Looking Forward to Another World Chapter 902: Mastering the Ten Shadows Technique

Unknowingly, the commotion that had seemed like a natural disaster gradually subsided as the earth-shaking roars, as well as the fierce battle itself, seemingly came to an end.

"Is it... over?"

All the jujutsu sorcerers who had been caught up in the disaster and suffered as innocent bystanders looked toward the forest with lingering fear.

Megumi, who had finally regained the ability to move, was no exception.

"..."

He said nothing more as he looked toward the nearby battlefield and took a deep breath.

Megumi summoned the bird shikigami once more, allowing Nue to grasp his shoulder before flying toward the forest again. Unlike before, this time the flight went smoothly, and he encountered no further accidents.

However, the scenery he witnessed along the way still made his heart pound.

By then, he had already flown into the forest and entered the battlefield that had been caught in the aftermath of the battle not long ago.

In his vision, there were enormous craters scattered throughout the area, each resembling the impact site of a meteorite, seemingly formed by fragments produced when the enormous meteorite shattered. Meanwhile, the ground had also been completely devastated, to the point that the terrain itself had been altered.

Compared to them, the area closest to the center of the battle was especially severe. Everything within a radius of several thousand meters had been reduced to ruins, as the ground had become a stretch of uneven wasteland covered in rubble and shattered stone, forming a desolate wilderness.

Could this really be something a jujutsu sorcerer was capable of?

Megumi unconsciously clenched his fists.

When he remembered that what had just taken place here was a reenactment of the famous life-or-death battle between the Gojo Clan and Zenin Clan, with Limitless and Ten Shadows Technique facing each other once again, Megumi's feelings became exceptionally complicated.

As the current wielder of the Ten Shadows Technique, he had always believed that there was no way he could ever reach Satoru's level.

Even though he was a genius who had been recognized as a grade 2 jujutsu sorcerer after only entering his first year, the gap between grade 2 and special grade was still far too vast.

Megumi had never even considered that he might become a special grade jujutsu sorcerer capable of determining the future of the jujutsu world. At most, he had only been working toward becoming a grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer.

But now, he realized that he had still underestimated the potential of Ten Shadows Technique.

"No, this isn't the time to be thinking about that."

Megumi shook his head forcefully, driving those dangerous thoughts from his mind.

"Right now, what matters most is checking how the taming ritual turned out."

Had Riezel succeeded?

Had Mahoraga been tamed?

After witnessing the earth-shaking battle with his own eyes, something he had originally never dared to imagine had now become a possibility in Megumi's mind.

Desperate to know the result, he eventually arrived at the center of the battlefield, where the devastation was far worse than anywhere else, as the entire area had been reduced to a completely ruined wasteland.

Yet, standing amid those ruins was a single figure.

He looked like the only victor left in this world, and despite his small frame, he somehow gave off an imposing presence that seemed capable of holding up the heavens and earth.

Megumi controlled Nue as it descended, landing behind the other person, staring at him in silence for a long time.

Only then did the figure turn around.

"You're the first one here, huh?"

Riezel turned around and smiled at Megumi, looking completely unharmed. Even his white uniform was spotless, and the black sword he had been holding moments ago had already been returned to the storage space of the Dimensional Magic Cube.

Instead of responding immediately, Megumi silently looked at the object Riezel was holding. It was a formation disc that looked very similar to a ship's helm. It appeared to be some kind of artifact, but he knew that it was actually part of a shikigami.

Yes.

It was a part of the terrifying shikigami that had been here just moments ago.

"You... succeeded?"

Megumi finally spoke with a complicated expression.

Riezel naturally knew what he was referring to.

"Kinda..." Riezel smiled casually before giving Megumi some praise. "Gotta admit, you really surprised me this time. Your Zenin Clan's Ten Shadows Technique is seriously impressive. It's got a ton of room to grow. You've got one hell of an ability, Fushiguro."

Riezel tossed the formation disc in his hand aside, and it transformed into a black shadow before breaking apart and dissipating like black water.

"Hmm..." Riezel looked at the scene, looking unsure. "I might've hit it a little too hard... This won't mess with my ability to summon it later, right?"

"...It shouldn't."

Megumi gave him a bitter smile.

"Well, that shikigami already has some crazy strong regeneration. As long as even part of its body is left, it can recover pretty fast."

"As long as you don't completely wipe out or destroy a shikigami from the Ten Shadows Technique, knocking it out so hard that its summoning gets canceled like this, it won't mess with using it again later."

"Anyway, congrats. Not only did you pull off something none of the Gojo Clan's previous Limitless users without the Six Eyes ever managed to do, but you also cleared the final taming ritual that no Ten Shadows Technique user in the Zenin Clan had ever managed to complete."

Limitless could only be used by someone who possessed the Six Eyes. No matter what, those without the Six Eyes could not use the technique, yet Riezel had successfully used it.

As for the final shikigami of the Ten Shadows Technique, no one had ever successfully tamed it. Every previous user had treated it as a means of mutual destruction, yet Riezel had successfully completed its taming.

Riezel was only two years older than Megumi and was a fellow student of the same generation and rank, yet in less than a month, he had overturned the history of the jujutsu world twice, rewriting the history of two of the Big Three Clans.

It was simply unbelievable.

"I definitely can't pull off what you did, so you'd better just think of me as someone who's got a way to take an enemy down with me, not someone with some crazy powerful ability." Megumi got his head back in the game before continuing, "Besides, I'm not part of the Zenin Clan. I just happen to have their blood in me. Don't lump me in with them."

"All right." Riezel shrugged as though he didn't really care. "If you don't like it, I won't call you that anymore. Let's go. Now that the ritual's over, there's no point in hanging around here. I'm guessing things have already gone completely crazy back at school."

He naturally knew that conducting his taming ritual in such a reckless manner would inevitably affect the school.

It went without saying that Masamichi was probably furious by now, and what Riezel had done here had likely already reached the ears of the higher-ups in jujutsu society through various channels.

He would probably have to deal with quite a few troublesome matters afterward.

Megumi naturally understood this as well, so he could only nod silently and leave the ruined battlefield together with Riezel.

===

Over the following period of time, people from Tokyo Jujutsu High gradually arrived at the forest and saw the ruined wasteland left behind.

They gathered at the edge of the ruins, breaking into heated discussions as they tried to figure out exactly what had happened here moments ago.

Masamichi was nowhere to be seen, since he had already gone straight to find Riezel, presumably intending to demand an explanation from him.

"What? It's already over?"

Yuji, who had also made it to the scene, stared at the ruins in front of him, looking both shocked and disappointed.

"Tch, this is all your fault, brat. You took so damn long getting here that the whole show is already over."

Seeing that the show was already over, the mouth on Yuji's face clicked its tongue and grumbled in obvious annoyance.

"Hah, that's got nothing to do with you, does it?" Yuji didn't change his attitude toward the owner of that voice at all and shot back. "Besides, you saw what was happening just now too, didn't you? Something that crazy—there was no way I could've gotten any closer!"

"Hmph, that's because you're too weak," the voice mocked. "Even after learning how to use cursed energy, this is all you can do. You can't even come close to the guys who were fighting at that level just now."

"Yep, I'm too weak." Yuji surprisingly didn't even try to deny it before shooting back, "But don't forget, you're not doing much better right now either. You've only got the power of two fingers. You really think you could handle that kind of power?"

"...You've got some nerve, brat."

"It's true. Just admit it, Sukuna."

"Just like I thought, you're seriously damn annoying, brat. I really wanna kill you."

"Yeah, I know. I really wanna kill you too, bastard."

Just like that, the two souls sharing the same body bickered.

Unfortunately, not every argument brought people closer together the more they bickered.

At least, that was certainly not the case for these two.

Throughout their exchange, the murderous aura in their voices was completely genuine, making it clear to anyone listening that they truly wanted to see each other dead.

"Whatever."

After a while, the mouth on Yuji's face changed its tone and began to laugh.

"Even though I didn't get to see it up close, I still got to see something pretty interesting today."

"That cursed energy, that power... It's seriously fascinating..."

"That had something to do with that Megumi Fushiguro, right?"

"Good. Now I'm kinda looking forward to seeing what happens next."

After leaving Yuji with words he could not understand, the master of the voice, who was none other than Ryomen Sukuna, disappeared, causing the mouth on Yuji's face to return to normal.

"What the hell..."

Yuji frowned deeply, but did not think too much about it and turned to leave.

At this point, Yuji still did not know that the evil soul inside him had set his sights on something he should never have coveted, sealing the evil soul's fate as nothing more than a disposable pawn.

===

Outside the barrier surrounding Tokyo Jujutsu High, while the entire school had been thrown into chaos by Riezel's recklessness and everyone was still busy dealing with the aftermath, two figures quietly appeared in a forest beyond the area covered by the barrier.

"Damn it!"

Jogo, the volcano-headed cursed spirit, shouted in a mixture of shock and anger, causing flames to burst from the volcanic crater on his head.

"Was that caused by Satoru Gojo's disciple? Riezel Brynhart?"

"A monster like that is actually his disciple?"

"Are you kidding me?"

Jogo's state of mind had already fallen into disarray.

Beside him, the tree spirit-like cursed spirit, Hanami, remained silent for a long time before finally speaking.

[He is very strong. It's a good thing we saw his strength before confronting him. Otherwise, you really might have died.]

Hanami's unique way of speaking entered Jogo's ears and was forcibly interpreted by his brain, making him even more furious when he was already struggling to maintain his composure.

"Didn't I tell you not to talk like that?" Jogo's eyes were bloodshot as he spoke in a low voice. "Tch, the appearance of a monster like that at a time like this is going to have a huge impact on our plans."

Hanami nodded.

[Tell Geto. Let him come up with a plan to deal with him.]

Hanami's words left Jogo feeling both unwilling and frustrated.

Thinking back to the bold claims he had made earlier, the slap in the face had come far too quickly, and it had landed with such force that Jogo almost wanted to slap himself.

But Hanami was right.

Now, the most important thing was not his pride, but whether their plan could proceed as scheduled.

Yes, that plan was what mattered most.

Compared to that, his confidence and pride were things he could afford to discard.

"...Let's go back and tell Geto," Jogo said with extreme displeasure. "Whether it's Satoru Gojo or that Riezel Brynhart, we'll have to find another way to deal with them. Even if we can't deal with them, we have to seal them, just as Geto said."

After witnessing a battle between two monsters with his own eyes, Jogo no longer had any desire to go looking for Satoru.

If his disciple was already this absurdly powerful, how weak could that man be as his teacher, the strongest jujutsu sorcerer of the modern era?

"I just hope the thing Geto prepared will actually be useful."

With that, Jogo turned and left, while Hanami silently followed behind him.

Both cursed spirits had invaded Tokyo Jujutsu High without anyone knowing, and they ultimately withdrew without anyone knowing either, without being exposed to anyone.

Perhaps that was the only thing they had gained tonight, and it was also their greatest stroke of luck.

===

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!"

At an airport, Satoru let out a shout that caused the surrounding pedestrians to turn their heads as he listened to the report coming through his cell phone.

However, he had no time to care about that.

"Riezel tamed all the shikigami of the Ten Shadows Technique?"

Satoru asked, his azure eyes widening beneath his eyepatch.

"Even the last one?"

"Seriously?"

"No, I'm not doubting you. It's just... he caused this huge mess right after I left. Man, that kid might actually be better at causing trouble than me."

"All right, all right. I'll wrap things up here as fast as I can, then head back and have a good talk with him."

"Relax. I know what I'm doing."

After hanging up the phone, Satoru stood there in a daze for a long while.

After some time, the strongest jujutsu sorcerer of the modern era could not help but laugh.

"Hah, things really are getting more and more interesting..."