Spell Return: The Wheel of Time

Chapter 325: Container or Cage?
People have a sixth sense.

It's like someone looks at you in a crowd, and then you suddenly feel something in your heart. If someone follows you or stares at you, sometimes you will have an inexplicable feeling.

This is especially true for sorcerers, who always have an inexplicable ability to sense dangers that may threaten themselves, but of course it is not absolute.

Later, someone roughly summarized it, and the general conclusion was: This ability to sense danger actually comes from the individual's five senses' ability to capture the surrounding environment.

In short, they are your shape, sound, smell, taste and touch. Without your subjective consciousness noticing, they have actually captured and judged the surroundings. When they find any abnormal situation, they will "remind" your subjective consciousness. In reality, it means you suddenly "feel something in your heart".

And a being of Sukuna's level, even if he only has the strength of one finger, is actually a cursed spirit that has swallowed four or five fingers, and he would probably not be a match for him who only has one twentieth of his strength.

This has nothing to do with the total amount of power. The strength of a sorcerer cannot be simply compared in size. The control and efficiency of using power are also very important indicators.

So let alone behind him, even if Sukuna had no vision behind him, he could still perceive things within a very large range. But now he was approached within a very close range by an unknown existence, and he did not notice any abnormality before the other party touched him!
The joy of resurrection, the anticipation of feasting on flesh and blood...all those emotions vanished at this moment, and were replaced by a sense of horror that surged from the heart after hundreds or thousands of years!
It wasn't simply because someone was quietly approaching him from behind, but because the scene in front of him was so familiar that Sukuna could never forget it.

Sukuna still maintained the posture of making seals with his hands, and the four eyes on his face were now truly glaring. The four pupils tried desperately to shift to the left, but only a slender hand could be seen falling on his left shoulder.

"No, it's impossible!"

The memories of the past surged like a huge wave, knocking him over and into the abyss. It was an extremely strange scene where everything, even the magic power, stopped. He had only seen this on one... existence among the countless magicians and spells in the past.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

It was like a voice that transcended time. Although the brief tone and language itself were different from the "Him" in Sukuna's memory, that familiar feeling enveloped him again.

Then a figure walked out from the left side, with long hair as white as snow, and a pair of blue eyes that could see through fate, and... a face that was engraved in Sukuna's memory and soul, even more deeply than the ritual of birth!
The conflicting collision between thoughts and reality forced Sukuna to stare into those eyes at this time. He didn't understand, even though he knew the current era from this container named Yuji Itadori.

That is definitely not what it should be like if He still existed in this world! The spell became a mystery hidden in the shadows, and the world was stirred and controlled by a group of insects. This should be a world without gods...

After all, Sukuna knew his purpose, and that was why he was simply killed with the tacit consent of both parties, and then his finger was turned into a cursed object, leaving a possibility of being resurrected as a cursed person in the future.

After waking up, Sukuna shared the memory of the unconscious Yuji. After learning about the situation in the world, he thought that he had achieved his goal and left this world, but...

Reality is always higher than so-called logic, inference, and belief... The former can shatter those illusory things at will. Existence is happening, and even Sukuna does not want to see this situation.

But when a being exactly like him and possessing the same terrifying power appeared, he could no longer deny it.

Shen Yuanyi looked at Sukuna in this time and space. This should be their first meeting. Although he learned about the past from Noso, in the Heian period a thousand years ago, Sukuna was called the King of Curses, but he was also considered by many magicians to be the leader of the rebellion against "themselves".

In the end, Sukuna was killed by "himself" at that time. The existence of Sukuna's finger was even due to his permission for Noso to help Sukuna. After the Heian period was completely dominated by one person, the god Genichi tried to travel through time and space.

But unfortunately, he failed that time. When he was able to appear in the world again, it was hundreds of years later. By that time, everything in the Heian period had become a legend, and it was obvious that no one knew Shen Genichi anymore.

What happened later seemed to repeat history. The era of Shintoism arrived, a world far darker than the Heian period. The shogun, the nobility, the samurai... all those who rebelled against the throne of God were hanged on the erected torii.

The blood even seeped into the cinnabar and was difficult to remove, which confused later generations after they explored the composition of the Torii. As a result, there were many speculations that the Torii were actually painted red with cinnabar and human blood, in order to worship gods and drive away evil spirits.

Of course, there were some sorcerers at that time who resisted to the end. They even tried every means to revive Sukuna as a cursed being and joined forces with the strongest curse force at the time.

Including a technique that they believed was most likely to get close to the throne of God - ten shadow spells. Then, after gathering all the strength they could, they raised the last flag and launched a charge towards the throne of God.

The final result is self-evident. Everything was annihilated in the black sun and the abyss. They welcomed the rule of the gods again, until they disappeared again. Then history was buried and the past was tampered with...

If Nozomi is the person closest to the throne from a normal perspective, then Sukuna is the person who has the most interactions with Him on the throne from another perspective...

"Don't look at me like that. I'm not the me you know..."

Sukuna said nothing, but was obviously confused. A total of three thousand four hundred and twenty-four times, that was the number of times he had fought with Him on the throne in the past. Of course, these fights were actually very exaggerated, and were the greatest shame for Sukuna both as a human being and after he became a curse.

He was allowed to launch constant challenges like a toy, but no matter how he mastered and broke through his own spells, no matter how he continued to study and see through His power, the end he finally reached would remain eternal.

If this is not considered familiarity with each other, then even Sukuna would have to say that he is a stranger to the person in front of him. However, Sukuna now does feel a stranger to the person in front of him.

Smile, specifically the kind of smile that comes from the heart, not the kind that will lead to a death sentence in the next moment. This is the first time Sukuna has seen this kind of smile on His face, without any malice, belonging to a human. To be honest, the shock this brought him was almost comparable to the feeling when he was sure that He still existed. In a trance, Sukuna even thought that all this was an illusion created by some powerful spell?

No, that sentence!

Sukuna immediately thought of the words that seemed like a joke hidden under a smile, but what if it was not a joke... The absurd situation forced Sukuna to pay more attention to this possibility.

"Who is you?"

"Shenyuanyi, guaranteed to be genuine."

Seeing that Sukuna was still very fearful, Shen Yuanyi repeated to him what he had explained to Noso.

Sukuna, who was also familiar with Shen Genichi's techniques, quickly understood the strange situation of the time and space confusion mentioned by the former, that the "Him" in the past and the "Him" in front of him were the same person, but at the same time they were also two different existences.

On the other hand, Sukuna couldn't help but believe it. Compared to the "Him" in the past who possessed humanity, Sukuna believed more that the "Him" in front of him with a very real smile was, as he said, a person who traveled from another time and space. Strictly speaking, he was not the "Him" who had brought hundreds of years of darkness.

and so……

"So, do you understand? Well, let's make a deal, Sukuna."

Sukuna, with everything except himself stopped, did not immediately ask what the so-called deal was, but instead opened his mouth to test a very important question.

"What if I say no?"

The ice-blue eyes looked over calmly, and in a trance Sukuna seemed to see the familiar existence in his memory. It was these eyes that had never had any fluctuations, and sent anyone who dared to disobey Him to final destruction.

Sukuna understood that even though the God Genichi in front of him was not the same person he used to be, their essences were actually the same. A tiger that looked gentle at the moment could not be equated with a cat.

"You won't refuse, because this is the path you must take. You may not know yet that this body has very good qualifications and is a very suitable container for you, but..."

Looking at Shen Yuanyi's somewhat teasing eyes, Sukuna had a bad feeling in his heart. This body was indeed very good. Although it was not a sorcerer's, just being able to carry him to be reborn in the flesh was already a remarkable thing.

Could this be a trap set for him? No, that wasn't right. Although it wasn't that "He", the power displayed by the Divine Source in front of him was no less. There was no need for him to do something so complicated.

Snapped--

A snap of the fingers broke the stop of time, but the next moment time did not flow downward along the original trajectory, but went back to the past like a river flowing upstream.

Zenin Kei, whose limbs were cut open, recovered from his injuries, and Sukuna's [Demon Subduing Chef] also disappeared behind him. Time was rewound to the moment before Sukuna opened his domain and Kei was about to summon Makura.

With a flash of light before his eyes, Zenin Kei found himself standing on the ground intact, and the domain opened by Sukuna disappeared. The surroundings turned into the night scene of the school, and there was a person he was very familiar with next to the latter.

"Teacher Genichi..."

Zenin Hui breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that he didn't need to do anything now. The resurrected Sukuna could not cause any trouble. But... what about Yuji Itadori whose body was occupied by the incarnation?
Zenin Hui was thinking, but the next moment he suddenly saw Shenyuan took out a cursed sword. Without any movement, the sword sank into Sukuna's abdomen.

Of course Sukuna who was attacked would not sit still and wait for death. He raised his hand and released his own magic to sweep the surroundings. The invisible slash cut the surroundings into pieces in an instant, but there was no figure of Shen Yuanyi among them.

"Are you going to kill Sukuna, Genichi? No, with the power of that technique, there is no need to stab the chest or abdomen, which are not fatal to the sorcerer. So Genichi's purpose is..."

"If you don't wake up, you're really going to die."

A faint sound was heard in the wind. No, it was not the sound of the wind, but the sound of the blood spurting out from dozens of slashes and stab wounds that appeared on Sukuna's body at some point in time.

Organ fragments mixed with blood spurted out of Sukuna's mouth, with an expression of disbelief on his face.

"how come……"

But what Sukuna found hard to accept was not that he was severely injured in an instant, which was a foreseeable and even certain result of Shenyuan showing mercy. What he found incredible was that at this moment he felt the original consciousness in this body awakening!
(End of this chapter)