Chapter 58 Death Migration 2

This is a space without any sense of time. There is no sky or ground here, only a white mirror that can be seen when you look up, and infinitely extending paper and ink that can be seen when you look down. There are no boundaries here, only falling pages, filled with all the unspoken words and unfulfilled destinies of the past and future.

Kagura Mio stood in the rain of paper pages, still wearing her black high school uniform, with scattered old Japanese poems and piano music at her feet. She lowered her head, looked at the piece of paper in her hand with "Death and Migration" written on it, and threw it casually, watching the piece of paper swaying in the wind, floating until it flew towards the man -

Noose, who was sitting on a wicker chair, with a burning and frozen red mandala flower behind him, peeling an apple and smiling.

Kinji Fukasaku's "Battle Royale" was playing on the white mirror in front of him. The blood plasma splattered all over the screen was flying everywhere like the peel of the apple in his hand. He peeled it very hard, and the apple juice splashed out with his force. At that moment, Kagura Mio thought it was the blood splashed when Kiriyama Kazuo attacked his classmates in the movie.

Kosuo smiled and said, "Mio-chan, it's really a gift from God to see you here."

Kagura Mio looked at him indifferently for a moment, then sat down on the ground.

"I don't think you believe in the existence of gods." "

Ah, it seems you recognize me. That's good, so I don't have to introduce myself." Nosuo pointed to his head, where there were no more stitches.

"The spell of a sorcerer follows the body, but mine is special. It follows my brain. Now my physical body is destroyed, and only this is left!"

He held a knife and used the light to shine on his face. He frowned as if he was curious, and asked Kagura Mio with a smile: "I haven't had this feeling in a long time. How many years? I can't remember. Anyway, I haven't seen my clean face for many, many years. It feels so good."

"I didn't expect you would still care about your appearance."

"Of course, who wouldn't care about their appearance? Even Mio-chan can't do it, right?"

"Don't call me Mio-chan."

"Okay, okay, I wanted to hear Mio-chan call me 'Dad', but it seems I can't hear it now, right?"

Kagura Mio's indifferent expression finally had a little ripple: she looked at the disrespectful Nosuke himself, and the muscles on her face moved subtly.

"If you keep doing this, I don't mind stabbing you to death with this knife."

"Mio is too fierce." Nozomi lowered his head nonchalantly and looked directly at Kagura Mio, "You won't kill me, because if you kill me you won't be able to get what you want."

Kagura Mio stared at him without saying a word.

"Alright, alright." Luosuo clapped his hands, looking relaxed and contented.

"To reward our lovely Mio for overcoming her fear - at least when she sees me she won't be scared to death like Sendai, and she will have the courage to face her own flaws and be able to sacrifice herself, I will tell you everything I know~" "

Is it because you have to tell it now? After all, even if you don't say it, you can't change some things."

"But it would be very interesting if you and her had an epic battle."

"I don't want to hear this." Kagura Mio interrupted Nosoko. She looked directly at Nosoko and asked word by word, "I want you to tell me everything you know."

After two seconds of staring at each other, Nosoko narrowed his eyes slightly.

This old goblin who has lived for many years felt for the first time that he had nowhere to hide in front of a little girl - is this what it means to upgrade dimensions? So interesting.

He smiled and said in a very natural tone: "Okay."

"Well, Mio, you should have seen it? What happened in the Heian period."

"Yes."

"Then, you ask questions next."

"You ask and I answer, very interesting."

Kagura Mio looked at the man in front of her.

Probably because he kept changing bodies and had sex with both men and women, Noso actually looked like neither a man nor a woman - it was really exciting to be both a man and a woman.

Kagura Mio smiled, blinked, and began to ask: "What is your purpose?"

"To explore the limits of human beings." Nozomi said.

His voice was quite matter-of-fact: "Because I want to see 'new humans', I will do whatever it takes. That's why I created the most perfect 'ritual' - the 'ritual personality' itself." "

But because the ritual requires a most perfect container, I chose the shrine maiden of the Kagura family to contribute to my great cause." Kagura

Mio complained about him: "Are you trying to force a deal?"

Nozomi shrugged and stuck out his tongue, "But so what?"

He said: "If it weren't for me, there would be no you in this world. In fact, you should thank me. After all, that's how the saying goes? Oh-"

He laughed, his tone was so natural that it was sickening: "You lost your mother, but it doesn't matter, you still have me, I can be your mother."

"······"

Kagura Mio took a deep breath.

To be honest, she felt like she was talking to a pervert.

She maintained a calm tone and said, "I just don't have the skills to do this. It's not like I can't give birth."

Not to mention the fact that Kagura Mio can't get married and have children, how can she have offspring if she's dead?

Noso, whose logic was accurately exposed, just waved his hand, looking completely unconcerned: "Okay, don't worry about these details, my lovely Mio."

Kagura Mio frowned and brought the topic back to the original track: "Next question. Because you forcibly implicated the cause and effect, I inherited that kind of technique, right?" "

Yes and no." Noso smiled, "First of all, I did forcibly change the cause and effect of the Kagura family, and made Mio my first test subject - but she was really a wimp, not as good as you at all. She actually chose that way to end her life without even the awakening process. It's so boring."

"Secondly, your technique is not inherited, but because you are the reincarnation of Mio herself."

Kagura Mio widened her eyes.

She looked at the man in front of her and raised her eyebrows, with a look of satisfaction on her fair face: "The result of what I did is your gifted technique. But in essence, you are just a container, a 'by-product', and your existence is to make room for the technique. Causally speaking, you should be 'assimilated'." "

But I didn't--?"

"Oh, don't be impatient, can't you let me talk slowly?" Nozomi frowned, looking a little shy and aggrieved like a little girl, "Everything is a progressive screening."

"At the beginning, it was the three-faced cursed spirit of the fate of the sealed evil spirit. I actually didn't have much impression of these guys at the time - but when you mentioned that everything returns to three, I found it a bit interesting... It really is a hint to you... But it's not a big problem."

Nozomi continued: "That task is essentially to test your tolerance to magic circles... But the result is obvious, worthy of you and me, the compatibility is so high, we are simply a perfect match, suitable to be invincible in the world."

Kagura Mio:? ? ? Did you change your name to Gojo Satoru?

Noso obviously had no intention of paying attention to Kagura Mio's shock and speechlessness. He just smiled slightly and continued, "From those magic circles to the Battle of Sendai, and the spying of the Hachiya brothers and sisters, hey, don't have that expression, you didn't expect it, did you? I'm so smart, hahaha."

While immersed in admiring his own amazing brain, he continued with a smile, "Suguru Geto's One Hundred Demons Night Parade, I originally planned to wait for him to die before getting into his body, but I didn't expect it to be reversed - there's nothing I can do about it, the way of heaven is like this, it always likes the so-called cause and effect. Even if I don't believe in this, I'm entangled."

"What cause and effect--"

"Don't ask." Noso continued, as if he didn't want to mention his Waterloo, "From all the previous battles to the Sukuna Battle in Shinjuku, they were all to cut off the protective shield of your destiny layer by layer and push you to the front line. I deepened your bond with Gojo Satoru, so you couldn't die - I don't want to meet another Kagura who committed suicide, I'll be mad to death if I wait another thousand years."

"In Shinjuku, I let Gojo Satoru kill me with his own hands. You probably don't understand why, but - you and I have a cause and effect relationship for three lifetimes. The first is my 'daughter' Kagura Mio, the first experimental subject of the Kagura family in the Heian period who had comfortable resonance. The second is you, and the third is the ritual. Only if you kill me with your own hands will the cause and effect end; but I let Gojo Satoru kill me. From a causal point of view, the chain of cause and effect is broken, which is to say -" "

That guy completely killed the last way to save you. It is inevitable that you will be assimilated by the ritual. This is a complete dead end."

Having said that, Nosuke narrowed his eyes as if he was particularly proud, recalling Gojo Satoru's expression at the time: "You don't even know what his expression was at the time, haha."

It's really... too pitiful. That look - the so-called strongest, would also have his pupils shrink when hearing those kinds of words, and those beautiful and clear six eyes would seem to be trembling - hahahaha, Gojo Satoru himself doesn't even know how lovable he looks, hahahaha.

Kosuo looked at Kagura Mio's shocked expression with a smile, and suppressed all these thoughts in his heart.

Of course he wouldn't tell Kagura Mio everything, just like he wouldn't tell her -

cause and effect really is a magical thing.

Because he made use of the cursed spirit of the Three Aspects, fate sent Kagura Mio the boss of the Heaven's Chain, Kamamoto Hisayo, a guy who believed in the survival of the fittest, which was in line with his purpose to some extent; and after the test of the Sendai battle, the six-eyed child of God actually gave rise to a level of bondage; the appearance of the Hachiya siblings was another cause, and they sent her information together with Ikeda Jinsaburo; before Geto Suguru's One Hundred Demons Night Parade, he tried to take over the body of Otsutsuki Yuta and even killed the assistant supervisor and others, but Geto Suguru survived; before the Shinjuku battle, he planned riots in many regions, resulting in countless casualties, but he actually allowed Gojo Satoru to give Kagura Mio the second level of bondage, the Void Samadhi, on Sendai Cat Island.

Is everything really destined? Is it true that he sows the seeds and reaps the fruits?

But Luosuo didn't believe it. He wouldn't believe it even if he died, and he wouldn't believe it even if he went to hell to suffer.

"I have a few more questions." Kagura Mio saw the pale mirror shrinking and realized that she didn't have much time left - she stopped being silent and turned to ask Nozomi.

"Why is the compatibility between Sukuna and I 99%?"

"It's a simple reason. I can't prepare only one plan." Nozomi said, "My original plan B was to let Sukuna take over your body. At that time, Yuji Itadori had just been born not long ago. But I found that you adapted very well, so I decided to let Sukuna appear first as a hook to lure them to let down their guard. Simply put, Sukuna is just the finale, and the real highlight is the technique - sacrificing him in exchange for my goal is worth it, right?"

Kagura Mio looked at the person in front of her and realized that this guy had no fear at all. He is not evil by nature, he just simply has no sense of reverence. Everyone and everything in the world are his pawns.

"What is the meaning of the existence of the technique?"

"You finally got to the point, my dear mio."

Nozomi pouted and looked at Kagura Mio with a loving look full of "fatherly love", and his tone was very kind, "Are you asking me about the relationship between you and the technique? The technique is theoretically the most perfect existence. She has the best technique and the best container - you. She is an absolutely perfect and absolutely rational new human."

"And you, my dear mio, you are the container I created. You shouldn't have self-awareness, or your self-awareness is not as good as that of the technique."

"Feel sad? Very miserable? No, no, no, it's definitely more than that. It can be said that in order to realize this plan, I have put too much effort into you, even more than into the technique."

"Did you know? I found three control groups for you."

"One is you and the technique."

"The second is you and Chikako Hachiya. That guy is a low-profile version of you, and he is not worth mentioning."

"The third is--"

"Me and Yuji Itadori." Kagura Mio interrupted him and said softly.

Nozomi raised his eyebrows slightly and smiled, "Yes, that's it."

"You two are containers, but with different functions. You have verified that the war of the spirit is always more fierce, lasting, and even more difficult than the violent battle of the flesh. So, how to transcend the spirit is a question that can be discussed - and it's what I want to know." "

So no matter who wins between me and Jutsuki, you will get the answer you want." Kagura Mio was silent for a moment, feeling her heart beating fast.

"Yeah, I've been planning for a thousand years, is it going to end in such a mess?" Kosuo said as a matter of course, "And I'll tell you a secret, your compatibility itself is the selection degree of your soul. Your compatibility with Gojo Satoru is high essentially because your soul chose him. And Otsutsuki Yuta, he's just a passerby."

"Who wants to watch him do pure love these days? I thought his compatibility would be higher and even affect Gojo Satoru's existence - after all, they are both descendants of Sugawara Michizane, but in the end, that guy loved your soul so much that it respected his love, so he didn't even follow this line."

"······"

Kagura Mio was silent for a moment, her consciousness accepting these complex messages: "I've been thinking, why are you telling me all this? To make me defeat the technique?"

"Guess."

"I won't guess."

Kagura Mio made a prompt decision and threw out the last question: "What exactly is the Death Migration?"

Nozomi smiled without saying a word and turned his gaze to the movie that was playing - on the screen, Kiriyama Kazuo, who was blinded by the explosion, stood in the flying fireworks and was killed by Kawata Shogo, who was lying on the ground with several bullets in his body, with a shotgun.

The moment Kiriyama Kazuo fell to the ground, Nosoko said with great enjoyment: "You are really perceptive, Mio."

"Originally, I had imagined that I would combine the revival of the technique to conduct a nationwide real-life deathmatch game. It would be so fun, just like the legendary Battle Royale (Sorcerer Version)." "

Fish will swim upstream and return to their birthplace to lay eggs. I just want to return to the origin and let the sorcerers return to the source of the technique to determine the strongest individual."

Kagura Mio commented on him coldly: "You are raising a Gu."

"Yeah." Nosoko never denied it and admitted it very frankly.

"You treat all living beings as pawns and human lives as experiments. What is the purpose? It's nothing more than a social experiment and deconstruction of human nature in the guise of a sorcerer."

Kagura Mio watched motionlessly as the duo of protagonists on the screen began to challenge Mr. Kitano, and suddenly sneered.

"It's nothing more than institutional ///violence that uses a certain system to oppress individuals. What do you want to see? Can it protect humanity? Can it transcend fate?"

Nosuo smiled but said nothing.

The moment the two looked at each other, Kagura Mio suddenly understood everything.

She understood her own destiny, understood the predetermined script, and understood that oppression and inequality deprived her, the sorcerer, and non-sorcerer of their rights as human beings.

She didn't ask any more questions, but just watched quietly the scene in the movie where Noriko Nakagawa and Akiya Nanahara killed Mr. Kitano. Then she stood up silently after watching the movie and walked towards the brown wooden door step by step.

"You know what? Once I get out there, I win," said Nozomi.

"So what?" Kagura Mio didn't look back, and walked on calmly without any regrets, "Winner? Loser? There has never been a winner in a game where human lives are bets. Your soul has long been entangled in cause and effect, and you are just tying yourself up in knots."

"As for me--"

"At this moment, I don't care much about others."

I didn't expect her to reply like this. I looked at Kagura Mio's hand on the door handle, and earnestly asked the question he wanted to ask most--"

Kagura Mio, do you think you can win?"

"I'm not standing here to win."

Kagura Mio said softly.

"I have persisted until now in order to become myself."

The moment the door was opened, the world behind him suddenly disappeared, and what was in front of him was no longer the abyss, but——

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