"Sigh* I'm so tired."
Rutosa was worn out from a month-long business trip.
"Congratulations, young master. We've successfully taken back over 80% of the businesses owned by the Gojo clan."
As for the remaining 20%, they're not worth the effort and they are all in industries that have no importance to Rutosa.
The most annoying thing during this time was the assassination attempts by those two clans and other people.
Fortunately, Rutosa had been prepared all along, so these assassination attempts failed.
But still, no one would be happy if they were assassinated during toilet time, right?
If Rutosa could recover any evidence or transactions between those two big clans, he would definitely nuke those two in their own residence.
Unfortunately, doing so—with or without evidence—would set off a huge ruckus. The current Rutosa couldn't cope with that, especially when there was an unknown enemy who hoped for the Jujutsu World to have wars.
Thud
A white-haired girl broke into the office room.
"Rutosa! Food! Hungry!"
Rutosa looked at Satoru with a deadpan face.
Satoru's life during this time had been great and bad at the same time.
It was great because she didn't have to train hard to the point of breaking a sweat and shedding blood.
The bad point was that because Rutosa was busy with Japan's business, the time she could taste Rutosa's cooking had been reduced to once a week.
This was excruciating for the current her, who had experienced foodgasm once.
Even her cursed energy overflowed more than the time she trained inside the Gojo training ground.
"I'm very tired right now, Satoru. I don't have the energy to cook for you."
"That can't be! Would you like me to massage you?"
Satoru asked with a panicked expression.
Unlike uncle Honda, aunt Mazda, and the John Bodyguards, she didn't go to Japan with Rutosa, so she hadn't had his meal for almost a week!
Now, her headache had come back and even her cursed energy was overflowing due to her negative emotions.
"Don't worry, I just need to take a nap and when I wake up I will cook for you."
Rutosa said and went to sleep in his room.
Cold, darkness, and malice.
Rutosa once again came to the Warp. This was his second experience since the last time.
"(Has my connection with the Warp deepened once again? Well, it's a given seeing how much I draw energy from it.)"
The time he activated his Limitless during this month was the most in Rutosa's life. The amount of cursed energy consumed during this time was also astronomical.
Unsurprisingly, he ended up here again even without conscious connection.
The swirl of cursed energy was in constant turmoil. Sometimes it behaved like waves and sometimes like a stream.
And Rutosa's astral projection floated among the waves like a lone boat.
"(What would I see this time?)"
Currently he was in the state of astral projection, which meant that no matter what the Warp wanted to do, it could only show him something and didn't have the authority to modify his soul and body.
Astral projection was a very special state. The correct term for it should be a vehicle for the soul instead of the soul itself.
Therefore in this state, whether his vehicle met with mishap inside the Warp or not had minimal effect on his soul and body.
However, this didn't guarantee full safety since soul and body were considered two sides of the same coin in the JJK universe.
If a soul was distorted, his body would likely mutate and vice versa.
So, no matter how minimal it seemed to Rutosa, he still wouldn't let his guard down.
As his astral projection was flushed downstream, pictures and images started flashing by, showing the reflection of the real world to him as if the Warp was trying to convey something to him.
In the first picture, it was images of climate change, global warming. The melting of glaciers. The rising of sea level.
It was images full of habitat destruction, climate change, pollution, and overexploitation.
Many creatures went extinct and more would likely follow.
Behind these images were humans from various nations.
"(Is this the future?)"
The images that were showing seemed identical to the events in his previous life, which was in the year 2010.
The current year was only 1993.
Before Rutosa could think of anything more, a torrent hit his astral body and pushed him far away.
At this time he saw another image.
It was the image of an asteroid. It was an asteroid bigger than 10 kilometres invading the Earth's atmosphere with tail flames.
Below this asteroid was what Rutosa thought were dinosaurs.
"(This… the end of the Cretaceous…)"
The impact of the asteroid caused the earth to become molten lava in which more than 70% of species went extinct.
The last surviving species had to endure the long winter cold for millions of years to come.
After Rutosa finished watching this scene, waves after waves hit his body and showed these scenes to Rutosa.
"(The end of the Triassic.)"
"(The end of the Permian.)"
"(The Late Devonian.)"
"(The end of the Ordovician.)"
They were… the Big Five mass extinctions…
And they were also… the Gods of the Warp…
"(So this is it… this is what I will have to deal with in the future?)"
Rutosa had heard about natural disaster Cursed Spirits before. Of course, since he never watched JJK before he only knew that Jogo seemed to be in this class.
But never in his dreams had he ever heard about Mass Extinction Cursed Spirits before!
They were the collective cursed energy of the dying and extinct species for hundreds of millions of years.
They were also called the Great Powers within this Warp with the power to bend reality, time, and space with just their own infinite cursed energy.
They were also the final trials for the civilization before they could leave the planet.
They were…
The End-Ordovician Extinction, The First Great Power, the Final Trial of Ice.
The Late Devonian Extinction, The Second Great Power, the Final Trial of Air.
The Permian-Triassic Extinction, The Third Great Power, the Final Trial of Fire.
The Triassic-Jurassic Extinction, The Fourth Great Power, the Final Trial of Rift.
The Cretaceous-Paleogene, The Fifth Great Power, the Final Trial of Celestial Fall.
And last but not least, The Sixth Great Power that has yet to be born, the Final Trial of Humanity.
(I didn't think much about it when writing to here so don't expect much.)