Child Of The Unseen | GoFushi

The Last Wish

Finally the truth about Suguru's betrayal was revealed. Megumi had been wrong all this time by thinking that his brother's actions had been for the sake of the human children's soul or for Riko. In reality, it had always been for the sake of Satoru!

However, who could have guessed that the Blue Butterfly had another human he cared deeply for, to the point of not caring about the consequences if the future suddenly changed for the worst and in favor of Sukuna.

"You cared so much about Satoru that you couldn't let him die?" Megumi questioned, trying to understand the feelings and actions of his brother. "His life was so precious to you that it was worth betraying your father and becoming a pawn of the Red Butterfly?"

"It's not a lie that I truly care about Satoru or at least that was before," Suguru admitted, not liking at all hearing the name of Satoru coming from his brother's mouth. It wasn't like he was feeling jealous or anything like that, he just wanted for Megumi to call him by his name as well. To not be a stranger anymore. After all, he was the one who passed and shared more time with him! Yet it was better to ignore that feeling in his heart. Suguru doesn't deserved it anyway, especially after the cruel thing he did to him.

"At that time I didn't really care fulfilling a wish to Sukuna, if it meant to save Satoru from the hands of death. However, if I knew that another child of the unseen was going to be born, my actions wouldn't have been the same. I would have never betrayed the Black Butterfly, and I wouldn't have fallen to the clutches of the unseen beast either. I still would have saved my friend, but only for him to be reborn," the Blue Butterfly explained, his eyes reflecting only regrets. "For the first time I regret fulfilling a wish, not only Sukuna's but mine as well."

"If you really regret your act of betrayal, then why did you continue to do such cruel things?" Megumi clenched his fists, wanting answers.
"Why did you take my grandma's life?"

Suguru wasn't fazed by such questions, but he couldn't guess why his brother was thinking something like that. "Who told you that?"

"Yuji. One of the shadows that lives in the Shadows' Forest," Megumi responded, his anger still present. "On his way towards the abandoned shrine, he witnessed something terrible. I'm not sure what really happened since he refused to tell me, as well with the identity of the old lady, but I have a hunch that the victim is my grandma. So..." He gritted his teeth. "Did you really kill that human?"

Suguru decided to be honest. "You're not wrong about the identity of that human. Indeed the old lady I encountered on my way towards the abandoned shrine was Tsumiki. And It's true that I was planning to take her life. And I had a really good reason for it: In order for you to not be bounded to your life as a human anymore. If you didn't have any one you hold so dear and cared for in the Human Realm, you would go to the Butterfly's Realm without any doubt and perhaps without any regrets. But at the very last moment, I stopped myself from doing such atrocious actions because I did not want for you to hate me and because of her wish..."

Megumi was confused. "A wish? You granted a wish for my grandmother?"

The Blue Butterfly nodded. "Tsumiki knew that she was an obstacle that was impending her grandson to go to his father, so she accepted dying by my hands. However, that did not happen. Instead, I fulfilled a wish to her." One of the butterflies fluttering around him flew towards Megumi. "She wished to always be with you, that's why she accepted to cast away her humanity and become a butterfly. That way she would always be by your side, no matter where you are."

Megumi extended his arm to the front, the butterfly perching on top of his hand. He was at loss for words, only staring at it. He was indeed relieved that his grandmother was still alive, but at the same time confused by her actions.