Fiancée

[A/N: In the last chapter, I made a copy of episode 24 of Jujutsu Kaisen where Yūji carried Nobara and ran so fast. But in Ryū's case, he's twice faster since the rats themselves might even be faster that cars in speed and acceleration.]

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Today was another day. The date today March 11, 2013. It's been a year since then, and Ryū, once again, skipped a few years and he's now in 3rd year of high school.

Right now, Ryū's thoughts fell on March 11, 2011. Since Sendai is in Miyagi prefecture, the news of Natori being engulfed by a tsunami caused by an undersea earthquake was very fast to travel throughout the prefecture.

He and his family donated money to help the people that are evacuated and are still alive in Natori. During that time, when he came there, he felt their fear of the sea that might drown them. Although, what really caused it was an earthquake, it was the sea that caused damage.

His thoughts were cut off when his mother suddenly came in saying, "Ryū! You should dress up quickly! You know that this is important for your future!"

He groaned, "Why do I have a fiancée at such early age?"

His mother replied with a smile, "It's because your father and I— we met and fell in love with each other because of this!"

"But you were 16 at that time and dad is 18. I'm only 13." He reasoned.

"Don't sweat the small details!" His mother said with a smile.

Ryū could only sigh at his mother's words. From his mother's words, his fiancée is only roughly 2 years younger. He thought that his mother wanted to have grandkids, which is probably the highest possibility, or she owes the Zen'in Family in the past.

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In front of a traditional mansion, Ryū is astonished at its size. Despite that, Ryū knows that even his family could buy such size of a place. After all, his family is a very well known in whole Japan after he learned it's popularity. The main branch is in Tōkyō while there are other branches is cities like Kyōtō.

Anyway, the huge wodden gate opened as they were greeted by servants. Yes, servants of the Zen'in Family.

As they headed towards the head's room, Ryū's eyes wandered and saw twins on the sides. One with straight hair while the other has unruly hair as if it was never combed.

As he looked at them, he only felt small amounts of cursed energy from them. Compared to his reserves, theirs is nothing but a small ant against a cup of 100ml water. Just a drop is enough to cover the ant and possibly drown it.

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Soon, the Kamado were sitting in front of the Zen'in Family head, Zen'in Naobito.

"So, you've arrived! I've owned you before, but now it will end by arranging a marriage between your son and one of my nieces." He said as he signaled to make the girls appear.

"Wait, I thought it was already arranged?"

"It was. But you have eto choose which one. Now, choose which one." Naobito said with not much care.

Hina, Ryū's mother, pushed the latter forward who encouraged him. "Come on, choose a girl."

Ryū sighed and stepped forward.

Naobito suddenly spoke, "They're all around your age. 2 years younger than you at minimum and 3 years older at maximum."

'Is this man really doesn't care about his family members?'

He found out that these girls have small amounts of cursed energy, making him angry at the man who just thinks of them as useless since they have small amounts of cursed energy or are not suited to be one.

He looked at them, trying to find something. However, he didn't find what he was looking for. He stood in front of Naobito who asked him.

"Have you chose after looking through 13 candidates?"

Ryū tilted his head, "13? There are only 11."

"What? Those useless brats didn't appeared?"

Then, the door opened on the side, revealing two young girls.

"Ah, speaking of useless, these two are a trash in the family. I hope you won't choose those good-for-nothing." Naobito chimed with no care.

Ryū noticed the girl with straighter hair clench her fist while the other with messy hair seem to not care about such remark.

"Ryū? Hello?" Hina tried to call her son who is looking at one of the twins.

"What's their name, old man?" Ryū asked, not even caring about formality nor position.

"What did you fucking call me, you brat?" Naobito released an intimidating aura at Ryū who just shrugged it off.

'Shishō's intimidation is much more stronger and more refined than his. Even if shishou used the same force, it will still intimidate me no matter how I get strong. This old man was nothing but a fart in from of shishō's intimidation.' Ryū gave himself a pat.

"I asked what is their name, old geezer." Ryū said as he knew that Naobito haven't noticed that he was suppressing his cursed energy to that of a normal person.

"Hmph! I'll let you go with that. "He then pointed at the one with untamed hair, "That's Mai," then he pointed to the other one, "That's Maki."

As the two get in line, Ryū's eyes were locked on a certain Zen'in. Of course, as fellow weebs who is about to meet his waifu on his list, he is going to choose Zen'in Maki.

Weebs like him, knew her charms. One of them is her strength. Aside from that, he is lovestruck.

Ryū walked in front of Maki and smiled warmly at her.

"Her?" Naobito raised an eyebrow, "Bah! You chose the most useless one and one of the servant."

Maki's face darkened. Although, she's not entirely against the marriage because it will lift her position from being a servant along with her sister, which she hoped would, she just can't stand being humiliated with a chance that the boy in front of her might choose another girl.

"So what?" Ryū asked in a dangerous tone.

Suddenly, he felt a strong killing intent sent to him. And by instinct, he sent it back with equal force. Although he have never killed humans, it doesn't mean Naobito killed a lot of humans since they rarely get the order to do so. Ryū was trained properly by Silver to enhance the killing intent to the point as if you've killed hundreds of men despite not killing even one person.

Ryū learned very fast even though his progress was slow when he is training alone. But with the help of training of the hermit, the swordsman, and the warrior, which are Urokodaki Kenji, Agatsuma Denki, and Silver Sterling respectively, he became strong at a very fast rate.

After a few seconds of exchanging intent, Naobito pulled back.

"So be it." Naobito closed his eyes. "But you can't take her with you until she's ready to be married."

"Fine." Ryū replied while he thought, 'I know you're planning to test me by either making your other family to bully them to see if I would protect them. I can see your true colors, Zen'in Naobito, you show tough love because throughout the generation of Zen'in Family, there was never a woman who led it. And you can't be biased too.'

All of that were already foresaw by Ryū, but he still needed some kind of reaction if he is right, which he is 80% of the time. He is taught how to read people and guess their attitude correctly by Silver who could guess 100% of the time even if he just met them in just a few moments and exchanged a few words with them.

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The next day, he visited Maki and talked with her. Of course, he also took Mai with him. Although he's not aiming for Harem as he's a loyal person, he knows that the poor girl needs some attention. She needed someone to rely on other than Maki, and without any connection to blood at that.

Aside from that, he also acted as if he was just a normal boy who liked kendō and trained along with other Zen'in.

He surprised them with his natural strength, which he never used Total Concentration to such menial task. It's too easy to beat them when they don't know that he can also use cursed energy so they are allowed too as well.

"Hey, brat. I heard you have beaten the others many times and never lost. Want to try me?" It was none other than Zen'in Naoya.

A 22-year old jerk who have sharp eyes, light-colored hair accented switch dark tips, and a supremacy disease. Yes, supremacy is disease, and confidence is very far away from it.

"Yeah? You want your ass beaten by a kid too?" Ryū asked with confidence, not arrogance.

"Nah, you can't beat me, never. Because I am the rightful heir of the family." Naoya rejects.

"Oh? You don't have any proof that you are. You might as well prove it, or are you scared to be beaten?" Ryū asked with a smirk.

He wants to teach the jerk a lesson... Even if it means revealing that he can see curses and is not even entering Jujutsu Tech nor does he have someone to teach him about cursed technique and cursed energy.

"What did you say?! I will show you! Our fight will be later, and all family members will watch. I can't wait to beat you senseless and show how much of a fool you are to provoke me, the true heir!" Naoya left with arrogance seeping out from him.

"Geez... Heh! Anyway, I can't wait to see your face contort in anger." Ryū muttered.