Jujutsu Kaisen: I have everything I need now!

deep sea.

Basha lay in the pool of water at the bottom of the temple.

Her left side of her body had grown back, but the new scales were bluish-white, like a reptile that had just molted.

"Damn thief!"

Basha cursed and raised her right hand.

Blood was still seeping from the crack in her palm, blue blood flowing down her wrist and dissolving in the water. She tried to concentrate her strength in her hand, forcing out the power within.

But it didn't work.

"Damn it..."

Basha gritted her teeth and ripped the entire arm off with a sudden movement.

"Bazaar."

Just then, a sound came from the entrance of the temple.

Bazaar's other hand was still tightly gripping the severed arm.

She looked up and saw the stone face of the Earth Demon peeking in. Its body was so large that only its head could fit inside the temple.

"Looks like you're badly injured."

Di Kui's tone was tinged with amusement.

Basha stood up from the water, her eyes narrowed to slits.

"Are you here to laugh at me?"

"No. We're partners, I'm just concerned about a partner." Di Kui's voice was muffled. "That thief is more troublesome than we thought."

Basha didn't say anything. She lifted her arm and walked to the edge of the temple, staring at the dark sea outside.

After a while, she spoke.

"I can sense that the power of the runes on him is incomplete, only about half, but this is still something we can't contend with alone."

"I know. And that woman's gun is also troublesome. I can sense that it's a power from the same source as ours."

"so what?"

"Are you planning to continue hiding here?"

"What do you want to say?" Basha turned her head, her vertical pupils staring at Di Kui.

"I want to say..." Di Kui paused, "our cooperation ends here."

Upon hearing this, Basha's expression changed instantly.

"What do you mean?"

"Literally," Di Kui said directly, "I held off that thief for you, letting you escape. Now, I've fulfilled my promise."

A cold glint flashed in Di Kui's eyes.

"From now on, it's up to each of us to rely on our own abilities."

Basha stared at Di Kui for a few seconds, then suddenly laughed.

"Each relying on their own abilities?"

Her laughter echoed through the temple.

"You think you can kill that thief all by yourself? I've already said we can't defeat him alone. Unless you don't want his power, or you want to hand it over to your brothers and sisters."

"So you mean to continue cooperating with you?" Di Kui said bluntly. "In your current state, you can't even stand up straight, yet you want to go find that thief? I'm at least stronger than you."

Bazaar's laughter stopped.

She stared at Di Kui without saying a word.

Di Kui also fell silent.

The two demons stared at each other, the temple so quiet that only the sound of flowing water could be heard.

After a long while, Di Kui spoke first.

"I advise you to stay put and recover from your injuries." Its voice was low. "Once I kill that thief and take his power... I will come looking for you then."

After saying that, Di Kui's stone face shrank back.

The enormous figure sank into the sea and quickly disappeared from sight.

Basha stood there, staring in the direction where Di Kui had disappeared.

Her eyes were filled with murderous intent.

"Earth Demon..." she whispered, "Do you think I don't know what you're up to?"

Basha turned and walked back to the pool.

"You want to take advantage of my injury to kill that thief yourself and then seize his power for yourself."

She sank completely into the water.

A pale blue light shimmered in the water.

"Dream on. You absolutely can't beat him!"

Basha closed her eyes and began to activate the water law within her body.

The seawater around the trench began to churn.

Countless tiny streams flowed into the temple along the earth's veins and merged into the pool.

These streams contain the pure essence of water, which can accelerate her recovery.

But not enough.

Far from enough.

"I need more power."

……

Europe, the Alps.

On the ruins of an abandoned castle.

Xiaofeng stood on a large rock, looking at the town in the distance, and licked his lips.

"It seems everyone is getting impatient."

Xiaofeng sensed clearly that both Basha and Dikui were after the thief.

They wanted the power in that man, the power of the runes, the core of the Shadow Lord.

Any one of these items could drastically increase a demon's power.

"but......"

Something flashed in Xiaofeng's eyes.

"That thief was too strong. Even Basha and Di Kui working together couldn't take him down."

"If I act rashly, I'm afraid I won't gain anything."

Xiaofeng remained silent for a few seconds.

It is thinking.

Think about how to survive in this chaotic battle and gain the greatest benefit.

"wait."

Xiaofeng suddenly laughed.

"I have to wait. Wait for Basha to recover, wait for the Earth Demon to act. Wait for them to fight that thief."

"Wait until they're both severely weakened..." Xiaofeng's lips curled into a smile, "Then I'll make my move."

……

Tokyo, vocational high school.

Monitoring room.

Yi Gu You Tai stared at the screen in front of him, his brows furrowed tightly.

"Senior Yuta."

Hisahito Itadori pushed open the door and came in, holding a report in his hand.

"How's it going in Okinawa?"

Yi Gu took the report and quickly scanned it.

"Kugizaki and the others did a good job. They've basically wiped out the remnants left behind by Basha."

"That's good."

Huzhang breathed a sigh of relief.

"but......"

Yi Gu put down the report and looked at the data on the screen.

"I have a feeling that something's not right."

"Something's not right?"

"Look at these data."

Yi Gu pointed at the screen.

"After being injured in Toyama Bay, Basha has been hiding in the Mariana Trench. Logically, she should be there recuperating."

"but......"

He pulled up another set of data.

"Since yesterday, the water flow around the trench has become very active. Moreover, the intensity of the energy fluctuations is constantly increasing."

"Bazaar must be doing something. And what she's doing requires a lot of energy."

Yi Gu's expression turned serious.

"And it's not just Bazaar."

He then pulled up several more sets of data.

"Deep in the Pacific Ocean, there is a tremendous energy moving."

"Abnormal storms have also been detected in Europe."

"and......"

Yi Gu paused for a moment.

"Just half an hour ago, the energy signal of the Earthly Demon appeared in Europe."

Haddō's expression froze.

"Europe? Isn't that Xiaofeng's territory?"

"right."

Yigu pulled up real-time monitoring footage from Europe, showing two huge energy spots rapidly approaching on a satellite thermal image of the Alps.

"The Earthly Demon went straight to Europe."

Huzhang frowned.

"Why did it go to Xiaofeng? To form an alliance?"

"It's hard to say."

Yi leaned back in his chair, his fingers tapping the table unconsciously.

"But whatever it does, the fact that two ancient demons are in the same area is bad enough."

"We need to inform Senior December," Itadori said.

"I've already told him."

Yi Gu's gaze fell on a set of data in the corner of the screen.

That's the deep water temperature curve of the Mariana Trench. The water temperature has risen by nearly three degrees Celsius in the past twelve hours.

This is almost impossible to happen naturally at the bottom of a trench tens of thousands of meters deep.

"Polygonum cuspidatum"

"Um?"

"Don't you think... all of this is too much of a coincidence?"

"What do you mean?"

"Di Kui went directly to Europe. Basha absorbed a large amount of water essence in the trench. Xiao Feng remained inactive."

Yi Gu's fingers stopped.

"Three demons, three directions, three choices. They all seem to have ulterior motives and distrust each other."

"But what if we think about it the other way around?"

Huzhang paused for a moment.

"You mean...they did it on purpose?"

Bone did not reply.

He stared at the two points of light on the screen that were approaching Europe, his eyes filled with unconcealed unease.