Outside Yukino Mifuyu and Takayanagi Mieko's room.
Mirai pushed the door open.
A soft, delicate body immediately threw itself into his arms.
Tear streaks were still visible on Takayanagi Mieko's tender face.
She leaned on Mirai, weeping sorrowfully and recounting:
"Madam Yukino has been feeling unwell and weak since yesterday, even needing help to walk."
"I initially thought Madam was simply overtired from preparing luggage for the two young masters a few days ago, so I assumed, as usual, that a little more rest would suffice."
"But then..."
"By this morning, Madam's body was so weak she couldn't get out of bed..."
"She feels she doesn't have much time left, so she wanted to see the two young masters one last time before she passes..."
"She was fine just a few days ago... How could this be?!"
Mirai's expression was stiff, finding it hard to accept.
"I don't know ~ Wuwuwu!!!"
For some reason.
Takayanagi Mieko, who usually remained unfazed even when a mountain collapsed before her, was crying exceptionally hard today.
The intense fear and sorrow, almost visible to the naked eye,
reflected in Mirai's azure Six Eyes.
It inexplicably made him feel a pang in his heart!
This feeling was as if... not just Yukino Mifuyu.
But even Takayanagi Mieko was about to leave him!
Looking at Yukino Mifuyu, who was pale and lifeless on the bed,
Gojo Satoru, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri all wore expressions of deep sorrow.
Gojo Satoru, who was usually carefree,
could not accept the cruel reality that his birth mother was about to leave him.
Tears streamed down his face.
He choked back sobs and looked at Shoko beside him.
"Shoko, can you heal her with Reverse Cursed Technique?"
"Please!"
The pleading words he had always wanted to hear finally reached her ears.
But Shoko felt no joy at all.
Instead, she was emotionally affected by Satoru's tears.
Her eyes began to well up.
"Gomen ~"
"Reverse Cursed Technique isn't that convenient."
"I also... Wuwuwu!"
Death was about to descend upon Mirai's loved one.
Yet, he could only watch, powerless.
A huge sense of emptiness washed over him!
The girl's emotions suddenly collapsed!
Just at this moment.
As if in a final burst of energy,
Yukino Mifuyu's consciousness suddenly awoke, and she called out softly:
"Mirai... Satoru... My children..."
"Aunt Yukino... Kaa-san, I'm here!"
With a flash of movement.
Mirai tightly grasped Yukino Mifuyu's cold hand, his voice softer than ever before.
"Kaa... Kaa-san, I—"
Gojo Satoru also instantly appeared on the other side of the bed.
His eyes filled with tears, gazing sadly at Yukino Mifuyu.
But compared to Mirai, who could still maintain his composure,
he was already sobbing so much that he could barely utter a complete sentence.
"This is the first time... This is the first time I've heard Mirai call me mother... I feel so happy ~"
Yukino Mifuyu's eyes were tearful, half-open, full of reluctance.
"If you want to hear it, I'll call you that every day from now on, so... don't you dare sleep!"
Mirai's grip on Yukino Mifuyu's delicate hand suddenly tightened.
His final words were spoken in a commanding tone.
"I also wish..."
"I wish I could always stay by your side ~"
"But ~ it seems I can only go this far..."
Yukino Mifuyu's breath grew increasingly weak.
Like a candle flickering in the wind.
It could extinguish at any moment.
"Don't say such foolish things!" Mirai pleaded.
"What do you mean 'before you go'?"
"I won't allow it, who can take you away!"
"Mother's body... Mother knows best..."
With Mirai's help, Yukino Mifuyu placed her hand on his cheek and comforted him:
"'Birth, aging, sickness, and death'... are the laws of life, the rules of fate... no one can escape them... Cough, cough, cough!"
"Why?"
Mirai's voice was filled with sorrow.
His azure Six Eyes were tinged with crimson bloodshot.
"Why can you still smile, even at the very end?"
"You... you should cherish your own life more!"
Mirai stared intently with his Six Eyes at Yukino Mifuyu's soft, pale face, as if trying to see through the grim reaper that was currently at her side, scything souls.
"Do I even need to say it?"
A happy smile bloomed on Yukino Mifuyu's face, damp with cold sweat.
She looked at Mirai and Satoru, and said with joy:
"Because I love you two more than anyone ~"
"I love Zen'in Mirai and Gojo Satoru more than anyone ~"
Upon hearing this.
Mirai and Satoru both felt a wave of sorrow.
"Lastly... can you call me Kaa-san one more time?"
"Kaa-san ~" x2
Mirai's and Satoru's voices entered her ears.
Yukino Mifuyu, as if her long-cherished wish had been fulfilled,
could no longer hold onto consciousness.
With reluctance and lingering affection,
her eyes slowly closed.
At this moment.
Mirai could no longer bear the sorrow of parting with his birth mother in life and death, and he burst into heartbroken sobs!
Only at such times.
did he resemble a fifteen-year-old boy with his hair tied up.
"I still have so many... so many things I wanted to do with you ~ And so many sights I wanted to see with you ~"
"How could you possibly die?"
"How could you possibly not be afraid of death?"
"This... I absolutely forbid it!"
"If fate tries to take you away from me —"
"I will fight fate, and I will win for you!"
Under the sorrowful and astonished gazes of Takayanagi Mieko, Shoko Ieiri, Gojo Satoru, and Suguru Geto.
Mirai's Cursed Energy surged out like a tsunami!
It seemed endless!
His full Cursed Technique, which he had never displayed before others,
was now.
completely revealed!
That massive amount of Cursed Energy, comparable to the 'Strongest Sorcerer of a thousand years ago, Ryomen Sukuna,' surged madly into the deceased Yukino Mifuyu's body!
Mirai's bizarre actions suddenly made a terrifying hypothesis surface in Gojo Satoru's mind!
"Brother, are you perhaps trying to —"
"That's right, Satoru..."
"Cursed Energy is a curse!"
"In the past, there have been cases where powerful Sorcerers, unable to accept the departure of their loved ones, cursed them into Cursed Spirits!"
"Although this is just my personal opinion."
"But... there is no curse more twisted than love!"
"I will use this curse called 'love' to keep Kaa-san by my side forever!"