"Well, this is one rusty ahh factory..." Kizaru whistled as he looked at the run-down factory. It resembled the one where Sukuna killed Yuji, though it was dirtier.
"It's dark. Kizaru, make some light," Maki said while holding her spear on her shoulder. Kizaru nodded, and his body lit up, lighting the surroundings up.
"Follow after me. Also, tell me if you try anything," Maki said with a strict tone to Kizaru, who saluted her as they walked to the factory entrance.
Clang*
"It's locked. Step back." Maki stepped back and, with a jump, spun around, gaining power before slamming her foot into the metal door. The rusty chains snapped from the force, the door coming clean off the hinges.
Boom!
The door rattled before the chain broke from the force. Kizaru whistled, looking at Maki's thighs clenching.
"Nicely shaped thigh- Woah!" Kizaru barely dodged a backhand from Maki as she entered the factory. Kizaru wiped his forehead and followed after her.
The moon hung in the sky, and Kizaru's eyes turned on like a flashlight. Something he picked up by channelling light off his pupils. It's a neat little trick.
"You can do that? How strange." Maki commented, an amused smile on her face as they walked deeper into the massive brewing factory. The smell of alcohol was strong.
"Ugh! This smells like some trash alcohol. Couldn't even make some top-quality beer?" Kizaru said with disdain as he looked at an empty bottle on the ground.
Maki rolled her eyes and was about to mock Kizaru when she suddenly stumbled like a drunkard. Kizaru tensed and looked back, only to see the entrance vanish.
"An incomplete domain!" Kizaru screamed as he looked around. An incomplete domain is a domain without imbuing your cursed technique into it.
"Damn it! I knew that bastard was up to something. A suspected special grade, my ass!" Maki growled as she pointed her spear in case anything attacked them. Kizaru looked around and suddenly saw something weird.
"Huh? Maki, why is there a second Maki next to you?" Maki spun around with wide eyes and saw that Kizaru was swaying left and right with a drunken face.
An eerie sound was heard as the flash from Kizaru's eyes turned off, causing a pitch-blackness to envelop them in darkness. Maki growled in annoyance as she could not see Kizaru anymore.
"Kizaru! Where are you?" Maki looked around before rushing to where Kizaru was before the light vanished. Only to run nowhere as Kizaru was not there anymore.
"Chi~ Chi~"
"Chi~ Chi~"
"Let me drink~"
"I want a drink~"
"Why does she not believe me?..."
"I am not an alcoholic!"
"You bitch! You ruined my life!"
"Women... I hate them."
Maki suddenly shivered as she heard a distorted, cold voice behind her. Her spear sliced behind her, and Maki watched as her spear missed.
"She divorced me... Took my girl... It's Your Fault!!!"
Maki was struck in the stomach, sending her body flying through the air before colliding with the ground.
"Ugh!" Maki groaned as she rolled back onto her feet, a bit of blood trickling down her lips. Maki looked at Arodun with a glare. Her glass was slightly cracked from the impact.
"Kizaru! The light could be good right about now!" Maki shouted, but she heard a drunkard chuckle in the distance. Maki sneered at Kizaru.
Boom!
Maki's enhanced senses allowed her to dodge a punch that cratered the ground. The shockwave sent Maki rolling back, and Maki sneered as she finally saw the curse.
It was a human-looking curse, similar to a drunk middle-aged man who had his hair fall out from stress and a beer belly. His skin was piss yellow, and his teeth were even yellower. He had bottle caps for his eyes.
"It's no use~ Your friend is drunk from my technique. He will be drunk while I kill you~" The distorted voice of the curse reached Maki's ears. Maki jumped up and sprinted towards the curse.
"It's UsEleSs!" The curse screamed as he sent a beam of buzzing yellow water at Maki. Maki's nose scrunched as she felt the smell of alcohol from the beam.
Maki spun her spear and blocked the beam enough to dodge it and slice the hand of the curse. But it's a semi-special grade curse, after all. The curse dodged before hitting Maki and sending her flying again.
[Kizaru...]
My ears buzzed...
I felt like I was in heaven...
Is this what it feels like to be an alcoholic?
"Ki!..."
Hmm? My ears buzzed as I heard something, but I chucked and ignored it. My steps were hazy, and the thought of getting drunk was enticing me more and more.
"kizaru..."
I heard something whisper my name, and I shuddered before an even more intense daze covered my head. I struggled to walk, my eyes red and my steps stumbling.
"KIZARU!"
Huh? I felt a prick in my stomach, but I ignored the pain.
My eyes snapped open, and the redness was gone. Replaced by an anger I had never felt before. I turned around to see an injured Maki.
[Maki...]
I was hit on the stomach, sweat sliding down my temple as my body formed a C-shape. The force sent me flying into the wall of his incomplete domain, and I felt the wind get knocked out of me.
"Tsk! Damn it... I need to create some noise." Maki muttered as she tried to see in the darkness. But all she saw was pitch black all around.
Boom!
A beam smashed into where she had stood a second ago, and Maki ran in a zigzag pattern towards the curse. The curse smirked as his fingers shot out bullets of powerful water.
'I need to harm him... Everyone comes back to their senses when the pain overrides whatever they feel.' Maki thought before a beam of alcohol grazed her cheek.
"There is nowhere to run~ I will play with you until you can't run anymore!" The curse was said in its disgusting voice, and Maki sneered as she looked at his bald head.
"Yeah? No wonder your wife left!" The curse suddenly stopped and turned frozen. Veins appeared all around its body, and its cap eyes started spinning.
"YoU! WiLl! DiEEEE!" The curse shrieked as a powerful beam of water spun in his hand. Maki paled as she realised it was much more condensed and potent.
'So that's what a semi-special grade can do...' Maki thought while she ran towards Kizaru in a circle. The curse ignored her effort, absorbed by his anger.
"Dieeeee!"
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