Chapter 52 Please Kill Me

. Unlike Jushi's shock, Gojo Satoru was genuinely stunned, then he opened his eyes wide with a smile: "Eh? Mio Mio admits that I'm your boyfriend?"

Normally at this time Kagura Mio would probably be too lazy to pay attention to him, or even roll her eyes at him, but now the situation of the three of them was too delicate, and she was still fighting with Jushi for the right to use the body, and had no time to care about Gojo Satoru.

It all started from the moment she fell into chaos, when Gojo Satoru said, "You are Kagura Mio."

It sounds hypocritical, but if Gojo Satoru believed who she was, she would definitely win.

The voice of her childhood sweetheart was like a beacon that lit up for her in the long night - Kagura Mio knew, and Gojo Satoru also knew:

he would always be there, waiting for her to come home.

Even if they quarrel, have the cold war, say a lot of excessive and angry words to each other, even if they tear themselves apart, hurt each other, and soak the love of both sides with pain and despair -

they will not give up on each other.

It was also at this moment that Kagura Mio saw it - the world of memories that was like a black barrier fell down like broken glass at this moment, and the thousands of lights emitting the glory of the Kagura family permeated her consciousness bit by bit. She closed her eyes tightly and gave herself to this moment.

This was a blurry yet clear perspective. She seemed to be in a pure white space, with a chaotic and ambiguous feeling all around her. She tried to reach out and touch it, and the next moment countless strange memories poured into her body along the part she touched.

At an unknown moment, the curtain of the theater has been drawn.

"Act 1: The Triple Aspect Test"

It was many years ago that Kagura Mio and Gojo Satoru and Geto Suzuki went on their first mission together.

The three of them were not that familiar with each other at that time, and they became close companions after a more dangerous struggle - that is, this battle.

The three of them encountered three first-level cursed spirits. The key to the problem was that these three cursed spirits represented the past, present and future respectively.

The moment she recalled, Kagura Mio saw that scene again.

A translucent ghost-like cursed spirit, covered in tattered white cloth, with the horrible afterimages projected on its body as if it had come alive, smiling at her with blood-stained eyes that had lost their eyeballs; a tall humanoid cursed spirit, pitch black, with a half-crying, half-smiling expression on its face; a metal-shaped cursed spirit with three eyes like an ancient statue...

The three of them were staring at Kagura Mio with calm eyes, and smiled at her the moment they met her gaze.

It's hard to tell whether this smile is happy or sad, it doesn't even have any emotion, it just looks particularly creepy.

Kagura Mio realized that she needed to defeat the three cursed spirits again.

But, she couldn't feel the opponent's cursed power at all, so how could she defeat him?

After a moment's silence, she recalled the scenes of the past, and then said in a flat tone: "I don't need to defeat you, because you are just the three faces of fate. Tell me the path and method of destiny."

"Because human faces can only reflect the present and indulge in the past, they will be bound by the future."

"······"

After a brief silence, Kagura Mio saw the three-faced curse spirit nodded slightly at her, and then disappeared in the mist, leaving only the magic circle on the ground.

etc.

Magic circle? !

Having suffered once, Kagura Mio looked down at the magic circle on the ground without hesitation, but was cleared to the next memory group before she could see it clearly.

It was a scene when she was in Sendai.

The terrifying beast cursed spirit carried countless fears and pains, but what hurt her the most was the resonance she could not stop feeling at that moment, and also -

the woman with stitches on her head who smiled at her in the hotel!

At that time, she was standing in front of her, looking at Kagura Mio who had fainted on the ground. The woman gave a meaningful smile, with an indescribable depth in her eyes.

That look was so fanatical, as if she was looking at her most perfect masterpiece, and yet so cold, as if Kagura Mio was just an ordinary and insignificant chess piece to her, no different from anyone else in the world.

"?!"

The 28-year-old Kagura Mio certainly knew what the woman with sutures on her head meant - the mother of Itadori Yuji, the initiator of Sukuna's reappearance, and even the initiator of this Death Migration mission.

So they had met so long ago? !

At this moment, what else does Kagura Mio not understand? From "The Sealed Devil" to the Sendai mission, there is nothing that is not in this guy's plan, and the only target is Kagura Mio herself.

This has been planned for thirteen years, no, maybe more than that.

This plan, which had been planned for many years, had always been directed at Kagura Mio alone.

And her only purpose is to create a technique.

But why?

Kagura Mio didn't understand.

The existence of Shushi is equivalent to a perfect human being in various definitions. She is the strongest and cannot be defeated, so she is invincible and ruthless.

The existence of the ritual could kill all of humanity - if she wanted to.

Is that woman with the stitches on her head a sociopath?

No, that's not right -

it felt like something hit her chest hard, and her whole body was tightly bound by a strange feeling. Kagura Mio even felt that she couldn't breathe, as if she was tied up and in great pain.

She didn't understand why, but at that moment she felt the same as Gojo Satoru - what appeared in her mind was the lawless white-haired man being tied up by red silk threads, enduring the pain.

“······”

She didn’t understand why she could empathize with Gojo Satoru, but with such desperate and unbearable pain, Kagura Mio felt like she had fallen into an abyss.

There is no sound, no time, and no boundaries of the flesh.

There is only one "she", and countless "she".

Who is singing? Who is laughing? Who is crying?

She can't tell the difference.

All consciousness in her mind slowed down, and Kagura Mio felt painful, uncomfortable, but also clear.

She forced her brain to think in such an environment, and some details seemed to become clear at this moment.

“Actually, I’ve always wanted to ask you, do you have obsessive-compulsive disorder?”

The image of the woman with sutures on her head appeared in his mind.

“Three is everywhere.”

“Three faces, three people, three lives…”

“Or maybe this is something you can’t control.”

Kagura Mio smiled gently.

In the moment when her consciousness was confused, what guided her to the right path was seeing her lover's painful but enduring expression.

If Gojo Satoru believed that she could win, she would definitely win.

Kagura Mio thought.

So, she had the willpower, the resistance, and the awareness to break through the fog -

"In fact, this is the law of the world, right? Everything is checked and balanced, and everything returns to three."

"You manipulate life and destiny, trying to make me lose everything and become a container, but what you missed is the rule of the universe."

"The number three is really special. In traditional Japanese Buddhism and Taoism, there is the theory of three secrets, three poisons, three bodies and three-life cause and effect. Even if you calculate more precisely, you can't really grasp everything, let alone completely expel my consciousness. This is a gift from God to me, my chance to go home."

Kagura Mio smiled gently.

She recalled the night when she and Gojo Satoru had the most fierce argument. Because of a strange crisis of trust, she and Gojo Satoru pulled the shackles and looked at each other in pain and madness. What burned in their eyes was not hatred, but deep pain that was engraved into their bones and blood.

She looked at the despair and cruelty in Gojo Satoru's eyes, and watched him perversely and helplessly suppress his anger and say to her: "

Kagura Mio, you seduced me. It was you who wanted to love me. The strongest love is like this, painful, twisted, and persistent. What, do you know that even the strongest is a fool who can't understand the mind of the girl he likes? Do you know that even the strongest can't make the girl he likes live in peace?"

"Yes, I am the strongest like this."

"There are things I can't do, this is Gojo Satoru."

"Kagura Mio, it was you who wanted to love me."

"I can't allow you not to love me."

What did she do at that time? Oh, she didn't know what to say or how to respond, so she remained silent and suppressed all her emotions in her heart.

As if dissatisfied with her reaction, Gojo Satoru suddenly sighed, straightened up, looked at Kagura Mio, and said word by word: "Kagura Mio, look into my eyes, tell me--"

"Can you really not love me?"

When Kagura Mio met the other's pale blue, shining eyes, which should have been always proud and confident, she thought: she can't.

So she hugged him and sang the song for him.

"My blue eyes reflected the waves, all the confusion was gone, the light will never go out, I will walk my own path."

That was the Japanese song taught to her by her favorite person in the world. It was the melody she would sing to herself countless times when she was confused and lost, to cheer herself up.

So she just followed the melody, followed her lover's beautiful eyes, and the clear blue light, and found her way home -

seeing Kagura Mio regain control of her own body, Gojo Satoru's first reaction was definitely surprise.

He had never thought of relying on Kagura Mio to regain control of his body. He was already thinking about how to win the ritual. However, he never expected that Kagura Mio had such power that she could break all the rules and break the curse so miraculously.

It was obviously something he should be happy about, but for some reason, a flash of joy flashed across Gojo Satoru's eyes for a moment.

It was after the Tennuriko incident, when he and Kagura Mio were standing hand in hand in the Bankei Cult.

She looked at him and asked expressionlessly, "Are you prepared to kill me?"

How did he answer?

Oh, he said -

"If there really comes such a day."

"I will kill you."

"But I will be with you."

The strongest cannot neglect their responsibilities and do nothing, and they cannot choose to favor the enemy because of love and make all living beings suffer when they still have a little strength.

The strongest man cannot favor his lover who has gone astray, but he can die with her.

Then Gojo Satoru stared at the childhood sweetheart in front of him who was familiar yet unfamiliar.

He looked at the woman and saw a smile that was familiar to him, but scary enough -

Kagura Mio was too resolute, too sad, and too heroic.

It was as if she was ready to sacrifice her life for justice at any time.

But Gojo Satoru was right, because he saw with his own eyes that Kagura Mio's consciousness briefly took over his body and said to him:

"Satoru."

"Please kill me."