Chapter 237: See You Again Sukuna
As the final battle approaches, everything must be done with efficiency. After all, the brains are also arranging the secret plan at full speed, and no one knows when the final fuse will be ignited.
After determining the next plan, Jiang Lai and Gojo Satoru decided to implement it as soon as possible.
It happened to be night time, so they could start dream bonding straight away.
Gojo Satoru's master's room is very safe, and no one will break in accidentally. But just in case, Jiang Lai still habitually added an extra space barrier in the room.
"OK, I'm ready." Gojo Satoru snapped his fingers and naturally released his own cursed energy, filling the entire room and merging with Jiang Lai's cursed energy again.
This lays the foundation for a shared dream connection.
Jiang Lai used space magic to construct an air hammock, lying horizontally in the air. He looked comfortable and nodded, "Well, go to bed early. See you in my dreams."
It sounded like a joke, but it was actually the truth. Both of them were focused on their tasks, so they didn't talk much and the room soon returned to silence.
Jiang Lai waved his hands and used a spell to extinguish the candle on the side of the table.
The room was plunged into a gloomy darkness. The moonlight flowed softly, casting a lullaby.
——
The sound of dripping water echoed in my ears, and the faint smell of blood lingered at the tip of my nose. There was cold and wet liquid flowing around my ankles, like a snake slithering past.
Jiang Lai opened his eyes and saw a sea of cattle bones and blood in front of him. In the front, on the pile of white cattle bones, sat two Sukuna with their chins supported by one hand.
The cherry-pink-haired man seemed to be in a daze—or if you remove the word “seemed”, he was just in a daze.
The author of Curse Return, Comrade One-Eyed Cat, once personally stamped the book that the most thing that Master Sukuna did while in Itadori's body was to stare blankly. After all, he was a super time-killing master who had been in a daze for a thousand years.
Although Ryomen Sukuna was in a daze, as the King of Curses, he was of course able to keenly perceive the extra cursed power in his natural realm.
In the blink of an eye, a sharp cursed blade came slashing at him!
Jiang Lai raised his hand and prepared to use space magic to block it, but faster than Jiang Lai's movement was the sudden surge of cursed power at the side. A small [赫] slammed towards the cursed blade, and the collision of the two caused a bloody scene in the area!
Ryoumen Sukuna on Niugu Mountain tutted his words. He looked down at the two people on the ground, narrowed his scarlet eyes, and said thoughtfully: "What a surprise, I actually saw you two guys here - and at the same time."
His gaze was scrutinizing as he cut through Jiang Lai and Gojo Satoru.
Sukuna snorted and laughed, "Why, weren't you ready to fight Rokugan last time? Now you two seem to be getting along quite well... Is this a temporary cooperation, or did you not lose your memory at all?"
When the words came to an end, Ryoumen Sukuna's voice suddenly tightened, and came at him with a sharpness as if he saw through everything.
Just like every time before, Ryoumen Sukuna never gave up suspecting Jiang Lai's amnesia.
In the past, Jiang Lai would act skillfully. But this time, he didn't plan to act anymore.
So Jiang Lai answered naturally: "You are right, I have not lost my memory."
Ryomen Sukuna: “?”
He originally thought that the other party was going to start the old two-faced Sukuna routine again, but at this moment, he was stunned for half a second. He didn't expect that this time Jiang Lai would admit it so frankly -
Gojo Satoru beside him also spoke leisurely at this time: "Who said we were going to fight? Last time, it was clearly to suppress you. Don't spread rumors casually, we have a good relationship~"
Jiang Lai nodded, and said sincerely: "Yes, we have always been harmonious and good friends, and quarrels and fights certainly don't exist."
Ryomen Sukuna: “…”
After only a slight pause, Ryomen Sukuna immediately realized that everything Jiang Lai had shown in front of him before was a lie.
The black-haired young man used his innocent appearance as always to deceive, and he actually believed that this guy had lost his memory!!
Ryoumen Sukuna stood up from the Ox Bone Mountain with a stern look on his face. He stepped on the white bones with one foot, and his scarlet eyes with his open secondary eye looked extremely terrifying.
However, neither of the two people present was afraid of him.
Gojo Satoru looked nonchalant, but his eyes were raised and he looked straight into those scarlet eyes. The strongest man in modern times and the king of curses faced off in this brief exchange of glances.
Jiang Lai, with a smile on his face as always, calmly started the conversation: "Putting aside the trivial matters above, we still have serious business to attend to today."
"Trivial matters?" Ryoumen Sukuna snorted with an ambiguous laugh.
"Aren't those trivial matters? Do you care?" Jiang Lai looked back calmly, "Whether I have lost my memory or not, you are still obsessed with turning me into food. So the truth is actually not important to you."
"It seems that you still remember the agreement to let me take the blame." Ryoumen Sukuna raised the corners of his lips, revealing his sharp fangs, "But I deeply hate being deceived by others, and you guys have challenged my bottom line again and again."
"You are a liar yourself." Jiang Lai laughed, "How many times have you deceived Yuji Yuji?"
"That brat." Ryoumen Sukuna raised his eyebrows, looking nonchalant, "He is just stupid."
"Hey, hey, it's not nice to say that about my student in front of me, your teacher." Gojo Satoru said lightly, raising one hand and always maintaining a fighting posture.
In fact, Ryomen Sukuna also kept his fighting stance. The two of them never really relaxed.
The only person present who showed no readiness for battle was Jiang Lai himself.
On the one hand, Jiang Lai is familiar with Sukuna and trusts Gojo Satoru, and knows that he doesn't need to be nervous all the time.
On the other hand, it is because he has the protection of a space barrier, which is enough to protect him from a sudden attack.
"Let's get back to the topic." Jiang Lai coughed, looked at Ryomen Sukuna, and asked directly, "Do you want to come out?"
"Hmm?" Ryoumen Sukuna crossed his arms over his chest and paused for half a second. "Go out?"
He sneered and mocked, "I heard that the kid is going to be executed. Are you letting me out to speed up the process or to create an accident to interrupt the execution? But no matter which one, I'm not interested."
"What I mean by going out is not this short-lived consciousness." Jiang Lai's expression was clear, "but the separation of you and Youren - you are you, and he is him."
Hearing this, Ryoumen Sukuna's eyebrows were slightly surprised, but he quickly adjusted his mood: "This is really unexpected. What are you going to do? Find me a new container?"
"Use the [Separation] cursed tool." Jiang Lai explained directly, "This cursed tool can separate you and Yuji Itadori, without having to find a new container. Because you are supposed to be two people."
Ryomen Sukuna placed one hand on his chin, revealing some thought, and then smiled with the corners of his mouth: "Oh, I understand - you don't want to kill Itadori Yuji, so you plan to separate and purify me alone? Are you so confident that you can beat me?"
The cherry-pink-haired man standing on the Ox Bone Mountain was full of momentum. He looked down at the two people lying in the blood on the ground and chewed on his words: "I will make you regret your decision today."
"If it's really for the purpose of purifying you, there's no need to go through so much trouble." Jiang Lai laughed softly, his brown eyes calm, "Since I can enter your living realm, I can naturally purify you here - where the soul is is the most fundamental place. Why do we have to move it outside before killing it?"
This part is half true and half false.
At present, Jiang Lai has not yet fully mastered the attack method of directly striking the soul, but after coming into contact with the derivative Green Jade Bird, he has already had some vague intuitive feelings.
Although the words were half true and half false, Jiang Lai's face did not show any guilt. His bright eyes were full of determination and confidence, and he looked straight into the cold red eyes above.
Ryomen Sukuna narrowed his eyes and tried to judge.
At this time, Gojo Satoru placed his middle finger on his index finger, making a gesture of expanding his domain, and added with a raised tone at the end: "Suddenly I realized that I can also expand my domain here~ If a fight really comes, can your soul world really hold up?"
Two against one, and neither of these two is a simple character. A direct fight is unwise.
Ryoumen Sukuna has always been a smart man. After quickly assessing the situation, he raised the corners of his lips and slowly spoke, turning the situation around: "You are not that strong, and I am not as weak as you say. If the realm of life collapses, your souls will also be impacted. This is a double-edged sword."
"But, indeed, the current battle losses are meaningless." Ryomen Sukuna shrugged, and his arms dropped naturally. "I allow you to tell the rest."
He looked superior and glanced down: "Tell me why you came here today."
"Cooperate against the enemy, the Enemy Supervisory Committee, or more accurately, the noose." Jiang Lai said, "We can give you the remaining two fingers so that you can replenish your strength. At the same time, we will separate you and let you have your own body and freedom."
"But in return, you must return the fragment in your hand, and also promise not to harm the characters of our camp or do anything that is detrimental to our camp during the cooperation period. We have signed a bond with each other and will not break our promises to each other."
"This cooperation will continue until the enemy is eliminated. After that, if there are any accounts to be settled, we will settle them with each other."
"I believe that before you settle accounts with me, you must want to settle accounts with the person who cheated you for so long a thousand years ago. So now is the time."
Jiang Lai raised his eyes and looked towards the two Sukuna on the top of Niugu Mountain. His voice was calm, like a breeze blowing across the water.
"Choose to take the key, open the door, and walk out of the cage. Or choose to stay here and continue your 1,000-year-old daze until the end."
"At this point, the decision is yours."