Chapter 9: NO. 9 - Productive Three Months

Chapter 9: NO. 9 - Productive Three Months

Jumping from rooftop to rooftop in the dead of night like a parkouring ninja was pretty fun.

Due to the size of the country, almost all of the living complexes, like apartments or houses, had to be built pretty close to one another in order to save space. This also applied to the metropolitan areas in the cities where all the buildings and skyscrapers were practically stuck to one another to save space.

Yeah, there were some areas in the country where there were more spaced-out buildings like those made for the government or private organizations, but those weren't that common to run into.

Due to that, traveling from rooftop to rooftop on foot was pretty easy since you don't have to leap across large distances to get to the other side. Making traveling from Ward to Ward all the more easy.

"Should start heading home now."

I leaped in the air using my CE and felt the cool night air brush past my face. It felt nice and refreshing.

Three months.

It's been three months since I've embarked on my quest to master jujutsu. This journey has led me to engage in nightly skirmishes with the less savory elements of our heroic society. The city is teeming with criminals and scoundrels, outnumbering the heroes three to one.

Now, some of you might be wondering why an 11, now 12-year-old kid would go around getting into fights with grown-ass adults. The answer is simple: for experience.

My path to mastering jujutsu sorcery and my curse techniques is not an easy one. I've meticulously planned my physical training, ensuring that my new, more strenuous routine doesn't impede my growth. Rushing would be counterproductive. It wouldn't do me any good to hinder my development just to get a teeny bit stronger than before. I still had time, so there was no need to rush.

I didn't want to risk being short after all.

Anyways, back to what I was talking about. My reasoning as to why I was getting into fights was to increase my fighting experience and my understanding of jujutsu sorcery. My goal was to get to the point of understanding jujutsu like Sukuna himself while having the battle IQ of Gojo himself.

My goals may seem lofty, even unattainable to most canon jujutsu sorcerers. But I'm not most sorcerers. I'm different.

I was him.

I was that guy.

Or at least, I would be soon.

I blinked out of my thoughts and landed in an abandoned alleyway a block or two from my orphanage in order to change. I stuffed my jujutsu uniform away and put on a black hoodie and blue jeans. Now changed, I walked out onto the sidewalk and began walking home.

Yup, just a 12-year-old walking alone at 2 am.

Now then, where was I...

I had a cheat, or as some would call it, a golden finger, that could give me every known cursed technique in the original series without the blowback. Making my potential even more significant than that of Potential Man himself. It wouldn't be far-fetched to say that I could one day become an untouchable God.

Just imagine the sheer power of someone with the Six Eyes, Sukuna's cursed energy reserves, Limitless, the Ten Shadows, Shrine, and Star Rage could do. It was both frightening and exciting to think about.

Some of you may have noticed I only listed four techniques. There's a reason for that.

Unfortunately, I made a disappointing discovery when I unlocked my fifth cursed technique. I was only able to use four techniques within 2 hours of each other. Let's see, let's explain this in video game terms. Let's say my body has four magic slots into which I could assign a single curse technique. If I wanted to change one of the techniques, I had to wait two hours for one of the slots to cool down in order to switch that technique to a different one.

Out of curiosity, I pushed myself to use five techniques at once, but I didn't like having blood flow out of my eyes, nose, ears, and mouth while the most horrible headache tried to melt my brain. Safe to say, I'm sticking to four curse techniques until I can safely handle more.

Despite that slight hiccup, it wouldn't do me any good imagining what I could one day be able to do until I actually pulled those techniques and passives from the gacha system.

So far, I've yet to pull any of the aforementioned techniques. But I have managed to pull some other great techniques so far.

I now had Jogo's Fire Manipulation, Yorozu's Construction, MeiMei's Black Bird Manipulation, and finally, Goda Toshio's Cloning.

Who was Goda Toshio? That was the name for Mr. Bagman from the hidden inventory arc in JJK.

I do want to dispel one thing right now: Jogo's Fire Manipulation and Yorozu's Construction did not make me OP. At least, not yet.

No, Jogo was said to be on par with around 8 or 9 of Sukuna's fingers. Making him an incredibly powerful curse spirit. Heck, his fight with Sukuna himself at Shibuya was the perfect example of what one with such a technique could do.

However, Jogo was a special-grade curse spirit with a lot of cursed energy.

I, on the other hand, have the reserves of a grade 1 sorcerer.

Which means I had no hopes of pulling off any crazy and over-the-top moves that could melt an entire city block.

CG nodded and picked up his pencil to continue sketching away. I sighed and looked up at the roof. The exhaustion from today's shenanigans and training is catching up to me. Slowly, my eyelids began to grow heavier and heavier before sleep consumed me.

"Oi, Boss. Brush your teeth."

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Info Sheet

Shimizu Souta

Cursed Techniques:

Boogie Woogie - Todo Aoi

Blood Manipulation - Choso

Auspicious Beast Summons - Ino Takuma

Fire Manipulation - Jogo

Construction - Yorozu

Black Bird Manipulation - Mei Mei

Cloning - Bag Man

Skills:

Yuji's Hand-to-hand combat skills

Yuta's Swordsmanship skills

Maki's Weapons Specialist skills

Abilities/Passives:

Nanami's CE reserves.

Weapons:

Kugisaki Nabora's Hammer

Slaughter Demon

Kusakabe Atsuya's Katana

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AN:

Thank you for the 500 PS! I hope you enjoyed the bonus Chapter!

Now, then, new poll time!

The time to vote on our last poll is coming to an end soon, so here is a new one for you all. I'm curious to see what direction you all want to see Souta head in, whether that be the heroic route or the villainous one. Or maybe something in between? Let me know what you all think!

This poll will end in Chapter 20.

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