Jujutsu Kaisen: I have everything I need now!

Chapter 137 Dive

The mask is the first thing to emerge from the center of the shadow.

A bronze-colored face emerged inch by inch from the two-dimensional plane, expressionless and without eye sockets, with only an arc extending from each side of the lower edge of the mask outlining its shape.

Then come the shoulder armor, chest armor, and arm armor.

Layers of dark gray metal sheets emerged from the shadows, gleaming with a dull bluish light in the sunlight.

"I'm never quite used to seeing this thing."

Tiger Rod took two steps back and smacked his lips.

Kugizaki glanced at him sideways. "Is there something you're not used to?"

"You just... have no shame."

A vertical slit slowly opened in the chest area of ​​the masked general. Bronze armor plates slid aside, revealing a cavity just large enough to accommodate a person. The inner walls of the cavity were covered with a layer of dark, shadowy substance, soft yet thick.

Fushiguro Megumi stood up and glanced back at Mai.

"After you go in, stay close to the inner wall."

Zhenyi walked up to the masked general and glanced down at the size of the cavity.

Is there enough space?

""

"reluctantly."

She propped the Black Queen up against her shoulder and slipped inside.

The shadowy entities on the inner wall of the cavity pressed tightly against her back and sides, serving to fix and cushion her.

The Black Queen was held in her arms, the gun barrel pointing upwards, the butt of the gun pressed against her abdomen.

The temperature of the inner wall is very low.

"closure."

Fushiguro Megumi's voice came from outside, and then the armor plates closed up again, sealing Mayi inside.

The light disappeared.

Can you hear me?

Fushiguro Megumi's voice became muffled, carrying the echo of a metal box.

"able."

Fushiguro walked to the side of the ship.

The masked general followed behind him, his heavy armored boots clattering on the deck.

Yigu emerged from the bridge, holding a square device about the size of a palm.

"A depth gauge. Waterproof, strapped to your wrist." He handed it to Fushiguro Megumi. "When it shows red, it means you're approaching the depth where the signal was lost before."

Fukuro Megumi secured the depth gauge and glanced at the masked general again.

The shikigami stood motionless by the ship's side, its empty bronze mask facing the sea.

"How long will it take to reach the bottom?" Yi Gu asked.

"The Masked General's descent speed depends on my spell power output. At full power—" Fuhei Wheatley paused for a moment, "...about ten minutes."

"Too fast," said Yigu. "The water pressure changes dramatically below 5,000 meters. You need to give General Mask enough time to adapt to the structural stress."

"Fifteen minutes."

Bone nodded.

Itadori walked over from behind and patted Fushiguro Megumi on the shoulder.

"careful."

Fukuro Megumi didn't turn around.

"Um."

Kugizaki leaned against the railing in the distance, arms crossed, lips pursed, and said nothing.

Fushiguro Megumi's shadow extended from his feet, spreading along the deck all the way to the masked general's heels, and the two shadows merged into one the moment they touched.

He flipped over the gunwale.

The masked general followed closely behind, his heavy body plummeting straight down from the edge of the deck.

"thump-

'

A large white spray of water erupted, and seawater surged onto the deck, leaving a dark water trail at everyone's feet.

Huzhang ran to the side of the boat and looked down.

The two figures sank rapidly after entering the water. Fushiguro Megumi's black school uniform became a blurry shadow in the seawater, while the masked general's bronze armor reflected the last rays of sunlight before being swallowed by the deep blue sea.

A few seconds later, the water returned to calm.

The moment he entered the water, Fushiguro Megumi's entire body was enveloped in the icy seawater.

The masked general's shadow spread upwards from his ankles, quickly solidifying into a close-fitting dark shell around his body.

This is a skill he developed after being subdued.

The Masked General's shadow entity can act as a water pressure isolation layer, similar in principle to Gojo Satoru's limitless power, but far less sophisticated.

It cannot completely eliminate stress, but can only significantly reduce it.

Fukuro Megumi did not bring any lighting equipment. The masked general's face glowed with a dim bronze light in the darkness, enough to illuminate an area of ​​two or three meters around him.

He turned his gaze to the depth gauge on his wrist.

The numbers are beating steadily.

one thousand.

-

two thousand.

Three thousand.

The water temperature was dropping rapidly. A layer of extremely fine ice crystals began to condense on the surface of the Shadow Shell, which would quickly condense again after being washed away by the water flow, in a continuous cycle.

Four thousand meters.

"Crunch."

That's the sound of metal slightly deforming under high pressure.

Fukuro Megumi's right hand clenched slightly. His shadow added another layer to the masked general's joints, like a patch on his armor.

Six thousand meters.

The depth gauge's backlight changed from green to yellow.

The first batch of debris came into view.

A bent iron beam pierced through the darkness, its surface rusted down to a thin layer, covered with clumps of grayish-white tube worms.

Further down, the wreckage became increasingly dense.

Broken keels, flattened planks, and twisted chains. In the dim light of the masked general, their shadows stretched like a giant net into the deeper darkness.

This is the shipwreck graveyard that December 1st and Gojo Satoru passed through earlier.

Fushiguro Megumi noticed something.

The upper part of the cemetery has been torn apart.

The passageways between the wreckage were torn open by external force, leaving huge gaps in the metal edges, which were abnormally clean. Some of the keel bones were snapped in two, with the steel at the fracture points curling outwards, as if they had been blasted open from the inside by something.

The section further down shows obvious burn marks. The rust was burned into a dark red glaze by the high temperature, and the tube worms and attached organisms were all carbonized, leaving only a layer of black char on the metal surface.

The two fought their way down from there.

But as you go deeper, the wreckage returns to its original state.

This means the battle ends at this depth.

They ran into trouble further down.

Fushiguro continued to sink, passing through the lowest level of the graveyard.

Here, the debris thins out, replaced by smooth rock walls. The trench's true structure is finally revealed: the cliffs on both sides extend almost vertically downwards, the gaps so narrow that only the Masked General can barely pass through.

The depth gauge jumped to nine thousand meters.

The backlight turned orange.

The masked general's armor began to emit a continuous, low creaking sound. The shadowy adhesive layer between the armor plates was squeezed extremely thin by the water pressure, and Fushiguro Ei could clearly feel the cursed power draining away at an unexpected rate.

He gritted his teeth.

10,000 meters.

The depth gauge turned red.

Just then, the masked general stopped.

For a moment, Fushiguro Megumi thought that the Masked General's structure had reached its limit, but then he realized that the shikigami was not stopping, but rather refusing to move forward.

The masked general's bronze mask slowly turned downwards.

Fushiguro Megumi followed its gaze.

The seawater below has changed.

The change was subtle. It would have been almost impossible to notice if he and the masked general hadn't shared their senses. The water suddenly stopped flowing at a certain depth, and the temperature, density, and even color broke off along an extremely clear dividing line.

Above the line is the normal deep sea.

Below the line, there was nothing.

Dead water area.

Three short vibrations emanated from the inner wall of the masked general's chest cavity.

Arrived.

Maya opened her eyes in the darkness.

She glanced down at the Black Queen.

The shadow patterns on the barrel were slowly lighting up, with purplish-black lines spreading from the stock to the scope, and then from the scope to the muzzle.

The Black Queen also sensed what was below.

Zhenyi's thumb was insured.

"open."

A crack appeared in the masked general's breastplate.

A square hole that is just big enough to accommodate the protruding gun barrel.

She poked the Black Queen's gun barrel out of the square hole.

The sight she saw in the scope made her pause for a second.

The stagnant water area below is not a still sea.

It is spinning.

The entire stagnant water area was like a giant whirlpool being slowed down, with the seawater at the edge being sucked little by little into the dividing line.

Outside the vortex, a barrier made of high-speed water flow is in operation.

Maya moved her finger from the safety to the trigger guard.

She didn't rush to fire.

The crosshairs of the scope moved slowly, scanning around the edge.

She discovered that at a certain phase of the vortex motion, there was a very brief increase in the interval between the water flows, lasting less than half a second.

Half a second.

enough.