Since then, the relationship between the two partners living in one body has gradually improved.

It is definitely impossible to say that they became sticky and affectionate overnight. It was just that compared to the past, we said we were in the same body, but in reality it was more like we were doing our own things, and even when we walked, half of our body was on the left and the other half was on the right.

And now, with just a little thought of cooperating with each other, these two different souls can naturally get along harmoniously.

After all, they are more inseparable than anyone else, they are each other's half, and many times they can understand each other's intentions without even saying a word.

——The only difference from before is whether or not you are willing to cooperate.

In contrast, the attitude of the mother is different.

Unlike the monsters that are formed under normal circumstances, the birth of the girl was actually caused by the powerful curse of Ryomen Sukuna.

It is for this reason that the woman who lost her own child regards Ryomen Sukuna as her own child, and diligently carries the boy, who is actually still a human, through the human battlefield, and raises him with all the bumps and bruises until he reaches the level of a governor.

However, after Sawada Tsunayoshi appeared, the attitude of the birth girl shifted slightly. When watching the two Sukuna quarreling among themselves, the birth girl, who was covered in black energy, tilted her head. Although she could not speak, the whole monster exuded a feeling of doubt.

Then the pink-haired boy looked at him blankly. On that scary little face of the "King of Curses" there appeared a smile that could be described as cute, one that even monsters would be terrified of.

"Giving birth to a girl...?"

Logically, the word "mother" should be added at the end, so it should be called "the mother who gave birth to a daughter."

However, neither Ryoumen Sukuna nor Tsunekichi ever uttered this title. The former had no such concept at all, and did not regard the monster who raised him as a weak thing like "mother" as humans generally call her. As for the latter... Tsunekichi always felt that the word "mother" belonged to another person.

But "maid" is a very broad term, so broad that if you call out "maid" in a place where monsters gather, perhaps several monsters emitting black smoke will turn their heads and look at you.

So after being awkward for a while, Tsuneyoshi got the original name from the woman who gave birth.

"sunflower."

The eyes of the woman were dark and her body was wrapped in black mist. Even the kimono on her body seemed to have turned black. She covered her mouth with her black sleeves and her slender white fingers. After delaying the start-up for a while, she spoke her name in a muffled voice.

Among monsters, there is a saying that "the name is the curse".

Therefore, the moment she gave her name, the bond between Chanu and Ryomen Sukuna deepened.

But even so, the midwife Aoi would often show a confused look towards the two people existing at the same time, and even her two dark eyes would become two messy circles at this time - after all, in the midwife's cognition, she has one and only one "child".

But his child now exudes the aura of two souls.

This almost made the woman, whose thinking was almost straight, hit a wall and she only had subconscious actions left, and continued to take care of Ryomen Sukuna.

In her mind, her child is still a baby who needs to be taken care of by a demon.

After struggling for a long time, the girl saw the sun setting and gave up thinking as she couldn't understand how her baby turned from one into two. She took two "quilts" from the hut and wrapped the pink-haired boy in two layers.

After all, they are two children.

After what happened last night, she sat on the big rock outside the door, and continued to think about what happened that made her baby go from one to two.

This is a rare moment of peace and tranquility in the life of the human called Ryomen Sukuna.

The relationship between him and Sawada Tsunayoshi probably also slowly improved at this time - even so, they already had an extraordinary tacit understanding, and with just the slightest thought of getting closer, their extraordinary tacit understanding made people feel that they were probably two very harmonious souls.

Sometimes when they quarrel, things become very strange, because small tricks like pinching each other's faces will only hurt both people in the end, so the most common way of arguing is to fight each other with the left and right hands, and the loser rolls back into the sea of ​​consciousness, allowing the other to completely control this body.

During this period, many cursed spirits and evil monsters that were attracted by Sukuna's hands were repelled by the two of them. Compared with Sukuna's killing them all, Tsunayoshi's attacks were always gentler - although he still fought one against one and two against two.

Before anyone knew it, the name of "King of Curses" spread far and wide, and even people in faraway Kyoto knew of this name.

In this age of abundant cursed power and spiritual energy, there are more monsters like Sukuna who rule the mountain as kings (?) than can be counted on one hand. In addition, an Onmyoji had been to this mountain before, so the Onmyoji in the small area also know that the one occupying this mountain is not a monster, but a real human being.

But maybe in their eyes, there is not much difference whether Ryoumen Sukuna is a human or a demon.

But because of this identity, the number of Onmyoji who came to suppress was still much smaller than that of monsters or cursed spirits, and there were only a few symbolic ones.

Among them was a branch belonging to the Fujiwara family.

Originally, he was just following the order of his lord to show some color to the monster who ruled the mountain to show his fear, but when the Onmyoji saw the woman who came to look for Ryomen Sukuna to go home for dinner, he showed a stupid expression.

At this moment of stagnation, he was kicked down the mountain by Ryomen Sukuna. On normal days, he might have killed him immediately, but at this time, Tsuneyoshi was still awake and the man who gave birth to his daughter asked him to go back for dinner. Ryomen Sukuna did not pursue him, but let the Onmyoji, who looked so decent and upright just now, run away.

However, no one would have thought that when this Onmyoji returned to Kyoto, he simply packed his things in a hurry and rushed to the master's residence in a hurry.

"Master Fujiwara!"

He almost prostrated himself on the ground to show his respect to the other party.

After the useless greetings were quickly passed, the Onmyoji sang out the purpose of his visit with a sad expression.

"Aoi-sama... I met Aoi-sama when I was hunting down the wild animals on Mount Sugana!"

…

The mother has gradually gotten used to raising two puppies.

Occasionally, when she heard Ryomen Sukuna say words like "I'm obsessed with you!" or "woman", she would frown, thinking that the child's words seemed a little vulgar.

However, when she became a monster, she was a premature monster (?), so she couldn't speak and could only express herself through the movements of her hands.

Therefore, although she thought the child's behavior was a bit vulgar, the mother would not hit the child. She just stared at the pink-haired boy motionlessly when Sukuna said this, with tears of blood flowing from her dark eyes.

Tsuneyoshi discovered that the woman who gave birth was actually a very timid monster.

Although before he could remember, when he and Sukuna were too young to talk or walk, it was the woman who carried them on the gloomy battlefield, and secretly ran to humans' homes to steal food for them because no humans could see her, but this does not mean that the woman was a bold and presumptuous monster.

Or maybe she is actually very timid. She knows that humans can't see her, but she still feels scared when she sneaks around to steal their food.

Then, in order to go less often, I would steal more at one time, and try to go only once a week.

Because she couldn't speak and her movements were clumsy, her way of expressing her fear was to cry.

And because she is a newborn girl, what she cries are not normal tears, but two streams of tears of blood.

Occasionally, children who can see spirits see a newborn baby stealing things from their home, with tears of fear streaming down her cheeks. The two look into each other's eyes, the former screaming in fear, while the latter is so frightened that tears of blood flow down his face in wide strips.

After spending time together, Tsunayoshi and Sukuna realized that tears of blood were almost her only way to express her emotions. Now that there were no scary monsters to provoke her, nor were there any unconscious but powerful cursed spirits howling, the only ones who could make the girl show her emotions were them.

Two-sided Sukuna:?

After silently observing several women giving birth shedding tears of blood while Ryomen Sukuna laughed and said some strange words, one day, Sawada Tsunayoshi reached out and grabbed Ryomen Sukuna's claws, and said to his half body with a serious expression.

"You, oh no, we should go to school."

Ryoumen Sukuna: “Huh?”

Ryomen Sukuna knew about going to school. When the human children in the village cried, it was often when they were called to "go to school."

He had a wise look in his eyes and spoke with disdain.

"Are you talking about me?"

——The last time they passed by the foot of this mountain, a group of merchants dressed in fancy clothes passed by. Tsuneyoshi and Ryomen Sukuna watched them from a distance for a while. They didn't do anything else except that Sukuna learned how to call himself the man who was dressed like a nouveau riche.

Sawada Tsunayoshi paused. Although he didn't feel anything, Tsunayoshi was a good-tempered child, so he paused and slowly corrected Sukuna's words.

"You shouldn't say you are the master," he said.

Ryomen Sukuna said “Oh” and asked why.

Tsunayoshi Sawada said that ordinary people would not refer to themselves like this, and it was a very strange usage.

Then he was looked down upon by his own half.

"I didn't know you knew what ordinary humans look like." The pink-haired Curse King crossed his arms across his chest, ignoring his other two claws that were moving randomly while preparing to explain.

Then, because it was really dazzling, he held down the two claws himself.

"Don't move around, it's blinding."

The other half of his body that had originally wanted to fight for itself now seemed to be sealed and remained quiet.

"oh."

Even though it's strange to say this, Ryoumen Sukuna still thinks that "he" is sometimes quite cute.

Oh, of course, she is the cutest when she is waving a flame whose composition he doesn't even know.

Looking at the blazing flames, Ryoumen Sukuna even studied it with a scientific spirit for a while. After concluding that this power did not seem to have the same source as his own, he became even more excited.

At such times, the woman in labor would look at them from a distance, surrounded by a cloud of dark mist. When it was time, she would bring up the big cake and feed them one by one.

Even if they are two souls, they still only have one body: Sukuna and Tsunayoshi: ...

This is probably the strict love of "Mom".

In a sense, this is also the reason why Ryomen Sukuna later attached so much importance to the desire for food. After all, anyone who eats cakes from birth and continues to eat them until he grows up will still be chased by a loving old mother to feed him cakes, and will pursue food even more.

Who asked a new mother to only know how to make cakes?

Not to mention Tsunayoshi, even the disgusting and boring Ryoumen Sukuna thought that life would continue like this.

Until one day, when they were killing a monster that had been provoking them, they discovered that it was a creature that had its own food.

He packed a bag of snacks, no, he packed a bunch of humans as snacks and brought them to provoke the King of Curses.

When he dies, these humans will be acquired by the victor.

Generally speaking, Ryoumen Sukuna and Tsunayoshi would not pay attention to these weak humans. Compared to things like this, they would be more concerned about the food that humans occasionally bring.

But from experience, humans who bring delicious snacks are often dressed in fancy clothes, while these humans brought by monsters are more pale and skinny than each other, and they don’t look delicious.

This is indeed the case.

Just as Ryoumen Sukuna turned around in boredom, Tsuneyoshi noticed that one of the older women had a familiar cake shape in her arms.

The terrible King of Curses, who was chased and fed cakes countless times by the mother who was giving birth, almost burped subconsciously.

And by this time we had indeed arrived at the hotel, and the woman who was diligently responsible for taking the two children to eat at mealtime every day came in quietly from the cave entrance.

Ryoumen Sukuna shook his head irritably, but before he could say anything, he heard a shudder among the group of pale and skinny guys.

"Aoi..." It was a man, who was staring blankly at the girl who was wrapped in black air. His expression was hard to read, and he timidly and nervously opened his mouth to confirm.

"Is it... Aoi-ji?"

Tsuneyoshi subconsciously turned his head to look at the expression of the woman in labor.

The girl in labor, her expression still calm, stood quietly at the entrance of the cave. There was no emotion in her black eyes, but red tears flowed down her fair cheeks and disappeared into the dark mist.

…

Sukuna and Tsunayoshi "sent" these humans, who were used as food, back to their hometowns.

They have obtained a lot of good things from the Onmyojis they have challenged, including some books on Onmyoji.

Although Ryomen Sukuna was not interested in this kind of thing, Tsunayoshi was very interested in this kind of magic from the beginning.

Although the two guys are illiterate, things like hand gestures are described in detail in those books, and words are just things that enhance the power of the spell. As long as they have enough power, they can achieve the same effect without following what is written in the books, just by relying on their thoughts.

Therefore, with the help of "Shrinking the Ground into Inches", they brought the group of guys back to their original place, and amidst the fearful looks of the humans, they carried adult men who were much taller than themselves, and ferociously asked them to lead the way.

The man had been silent since he called out "Aoi-hime". Although the pink-haired monster didn't speak at this time, he just hung his head and spoke to himself.

"I met Aoi-ji when she was out for an autumn outing."

"I admire her, but I am just a poor scholar and cannot marry a lady as bright as the moon."

"But she still came with me, to a remote and poor village like ours, became my wife, and even learned how to make cakes."

"And then she died... right when I went into town to do some shopping for her and the future baby."

Ryoumen Sukuna didn't really want to hear what this man said.

He even covered his ears so that the other guy couldn't hear what he was saying.

But the guy probably heard it. He was silent for a while, but then he asked another question.

"How did you know she was there?" he asked.

Both Ryoumen Sukuna and the man were stunned for a moment, and then the former's expression turned fierce.

"We have to go back."

Tsunayoshi understood what was going on when he saw the man's expression. Sure enough, the man stammered that someone had asked him to go... and then he was caught by the monster who had gone to provoke him and was taken as food.

His half body pried apart the man's hand, and Ryoumen Sukuna looked at his body and used the Onmyoji's technique again. After a while, they returned to the foot of the mountain.

But it was too late.

Even if one wanted to shrink the ground to an inch, it would take a certain amount of time, not to mention that the man had been muttering to himself for a long time. It took nearly half an hour in total.

So when they came back, the whole mountain was on fire.

The flames dyed the sky rosy red, and the sound of the burning flames seemed to come from the head, making a continuous crackling sound.

Ryomen Sukuna had never felt this way before. It was a feeling that something was missing that should have been there, and it was so strange that it felt strange.

When he came to his senses, he had already rushed into the sea of ​​fire. Such a reckless behavior must have been done by the other guy in his body, but strangely he did not try to stop it.

No matter how dumb you are, you will know that this is a setup to lure them away and harm that stupid guy who is so stupid that he makes people laugh.

It's their arrogance that is being exploited.

——After all, she was just a guy who could only express her worries, anger and sadness with tears. Who would believe that there was really someone who regarded her as a thorn in his eye?

The fire burned the entire mountain, but Ryoumen Sukuna and Tsunayoshi never found any trace of the girl who gave birth. They just followed the traces of spiritual power left by the Onmyoji back to Kyoto, and killed him when he was happily returning home after getting his reward.

The scarlet blood stained the side of the Curse King who had been running thousands of miles, leaving stains on the boy's fair face.

The pink-haired, red-eyed King of Curses just stood beside the collapsed Onmyoji, with an uncertain expression.

The other noisy guy in his mind was silent at this time. Ryoumen Sukuna keenly felt that the other party was not only depressed because of the disappearance of his daughter, but also vaguely surprised his behavior.

However, the King of Curses was not one to care about others. He stretched out his hand and used his thumb to vigorously wipe the liquid remaining on his face, as if he was rubbing half of his cheeks. He put his hand down only when he saw it turn red.

"Kill him if you want." He lowered his eyes and said indifferently, "What's there to worry about?"

——I don’t know who you are talking about.

But when I think of the other guy crying pitifully, it's extremely strange to put that expression on my face, but if it's based on the premise that it's another soul...

Ryomen Sukuna also thought that it might not be bad.

As he thought this, he naturally ignored the strange feeling that something was missing.