as he comically said while drinking a beer he had just stolen from Sukuna's fridge, "Well, complete my mission I was doing here! And probably go back to DC."
Sukuna interjected, after hearing that, "Explain to me how the fuck are you gonna get out of this universe."
Gojo: "..."
His features turned momentarily serious as he asked to the air, "System, how can I go back?"
Gojo continued looking at the air for a few seconds; his face changed from happiness to annoyance. He took a deep breath of resignation and said in a vexed tone, "Dude, I can go back to DC, but it's with a rare item from the Gacha... It essentially is called anchor point, and if you use it, it gives you an ability with 30 days of cooldown that allows you to go to your universe in case you get lost."
Sukuna asked with a hint of genuine curiosity. "So you are just gonna stay here?" the more he thought about this, the worse it sounded, and his mind began working on possible scenarios that could happen, 'I don't want to have another bastard that is just like me by my side.'
Gojo shrugged, returning to his usual carefree attitude after realizing there was nothing he could do. "Even if I didn't need the Anchor Point, I'd stay. After all, Marvel's easier than DC."
Sukuna turned his eyes to the sky after hearing that, "I feel like you just angered a lot of people with that statement..."
Their banter was abruptly interrupted by the mechanical voice of the system, cutting the mood like a blade slicing butter.
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A new player in the city.
Defeat the 20 thugs send by Kingpin to kill you.
Reward: 3 bronze gacha spin and one silver Gacha spin
Extra mission: Leave two thugs alive with a message for Kingpin, where you taunt him
Reward: Extra cursed energy capacity
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Gojo snapped his fingers, recalling the important reason why he was interrogating the thug, "Now that we're going to be friends, I gotta tell you, this place seemed like it was gonna get attacked by dozens of thugs, so that's why I am here.
"Wait, what?"
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sorry if this chapter felt quite short, but I had to make a few cuts after reading the shitty script:
As a bonus, here is a line Gojo will say in the future.
"You are giving me Ohio NPC vibes, FR."