A Bizarre Adventure That Begins in Jujutsu Kaisen

Looking at Tsukumo Yuki's unguarded, even somewhat naive and adorable appearance, Theo couldn't help but chuckle softly. He reached out and gently patted her smooth, full forehead, as if stamping it.

"Okay," he said.

"...I thought you were going to kiss me," Yuki muttered softly, a hint of disappointment in her voice, her eyes still closed. "That's how it is in stories."

After she finished speaking, she slowly opened her eyes, and the scene before her suddenly changed dramatically!

The field of vision seemed to instantly switch to that of an ultra-high-precision scanning tunneling microscope—no, far more microscopic and vast than that!

The air was no longer empty, but filled with gas molecules in Brownian motion.

A 360-degree, ultra-high-definition, all-around view, from the fiber structure of the tablecloth to the reinforced concrete inside the walls, to the flow of blood in the bodies of tourists in the distance outside the window...

The sheer volume of information was so overwhelming that it instantly pushed the limits of the brain's information processing capacity!

"Hey—my—vision—"

Ninety-nine Yuki's mind entered a state of near-immeasurable emptiness, unable to utter a complete sentence smoothly, his voice fragmented like a punctuated recording.

Like Theo, who first unlocked the concept of "six eyes" for herself, she felt her consciousness being thrown into an endless, high-speed abyss of information without any warning.

Every nanosecond, a massive amount of invalid or excessive information floods in.

The visual nerves and cerebral cortex work frantically, trying to understand, only to be instantly overwhelmed by an even larger stream of data.

Theo waited patiently for about half a minute, carefully observing her reaction.

However, instead of struggling to adapt to and filter information as he had done initially, Yuki seemed to sink even deeper into that boundless, unfocused global perspective.

His eyes were completely unfocused and unfocused, his body was slightly stiff, and even his breathing became rapid and irregular.

There's nothing we can do.

Theo silently recited to himself, temporarily imbuing himself with the classic fairy tale concept of "the prince's kiss" that could awaken the sleeping princess.

He leaned forward and, under the gaze of Yukina's eyes, which appeared empty and bewildered from information overload, gently kissed her lips, performing the ritual of "awakening the sleeping princess."

A warm and solid sense of "anchoring" with a clear direction came from the warmth of our lips touching, like casting an absolutely stable coordinate in a boundless torrent of information.

Yuki, who was lost in the abyss of information and almost drowning, suddenly woke up and his whole body shuddered as if he had been electrocuted.

The slight panic caused by a mental breakdown and loss of control over the body and behavior vanished without a trace during that kiss.

Theo noticed that her lips moved very slightly.

Then, those unfocused eyes began to slowly turn, searching for focus again.

He knew the concept had taken effect and was about to politely step aside.

Just as Theo retreated, Yuki suddenly raised his hand, wrapped it around his neck, and pressed his palm firmly against the back of his head, pulling him back.

This is not passive acceptance, but a conscious and proactive response and affirmation.

Dio, at this moment, you must be real...

Today's trip to the amusement park was as dazzling as a stolen dream.

It's a dream I secretly had deep in my heart when I was a child, longing for childhood fun and happiness, a dream I dared not tell anyone.

Prince and Princess...

Lovers, as if sleepwalking, held hands as they walked through the bustling crowds, rode the screaming roller coaster, made a pinky promise earnestly under the sunset, and laughed like children in front of a fairytale-like setting.

...So it really wasn't a dream.

I have been searching for that elusive path to salvation for more than a decade.

It's been too long...

So long ago, I almost forgot that it was possible to relax like this, that it was possible to feel warmth from my fingertips to my heart simply because there was someone beside me.

This pleasure, so light it was almost unreal, made one's heart race.

Tsukumo Yuki tilted her head slightly, stuck out her tongue, and deepened the kiss with a mix of awkwardness and determination.

A warm touch and a slight tremor came from where their lips and teeth touched.

She transformed her momentary confusion and helplessness into her now crystal-clear feelings and trust, and finally realized that "you are real"...

All of it was conveyed to him.

For a long time, the lips are divided.

Both of them were breathing slightly erratically.

Yuki's eyes had fully regained focus, but were covered with a layer of moisture.

Two distinct blushes rose on her cheeks, spreading all the way to her ears, and the pheromones that had been brewing for more than ten years exuded the scent of ripe apples.

She was slightly out of breath, looking intently into Theo's eyes, and asked, "Although it was a bit hasty... are we... dating now?"

"Of course it counts," Theo replied without the slightest hesitation.

He smacked his lips, as if savoring the sensation from just now, then changed the subject: "If you want to kiss... you can kiss as much as you want later."

But now, we need to immediately confront a very serious problem.

Theo leaned back slightly, creating a small distance between them.

"Based on all the official information, maps, historical records, and travelogues from major travel websites, blogs, and tourists that I arranged for Jay and Wu to help me retrieve afterward..."

Tokyo DisneySea has never had a standalone facility called "Aquarium" since it opened.

We spent almost half an hour in a 'non-existent' 'aquarium' without even realizing it!

"..."

Yuki Tsukumo subconsciously pinched her arm hard, and a clear pain came through.

Immediately afterwards, she reached out and pinched Theo's cheek, pulling it forcefully as if checking the elasticity of dough, her voice carrying a noticeable tension:

"Honey...does it hurt?"

"It's true." Theo let her pull his face, his eyes serious.

"Stop pinching. What we've run into is probably not a simple illusion or trick."

I just temporarily blessed you with the concept of "six eyes".

However, the "Six Eyes"... could not detect anything unusual at all.

Not only can we not see the flow of magical power that should exist when the magical spirits use their abilities, we can't even see the residual magical power left behind after they have acted!

This is clearly... an unusual event that goes beyond the realm of ordinary 'common sense'.

Start by loosening his grip, quickly and alertly glancing around.

In the candlelit restaurant, other guests chatted and laughed, enjoying the food and the night, while waiters bustled about.

Outside the window, the amusement park is brightly lit and filled with laughter at night.

Everything felt so real, so normal, so full of the warmth and humanity of everyday life.

But the more perfect this "normality" was, the more a chill ran down her spine.

Once you start actively recalling that unusually quiet "aquarium," those subtle feelings of incongruity surge in like a tide.

Like the strange handprints taken by a toddler, the crowds whose faces are always indistinct and who are just pressed against the glass, and the distant tourists whose existence is unclear—whether real or subconscious—are all blurred into a murky mess in my memory.

She couldn't distinguish which images she had seen with her own eyes and which were unauthorized drawings created by the curse.

"What if the entire aquarium was a mental landscape projected onto reality by a certain creature..."

Considering its scale and level of completion... a top-tier cursed spirit!?

"Most likely."

Dio affirmed in a deep voice.

"Even if there are many surveillance cameras, it won't help in such a public place with a huge flow of people and a wide variety of people."

After all, surveillance cameras cannot capture the phenomenon of curses.

Aside from the families of the missing, it's hard for others to immediately notice when a few people are missing each day.

Even if the park intervenes, the clues often go completely cold at the curse part, and in the end, it will probably just remain an unsolved case.

Therefore, for a top-tier cursed spirit, Disneyland is practically a hunting ground for talent.