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CH. 265: That Day
EDITOR's NOTE: Itadori expands his domain!! But just what is this place...?
SUKUNA: I've experienced this before. The rare phenomenon of connecting with a sorcerer during the height of battle.
SUKUNA: I had thought it was a side effect of some sort due to cursed energy being born from humans.
SUKUNA: Yet... This is something different.
SUKUNA: What is this? Your domain?
YUJI: Enough chatter. I did this a little frantically, I don't really get it either.
YUJI: I wanted time to talk to you.
YUJI: Just indulge me for a sec.
YUJI: Oh, check it out! The Demon's Sword Dance statue!
SUKUNA: Wouldn't know it.
YUJI: Don't worry. No one besides the locals here would know about it.
PAGE TWO
YUJI: I lived here until I was six or seven and moved to Sendai. I was born in Sendai, we just lived here for my grandpa's work.
YUJI: I came back here for the first time in like ten years for a funeral. Friend of my grandpa's.
YUJI: I wouldn't say it was a ghost town, but it did surprise me how empty the place felt.
YUJI: Actually... I guess I wasn't surprised.
YUJI: If I'm being honest, I'd kind of expected it. It didn't really shake me.
SUKUNA: ...
YUJI: I wonder if that guy would've come to my grandpa's funeral if he had died first?
PAGE THREE
YUJI: This is the park I hung out at most often.
YUJI: All the play equipment is pretty much gone, but I thought I was gonna die after I stubbed my toe on the swing set, so I'm not too mad about it. Yup...
YUJI: Once, I tried to clean off some slime I dropped in sand in this water fountain, and the whole thing went down the drain. I cried.
YUJI: A morning glory...
SUKUNA: That's a hydrangea, you moron.
YUJI: Yeah, yeah, I know. Careless mistake.
YUJI: A ton of these bloom here, huh? I really only noticed it after I moved to Sendai.
YUJI: I wonder who's in charge of deciding the foliage for each town?
YUJI: Wait, you know the different flowers?
PAGE FOUR
SUKUNA: ...I learned them from Fushiguro Megumi's memories.
YUJI: Ooh, right.
YUJI: Wait, wouldn't that mean you know all about this place from my memories when you were in my body?
SUKUNA: I didn't waste time going through memories like that.
YUJI: I seeeee.
YUJI: This park was pretty far from my house, but you can catch crayfish here.
YUJI: Try it out.
YUJI: Unless the strongest sorcerer in history can't catch some crayfish?
SUKUNA: Silence.
YUJI: WOOOAH!
PAGE FIVE
SUKUNA: Yours is practically microscopic.
YUJI: You got an American crayfish. Japanese ones are way more rare.
SUKUNA: What was that?
YUJI: You heard me.
YUJI: This is the department store that opened when I was five. Thanks to this thing, all the mom-and-pop shops vanished.
YUJI: It got kinda quiet with all the small businesses closing down, but they opened a movie theater upstairs, so I considered it even.
YUJI: It's a pretty natureless place, but don't worry, there's a lot more green once you leave the town a bit.
SUKUNA: I'm not exactly holding my breath for anything here.
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YUJI: See! Green, as far as the eye can see.
YUJI: I used to catch grasshoppers in the rice fields here till the cage was about to burst. Haven't seen many of them lately, though.
YUJI: Maybe pesticides got real advanced?
SUKUNA: ...
SUKUNA: Is this going anywhere? YUJI: Just hold on. I still have some places I wanna go. YUJI: Wowza!
PAGE SEVEN
YUJI: Horses are so awesome. No matter how many times I see 'em, their heads are bigger than I remember.
YUJI: My grandpa took me to this farm every so often.
YUJI: I guess now that I think about it, he did a lot of parenting in my mom and dad's place.
YUJI: The soft serve here is killer. I spent my whole allowance on it that day. Then I ate too much. Then I threw up.
SUKUNA: Was that when your brainlessness began?
YUJI: Ooh! Let's do some archery!
PAGE EIGHT
YUJI: Hot damn.
YUJI: Something about playing with you isn't really enticing me.
SUKUNA: Isn't it obvious I'd be more attuned to this than you?
YUJI: Oh, right. I forgot you're from the era of actual archery.
YUJI: You'd see snow sculpture after snow sculpture lined up here during our Snow Festival in the winter.
YUJI: I wonder if they still do that? We did the same thing in Sendai, but it doesn't really snow there much.
PAGE NINE
YUJI: It just doesn't feel like winter unless the snow really piles up.
YUJI: I always loved drinking a sweet milk tea
after my hands went numb from snow shoveling in the morning.
BABY YUJI blowing his tea cooler: FWOOO FWOOO.
YUJI: My grandpa always looked stunned by it.
WASUKE: Eugh. That stuff'll just make your mouth all sticky. (He's drinking black coffee)
YUJI: Once it got closer to Christmas, I would always hear bells at night.
PAGE TEN
YUJI: That always made me think Santa really did exist.
YUJI: I only realized way later that it was just the snow chains on car tires.
SUKUNA: Alright.
SUKUNA: Enough already.
YUJI: Okay, okay... I think I showed you pretty much everything I wanted to.
PAGE ELEVEN
SUKUNA: Your blathering is disgusting.
SUKUNA: Say what you want to say.
YUJI: You know...
PAGE TWELVE
YUJI: Up until recently, I thought I should simply live to fulfill my role as I understood it.
YUJI: I thought if I died like that, I could at
least consider it a proper death.
YUJI: But now... I feel like that's not entirely right.
PAGE THIRTEEN
YUJI: Walking the dog, raising a family, any sort of role like that is just fine.
YUJI: Even if you don't have anything like that, as long as you can eat, shit, and sleep...
YUJI: ....Even if you're stuck in bed sick, even if you spent your life with no connections and nothing remains of you...
YUJI: Just the tiny fragments of memories that make up a person drifting elsewhere give value to a human life.
PAGE FOURTEEN
YUJI: It has nothing to do with how someone dies.
YUJI: I couldn't ever forgive anyone who acted as if that value didn't exist.
YUJI: Sukuna... I loathe you.
YUJI: People aren't tools. We aren't born with any set role.
YUJI: I have no clue whether humans are fundamentally good or evil.
PAGE FIFTEEN
YUJI: Maybe I'm the one in the wrong.
YUJI: So I thought I should at least let you see...
YUJI: ...the humanity of someone other than yourself. Of someone you see no value in.
SUKUNA: ...
SUKUNA: I don't feel a thing.
SUKUNA: I understand everything you're saying, brat.
SUKUNA: And yet... I feel absolutely nothing.
SUKUNA: Just as you felt when you saw how quiet this town became.
SUKUNA: You had expected it.
SUKUNA: So...
SUKUNA: What?
PAGE SIXTEEN
YUJI: No dice, huh?
YUJI: Figured...
SUKUNA: Suffice to say...
SUKUNA: I'm dumbfounded by just how cowardly you're being.
SUKUNA: Your rage toward me, your hatred...
SUKUNA: Is this all it amounted to?
SUKUNA: Wait... You couldn't possibly be...?
PAGE SEVENTEEN
SUKUNA: Are you...pitying me?
SUKUNA: Is this your way of showing compassion...?
PAGE EIGHTEEN
YUJI: Right on the mark.
YUJI: Sukuna... I can kill you.
YUJI: Release Fushiguro.
YUJI: Return to my body and I'll spare your life.
PAGE NINETEEN
SUKUNA: Such a grave, severe misconception...
SUKUNA: I won't stop at simply mincing you to bits, brat.
SUKUNA: Right in front of your eyes...
SUKUNA: I'll slaughter each and every human being you claim to be oh so valuable!
EDITOR's NOTE: A refusal burning red with fury!
CHAPTER ENDS.
BREAK NEXT WEEK.
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