"Paper?"
Rowan suddenly understood what the other party was talking about. The paper from the Death Note, the paper that could kill someone as long as their name was written on it.
He carefully sized up Jogo and Mahito.
"I remember that thing should belong to the Time Vessel Association. Why do the two of you know about it too? Don't tell me you're also members of the Time Vessel Association?"
He remembered that in the original plot, these two did not seem to have anything to do with the Time Vessel Association.
Instead, they had a deep relationship with Kenjaku, who had occupied Suguru Geto's body.
"What does that have to do with you?"
Jogo's expression was hostile. Rowan's earlier disdainful look had broken through his defenses, and he wanted nothing more than to tear Rowan into pieces immediately. But considering that the Paper had not yet been recovered, he could only suppress the impulse in his heart.
Rowan nodded in deep agreement.
"Although you're rather ugly, what you say does make sense. This really has nothing to do with me."
Jogo: "You bastard…"
Although the other party had called him ugly, he had also praised him for making sense. For a moment, he actually did not know whether he should be angry.
Mahito said with a grin, "Huh? He seems to be messing with you."
Rowan became dissatisfied and glared fiercely at Mahito.
"What do you mean, seems? Be more confident and remove the 'seems.' Cursed spirits these days really have no confidence at all."
Jogo's defenses broke again. The little volcano on his head erupted completely.
"I'm going to kill you! I'll definitely kill you!"
"Kill me? Are you sure?"
Rowan looked at Jogo. Jogo stared fixedly at Rowan, spewing flames from his mouth in great bursts.
"Kill you. Kill you."
At this moment, his hatred toward Rowan reached its peak.
Rowan nodded in satisfaction.
"Fine. Then kill."
The moment his words fell, Jogo made his move. Without hesitation, he grabbed Mahito beside him and spewed a mouthful of scorching flames at him.
"Huh? Huhhh…?"
Mahito had never expected Jogo to attack him. Caught completely off guard, his body was directly ignited by the flames Jogo spat out, and intense pain instantly spread through his entire body.
"Wait, what are you doing? What exactly are you doing?! Aaaaaah!"
"Kill you! Kill you! Kill you!!!"
Seeing Mahito scream, Jogo ignored everything else and wildly sprayed flames with all the hatred in his heart, wanting to burn Mahito to ashes.
"Get away from me!"
At the critical moment, Mahito roared loudly. Surging cursed energy erupted violently, directly blasting Jogo away. With a bang, Jogo crashed into a black car parked on the roadside.
Along with a sharp alarm, the body of the black car caved inward and deformed.
This scene immediately terrified the surrounding pedestrians, because they could not see Jogo and Mahito at all. They had no idea what had happened.
In their eyes, the black car had suddenly become like that for no reason.
As if it had been viciously struck by something invisible.
Fear of the unknown instantly threw the entire street into chaos.
Rowan turned his head and said to Medea, "Take them away from here. Move them somewhere with no people."
Medea nodded and snapped her fingers. A magic circle unfolded beneath Jogo and Mahito's feet, instantly sending the two cursed spirits away to an uninhabited island.
If they fought there, they would not affect innocent people.
Rowan used farsight magic to lock onto the two cursed spirits' figures. After being teleported to the uninhabited island, Jogo still did not let Mahito go, as if he had taken him for a mortal enemy.
He wanted nothing more than to kill him immediately.
At the same time, Mahito also reacted. Jogo had probably been tampered with by someone, which was why he kept attacking him.
But he did not understand exactly how Rowan had tampered with Jogo.
And as time passed, he no longer had any spare energy to think about that question, because Jogo's attacks were becoming fiercer and more terrifying.
"Maximum: Meteor!"
This move was Jogo's ultimate technique, second only to Domain Expansion. It raised the power of his technique to the limit, and the cursed energy it consumed was not much different from opening a domain.
Along with Jogo's roar, a huge, blazing meteor smashed viciously toward Mahito, forcing Mahito to flee in a sorry state.
Because his ability, Idle Transfiguration, could only be activated on the premise that he touched the other party.
It was not that he had no ranged attacks, but they were pitifully few and could not possibly clash head-on with a meteor. Facing Jogo's ultimate technique, he could only dodge.
Boom!
With a tremendous roar, the meteor falling from the sky smashed hard into the ground. The entire uninhabited island shook violently because of it, and Mahito was blasted away by the aftershock.
In midair, he clasped his hands together and shouted softly, "Domain Expansion: Self-Embodiment of Perfection!"
One huge hand after another rose from the ground, forming a massive domain and enveloping Jogo inside.
Domain Expansion was an ultimate move that only a small number of jujutsu sorcerers and cursed spirits could use. It consumed a huge amount of cursed energy to form a massive innate domain. Within the domain, the user would receive a buff, and the technique imbued into the domain would always hit.
With the sure-hit property of the domain, Mahito did not need to touch his opponent to activate his ability, Idle Transfiguration.
So the instant the domain opened, he was basically standing in an unbeatable position.
And the only thing that could oppose a domain was another domain.
Unfortunately, the instant Jogo was enveloped by Mahito's domain, Mahito activated his ability. Jogo's body instantly turned into a sphere.
With a plop, he fell to the ground and rolled to Mahito's feet.
Now, he had lost all ability to attack.
Mahito breathed a sigh of relief. After releasing his domain, he sat down heavily on the ground. Looking at Jogo, who had turned into a ball on the ground, he could not help clicking his tongue.
"What exactly happened?"
Even now, he still had not figured out how the enemy had controlled Jogo and made him treat Mahito as a mortal enemy. That method was truly too miraculous and had to be guarded against.
But then again, where was this place?
Mahito turned his head and looked around the uninhabited island.
Clap, clap, clap…
At that moment, a crisp sound of applause came from beside him. Mahito suddenly leapt up from the ground and glared toward the direction of the sound.
Rowan, Medea, and Nero appeared before him out of thin air.
"Not bad."
Rowan looked at Mahito approvingly. Jogo was a Special Grade cursed spirit after all, yet Mahito had defeated him so easily. It could be seen that this guy's strength was not weak.
Mahito cautiously took a step back. The main reason was that Rowan's moves were far too strange. Jogo could not resist them, and Mahito might not be able to resist them either. Moreover, the other party had two companions with astonishing strength.
One against three. He could not win.
"Can we reconcile?"
Mahito finally understood what it meant to bend and stretch, and what it meant that those who understood the situation were wise.
"Reconcile?"
Rowan raised his hand and rubbed his chin.
"It's not impossible. Answer a few of my questions, and we'll reconcile."
Mahito raised an eyebrow. They could actually reconcile? Was that true, or was he being toyed with? He could not tell. He really could not tell.
But he could take a gamble. What if he won?
"Ask," he nodded.
Rowan asked, "First, tell me how you confirmed that the Paper was on me."
Mahito replied, "Each piece of paper has had a technique placed on it. We can use those techniques at any time to determine the location of the Paper."
Rowan gave an "oh," and a look of realization appeared in his eyes. So that was how it was.
"Then what is your relationship with the Time Vessel Association? Why are you trying to recover these papers?"
Mahito said, "We have a good relationship with Suguru Geto, the Vice Leader of the Time Vessel Association. He asked us for help, asking us to help recover these papers."
"Suguru Geto?"
Rowan was very curious. Was this Suguru Geto the real Suguru Geto, or Kenjaku, who had already parasitized his body?
He glanced at Mahito and noticed Mahito was also secretly looking at him.
Mind-control magic, activate.
The next second, Mahito was controlled by Rowan.
Rowan walked over, switched to the Memory-Memory Fruit, and extracted Mahito's memories from his brain.
"Let me see whether what you said is true or false."
Mahito stood blankly in place, motionless, allowing Rowan to browse through his memories.
After Rowan finished looking through the memories, he confirmed that Mahito had generally not lied. He had only altered part of the key content.
The two of them did not have a good relationship with Suguru Geto. They were Suguru Geto's subordinates.
And the Suguru Geto referred to here was not Kenjaku, who had parasitized the body like a brain flower.
It was the real Suguru Geto, because in Mahito's memories, there were no stitch marks on Suguru Geto's forehead.
In the original plot, when Suguru Geto was seventeen, after experiencing many events, he chose to slaughter 112 villagers and defected from the technical school, becoming a curse user.
After defecting, Suguru Geto seized the Time Vessel Association and was known as the worst curse user. His goal was to eliminate all non-sorcerers and create a world only for jujutsu sorcerers.
Later, this guy released thousands of cursed spirits in both Tokyo's Shinjuku and Kyoto, ordering them to "kill them all." Suguru Geto named this terrorist attack the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons.
And Suguru Geto's purpose in doing this was to seize the childhood friend of Yuta Okkotsu, the Pure Love Warrior.
Special Grade vengeful cursed spirit, Rika Orimoto.
Rika Orimoto was Yuta Okkotsu's deceased childhood friend. The two had promised to marry each other when they were children.
As a result, after Rika Orimoto died in a car accident at the age of eleven, she was transformed into a Special Grade vengeful cursed spirit due to Yuta Okkotsu's unconscious burst of cursed energy and became attached to Yuta Okkotsu.
This was a special case. Suguru Geto believed that if he obtained Rika Orimoto, his strength would inevitably increase greatly.
Unfortunately, he underestimated the bond between the Pure Love Warrior Yuta Okkotsu and his childhood friend. These days, you could provoke anyone, but you absolutely could not provoke a Pure Love Warrior. One had to know that people like that really dared to risk their lives against you.
And in that battle, Yuta Okkotsu truly risked his life. Using himself as a sacrifice, he offered Rika Orimoto his life, power, and future, releasing the restriction on cursed energy and obtaining a high-intensity liberation of cursed power.
Simply put, he leveled up.
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