Chapter 1 A Private Setting Too Hellish
Hunter World, Meteor City.
Airships often stopped overhead, dumping large quantities of waste, or rather, garbage.
The sky was a deep gray, as if separated by smog, with no hint of blue, and trucks transporting garbage frequently passed by.
Garbage was piled high into mountains, and scavenging vultures circled at low altitudes.
The air was filled with a putrid smell, making one feel extremely ill.
Personnel in complete protective suits and gas masks patrolled the surroundings, while others in makeshift protective gear lurked around the garbage mountains, waiting for an opportunity.
And on one of these garbage piles sat a young boy.
He wore no protection, just a white hooded sweatshirt and black shorts, white long socks, and white sneakers.
He also had white hair, frosty long eyelashes, and eyes as blue as the sky.
Upon seeing him, one would think of the word "angel," if... he didn't have those eerie black markings on his body.
The markings spread from his face all the way down to his body.
His white clothes also had a large patch of blood, seemingly indicating his danger.
"Is my personal setting really that hellish?" The white-haired boy held a worm-eaten red apple, his expression conflicted, as if hesitating whether to take a bite.
"Didn't I just cosplay Gojo Satoru after he swallowed Sukuna's fingers? Didn't I just tell everyone during my self-introduction that they could call me Ryomen Sugo or Gojo Sukuna?" The boy's voice grew softer as he spoke, finally letting out a sigh.
"Although in the manga, Gojo Satoru was killed by Ryomen Sukuna, and his death was very rushed and clownish, giving a feeling of dying just for the sake of dying, although..."
"This setting is a bit hellish for the sake of stirring things up."
"But stabbing someone is a bit much, isn't it? It really hurt." The boy touched his chest; that part of his clothes was covered in blood and had a hole in it.
In fact, a knife had been stuck there not long ago.
His name is Caesar, a rabbit from Earth, his age is temporarily confidential, but he had just passed the first important exam in his extremely competitive life, which was not the college entrance exam.
Perhaps for some, the college entrance exam is the most important and only so-called life-changing exam, but for someone like Caesar... born in Haidian, the college entrance exam is already a distant starting point.
Although young, he was already a somewhat famous cosplayer, regularly sharing his cosplay daily life and makeup on online platforms.
His followers on certain LikLok and IG platforms combined amounted to over a million, and he had already achieved financial freedom at a young age.
Online, he was called 'Teacher' by a group of anime fans.
Of course, as a rabbit, he also had some mischievous traits and would occasionally create his own character settings.
Due to age and height restrictions, except for characters who were originally elementary school students, most of the characters he cosplayed were the characters' childhood versions.
He had done gender-bent versions, such as male Amu Hinamori, Ai Haibara, Ran Mouri, Rem and Ram... He had also done child gender-bent versions of Shuichi Akai, Gin, Bourbon, Osamu Dazai... Normal characters like Dazai during the Dark Era, Fushiguro Megumi (elementary school period), Chuuya Nakahara, Killua Zoldyck, Gojo Satoru as a child... Of course, Chuuya Nakahara was a character he could cosplay from his 'King of the Sheep' period all the way to his Port Mafia period.
Because the other party's height... didn't change much.
So, the height requirement for the cosplayer wasn't high.
Thus, at a recent anime convention, stimulated by the latest Jujutsu Kaisen plot, his mischievous side exploded, and he created his own personal setting.
Gojo Satoru during his child prodigy period, but... he had swallowed Sukuna's fingers.
The path he took was — only the strongest can restrain the strongest, so the arrogant and confident child prodigy used himself as a cage to imprison Ryomen Sukuna.
Strongest x2, strength upon strength, the strongest supreme version.
As for logic? There was no logic; the original manga was already so wild, what's wrong with his personal setting being a bit wilder?
He excitedly wore Gojo Satoru's tracksuit, drew Sukuna's tattoos all over his face and body, and rushed to the convention venue.
Facing the many — "Holy moly, what kind of performance is this?" — gazes, he initially felt nothing.
After all, most people at conventions were there for fun, and many happily lined up to take photos with him.
Besides, he was already cosplaying, who cared what others thought? How many anime fans aren't a little wild?
Until a man with a frantic expression, clearly mentally unstable, excitedly rushed up to him and stabbed him through the heart.
Until his death, Caesar couldn't understand why he had been targeted by a madman.
Was that guy randomly picking unlucky people?
He closed his eyes and opened them again, finding himself in the air.
An entity calling itself the 'Fun System' spoke to him.
[Welcome to the Jujutsu Kaisen world. Please make everyone in this world believe that your personal setting is actually Gojo Satoru from another world.]
[Our slogan is: Let's add some fun to life.]
Then, he fell into a pile of garbage.
[Detection error, world location landing error occurred]
"So... where is this now?" Caesar, who was submerged in garbage the moment he fell, poked his head out of the pile and asked very calmly.
As an experienced anime fan, he was very familiar with the process of dying, transmigrating to another world, and binding to a system.
[Current location —]
[Meteor City in the Hunter World.]
The system's voice gradually lowered.
[Main quest changing —]
[Please fill up your compatibility with the character in this world.]
[Language pack loaded.]
[Please host, try to survive until the system collects enough energy to transmigrate worlds again.]
[Current world danger level — High risk.] Its voice instantly filled with inorganic coldness.
"Meteor City..." Caesar hesitated.
Hunter X Hunter, he was very familiar with that; Meteor City, the Phantom Troupe's hometown, equally familiar.
Meteor City was a famous super-large garbage dump in the Hunter World, and its living environment was considered purgatorial in various fan fictions.
Given his lack of practical skills, never having fought anyone, never even having an argument, and always relying on the police for problems, let alone surviving until the system collected enough energy to go to the Jujutsu Kaisen world, he might not even survive tonight.
"I'll probably be the fastest transmigrator to die." Caesar peacefully closed his eyes, ready for an eternal sleep in the garbage pile.
Life was a boring game, and even if he changed worlds, it was just changing game instances for him.
Since it was a game, death was not something difficult to accept.
He had lived with this thought all along.
He was calm until he was dragged out of the garbage pile by a pair of hands.
Those hands were dragging him somewhere unknown.
"...What does he want to do?" Caesar asked the system in confusion.
[This is Meteor City.] The system reiterated.
"Oh, Meteor City..." Caesar suddenly understood.
According to the style of Meteor City residents he had seen in old fan fictions... they probably wanted to strip him naked and then eat him... No, that wouldn't do.
He could accept death, but not this kind of death.
"System, apply for newbie protection." He typed into his mind to the system.
[Please host, try to increase character compatibility —]
[Each time a certain compatibility is reached, you can obtain part of that character's abilities.]
"So, should I increase Gojo Satoru's or Ryomen Sukuna's?" Caesar's expression was conflicted. Even now, he still showed no fear, but rather a playful nonchalance.
He should have known not to make a personal setting; now how was he supposed to increase compatibility? So troublesome.
This system was originally intended to have him use this setting of [Gojo Satoru who swallowed Sukuna's fingers] to cause trouble in the Jujutsu Kaisen world and shock other characters, right?
But something went wrong, and he ended up in the Hunter World.
[The host needs to fill up compatibility with both characters simultaneously.] The system prompted.
Feeling the silent crowd surrounding him, already starting to strip his clothes and prepare to dismember him, Caesar pondered.
He seemed to feel a certain energy existing within his body.
Could it be from Gojo Satoru and Sukuna? But the amount of this energy is a bit small... if it were inherited from them, it shouldn't be so little.
Speaking of which, since he arrived in this world, the world in his eyes has also been somewhat different from that of ordinary people. The objects he sees almost all appear in a thermal imaging-like manner, and he can also see a stream of energy overflowing from the heads of the people surrounding him.
This is the 'Nen' ability of the Hunter World... Even the height, weight, heart rate, even the body hair and material information of these people's clothes are clearly analyzed.
They are all ordinary people.
Gojo Satoru and Sukuna's skills use Cursed Energy, while the power system of the Hunter World is called Nen ability. Cursed Energy comes from negative emotions, while Nen ability is life energy.
So there's no need to worry about the power systems conflicting later.
All the information about the garbage all over the mountains, what it is, its degree of damage, what its material is, is captured and analyzed by the Six Eyes.
So his Six Eyes also came true.
A string of complex but useless information flooded his mind, making his head feel several pounds heavier, as if pressed by something, and his thoughts became difficult... but he could still bear it. Let's deal with these guys first.
Evil people need evil people to grind; they should be treated with their own methods.
Those who kill must also be prepared to be killed, right?
I'll just use Sukuna's ability; I wonder which of Sukuna's abilities I can use.
He opened his eyes expressionlessly, staring directly at the people standing around, looking down at him — "Who allowed you to look down on me? Trash."
As he opened his eyes, an invisible slash appeared, instantly taking care of several ordinary people around him.
Blood splattered on the spot, limbs were scattered everywhere, achieving the true physical meaning of utter devastation.
[Current Ryomen Sukuna compatibility — 10%]
[Gojo Satoru compatibility — 20%]
Is his compatibility with Gojo Satoru really that high? Oh, right, it must be his appearance.
He must have transmigrated with his own body, so his clothes still had a hole in the chest, but the stabbed area had already healed.
His hair was deliberately dyed white and styled, and to prevent the white hair from making him look dark, he even applied a layer of the whitest body paint, and his colored contacts were specially custom-made Six Eyes style.
In terms of cosplay, he never hesitated to spend money.
However, after transmigrating, no matter how he looked, his hair was white, not a single black root, his skin was as naturally snow-white, and his eyes seemed to be naturally Six Eyes; no matter how he rubbed them, there was no trace of contact lenses.
Including Sukuna's compatibility, it should be due to the cursed marks drawn on his body.
But... the burden of the Six Eyes seems to be greater than he imagined?
[Six Eyes] Gojo Satoru's eyes, and also a passive ability, a 360-degree field of vision, able to see things from extremely long distances, and of course, also able to see energy, such as Cursed Energy, and such as the Nen ability on people in the Hunter World.
Caesar looked at the nosebleed that had started dripping at some point, wiped it casually, but soon new blood flowed out.
Because he was originally just an ordinary person, and even for Gojo Satoru, who was born a Jujutsu Sorcerer, the Six Eyes was an extremely brain-consuming existence?
Even Gojo Satoru wore sunglasses or covered his eyes due to the burden of the Six Eyes.
Was his brain bleeding from the nose as a warning because it had never been subjected to such pressure before?
Or was it due to some other reason? For example... the so-called compatibility?
Thinking of this, Caesar tilted his head back, trying to force the nosebleed back, while taking a bite of the intact side of the worm-eaten apple.
"The taste in my mouth feels strange..." He smacked his lips, his tone complex.
"I didn't eat a worm, did I?"
After all, it was an apple found in a garbage pile... it's pretty normal.
"A worm-eaten apple really can't be eaten." He casually discarded the apple core.
The progress bar symbolizing energy collection was completely blank.
Next to it, there was a small line of text.
[When the progress bar is filled with dark red, the system can reopen the transmigration channel.]
God knows how long that will take.
"From today onwards, I am the strongest, so should I be called Ryomen Sugo, or Gojo Sukuna? Or Sukuna Gojo?" Caesar sat on the garbage mountain, his head still tilted back, looking at the gloomy sky, muttering to himself in a somewhat bored tone.
If he wanted to increase Ryomen Sukuna's compatibility, should he first slaughter a city? Killing thousands or millions of people should make compatibility rise quite quickly, right?
Ah, that's too evil and villainous; resist, resist.
Caesar shook the terrible thought out of his mind, but he also clearly understood one thing —
This was no longer the world he was familiar with; any moral constraints no longer applied to him, and he no longer needed to suppress his true nature in front of others, pretending to be no different from ordinary people.
He could be completely unrestrained.