Chapter 20- Fate (1)

Sachiko woke up around 2 p.m. Getting up from bed lazily, she yawned.

"I really fell asleep.."

Her stomach rumbled at this point and she realized she didn't even have dinner last night.

"No wonder I'm starving." Sachiko went to the bathroom for a quick shower and then changed into new set of clothes.

"I should go shopping too. Well, I can go to the mall after eating something."

After getting ready, she headed to the restaurant nearby. She was in the mood for seafood so she went to a restaurant specialized in seafood. Sachiko ordered a salmon steak and seafood pasta. It was delicious!

"Now for dessert, I think ice-cream sounds nice!" Sachiko went to an ice-cream stall on the way to grab some ice-cream. The weather was not that warm but ice-cream had always been her favourite dessert.

"One cone of chocolate ice-cream please."

Sachiko said with a smile. As she made eye contact, she saw a slimy curse on the man's head.

Without thinking much, cursed energy warped around her fingers, about to shoot towards the curse.

"Two cones of chocolate and vanilla ice-cream, please. Oh, and a lot of sprinkles and chocolate fudge." A male voice came from behind and Sachiko dispersed the cursed energy around her fingers as if she was caught stealing.

She turned around quickly to see a blindfolded man with silver hair. The man locked eyes with her and then he glanced at her hands.

"Oops, sorry, didn't see you were here first." He said with a laugh but Sachiko felt shivers.

'Fuck.. That is Gojo Satoru..'

She stood there frozen and couldn't find any words to reply. Getting no reply, he waved his hands in front of her face, "You look pale, you okay?"

"Umm..ye..yeah." She wanted to pretend sbe wasn't just trying to use cursed energy earlier but she was quite sure Gojo Satoru saw it. Why else wouldn't he anyway? The man had Rokugan (six eyes) and he could see everything in the form of cursed energy even with the blindfold on.

"Good, thought you just saw a ghost or something." Gojo said quietly. "Speaking of that, you saw that, didn't you?"

"I..don't know which one you're referring to." Sachiko quickly said.

"Well..."

Gojo was about to clarify and probably confront her about the usage of cursed energy when the vendor said, "Here is your ice-cream. That will be 750 yen."

"Thanks." Sachiko paid for the ice-cream and tried to leave hurriedly.

Gojo neither stopped her nor followed her immediately, he let her be for a while. His lips curled up into a small smile.

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Misaki had a lot of unexplained phenomenons throughout her entire life, like those times lights flickering at her house, something heavy resting on her body while she sleeps or sometimes suffocating her while she was defenseless. She never could had explained this to anyone, even doctors when she goes to hospital because of those unexplained neck pains and short of breath. Finding no possible causes as Misaki had a relatively healthy life style, they were at loss. Misaki made several attempts to tell those strange occurrences but they simply think she was imagining things and ask her to see a psychiatrist. At the end, she was on the verge of giving up.

That was when she was introduced to this specific temple. The monk from the temple was quite famous for these type of things, she heard. So, she went all the way to the temple.

When she saw the monk or the one who was supposed to be was a young man with long black hair, partially tied up into a bun, she was a bit surprised. He warmly welcomed her and assured that he could solve her problem. Although she initially had doubts, they were proven otherwise as she didn't feel the heaviness on her body anymore. She was thankful and even offered to donate what she had saved up to the temple. The monk or Geto Suguru as he introduced himself offered to take a look at her house to see if there was any problem, or a cause for her other problems. Misaki readily agreed.

She quickly became a regular at the temple. Sometimes, she would find Geto san even outside the temple when she felt those strange occurrences are back. Geto san encouraged her to do so and even said she was a special case.

Now, she finds herself in Hiroshima as Geto san said he was here. Lately, she was starting to feel like something was attached to her body, to be honest, she felt like there were multiple. She couldn't see anything wrong but there was just this feeling which made her uneasy.

Like she did as usual, she came to Geto san to ask for help. She thought everything was going to be okay again after meeting with him.

Never in her life did she expect to see this gruesome murder. In the midst of the pool of blood lies a man with severed body parts. Geto san took a step back as the blood begins to flow in his direction. It was as if he didn't even want the blood to touch his shoes. It was as if even the idea of the man's blood utterly disgusts him.

Geto san's cold eyes looked up at her and Misaki wanted to scream but found herself frozen in terror.

"Now, I was just getting rid of a useless monkey. You still have curses all over you, aren't you, Nakamura san? If you keep quiet and come to my temple regularly, you might still be a useful monkey. So, I probably won't need to dirty my hands." He said.

Misaki had never seen him in a state like this before, she was terrified and helpless. She wanted to run but she was afraid that she would die if she dared to try.

Misaki decided to scream instead.

"Helppp!"

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Sachiko went shopping as she intended to, trying to get Gojo Satoru's appearance in Hiroshima out of her head. But, she could do nothing about the feeling of being watched which she probably was, seeing how Gojo Satoru seemed to notice her cursed energy. The only options she had was to use Shroud and run away or fight the one who was watching her. But, it was obvious that she was nowhere near Gojo's level so confronting him in a battle was definitely not an option for her. Although Shroud might not work against Six Eyes, Sachiko still had to try. Even if she could buy some time only to get out of Hiroshima, she thought it was okay.

She started using Shroud and then tried to get away but it was failing. It got to the point she was almost running for life, completely unable to focus on where she was going.

Then, she heard a cry for help.

But, why should she care when she was busy running from Gojo Satoru, right?

Yet, she found herself stopping and went to check on the woman who was crying for help.

She saw a woman with a cut in her throat. Blood gusing out of it as she murmured , "Run...run away." It seemed that after seeing the one who came for help was a teenager, she was worried about her safety.

Sachiko rushed to her side and attempted to use Pain Killer. But, since the mastery level was only novice, she was helpless against a grave injury like this.

'System, use the rest of my cursed points to upgrade Pain Killer as many as you can.'

Although she was so close to get Reversed Cursed Technique as she now had 8650 points, Sachiko didn't hesitate to use them to save this woman. It was strange for her to want to save someone she didn't know but at that moment, she knew she somehow wanted her to live.

[Host currently has 8,880 cursed points. Upgrading Pain Killer mastery to Advanced Beginner level will cost 1,000 points and Competent level will cost 5,000 points. Do you want to consume 6,000 points to upgrade it to Competent level?]

'Yes, hurry up...'

[6,000 cursed points consumed. Mastery of Pain Killer cursed technique is now Competent level.]

As soon as she heard this, Sachiko started using Pain Killer on the woman again. Suguru looked at her in interest as she used her cursed technique.

'She seems to be stronger now. It's been like a day. What a strange girl.' He thought.

Misaki's bleeding seemed to stop after using Pain Killer and only then, Sachiko could sigh in relief. Misaki looked at the open wound she still had on her neck and was taken aback.

"It will be fine. I will take you to the hospital." Sachiko tried to assure her even though she didn't think she could do that well.

Suguru laughs at that point.

"Oh, do you think I will let you go?"

"But why won't you?" Sachiko asked.

"I was going to kill the monkey. And if you dare interfere again, I don't think I can let you go unscathed, Nakamura Sachiko." Suguru said.

Sachiko brought her hand up to her eye patch, about to bring it down so that she could activate Time Manipulation and buy time to get away from Geto Suguru.

It was when Misaki muttered, "You can leave me here. Run. "

"But..."

"It's not worth to die for a stranger like me, is it?"

Sachiko would normally agree. It wasn't worth it. But, how could this woman be this selfless? If Sachiko left, she would die.

Misaki gave her a faint smile. "It's okay. I don't want you to die because of me."

Sachiko reminded her of someone she lost.

A daughter she never had a chance to raise, to be precise.

Memories of holding a silver-haired baby girl in her arms flashed in Misaki's mind. The baby died in a few days, there was just no way to save her.

'Why does she remind me of her?' Misaki thought.

"Thank you, Sachiko chan. Now, just go." She finally said, shaking herself off from the flashbacks.

"No." Sachiko took out the special grade scythe and told Misaki, "You should run. The bleeding shouldn't stop for much longer. You have to be at the hospital before that happens."

Misaki wanted to refuse but Sachiko didn't let her. She could only bite her lips and run.

She didn't run to a hospital but to find someone who could help.

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Sachiko chan's update stats

Name : Nakamura Sachiko

Alias : None.

Age : 19

Relationships : Gon Freecs (Close Friend), Killua Zoldyck (Adopted brother), Kurapika (Friend), Leorio Paradinight (Friend), Hisoka (Rivals), Illumi (Enemy), Geto Suguru (Acquaintance )

Assets : 300 million yen, 800 million jenny house.

Hunter level : C

Jujutsu sorcerer level : Grade-1

Cursed technique : Cursed energy manipulation (Competent), Time Manipulation Eyes (Advanced beginner), Nullify (Novice), Pain killer (Competent).

Cursed energy : 9400/10,000

Cursed energy reserves rank : C

Curse points : 2,880

Hunter points : 50

Cursed tools : Special Grade Scythe

Skills : Intermediate Sword Skill (Advanced beginner), Assassins Art: Shroud (Competent), Assassins Art : Silent gaits, Rhythm Echo (Competent), Disguise (Novice).

Abilities : Enhanced sense : Eyesight , Super Hearing.