Yuji Itadori rembered clearly that during the final battle in Shinjuku, he had once given Sukuna a final chance.
However, as the King of Curses, the man possessed an absolute arrogance.
Yuji Itadori knew better than anyone what choice Sukuna would make.
It was impossible for him to suddenly see the error of his ways—at least not in this lifeti.
Therefore, the only thing left to do was to send Sukuna to the next one.
At this mont, the intense agony left Sukuna almost unable to move.
That pain was not rely physical; it cut deep into the soul.
Yuji Itadori's attacks could directly strike the soul.
"Sukuna, you're in a lot of pain, aren't you? You didn't choose to be born burdened by a curse; what kind of monster you beco depends entirely on luck. At least I had my grandfather, and at least I had other companions."
Yuji Itadori crouched down, looking at the nearly distorted expression on Sukuna's face.
Anger, unwillingness, hatred—these emotions were displayed on Sukuna's face without any concealnt.
These very words were the sa ones he had said to Sukuna sixty-eight years ago.
Even today, those words still flowed from his mouth.
Yuji Itadori had originally thought he wouldn't want to say anything more to Sukuna. After all, what he wanted to say had been said sixty-eight years prior; upon seeing Sukuna, he should have simply finished him off, and seeing the man shouldn't have stirred any particular thoughts.
Yet, for so reason, he still chose to speak these words.
The Sukuna before him was like Yuji Itadori's past self.
It was precisely because of the guidance and companionship of others that Yuji Itadori was able to consistently walk the correct path.
But at this mont, his state of mind was sowhat different from back then.
"You damned brat, are you pitying ?!"
"Sukuna, if you could start over, perhaps you could try living for others."
Yuji Itadori simply looked at Sukuna with an incredibly calm gaze.
Did he pity Sukuna?
Sixty-eight years ago, perhaps such an emotion existed.
But the current him seed to have beco numb.
No.
Until recently, it seed he had recovered slightly from that state of numbness.
"Who do you think you are?! I am the King of Curses!!!"
Sukuna was further incited by Yuji Itadori's words. He strained with all his might to drag his body into an attack, but two hits of Black Flash from the current Yuji Itadori had completely stripped him of his combat capability.
"Next, it's ti for atonent—not just for you, but for as well."
Yuji Itadori sighed, then reached out and placed his hand on Sukuna's head.
Dismantle.
This was not a Dismantle released against the flesh, but a direct attack on the soul's connection point.
Although Sukuna's soul was sealed within his fingers, if it were forcibly stripped from the host, he would dissipate within a short ti.
This was the true thod to eliminate Sukuna.
"Brat! Aaaaaarrrrggghhh!"
With a piercing scream, a grotesque mass of flesh stripped away from Sukuna's body—Young Itadori's body—writhing on the ground like sli.
Yuji Itadori had seen this form of Sukuna before, though at this mont, it was much smaller than back then.
After all, the current Sukuna possessed only one-tenth of his soul.
"Yuji... Itadori!!! I will definitely kill you!!! I will!"
His twisted body let out a final roar, its solitary eye, as if enveloped by lumps of at, staring fixedly at Yuji Itadori as if wishing to devour him alive.
However, after losing his Vessel, Sukuna's mangled body, which resembled a Cursed Spirit, quickly collapsed at a pace visible to the naked eye.
A few seconds later, that ball-like body had vanished, leaving only three withered Fingers.
"I—I'm back?"
Young Itadori looked around in absolute surprise. Just now, through Sukuna's eyes, he had been able to see everything that happened clearly.
With only two Fingers, Sukuna had displayed incredibly terrifying power.
Yet in front of his future self, he appeared so vulnerable.
"I'm sorry for what happened just now, but I've already healed the injuries on your body," Yuji Itadori said. At the sa ti he launched the Soul Release on Sukuna's soul, he had also applied Reverse Cursed Technique to Young Itadori's body, completely healing his wounds.
"It's totally fine. I didn't feel a thing. It was Sukuna taking the beating anyway."
Young Itadori said to his future self with a smile, then moved his gaze to the three shriveled Fingers on the ground.
"So... what about these Fingers? Do they seem a bit more shriveled than before? Wait a minute, why are there three? I rember I only ate two?"
Young Itadori's face was full of confusion.
"Because we were born with one," Yuji Itadori answered.
He had originally been created by Kenjaku to serve as Sukuna's Vessel.
When Yuji Itadori was born, a Finger had actually already been placed inside his body, which was why he possessed physical capabilities far exceeding others since childhood.
However, that Finger had always been in a sealed state.
Just now, when he launched the Soul Release against Sukuna, he had also stripped away that sealed Finger.
"Born with one?"
"That's right. But that isn't crucial now. Overall, these Fingers don't matter anymore. The soul attached to them is gone, but they can be used as ordinary charms to ward off evil."
Yuji Itadori did not choose to directly respond to the other self's question, but instead steered the topic toward the Fingers.
"Did you kill Sukuna's soul?"
Young Itadori's eyes widened, still in shock over those words.
He had originally accepted the fate of eating all of Sukuna's Fingers and then being executed.
But now, Sukuna's soul had been directly dealt with?
"Just a small part of it. There are still seventeen Fingers left, which is more than enough to sustain his soul."
Yuji Itadori knew that Sukuna had not been truly killed.
His soul was still attached to the remaining Fingers.
In the past, Yuji Itadori and the others had defeated a nineteen-fingered Sukuna. Although one Finger remained at the end, a single Finger could not carry the soul, so Sukuna finally t his end.
"Speaking of which."
Yuji Itadori scanned the area and captured a certain presence within the ruins. He walked over to a section of broken walls.
Dismantle was instantly activated, and the massive debris in front of him turned to powder.
Under those countless Slashing Attacks, only one thing remained unscathed.
Sukuna's Finger.
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