Chapter 65: Lexical Shock After a Thousand Years
From a pure demon's perspective, Sukuna's soul is of high quality. However, due to Sukuna's inherent strength, it's difficult for ordinary demons to defeat him, making him a difficult prey. Furthermore, Sukuna's strong will and soul strength make it difficult to digest.
But Sukuna's Finger is a soul fragment, and it is a dormant soul fragment. It is very easy to hunt and digest, and it is still very nutritious. The only drawback is that demons generally like fresh flesh and souls, and Sukuna's Finger has not been fresh for a thousand years.
To make an analogy, Sukuna's finger is to demons a bit like a dozen-year-old ginseng is to humans.
Can I eat it? Yes.
Do you want to make up for it? Yes.
Is it delicious? yue!!!
Cheng Xiaoyu: "So who has the time and energy to torture themselves by eating this? I could definitely find something more delicious and nourishing with that energy. Demons don't only eat humans! I'll say it again, demons cannibalizing humans is a matter of taste preference! You can't even get everyone in the world to accept cilantro!"
"Then why are you using Sukuna's fingers to make soup? And which Sukuna's fingers are you eating?" Gojo Satoru asked. "I remember you said you'd been to a parallel world in our universe and met other versions of us. Did you have that experience back then?"
Cheng Xiaoyu: "Everyone has their moments of courage to try new food, and I took it openly. I specifically asked them if they wanted it, and only after they said no did I take it. I called it helping the environment."
Kugisaki Nobara had given up thinking. He was now only curious about one thing: "So you ate that pot of Sukuna's fingers at the end, right? How did it taste? Yuji said he swallowed it straight up and didn't taste anything."
Cheng Xiaoyu recalled, "Finally, it melted down. It was worth the five days and nights of stewing. It tasted a bit like tongue-splitting cured chicken feet. The curse was a bit strong, and the stew took much longer than the recipe indicated. I was afraid it would get too intense, so I divided it up and ate it over several meals, adhering to the principle of not wasting food."
Fushiguro Megumi: "How did you destroy Sukuna's finger?"
This is the main point of his inquiry. I beg you guys to stop focusing on the food culture of the other world!
Cheng Xiaoyu: "I used a folk recipe given by an old man. He said that the cursed soul soup made with that method is very nourishing, and the effect is relatively mild. It can be used by newborn demon cubs and seriously injured demons."
The good news: Putting aside the taste and texture, the effect is indeed very good.
Bad news: Cheng Xiaoyu can’t be removed.
Gojo Satoru looked at Cheng Xiaoyu's pocket, where Ryoumen Sukuna's finger was hidden. "I suddenly have a bold idea to give you an emergency snack."
Cheng Xiaoyu raised her hand and pointed at the sky: "Is it time for dinner now? I advise you to retract your bold idea."
Gojo Satoru said regretfully, "Forget it, forget it. Just pretend I never thought about it."
Yes, there is a No. 1 high-dimensional creature staring at their heads. If Ghost eats Sukuna's finger now, it would be no different from eating the detonator button of a remote-controlled bomb in the hands of the enemy.
It's even more dangerous than swallowing a remote-controlled bomb, because the bomb won't hurt the ghost - after all, when Tenriko faked her death, she said she was immune to physical damage.
After a while, while the two-faced Sukuna in the crystal ball was still torturing the special-grade cursed spirit, Gojo Satoru had a new brilliant idea: "By the way, the documents record that Sukuna can eat people. Now we know that ghosts can (theoretically) eat Sukuna, so does this count as a food chain?"
Cheng Xiaoyu: "...Good questions, but where do you get so many questions?"
Gojo Satoru spread his hands innocently: "I'm asking this on behalf of Nobara and Hui. I think they don't dare to ask. Don't you agree, Nobara? What else do you want to know? Gojo-sensei will help you ask~"
Kugisaki Nobara's eyes were empty. "...No need. I've already received enough information today, and I need time to digest it. Those things about demons and parallel worlds are probably confidentiality regulations, right? Is it really okay to tell us about this?"
I've heard from grandma a long time ago that the relationships within the Jujutsu world in big cities, led by the Three Great Families, are complicated and full of undercurrents. I'm sure she won't hear anything she shouldn't mention and then be silenced!
Gojo Satoru: "It's okay. Oni's true identity is no secret in the world of sorcery. Almost everyone in any sorcerer family with a little fame and power knows it. After all, Oni caused such a huge scene back then that even the high-ranking officials are terrified by just hearing her name. What I'm telling you now isn't news anymore; it's old news. You see, Keito isn't surprised at all; he knew it when he was a kid."
In fact, the main reason is that the No. 1 high-dimensional creature has already taken action against the first-year students. Gojo Satoru realized that if he continues to hide the whole thing from the students, it will not only fail to provide protection but may even backfire.
Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara Kugisaki couldn't help but wonder what kind of scene could scare the top leaders of the curse world so much, but just when they were about to ask, they saw that the two-faced Sukuna in the crystal ball was tired of the one-sided game, so he raised his hand and cast a spell to cut the special-grade cursed spirit into three pieces, and took out a new Sukuna finger from its body and swallowed it.
This crystal ball can also play sound, so everyone can clearly hear Sukuna standing in the ruins he created and asking Yuji Itadori to change it back impatiently.
However, Yuji Itadori's consciousness has not yet emerged.
"...Hey, kid?"
A bad premonition arose in the hearts of several people, and the next second, this premonition came true.
Soon, Sukuna confirmed that Yuji Itadori's consciousness had fallen asleep, and after he gained full control of his body, his mouth almost stretched to his ears.
The next second, Sukuna, with his hands in his pockets, disappeared into the crystal ball.
Where are the Sukuna people?
Before Fushiguro Megumi and Kugisaki Nobara could be surprised, they were protected by Gojo Satoru and Cheng Xiaoyu. Then they saw the familiar figure with pink hair appear at the door of the crematorium.
After realizing he had a brief moment of freedom, Ryoumen Sukuna immediately followed the cursed energy from those four fingers and came over. At this moment, he did not hide his malice at all. His cold gaze swept over the four people present one by one, finally stopping at Gojo Satoru's face:
"Today is truly wonderful. Not only can I reclaim my six fingers, but I can also personally destroy the person who disrespected me before, and I can also eat a delicious woman."
Gojo Satoru: "You're dreaming before it gets dark? If you like dreaming so much, just go back to sleep."
Cheng Xiaoyu was filled with regret: "If I had known that Tiger Stick couldn't get out, and if I had known that you were going to eat your finger yourself, I should have thrown Sukuna's finger into the septic tank!"
Ryomen Sukuna's smile disappeared.
"...I changed my mind."
Ryoumen Sukuna fixed his eyes on Cheng Xiaoyu.
"As expected, you deserve to die more. Do you think I can't touch you just because of this white-haired brat?"
If they didn't know Cheng Xiaoyu's identity and racial characteristics before, Kugisaki Nobara and Fushiguro Megumi might have found this scene very tense, but now, seeing Ryomen Sukuna walking towards Cheng Xiaoyu with a gloomy face, their expressions became subtle like Gojo Satoru's.
Instead of running away, you're walking towards your "natural enemy", Sukuna?
Cheng Xiaoyu had just raised her foot to "run towards" Liangmen Sukuna, but Sukuna had already flashed in front of her and raised his hand to smash the head of the person in front of him.
But Sukuna is not the only one who starts with 0 frames.
Before Ryomen Sukuna's claws fell, a palm with a wind landed steadily, accurately and fiercely on his left cheek, and with a completely non-standard volleyball one-handed spiking posture, it slapped him at a 45-degree angle into the ground not far away and stopped moving.
There is Sukuo on both sides, and it is impossible to get up again!
Nobara Kugisaki and Megumi Fushiguro looked at Cheng Xiaoyu in disbelief as she slowly lowered her slap.
that's all?
I thought I would see some cool battle scenes, but in the end it was just a slap?
When Gojo Sensei was fighting Sukuna, he showed some superb physical skills. Although he seemed to be showing off a lot, why did he just slap the ghost away with a simple slap?
To be honest, the power of this attack was very ordinary. Among the Neon Sorcerers, who were all physical gorillas, it could only be considered a basic attack. It was impossible to knock Sukuna out with one punch.
But the prerequisite is that Sukuna's soul is not slapped out by this slap.
Cheng Xiaoyu returned the harsh words Sukuna had said to her to Sukuna's still dazed soul, who had been beaten out of most of the tiger stalk's flesh: "Do you think I can't touch you just because of this pink-haired brat?"
Following the Demon King Muzan Tsuji of Haunted House, the Curse King Ryomen Sukuna was also assisted by the soul of the Sheep Talisman. Perhaps they can form a group called "The Millennium Victim Combination of Souls Out of Body".
As a demon, Cheng Xiaoyu certainly has the means to directly see and attack souls. It’s better to say that this is the basic configuration for demons when they leave the factory.
When the Holy Lord who had stabbed other demons in the back was still alive, he was often forced by his brothers and sisters in hell to "live together in the nuclear tomb".
If it weren't for the high-dimensional creature No. 1 protecting him, that slap would have been enough to at least blow Sukuna's soul into the ground.
Cheng Xiaoyu sniffed it lightly. Perhaps it was because of the relationship between the body and the container that could fuse the soul. At this moment, Sukuna's soul did not smell like bacon as she had smelled before. Instead, it smelled like aged wine.
So she gave Sukuna, who had recovered and returned to Yuji's body and was about to explode again, a rare positive comment: "Brother, you smell so good."
"You want to eat me?"
Ryoumen Sukuna was stunned for a moment as he got up. He noticed Cheng Xiaoyu's expression without any emotion. His rich "gourmet experience" made him quickly understand the true meaning of Cheng Xiaoyu's words. His gaze towards Cheng Xiaoyu instantly became disdainful.
"What a weird taste! He actually likes to eat cursed spirits."
Everyone: ...Sukuna's first priority is also taste! Huh, why is my first reaction "also"...
Wait, if we change our thinking a bit and look at it from the perspective of the ghost or Sukuna, it seems that Sukuna's war with the sorcerers thousands of years ago can also be viewed as a "battle of tastes"...
hiss!
Can't think about it anymore.
As everyone was lost in thought, Cheng Xiaoyu glared at them, "You're the one who loves to eat curse spirits! You should be tied to them and eat nothing but curse spirits for the rest of your life. Everything you eat will only taste like curse spirits!"
...Are curse spirits really that unpalatable? Is it so unpalatable that liking them is considered a personal attack?
Gojo Satoru: "That's not so exaggerated. Jie said that when he ate the cursed spirit, it had no taste. Could it be due to the curse--"
Cheng Xiaoyu and Liangmen Sukuna simultaneously revealed expressions of disgust and said in unison, "He's lying."
Gojo Satoru: "..."
Here we go again, why do you two thousand-year-old guys always unite to confront me?
Gojo Satoru: "Actually, it could also be due to the curse. He's a curse spirit operator, and he can turn curse spirits into curse spirit balls..."
Ryoumen Sukuna stood up. Normally, he was too lazy to argue with others, indifferent to life and death and willing to just fight if he didn't agree. However, when it came to culinary appreciation, which had been his greatest concern during his lifetime, he still had the patience to say a few words: "Even if he cut his tongue off, he wouldn't think cursed spirits were delicious. Do you think I've never seen a cursed spirit wielder? If cursed spirits were delicious, why did I only eat humans and not cursed spirits before?"
Gojo Satoru looked at Cheng Xiaoyu: "...Really?"
Had his best friend really been silently enduring this torture and pretending nothing was wrong?
"Actually, Curse Spirits aren't considered unpalatable by some of my kind. I reacted so strongly because Sukuna was clearly scolding me, and it really isn't my cup of tea."
Cheng Xiaoyu said.
"But if the person who eats it becomes a human... let's put it this way, eating Sukuna's finger raw is better than eating a cursed spirit. At least if you eat Sukuna's finger raw, you can just rinse it off with water and it's done. But you can't just rush through it or ignore it like that with a cursed spirit. You'll definitely taste the twisted curse and evil thoughts within it."
"I could give you several more apt analogies to help you understand, but considering Geto Suguru's feelings, I don't want to go too far or get too disgusted. So, I'll just ask you to imagine for yourself, a cursed spirit, born from the filthy emotions expelled from the human soul. Just by describing it, how delicious can it be to humans?"
"It's like some people smoke, but no one, including smokers, likes secondhand smoke. The cursed spirit is that secondhand smoke."
"...Ha." Gojo Satoru felt a surge of inexplicable anger in his heart. "So we've been kept in the dark by that overthinking guy again, right?"
I'm so angry. I'll go back and call Jay and give him a good scolding.
"But you don't have to be so serious."
Cheng Xiaoyu comforted.
"Tastes vary from person to person. Look, Ryoumen Sukuna liked to eat people when he was still human. Maybe Geto Suguru just has different tastes and hobbies than the average person? Ordinary people, due to stressful environments and other reasons, develop all sorts of niche hobbies seeking excitement, like those with letters, incomplete parts, unusual food, and role-playing. The work of a sorcerer is so stressful and almost non-stop, so maybe Geto Suguru is just one of the countless niche hobbyists who can't handle the pressure. It's also possible that there are some cognitive errors under pressure, but look on the bright side, at least he doesn't think of himself as an attack helicopter or a Walmart plastic bag."
“…”
This time, even Ryoumen Sukuna fell silent.
"Thank you for comforting me, really."
Gojo Satoru took a deep breath and said solemnly.
"Secondly, I hope you won't comfort me."
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