Jujutsu Kaisen: Nozomi no Sora

That's all for now.

Ijichi parked the car at the foot of a mountain. Outside the window was the dense forest road typical of the outskirts of Sendai, with the mountain shadows appearing and disappearing in the morning mist.

"Here? This must be Sendai!" Yuji Itadori peered out the car window.

"Yes." Ijichi Takayoshi turned around, his expression serious. "Our 'window' is the target we found here. It's important to note that the target seems to have also taken quite a few ordinary people who are not sorcerers hostage."

He paused, then adjusted his glasses.

"Although this investigation was specially arranged by Mr. Gojo, in order to avoid attracting the attention of the higher-ups and to avoid alerting the enemy, I will not open the 'tent' during this battle. Please be careful."

"learn."

After bidding a temporary farewell to Ichiji, the group hiked up the steps leading up the mountain.

Xuan Yi didn't say much about the information about "Wan," because based on Fukuro Megumi's description, it could be basically determined that he was a constructor.

"Construction techniques?" Yuuji Itadori tilted his head. "Never heard of them."

Yigu Yuta walked beside him and patiently explained, "It's a technique that uses one's own magical power as a foundation to construct any physical object. Theoretically, as long as the magical power is sufficient, anything can be created."

Kugizaki snorted coldly.

"As expected, people who use this kind of technique are all very annoying!"

"All?" Yuta Otsukoshi looked up and thought for a moment. "Judging from what you're saying, Kugizaki, did you and Mai have some unpleasant experience together?"

Kugizaki Nobara crossed her arms and gave a cold laugh.

"That snake woman? She's nothing but Maki-senpai's remnant. Just thinking about her face makes me angry!"

Yuji Itadori scratched his head, as if he couldn't figure something out.

"Wait, that can't be! Aren't those two exactly alike? Aren't they twins?"

"Shut up!" Kugizaki slapped him on the back of the head.

Yigu Yuta smiled somewhat helplessly, but his tone became slightly more serious: "The affairs of the Zen family are more complicated than what we see. Shin'i has actually had a very difficult time as well."

The Zen family places extreme importance on spells and incantations, and is extremely harsh on Maki, who lacks incantation power, and Mayi, whose incantation power is not high. If I had to describe it... it's like treating weeds.

So perhaps the only way for her to stay energized in that environment was by constantly provoking and mocking others!

Kugizaki curled his lip.

"Oh, really? But Maki-nee isn't like that at all!"

Upon hearing this, Yi Gu You Tai revealed a bright smile.

"That's true, so Maki is special."

"Yes, yes!"

Kugizaki Nobara instantly changed to an expression of agreement and nodded repeatedly.

Tiger Staff looked at Xuan Yi, who was silent beside him, and curiously went over and nudged him with his elbow.

"Genichi, I still don't understand your techniques. I thought it was cool that you could turn a pendant into a scythe, but why do you even know Gojo-sensei's special move?!"

Wild rose, standing nearby, turned her head and frowned.

"Hey, you can't possibly be unaware that demanding other sorcerers reveal their spell information is incredibly presumptuous!"

"Huh?" Itajimaru's eyes widened. "Why?"

"Idiot!" Kugizaki rolled his eyes. "Unless you actively reveal your information to your opponent in exchange for a buff, what's the difference between that and showing your trump card? You can't execute any tactics!"

"I see..." Itari scratched his head, looking at Genichi somewhat embarrassed. "Sorry, Genichi, I didn't think that much about it."

Xuan Yi waved his hand and stopped walking.

"It's okay, I didn't intend to hide anything." He glanced at his companion beside him, his voice calm. "Although I've been in the college for almost a month, I still haven't spent much time with everyone."

Now that we're all comrades fighting side by side, I think it's better to make the intelligence public.

Actually, my technique—”

Yigu Yuta also silently turned his head, his gaze focused.

"It is the 'inscription' of the spell, which, in short, is the copying of the spell."

"Senior Yigu, may I speak?"

Yi Guyou smiled slightly and nodded.

Xuan Yi continued, "I heard from Gojo-sensei that my 'Engraving' is different from Senior Yigu's 'Imitation'."

Senior Yigu needs to use a shikigami to ingest a part of the body of the object being imitated, and my "Inscription" also requires activation conditions—it requires me to touch the curse power of the object being copied throughout the entire process.

In short, I need to be hit by their spells. If it's a buff spell that won't affect me, I won't be able to inscribe it.

Yi Guyou thought about it for a while and then came to a conclusion.

"In other words, you can't 'engrave' my 'imitation,' but I can 'imitate' your 'engraving'... Is that right?"

"Huh?" Xuan Yi's eyelids twitched involuntarily.

Yi Gu You Tai smiled brightly and waved his hand.

"Haha, just kidding. Besides, the functions of our two techniques overlap too much; imitating them would be redundant!"

Xuan Yi smiled wryly and didn't reply.

Of course, it's not unnecessary!

He knew the importance of intelligence warfare. If, in future battles, the opponent discovered that Yigu needed to meet the conditions for the successful activation of the "Imitation" spell and targeted it, Yigu, who also possessed "Inscription," would definitely have an extra trump card that could catch the opponent off guard.

But will I be missing a finger or a rib...?

Xuan Yi dared not think about it any further.

"But I have absolutely no way of imitating Gojo Satoru's 'no limits'," Yuta Otsukotsu said earnestly. "I'm really surprised that you can do that."

"The teacher said it seems to be because my magical power is rather special."

"I noticed that too; your spell power has two layers."

"Two layers?" Itadori and Kugizaki asked in unison, their faces full of doubt.

"Hmm." Yuta Otsuku nodded. "The surface-level cursed power that flows automatically, and the even greater cursed power that you've hidden within your body."

It's like...they don't belong to the same person. It's strange; this is the first time I've ever seen something like this.

Xuan Yi's expression was slightly forlorn.

The second layer of curse power within the body only appeared after the person was first dragged into the realm of the real person.

He remembered that in his own realm, the original owner of this body's soul had told him that his magical power would be released when he left.

The most primal, self-flowing curse power became a precious relic he left to Xuan Yi.

"Controlling these two different forms of magical power at the same time must be very difficult," said Yuta Eto, withdrawing his hand in a calm tone. "The output of the inner magical power will be limited by the capacity of the outer magical power."

Xuan nodded.

He had noticed this problem in previous battles.

The outer layer of incantation power has the ability to regulate itself, while the inner layer of incantation power needs to be drawn from the inner layer by the outer layer of incantation power in order to be used in the release of the spell.

This method causes his spell power supply to fall behind the consumption, forcibly suppressing the spell's output effect.

This is why the "Azure" he can play now is still not on the same level as Gojo-sensei's "Azure".

In close combat, if he doesn't use spells and only uses his magical power to strengthen his body, he can quickly complete the response of his inner magical power, and even completely replace his outer magical power with it.

The advantage of doing this is that you can explore little by little to find the absolute time difference between the power of the spell and the impact, and thus unleash the legendary "Black Flash".

This is something that cannot be achieved simply by using the outer layer of magical power, because without that real feeling of "grasping" the magical power, no matter how much control he has over the magical power, he cannot make that black flame bloom.

"But there's no need to worry about these things too early."

Etoku Yuta seemed to have read his thoughts and said with a smile.

"After completing this mission, get back to training!"

Xuan Yi raised his head and met those eyes that were unusually gentle despite being hidden in gloom.

"yes!"

"By the way, regarding Xuan Yi's 'Inscription' technique, I have an idea..."