Chapter 90 Sukuna and Yuji, a Possibility

Rimei stood there, feeling confused. He couldn't quite understand the relationship between Sukuna-sama and the black-haired young man with a misty face in front of him.

The attitude of the two people when they met just now did not seem like enemies, nor did they seem like friends at the moment, and certainly not partners exchanging interests. They seemed familiar yet unfamiliar to each other.

But no matter what, he could tell that although Sukuna-sama used a question, he didn't actually want him to answer or do anything else. Therefore, Rimei just looked over and stood there respectfully.

The black-haired young man in front of him seemed to pause for two or three seconds after hearing this, then blinked and said, "I'm a little forgetful - by the way, who are you?"

A lighthearted yet slightly sarcastic tone.

Li Mei felt the big hand on her shoulder suddenly tighten, and the air froze in an instant!

Ryomen Sukuna's palms are so large that when they are clenched, they seem to be able to crush the bones of the shoulders.

Naturally, the loyal subordinate Rimei showed no sign of pain. He maintained a calm expression and silently prepared to perform the reversal technique.

A cold murderous intent swept across the land, and those scarlet eyes stared at the black-haired young man not far away.

That guy couldn't have really forgotten Sukuna-sama, could he...was he ignoring him on purpose? Rimei was thinking. Sukuna-sama was very angry, he could sense it.

The black-haired young man put away his doubtful expression and smiled faintly. He put the book away and nodded calmly:

"It's a bit surprising that you still care about me as your brother after all these years - it's really a touching brotherly love."

Li Mei: ???

The voice was clear, but Li Mei seemed to not understand it. He was stunned for a moment and his eyes widened slightly.

Wait, brother...brother? Are you serious? Or dare to joke with Sukuna-sama?

He felt Sukuna-sama's hand on his shoulder move away, and a deep voice with a slightly raised ending came from above his head:

"...After all these years, you still know how to hate me - although it's still the same old trick."

The cold murderous intent just now seemed to be slightly restrained, but the next second, a huge wave of cursed power suddenly surged in the air!

The powerful cursed blades that crossed each other suddenly attacked, raising a wave of dust. The dark blue figure raised his arms slightly, and an invisible space barrier blocked the cursed blades that came one after another in front of him.

The broken and shattered cursed blades flew in all directions. The longest cursed blade flew to the distant mountain top and slashed off the sharp peak!

The cursed shockwave spread violently in all directions, bending the bushes and grass close to the ground, making the tree trunks creak fragilely, and even snapping a few smaller trees.

The air was filled with the smell of dust from the collision and friction between the cursed blade and the space barrier, and the turbulent cursed power slowly subsided after a while.

A shallow scar suddenly appeared on the clean right cheek of the black-haired young man, and a trickle of bright red blood slowly seeped out.

Ryoumen Sukuna raised the corners of his lips and showed an exaggerated facial expression. He laughed out loud: "Looks like I couldn't block all of them!!"

Then, he quickly calmed down his expression, just stared at the person in front of him, and said in a low and teasing tone, "--You have become weaker."

The howling mountain wind blew, and the trees rustled.

Jiang Lai calmly raised his hand to wipe away the blood on his cheek, leaving an inconspicuous red mark. He said:

"Unfortunately, in a sense, you probably haven't made any progress. The distant past and the present have only left a shallow trace."

The air between the two of them tensed up, and the atmosphere became tense again.

The silence was broken by the sound of ice crystals breaking. Just now, Reime was quick to use ice magic to protect the boiling pot before the cursed energy shock wave came.

However, after this incident, the fire under the pot had long been extinguished, and the ice crystals used as support around it finally broke under the heavy weight.

"I'm sorry, Master Sukuna." Rimei bowed and then quickly used the ice crystals to reinforce the support of the cauldron. "Do you need to light the fire again?"

"..." Ryoumen Sukuna glanced over and said calmly, "It's already done, right? Put the pot down then."

"Yes, Lord Sukuna." Rimei placed the big pot of wild boar meat on the ground, and then took out kitchen utensils from the package on the side.

Jiang Lai took a few steps forward and asked casually, "Is this young man your cook?"

"Yes." Ryoumen Sukuna half-closed his eyes and said slowly in a vicious tone, "I am very satisfied with his cooking skills... Now I have found a suitable chef, so you come at the right time as an ingredient."

This sentence spanned more than ten years, and responded to the threat that Ryoumen Sukuna once said to Jiang Lai - [When I find a suitable chef, I will make you a good meal.]

"Oh, really?" Jiang Lai remained calm and not nervous.

After the brief fight just now, he has already felt that although his strength has weakened, he is still very strong and will not be controlled by the Curse King Ryomen Sukuna.

What's more, apart from the very beginning when he asked the vague question "Who are you?", in which Ryomen Sukuna showed some real murderous intent, when the cursed blade attacked him later, there was actually no very strong intention to decide life and death.

That was why Jiang Lai continued to stay here, and even took a few steps forward and asked naturally.

Ryoumen Sukuna glanced at him with his equally scarlet eyes, and said in a slightly drawn-out voice, "You're so calm... It's annoying."

"You don't intend to cook me as food now." Jiang Lai said with a smile, "Let's not talk about who will win if we really fight,"

He pointed to the perfectly cooked wild boar in the big pot and said, "For now, you don't want to waste this."

"I'm just too lazy to wait for the next meal." Ryoumen Sukuna said disdainfully that he had no concept of "waste". He sat down with his legs crossed. "As for you - keep it as a spare ingredient for now. Once I collect more condiments, it won't be too late to make a big meal with it."

With a height of more than two meters and four arms, Ryomen Sukuna looks particularly strong and intimidating. Even when sitting on the ground, he still exudes a shocking aura.

Of course, Jiang Lai was not one of those who was shocked.

He didn't intend to continue this meaningless conversation with Ryomen Sukuna, so he simply tossed his sleeves calmly and sat on the ground - the open spell left a small space between him and the ground, so he didn't have to worry about dust sticking to his clothes.

Seeing this, Li Mei, who was preparing to serve the rice nearby, immediately raised her eyes and looked over, looking at Jiang Lai with a very vigilant look.

But Rimei remained silent for a moment, and after seeing that Ryoumen Sukuna, who was sitting cross-legged, had no special reaction or instructions, she hesitated, but remained silent, retracted her gaze, and continued to do her own thing with her head down.

"It's been a long time since we last met. I didn't expect you to have grown so tall." Jiang Lai spoke casually.

"You're just starting off with something so boring?" Ryoumen Sukuna responded with disdain, showing his sharp teeth slightly. "But it's different from the past. Now the one who is restrained and free... is not me anymore."

After understanding what Ryoumen Sukuna said, Jiang Lai raised his eyebrows and chuckled, "Are you so confident? Do you think you can beat me?"

"I told you that you are a spare ingredient." Ryoumen Sukuna glanced at him, narrowed his eyes slightly, and smiled without any emotion. "By the way, where you are now is very close to Heian-kyo."

Heian-kyō? Jiang Lai wondered for a second why the other party mentioned this place, and then realized that the other party might mean that his friend Rokugan and the black-haired kid Shuji were in Heian-kyō.

but--

"Then shouldn't you be the one who's nervous?" Jiang Lai said, "The people in Heian-kyō are all your enemies, right?"

"Oh... that's not necessarily true." Ryoumen Sukuna replied in an ambiguous tone, and he smiled, "I'm looking forward to witnessing a good show."

What? Jiang Lai raised his eyebrows inwardly. He did not understand what the other party meant by "good show".

The next moment, the other party quickly added a new sentence, with a casual voice and a tone that was unclear whether it was mocking:

"No matter what, you can't really fight wildly on a large scale. After all, there are still many gathering places of weak humans around you that you care about."

Ryoumen Sukuna let out a low laugh: "Sooner or later, you will pay a heavy price for your kindness."

Jiang Lai's expression remained unchanged, and he looked at her calmly with his brown eyes: "Sooner or later, you will receive the judgment you deserve for the sins and evils you have committed."

The morning breeze suddenly rose, and in the silence, the rustling sound was dense and continuous.

Li Mei served a bowl of meat soup and stood beside him. He pursed his lips and did not speak to break the silence.

Ryomen Sukuna snorted with disdain. He first retracted his gaze to Rimei and casually reached out to take the bowl of meat soup.

Jiang Lai also withdrew his gaze, floating the book to one side and simply straightened his sleeves. In his heart, he did not forget the most important thing about coming to Ryoumen Sukuna.

That's why he suddenly said the next second: "Speaking of humans, aren't you also stupid enough to sign an agreement with others?"

——This sentence is actually a lie. After all, Jiang Lai doesn't know whether Ryoumen Sukuna has ever had contact with Nose Flower.

Ryomen Sukuna chewed and swallowed the rotten wild boar meat in his mouth, and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Oh? Why, the other party also came to you?"

Jiang Lai smiled calmly, his expression was very mysterious.

He thought silently in his heart: I actually figured out a little bit. It seems that Ryomen Sukuna must have come into contact with someone. It is probably the Nose (brain flower) that I have been paying attention to.

The two Sukuna looked at Jiang Lai for two or three seconds, and suddenly smiled: "But you probably don't know the content."

"Really? Are you so sure?" Jiang Lai asked back.

"If you knew the details—" Ryoumen Sukuna trailed off meaningfully, "you wouldn't be so calm."

"..." Jiang Lai narrowed his eyes slightly as he pondered in his heart.

What this means is that the agreement between Naohua and Sukuna not only involves the two of them, but also involves themselves or the things they care about?

But if he asked the other party openly, he would definitely not tell him. Jiang Lai knew this, so he did not waste his energy here.

Ryomen Sukuna is the embodiment of extreme evil. He is a person who pursues freedom and self-centeredness to the extreme and does not care about anything else. His evil seems to be engraved in his bones.

Thinking of this, Jiang Lai's thoughts suddenly paused.

...Wait, logically speaking, the birth of [Death] shouldn't be extremely evil.

In a sense, death has both an evil side and a good side. Together, they are something that exists equally and objectively in the world.

What does it mean when [birth] says that [death] is messed up? Why is [death] messed up? Is it because something is missing?

Nowadays, [death] seems to have only [evil] but no [good]. Where has the latter gone?

Thoughts were racing in his mind. At a certain moment, combined with his previous speculations about reincarnation, Jiang Lai had a somewhat unbelievable speculation in his mind, which was bubbling like soda and occupied his mind.

Yuji Itadori, the so-called container of Ryomen Sukuna a thousand years later, and Ryomen Sukuna himself are almost two extremes.

If one is [true good], the other is [true evil].

If so, could they have been twins a thousand years ago? In the cursed world, twins are an unspoken curse.

Could it be that [death] is different from individuals like them, and is actually a special, two-part [existence]?

As the good side of [Death], where is he now? Did something happen that made him never show up?

Jiang Lai's brown eyes fell on the ground in front of him as his emotions surged. He was silent for a while, and when he opened his mouth he had already changed the subject:

"Let me ask you a question. Were you an only child or a child of twins?"