20 Chapter 18

Jake, Torai and Tanzawa were having coffee at a table.

Torai looked around and said. "This looks exactly like Japan."

Jake took a sip of coffee and said. "It looks like Japan because it is Japan, the only difference being that there are cursed spirits going around that are invisible to humans.

And then there are the sorcerers that vary in strength."

"What do you mean?"

"There is one sorcerer we have to avoid at all costs, if he even sees us that guy would be able to tell we are not from this world."

Torai's and Tanzawa's eyes widened and Torai said. "So what if he can tell that we're from another world?"

"You don't understand, he's at the same time the strongest sorcerer in history.

It's impossible to touch him and he can kill us in an instant.

He can probably kill every person alive on earth in less than a day if he so wishes to do.

And he doesn't run out of stamina.

He's invincible, all we can do is avoid him and hope for the best."

Both of them had sweat going down their foreheads and Tanzawa said. "Maybe I can look around for him since I can see from all directions and I can see way better than a normal person."

"That's true, but if you see him look away immediately, he will notice you.

He has white hair, wears a blindfold and is pretty tall.

He usually wears all black and if he doesn't have a blindfold he will still have something covering his eyes.

If you just see someone with white hair announce me."

"Understood, but with this guy in the picture I guess there are more like him?"

"Yes and no, there are people that can kill us if we run into them.

But their number isn't big, so the chances of us running into them is pretty minuscule.

But we will just run away if something happens."

Torai looked at Jake and said. "Alright, where do we start?"

"First we have to settle something, we will go in our separate ways."

Tanzawa asked with a confused face. "Why?"

"Because if we meet one of the people that are very strong it will make our chances of survival bigger, if we are together we will all die but if we are alone only one of us will die.

That's how big the difference in strength is, we either can easily kill most of the people in this world or get absolutely obliterated by some of curses and sorcerers here.

Just don't do anything outlandish and focus on killing the curses quietly.

And if you run into other humans who can use special powers just go the other way, since there are chances that they aren't alone."

"Understood."

Jake got up on and said. "I'll go to the sewers since there should be some cursed spirits there, you guys talk between each other and settle on a spot."

After he said that Jake activated his concealing skill ,he was practically invisible to normal humans and walked away."

Tanzawa opened his mouth and said. "He said something about the place where negative emotions exist that's where the curses are right?

Then I'll go check out the schools since I hated going school!"

Torai sighed and said. "Guess I'll check the graveyards then."

>>>>

Jake was was standing over the corpses of big cursed spirits in the sewers and he had to say, there were a lot of them.

He probably killed dozens of them and they kept coming.

*SWOOSH* *SWOOSH*

He swung his sword and air blades continued to come out of them.

"They're weak.

Looks like they are big blobs of flesh."

He started walking around looking out for more curses but something on the ground caught his attention.

He picked them up and looked at it.

!!!

Jake's eyes widened and he thought. 'This!

This is a transfigured human!

That means that-'

"Oh good,good.

It'd be a problem if Satoru Gojo showed up.

But someone too weak wouldn't be worth experimenting on."

Jake looked to his left and saw a handsome man with a patchwork face, grayish blue long hair and different colored eyes.

Jake's face went serious and he thought. 'Looks like I met one of the people I wanted to avoid the most.'

Jake's eyes widened again and he said while looking behind Mahito. "Gojo-sensei!"

Mahito's eyes widened too and he hurriedly turned around to look if Gojo was really there.

He wasn't.

Mahito looked back and Jake disappeared and you could only hear the footsteps of someone running.

Mahito's face was an amused and annoyed one at the same time. "I can't believe I fell for that."

Back to Jake who had a smirk on his face. 'That fucker fell for it!

What a stupid guy!'

His face went serious and he thought. 'But again, he isn't nowhere near his prime and he was born not so long ago.'

*CLOP-CLOP-CLOP*

Jake heard the sound of a horse running towards him so he looked backwards and saw Mahito running towards him with a stupid grin on his face, instead of his normal human legs he had horse legs instead.

'He was fast enough as he was, but now with horse legs he's insanely fast.

What's surprising is that he can keep up with me when it comes to speed!'

"No use running away then!"

*SWOOSH*

He jumped forward, turned around and swung his sword towards Mahito.

Three small transfigured humans appeared in his hand and he punched them towards the slash.

*BOOM*

The slash cut right through the first one but stopped at the second one, the transfigured humans crashed into the wall where Jake was supposed to be in the air.

Jake was behind Mahito with his sword raised aiming to cut his head.

*SWOOSH*

Mahito's eyes widened, he raised both of his hands and blocked the hit while reinforcing his hands with cursed energy.

After he hit him Jake jumped backwards and looked at the damage.

Both of his hands were cleanly cut off.

"Impressive, I defended with cursed energy but you managed to cut through both of my hands cleanly.

That weapon of yours is really sharp."

Jake raised his sword and said. "Your hands were tough too, I was totally aiming to decapitate you."

"Oh, good.

It seems like you don't mind talking."

"Do I have a choice ?"

Mahito raised his broken arms and said "Hey. The soul or the body.

Which do you think came first?

You know? Like the chicken or the egg.

Does the soul dwell in the body?

Or is it the body built on the soul?"

'I released some poisonous gas some time ago, it should take effect soon.

But I guess I'll humor him until it does take effect.'

"The latter."

"Bingo. The soul should always exist before the body.

The shape of the body...

Will always be dependent on the shape of the soul."

After he said that his hands regenerated in no time.

"I'm not healing. Instead, I'm reinforcing the shape of my soul.

You get it now, don't you?

My cursed technique can touch and reshape the soul."

As Mahito was babbling more about how hard it is to make humans small and to keep them Jake frowned and thought. 'The poison's not taking effect, so much for the poison that even affects the soul.'

*SWOOSH* *SWOOSH* *SWOOSH*

Jake swung his sword countless times and sent slashes towards Mahito.

Mahito used his transfigured humans to protect himself and at the same time he made his right hand very big.

*SWOOSH* *CRASH*

Mahito swung his hand at insane speeds and Jake jumped upwards, sticked to the ceiling ushing his sword and kicked Mahito's arm downwards.

*BAM* *CRASH*

Mahito's arm crushed to the ground and Jake jumped on it.

As Jake was running towards Mahito on his arm, he made his hand normal-sized again.

Mahito turned his hand into three long whips with curved blades on each one of them and sent them towards Jake.

*CHING* *CHING* *CHING*

Jake summoned his prosthetic arm and defended with both of his arm and ninjato against the incoming blades.

'Fuck! This is bad!

I can't hurt him since he can just change the shape of his soul and that would render null every attack of mine.

I can't do damage to the soul since I don't have any attack like that.

I have to run away somehow, I don't have enough strength to destroy this whole tunnel so I have to think of something else.

!!!

I get it, I'll just beat the fuck out of him until he runs out of cursed energy.'

Jake dropped al hesitation and rushed towards Mahito.

"Coming straight at me?!

Alright!!"

Mahito was getting excited since this is his first real fight.

Mahito transformed his arm into a drill and sent it like a bullet towards Jake.

*SWOOSH* *CRASH*

Jake cut the flesh that was connecting the drill to Mahito's body and said. "Even if you are a special grade, you are still just a newborn."

*SWOOSH*

He cut Mahito in two with the ninjato in his left hand and with his right hand he cut the spikes that were coming towards his abdomen.

*BAM*

He kneed Mahito in the stomach and then elbowed him in the face with his right hand while stabbing him over and over with his ninjato.

While he was getting his ass handed to him Mahito thought. 'There's no time to make a decoy.

Ah what...

What fresh inspiration!

This is...

Death!'

Unknown to everyone else but Mahito, his soul shone brightly and something awakened in him.

His mouth opened wide and two pairs of hands connected making some hand signs inside his mouth.

'Now, I can do it...

Domain Expansion

Self-Embodiment Of Perfection.'

He didn't get to finish his line of thought because a barrier was formed around Jake and Mahito, hands manifested behind Mahito and everything else was just black.

Jake's face went to a surprised one and he said. "Fucking hell."

Mahito smiled and said. "Right now...

I feel grateful to you."

Jake put his weapons away and thought. 'Domain expansion...

It's an area constructed with cursed energy. Once trapped inside, all his hits are fatal and cannot be evaded.

Me not being a jujutsu sorcerer that cannot activate even a simple domain means that I am now literally in the palm of his hands.'

Jake looked at Mahito and said nothing.

His face was stoic and you couldn't see any kind of emotion on it.

"Any last words?"

Jake looked down and remembered everything that happened to him up until now.

His friends dying, him losing an arm, him losing his humanity the more time went and him torturing people and taking pleasure in it.

As he was about to die he realized whose fault this all was...

It was that being's work, because of him everything changed and he lost himself. He finally got a second chance at life as Jake just for it to be taken away from him by that bastard.

"There's no god out there...

And even if there was...

He would be dead."

Mahito's eyes widened for a moment but then he said. "I'll make sure to remember that."

*SPLASH*

Jake's body exploded like a balloon and only his clothes and blood were left on the ground.

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Author note:

For those who think this story ended, it didn't.

For those attentive enough I left a clue regarding what's going to happen in the next chapter in the early chapters.