TSCJTTM CH10 Defeating Special Grade Spirit

As Rudra used his technique, tens of thick demonic looking chains emerged from his back and surrounded the Special Grade Cursed Spirit that was attacking Fushiguro. Some bound its limbs, some tied up its body and neck, while others pierced through walls and ceiling to tighten the suppression on the Curse Spirit.

Immediately, the effects of the chains were noticed as the Cursed spirit became unable to move and simply roared in rage. It tried to gather cursed energy in its mouth and fire it off like a canon ball, but was ineffective as the demonic chains kept draining the energy of the blast before it could completely form.

"Kugisaki! Fushiguro! This is your chance!! I am restraining it, use this chance to attack with all your power."

Fushiguro didn't say a word and immediately sent forth Nue and Orochi, using tag-team tactics to attack the Special Grade Spirit. Nue's thunder attacks restrained the Cursed Spirit even further while Orochi attacked by biting it all over and ripping of chunks of its cursed flesh each time.

"Its finally my time!!! Take this you piece of crap for dropping me in that hellhole!!" Kugisaki shouted at the cursed spirit as she leapt into the air. Throwing nails filled with cursed energy into the air, she smashed at them with her special hammer. The nails flew through the air before embedding into the special grade curse's face, eyes, and throat.

"Cursed Technique Extension: Hairpin!!" Kugisaki shouted while snapping her fingers. Immediately, a surge of cursed energy emerged from the nails embedded in the Special Grade Cursed Spirit, destroying it from inside out.

They repeated this process again and again until the Cursed Spirit was battered to the point of not being able to heal. Whenever it tried to retaliate, it was stopped by Rudra's Demonic Chains. As such it had no choice but to give up and accept its fate.

Finally, Rudra finished it off by summoning a Demonic Mouth that swallowed the cursed spirit completely. After eating all of the Cursed Spirit, Demonic mouth spit out a shriveled finger covered in grave wax in front of Rudra's feet.

"Hey!! Isn't that.." Fushiguro was startled on seeing the finger. Rudra bent and picked it up, examining it closely.

"It's one of Sukuna's fingers, just like the one Itadori ate." Rudra said while looking the finger grimly. Just now he had tried getting Demonic Mouth to absorb the finger without anyone getting to know. This was supposed to be a petty revenge against Sukuna who had let Itadori die and now was most probably making a pact with him.

But it turned out that while Sukuna and this Cursed Spirit they just fought were both Special Grade, the quality and potency of Sukuna's Cursed Energy was on another level. Despite Rudra trying his best, Demonic Mouth was just not able to digest the finger. Barely a sliver of power contained in this finger had been eaten by the Demonic Mouth.

'It all comes down to power in the end. Sukuna was just too powerful when he was alive, making the Curse born from him even stronger despite him being dead for so many years. Each of these fingers are like a new Sukuna now, maintaining their own energy quality while growing even stronger.' Rudra sighed as he wrapped the finger in a cloth full of sealing runes and put it in his pocket as a means to secretly put it in his inventory.

He then walked up to Itadori and crouched down. Hiding his hand from the vision of Fushiguro and Kugisaki, Rudra placed it on Itadori's mangled chest and activated Reverse Cursed Technique to try and heal him. However, after few moments of effort, Rudra was forced to give up with a grimace.

'It is as I figured. Even if I know Reverse Cursed Technique, I can't revive Itadori while Sukuna has his consciousness trapped in the Innate Domain within him. His body is actively rejecting Reverse Cursed Technique cast by me. That piece of crap Sukuna had made backup plans in case someone could cast Reverse Cursed Technique to heal Itadori.'

"If I just had been a little faster in coming to help then this wouldn't have happened…" Rudra muttered.

"It is not your fault. You did your best." Fushiguro sad with a self loathing expression on his face, "Itadori died because of me. I was trying to distract the Cursed Spirit by using up my technique to the maximum level. I thought this would distract it enough to buy time until you two were back."

"However, the Cursed Spirit got more violent when I tried that and it attacked us with rapid energy bombing. Itadori pushed me aside and took the blasts head on while trying to call Sukuna for help."

"But as it turned out, Sukuna didn't help and instead Itadori died." Fushiguro clenched his fists, "if only I was stronger.."

Kugisaki didn't say anything, but her trembling lips and scrunched up eyes said more than enough. Rudra didn't try to console them or shift their sense of blame. Since things had already happened to this point, it would be best if they used this feeling to train harder and get stronger.

-x-x-x-x-

They returned to Jujutsu High with Kiyotaka's help. Itadori's body was sent to the morgue and the three of them were told to go to the dorms and rest. Rudra left the other two to find their own path to get stronger and instead went to the administrative department to get more missions.

Since things were not that much deviated from the original timeline despite his best efforts, Rudra knew what was going to come. This meat that he had to grow even stronger so that the next time he tried to change the events of the timeline he would not fail.

As for training, he didn't need anything like that. All his prowess came from his Skill Creation powers. If he could use just his Skill Creation powers and a few weeks to surpass the level of Fushiguro and Kugisaki, he could use them to reach the peak of this world without any training too.

On his way to the Administrative department, Rudra checked his status.

Rudra

Current World : Jujutsu Kaisen World

Class : Skill Creator

STR : 184

AGI : 190

CON : 197

INT : 177

WIS : 175

CHA : 160

LUK : 99

Skill Points : 256,000

'There is a drastic rise in my stat points after consuming that Special Grade Spirit.' Rudra thought as he observed the the changes in stats, 'Maybe I should just go and take up all the challenging Grade 1 and above missions. That would get me the location of the strongest Cursed Spirits.'

'With my current powers, as long as it is not a Cursed Spirit on the level of Sukuna or those four sentient Cursed Spirits that are planning to attack Jujutsu High, I should be fine.' Rudra reasoned with himself.

Just as he was going towards the Administration building with these thoughts, he felt a figure suddenly appear in his path. He looked up and saw that it was Satoru Gojo. Rudra was startled and came to a stop.

"Gojo-Sensei?" Rudra asked in confusion.

"Yo!!" Gojo said with a raised hand, "I came to check up on you since I didn't find you with the other two."

Gojo then led him to one of the gardens in the campus and they sat down on a bench by a pool.

"So, what do you want to talk about, Gojo-Sensei?" Rudra asked.

"Hmm… What indeed.." Gojo said as he steepled his hands and placed his chin on top, "You are smart, and I like smart students as they are easier to instruct and teach. Not that I mind muscle-headed emotional people like Itadori either."

Gojo's covered eyes seemed to peer at the horizon as he talked to Rudra, "This was an intentional ploy at all your lives by the higher ups, especially Itadori's. They specifically put you all against a potential Special Grade Cursed Spirit and even instructed you to save five people on top of that to make things difficult for you."

"Under normal circumstances, First-Year students with barely any experience of threats of this level would not be granted such a mission. It is even more suspicious due to the fact that this mission was assigned exactly during the time I was away on a mission."

"I had used my power to grant Yuji an indefinite extension on his execution, even allowing him to get trained in the ways of Jujutsu Sorcerer. The higher ups were definitely looking for a chance to take him out indirectly, if you all had died too in the process then it would have been bonus material for them to strike back at me." Gojo said as he leaned back on the bench.

"Gojo-Sensei… Can I tell you something without you asking me to explain more than what I am prepared to tell you?" Rudra asked.

"Sure. I am your teacher, you can tell me anything." Gojo said.

Rudra took a deep breath and let it out, "Itadori is not dead."

Rudra saw Gojo freezing up so he decided to explain a bit more, ".. No. What I meant to say was, Itadori is not completely dead. I am pretty sure he is in a state between dead and alive."

"If you are sure about this then why didn't you tell anyone else?" Gojo asked.

"I didn't tell anyone because currently none of us can help him." Rudra replied.

Gojo slightly frowned as he carefully responded, "Rudra, you know we have many experts in healing…"

Gojo stopped speaking midway because of the Reverse Cursed Technique energy that was coating Rudra's hand which he had raised in front of his face, "Believe me Gojo-Sensei, if I say none of us can help him then I mean it."

Gojo was silent as he looked at Rudra's hand. Soon he smiled crookedly and let out a sigh, "You have certainly kept your skills close to you without anyone coming to know."

"All thanks to the knowledge stored in Jujutsu High." Rudra made an excuse to explain his talent, "I had the power and talent, but they were useless without the knowledge I gained here, leading me to advance rapidly."

"Anyway, you should trust my words sensei." Rudra said as he looked at Gojo, "Itadori will come back, and that is when the second wave of plots and attacks towards us will start. Before that, make arrangements to hid Itadori's revival completely. No one other than you should even have a hint about it."

"Also, please make arrangements for Itadori to train hard once he revives. We will need him at his best possible state." Rudra said while fixing his gaze on Gojo.

After thinking about it silently for a few minutes, Gojo stood up and patted himself clean. "I will take care of it." Gojo said before walking in the direction of the morgue.