10 Chapter 10

I'm thinking of giving Itadori a love interest in this story. Who would be the ideal girl?

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"It's good to see you're all right."

Outside the boarding school, Megumi found an Itadori walking quietly through the forest.

"Controlling Sukuna has been quite simple."

Stopping in front of his companion, Itadori sighed as he pulled one of Sukuna's fingers out of his pocket.

"That curse seemed to have swallowed it up. That's why it was so powerful."

Megumi frowned, and bringing his hand to his chin, he nodded in agreement.

"I understand now, but how did one of Sukuna's fingers end up in this place?"

Itadori shrugged at his question. He knew that Kenjaku had put it there, but it would be strange for him to suddenly reveal it.

"By the way, where's Kugisaki?" Looking around, Itadori asked when he found no sign of the girl.

"She returned to school first. We faced some curses when we were running away, and her arm was injured." Megumi replied, turning to walk.

Itadori nodded, following him as he walked away from the place.

On his way out of the boarding school, Yuji removed a few remaining curses and took some time to think about what to do from that moment on.

Preventing the deal with Sukuna was indeed important, and would have prevented many problems in the future, but in this way, he ended up missing some opportunities.

Would he still be trained directly by Gojo? After all, this was an opportunity he didn't want to miss. Since he was already able to use the cursed energy, he only needed to refine his control and receiving tutoring from Gojo himself would certainly help.

He didn't have a technique, which meant that his strength depended solely on his control over the cursed energy. Compared to the others, he had this huge disadvantage.

"..."

Raising Sukuna's finger until it was in front of his eyes, Itadori analyzed it in silence, Megumi seeing this and raising an eyebrow.

"What are you going to do with-"

*Bite

Wide-eyed when Itadori suddenly plunged his finger into his mouth, Megumi felt sweat gather on his forehead, the hairs on the back of his neck bristling as a huge amount of cursed energy exploded from his companion's body.

"Ugh... I'll never get used to this." But just as the energy appeared, it disappeared, causing Megumi to breathe a sigh of relief.

With the two of them moving further and further away from the forest, Itadori gave a small smile as he looked down at his hand.

'I can feel it... My amount of cursed energy has certainly increased.

Even though at the moment he didn't have any techniques to fall back on, he felt that it would only be a matter of time before his body assimilated Sukuna's techniques.

He could feel his bond with the king of curses growing stronger, even if it was only in the slightest way. He knew that the best way to get his techniques was to eat his fingers to speed up assimilation.

Itadori was not a simple receptacle, or a mere prison.

He was a devourer, a creature capable of stealing the techniques of any being he devoured.

A talent not seen in 1000 years.

'I feel this disadvantage won't last long.

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"You seem to have coped well with the situation at boarding school, and even got a bit stronger."

Gojo smiled as he looked at Itadori. Since his arrival, he had immediately noticed his growth.

In terms of talent, he could even say that Itadori was on a par with Yuta, perhaps even better, since Itadori had been able to manipulate his cursed energy in less than two weeks.

Gojo certainly wasn't wrong when he said that he was a true talent not seen in 1000 years.

"But in the end, I still had to use Sukuna to get out alive." Itadori sighed, sitting down on the sofa in the living room where they were while looking around curiously. "By the way, why are we here? I thought we were going back to the college quarters."

Itadori recognized that room as the same place used for Itadori's training in the original story, which made him internally excited.

"The plans have changed. It seems the higher-ups aren't too happy about you staying alive, so you're going to stay here until you're strong enough."

Itadori nodded; he knew that since he hadn't died as planned, he would surely be hunted down later.

With his precarious level of cursed energy manipulation, he had no confidence in surviving without Gojo around. Surely secret training was the best course of action at the moment.

"You already seem to have understood how to manipulate cursed energy, so we'll focus on refining your control." Gojo cracked a small smile, Itadori raising an eyebrow in confusion when the man suddenly pulled a small boxing bear from his back.

'Where did he get that from?'

"Since you can already emit cursed energy, your training will be a little different from what I had planned. I want you to do the same as you did when you fought that special-grade curse."

Itadori listened to Gojo's words attentively, his eyes turning to his hands as he recalled the feeling of that battle.

"..."

And silently, a small smile appeared on his lips as he succeeded, the cursed energy being expelled from his body until it slowly concentrated in his fists.

!

But while he was feeling excited about succeeding, his eyes widened when a fist suddenly landed on his stomach, his head turning down to see that cursed doll about to attack him again.

"You little shit!"

With a vein popping out of his forehead, Itadori tried to punch him, but the puppet was quick to dodge and counter him with a sharp hook.

"It's set to attack the instant you exceed a certain limit of cursed energy, so you'll need to lower the output until it goes back to sleep. Of course, it will gradually lower the limit."

"Uh?" Blinking, Itadori immediately concentrated to decrease the amount of cursed energy, which caused the doll to immediately return to sleep. "That sounds too easy, maybe the biggest challenge is exhaustion."

"You think it's easy? Good, then I'll raise the bar a bit." Going over to a table, Gojo picked up numerous boxes of movie CDs, a smile on his lips. "You'll do all this while you're watching all these movies, and you'll keep going until you get a decent grip on your energy."

"..."

"Okay, that complicated things a bit."

Boom!

"You damn dummy!"