Strongest in the world

Twirling the replacement spear Teacher gave me in my hand.

I frowned,

Maki's was better.

In any case, I was now on the streets of Kyoto, helping out and waiting for the attack to commence.

My Teacher changed his mind and told me to go Kyoto instead, apparently I had to "spread the name of Gojo Satoru and his disciple!" or whatever.

While doing so, I thought back on my fight (not really a fight, but hey, you get what I mean) with Geto.

That part where I punched the ice…

I asked Teacher why I had gained a boost of power then and he told me what Black Flash was.

To infuse cursed energy into a physical hit in a millionths of a second…

Apparently, this has only been done with physical attacks in close combat before.

When I asked my teacher, he just told me that Jujutsu Sorcerers don't have that level of precision on cursed energy…

Hm, so, it was possible…

And as I leisurely walked the street with my spear in hand,

I came across a bunch of Grade 2 Curses that I wiped clean.

Hm, I guess the attack is commencing.

I'll try to keep property damage to a minimum, I love Kyoto after all.

Noticing the presence of a Grade 1 curse, I turned and was about to charge towards it,

Before stopping in my tracks as I got a feeling something big was about to take place.

Shit! What now?

I scratched my brain to think if I missed anything, and I could not find anything.

Did I forget something about the plot?

Ugh, alright, if you can't remember anything, think of clichés!

Yuta is the "protagonist", the bad guy has declared war, something might be amiss, Yuta is at Jujutsu High…

Alone…

Ah, fuck. They're after him aren't they.

Shit, I need to get back to Tokyo!

While I was lost in thought, the Grade 1 from earlier had rushed at me,

I was about to stab it when it splattered into millions of pieces.

Huh?

"Disciple! No time to explain, I'm sending you back to school."

I felt myself being pulled from my jacket as I looked up to see Teacher.

Guess he figured something else as well, huh.

"Toge and Panda are already there, please find them and help them."

I nodded as he then teleported the both of us back to Jujutsu High,

"Oh, and when you find Yuta, tell him I found out how to release Rika."

Before dropping me off in the sky and teleporting away…

This fucker.

Alright, first, there's a curtain, yeah they're definitely here for Yuta.

Maki is with Yuta so they should be safe unless they send some big-shot.

I'm not risking it.

My current streak in Absolute Gambler was 0, after I lost the last coin flip with Geto.

I don't trust my luck enough to rely purely on it, especially not when it has been good to me for a while now.

So, I infused cursed energy into my spear and decided to find out the situation first.

Reaching the curtain, I slashed at it and opened a hole as I reinforced myself and landed on the ground.

I could see smoke right ahead, better get there fast.

Infusing my legs with even more Cursed Energy, I sprinted.

There were holes in the wall, so I used that as a shortcut,

Before arriving at the scene…

I quickly assessed the situation; Maki was on the floor, injured.

Geto was watching Panda get kicked back by a bunch of curses, and Toge was coughing up blood.

Yeah, no.

I instantly used {Absolute Gambler}, and as a coin flipped into the air, I charged to support Panda.

'Heads.'

"Hoh, look who's here."

Noticing my presence, Geto said with a smile that did not reach his eyes.

"I'm going to have fun with this."

He smirked as he commanded the curses.

"Round two, fucker."

I pulled my spear forward as I slowly increased the cursed energy in it.

Slashing at the curse flying towards me, I kept moving forward.

Noticing that there was no end to these curses, I quickly thought of another plan.

And, as I felt there was enough cursed energy in my spear,

I slashed upwards, creating a small blashwave powered by cursed energy, as I jumped to the side.

{Heads | Gained; Cursed Technique; Mother's Breath}

It was a simple yet effective cursed technique.

I could generate a current of wind from any direction at any speed.

The faster it is, the more cursed energy required.

It was a good technique.

I had a fairly decent amount of cursed energy, which had only increased due to my training and my technique.

It seems every time I lucked out and rolled huge amounts of Cursed Energy from my Gacha,

My body got used to it and increased my natural amounts of cursed energy.

As of right now, I had roughly four times the cursed energy that of a normal Jujutsu Sorcerer.

{Cursed Technique; Mother's Breath}

I activated the technique as I sent sharp breezes of wind from the right of Geto.

They were strong enough to cut normal human flesh.

I then activated {Absolute Gambler} again.

"Tails."

I muttered as I leaped forward again.

I used {Mother's Breath} to send a current of wind from above, pushing the coin down faster.

It seems Geto had jumped back when he felt the wind attack directed his way.

I could see his ropes were torn, but there was no visible damage on him.

Either he healed himself with Reverse Cursed Technique, or he dodged.

Hopefully it was the latter, but I had to watch out for the former.

I kicked the ground and arrived in front of the man before I sent a uppercut, making sure to infuse cursed energy at the last second,

'Black Flash!'

Sending him flying back and crashing into the wall.

{Tails | Gained; 15% of Gojo Shojo's Cursed Energy}

Feeling the Cursed Energy I had used for Mother's Breath replenish, I got on guard.

I utilised Mother's Breath again as I blew away the dust from the debris for a better view.

Geto was sitting on the floor, with a hand covering his face. I could see his body was moving.

"—a… ahaha— Gahaha!"

The man started chuckling and laughing.

"I truly underestimated you, Fujiwara-kun, I thought because you were just a first year, you would be weaker,"

"But, I guess the rumour that you had potential to beat Satoru isn't all false, no wonder he chose you as his disciple."

"But, you're not alone, Fujiwara-kun."

I widened my eyes as I felt several curse spirits manifest behind me.

Shit! My classmates!

{Mother's Breat—

"Blown away!"

A huge amount of cursed energy suddenly appeared,

This was the highest amount of cursed energy I have ever felt at once.

I heard ringing and felt myself almost get pushed off balance,

I quickly turned around to see… Yuta.

And Special Grade Curse, Rika.

He was holding a megaphone in his hands, as all the curses in the surrounding got blown to pieces.

I could feel absolute anger from him.

"Yuta! Take the others and go find Teacher!"

I quickly shouted as I turned back to face a smiling Geto.

"But—!"

"We need to heal others first! Take them to Ieiri-san to make sure they are fine!"

"I can–"

"No, Yuta, we can't risk it, Ieiri-san is more experienced, and furthermore, Teacher asked for you to find him."

"..."

"Trust me, alright?"

"Alright… but you better kill him for me!"

"Gotcha!"

I didn't want to tell Yuta that I wanted to go against Geto one-on-one.

I had to become stronger, and in order to do so, I have to fight someone like Geto that I am likely to lose against.

Sorry, Yuta, but forgive my selfishness, I need this.

I could feel that he had calmed down somewhat, no longer exuding pure anger.

Geto was watching our interaction with a smile.

"You're not going anywhere, Okkotsu-kun. Or, I'm killing Fujiwara-kun now."

Yuta stopped in his tracks.

Shit, he wants Yuta, doesn't he.

Now I really need Yuta out of here.

"Yuta, go! I can take him on, his goal is you!"

I could feel the hesitation from my friend as I sensed his presence still behind me.

"Trust me, bro."

These days, I have started treating Yuta like a younger brother, even though I was younger.

I can also tell he looked up to me, I don't know, it feels nice; to have a friend my age I can call brother.

My mental age was definitely older and I could not help but want to guide this lost man (like I wasn't one, ha ha).

And it seems that calling him brother got rid of any hesitation as he nodded towards me and leaped away.

"Ahh, you just have to go and ruin my plan again."

He wasn't smiling anymore.

"I'm really going to have to kill you. I didn't want to do this, especially not to Satoru's only disciple."

"But you leave me with no choice."

Fuck, I could feel a huge amount of cursed energy.

"This is one of the sixteen registered Special Grade Cursed Spirit, Tamamo-no-mae Incarnate."

He pulled out a doll-like creature that was dressed in a yukata.

Fuck, he was being serious now, huh.

Fine,

"My cursed technique, Absolute Gambler, allows me to gain the Cursed Technique of any person on the planet, in the form of gambling."

I was omitting a lot in order to gain the advantage of a binding vow while also not giving my enemy too much information.

Feeling a boost in my cursed energy,

{Absolute Gamble}

I activated my technique again as a coin flipped into the air for the third time.

{Mother's Breath}

I activated my other technique as I sent a breeze pushing down the coin again,

'Heads. Please.'

I pushed the ground,

{Tails | Lost; 12% of Cursed Energy}

Tch. I was doing so well, fuck.

Arriving in front of the cursed spirit, I stabbed my spear forward as I used Mother's Breath to create wind blade—

But then, I was back in my initial position.

Teleportation?

No, I didn't feel the shift in space that happens when Teacher teleports me.

Wait, what was the legend of Tamamo-no-mae again?

I dashed forward again, but this time as I got faster, the distance between us seemed to increase,

And the ground between us stretched.

I stopped and thought,

I never paid much attention to it other than its FGO counterpart.

Is it earth manipulation? Then what is the explanation for the teleportation trick?

She was a nine tailed fox right?

Alright, gotta be aware of poison in the air then.

I dashed forward for the last time, using Mother's Breath to push me.

This time, I successfully arrived in front of the curse as I stabbed it with my spear.

Wait… this was too easy, something's not righ—

"Gakh!?!!!"

I felt a sharp pain in my stomach as I coughed up blood.

I took a look at what happened and saw that Tamamo had stabbed me with her fingers,

Geto was grinning,

And my spear… was stabbing the air…

Shit! {Mother's Breath}!

I created a strong burst of wind, sharp enough to disembody people with half of my remaining Cursed Energy.

Pushing all of them back, I saw that Geto had gotten a cut.

Either he's not healing it or he can't use Reverse Cursed Technique…

{Reverse Cursed Technique}

Healing myself up, I then activated my Technique again,

{Absolute Gambler}

'Heads,'

Hoping for Cursed Energy, I thought back to what had occurred.

I was sure to have hit it…

Reality bending!? No, I don't remember Tamamo having anything to do with that.

She was a nine tailed fox witch—

Illusion!

Shit, but this illusion is on another level, every one of my senses were fucked.

Fuck, I can't rely on my senses then…

{Heads | Gained; 94% of Yuta Okkotsu's Cursed Energy}

Ha ha! Fuck, let's so this, then.

If it is going to trick my senses, I might as well not use them.

I closed my eyes, zoned out everything I heard, and focused on Cursed Energy.

Reinforcing my body with cursed energy, I got on guard again.

Feeling a bundle of cursed energy behind me, I instantly turned and shot towards it.

Arriving close to it, I sent my spear forward and managed a hit on its shoulder before it dodged and flew away.

Gotcha.

I turned and leaped towards where it was, as I used my spear and sent a downward vertical slash.

While slowly increasing the amount of cursed energy I am using to reinforce everything.

And as my attack was about to land,

Boom!

I got sent flying sideways as I crashed into the wall.

"Don't forget I'm here."

I heard the voice of Geto as I opened my eyes to see him wielding a three-side nunchuck.

I could feel the quality of the weapon when it bashed into my head,

Maki is making me into a cursed tool geek…

In any case, fuck.

He knows I'm using cursed energy to sense them so he's purposely not emitting any.

While this makes it so that he wasn't covered by Tamamo's illusions, I still have the cursed spirit in question to worry about.

{Absolute Gambler}

'Heads.'

It seems the time limit for Mother's Breath had ran out as I could no longer utilise it,

And as the coin flipped into the air, I opened my eyes and charged forward.

Sending a stab towards Geto, he blocked with the chain on the nunchuck before trying to redirect the attack to me.

I dodged by side stepping to the right but I felt my instinct flare when a bundle of cursed energy was behind me.

Jumping into the air, I flipped back further.

Sending a stab towards where the cursed energy was, I was blocked by Geto with his nunchucks again.

Pushing my spear down and pushing me up, I used it as a pole as I held onto the handle and sent a kick.

{Black Flash}

Hitting the cursed energy away, I focused on Geto.

While I was sideways, I sent a kick downwards towards the man,

Which he blocked with his forearm, but,

{Black Flash}

The kick pushed him back as I landed and held my spear.

Getting into a crouched stance with my spear forward.

{Heads | Gained; Cursed Technique; Wild West}

Another simple yet effective cursed technique…

I can classify, with my cursed technique, anything as a bullet and shoot it forward at its speed.

But, before it gets shot forward, it has to be in a stationary position.

{Wild West}

Closing my eyes, I marked myself as the bullet, preparing my spear forward,

I shot towards where the huge bundle of cursed energy was.

And as I was about to make contact, I detached the cursed energy from my spear,

Before infusing it all back right as I touched the curse.

{Black Flash}

Stabbing into the curse, I opened my eyes to see a broken spear in my hand and one Geto beside me,

I let go, crouched again, and shot myself back.

Back in position, I realised I had to go close combat now that I have no weapon.

I needed to get a jackpot.

{Absolute Gambler}!

As a coin flipped into the air, I grinned.

'Tails.'

Shooting myself towards Geto, and as I landed in front of him,

Several low level curses appeared as I pushed through them,

I sent a punch to which he dodged, and as he pulled his nunchucks and whipped it towards me,

I raised my other arm and blocked as I infused a large amount of cursed energy into it.

{Black Flash}

My arm crackled in red and black as the nunchuck bounced off me.

Geto's look of surprise wasn't lost as I then reinforced even more cursed energy into my body,

Making myself even faster as I sent a left hook.

{Black Flash}

It landed on his cheeks, sending him flying again and crashing as smoke from the debris appeared.

{Tails | Gained; 63% of Ling Wei's Cursed Energy}

I felt a small bit of cursed energy rush into me as I cursed.

While it was still a successful roll, I didn't get dogshit.

Shit, I could feel Geto releasing more cursed energy, he's going to try something.

{Absolute Gambler}

'Heads.'

Catching a bunch of debris on the ground, I invoked Wild West on them as I shot them towards the direction Geto went,

Trying to stall him as the coin started falling.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

As I heard nothing else except the rocks making contact and mini explosions,

I got on guard again and surged cursed energy through my body, waiting for the smoke to clear out.

"Ha… Hahaha!!! Wonderful, truly worthy of being called Satoru's disciple!"

"I am going to have to go all out now. I wanted to save this for Yuta Okkotsu, but you really leave me with no choice."

"Do you know Maximum techniques? They are Cursed Techniques' supreme art. Of course, aside from domains."

The man started explaining as a swirling of cursed energy appeared behind him.

"I will combine my 4,461 remaining cursed spirits and kill you."

"Cursed Spirit Manipulation; Maximum: Uzumaki!"

The swirling cursed energy behind him started gaining shape as it expanded in size.

{Heads | Gained; Projection Sorcery}

As knowledge made its way into my head, I quickly ran my brain at full speed.

This was the most confusing Cursed Technique I had ever gained, but in essence it turns one second into 24 frames.

Each frame is 1/24th of a second, and during that frame I have to pre-determine my movement.

My movement has to obey the laws of physics, but other than that it can be anything.

This technique is extremely useful for speed as imagine you wanted to cross a 24 metre area.

Normally you'd run or walk that distance, but with this, I can pre-program my movements and "hop" 1 metre chunks per frame.

Making it so I crossed 1 metre in 1/24th of a second, arriving at the end goal in a second.

The only problem was, if I did not follow the moves which I had pre-determine for myself,

I would be frozen in frame for one second.

This also applies to my opponent, if I can touch them, I can use the technique on them,

Forcing them to move in 24 frames, and if they do not move in gaps of 1/24th of a second,

They will also be frozen.

Alright, let's do this.

And as the swirling cursed spirit behind Geto shot a tentacle forward,

I predetermined my movements. In the first 10 frames, I will be dashing forward in a Z formation.

Then I will use Absolute Gamble in 5 frames, and jump towards the coin and catch it in the other 5.

Then I will dash forward to Geto in 2 frames and punch him in the other two.

{Projection Sorcery}

I activated the technique as I could feel myself dash forward in the first frame, towards the enemy.

In the second frame, I dashed to the left.

Third, to the right.

During the fourth frame, I was going to dash forward to the left again,

But, Uzumaki had shot out another tentacle and it was right in the direction I'm going.

I broke the predetermined pattern as I froze and felt myself unable to move.

Seeing I was frozen in the air, Uzumaki sent another tentacle forward and, this time, it hit me.

But, feeling that I could move again, I quickly dodged to the side,

Unfortunately not before losing my entire right side.

"Hahah! Was that Noabito Zenin's Projection Sorcery!? You truly are amazing, unfortunately you are not as well versed as him in it."

Quickly pouring my Cursed Energy into Reverse Cursed Technique, I healed myself.

Looking to the side where the Uzumaki tentacle had hit,

I saw a pit in the ground as if someone had dropped multiple tons of dynamite.

Shit, if that even hits my body, I'm dead.

Luckily, I dodged and it only hit my right arm. If it had hit me, I'd die before I could use Reverse Cursed Technique.

Fuck, there was only one way for this,

Right now I have quite the amount of cursed energy,

If I constantly channelled reverse cursed technique into my body,

I should last for a minute…

{Reverse Cursed Technique} X {Projection Sorcery}

Feeling the overwhelming amount of reverse cursed energy flowing from me,

I predetermined my movements again, this time with the idea of Uzumaki in mind.

First frame, I slid and dashed towards Geto,

Second frame, I leaped into the air as a Uzumaki tentacle hit me while I healed.

Third frame, I prepare a landing blow on top of Geto, pulling my fist back.

Fourth frame I hit Get-

Geto opened a door like a portal underneath just as I was about to hit him and disappeared.

I continued as planned with my movements and started attacking the air.

Once the twenty four frames were over, I turned back to get hit by multiple of Uzumaki's attacks.

Sending me flying back, while my body healed.

"Ah, sorry, did I not tell you? After using Uzumaki, I extracted the Cursed Technique of my stronger curse spirits."

The man said with a condescending smile as he sent more Uzumaki tentacles.

Fuck, that attack had utilise a huge amount of my remaining reverse cursed energy,

I only had enough for less than twenty seconds left.

{Absolute Gambler} X {Projection Sorcery} X {Reverse Cursed Technique}

I used all of my cursed energy on this one last attack,

'Heads.'

First frame, I invoked Absolute Gambler and the coin flipped into the air,

Second frame, I leaped to catch the coin.

Third frame, I open my hand as I fall.

{Heads | Gained; Cursed Technique; Limitless}

Knowledge made its way into my head as I continued on with my moves.

Fourth frame, I landed.

Fifth frame, I leaped forward, towards Geto.

Sixth frame, I slid on the ground to avoid Uzumaki.

I failed as Uzumaki touched me and destroyed my body and everything behind me.

Boom!

Letting reverse cursed energy heal me, I continued on with my pre-determined moves.

Seventh frame, I reached Geto.

Eight frame, I touch Geto,

I missed,

The moment the Uzumaki had touched me earlier, he had erected some sort of wall from the ground.

Shit I need to get out of the moves, Uzumaki is behind me.

Instead of doing what the ninth frame was, I crouched down.

The Uzumaki tentacle hit the wall as debris fell on top of me.

As the debris hit me, I was unfrozen as I healed myself.

Shit, my reverse cursed energy was running out.

Two seconds,

Within those two seconds my reverse cursed energy had run out and an Uzumaki had touched me.

{Limitless}

Using the last of my curse energy I did two things,

Firstly, I pulled Infinity and blocked the Uzumaki, and secondly,

{Jackpot}

I had won the coin flip and got Limitless, that was my fifth win in a row,

Invoking Jackpot.

Orbs of lights surrounded me as the orbs began spinning a golden colour and a rainbow light appeared,

The FGO gacha animation was quite slow, and I had no way to skip it, so I leaped back.

Hoping to get a safe distance away from the Uzumaki,

"Too bad."

The voice of a man sounded behind me.

Geto walked out of his portal and sent more Uzumaki towards me. I tried to dodge them but there were too many.

BOOM!!!!

…

…

…

{5 star roll | Gained; Jujutsu: Six Eyes}

Moments turned to seconds,

And seconds turned to minutes — minutes to hours.

I was falling into a hole, I couldn't feel my arms.

I opened my eyes, looking around me, I was falling into the pit caused by Uzumaki,

I looked and saw atoms moving slowly, I focused again and saw cursed energy.

Threads of cursed energy I had never seen before,

The debris beside me was falling, slowing.

I was falling infinitely slow,

Ha…

Haha…

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I wanted to laugh out loud, but my perception of time and thoughts were faster than my body.

Either that or my body was already too broken to laugh.

I had less than 1% remaining of my total cursed energy left, but, with Six Eyes,

{Reversed Cursed Technique}

I healed my entire body back without even using a single drop of that 1%!!

I could feel my Cursed Energy slowly start replenishing.

2% to 3%,

But I didn't even need 1%.

{Six Eyes} X {Limitless}

Bringing Infinity into reality, I manipulated space and floated.

Running my hand through my blood cover hair, I turned my head back and laughed as I teleported out.

"HahaHahaHahHAHhahahHHA!!!"

Over the campus of Tokyo Jujutsu High,

Over the destruction and smoke of debris floating up,

I became the strongest for this single moment.

And, so, I laughed,

I laughed at it all,

I laughed at those weaker than me,

I laughed at myself,

At my luck, at the school, at the system.

And finally, I laughed at Geto Suguru.

I don't know whether to thank him or not, but I don't care anymore.

Floating through the beautiful sunset sky, over the destroyed earth beneath me.

Everything felt right, and I enjoyed it,

Like I am the only one that existed in this world,

The only one whose feelings are real,

The only one whose thoughts are of concern,

The only Honoured one throughout Heaven and Earth.

I felt like an Emperor.

"—aHahah!!! Ha ha, ahh~, right, I need to deal with Geto."

Teleporting back to where I fell, I glanced at a stoic Geto.

"You could also get Jujutsu Phenomenons."

"Hm? Haha! Yeah!! When I explained my cursed technique to you, I purposely only mentioned Cursed Techniques!"

"But, recently, Teacher helped me find out the potential of it! I could roll anything regarding Jujutsus!!"

I excitedly explained with a wide smile.

Ahh, it feels so good, the Pleasantness of the World.

"Heh, guess I lost, huh."

"Yeah. Any last words?"

"Tell Satoru I don't hold any resentment for the people of Jujutsu High."

He said with a resigned sigh, before shrugging his shoulders in a what-can-you-do manner.

I slowly floated down,

Landing on the ground, Geto unleashed Uzumaki one last time and sent it all towards me.

While I don't remember much in my past life,

I do remember some major things that were too famous to forget.

Firstly, Teacher's eyes and domain reveal,

And secondly, his third technique.

{Cursed Technique Lapse; Blue} + {Cursed Technique; Reversal: Red}

{Hollow Technique; Purple}

I opened my palm and flicked my fingers towards Geto.

Purple appeared as everything in the way got destroyed.

The Uzumaki was deleted, the air was deleted, and the upper parts of Geto's body was deleted.

All that was left was even more destruction and a pair of legs.

The curtain over Jujutsu High was gone,

And I teleported up as I felt the presence of one Satoru Gojo.

"So, he's dead, huh?"

"Yeah."

Teacher was uncharacteristically silent, and considering this was his friend, I didn't mind.

"Ah, Teacher, he told me to tell you that "he didn't resent the people of Jujutsu High""

"I see… Thanks! Disciple! Anyways, I see you finally got it, huh?"

He motioned towards my eyes and me floating.

"Yeah."

"UmU! As expected of my disciple, I knew this since day one."

"Though, I wonder how having two people with six eyes at the same time worked."

He stroked his chin before shaking his head and continuing,

"On another note, Yuta went on a rampage in Kyoto and killed off five special grade curses, before releasing Rika."

"Ah, I see. Speaking of them, how are Maki and the others?"

I asked.

"Ieiri healed them out, no worries, there weren't any severe injuries, though Yaga did freak out when he saw Panda."

Teacher laughed.

"In any case, my disciple, today is a good day! You are going to be promoted to Special Grade when the higher ups hear of this."

Teacher looked at me with a smile.

"Let's go get the others and get something to eat, my treat."

I smiled back and extended my hand for a fist bump.

He reciprocated,

"Yosh!"