"My lord, please look."
Shisui's figure suddenly appeared next to Kenma, kneeling on one knee, offering two items in his hands.
Fushiguro Toji, at the side, watched Shisui's sudden appearance, his eyes narrowing slightly.
'This person's speed is fast, but not beyond my comprehension. Yet, I didn't sense his approach at all.'
'Either he has extremely advanced techniques for concealing himself, or he came from a place so distant it was beyond my hearing, smell, and perception.'
'This must be the companion my new BOSS mentioned.'
But when he saw what the man was offering, a trace of astonishment flashed across his face.
A red three-section staff, and a rather wide broadsword.
Both were weapons he had used in his previous life.
He hadn't been able to find Choubou earlier, and he had assumed it had been caught up in Gojo Satoru's attack, and that these weapons had also disappeared when Choubou was exorcised.
Now it seemed it had survived somewhere, and this person had found it and retrieved these two weapons.
Kenma took the two weapons and handed them to Toji.
Toji's eye twitched. He shook his one remaining arm, the chain in his hand clinking.
"You think I can hold this many things with only one hand?"
"Understood."
Kenma understood instantly. He wrapped the three-section staff and the chain around Toji's neck, carefully handling the strange short blade on the chain to ensure it wouldn't hurt him.
Only then did he shove the broadsword into his hand.
Under Toji's speechless gaze, Kenma nodded, looking quite satisfied.
"This way, you can hold all of them."
"Is that what I meant?"
Toji's eye twitched again.
Seeing that the other party was doing this intentionally, he shook his head and sighed.
"Forget it, this is fine."
Seeing this, Shisui took out a thumb-sized round ball from his robes, placed it on the ground, and released the seal on it.
"Release!"
The ball burst with a faint light, and two figures jumped out of it.
The moment they landed on the ground, the two figures rapidly grew until they returned to their normal size.
Toji looked at the two people who had appeared before him, his eyebrow raised.
"Well, now this is…"
The two people before him were both female. One was dressed in a maid's uniform, and the other was still in a sailor uniform, clearly a student.
How could Toji not recognize these two?
Tengen's Star Plasma Vessel, Amanai Riko, and her caretaker, the maid Kuroi Misato.
Just a short while ago, he had killed these two with his own hands.
He looked at Shisui at his side, astonishment in his eyes.
"I see. That faint gaze I sensed at the Jujutsu High mountain and in the Star Corridor, the source was you."
"You were watching my battle at that time, weren't you?"
Shisui's face showed surprise. "You could actually sense my gaze?"
"I'm a very perceptive person, not to mention a gaze that was so blatant."
Toji remarked with a sigh.
"But I'm dead now. There's no point in talking about this."
Amanai Riko and Kuroi Misato, having come out of the seal, saw the scene before them and had already recovered their senses.
First, they looked with considerable surprise at Toji, who was only half a body, and then at the tall man in front of them.
"Are you the Great King Enma that this Lord Shinigami mentioned?"
Kenma looked at the two and said, "When Shisui took you in earlier, I believe he already explained the situation."
"Now I'm asking you once more, are you willing to sign a contract with me, become my subordinates, and go to the Soul Society with me?"
Not long after they had died, the two had met that red-eyed Shinigami.
The Shinigami had told them everything about the afterlife, including the Soul Society where they would go after death, and the contract with this Great King Enma before them.
They had already made their decision; otherwise, they wouldn't be here.
"I am willing."
"I will also accompany the young lady to the Soul Society."
Hearing this, Kenma nodded and immediately drew the Zanpakutō at his waist.
"Connect, Kiritsugu."
A clear light burst from the blade, transforming into silk threads that connected the two of them.
At this moment, Kenma's expression suddenly stirred, and he looked at Amanai Riko.
Riko looked puzzled. She felt self-conscious under Kenma's gaze and quickly hid behind the maid.
Shisui sensed Kenma's unusual reaction and couldn't help but ask, "My lord, is something wrong?"
"It's nothing."
Kenma gently shook his head, moving his gaze away from Amanai Riko.
After glancing around, the clear light on his Zanpakutō shifted, and it became chillingly cold.
"Since everyone is here, let's go."
"Wait."
Toji took a step forward and asked Kenma.
"Just now, I could see two lines of light connecting to them. I assume that's the contract that makes them your subordinates, so you can take them to the Soul Society."
"In that case, what about me?"
Kenma looked at him and said solemnly, "I already established a contract with you, at the moment of your death."
"So, I was already claimed by you." Toji wasn't sure what to think and could only let out a slight chuckle.
He saw Kenma nod, his words filled with a sense of determination. "I would not give up on talented personnel like you."
Hearing this, Toji's expression was complicated, and he was silent for a moment.
'Talented…?'
To Kenma, Toji was naturally an extremely talented individual.
Besides his combat instincts and fighting style, even his physical body, due to a special reason, had become extremely formidable.
No matter which world—be it the Shinobi World, the Sea, or this Jujutsu World under their feet, or even the Soul Society… the power systems in these worlds were diverse and varied.
But there was one type of power that was the most widespread, yet difficult to ignore, and so powerful it was almost a universal solution!
That was the most basic physical strength.
And Toji's body was the very embodiment of this power.
How could Kenma possibly give him up.
What's more, the connection between Toji's body and soul was extremely special. When Kenma had used his Zanpakutō's ability before, he had connected to Toji's body as well.
The current Toji was not just a soul, his body was also present, which was why he was in this miserable state of having lost half his body.
It was Kenma who, through the contract, had drawn the abstruse life force from other contractors and injected it into Toji, maintaining the activity of his physical body.
Once they returned to the Soul Society, he would have to have his body restored immediately.
"Let's go. I'll take you to the Soul Society."
Kenma moved away from the others, came to an open space, and swung his Zanpakutō at the space in front of him.
A crescent-shaped white slash cut through the void, tearing open a deep, dark spatial rift, like an invisible giant beast opening its cavernous mouth.
The young Amanai Riko did not understand this scene and was simply marveling at it with her maid, full of wonder.
But Fushiguro Toji was battle-hardened. Coupled with the keen senses granted by his powerful body, his five senses could directly observe things that ordinary people couldn't.
His ears could hear the sound of light propagating, his sense of smell could pick up the scent of pheromones emitted by living beings, and his eyes could even see the form of sound waves as they traveled, and even the shape of magnetic fields…
In his vision, after Kenma swung that white slash across the void, the magnetic field and gravity instantly distorted in a way he couldn't comprehend.
This made him react immediately.
'How… it's space!'
'That slash, it actually cut through the ethereal concept of space!'
Under Toji's astonished gaze, Kenma slowly sheathed his sword and stepped into the spatial rift.
His tall figure left a mysterious and unfathomable back for the few people on the ground as he waved at them.
"Follow me."
"Pass through this spatial passage, and on the other side is the Soul Society, where you will live from now on."
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