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As such, it goes like this – Suguru Geto takes his last breath on the Uji Bridge, but it is not the conclusion he expects. Instead, it’s a footnote. Because moments later, the audience calls for an encore, and he gasps like a newborn. He takes his first breath, again, and this will be Mark II. He has as little choice in it as he did the first time, when his mother’s cryptic pregnancy came to fruition on their kitchen floor.
The first thing he notices is the afternoon sky. It’s still bright with sun and broken up by infant clouds, all of which have moved a little to the east since he last saw them. The wind is lazy. March is coming to a close, and the scent of sakura is teasing at the horizon.
The second thing he notices is a boy. He’s sitting on the balustrade, chewing a wad of strawberry gum. He has string-bean limbs and hair as pale as lilies. His tea-shades are too dark to see behind, and there’s a plaster wrapped around one of his thumbs. Beneath the hem of his basketball shorts, a pair of grass-stained knees.
“Yo,” he says.
(In which Death is a teenage boy, and Suguru is forced to live ad infinitum.)
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- Part 2 of The Monster Mash
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Toji auctioned his son to Naobito with a starting price of ¥7,000,000. Naobito raised Toji ¥10,000,000, dependent on his technique. Since Megumi was summarily orphaned in 2006 – by Satoru – he’s now free game. A child was bartered, and now a child will be displaced, without ever knowing of the 'money talk' had behind his back.
The tragedy of Megumi’s youth is not lost on Satoru. In fact, it’s painfully nostalgic, the notion of being stripped of your personhood before you can fully develop one. Megumi’s never been to school; likely can’t ride a bicycle; doesn’t, realistically, possess the bilateral coordination required to tie his own shoelaces. He still has his milk teeth, and yet – he already has a price. And the girl he’s with is, diametrically, completely worthless.
He would like to say his next move is selfless. That it’s about the emancipation of a child from shackles with which he is well-acquainted. And it is, to an extent. But in the end, this isn’t really about Megumi’s salvation. It’s about Satoru’s. Because the thing with power is –
It’s lonely.
(They say it takes a village to raise a child. It takes four powerful sorcerers to raise two.)
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20 Jul 2026
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No one could know she brought them back. Even powerless (weak), even as non-sorcerers (monkeys), even without the higher-ups, universal law dictates that they would only be used again. And Shoko, a bona fide necromancer? She would never know peace.
She knows, now, that her job was never about saving people. It had always been about fitting for purpose; getting fodder back on its feet for another round in the ring. Shoko was tired. Their revival would be her final act of service, and it would be purely selfish. The only person she told was Okkotsu, who she felt would understand the most. He had been the one to puppet the monster, after all.
So, she signed their death certificates with love and a flourish, and booked the next ferry to Shanghai.
(At the end of all things, in a lighthouse in North Uist, Shoko, Satoru, and Suguru persist.)
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- Part 3 of Sashisu Week 2026
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20 Jul 2026
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It’s a unique sort of grief, loving someone like this. In snapshots, within a nondescript time limit, taking whatever crumbs the universe has to offer. And it hurts Shoko, especially, because she can see it all. The eerie stillness of the Tombs of the Star, the stiff way Satoru recalibrates within his own body. The shrunken pupils and flat smile that preludes Tengen taking over again.
The gaps are growing wider. Satoru becomes less like Satoru each time. He touches her, and she can barely enjoy it – too busy pondering how long they have left.
(In this version, the Star Plasma Vessel is assimilated. Somehow, this hastens the end of the world.)
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- Part 2 of Sashisu Week 2026
Bookmarked by broccoli (k_97)
20 Jul 2026
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goddess of dawn, goddess of revelry by parsnips_and_meth
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime & Manga)
27 Apr 2026
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The fans part, and Shoko’s heart stutters. Suguru can feel his throb in the tips of his fingers, in the soles of his feet. She’s ethereal. Hair a shock of gossamer pearlescence, cloudy pastel shadow around blue, blue, eyes. The bluest eyes they’ve ever seen. Somewhere between celestial paradise and Neptune, interstellar dust.
A deity indeed.
Every patron in the room hoots and screams. Her lips curl, her smile a unique sort of enlightenment. “Such a warm welcome,” she purrs.
Shoko thinks perhaps a creature like this is beyond comprehension. She turns to Suguru. Stretches up to speak directly into his ear. “I’d kill for her,” she says.
“I’d let her kill me,” he replies.
(One gloomy night in January, Shoko and Suguru encounter a divine being. They buy him peach juice.)
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- Part 1 of Sashisu Week 2026
Bookmarked by broccoli (k_97)
20 Jul 2026