Chapter 10

But now the problem comes again.

Imagine that you are a high-ranking figure in the world of sorcery thousands of years ago.

Admittedly, it was definitely a mistake in your decision that you wanted to kill the Container but ended up creating a more uncontrollable existence, but is this a reason for you to unite everyone and completely erase the existence of the Container from the world?

It doesn’t seem so.

There must be many stories behind this that Gojo Satoru doesn't know yet.

When people hide something, it's usually a sign that they have a secret and don't want anyone to know.

But Gojo Satoru never cares what others think.

The six eyes made his world full of secrets since childhood, and the vast amount of information allowed the young Gojo Satoru to be exposed to a huge amount of information in his first few years, which other people would never be able to access in their entire lives.

After the initial novelty, boredom sets in.

And the whole world knows what a bored kid does—entertains himself.

So when the higher-ups wanted to execute Otsutsuki Yuta, Gojo Satoru chose to capture him and make him his student.

When the higher-ups decided to execute Ryoumen Sukuna's vessel, Gojo Satoru once again chose to capture him as a student, and gave him more fingers and an expert private tutor as a gift.

And now I have encountered a curse that seems to have some origins with the higher-ups...

If it weren't for the fact that the curse in front of him looked difficult to catch, Gojo Satoru would have even thought about capturing it - after all, although he couldn't be a student, it would be good to use it as teaching material.

Maybe even scare a few rotten oranges to death.

Well, it seems that Gojo Satoru has been torturing the high-ranking officials in the Jujutsu world, but in fact, it is entirely because of their own evil deeds.

After all, Gojo Satoru just wanted to have fun, and it was within the controllable range in the usual sense.

Gojo Satoru looks chaotic and evil, and he knows it.

But in fact, he defines himself as lawful neutral, and few people know this.

So he wouldn't easily slaughter those rotten oranges at the top who were just dragging the team down most of the time.

At the same time, he will unconditionally remove all curses.

The curse in front of him has not been caught doing anything bad yet, and it holds information that can shake the entire curse world, so Gojo Satoru can lower its priority.

But he would not directly drag the cursed spirits out of the "cleanup list".

Although the cursed spirit still has its sanity now, it may be silently distorted by the cursed power at any time.

Cursed spirits are evil and inhuman and need to be exorcised. This is as iron-clad a law as the sun rising in the east and setting in the west in the world of curses.

Gojo Satoru couldn't help but recall the state of the cursed spirit when he first met it.

The lake is located somewhere between the Jujutsu High School and Gojo Satoru's home, and the cursed spirit at that time seemed to have just escaped from the seal.

Even if sealed, the curse will grow stronger over time.

The most famous example is Ryomen Sukuna.

The huge curse power accumulated over hundreds of years swept through the soul of the cursed spirit the moment the seal was lifted. This level of impact could easily drive any living being crazy, not to mention the curse that was already on the verge of madness.

But the curse took control.

From existence to nothingness, the cursed spirit simply and roughly suppressed all the accumulated cursed power, and the energy fluctuations were so low that they were even lower than those of ordinary people, and in this way it temporarily preserved its own personality and life.

At that time, Gojo Satoru was pinching a "茈" in his hand. After the other person's eyes returned to the clarity that is unique to humans, he put down his hand, finding it quite interesting.

As for the reason why the seal was suddenly lifted at this point in time?

It could only be because Gojo Satoru had just had a fight at the lake the day before he met the cursed spirit.

The little bit of cursed energy that leaked out was enough to seal a fact.

——A new Rokugan was born.

Gojo Satoru's ancestor messed up and left the rotten bones to the next Rokugan, him.

As an excellent descendant who is countless times better than this useless ancestor, Gojo Satoru will certainly take care of everything.

He would destroy the cursed spirit before it became the thing he hated most - killing him.

Gojo Satoru thought this was a kind act.

"How about this, you tell me about the container, and then I will exorcise you, give you freedom, and ensure that you don't lose your integrity in your later years."

Although he was very interested in the story of the cursed spirit in front of him and the six-eyed man named Hatake, Hisahito's matter was more urgent.

After all, what if the cursed spirit goes crazy before we even get to the bottom of it?

Gojo Satoru said with an expression that said, "I am such a great teacher!" "It's a win-win situation!"

Bai Yun:?

You took information from me and then wanted to kill me, and you still say it's a win-win situation?

Are you sure you didn't win twice?

But this is indeed a good opportunity to make a patch, and Bai Yun may not necessarily lose out by making a deal with Gojo Satoru.

Bai Yun hesitated for a moment, then pretended not to know and asked, "Whose container is that?"

"From Sukuna."

Basically everyone already knows about this matter, and Gojo Satoru has no intention of hiding it.

"Do you have any other candidates in mind?"

Gojo Satoru is alluding to the "contents" of "Uchiha Obito".

Bai Yun certainly couldn't answer this question honestly, so he simply skipped the question and said, "I can tell you what I know about the container."

"In return, you owe me a favor."

This is actually just a way out that Bai Yun left for himself. After all, as a vest role-playing system, he will draw other vests in the future, and there will always be times when he needs help.

As the strongest of the super-standard, Gojo Satoru can do almost anything as long as he wants. Making him owe someone a favor is basically like having an extra "universal card" in your hand.

Gojo Satoru himself is the one who knows this best: "I don't want to owe a favor to the cursed one."

"I can guarantee that the favor will not put you in a difficult position, and it will not harm the interests of the human side."

Let alone a cursed spirit, even if a human being made such a concession during a transaction, it could only mean that the other party was hatching some huge conspiracy.

For a normal person, this is a dangerous signal.

For Gojo Satoru, this was an invitation and a challenge.

When others choose to "walk away", Gojo Satoru will step forward.

After all, why not?

Gojo Satoru smiled: "That sounds acceptable."

"And I don't necessarily really need you."

Seeing Gojo Satoru raise his eyebrows, as if he was not convinced, before the two sides really started a quarrel like elementary school students, Bai Yun forced the topic back on track: "So, what do you want to know?"

Gojo Satoru noticed that the curse spirit was not as calm as it appeared, but he did not say it directly. Instead, he asked what he was most concerned about: "Is it possible for the container to separate from the curse?"

Bai Yun actually didn't know the specific situation of Ryomen Sukuna and Itadori Yuji, but the title of the Cursed King and the unique identity that matched it left Bai Yun a lot of room for explanation.

What? Yuji and the others aren't like this? Oh, that must be because of Ryoumen Sukuna, the King of Curses must be special.

Thinking of this, Bai Yun confidently applied the Jinchūriki's situation, and his expression became complicated and gloomy as he immersed himself in the role: "...Of course, but the container will die."

Gojo Satoru carefully observed Zhu's expression and frowned slightly: "Have you tried it?"

This may sound silly.

When Gojo Satoru asked this question, he was mainly trying to save his students. As for the separated King of Curses, Gojo Satoru was confident that he could successfully exorcise Sukuna even if he was in his prime.

If you don't want to kill the container, why not separate it from the curse?

This is the normal thought that a sorcerer would have when he finds that an innocent person has accidentally become a vessel.

It’s just that the specific operation needs further confirmation.

Gojo Satoru currently has no idea how to separate the two, but he still asked this question with the thought, "What if someone really could have researched something with such an obscure technology hundreds of years ago?"

The results were more complicated than he had imagined.

He was not surprised that some people in that era tried to separate the two.

When he heard the answer, Gojo Satoru even wanted to joke, "Is this how you died?"

But no, the cursed spirit's expression wasn't just one of trying.

Its expression is something like "Not only did we try, we tried it so many times, enough that I look like I'm recalling my entire life."

How many containers were there hundreds of years ago?

This was the first question that popped into Gojo Satoru's mind.

Why try so many times?

This was the second question that arose in Gojo Satoru's mind.

And the mystery is easy to solve.

A container will not simply grow out of the ground. Even if an ordinary person eats a cursed object like Hisahito did, the possibility of being poisoned to death is much greater than the possibility of being incarnated, let alone becoming a container.

So to answer your first question: apparently, hundreds of years ago, people had relatively sophisticated techniques for making containers.

As for why we have to try so many times——

The fact that the container continued even after it died so many times only proved that the people at that time had completely opposite goals to Gojo Satoru.

The point of separation is not the container at all.

They want a curse.

"As a container, it will merge with the curse and become indistinguishable from the other."

"So the curse will gradually be engraved on the container over time."

Each time they separate, the container dies, and the curse is sealed onto the next container, like reincarnation.

...They once tried to create humanoid weapons.

And judging from the current historical records - that is, there are no records at all - they must have failed, and failed miserably.

The failure was so great that this unprecedented technology was transformed from a bloody medal worthy of immortality into an appalling scandal that needed to be covered up.

No one knows what happened in the meantime.

But right in front of Gojo Satoru at this moment was the key to solving the entire mystery.

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When the cursed spirit left, Gojo Satoru saw the pattern behind it.

It was a red and white round fan with the same color scheme as a ping-pong ball.

Nowadays, there are many kinds of patterns on people's clothes, from flowers, birds, fish, insects to swear words from various countries. There are all kinds of patterns in rich varieties and large quantities.

Most of them are meaningless, but sometimes they are not.

For example, brand logos, mothers sewing their children's names on their clothes, and athletes wearing uniforms during games.

In ancient times, when technology was not as convenient as it is today, the images that were still displayed with great effort almost all belonged to the latter.

In that era, there was a group of people who proudly carried this red and white round fan on their backs. It was accumulated by countless clansmen and was the glory of the family.

And now, this fan has somehow become one of the gravels swallowed by the long river of time, just like the Hatake and the so-called Jinchūriki technology.