Simultaneous Transmigration: We Share a Role-Playing System

Nishikida Keiryu picked up his shadow katana, assumed an iaido stance, closed his eyes, and carefully sensed the attacks within his surroundings, listening to the sounds from the world.

Once fully immersed in the role, Locke's mind was flooded with memories of Nishikita Keiryu.

Discovering his talent for seeing spirits in his youth, he cultivated his family's swordsmanship and, after learning and combining spiritual power and sealing techniques, chose to travel the world to slay demons and monsters.

Along the way, he fought and grew stronger, defeating countless demons and monsters, including the three-headed dragon, the vengeful ghost of the fallen, the true dragon, the black dragon, and the Sukuna demon.

He couldn't remember, just as he couldn't remember how many pairs of straw sandals he had worn out along the way.

What he remembers most vividly is his final experience in the White Fox Forest, where he fell in love with a married woman who was also a fox spirit.

Unable to grant the fox woman's wish to be freed, he could only leave behind a hairpin imbued with his spiritual power to fight his most powerful adversary in this life, the demon Onijuro.

He triumphed. The demon Onijuro, enraged by the failure of his plot, committed suicide and cursed himself. Meanwhile, he continued to travel the world, defeating and sealing away demons and monsters.

However, he didn't know why, he could never find his way home, nor could he return to the forest that haunted his dreams and see the woman he had missed all his life.

A warrior is lonely because he cannot lose. He defeats a non-human being and becomes another non-human being, which makes him incredibly lonely.

Locke deeply understood that kind of loneliness, just as he knew he never belonged here and no one could understand him. As a transmigrator, he was destined to be lonely.

Fortunately, he is not alone now. He has other selves, and no matter what the future holds, they will accompany him and help him escape the predicament of loneliness.

He could understand Jin Tianjinglong's loneliness, but he was fundamentally different from Jin Tianjinglong. Jin Tianjinglong traveled the world to slay demons and monsters because his innate mission was something that no one else could fulfill.

And what about Locke?

Does he have any mission he must complete? No, he's essentially just a person who enjoys life and lives a simple life. His biggest wish is to do whatever he wants and find some fun along the way.

However, everything that Locke in the black robes had suffered had fueled a hidden anger within them, changing their previously complacent attitude. They now desired power.

They wanted to prevent any of themselves from suffering the same harm as they had in the Black Robe World, so they had to become stronger, strong enough to control the fate of all Locke, strong enough to have the absolute freedom to say no to anything.

Therefore, he wanted to become Nishikita Kojuro Keiryu, to obtain that unparalleled power, that power that made him the only one worthy of respect in the world.

"So, this is your wish, you wanderer?"

Locke was jolted awake. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in his dream. The scene around him was the forest in Jintian Jinglong's memory, the White Fox Forest.

Sitting opposite him was Kinta Keiryu.

"you?"

"No need to be surprised, wanderers. We are merely judgment modules shaped by the power of the system, not the true form of this power."

Before Locke could react, Jintian Jinglong began to make tea for him and continued to explain:

"The so-called system is the power that is attached to the depths of your soul. However, when you transmigrated, your powerful soul could not pass through the gate of the lower world, so it had to be torn into countless parts and descended into this great world separately."

"In this process, the system's parts became mixed with you, which led to our birth. So in a sense, we are also you, only with a completely different life on the other side."

Locke quickly calmed down and then realized that the vision of the hungry wolf he had seen in the black-robed world was not an illusion, but a real one.

"So, your purpose in existence is simply to determine whether we are qualified to obtain this power?"

"No, from the moment you chose this power, you were qualified. What we can judge is whether you can unleash this power earlier or surpass it."

"What do you mean? Explain it more clearly."

"You say you're not Nishikita Kojuro Keiryu because you think you can't do what he did, dedicating yourself wholeheartedly to the innocent people of the world. But in my eyes, Nishikita Kojuro Keiryu, that doesn't matter at all."

"The important thing is that you can use this power correctly to protect those who should be protected. If that's the case, what is there to worry about?"

"Even Nishikita Kojuro Keiryu has things he can't do, but as long as you walk the righteous path, no matter how despicable your methods are or how selfish your goals are, as long as you are on the righteous path, I, Nishikita Kojuro Keiryu, will acknowledge you."

Before he finished speaking, Jin Tianjinglong had already placed the brewed hot tea in front of Locke and gestured for him to drink.

He watched quietly as Locke drank the tea. The next second, fine cracks suddenly appeared on his body, and tiny cherry blossoms scattered from the cracks, drifting away in the wind.

"Go! Take my name, my power, my story, and everything I have! Become Jintian Jinglong, become a warrior! Hahahaha!"

A hearty laugh echoed in the dream, and Nishikida Keiryu's body gradually shattered with the laughter, eventually transforming into a sky full of blooming cherry blossoms.

The cherry blossoms were enveloped by an invisible force, wrapping around Locke and completely enveloping him. As the petals slowly melted away, they emitted a dazzling light, gradually soothing the wounds of his soul and transferring all the power into his body.

[Character compatibility +63%]

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[Popularity +10000]

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【The Tale of Taiping: The Demon-Slaying Swordsman: Nishikita Kojuro Keiryu (Red Steel)】

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【Kishida Kojuro Keiryu - Early Career (10%) → Kishida Kojuro Keiryu - Rising Fame (50%)】

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[Next Phase]

【Kishitsujiro Keiryu - Rising to Fame (100%)】

After Sukuna finished reciting all the incantations and adding the binding enhancement [Release], he watched as Nishikita Kojuro Kagetatsu in front of him closed his eyes, preparing to use Iaijutsu.

Just as he was looking at the other party warily, wondering what the other party was going to do next, a familiar feeling welled up from the depths of his bones, making him unconsciously recall the whole process of being sealed by Jin Tian Jinglong.

A thousand years ago, after severing his six limbs in 0.001 seconds, he also struck a similar pose, piercing his own heart to seal himself away.

As he recalled the events, Jintian Jinglong's aura suddenly became more than ten times stronger, and even his soul felt a tremor.

"Nameless Sword - Draw"

Before he could even finish speaking, Nishikida Keiryu used his sword draw to simultaneously defend against all the slashes coming from within the area, and easily broke through the slash that was just as powerful as Sukuna's at his peak, and then charged towards Sukuna with his sword raised.

This scene was exactly the same as the memory from a thousand years ago. The only difference was that this time he did not pierce his own heart, but stopped at the last moment.

"How long are you going to let him manipulate you, Hisahito Itadori?"

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Meanwhile, "The Window," responsible for monitoring the movement of the curse across Japan, is embroiled in its second large-scale upheaval since the cursed spirits collectively grew stronger three months ago.

"Report! The magical power of all spirits in Hokkaido has suddenly doubled! No—it's still rising!"

The team members gripped the landline receivers and screamed, their voices filled with panic. The ringing of the landline phones and their shouts created a chaotic mess.

"Not just! Tokyo, Kanto, Kyushu... the whole of Japan! All the cursed spirits in Japan are going berserk and getting stronger! What on earth is happening?!"

As the person in charge of "Window" and a pawn planted by Shinkage-ryu in the world of jutsu, Ryusuke Ikeda's forehead was covered in cold sweat as he stared intently at the constantly flashing icons on the screen—those icons representing first-level and even special-level jutsu spirits were growing wildly like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, densely covering the screen.

As a middle-aged man, he had personally experienced the nationwide strengthening of cursed spirits triggered by the birth of Gojo Satoru. However, in just three months, they had encountered two more strengthenings of cursed spirits, with an intensity far greater than that of the past, terrifying to the point of being suffocating.

Ryusuke Ikeda's Adam's apple bobbed, and he unconsciously murmured:

"This level of enhancement to the spirit... could it be that a god or Buddha has descended to earth?!"