After the duel ended, Megumi calmed the uproar under the name of the clan head.
After clearing away the ruined garden and transporting the wounded members of the Kukuru Unit, they settled in the grand hall on the mansion’s top floor and talked things through.
At last, the sisters who had reunited after so long and Megumi’s group were able to hear the full truth from one another.
"As you can see, I’m dead. Thanks to Mai, my soul’s still here, though."
Maki’s gaze at the body she had used in life looked complicated.
Maybe because they were twins, she didn’t feel much resistance to using Mai’s body. If anything, it felt strangely natural, almost pleasantly unified.
But looking at her own dead body from the outside still felt awkward.
"So it’s kind of like Okkotsu senpai’s case?"
"Yeah. It seems to have manifested in a different way from [Rika]."
"....Are you okay?"
At Nobara’s question, Maki let out a snort of laughter.
She was ferocious in a fight, but in odd places she still had a very girlish sensibility.
The image of her sobbing when she’d just seen her dead body was still vivid.
"I’m fine. If anything, this brought some benefits too."
The two incomplete halves had merged into one, allowing both sides to function properly at last.
Maki’s Heavenly Restriction had been completed, granting her physical ability comparable to Zenin Toji’s, and Mai’s cursed energy had risen to a level comparable to Okkotsu’s.
With the disaster ahead, having more combat power was good news.
"What about the clan members...?"
"I’m saying I’m fine even with that included."
Maki shook her head at Megumi’s worried expression.
The reason she had wanted to become clan head was to make a place where Mai could belong.
Now that she thought about it, it had all been meaningless.
From the start, we were never meant to be in the Zenin clan.
Wherever the two of them were together, that place was home, their refuge. Only after paying a harsh price had she been able to realize such an obvious truth.
Besides, after killing so many people, staying behind was not an option that made sense.
"You’ll do fine, Megumi."
"Maki senpai..."
He would make a good clan head.
Even if he looked a little uncomfortable, the way he sat in the seat of honor already suited him surprisingly well. There was nothing to worry about.
She had no lingering attachments left.
"I should get going. If I stay, people will be scared of me."
"If you go to Jujutsu High, Yaga principal, Okkotsu senpai, and Yoshino should be there."
"You don’t think the coup failed?"
"If it’s Yoshino, he probably already cleaned everything up and came back."
"So he’s gotten that strong, huh. I’m looking forward to it."
Chuckling softly, Maki stood and headed out of the hall.
Thanks to Nobara’s healing, her body was in perfect condition now.
"See you later."
"Yeah."
Once she’d finished saying goodbye and stepped outside, Todo was waiting for her.
His expression was dark, his arms folded with uncharacteristic seriousness.
"What are you doing out here?"
"I still can’t get used to this."
"I can’t get used to your face either."
"How rude. What’s wrong with my face?"
"That’s your problem—you don’t even know."
Unlike Maki, who smiled lightly while trading those pointless jokes, Todo looked a little bitter.
"You’re okay with this?"
"How many times do I have to say I’m fine? I told you to listen in with us earlier."
"I’m asking Mai right now."
"......."
In the hall, Todo had stepped aside, saying he was an outsider and had no place butting in.
Mai, the original owner of the body, had also said it was awkward with the Tokyo Jujutsu High students, and had handed control over to Maki.
Then Maki’s eyes shifted, and cursed energy began to bubble up from her body.
Mai, having switched with Maki in an instant, lifted her head.
"This is exactly why I didn’t want to talk to you."
"Just answer the question."
"How could I possibly be okay with it?"
Her sister was dead.
She had killed her father and several other relatives with her own hands.
And now she was a drifter, completely cut off from the clan.
The deep sorrow and rage that had surged over her earlier had been let out, but an unpleasant residue still remained.
"I wanted to kill Naoya too, but why did I only get to cut off his legs?"
"He’s the son of the previous clan head. Even if you had a good enough reason, killing him outright now would cause a lot of backlash."
"I know, I know."
Shaking her head, Mai soon broke into a grin.
"Well, still, it’s satisfying that this damned clan got blown apart halfway."
"The only headache left is Fushiguro."
"So what? If you’re taking the clan head seat, you should handle that much cleanup. We wiped out all the opposition too."
"...What about Mother?"
At the sensitive question, Mai’s expression stiffened slightly.
"....I don’t know. Don’t ask me."
"Sorry."
"No need to apologize. I’m leaving."
Waving vaguely at Todo, Mai walked out the gate with a light step.
She could hear Todo shouting something behind her, but she covered her ears and ignored it.
"It’s over. Really."
Going in and out of this miserable old mansion.
Being bound by the clan’s rules.
Being dismissed because she was a woman, because she had no talent.
She didn’t need to look back on old pain when she had barely any time to savor true freedom.
Even if this twisted form was all she had now, that was fine.
The corners of her lips slowly lifted as she threw off the shackles she had worn since birth.
She could go straight back to Jujutsu High, but before that, she wanted to enjoy this feeling a little longer.
As Mai wondered where to spend her time, someone’s voice sounded in her mind.
"Did you hear what Todo said when you came out?"
"No?"
"He kept asking about your type until the very end."
"What a lunatic..."
That was probably Todo’s own way of checking. He wanted to know whether the changed her was still the same person he had known before.
His method was bizarre, but the fact that he was worried about it made him a little endearing.
That didn’t mean she was going to answer the question honestly. He had been asking it relentlessly for years, and she had never answered even once. She didn’t want him to find out now, either.
But.
Right now.
Mai looked around, confirmed that no one was nearby to hear, and blushed playfully.
"Are you curious too, sis?"
"Honestly? Yeah, I am."
Maki’s tone as she agreed was still perfectly even.
She had gone and stolen Mai’s first kiss, and still had no idea? That same infuriatingly dull lack of awareness Maki had always had was still there.
But that very innocence only fueled Mai’s darker impulses.
"My type is..."
She had planned to keep it to herself until the day she died.
This was your fault, sis.
Yeah. If it’s your fault, then... then I can be honest too.
"Someone born on the same day as me."
-????
She could feel Maki freeze inside.
Ah. I said it. I really said it.
I said the secret I never wanted anyone to know, with my own mouth.
"Someone who’s hopelessly oblivious, but still has a deep heart, so they always comfort me. Someone whose sharp eyes crease every time they smile—someone like that."
-A-ahh...!
"I’ve always thought that since I was little. Why is this person my sister? Why are we even blood-related? If she weren’t my real sister, I’d just go and—"
-S-stop...!
From rare same-sex love to incest, taboo even in modern society.
The thought of pouring out her filthy desire and staining innocent Maki with it made her lower belly tremble.
Wrapped in depravity and excitement, Mai kept going, her face flushed.
"But that wasn’t it. I was thinking about it wrong. It’s good precisely because you’re my sister."
-Mai...?
"I like you, sis."
-You’re my first love and my last love, sis.
At last, she had confessed the love she had treasured for so long.
Rules and common sense, the social order that bound people together—none of it mattered anymore.
At the very least, this feeling she held was purer and nobler than anything else.
-........
After that, Maki fell silent.
It was the reaction Mai had expected. Of course she wouldn’t accept it. The fact that she didn’t shove her away in disgust was already a huge gain.
But if it came to this, Mai had a plan of her own.
"I’ve thought of somewhere to go."
-.....Where?
No matter how anxiously Maki asked, Mai gave no answer.
When she came into the city, the place waiting for Mai at the end of the road was.....
-M-Mai? Are you out of your mind?
A love hotel.
"Don’t worry. It’ll just be the two of us."
-That’s not the issue...!
"I took your first kiss and then died, remember? So now sis has to take responsibility."
-Stop saying insane things!
"I’m perfectly sane."
It was the perfect place to welcome a historic first experience together with her sister.
Of course, that was only an extension of the self-soothing she had been doing while thinking about Maki all this time, but now the situation was different.
There was one more person inside who could feel it with her.
After checking in in no time, Mai entered the room and stripped off each layer of clothing one by one.
As the underwear that matched Maki’s size slowly slipped from her body, pale skin was exposed.
Like Maki, who was making a scene and screaming inside, Mai’s face was flushed red too.
After a quick shower, Mai let out a heated breath and slowly lay down on the bed.
It was an act she had done many times before, but she had never been this aroused.
Her own body felt like Maki’s body, and the thought that doing this alone would expand into the act of the two of them loving each other was unbearable.
She thought she had wiped herself thoroughly with a towel, but a sticky dampness still clung below.
-Mai!! Maiii!!
"Relax. I’ll make you feel good. We’re twins, aren’t we? The places we feel it should be the same."
-Aaaahh!!
"Heh, do you love me?"
Even if they shared one body, the true owner was still Mai.
Just like Yuji and Sukuna, the real control belonged to Mai. Maki had no way to resist that.
In the midst of anticipation and depravity, Mai’s slender fingers slowly drifted downward.
"Haa....."
And when her fingertips finally touched that sensitive place, Mai and Maki cried out at the same time.
"Hahk!"
-Hwaaah!
It was autumn.
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