Chapter 48 - Sealed

He looked at Sachiko in front of him again. Only then, he sees the prison realm near her.

Gojo tried to run away again only to find that he was frozen in place.

"I'm sorry, Satoru. I made sure you couldn't move because I wasn't sure if you would react like this but you did react the way I hoped you would even if it wasn't for a whole minute. Well now that one minute is almost up, you're gonna have to spend some time in there." She said.

Gojo felt that his body was indeed starting to get trapped.

It seemed that one minute had already passed while he was frozen in place.

He laughed almost bitterly. "To think that you would try to use my feelings for Sachiko against me. What a fraud."

She replied to Gojo with a chuckle,

"But I am her, Satoru. Does it count as a fraud when we are basically the same person?"

"No, you are not the same." Gojo didn't agree. Sachiko he knew was different from the one in front of him.

"Well, if you wait, you will see that she's not that different from me." She said with a chuckle.

"And you will be with me."

"I don't know what you planned but I can tell you that is not gonna happen," Gojo said.

"Well, we'll see. Until then, Satoru." She said, then she closed the prison realm.

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After a while, Pseudo Geto got to the scene and upon seeing the prison realm, he smiled.

"So, you got him sealed."

"I did." She continued, "I didn't plan on doing that myself yet but who would've known your element of surprise was ruined by her?"

"Well, I'm more interested in how you managed to seal him when you said I was an essential factor in sealing him."

"Now, now, there's no need for you to know that." She said seriously.

"Wait in front of the prison realm for a while, will you?" She asked Pseudo Geto, her tone switched from serious to a rather playful one, again. Currently, the prison realm was in the midst of transporting Gojo's flesh into it and couldn't be moved for a while. It was necessary that someone stayed to protect.

"Can't you do it yourself ?" Pseudo Geto asked, acting as if he was just annoyed.

"Well, I have something else to do. Don't worry, it will only take a few minutes."

"We both know Jujutsu sorcerers would be heading here as soon as they know what happened here, especially Nakamura Sachiko."

"Oh, she already is." She hummed.

"You expect me to fight her?"

"You did mention wanting her to join you. So why don't you deal with her? Maybe you can persuade her or turn her against Jujutsu society."

She chuckled before continuing, "But, you don't need to worry. She might take a lot more time to get here."

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"Satoru...."

After breaking the barrier, Sachiko started to look for Gojo again.

But, after walking for a while, she encountered another barrier.

It was the same as the other barrier. She needed to use the maximum amount of cursed energy she could put in a single attack to break it. While she had unlimited cursed energy and would never run out of cursed energy, it was troublesome for her having to break barrier after barrier, not to mention how long it would take her to get to Gojo if it kept happening.

She wished she didn't think like that because it did. It was as if she jinxed herself.

There were barriers after barriers waiting for her on her way to Gojo.

The more barriers she destroy, the more anxious she got and she finally decided to check on the possibility of Gojo getting sealed.

"How....how could that be?"

She thought after Gojo found out about Geto Suguru, he would have no problem getting away without getting sealed. Even if she knew there was a mysterious force working against them, she thought Gojo would be able to handle that as long as he wasn't affected by factors like his ex-best friend. He was the strongest, after all.

Yet, he got sealed.

She felt a stinging sensation in her chest and a feeling of emptiness growing.

At that moment, she felt like everything in this world worked against her to tear Gojo away from her.

'Why?'

'Why did it happen?'

Gojo was the only one who actually stayed by her side when Jujutsu world started to turn against her and even when her classmates who she saved, again and again, started to doubt her, try to turn Gojo against her. Now that he got sealed, she felt like everything was taken away from her.

She felt tears falling down her cheeks as the tightness in her chest grew to the point of suffocation.

'Now is not the time. I have to get my hands on the prison realm.' She reminded herself, hoping to get herself out of the emotional breakdown.

She forced her legs to move faster and tried to destroy the barriers faster.

But, the feeling didn't go away, the tears didn't stop as she kept destroying the barriers until she came to a realization.

The barriers were specified to stop her. In other words, everyone except her could get through them easily. She tried to see how the mysterious woman did that along with how Gojo got sealed, only to find nothing.

"So, it's safe to say that she was involved in sealing Satoru and the barriers are also her work as I can't find any information related to her."

"It's hard to tell how many more barriers there would be. What if this keeps going on until they leave with the prison realm?" Sachiko shook her head. "No, I need to get Satoru back as soon as I can."

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At the same time, the other Sachiko unleashed her version of modified curse-humans like Riko to kill Jujutsu sorcerers in Shibuya. The number went up to a hundred but what was terrifying about them was how each of them could easily kill a Grade-1 Jujutsu sorcerer.

To be honest, this wouldn't count as just wreaking havoc anymore.

It was also a massacre of Jujutsu sorcerers.