(Miyako's PoV)
It hurts!
It burns!
It's just so... so painful...
I am burning!
Someone save me! Yosuke! Where are you!?
It's burning!
My thoughts broke as I found myself unnaturally calming down.
I am still burning, yet...
"Miyako-chan..."
Ah. It's as if someone is calling for me.
Who's this...?
Is someone else also trapped in fire with me?
Slowly, my vision was changing. The flames all around me were subsiding.
And then, I saw Yosuke, making a pained face.
Is it afterlife?
If so, I want us to be together even after we get reincarnated...
Eh? It's Yosuke's apartment?
As the realisation hit me, the fire burning me vanished, and I finally saw another girl in his apartment.
"Yosuke..."
As I muttered, he hugged me and patted my head, his face dripping with tears and relief.
"Hmm. It's alright now—"
He was comforting me, and yet, the murderous intent from another girl in his apartment bothered me.
I should have been scared, but I was weirdly calm.
"Who's this weird girl in your apartment?"
I even asked this, even if I felt that I would get killed.
"That's Teruhashi. She gave you her body for reincarnating you."
"EH!? What the heck does that even mean!?"
Even though I was calm, my voice rose at the implications.
Giving her body for reincarnating me, even though she is standing right there...
Ah. I guess I really am in some anime.
Yosuke's aura or chakra or mana or whatever is enveloping me. I can feel some power in my body...
I guess we awakened some powers?
Then, Yosuke gave me an info dump.
He always explains in so much detail instead of keeping it short that I get more confused instead of understanding what he wants me to understand.
But, in short, Sukuna killed me. And Kenjaku is the mastermind behind all this, dragging people, dragging Yosuke, in the death game.
That Yosuke had to take over a monster's body to survive from it.
And Teruhashi actually died, but became a Cursed Spirit(?) on dying due to not getting killed by Cursed Energy, and then Yosuke reincarnated her into a guy's body? So she gave her body for me?
It will take a while for me to process all this...
But first...
"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."
...
Ah. I understand. She is crazy.
Poor girl. The death game, the deaths of the people in the group, herself dying and becoming something not human...
Since Yosuke is so reliable, no wonder she fell under the classic Suspension Bridge Effect.
"Miyako-chan! I don't have any such intentions!"
I sighed as Yosuke panicked. I know him perfectly well. He literally revived me. He loves me too much to even have such thoughts.
I clinged to him more, looking straight at Teruhashi. Yosuke only kept her alive because her technique is life-saving, and most importantly, she is the last surviving member of his initial group.
"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."
I truly wish that when all this ends, she will find herself someone and be happy.
She is clearly the soft-yandere type. You know, the ones that will actually not harm the person she loves. So, she will not kill me, Yosuke's girlfriend.
Probably.
Still, I will try to set her up with someone amazing just so she doesn't bother us.
"Tch."
She clicked her tongue and started heading to the washroom after glancing at Yosuke.
And he formally rejected her.
"Teruhashi-san, I am sorry, but I can't accept your feelings. I have a girlfriend."
"I know!"
Shouting that, she went to the washroom, and we were finally alone.
"So... did you killed people?"
I asked him, though I don't really care. I was just asking him so that we can prepare to escape to a foreign country so that police can't catch us.
He was trapped in a killing game, but our country's law has a weirdly high punishment rate.
If a case is filed against him, the court will most likely sentence him to jail without bothering about the circumstances.
Moreover, with his ability to mess with body and soul...
I don't think we can continue living in Japan. But we must find good lawyers so that extradition wouldn't happen for us.
"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."
The situation is that bad!?
These jujutsu terrorists...
"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 am calm under Yosuke's Cursed Energy right now.
But, this way, I will be just a burden.
I surely have trauma. So to fix that, I must kill those who caused it.
"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 clinged to him tighter, feeling his breath on me.
Unlike the fire, I don't hate his warmth.
Thank goodness...
He started leaning for a kiss, and Teruhashi's words bothered me.
This is her body...
But, since Yosuke modified it for me, it should be fine, right?
And just as our lips were about to connect, the roof got destroyed, and a grotesque monster ruined the atmosphere.
It has no sense of timing at all!
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