Chapter 21- Fate (2)

"A cursed tool, I see you aren't as clueless as I initially thought." Suguru said. Initially, he thought she was someone who wasn't familiar with Jujutsu world but now it seemed he was wrong. How else could she possess a special grade cursed tool?

On the other hand, Sachiko wasn't sure how she was going to fare against Suguru in a battle, and normally, she would hesitate to fight him but trying to save the woman and angering Suguru, she felt like she didn't have much of a choice here.

'Gojo Satoru should still be trying to find me, right? I just hope he finds me soon. In the end, it's still better than dying in Suguru's hands. Well, I still hope I don't die or become a Jujutsu student... I will probably lose my freedom that way.' Sachiko thought to herself.

While she was lost in her thoughts, Suguru had already summoned a curse to attack her. Sachiko reinforced her hands and legs with cursed energy, then fended the curse off with her scythe. The curse Suguru sent was a not weak one, its limbs reached out to grab her even with the scythe holding it in place and the blade cutting into it.

Seeing the limbs reaching out to her, Sachiko retreated a few steps before jumping as high as she could, then she pull the curse's body with her scythe, like a farmer reaping the crops. As there were blades on both ends of the scythe, the cursed body was cut finally into two.

Suguru didn't expect her to be able to kill one of the curses he took in that easily. He was surprised. But, he took out more curses to overpower her.

This time, Sachiko had to face with five curses at the same time and Suguru also didn't stay back, he would occasionally attack her with cursed energy as soon as he found an opening.

Sachiko used Rhythm Echo as the curses tried to surround her. She confused them by using Rhythm Echo and took out one of them when they got the wrong one.

Suguru's eyes didn't leave her as she used Rhythm Echo and take down the curses.

Sachiko was starting to understand why Geto Suguru was ranked as a special grade. She could only dodge Suguru's attack and deal some damage to the curses. But, that could already be considered a feat in itself.

More and more units of cursed energy were used up as the battle continued and even when Sachiko managed to kill the curses, Suguru would take out more. After some time, Sachiko could feel that she had used up more than half of her cursed energy in a short period of time and also, the injuries she sustained became more and more.

She found herself in a situation where she didn't know what to do to get out of here. In the end, she brought her hands to the eyepatch.

At first, she didn't want to reveal her time manipulation eye because she didn't know anyone who could manipulate time in Jujutsu Kaisen. She didn't want unnecessary attention from the curse users.

However, in a situation like this, she felt like this was her only way.

But before she could uncover her eye, Suguru landed a hit on her.

Sachiko was sent flying a few meters backwards and hit the ground hard. More curses Suguru sent came rushing to her, like they wanted to rip her into pieces.

She tried getting up but she couldn't at that moment. All she could do was using Painkiller to stop her injury from worsening and try to stall the cursed by using cursed energy.

For the first time since she was reborn, Sachiko felt like she was at the death's door as Geto Suguru walked towards her in a leisurely pace.

She gritted her teeth and hurriedly asked System.

'System, I want to go back to Hunter x Hunter now.'

[Even if you go back before three days are up, the cooldown period will not be affected. Confirm to go back?]

'I don't care. just..take me back.'

Sachiko then felt the familiar feeling of being sucked into a void. She couldn't care less, she really couldn't even bring to worry about Suguru potentially seeing her teleporting.

She was glad that she could go back before she dies.

Running away at a critical moment, one might feel shame but that one is certainly not her. Sachiko was happy to have survived the fight with Suguru.

After all, Suguru was a special grade Jujutsu sorcerer and she was rated as Grade 1 by System. Nothing shameful about knowing when to run and when to fight.

Sachiko reminded herself that as she swore to get stronger before she goes back to that world.

Thankfully, Sachiko learned that she had earned enough cursed points to buy Reverse Cursed Technique after killing more than ten curses of Suguru.

'System, I'll buy Reverse Cursed Technique.'

[Reverse Cursed Technique bought. Remains curse points : 280]

Sachiko sighed in relief at that.

With this, she could at least heal herself now. Sachiko quickly used it to heal her current injuries. Since she was not critically injured yet, completely healing herself wasn't hard although it took time.

After healing herself, Sachiko decided to get back on training. But she realized one thing. She still hasn't solved the issue of her physics body weakness without cursed energy yet and to think that she was pushing Gon and Killua to train their muscles and not do it herself, she was an idiot, wasn't she?

Also, she could've got Superior Strength instead of going for enhanced senses first but she got carried away in wanting to seem cool about seeing and hearing well. Although she couldn't deny Enhanced Hearing had helped her eavesdrop Wing, it was truth that she made wrong moves here and there.

Maybe it was because she was actually close to death earlier, she couldn't help but reflect on various things. For things could've taken a worse turn…

She shook her head at that.

"let's focus on training, yeah."

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Soon, it's dinner time. Sachiko picked up the food she ordered from a restaurant beforehand and headed back home quickly as she wanted to get back to training as soon as possible.

"Here you go. Don't forget to wash the dishes, okay?" Sachiko said as she put the two plates of food for Killua and Gon onto the table.

Killua frowned and asked, "You look awfully serious today. What happened?"

"Huh? What're you talking about?"

"Quit acting, you suck at it anyway." Killua said with an eye roll. "but seriously you're always annoying and fooling around. It's weird to see you being serious, I guess."

Sachiko sighed, "I'm just furious about my training."

"Training?" This time Gon spoke up, chewing the food in his mouth.

"Yeah, since I talked big about teaching you guys, I refuse to do a sloppy job. So, I'm trying to hone my skills and such." Sachiko told them, "That's why I'll be on a trip for a few days or maybe a week? I don't know yet but while I'm on the trip, don't skip out on your physical training, alright?"

"Well, you'd better hurry. I'm kind of bored with this training. I thought training with you is gonna be more fun." Killua complained.

"Killua! " Gon tried to stop his friend's complaints.

"haha, it's alright, Gon. Killua's such a tsundere."

"No way!"

Killua refuted but Sachiko just ruffled his hair.

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With all that said, Sachiko decided to spend the next few days, hunting monsters for Hunter points and meditating to open her nen nodes. On the second day of the trip, she managed to save up 320 points and bought the more expensive Superior Strength which was 20 times than ordinary humans.

Wanting to test out her new strength, Sachiko decided to beat up that one guy on the ship who had been eyeing at her disgustingly. As her fist touched the guy's face, he flew backwards and fell into the sea.

'Well, he deserved it anyway.' She thought,

Later that night, when Sachiko was back, she saw Gon and Killua sleeping on the couch still wearing the weights.

Sachiko couldn't help but smile a bit at that.

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The next day, Sachiko spent the whole day meditating as she could feel some changes in her body. It was her seventh day of meditating and Sachiko couldn't help but feel like she could do it soon.

Two days later and around midnight that day, Sachiko could feel that all of her nen nodes were finally opened. Although she could feel that her nen nodes were slowly being opened one by one in the last two days, to completely finish the process of opening all nodes and allowing her aura to come out took two days for her. (An : I don't really know how meditating to open nen nodes exactly work because anime didn't specify on that part. So if I get it wrong, feel free to correct me.)

Since all the nodes being opened forces the aura to leak continuously, Sachiko focused on retaining all the aura within her body as her next step. This part wasn't that hard as she could reference from the anime.

She closed her eyes, stood in a natural stance and focus on containing the aura in her body.

She imagined that the aura is flowing naturally like her blood in her body and then slowly wrapping around her body.

In a few minutes, she was wrapped in a thin layer of her own aura.

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AN: Here's another chapter, finally. I don't know why but my initial plans on Sachiko and Suguru's fateful encounter didn't really seem right as I write so I had to change it to Sachiko running away at the final moment. It still didn't feel right but somehow it's not as bad.

Anyway, the main thing I wanted to discuss was regarding Sachiko's Nen. She finally managed to open her aura nodes after nine days of meditating and training so I'd have to write about her nen type soon. While I have a few ideas in mind, I'm not sure on what to do.

First is her being a Specialist who can use all Nen category types with 100% proficiency probably under a circumstance or situations.

Second is her being a Manipulator or Transmuter, I don't know which one will suit her better so I want some of your opinions on this ?

Third is her having a category but get a specialist like ability as a system reward for learning nen all by herself or something.

I also want to know how you guys see Sachiko's personality.

It'd help me a bunch and thank you all for reading!