Chapter 46
Right above the underground subway, Mahito found himself in a very tight spot, surrounded by Itadori Yuji, Nanami, Arata, and Todo. Although he gave them several injuries, putting to of them in the near death stage, in the end, he ran out of cursed energy and transfigured humans.
But then he was reinforced by Suguru Geto, till Choso said that he was, in fact, an old relic.
' Something is off. Where is Shinju? Why I'm I not feeling her cursed energy ? Why is he not using his cursed technique to summon something that will take as away ? Why is he keeping me in a thing spot ? And why do I have an unknown vow inside of my soul, what I'm I forgetting ? ' As Mahito had all these questions raging inside of his head, he had received a momentarily enlightenment.
' He wants to eat me and make me his curse, so I will first kill him and figure the other things later. '
With that decision, Mahito attacked Kenjaku, but the latter was always ready for that.
" Not that easy, right. " Was the last words Mahito heard before he saw his cursed technique devouring him. At that time, a memory that was sealed flashed inside his mind, and all the questions that he had were answered.
' So I jumped from a wolf's den to a tiger's den. Suck for me and him as well. '
Kenjaku had a winner smile in his face as Mahito slowly became a ball, but then he heard a cracking. He saw Mahito fly from there to another location in his left.
What he saw left him and all the present sorcerers shocked. Shinju walked out from a nearby debris, in her hand, a shekigami talisman in which Mahito was being swiftly sealed.
" Two timing your allies isn't a good habit to have. Don't you think ? " Said Shinju, her smile never leaving her face.
Kenjaku knew that there would be flaws in his plan, but he never thought that the most important card that he wanted to guarantee it successided would be gone just like that.
" I believe that it was him who double crossed me, not the other way around. " Argued Kenjaku while keeping his guard up.
" Well, that's true. After all, we are bounded by vows. Not like them, they can say the one is the savior today, and tomorrow, he will be the greatest sinner. Humans and sorcerers only talk about their one personal interests regardless of their words. They have zero credibility. "
Kenjaku wasn't expecting her to agree so easily, but hearing her logic, it was understandable.
The sorcerers were a little nervous facing two special grade curses, but seeing that the reinforcement of several first grade and special grade sorcerers, they thought they had a glimmer of confidence in them.
Okkotsu Yutaka used reverse cursed technique to heal the critical ill Nanami and Todo without taking his eyes off them. Yuki was serious as well since they saw them and still chatted like it was nothing, but hearing her talking about credibility, she was displeased.
" You, are you dumb or are you playing dumb ? "
" Hmm ? "
" You are talking about vows and credibility. If society didn't have basic trust and people were to play everything by vows, no one would trust anyone, and chaos would follow. It's because of basic trust that humans have advanced so much. In the end, one simply has to do what he can without living as many problems for himself. " Said Yuki with great convection.
" And it's because of basic trust that I was born. " Replied Shinju with an amusing smile on her face, making all the sorcerers twitch their mouth, but her following words puzzled them.
" But you do have a point, one simply have to do what he can without living as much problems for himself, you know I was about to make a decision that would have left me without bargaining ship so, let me show you a magic trick. " As she was speaking, she let three talisman float behind her before pointing toward one of them. A huge amount of bone dust flowed from her sleeves
At that moment, Choso felt weirdly familiar, but Kenjaku remembered it was the dust from the eight skulls.
" Nine acts : exchange."
Suddenly, the dust converged toward the talisman, and then the prison realm was summoned from within the talisman.
Kenjaku immediately checked his sleeves only to see bone dust feeling to the ground.
" You know, I would have let you keep it, but the lady said that one shouldn't give problems occasion to be born. " Said Shinju with a sarcastic smile on her face, " Now before you attack I would like to introduce to you one of my best works so far, one that took patience, hard work, and sleepless night. One that will be known and sang in myth and stories, one that will completely sublimated your very understanding of life, one that will open unsaid wonders and will become a life philosophy... "
With each word she used to introduce her talisman, the cursed energy reaction coming from it was getting stronger and stronger. Several first grades tried to stop her but were interrupted by the special grade.
" Their is something weird about the second talisman, knowing that she is a fallen Himemiko, things may not be so simple, and don't worry, she can't escape. " Said Yuta.
" Not to forget, someone else is even more anxious than us. " Continued Yuki.
She was right, Kenjaku with Urame by his side was quite anxious and passed. First, he lost one of the best curses, and next, he lost the bargaining ship against his old friend Tengen. So he decided to attack first after it was activated, either way, with both him and the sorcerers here, she can't escape. All she is doing is the struggle of a death curse.
Shinju switched her sight to Kenjaku with a sarcastic smile, making him have a bad feeling and ready to dodge all her attacks.
" Great Himemiko talisman secret art : The father going to bring milk. "
First, a black hole of one meter radius expended under feet, from within a big desert worm popped out, swallowed her, then retracted without leaving a single trace of cursed energy, not even the extremely sensitive sorcerers could fell her location.