My lifeless body fell on the ground, everything around me was black. Damn it all! Sukuna was strong, incredibly so. Gojo-sensei is dead, Yuji and Yuta-senpai are fighting him right now. I did what I had to do and I'll leave things to their hands. I'm sure they'll will, I hope so...
I looked at the pure darkness surrounding me, is this the afterlife? Am i not going to heaven? Oh there's a light. the light became bigger and bigger as i watched it get close to me. Am i passing on?
Huh? is this a ceiling? where the hell am i. I extended my hand but 2 small hands came into my vision. I was suddenly lifted up and I saw a Japanese man with brown hair and brown eyes looking at me, tears forming in his eyes. Then he called me 'Issei'
I'm now 17 years old. After dying in my old world I was reincarnated in the body of a newborn baby was named 'Issei Hyoudou'. This body have short, spiky brown hair, and light brown eyes.
"Mom I'm heading out to school" I left my house walking to Kuoh academy. Compared to my previous life, this life is extremely peaceful. There's no curse spirits roaming the streets, I'm not in a life and death situation day in and day out. I'm not fighting the strongest curse in history. I'm just living a normal life, I wake up, go to school, hang out with my friends then return home. A normal peaceful life, a normal peaceful world.
Well that's what i would I like to say. This world isn't so normal, since i was born, my body had cursed energy. Probably something related to my old body, I also have something else hidden inside me but i have no idea what it is. I tried to poke it using cursed energy a few times to no avail.
And I wasn't the only one with powers. Using my cursed technique, I could see that other people also had powers, but they were incredibly rare and fundamentally different from cursed energy. In fact, the people I have sensed powers from can be counted on one hand. Since discovering that, I started training, I trained my body, I refined my cursed energy and control over it, and continued practicing the sword in Kendo.
I tried not attract too much attention, but I inevitably became slightly popular in school. As I walked through the hallway, girls would send glances at me. I wasn't incredibly popular, but I did attract a bit of attention due to my fit physique and impressive grades.
After school, as I was messaging my friends in a park near my house, a girl approached me.
"Will you go out with me?"
I looked surprisingly at the girl in front of me, she has long back-length black-colored hair with a mixture of gold and violet-colored eyes. But what got my attention was the power inside her. She had a type of power different from what i normally saw. That got my attention and I accepted her confession. Her name is Yuuma Amano.
We specified a day for the date, I arrived pretty early at the meeting spot and sat on a bench, as i was waiting on a bench fiddling with my phone, some guy handed me a suspicious leaflet. 'Your wishes granted' it read, complete with an occult-looking magic circle. I looked at it for a while before putting it in my pocket when i saw Yuuma arrive.
The date was pretty nice, not gonna lie. Yuuma ended being a pretty cute girl, we held hands, we checked a few clothing store, we had lunch together, she liked the chocolate parfait apparently. At dusk we went to a park on the outskirts of town, there was no one there but us.
I think it's the perfect place to ask her about her powers, given her personality. I don't think she would switch off that much on me. I needed to do it, if there were dangers in the world i needed to know about them.
"I had fun" she said with a smile "You know Issei..."
"What is it?"
"I want to do something so we can remember our first date. Could you do it for me?"
What she wanted to kiss? I don't really mind, but should i ask her before or after it.
"Sure, what is it?" I asked casually
Yuuma smiled at me graciously, then with her voice loud and clear she said, "Could you die for me?"
...
"Huh...? Come again" I was utterly flabbergasted.
"Could you die for me Issei?" She said with an innocent voice.
I instinctively took a step back, at the same time a violent rush of air exploded outward as massive black wings tore free from Yuuma's back. They lashed back and forth with raw force, and one pitch-dark feather spiraled through the air before settling silently at my feet.
"Though brief, playing innocent with you these past few days was amusing." Yuuma's voice was cold and unfamiliar, her faint smile carrying no warmth.
A deep, heavy hum shook the air, loud enough to make my ears ring. In her hands, something formed—a long, slender spear, radiant, as if forged from pure light. It was no ordinary weapon.
Using my cursed technique i predicted her throw and i side stepped barely dodging her attack. Her eyes widened slightly. But then she shot at me at a blurry speed, she was so fast i couldn't even react, her speed could be compared to a special grade curse. If it were the old me, i would have dodged it. But my body now couldn't compare with the one from my previous life.
Swoosh.
The spear tore through the air and struck me. At first, it barely registered—then the pain hit as it pierced straight through my abdomen. She had thrown it without hesitation.
When I tried to pull it free, the weapon vanished into nothingness. All that remained was a bleeding hole where it had struck.
My head grew dizzy and my vision blurred.
"Sorry your existence poses a threat to us, you see. Blame God for giving you that Sacred Gear in the first place"
Sacred what... now?
My consciousness started to fade, am i going to die again? Is 17 a cursed age for me or what? Damn... it was good while it lasted. I should've trained more, If I had a sword maybe i could have won? Nah I would have died anyways.
"Are you the one who called me?"
A figure appeared in front of me, but with my blurred vision i couldn't tell who it was.
"Huh?... what are you anyway... Very interesting..." the voice was that of a girl, she was chuckling.
"Since you're about to die anyway, I'll take you for my own. From this moment onward you will your life for me"
The last thing i saw before i completely lost consciousness was crimson hair.