#10 shadows

RABBIT ESCAPE! GO GO GO

[Time Lapse Megumi]

When nanami dies in front of yuuji, as he is telling him his last words (“yuuji, youve got it from here”) he thinks to himself “no dont say that, it’ll just turn into a curse for him.” I think HE personally meant it metaphorically but its eerily similar to what his grandpa told him before he died (he said something along the lines of “live well help people blablabla… im giving you this curse”). So while non-sorcerers cant turn directly into curses (rather the small amounts of CE they leak out accumulates to become curses, over time and with many people), AND we didn’t see nanami turn into a curse (also bc hes not the type of guy to resent dying, we literallysaw him be bitter but ultimately at peace with the decisions that brought him to his death), its still potentially relevant how now more than one persons “dying wish” has “cursed” yuuji.

Do megumi’s shikigami count as parts of his soul? he didn’t feel the white dog die in the jail so obviously theyre not like a part of him or anything, but if for instance mahito touched idk the dog, would he be able to do idle transfiguration through it? the rship btw a shikigami and its user is still sort of opaque. For instance, geto tried to absorb the worm that toji used to store his weapons but he failed, and in the ch notes gege says its because toji had already established a “master-servant” relationship with it. I dont think that’s through a binding vow necessarily (can a curse without higher intelligence and language even enter a BV?) but still some sort of pact was done, which apparently doesn’t necessarily require CE as toji was able to do it. Then theres for instance yuuta & Rika1. In the fanbook gege says rika is able to see what yuuta sees even if they’re apart, though the opposite is not true (Y cant see what R sees). But still some sort of connection exists there. So would mahito be able to do IT by touching rika? Could he do it to Yaga through one of his cursed dolls? obv this isn’t especially relevant re: mahito bc hes dead lol, but im willing to bet that the minute details of this kind of thing will come up with the sukuna & megumi situation we have on our hands. I cant help but notice that almost every main character has either fought mahito outright or at least met him, with the GLARING exception of megumi, who through various circumstances is never around when mahito shows up. I wonder if thats bc gege is hiding something about the way 10s interacts with the soul. Hmmmm.

incarnated sorcerers/cursed spirits have the power to change the body of their vessel????? Also what do they mean this will be better for later. Why would they need to keep tsumiki and megumi’s faces/appearances.

Sukuna straight up shoots shadows at yorozu which i dont recall megumi ever doing. So you can use 10s like that too?

Yorozu references angel’s “commandments”. So they know/know OF them/their god. They also ask about uraume by name.

Sukuna summons divine dogs and they look way more shadowy and theres THREE of them. Even though we know theres 2 dog shkgm and 1 is dead. So definitely you can use 10s way differently than how megumi was using it. I wonder if gojo didn’t know everything 10s can do or if he witheld the information on purpose.

Yorozu asks “is this ur vessels CT?” So SHE doesn’t know the 10s. she also asks what about malevolent shrine implying MS is the name of sukuna’s CT not just his domain. But maybe thats a translation thing.

Sukuna says he wants to “stain” megumi’s “soul” with the sin of killing his sister. I wonder if thats just an expression or a real thing you can do to a soul.

So maki says this and at first I thought she meant they were planning on yuta fighting kjk if/when the time comes. But then he replies:

So that’s not it. the “insurance” was definitely something to do with skn. Or megumi?

Gojo knows the names of the next shikigami (deer & tiger) even if megumi didn’t have them. so he probably read about them in some ancient literature or smth. did megumi also know about them? We never see him mentioning them or thinking about them or trying to fight them to get them in his inventory. i wonder if this is more stuff gojo kept from megumi

MIMI APPEARANCE!!!!!! baby boy youre a sight for sore eyes.

he took 5 unlimited voids. he took them directly on the soul so he didn’t get any damage on his body (which is still being controlled by sukuna) so i guess technically he couldn’t have died but……. realistically he should have gone insane if not entirely catatonic. holding out hope that seeing all that stuff awakens smth in him/gives him a moment of enlightenment (jjk is all about characters having single AHA! moments and instantly getting much more powerful bc of it, not just in the shonen powers way but also in their psyche, resilience, self assuredness, etc). but seeing the shitty way this manga has been written for the past 20 ish chapters its even odds he never even comes back or just comes back for a tearful deathbed goodbye. Whatever.

Skn says this. not “i had mahoraga adapt to UV by making megumi take the hit” but “i had fushiguro megumi adapt to UV” as if megumi himself has that ability (adaptation to a CT/power) rather than mahoraga. this really is basically skn using mgm as a shikigami like i once predicted even if that prediction was half joke half shipbrain. lmao.

Wait hold on. wtf does this mean. “Process of adaptation” vs “resulting adaptation”?????? Yeah i got nothing.