sbdcsierra Chapter 422 The Cursed King
Chapter 422 The Cursed King
Note: This chapter is two chapters in one
Ryoumen Sukuna passed by his young body.
The same soul is split into the past and the present, going in opposite directions in the long river of time.
After he left, the lady nodded to me kindly and said softly, "Thank you."
She coughed softly twice, then turned her attention to the young Ryoumen Sukuna, and asked him in a soft voice what he had done all day.
The young body also raised its head and responded obediently, and the room was warm and harmonious.
However, according to what Sukuna said just now, the lady seemed to have an incurable disease and would die soon.
So - if this place really is what happened a thousand years ago, and the person in the house is really his childhood self, then if I change the fate of both mother and son now, then is it possible that everything in the future may also be changed?
"Cough, cough, cough..." The lady's cough became more intense. She couldn't help but spit out blood from her mouth. She fell down suddenly and closed her eyes amid the child's anxious calls.
The aura of death surrounding her became thicker, almost enveloping her emaciated body. Only her weak, almost inaudible breathing proved that she was not dead.
My heart tightened.
It would be great if the reversal technique I know could be used to heal others, but unfortunately I can’t. Now I can only watch here and worry.
I stamped my feet, gritted my teeth, and rushed into the house. I put my arms around her shoulders and knees, picked her up, and headed towards the clinic that I had seen before.
"Hey!" Ryoumen Sukuna suddenly saw his mother being kidnapped. He jumped up in surprise and anger, grabbed my clothes and shouted, "What are you doing? Put my mother down."
"Of course I'm taking her to see a doctor." I walked out quickly and said, "You can either come here by yourself or stay here and wait for news. It's up to you."
Although I don't know if her illness can be cured, I can't just sit here and wait for her to die.
"This lady's condition is very serious," I rushed into the clinic, put her down gently, and said to an old man with a white beard who looked like a doctor, "If possible, please treat her as soon as possible, okay?"
"Money is not a problem."
The old man was stunned and explained to me: "Well, I am just a handyman, not a doctor."
"Where is the doctor?" I frowned and looked around, and found that there were almost no people in the clinic. It was deserted and only the old man was left.
"I'm here." A hand stretched out from the lowered curtain, and then a young man walked out. He looked to be about thirty years old, with a smile on his face, as if he was really a doctor who saved the world. He asked, "Is this the patient who needs treatment?"
"Excuse me, can you heal me?"
I squinted my eyes and stared at the smooth forehead. The stitches were slowly healing, but there were still some hideous ones. My palms were clenched.
Conso.
It's incredible to meet him here.
New and old hatreds surged into my heart. I gathered the curse power in my hand. The energy flowed through my fingertips and was about to be released in the next second -
"It can be cured." He seemed not to notice my murderous intent and potential threat. He just lowered his head to observe the lady's face, flipped her eyelids, and concluded, "Besides, only I can cure it."
"Oh, only you can cure it?" I loosened my fingers, looked at him suspiciously, and asked, "How can you treat it?"
"This young lady doesn't know this." The old man with a white beard stepped forward at the right time and boasted loudly, as if the person standing next to him was the reincarnation of Hua Tuo who could bring the dead to life. He said, "Akamatsu Shinsei is a doctor who has become famous in Heian-kyō recently. The strange diseases and plagues that lingered in various regions in the past few years were all cured by him."
"Even the nobles and ladies of the big families such as Genji, Sugawara, Abe, and Kamo treated him as a guest of honor." He said, "There is no disease that cannot be cured and no person who cannot survive in the hands of Mr. Akamatsu."
"........" Although I don't know what's going on, the expression and tone of this guy named Akamatsu are definitely that of a noose.
At the time, at the stabbing scene, although I was sure that I had pushed Mimiko's body away, everything that happened in between was basically planned by him.
Therefore, it is hard to say whether he later followed Ryoumen Sukuna and me to this era through that "black hole"-like channel.
If it really is him from a thousand years ago, then I can just kill him, and the problem will no longer exist, right?
But if it was him a thousand years later, this guy had so many shady tricks, and he appeared in front of me so unscrupulously, did he have any backup plan?
What is your intention in saying that you are the only one who can cure Sukuna's mother?
Should I believe him? Or should I just kill him with a knife... But if I kill him, can Yuji still be born successfully?
These thoughts went around in my mind for several times, but in the end I still couldn't find a way out.
I took a step back, stared into his eyes, and said without blinking, "Then please start the treatment."
Luosuo chuckled and stretched out his hand.
He placed his left hand on the lady's forehead and released a huge amount of cursed energy. The energy transferred from his fingertips to the lady's body, and the reversal technique began to work, flowing through every inch of her skin.
Her sunken cheeks became plump, her gray complexion lost its lifelessness, her yellow hair turned black, and the lady's skinny and withered body actually showed signs of life.
Her eyelashes moved, and she opened her eyes and woke up. She sat up and looked at her arms, with a look of confusion and ignorance on her face, as if she didn't know what was going on.
"Mother!" Ryoumen Sukuna, who was chasing slowly but non-stop, finally arrived at the clinic. As soon as he entered, he saw his wife, who looked brand new. He ran over excitedly, shouting, "Mother, you're awake!"
I glanced at the noose with a hint of surprise.
In fact, I was on guard against him doing something strange from the very beginning. Unexpectedly, he just saved my wife and didn't carry out any other conspiracy.
I frowned and was about to pick him up and take him away, but I found that the time that had slowed down just now began to flow rapidly again, and I became a bystander again.
After his mother recovered from her illness, Ryoumen Sukuna returned home with her.
However, this only delayed her demise, but did not change Ryomen Sukuna's fate of being discriminated against.
People still call him "disaster", regard him as an alien and the source of all kinds of bad omens, and bully, insult and beat him constantly on a daily basis. If it were just that, it would be fine.
Three years later, plague struck Heian-kyō again.
Hundreds of noble sons, princes, ministers, and noble ladies were infected with the disease. Their abdomens were swollen and bulging, like stomachs filled with food, or like women who were pregnant for ten months.
When people discovered the bodies, they found that their throats and mouths were stuffed with food, as if they had been hungry for a long time and could not wait to eat. However, when they cut open the bodies, they found that they were filled with sewage, dirt and weeds, with no trace of food at all.
The death toll continues to rise.
This mysterious and bizarre way of death shocked the people in the entire city. Feelings of horror and panic spread, and rumors spread like wildfire.
At that time, Abe Haruaki had been dead for more than ten years, but his influence was no less than it was back then.
With the exile and death of Ashiya Doman, a prophecy that Genji had asked them for was once again brought up.
It is said that more than ten years ago, two great Yin-Yang masters had testified successively that a ghost from the evil ghost world would be reborn into the human world.
He is addicted to food and kills people. He will cause a bloody storm in a few years and cause tens of thousands of people to die because of him. At that time, in order to resolve this bad luck, the Genji brothers at the Bon Festival have already fed all the evil spirits with food and sent them into reincarnation.
However, recently it was revealed that the ritual did not end successfully, and one of the evil spirits had not been fed and left, and it is still lingering in Kyoto, eyeing all the people covetously - it is that ghost.
The nobles in Heian-kyo mobilized all their strength to search around, and finally set their sights on Ryoumen Sukuna, who was driven out of his home because of his unusual appearance and was taken in by Abe Haruaki.
"This is the monster and his mother!" People rushed into his house, tied him and his wife up, covered them with firewood and diesel, and then threw fire in. The flames instantly shot up into the sky.
They came out cheering, clapping their hats and announcing joyfully that the disaster had been averted.
The young boy's entire body was burnt black, with bright red blood oozing from his festering skin. He had almost become a completely motionless corpse, but he was still breathing.
The fire burned for three hours before it was put out by a heavy rain. People were surprised to find that despite this, Ryomen Sukuna was not killed.
Not only that, the wounds on his body were healing rapidly on their own.
This further confirms the saying of the so-called "hungry ghosts".
The nobles then invited Kamo Koei, who had the most powerful spiritual power in the world after Abe Haruaki, to take action.
The Onmyoji sealed Ryomen Sukuna's four eyes, two ears and two mouths with mud, and locked his four hands and two feet with exquisite thousand-jin iron chains. He then cast runes and seals, and threw him into a deep well in a deserted area outside the city.
He stayed in the well for a long, long time, unable to see, hear or move.
During this period, there was no food or water, and it was a remote place with no human habitation, and there was not even the sound of the wind.
He endured hunger and cold day after day. In solitude, he accumulated more and more cursed power, and the murderous aura on his body became heavier.
Finally, one day, Ryoumen Sukuna comprehended his own technique, broke through the seal, and jumped directly out of the well.
At that time, several renowned Onmyojis had passed away one after another, and among the remaining people, there was no one who could compete with him.
Ryomen Sukuna went on a killing spree in Heian-kyo. He vented his anger at being imprisoned without restraint and at will. He ate anything he saw and even commented on the taste.
After killing thousands of people, all the sorcerers who came to challenge him died at his hands without exception. On the day of the most brutal killing, the Kamogawa River flowing through Kyoto was dyed bright red with blood. The gurgling blood flowed into the soil and turned into fishy-smelling nutrients for the growth of flowers, but the whole city had become like a dead city because of the massacre.
Ryomen Sukuna was dubbed the "strongest in the world".
People were so frightened of him that even hearing the name of "Liangmian Sukuna" could stop children from crying at night.
Later, they were so afraid of Ryomen Sukuna's reputation and could not withstand his killing speed like slaughtering chickens and sheep that they simply sent envoys to declare their complete submission, knelt before him, and asked him to enter Heian Palace to accept offerings.
He was just tired of killing, so he entered Heian Palace with a lack of interest, taking Li Mei, whom he met during the killing.
At this point, all of Abe Haruaki's predictions have come true.
I can no longer tell whether it was Abe Haruaki who had foreseen the future and calculated that this demon would really come to the world to kill people, or whether it was the appearance of this prophecy that pushed Ryomen Sukuna step by step to the position of the ultimate curse king.
Perhaps, it was precisely because of his hesitation and confusion that he did not take action to get rid of Sukuna. He even concealed his words and protected them when his mother came to him for help.
but--
Putting aside the murder he committed later, from the perspective of an outsider, what did Ryoumen Sukuna do wrong back then? Wanting to live a good life with his mother was not a sin at all.
"It's ironic, isn't it?"
A strange voice suddenly came from behind.
Luosuo was standing not far from me. He had changed into another body and was looking at the scene of corpses everywhere and blood flowing like a river. He actually smiled with the corners of his lips raised.
"Even if you can save his mother and let them enjoy three more years, what will it matter?" He said with emotion, "As long as the world's exclusion and prejudice against him do not disappear, this kind of mutual oppression and killing will continue in an endless cycle."
"In this twisted world." He looked up at the sky and said meaningfully, "Ryomen Sukuna is destined to become the cursed king."
"And what can your actions really change?"
"What do you want?" This wasn't the first time he had turned into a riddle man. I was repeatedly entangled in this unfounded doubt and suspicion, and finally asked, "Don't tell me that at this point, you're still pursuing the Death Migration that can turn all humans into sorcerers."
I even speculated that the so-called "working for God" was just an excuse he made.
“Death and annihilation migration?” He stroked his chin gently, then suddenly raised his head and laughed hysterically, “Hahahaha, death and annihilation migration? Death and annihilation migration is nothing, hahahahaha…”
"You guessed right." After laughing, he turned his head and said to me with interest, "My real purpose has never been death and extinction. As for what it is-"
"you guess?"