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Lucky ~ Ch88

3rd Point Of View

He looked the same. Well... almost the same. His hair was longer and his beard was more grown out and unkempt. His silk robes were ripped and dirtied, something (Y/n) knew he absolutely hated. He loved to be clean. That's why he always had a whore using their mouths on him- to make him clean. Another thing that changed was the look in his eyes- eyes that were once so confident now held uncertainty and fear. It was a look that was unfit for an ambassador.

But even after all those things about him that looked so different, (Y/n) could tell who he was the moment Uraume walked him into the room. Sukuna's cursed energy flared the moment he walked past the doorway, forcing the man onto his knees. His shackles bounced as he hit the floor, clanging together loudly. His aura was white with fear, and (Y/n) thought it would be that fear that would have prevented him from looking up. But he did. He looked up. And instead of looking at Sukuna, his eyes immediately settled onto her.

(Y/n)'s breath hitched as she made eye contact with him, feeling Sukuna's hands tighten around her waist to remind her that he was there. She wasn't sure when she'd turned around on his lap to face Yanfei. But here she was, facing the man that was the cause of many nightmares and traumatic experiences. She watched as his eyes widened with recognition, mirroring her own expression.

Was this real? She couldn't help but wonder. Was it really Yanfei infront of her? Was this the secret Sukuna had been keeping all this time? The fact that Yanfei looked as awful as this meant that he'd been captured by Sukuna a long time a go. How long? How long was he here, right under her nose and she had no idea? Goosebumps crawled across her skin as Yanfei lifted his head higher with shock, trying to get a better look at the familiar girl perched upon the lap of the king of curses.

"(Y/n)..." Yanfei whispered, his eyes trembling as he took in the sight of the girl. (Y/n) sat frozen on Sukuna's lap, her trembling hands gripping desperately onto Sukuna's legs. It was Sukuna's grip around her waist that was supposed to keep her grounded. But the longer she stared at Yanfei, the more she felt like the world was moving in different directions and pulling her will it.
"So it was you?" Yanfei asked softly, his words spoken in mandarin- a language she hadn't heard or spoken in a while. "It was you that arranged this?"

Seeing it on paper was far easier than hearing a person speak it. Because the moment she heard the language, all she could remember were the angry yells of the men that used to speak to her in that language- envision their faces and hear the raspiness of their voices.
"It was you that had me kidnapped and chained?" Yanfei asked again, now his voice slightly louder and more accusing. (Y/n) hated the fact that she was the only one that understood him right now.

"Is this how you repay me?" The man then asked, making (Y/n)'s teeth grit. "After everything I've given you and done for you...is this how you repay me, (Y/n)?!" As he became angrier, his voice came louder. He didn't even seem to care about the fact that Sukuna was behind the girl, glaring down at him.
"I treated you well, did I not?!" Yanfei asked the girl, passion in his voice.

A scoff ripped out of the girl's throat, his words striking a chord within her.
"What is he saying?" Sukuna then asked. If (Y/n) could feel her tongue, she might have answered him. But she couldn't speak, just as well as she couldn't move. She couldn't help but let that poor excuse of a man keep speaking.
"I fed you high-class meals!" Yanfei told her, "You wore the finest silks and had the choice to bathe in my baths whenever you wished during your stay in my chambers!"

She remembered these perks like they were memories of yesterday. It annoyed her that what he said was true. But they were true for his convenience, not hers. He liked cleanliness, so he let her bathe when it was her time to entertain him. He had sensitive skin, so he let his whore wear silk when they were to sleep in his bed. He fed them nice food so so he could guilt them into repaying him for his kindness later on that night- sometimes in the middle of dinner. Was this what 'treated you well' truly meant?

"I gave you luxuries that any other ambassador would have never dreamed to share with your kind." Yanfei told her, making the girl bite her lip. Her kind? Was she an animal? A different species?
"You were lucky to be mine!" Yanfei yelled out, his shackles clanging loudly.
"Lucky?" (Y/n) repeated bitterly. Speaking Mandarin somehow felt like venom on her tongue. It was sour.

"Yes, lucky! I knew men that saw women as toys! Men that broke their whores!" Yanfei told the girl, making her gasp.
"You broke me!" (Y/n) yelled as she launched off of Sukuna's lap, standing to her feet with wet, glistening eyes. At this outburst, Yanfei paused. (Y/n) had never spoken back to him before.
"You done more than just break us...You scarred us. You burned us...killed us." (Y/n)'s angered yell began forming into a cry as tears began spilling down her cheeks.

At (Y/n)'s last few words, Yanfei's brows furrowed with pure confusion.
"Killed you? I never-" (Y/n) cut the ambassador off before he could continue. She cut him off with a single name, two words that she spoke dully- pain resonating within her tone.
"Gojo Astumi." She whispered, her lips trembling. "You...killed her."
"She died of pneumonia!" Yanfei defended angrily, on the verge of standing to his feet. But the moment he pushed himself onto one knee, Sukuna's cursed energy flared and forced him back onto both knees.

"Because you refused to allow her and the rest of us to get the medicine we needed!" (Y/n) cried, making him scoff.
"You mean the medicine you needed?!" Yanfei asked incredulously, "If you want to blame anyone for that girl's death, maybe you should blame yourself and that wretched jujutsu of yours!"

Yanfei wasn't a fool. He knew about the Jujutsu of the (L/n) clan. He just didn't care because of the power he possessed. He had no cursed technique, but instead owned cursed objects that could make him immune to (Y/n)'s influence. He might have not kept the girl if that weren't the case. (Y/n) paused at his accusation, looking down at her feet with hurt eyes because that was something she thought about often.

"Maybe if you'd allowed me to get the treatment I needed, she'd be alive." (Y/n) whispered. "She was my closest friend and she died in my arms. So don't say that I was lucky...that you treated me well." Yanfei exhaled through clenched teeth, attempting to control the growing anger that (Y/n) could see was building within him. He was holding himself back as if he had the power to do anything if he wasn't holding back.

"Fine...I treated you horribly." Yanfei told her through gritted teeth, his aura flashing green to show that he was telling the truth even if he himself may not believe it was the truth. "Is that what you wanted to hear? Is that what I need to say in order for this madness to stop? For me to go home?" (Y/n) shook her head at his words, something clicking in her own head.

The was only one way she'd let him go home alive- one way that he could go home and she'd trust that he wouldn't hurt anyone else.
"No...in order for this to be over, you need to change." (Y/n) whispered, making him sigh loudly with aggravation.
"Fine, I'll stop taking in whores." Yanfei told the girl, his voice becoming slightly more gentle as he began believing that there was a way to convince the girl to allow him to go back home.

"No." (Y/n) mumbled, making his head snap up with confusion, "This isn't something you can do alone. It's something I'll have to guide you though...because there's only one way to turn a monster back into a man." Now, (Y/n)'s cursed energy had activated and Sukuna began smirking. (Y/n) took in a deep breath and looked at Yanfei, her hands coming together to form a hand sign as she said,

"Domain Expansion: Checkmate."

(A.N ~ The way most of you didn't realise that Sukuna was talking about Yanfei last chapter.)

Chapter 89 Quote Teaser :

"Yes, keep praising me. I feel my body healing already."