"Monster!"
In the luxurious mansion, the midwife responsible for delivering the baby screamed in terror!
The next second, several Jujutsu Sorcerers dressed in ancient Heian-era robes strode purposefully into the room.
Looking at the baby held in the midwife's trembling, bloodstained hands, the group seemed visibly shocked by the baby's grotesque appearance.
Four eyes. Four arms.
It had a human body, but it looked exactly like a Cursed Spirit.
The tall man at the head of the group appeared to be the baby's biological father.
He did not accept the baby from the midwife, his face showing visible, deep disappointment.
"These are... conjoined twins?"
A few people standing nearby whispered nervously, "Twins are strictly considered unlucky in our clan; they might even bring disaster to the family."
Upon hearing this, a murderous glint flashed clearly in the father's eyes as he looked down at the deformed baby.
In the world of Jujutsu, twins are cursed.
No matter how great the innate potential of one of them is, it will always be actively dragged down by the other sharing the same fate.
Unable to realize their full potential, even becoming an ordinary, average Sorcerer is extremely difficult for them.
Therefore, in the world of Jujutsu a thousand years ago, twins were universally considered "inauspicious" and a strict "taboo".
Standing just outside the door, the blurred, ghostly figure of Zenin Mirai, like someone watching an immersive movie, quietly observed everything that was happening in the room.
"A decent soul strength for the King of Curses. At least I can still clearly hear the voices of the characters from your memories."
A blurry, humanoid figure standing nearby sneered. "Aren't you satisfied with simple killing and winning?"
"Enjoying the private memories of losers... what kind of sick fetish is that?"
Mirai turned to look at the figure and smiled. "The Strongest decides absolutely everything. Isn't that the exact same principle you firmly believe in?"
"I'm somewhat interested in your past, Sukuna, and also to confirm some things for myself."
The ethereal human figure standing next to Mirai was the true, spiritual form of Sukuna from a thousand years ago.
After the Mangekyo was upgraded to the Rinnegan, Mirai's Final Scenery: Glazed Moon was even more terrifyingly powerful when activated at full strength!
The memories were incredibly vivid, and a portion of the victim's soul consciousness could be physically extracted and forced to view the replay together with the caster.
Of course, this was strictly on the premise that the victim's soul was strong enough to survive the extraction.
Sukuna clearly possessed this condition.
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When Mirai's brief conversation with Sukuna came to an end, the discussion inside the Heian-era house was also drawing to a close.
Before it was firmly determined whether the baby was indeed conjoined twins or suffering from some other strange, demonic condition...
The leader did not order the baby killed on the spot, but coldly decided to keep him alive for observation.
If the infant was not negatively affected by the twin curse, then having a four-armed body would actually be drastically more advantageous for a Sorcerer in physical combat.
As for the pregnant woman who had lost too much blood and was lying in a coma on the futon—who was also the baby's mother—absolutely no one cared about her.
Whether in the ancient Heian era or modern times...
In powerful, traditional Sorcerer families, the men often only marry and have children with ordinary human women.
In order to maintain the strict purity and inheritance of the family's specific Cursed Techniques, they will not typically find another woman who already possesses different, competing techniques to marry.
Ordinary women, reduced to mere birthing machines, could only remain in the family estates as lowly servants after giving birth.
But in this ancient era teeming with incredibly violent Cursed Spirits, being a slave to a powerful Sorcerer family was far safer than living unprotected in the outside world.
"He almost died on the very first day of his life."
Mirai looked to his side and sighed mockingly. "It seems you had such a tragic, pitiful past when you were a child."
"Tragic?"
Sukuna sneered coldly. "That's not me. You've got the wrong person to mock."
"Not you?"
Mirai frowned slightly and looked back at the baby.
There was no large mouth on the abdomen, nor any overlapping or distorted features on the face.
But those four arms and the four compound eyes... there was absolutely no doubt that it was Sukuna's physical body.
There was no rush for Mirai within the Domain, so he continued to observe the scene unfolding in the memory.
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Six years passed in a flash, and it was time for the child's Cursed Technique awakening ritual.
Over the past six years, it had been discovered by the clan that the child was completely different from the Sukuna of today.
Kind...
The nature that should never have appeared in the ruthless King of Curses became synonymous with that four-armed boy.
He would sneak quietly into the servants' quarters and help his birth mother with her grueling chores.
He would rescue birds that had fallen from trees due to wing injuries, help them heal with bandages, and release them safely back into the wild.
Because of his strange physical appearance, whether it was a lowly servant in the family or a high-ranking Sorcerer...
People always looked at him strangely, and absolutely no one wanted to associate with him.
At the age of six, the child awakened his Cursed Technique in front of his father for the first time up close.
He knew that without the awakening of a Cursed Technique, his cold father would never even look at him.
Mirai, who had been watching from the side, frowned again and looked at Sukuna beside him.
The child didn't awaken a slashing technique like Cleave or Dismantle...
If the ability to construct True Sphere was the superior technique of Mai Zenin's Construction...
Then the technique that this child awakened today was more like the superior version of Yuta Okkotsu's unconditional Copy.
Analysis.
It wasn't just about simple imitation; it was about observing the Cursed Technique itself and perfectly analyzing its fundamental Jujutsu principles.
To further master it, adapt it, and unleash even greater power than the original caster could ever achieve.
Even though it wasn't a technique directly inherited from his bloodline that he awakened, the father immediately understood the terrifying power of Analysis.
The child was not officially given a name by his father until he was six years old.
"The Disgraced One" (Suiten / Fallen to Heaven).
After awakening his technique, the Disgraced One embarked on his own brutal path of cultivation.
He practiced Jujutsu martial arts diligently every single day and was strictly forbidden by his father from contacting the family servants ever again.
Sorcerers and ordinary humans belonged to two completely different, unequal worlds, and this was especially true a thousand years ago.
But after completing his arduous, bone-breaking training every night, he would still secretly sneak out to visit his mother.
Looking at the innocent, genuine smiles on the boy's face, Mirai even doubted for a moment whether it was really Ryomen Sukuna's soul.
Until...
"Now that you've become a Jujutsu Sorcerer, you shouldn't be mingling with these pathetic ordinary humans!"
"They're just a bunch of weak, disposable creatures that even low-level Cursed Spirits could kill with a flick of their wrists! What you're doing is lowering the prestige of Sorcerers!"
"Despite being born so physically powerful, you still insist on leaving yourself a glaring weakness!"
The father's scolding grew harsher and more violent with each reprimand!
The reason for this intense pressure was that the potential for the Disgraced One's combat growth completely exceeded his father's expectations.
In ten years, the Disgraced One had become the undisputed strongest member of their clan.
He was able to effortlessly kill a Special Grade Cursed Spirit of this era all by himself, and he helped his family repel invading groups of enemy Sorcerers on numerous occasions.
Four eyes with absolutely no blind spots in his vision.
The perfect Jujutsu body, capable of using two Cursed Tools simultaneously and constantly forming hand seals with his other hands, repeatedly demonstrating extraordinary, unstoppable power.
The tall father was very satisfied with the Disgraced One's raw physical growth, his only complaint being his damned, pathetic kindness!
Even against a hostile, invading Sorcerer group, the Disgraced One would not kill his enemies after defeating them.
...
A thousand years ago, in the golden world of Jujutsu, four major forces stood at the absolute pinnacle.
After Sugawara-no-Michizane was demoted and unjustly killed, two massive factions emerged from the fallout.
One was the Sugawara clan, to which the Disgraced One's clan now served as a branch.
There was also the Fujiwara Northern House, which gained massive political power in the brutal power struggle after the Sugawara family initially split.
The Fujiwara Northern House: This was the name adopted after members of the Sugawara clan and the Fujiwara clan formed an alliance through marriage.
Because of its perceived "impure" bloodline, it had serious, bloody conflicts with the main Sugawara clan, leading to a permanent split.
The third major force was the Yin-Yang system, led by the legendary "Abe clan".
The fourth branch was "Esoteric Buddhism" Sorcerers.
The Three Great Families that emerged a thousand years later were formed after the above four forces split and evolved multiple times over the centuries.
The Gojo clan, to which Gojo Satoru belongs, is a direct remnant of the Fujiwara Northern House lineage after its final split. (Gojo Satoru, and by extension Yuta Okkotsu, can also technically be considered distant descendants of Sugawara-no-Michizane).
The Zenin family, which has always been bitterly at odds with the Gojo family, is a direct remnant of the pure Sugawara family bloodline.
The Kamo family's Blood Manipulation technique is a direct legacy passed down from the "Abe clan".
(A/N: Tengen and Kenjaku played a part in all of this from the shadows).
The bloody entanglement and massive battles between the four forces began a thousand years ago.
The existence of the invincible Disgraced One seemed to have given his father an unwarranted, dangerous ambition.
To completely surpass these four peak forces and bring his own minor family to the absolute top of the Heian era.
The very first thing he needed to do to achieve this was to eliminate the greatest weakness of the Disgraced One.
That was, those damned ordinary humans...
Specifically, the beloved mother of the Disgraced One.
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