Jujutsu Kaisen: Shadow King.

Yuta Otsutsukota's room.

Looking at the empty chair opposite him, Yuta was so nervous that he didn't know what to say. After all, this was his nominal stepfather.

Having just returned home from the separation of life and death with Rika Kimoto, the young mother found herself an even younger father.

and.

He is really good-looking~

It's hard for anyone to calm down when this happens...

This is what Otsukotsu Yuta thought.

Look up towards the future.

But one meets those charming blue eyes.

He lowered his head out of inexplicable shame.

Seeing the cute shy reaction of little Yuta Okkotsu, Mirai smiled happily, sat down beside him lovingly, picked him up and put him on her lap.

Little Yuta Okkotsuka let Mirai do whatever he wanted like an obedient doll, his index fingers circling around and around, and it was obvious that he was beating hard inside. Lacking fatherly love, he called out shyly and anxiously.

"D-Dad?"

"If you are not used to calling me dad, you can call me teacher. You can change your way of addressing me slowly. Call me dad at home and teacher at school."

"So, Sensai?"

"Ah."

"Let me introduce myself. I am the 'special grade' teacher of Tokyo Metropolitan Jutsu High School - Zenin Mirai. Now, as your tutor, Yuta, I am fully responsible for your teaching of Jutsu."

"Spell?"

"Aren't you learning a foreign language?"

Two doubts.

New terms that I have never heard of enter my mind.

Okkotsu Yuta was a little confused for a moment.

But he quickly reacted, and connected the name of the benefactor he had just learned from Rika Kimoto, and exclaimed:

"Zen Temple?!"

"Sensai~Are you the 'Zenyuan Sama'?!"

"'Zenyuan Sama'?" Weilai chuckled, "Ah~ If you are talking about the 'Zenyuan Sama' who saved your girlfriend, then it should be me."

"Did Friant reveal it?"

"Although I didn't ask him to keep it a secret."

Little Okkotsu Yuta heard this.

Suddenly out of the embrace of the future.

Stand up straight.

He bowed deeply to him.

Sincerely, "Thank you very much for your concern regarding Rika-chan's matter!"

He waved his hand casually.

The future doesn't care:

"For a father, isn't it natural to take care of the healthy growth of his children?"

"Rika-chan will become a family with us sooner or later..." Noticing the silver diamond ring on the ring finger of her adopted son's left hand, Mirai suddenly changed her words:

"Rather, she already is."

"So, it is also my responsibility to protect her growth."

"Sense~" (Teacher~)

"Odo-san!" (Dad!)

After being abandoned by his father.

Dependent on mother for life.

At this moment, Yuta Okkotsu felt the "fatherly love" from Mirai that he had never felt before. He suddenly buried his head in Mirai's arms and burst into tears!

Otsukotsu Mio, who had just finished bathing and was wrapped in soft silk pajamas, with her hair loose and still revealing a hazy beauty, was also attracted here by the crying of her child.

Watching Youta acting coquettishly and crying in Mirai's arms, he realized this warm family scene that he had imagined countless times in his dreams.

Somehow.

Otsukino Mio's eyes instantly became moist.

She covered her soft lips with her hands, trying hard not to cry out.

But the more you suppress it, the more fierce the emotional torrent becomes.

In an instant.

The sea of ​​tears burst.

Otsutsuki Mio also hugged Mirai impatiently, and the two of them completely wrapped little Otsutsuki Yuta in a soft and hard embrace of family happiness.

a long time.

Due to previous overwork.

Now all the grievances and sorrows were released with tears.

Otsutsuki Mio actually fell asleep directly in Mirai's arms.

See this.

A thought about the future.

A white hand that was big enough to hold an ordinary person's hand stretched out from the shadow under his feet, and steadily led Otsutsuki Mio, who was in a deep sleep, to the territory of the "Shadow Empire".

Okkotsu Yuta, who was not asleep, saw this situation.

He immediately thought of the "imitation" technique that had inexplicably awakened in his mind and the "curse" mentioned by the future, and asked:

"Sensei, is this a 'curse'?"

"Sooyo~"

"This is the master's innate technique, 'Ryogi Shadow Method', and the highest realm of this technique, 'Shadow Empire'."

"How about it? This is a power that can be used to protect your family. Compared to foreign languages, this thing is much more useful. Do you want to learn it?"

"Protecting my family..."

Recalling the feeling of powerlessness when he could only watch Rika being killed and could do nothing, a flame suddenly ignited in Yuta Otsutsuka's bright black eyes!

"Ok!"

"I want to learn!"

"I will beat down all those who want to harm Rika and bully my mother!"

Looking at the tiny Yuta Okkotsu in front of him, who was not even as tall as his legs, Mirai seemed to have seen the reliable figure who fought alone against four "special-grade" warriors in the "Death and Annihilation Tour".

He smiled with relief, "In that case, let's get started now~ You should have awakened the life technique by now."

"well??"

“Don’t I need to learn the basics or something?”

"Just get started?" Okkotsu Yuta said in surprise.

"That's too slow. For you, actual combat is the best way to learn and become stronger!"

A playful smile appeared on his face.

Mirai held the confused little Yuuta Okkotsu.

Through the "Shadow Empire", a fifty-meter-level blue whale Shadow Shikigami that is active far away in the Pacific Ocean is connected.

Subsequently.

He activated "Shadow Movement".

He and Yuta Okkotsu instantly appeared on a "small island" in the South Pacific.