Megumi: “There's just no way!! You substituted your blood for reversed cursed energy?! Just what in the hell are you Yuji Itadori??!!”
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Yuji smirks, pointing at himself with his thumb.
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Yuji: “That's a good question.. I wouldn’t know the answer to that myself..”
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Yuji turns his attention back to Choso, he raises his fists. Choso hesitates but raises his fists as well. Yuji immediately rushes at him and throws a punch, Choso blocks it and goes for a kick. Yuji blocks the kick, pushing Choso back. Yuji covers his hand in fire, he swings his arm sending several explosive kunai at Choso, who manages to dodge out of the way resulting in several explosions behind him.
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Choso clasps his hands together, gathering blood between them.
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Choso: “Convergence..”
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The blood gathered between Choso’s hand is pushed to its limit, condensing and charging. Yuji just stands there with a grin growing on his face.
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Choso: “Piercing Blood!!!”
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Choso fires the beam of blood at Yuji yet he only stands there grinning widely. The beam pierces through Yuji’s chest, yet he holds his smile as black liquid spills from his lips. Choso’s eyes widen and he quickly stops the beam, as he watches Yuji bleed.
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Choso: “W-.. What the..?”
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The hole in Yuji’s chest immediately heals shut. Yuji wipes his lips, and pats the spot where the hole used to be.
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Yuji: “Just as I thought.. Heheh.. This energy performs better than blood ever could.. Replacing my blood was by far the best thing I’ve ever done. But of course I’m not done, I’m only getting started testing these abilities.”
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Yuji covers his hand in flames, he kneels down and touches the grass. The grass immediately bursts into flames, the fire spreads slowly but surely. He stands up straight, extinguishing the flame around his hand.
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Yuji: “Usually I’d have to collect the flames into spheres or form it into weapons to keep it from spreading too far. But since it seems this energy I’ve created is actually fairly simple to grasp, I have a theory. Megumi called it Reversed Cursed Energy. So it must be its own technique. But of course, one can add it to their own techniques. So, if that's the case I can apply it to my Flame Manipulation, and if I do that..”
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Yuji points at the spreading flames, and with a gust all of the flames reverse and disappear completely. Choso watches this with confusion, Megumi feels like he’s losing his mind, and Maki has given up trying to understand at this point.
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Yuji: “But get this, I’ve come up with a brand new idea..”
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Yuji extends his hand outward, he attracts flames from any source he can into his palm and a vortex is formed. As more flames are absorbed the vortex grows in intensity, becoming a raging inferno of reversed and concentrated fire energy. Megumi drops to his knees, he can’t understand anything anymore. Choso is deeply impressed and highly confused.
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Megumi (Thoughts): “This is getting ridiculous! Just how much potential is he hiding?! I’m falling too far behind, I’ve got to pick up on training. I can’t be slacking, Gojo gave us both more cursed energy than we know what to do with! He’s already using it!”
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Yuji: “See, here is how it works.. I’m using the attraction of reversed cursed energy to collect outer sourced flames into a mini vortex. The more flames added to it, the larger and more powerful it is. This can work as offensive and defensive, as it should blow up and decimate anything in range, and creating the attack can absorb the enemies fire based attacks should they have one. Additionally, I can always start a fire and use those flames. I have yet to figure out how to make this on command, but once I do it’ll be much better than it is now.”
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Yuji turns his attention to the opposite direction, where the actual city is. Yuji points the attack in that direction, and with a simple flick he sends the vortex which grows larger and larger in size towards the city. He then turns his attention back to the others, and a massive explosion goes off and the sound of buildings falling can be heard.
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Yuji: “You know, I believe I see the world for what it is now you all.. A testing ground, and its inhabitants are simply test subjects. No one can do anything to stop us all, I see now, Gojo and Sukuna’s ambitions have merit.. I finally see it through their eyes, not in the exact same way, but I understand them now. Just being a part of this team has made me so much stronger, to the point where I actually managed to replace all the blood in my body with reversed cursed energy.” He laughs a bit. “I was never able to do that until now!! The energy flowing through my body, it’s constantly restoring me, refreshing my brain, constantly curing sickness, fixing all flaws.. At the rate I’m growing I might even be able to stand on equal footing with Gojo and Sukuna! Who else but me is this capable? Who?!”
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Megumi: “Itadori, you have limitless potential, you made it so that your body can constantly heal and refresh itself, you’re like the incarnation of ‘you do whatever you set your mind to’ to a much greater degree.”
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Yuji: “Exactly, it’s unwavering ambition! It’s a great thing to have, and mix that with limitless potential as you put it, and anything is possible.”
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Choso: “You grow so fast, but with that growth I’m starting to feel that you slowly start to lose your mind.. But let me explain something to you Itadori.. Before when you were replacing your blood and dying, I could feel it.. I have what I call Blood Connection, where I can sense any ‘transformations’ of my brothers with death being considered one. So when you were slowly dying from what you were doing, I picked up on it.. The feeling was strong, agonizing, disorienting.. Meaning that..”
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Yuji pauses, his eyes widening a bit.
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Yuji: “We’re.. Brothers?”
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Choso nods, Yuji stares blankly at him before he puts a smile on his face.
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Yuji: “Well then, brother.. Thank you for helping me get to these heights.. I’ve grasped a lot of information by watching and fighting you.”
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Choso: “It’s not a problem at all, so little brother, shall we continue?”
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Choso puts up fists, Yuji does the same. With resounding yells they both rush at each other at their full speed. Yuji throws the first punch yet Choso dodges, Choso goes for a gut punch. Yuji blocks it and a continuous exchange of blows ensues. Yuji breaks the loop by kicking Choso back and flinging a kamikaze kunai at him.
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Choso regains his footing, and quickly flings a large blood shard at the kunai hoping to break through it. However it doesn’t work. The kunai simply breaks the shard and continues to move forward. Choso quickly moves out of the way, causing the kunai to miss and explode but also Yuji to appear right in front of him.
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Yuji: “Burning Red Flame: Decimate!”
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Yuji, at that moment delivered his strongest punch yet, Choso puked up blood. He was sent flying back into the air, blinking in and out of consciousness. Yuji appeared beside him mid-air and punched him again, this time sending him crashing to the ground and through many trees. Yuji summoned his Cursed Shift Blade, and remembered something, he smiled widely.
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Yuji: “Cursed Shift Morph: Playful Cloud.”
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The Cursed Shift melted and morphed itself, turning into the Playful Cloud.
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Yuji: “Though I’m not tired, using all that speed just to get places can hold me back. Perhaps teleportation should suffice, but how would I do it? No matter, I’ll learn it later.”
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Yuji appeared before Choso who rose to his feet. Yuji approached him slowly, Choso took some steps back, sending several blood shards at Yuji which didn't have any effect. Before Choso could react, Yuji had hit him with the playful cloud, sending him crashing into some trees and through some rocks. Yuji started to approach him again, but suddenly he stopped and smiled.
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Yuji: “I’ll let you in on a little secret.. Not only did I replace my blood with positive energy, I also made it so that my heart produces and pumps it through my body constantly..”
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Choso’s eyes widened, as he pushed himself up.
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Choso: “T-.. That's incredible.. How is it possible, how can you be this talented..?”
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Yuji shrugs.
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Yuji: “But I must know one thing, are you a full cursed spirit or..?”
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Choso: “Half, my mother was human but due to some unnatural events ended up having half human half curse children.”
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Yuji nods in acknowledgement of this new information.
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Yuji: “Got it, then you should have at least an equal amount of potential compared to mine, though mine comes out through combat. This is our second battle and you have yet to grow or develop like I have. But don’t worry, we’ll find a way for you to get stronger.”
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Yuji smiles, he forces the Cursed Shift to vanish from his hand.
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Choso: “I look forward to it, but I noticed that Gojo supplies you and Megumi cursed energy as reward for successfully completing a mission. You think I’ll get rewarded as well?”
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Yuji nods.
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Yuji: “Of course, he always does it for us, so I don’t see why not.”
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