Curse Returns: What did the human-shaped wishing machine do wrong this time?

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"Itadaki, you're a sorcerer, aren't you?"

"Yes."

"Have you ever killed anyone?"

Yoshino Junpei lowered his eyes, his bangs obscuring the right half of his face. He had his back to Itadori Yuujin, and his voice was somewhat unsteady.

"No, but I've always felt that I have a lot to repay."

Yuji Itadori hesitated for a moment before responding slowly.

Why is that?

Yoshino Junpei paused in his hand holding the CD, and turned around in surprise.

"How should I put it? Because of my younger brother and family, my understanding of life was somewhat vague when I was young. As I grew older, I realized that was wrong. Just because you've seen so much life and death doesn't mean you can't see the value of the people you cherish."

Hisahito Itadori's expression was extremely serious.

From childhood to adulthood, apart from my grandfather, everyone in my family—my younger brother, Aunt Xiaomei, and Brother Zhangxiang—had shown a certain indifference towards life.

During his childhood, Hisahito Itadori once doubted whether his own perception was wrong, and whether he should not insist on the kind of justice that his family thought was not important.

But as he grew up, he gradually realized that his younger brother and sister had always treated others with sincerity. It was just that the adults were too greedy and hypocritical, and were corrupted by their desires and burdened with a curse.

The younger sister has taken many lives, and those lives are exchanged in a cycle of wishes. The younger sister cannot decide the wishes of others, and they cannot control this cycle of exchange.

Yuji Itadori doesn't know why his younger brother has been burdened with this destiny, but he wants to face it together with his brother.

"..."

Yoshino Junpei was completely stunned.

Just then, his doorbell rang. He opened the door with some confusion and saw two boys of similar age, who wore the same swirling buttons as Hisahito Itadori.

"Fu Hei, little brother, what brings you here?"

Yuji Itadori scratched his head, somewhat lost in thought.

"My brother secretly went out to eat with his new friends behind our backs! Xiaohui and I were so worried about him!"

Alluka pouted and complained in a spoiled manner.

Yoshino Junpei's mother had drunk too much and fell asleep on the table, where some dishes and utensils remained unwashed.

They immediately recognized what Hisahito Itadori had just done.

"Hahaha—"

Yuji Itadori smiled knowingly.

Ijichi had called him before the meal, and Itadori Yuujin asked him to come two hours later. However, he had sent the address to Alluka, and he was still caught red-handed.

Yuji Itadori and Junpei Yoshino were about to watch a movie when they saw his classmate, and Junpei Yoshino became a little reserved.

The group sat obediently side by side in a somewhat awkward atmosphere when, out of nowhere, a cheerful voice rang out.

"I was thinking of playing it a bit more, but I didn't expect it to actually happen!"

A cursed spirit with light blue hair appeared in Yoshino Junpei's house, with a purplish-red Sukuna finger between its fingers.

Makoto has always treated Yoshino Junpei as a toy for his human experimentation. He brought Suku Nagi over with the intention of making the cursed spirit kill the only mother the other person cared about.

However, he discovered from afar that Yoshino Junpei's family not only possessed the Sukuna vessel, but also that high school student named Alluka, whom the curse master had mentioned as someone who could destroy the world.

Getting him to show up wouldn't be easy, especially since that level one sorcerer wasn't there either. The real person didn't intend to let this opportunity slip away.

"Mr. Real Person?"

Yoshino Junpei never expected that the real person would appear at this time.

He knew that the real person was a cursed spirit, and that it was the real person who taught those who bullied him a lesson. He always regarded the real person as a good cursed spirit.

"Nice to meet you, Sukuna's container, and... a wishing machine~"

The real person ignored Yoshino Junpei and Fushiguro Megumi, and instead waved to Hisahito and Alluka with a smile.

"Jade Dog".

Unlike the half-baked sorcerer Yuujin Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro reacted extremely quickly, crossing his hands to form a dog-shaped hand shadow. Two black and white shikigami roared out from his shadow, and the shikigami kicked off with its paws, shooting towards the real person like a cannonball.

"Wait, Mr. Zhenren isn't a bad person—"

Yoshino Junpei didn't expect Fushiguro Megumi to make a move right away, and he stopped her without thinking.

Fukuhei Hui ignored him completely, and the two jade dogs howled, trying to tear off the skin and flesh of the blue-haired cursed spirit.

Even a real person could tell that the jade dog in front of him was a shikigami. He transformed his arm into the shape of a blade. The jade dog realized this a little too late, and its muzzle was cut by the blade.

While they were hiding, the real man's eyes gleamed with excitement. His arm swelled up rapidly and became deformed, like a strange lump of flesh, and flew at an extremely fast speed toward the bewildered Yoshino Junpei.

"Transformation through non-action—"

A soft chant drifted from the air.

Yoshino Junpei stared blankly at his body being held in the hands of a real person. Before he could react, his body began to writhe and deform, starting from his face.

With an enormous head and a beak-like mouth, Yoshino Junpei's body swelled up to an inhuman size in an instant, and even its color turned into a cold gray-blue.

He was manipulated by a real person in a bizarre manner to throw a heavy punch towards Hisahito Itadori.

"Shunping!"

Yuji Itadori called out urgently, having caught Junpei Yoshino's fist, intending to bring the other man back to his senses by calling his name.

"You bastard! Are you playing with people's lives like this?!"

Watching helplessly as someone turned into a monster before his eyes, Fukuro Megumi's eyes narrowed, and he gritted his teeth as he angrily rebuked the real person.

"Nue!"

He crossed his hands, making a bird-shaped hand shadow, and an orange bird-shaped shikigami flew out from his shadow.

"Shunping!"

After Yoshino Junpei became a cyborg, he lost his mind. Itadori Yuuji, holding the other's enormous head, opened his mouth towards Alluka, who was standing motionless to the side, and said in a trembling voice, "Little brother! Can you switch bodies with your sister right now?!"

He remembered Alluka's statement that Nanika could heal the bodies of cyborgs, and Yuuji Itadori was very glad that Alluka had come to the Yoshino family.

"Okay, brother."

Alluka blinked; he could guess what his brother wanted to do.

Alluka closed her eyes and sank her consciousness into the depths of her heart.

When he opened his eyes again, his face was strangely pale, and his features looked like bottomless black holes.

Nanika took control of her body and looked expectantly in the direction of Itadori Hisahito.

"Sister, please help me heal Shunping and restore him to human form!"

The cyborg Yoshino Junpei, now transformed into a human, was still punching Itadori Yuujin, desperately wanting to restore his friend to his original form.

"it is good."

Nanika nodded stiffly and slowly extended her hand to Yoshino Junpei.

Just as she was about to touch Junpei's body, another mouth suddenly appeared on Hisahito Itadori's cheek.

"Nanika, stop."

A joyful laugh came from the mouth of the two Sukuna.

As he finished speaking, Nanica's outstretched hand hesitated and stopped in mid-air.