𝓝𝓮𝓬𝓻𝓸𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓻 [r.sukuna]

38. Nerium Oleander

They somehow managed to retreat in a more closed off space, limiting the cursed spirit range, their plan was to stop him using Inumaki's cursed speech and then let Kamo attack.

Their only hope was that Hanami wasn't going to understand how to avoid Inumaki's technique, then they would be done for.

While running Shinzo spotted someone in the corner of the room. A very familiar person with his neck hanged at a dangerous angle, his mouth open and the inside was pitch black as he stared at her.

She abruptly stopped with a terrified expression and wide eyes.

Megumi noticed in time before a root could crush her and took her by her wrist, snapping her out of her daze.

"Kurosaki focus!" Megumi furrowed his brows, something was wrong with the necromancer.

Shinzo's mind was racing a mile a way, why was he there? Did he come back to hunt her?
And the worst of it was that she couldn't give her cursed energy the right edge, there was no way she was going to cut this thing like this.
She gritted her teeth and frowned as she ran along side the others, they were once again on the rooftop.

Then two thing happened at the same time.

Inumaki couldn't formulate his sentence and coughed up blood and Megumi's Nue was pierced by the special grade. This didn't look very good.

Also it was midday and they were on a rooftop, meaning, no shadows, other than their own small ones.

Inumaki suddenly rose up and slowly walked to the cursed spirit.

"Inumaki senpai, that's enough...!" Megumi yelled at the cursed speech user, however this didn't stop him.

"BLAST AWAY!" Hanami wasn't much affected by the hit, however Inumaki was and fell unconscious to the ground in a puddle of blood. This was looking grimm.

Then the cursed spirit dove for Kamo and hit him in the head, making him fall to the ground. He wasn't getting up.

She launched herself to the aid and checked their pulse, they were alive, but barely.

Then Shinzo realised that the only two capable of actually harming the cursed spirit were knocked unconscious by the cursed spirit.

Leaving the necromancer and the ten shadow user to stand up against this monster.

'What should I do? What should I do?what should I do? I can't let another one die!' this was the only thing that ran through Shinzo's mind, she couldn't focus, she was panicking, the air suddenly felt lacking, she felt nauseous.

She looked up and instead of seeing Megumi, she saw Junpei with a pierced stomach, then Itadori lacking his heart, her mind was blurring and then the worst vision appeared: her father hanging figure, dangling left and right.

Shinzo took a step back, then another.

Meanwhile Megumi called multiple times Shinzo's name, but to no avail. However as he was distracted the cursed spirit came crushing towards him, leaving him barely enough time to somehow stop the blow.

There had been something off with Kurosaki since the loss of that one boy, however this escalated in the worst way possible, at the worst time possible.

"KUROSAKI! SNAP OUT OF IT!" Megumi screamed as the cursed spirit decided to hit the most defenceless target.

The black haired boy ran as fast as he could towards the necromancer who eyed the cursed spirit with a terrified expression, but looked like she didn't actually see Hanami.