(Back to present)
(1st PoV)
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! YOSUKE! SAVE ME! I AM BURNING!"
"I am right here! Don't worry! You aren't burning! It was all just a bad dream! I am here!"
"AAAAAAAAHHHH!"
No matter how much I tried, she couldn't hear my voice. She couldn't see me. She couldn't register me.
She... is still stuck in the fire.
Right! My Cursed Energy has a calming effect!
I hugged her and let my Cursed Energy envelope her, and slowly, hear heartbeat calmed and she slowly stopped screaming.
"Miyako-chan..."
I whispered, but she didn't respond.
Her eyes were hollow, her mind was still living in the fire.
...I will kill Kenjaku and Sukuna!
Damn those monsters!
The trauma has broken her mentally!
"Don't make this face. I am fine now."
My eyes snapped back to Miyako-chan, and she was looking at me with exhaustion.
And then, the dam of her pent up emotions broke and she started crying in my arms.
"...Yosuke! It hurt so much! I got run over by the crowd! A building fell on my legs! A—and! The fire! It's burning!"
I petted her head, having her letting it all out.
...She suffered so much and died... and so painfully...
Damn it! I have been in this world for whole 20 years! I should have noticed something!
I could have taken her to a foreign trip to get away from all this!
Just if I knew!
"Yosuke..."
"Hmm. It's alright now—"
"Who's this weird girl in your apartment?"
I sighed in relief that she can now notice the environment and even be jealous.
"That's Teruhashi. She gave you her body for reincarnating you."
"EH!? What the heck does that even mean!?"
Right, I need to explain everything to her.
So, I explained everything to her from the start to finish, leaving out the part that I know that I read about this world in a manga in my past life, or the fact that I remember my past life. I won't reveal such things to her in front of a stranger, and given that Teruhashi gave her body for Miyako-chan, sending him away from the apartment will be very rude.
She gulped and processed the info-dump.
First she bowed to Teruhashi.
"Thank you, Teruhashi-san. Giving your body—"
"It's fine. Afterall, Tachibana-senpai meticulously modified this body for me. He even made my boobs bigger. And when he sleeps with you, it will be actually my body.
So, it's a win-win situation for me."
"..."
"..."
What the hell is she saying!?
"Miyako-chan! I don't have any such intentions!"
She sighed and clinged to me.
"I trust you fully, you know. She must have fallen in love with you just because you kept her alive.
Teruhashi-san, I thank you for giving me this body, and putting Yamata-no-Orochi and that sorcerer in genjutsu so Yosuke was able to survive and get that snake's body.
But, no matter how much you try to provoke me, I am not leaving Yosuke. Please find someone else."
"Tch."
Teruhashi clicked her tongue, and started heading to the washoom after glancing at me.
"Teruhashi-san, I am sorry, but I can't accept your feelings. I have a girlfriend."
I made things clear. She shouted "I know!" and went to the washroom.
After she was gone from our sight, we both sighed.
"So... did you killed people?"
I was about to say yes, but then I started thinking, have I really killed people?
I killed many Cursed Spirits, including the one that was formed due to the dead people. The WW2 sorcerer was killed by Teruhashi. The fraud Zenin clan ancestor sacrificed himself for Yamata-no-Orochi. And Kashimo is technically still alive, his soul being in my Kusanagi Sword.
"Well, technically, I didn't kill any human."
"I don't really care if you killed people or not, since we have been trapped in a killing game.
But, police wouldn't arrest you, right? Do you know a good lawyer, cause I don't. I don't think laws will like you because of you messing with soul and bodies and stuff."
"I don't think I will be arrested. Japan has turned lawless. Most of the politicians either died or fled to another country due to such a large amount of Cursed Spirits in Tokyo.
Even the Prime Minister has died.
Japan is basically ruined as a country and might be worse off post WW2."
She nodded, and felt deep in thought as she clinged to me.
"You know, I want to kill these Sukuna and Kenjaku."
"Me too. But—"
"You wouldn't do it alone. I want revenge with my own hands too, you know. And even if something happens to me, wouldn't you revive me?"
I hesitated under her buning gaze, and in the end, relented.
"But I will need to strengthen you, with, you know, bad means. Are you fine with getting Newborn souls of others? It will take me a lot of time to adapt my Cursed Technique in a way that I can get rid of their memories—"
"I will do anything, Yosuke. I don't want to be a dead-weight holding you back. You shouldn't have to worry about me constantly."
I looked at the intense resolve in her eyes, and nodded.
And then, just as she was about to kiss me, the roof of my apartment got blown away by a big Cursed Spirit.
Did my calming Cursed Energy attract it!? Judging by its Cursed Energy, it should be near Special Grade!
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