Jujutsu Kaisen X OC (The Red String of Fate)

【 CHAPTER 30 】The Witch's Awakened

Inari's POV

"Inari?" Gojo's voice crackled through the phone. Calm. Too calm. The kind of calm that made my nerves itch.

"Satoru... We have a situation. Four—no, wait—five intruders. Not normal ones either." I was trying very hard to sound calm. It was not working.

"Can you track them?"

I scoffed. "Yeah, lemme just pull out my cursed GPS and triangulate them between me fighting for my life and suppressing a full-blown existential crisis. Sound good?"

Gojo stayed quiet for a beat. "...Are you safe?"

I stared at the gory mess that used to be a tree, now dripping with purple cursed blood. Ouroboros was wrestling a smug-faced demon thing while Belthazor went feral in the background.

"Why don't you try guessing, Satoru?!" I snapped, kicking a cursed tooth out of my way.

I hurled a talisman in the air, and a radiant seal pulsed above me before exploding into shimmering foxfire. My shikigami responded instantly.

"Sylvan, bind her! Belthazor, choke her out! Ouroboros, go for the eyes, baby!"

The cursed woman facing me blinked slowly, blood soaking her smile. "Why are you resisting?"

"Because you showed up uninvited," I said, planting another talisman into the earth. A magic circle flared beneath my feet.

"Satoru, I'm calling it now. This thing's special-grade and I am this close to committing ARSON."

"How strong are we talking?"

"Sukuna finger scale? I'd say she's around thirteen-finger level. But like, on drugs."

"Can you handle it?"

"On a good day? Sure. Today? 3% chance. And dropping."

Another cursed shikigami screeched as it got impaled.

I clutched my head, spiraling. "Satoru, I'm gonna have to do it."

Silence. Gojo's voice dropped. "You're not serious."

"I am serious. And I might force it out. If I succeed, none of students down there will survive. I will lose control. Not Megumi, not Nobara, not even Yuuji and his puppy eyes."

"Inari—"

"Satoru, I need you to listen to me, okay? If I awaken... really awaken... you will have to stop me. I won't be able to stop myself. I will go berserk. I will tear the earth open. And the sky. Possibly someone's grandma."

"That's not funny."

"Not trying to be. Just prepping you for the incoming hellstorm."

"And what about you?"

I smiled grimly. The cursed woman raised her hand and a dozen blades of black lightning curled above us.

"Me? I'm gonna end up crying."

There was a pause. Gojo's voice dropped. "Understood. I'll do what I have to."

"Evacuate the students. The veil's going up. Don't argue."

"Fine. Just don't get dead, okay?"

I smirked as I tossed a talisman and backed up. "If I die, tell my sweet baby Yuuji I adored him... and tell Sukuna he's a fucking asshole."

Click.

The curse growled, "Mistress~~"

"I told you, I'm NOT HER!"