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"What the hell are you talking ABOUT!" Jason finally managed to push himself upright, his legs still unsteady, his body still trembling from the aftermath of that yellow flame. "I'm not fucking touching that. EVER!"
Lucifer turned back to face him, his expression calm, almost pitying. "Oh? Is that so?" He tilted his head. "Does that mean you'll roll over and die? Allow the Empty Hand to destroy your world?" His voice hardened. "Because he is certainly aiming to do just that."
"Even still." Jason's jaw was tight, his hands clenched into fists at his sides. "I have to find another way. This flame... it's evil. Destructive. It..."
"Mad."
Lucifer's eyes shifted.
They had been red..deep crimson, the color of old blood and older sins. Now they flickered, pulsed, transformed into something else. Yellow. The same yellow as the flame that had burned Jason's concept of living. The same yellow that had sent him screaming to the ground.
"It is mad," Lucifer said, and his voice was different now..layered, echoing, as if something else was speaking through him. "And it wants to end everything." His eyes returned to red. "That is what it means to be me."
He took a step closer.
"And it is the only way you can defeat the Empty Hand." His voice was flat, final. "There is no other way."
Jason's mind raced. His thoughts tumbled over each other, colliding, breaking apart. What if he went mad? What if he lost control? What if
He stopped himself before the thought could finish.
Lucifer grinned. "Oh, but that's half the fun." He began to pace, his bare feet leaving prints in the sand. "Have you ever wondered what kind of deal I made with the one inside you?" He glanced at Jason. "Not the foolish old demon. I'm talking about the one whose abilities and powers you completely gained."
Jason's eyes narrowed. "Sukuna." The name tasted bitter on his tongue. "He's been oddly quiet for some time. Waiting for the moment I fuck up." His voice dropped. "Hasn't he?"
He thought about it...the silence where there had once been constant pressure, constant testing, constant attempts to break through. Sukuna was waiting. Biding his time.
"But he also knows now that I can kill him." Jason's hand moved to his chest, where the Ankh rested beneath his shirt. "Erase him from me."
"Can you?" Lucifer's eyebrow rose. "Really?"
"You're saying I can't?" Jason's jaw tightened. "Satan can absorb him. Delete him from me."
"Is that what Satan told you?" Lucifer laughed..a soft, genuine sound. "He certainly could... if I wasn't involved." He spread his hands. "But he and I made a deal. And I..." His smile sharpened. "Never ruin a fair deal for someone."
Jason's blood went cold. "What was the deal? That's he'd take my body?"
"Yes....he'd take over your body after two failed attempts...." Lucifer shrugged. "But That's the first half only... But there is a second half."
Jason's cheek contorted.
The mouth opened...not Jason's mouth, but another one, splitting his skin from cheekbone to jaw, revealing teeth that were too sharp, a tongue that was too long. Sukuna's voice emerged from that wound, low and amused.
"The Frenzied Flames of Chaos." Sukuna's laugh echoed across the beach. "That is what I desire, you fool. The moment you lose this body... I gain it. And tame it." His voice dropped, became something darker. "And unleash it upon everything." A pause. "Especially the ones YOU love."
The mouth sealed. Jason's cheek healed. His hands were shaking.
"Fuck you, you piece of shit." He turned to Lucifer, his voice raw. "Isn't this more fucking reason not to have it?"
"Because the only way to get rid of Sukuna..." Lucifer's eyes met his. "Is to burn him with the same flames he so desires. He will live inside you forever if you do not burn him away."
He took a step closer.
"At the same time... if you fail to learn it, and he succeeds..." He smiled. "He will burn YOU. That's how he plans to take over your body. The first one to learn control over the Flames of Chaos..." He spread his hands. "Wins."
Jason stood in the sand, his chest heaving, his mind racing. Two paths. Both led to destruction. Both led to the end of everything he cared about.
Lucifer tilted his head. "Now then. Are you finally ready to see the opponent I want you to train on using the flames?" His grin widened. "It's a very... fun one."
Jason's thoughts churned.
Follow Lucifer's plan. Master a power so uncontrollable it could burn the world and himself. Risk Sukuna taking it if he failed.
Or refuse. Face the Empty Hand without this weapon. Without Lucifer's help. Alone, against something that had killed gods for entertainment.
Each option was basically the end of the world.
"Fuck." Jason's voice was barely a whisper. "Fuck." Louder now. "FUUUUCK!"
He turned to Lucifer, his eyes blazing.
"Fine. Let's do it."
Lucifer smiled.
"Good."
He snapped his fingers.
The beach vanished. The summer home vanished. The sun and the waves and the salt air—all of it gone, replaced by something else. An open field stretched in every direction, white and endless, like a desert made of light. The sun shone overhead, warm but not hot, casting no shadows because there was nothing tall enough to cast them.
And standing at the far end of the field, facing Jason, was someone he knew very well.
"Jason." Lucifer's voice was amused. "Meet the opponent I want you to defeat."
He smiled.
The figure at the end of the field grinned.
He was tall—lean and muscular, dressed in dark clothes that seemed to absorb the light. His hair was snow-white, striking against the endless white of the desert, and his eyes were covered with a black blindfold. His posture was relaxed, almost lazy, his hands in his pockets, his weight shifted onto one leg.
"Satoru Gojo," Lucifer said.
"Yo." Gojo raised one hand in a casual wave. "I'm back for round two."
Jason's eyes went wide.
He turned to Lucifer, who had a grin on his face that said, very clearly, good luck.
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