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"----!" Kokomi stopped walking when the person who had been following her called a name that she once owned
Kokomi was just on her way to buy lunch when she noticed someone was following her. To make sure, she walked to an empty alley. For others, this is not the brightest idea, but she is confident in her fighting skills so she is also confident she can handle the person following her if they ever decide to attack her.
Kokomi looked at her watch and saw that if she wanted to get back to work on time before lunch break was over, she had to handle this immediately.
Kokomi turned around and gave the person following her the coldest glare she could Master to at least intimidate the person.
When she turned, she saw that it was a man. Hmph! Typical!
Kokomi looked at the man up and down, judging him. He looked like someone who knows their style, that's for sure, and his facial expression looked as though he wasn't expecting Kokomi to glare at him.
Good, the man probably thought of Kokomi as an easy target, and he was wrong!
The man—Muzan—stood frozen for the first time in centuries. Muzan Kibutsuji froze but not from Yoriichi like the last time.
Of course, his beloved wife, his darling, won't remember him immediately. This is a new life, after all; she reincarnated without memories of their past life together.
To her, Muzan is probably a stranger that followed her to an empty alley like a creep.
He will just do what his upper moon 2 and 3 did. He will slowly wiggle himself into her life, and she will sooner or later regain her memories just like Koyuki and Kotoha.
He changed his posture and smiled softly. "My apologies," he said softly. "I must have scared you." He locked eyes with her. "I thought you were someone I know."
Kokomi paused for a moment before fully facing the handsome stranger. This man probably knows someone else who has a similar back as her with a really old-fashioned name.
"Is that so," she laughed. "It's fine, accidents happen." Kokomi started to walk where she came from, which was towards the man.
When Kokomi walked past him, "Again, I sincerely apologize," he apologized once more before hearing shuffling behind her. "Maybe I can make it up to you, dinner maybe?"
Smooth. This guy lied. He just wanted Kokomi to not feel threatened. There was no accident; he indeed followed her.
Kokomi smirked. This guy has guts and knows how to make a woman comfortable, a gentleman indeed. Kokomi turned around to face the man once more and saw him already looking at her.
Kokomi tilted her head to the side, adding tension to the atmosphere by pretending to think for a moment when in reality, she already thought of an answer.
Muzan watched his soon-to-be wife (she doesn't know that yet) look adorable as she tilted her head to the side. He's not nervous; even if she did reject him, he'd make a plan to make them meet again.
Kokomi finally nodded and took out a piece of paper, and wrote her phone number and name on the paper before folding it.
Muzan watched as Kokomi walked closer to him and he let her lean towards his ear. He felt her put something in his pocket while she whispered.
"Saturday. 8 pm. Pick me up at ^^^^ street."
With that, Kokomi left the alley without looking back. Life has been boring lately, so she decided to flirt for a bit.
Muzan looked at the paper, and it read:
Kokomi Yamamoto
(XXX) XXX-XXXX
See you soon~
"Kokomi Yamamoto," Muzan read the paper and smirked. He'll have her soon.
—
Kokomi had been reincarnated countless times, all the memories she has of her past life often get jumbled together.
Kokomi started forgetting small events, faces, and voices in her 3rd life. Names she can barely remember, their faces are a blur.
Even her last life is now a blur.
—
Kokomi works as a second-year teacher in Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College.
She teaches second years. Though the current second years now lacked a lot because their stupid sensei didn't teach them a fuckton of things that first years should know, so now she had most of her missions passed to someone else to make the second years catch up.
Her current students are:
Maki Zenin
Toge Inumaki
Panda
Yuta Okkotsu
Though one of her students is currently out of the country, namely Yuta.
And their stupid sensei who skipped lessons is the infamous Satoru Gojo. She hates him.
—
Kokushibo watched as his master—Muzan—stared at the piece of paper, re-reading it over and over again.
Earlier, Kokushibo had lost sight of Muzan, and when Muzan finally came back, he was in a good mood.
Which is rare—VERY rare.
Kokushibo cleared his throat for Muzan to pay attention to the report he had just found out about this new era, a hidden organization, much like the demon slayers, but this particular organization is much older than them.
“Older than us, and we are just learning about this now?" Akaza voiced out. Kokushibo thought that it would be best if the other upper moons hear about this.
“Though it isn't about slaying us, they kill or rather exorcize creatures called curses, and they call themselves jujutsu sorcerers," Kokushibo continues. “These creatures called curses are created by human emotions. More specifically, they are created when cursed energy leaks from ‘non-sorcerers,’ another term for ordinary humans, as a result of their harboring of negative emotions.”
"And I have come to find out that during the time that us demons ruled the night, the curses were more powerful and dangerous because of their knowledge about us.”
"I see~, it means that we played an amazing role in these curses things, right?" Douma questioned but didn't really want an answer.
“Not entirely, since the existence of curses goes way beyond us. Much says they were already here when humans were first created," Kokushibo explained further. “These people that fend off the curses are called jujutsu sorcerers. They are individuals secretly trained and employed by the government in Japan to defend humanity from cursed spirits."
"Even so, these things aren't going to be in our way, will they?” Muzan finally spoke.
"No, they will not. The sorcerers only focus on killing curses and not humans. That is unless we are to start using cursed energy; as such, they will start to take us down. But if we stay out of that line, our only enemies are only the other Yakuza’s and the police.” Kokushibo watched as Muzan folded the piece of paper he was fondly reading earlier and put it in the inner pocket of his suit. “As for curses and cursed users, the chance of them going after us is very low since to the outside world, we are but humans."
“This information isn't all useless, but it doesn't help me either," Muzan stood up and left the room, leaving the upper moons by themselves.
“Kokushibo-dono~ do you think Muzan-sama will start to settle down?" Douma asked with a sleeping Inosuke in his arms.
“What makes you assume that?" Akaza asked, seemingly annoyed to hear Douma’s voice again.
"Akaza-dono, didn't you see the look Muzan-sama had when he was looking at that piece of paper?” Douma teased Akaza for not noticing.
Kokushibo had tuned out the other two in the room and thought to himself… It is suspicious. What could possibly be written on that piece of paper? And where did Muzan go when he disappeared earlier?
Kokushibo pushed all his questions aside, knowing that if he kept questioning, it would only annoy Muzan. Considering he was in a VERY rare mood, which can turn to the opposite in a matter of seconds, Kokushibo let it go.
—
“Alright, lazybutts I have a new mission for you three" kokomi announced opening the classroom door only to see that none of her students are present
Kokomi thought for a moment trying to figure out where her students could be. It is Monday morning and yuta is in another country so his excused, panda could be with the principal. His absence is excuse- wait wasn't the principal out?
All three of them could be somewhere on campus but where? On the first ring maki answered her phone
‘Hello?’
“Where are you guys I have a mission for you three" kokomi said to the phone on her ears while walking down the empty halls of jujutsu high
‘The third-years called us for a small meeting about the Kyoto sister-school goodwill event but we're almost done we’ll meet you by the entrance’
“Oh good, I thought the three of you were skipping class” kokomi hanged up the phone before maki could defend herself
Humming a small tune the man kokomi met yesterday came to mind. Kokomi felt a strong demonic presence in him and that huge ass curse on his shoulder looks as though it's a thousand years old
Kokomi would have killed it but she sense that the curse could be between semi-grade 2 to special grade 1 due to how old it was it's hard to tell because of the demonic presence that is mixing with the cursed energy
Kokomi wanted to take her time with this curse due to its unique energy and because of how old it was probably the same age as sukuna ryomen
She’ll probably have to put it in a domain expansion to examine it without that man knowing
Upon arriving at the entrance there's already a car waiting with ijichi
“Good morning!" Kokomi greeted the young man desperate his older looking face he is younger than her he greeted her back and hand over a tablet with the information for today’s mission
“Last night there was a report of a building suddenly letting out so much negative cursed energy and the sorcerer's that were sent to the building to rescue the victims inside the building have not come out yet” ijichi informed beside kokomi
They are currently in the car driving to the said building “is this building old? For something that maybe still uses a cursed object to repeal other curses?" Panda asked from behind
“And why do we have to use such a small car?" Maki complain getting squished to the side with toge by panda
“The building was actually used for a Yakuza hideout and it was newly made so I doubt that they'd use a cursed object" kokomi answered the first question “the building is disguise as a common workplace"
“To answer your question maki-san, I’m really sorry but the van that we used last time was destroyed when a third year used it as a distraction to kill a grade 1 curse” ijichi apologized
" There's no need to apologize, ijichi it wasn't your fault I'm sure it'll be replaced within a week” kokomi then turned to look at her students then terribly hold in a laugh at the condition her students are currently on “pff-"
Maki is squished to the door, panda is holding onto kokomi’s car seat for dear life as he hunch forward while toge is in the middle being devoured by panda’s fluff
“Those damned third-years" maki cursed under her breath Toge was trying to say something but it come out muffled because of panda’s fluff
" Just hang in there okay? “ Kokomi said between silent giggles " oh would you look at that”
" What is it koko-sensei? “ panda asked hearing kokomi’s words
" Oh, it's just my date this Friday is the leader of the Yakuza that owns the building and his also one of the missing people” kokomi informed and looked through his file
“Looks like you won't have a date this Friday" maki teased
“Hmph hmm" toge’s muffled voice was heard
Kokomi ignored maki’s teasing
Muzan Kibutsuji
That name brings out unwanted and indescribable feelings
Once they arrived the first one to Open the door was maki which wasn't a good idea since both her and toge ended up getting launched a short distance from the car by panda’s fluff
There were a few of jujutsu high helpers staying by the yellow line talking to two women who's trying to get in the building
Looking at the three people trying to get a literal panda out of the car kokomi decided to approached the two women
“Please our husbands are in there!" The woman with blue tips in the end of her hair begged the man in front of her who still insisted that they shouldn't enter
“If you aren't going to let us in at least tell us what's going on!" the other woman who was still pushing to get in yelled
“Good morning!" Kokomi waved at the three men and two women “lively weather we're having, yeah?"
“Huh? Who are-" one of the men in black suits who was holding the woman with pink eyes by the arm scanned kokomi then saw the scene behind her -two students and one guy in the similar black suit is pulling something really big out of the back of the car- “ah! Miss kokomi, welcome!"
The two women finally looked at the woman behind them “Would you please let the lovely women go?" Kokomi’s words may have been in a form of a question but by the tone of her voice it was an order
The others let the woman with blue tips on her hair go but the man holding the other woman didn't let go " but miss they are trying to enter the restricted area” the man defended immediately
" What would the principal think about the helpers giving one of the civilians a bruise” kokomi emphasize the word helper
Kokomi pointed at how hard the man was gripping the pink eyed woman’s arm " that grip of yours will form a bruise” she pointed at the pink eyes woman’s arm and the man immediately let go and apologize profusely to the pink eyed woman
“Now that's out of the way, may I ask what are your names and what you are doing in such a dangerous area?” kokomi asked the two women after separating them a few steps from the yellow tape
“My name is kotoha and this my friend koyuki, our husbands are in that building along with his friends they were having a meeting last night and they had said that they will be back shortly but they haven't and we both bump into each other on the way here and then we found out that each of our husbands has not come home yet and when-” kotoha with the blue tips took in a breath after trying to say all that in one breath
" H-hey, breath take your time” kokomi rub kotoha’s back
" When we got here these people won't let us in and won't tell us why and- and-” there are tears building up in the corner of koyuki’s eyes
Kokomi didn't know what to say obviously she can't tell them about the curse and the fact that their husbands could be dead and she didn't want to give false hope
This is why jujutsu sorcerers have helpers when it comes to consoling loved ones but right now they aren't giving any help like they should so now kokomi is stuck
“May I ask what your husband's look like?" Kokomi decided to lead the conversation the other way
The two women took out their phones and showed a picture of their family in their lock screen while pointing out their husbands
And the two men, Kokomi, see that their husbands are the two people in the missing list she was reading earlier. Kokomi nodded and was about to say something when ijichi arrived just in time
“Miss kokomi, they're ready" ijichi pointed at kokomi's students standing by the yellow tape “I'll take care of everything here"
“Alright thank you, kotoha, koyuki this is ijichi he’ll let you know what’s going on so please stay with him till I come back,okay?" Kokomi talked slowly to the two women and they both nodded
Kokomi turned to ijichi and nod before jogging to her students.
“let’s go” kokomi and her students were let in by a helper.
Once by the entrance kokomi put up two of her fingers near her lips before saying the incantation for the curtain “Emerge from the darkness, blacker than darkness. Purify that which is impure" a dark, almost liquid-like matter drips down from the sky to form the outer barrier wall in the shape of a half-sphere.
" Ignore the small curses our main goal is to kill the curse that has one of Ryomen Sukuna's fingers “ Kokomi lead her students to where she can feel the most curse energy is
" This is it” panda adjust his knuckle duster all four of them stand in front of the double door
—
Last night
Right after muzan had left the office something shift in the atmosphere even the demons from the office felt that something else is inside the building but there is no one else currently in the building other than the demons themselves
Akaza and douma shuts up once they felt the shift it was new nothing that they had felt before, douma’s hold on his sleeping son tighten
Kokushibo held onto the handle of his sword
The demons human disguises faded as they have their guard up even douma has his guard up focusing on protecting his son
Whatever the shift is really something else for all demons to have their guard up including the king of demons to have stopped walking
Then it happened. It was faster than nakime’s biwa they were transported to where the curse wanted them to be
… inside it's domain
It has been at least 5 minutes since the demons were transported to the domain. It is like a never ending underground maze by then muzan is starting to get impatient
“What do you think would have brought us here, muzan-sama?" Akaza asked finally having enough of the heavy atmosphere in the air
There was no answer which made the quiet atmosphere more tense.
—
The three sorcerers that were sent to the building late at night were freshly graduated, one being kokomi's apprentice -favorite student-
—
It all happened so fast…whatever the higher ups said was wrong this curse is definitely a special grade curse not a semi-grade 2
That curse had killed two of her companions; she's the only survivor. The mission was supposed to be easy. It only has three steps. How could that have messed up!?
The mission was to investigate the domain and if you find bodies take a piece of DNA of that person or a piece of clothing to give to their loved ones and if not DO TRY TO FIND ONE and last but not least escape as soon as you feel the demeanor of the domain shifts
That's it and they were about to escape where they came from but the door was missing causing them to get lost in the underground maze trying to find their way out
One after the other, the next thing she knew she's alone.
It was instincts really, she run, and run and run and run turning left and right she doesn't know where she is going until she bumped into someone’s back and fell on her butt
She didn't react when she fell accepting her end trying to keep a positive thoughts so not to turn into a curse herself
she stared at the ground not moving and keeping her breathing steady
She didn't feel any cursed energy coming from the person or curse that she bumped into
She looked up letting her hair be the curtains of her face what she saw was…three non-sorcerers and one of the is holding a baby
“Um" was all that came out of her mouth as she gazed at them bewildered
How?!
How are they alive!? By now the curse would have devoured them-
She gulped when she saw the curses on their shoulders. They were terrifying and it seems as though these men doesn't see them -well of course they are after all non-sorcerers-
“Are you okay, miss?" One of the men asked as he held his hand for her to grab his pink hair? Are those natural?
“Ohh~ it looks like we're not alone in this maze" one of the the men said his eyes were in a of rainbow
“Um, yes I’m fine" the girl took his hand and let him use his strength to lift her off the ground. She stared at them bewildered “may I ask how did all of you get here?"
“Who are you?" The man with black wavy hair looked at her- no glared at her as he demanded who she was ignoring her question
“ I’m Haruhime Zenin” she answered terrified as she instinctively hid behind the man with a long ponytail
This amount of pressure was something she only felt from a special grade curse she encountered a few months back and it's overwhelming
It seems the group of men also felt the sudden pressure as two of the group of men get ready to fight but Haruhime stopped them before they can kill themselves
“NO! We have to run! Curses can not be killed with normal weapons! Our best bet is to run until backup arrives" she pulled the man with the sword who already has his sword out
“Curses?" The man with red eyes repeated one of her words confirming if what he heard as right
When she was about to say something something fast was coming and she felt it and so did the men with her
She knew these men won't listen so she had no other choice but to protect the them
Akaza was ready to fight this thing called curse when a transparent bubbled around all of them
The curse that was aiming to kill douma made the bubbled and the curse bounced causing everyone in the bubble to get jumbled up to each other but the bubbled didn't pop
“What is this!?" Akaza exclaimed getting off of Haruhime who was as dizzy as them from the bubbled bouncing everywhere for more than a few minutes before it stopped
“I-i’m sorry about that" Haruhime apologized holding to the bubble for support “I- was trying to protect all of you from the curse and ended up using my cursed ability" she explained
She looked at all of them to check if they are alright and upon seeing the ponytail haired man with six eyes she screamed bloody murder
—
Somewhere in the domain a group of 4 heard a piercing scream they all looked at each other and run to the direction they heard the scream and a baby crying
What they saw made kokomi’s world stop