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𓁹ﺃꪶꪗꪖ ꪊᦓꪖᧁﺃ𓁹
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❥I compare my obsession with Satoru as him leading a lamb to slaughter. I follow him because he is the strongest and I feel safest with him. No matter what happens I would follow in the shade of his shadow.
"Lovers quarrel?"
Satoru smirked, I saw the bags under his eyes, the hunch of his back, the paleness of his skin.
"Oh hush."
"The more you and Megumi fight, the more I question his honest feelings for you."
Satoru stood up, I watched him sway a bit as he came around his desk to be close to me.
"Enough of this Satoru. Please can we train or something?"
"Asking for training too? Megumi and you must have really had a falling out."
"Satoru-"
He got to work making a circle around me for us to teleport together. Teleporting always made me sick but I sucked in my lips, closed my eyes, and clenched my fists.
"Ready?"
"Mhm-"

I wobbled, but Satoru wrapped an arm around me and pulled me to the ground as quiet and quickly as possible.
Immediately I felt bone chilled at a malevolent aura emitting from somewhere.
"I didn't want to bring you, but the higher ups told me to. You aren't even a sorcerer, and I guess that is their biggest problem."
He whispered in my ear, pulling me closer to the lip of the roof, he points across the way at a man.
"I wasn't planning this today but you wanted to get your mind off of Megumi, so..."
I narrowed my eyes at the man with the potent malevolent aura. I could practically feel the cursed energy from where we were.
"Ryōmen Sukuna? Thats him?"
I look at Suguru who nods, pressing his hands to my mouth,
"Shh."

"Why did the higher ups want me to come? Won't I just get in your way?"
He shook his head.
"They want you to pick a side Ilya..."
"So they sandwich me between the two strongest sorcerers of all time, one evil and one not?"
I raise an eyebrow and he smiled a bit at my words.
"Mhm. Ilya I think you should test your hand out against Sukuna."
"What-"
"I want you to talk to him-you know-like how you talked to those curses and made peace or something."
I blink-dumbfounded.
"Are you telling me I should kill myself?"
"Im right here to save you. Though I need you to learn one way or another if your dream can truly become reality. If he attacks you, you will tell the higher ups you have had a change of heart, you will become a sorcerer as your family intended. If he doesn't attack you...well then that changes this game."

Like a lamb to slaughter.
Satoru is the strongest.
I trust him.
He is doing this for me.
I can tell in his eyes he wants me to back down, to forfeit.
Though he knows me better than that.
"Okay. I will go to him."
I move slow, descending the inner staircase to the ground floor, then as carefully as I could, I focused in on Sukuna's intense cursed energy and followed it to him.

"Hmm? Come to challenge me?"
He sat on a throne of corpses. The sickly smell of blood made my stomach churn, Sukuna seemed amused at my expression of disgust.
"You are not a sorcerer."
I watched his energy travel down towards me and jumped back, his eyes widening when he stood centimeters from where I had been standing, though i was now a few feet away.
"Divine Sense hmm~?"
Again his energy moved towards me, I move back, his energy moved to stand behind me and I moved forward, keeping just enough distance between us.
"Ryōmen Sukuna, I wanted to ask you a few things."
He was intrigued, bold of me asking to talk.
"Humor me."
Again he tried to stand in front of me, I just move back.
"I didn't think I would get this far..."

"I didn't either. Speak."
"I want to know if you think humans could live amongst curses."
He stopped moving, a wicked grin on his lips, his laughter deep and scrutinizing.
"That is the stupidest question I have ever heard. You fascinate me. How could one human house hundreds of humans' stupidity?"
He narrowed his eyes past me, up at the building Satoru and I had arrived on.
I look back at it too, Satoru was openly watching. On guard. Ready to protect me.
"Tell me, human. What is your reason for such a stupid question?"
Sukuna had taken my lack of attention on him to his advantage. He now stood against me, his words right against the back of my neck.
"I don't want there to be anymore death. Humans and Curses are not one without the other."

He was quiet,
still.
I turn my body to face him, he was thinking. He still gave me the look that told me I was an idiot, but he didn't disregard my answer.
"Ryōmen Sukuna. What makes you kill?"
"The weak. Anyone who is not as strong as me should bow down or die."
"How do the weak get stronger if you slaughter them all? You will get bored with no challenge."
"You have a point."
He looked back up to where Satoru was standing.
"Who are you to Gojo Satoru?"
His question confused me, I tilt my head at him as his eyes fixed on me...all four of them.
Now that I think about it...how do I get away from Sukuna to get back to Satoru without causing problems..?
"A lamb."
"Interesting..."

His deep voice vibrated, eyes looking from me to Satoru, to me again.
"What is your name girl?"
"Usagi Ilya."
"Let's make a deal rabbit~"
"A deal?"
I watch his aura intensify...
"If you can survive my attacks for 10 seconds, I will let you live for your stupidity."
"Wow thanks. That term doesn't matter if you tried to kill me for ten seconds. Let me tell you what I get if I survive your attacks."
He smiled,
"Make your request and I will meet your terms."
I smiled back at him,

"If I survive, you cannot kill unless pursued maliciously for a month."
"I accept. Now, let us begin. Make sure your little guard dog doesn't get in our way."
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