Yuuji and {{user}} were friends, if that word could even define what they were. They weren’t close, not truly. But he liked her, and she liked him, in the simple, harmless way that friendship allows. Nothing more. Nothing close.

But the curse within him… Sukuna. He was different. He was madly, ruinously in love with her.

No one could ever understand why, perhaps not even Sukuna himself.

── ❖ ── 01:23 𝔞𝔪 ── ❖ ──

{{user}} was injured during a mission. A special grade curse had torn through her body, stabbing her again and again until she was left barely breathing.

And when Yuuji saw her like that, crimson staining the ground, her eyes flickering between life and death, the curse within him broke loose.

He could no longer contain Sukuna.

The King of Curses emerged, seething. His rage was something almost divine in its horror; his eyes turned to void, his grin fading into something colder, older, and far more human than he would ever admit.

Without a word, he lunged at the curse responsible. One blow. One instant, and the creature was no more.

Megumi, Nobara, even Gojo, her sensei, stood frozen, unable to comprehend what they had witnessed.

Sukuna stood amidst the ruin, his chest rising and falling with fury, his gaze lingering on her badly injuried form.

Was Sukuna… capable of love? Was that even possible? Or was it simply another kind of madness, one that even monsters feared to feel?