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Betrayal ~ Ch59

Author-san whispers: Double update because I wanted you guys to suffer with this chapter as soon as possible ;) Go back to the last chapter if you didn't get the notification!

(Y/n)'s Point Of View

Once nightfall came and I had finished cleaning the entirety of the temple, I went outside to Sukuna's private training yard. It was empty and so quiet that I could probably hear a sewing needle drop and be able to detect it's exact location. That was the downside of Sukuna's soundless barrier, it was that I couldn't even hear the sound of the wind or the chirps of the birds nearby.

I sat down on the staircase with a bored sigh, having not spoken to anyone since Kazuya left the temple grounds. I hadn't spoken to Sukuna since he left the throne room this morning and honestly didn't want to see him, still feeling bitter about how easily he dismissed me with such a task- especially when I'd helped him and contributed so greatly to his meeting with the curse users.

I frowned as I looked at the empty training yard. I guess I could use this odd night as my excuse to train my cursed technique and domain expansion. My menstruation cramps were practically nothing as this point and I didn't feel swollen in the slightest. Uraume came by a few hours ago with the same tea she'd given me this morning and I suppose that helped me move closer to full recovery. But I was too frustrated with Sukuna to be grateful for his thoughtfulness.

I pulled the scroll he'd lent me on domain expansions out of my sleeve and opened it until it was fully unvieled. I'd read it over three times now, wanting to absorb as much of the information as possible. This scroll was not a direct guide to summoning my domain expansion but it did tell me what I needed to do with my cursed energy in order to make it happen.

I sighed as I placed the scroll on the ledge beside me before hoping off onto the ground. I couldn't access my domain expansion without having someone to take into my domain expansion, which meant that I would have to go into Sukuna's dungeons and ask a curse user to transfer a criminal from one of the cells to the post out here that was placed in the middle of the training yard.

I still wasn't sure how I felt using a criminal to further my domain expansion. Sukuna said that I would rather help this criminal become a good man than have Sukuna kill them for their crimes- and while that was true, I was still worried that I'd only end up killing these men myself. My domain expansion could be violent- and if these men were sick or old or even just weak, they wouldn't survive five minutes in my domain. I didn't want to be responsible for their deaths.

I frowned as I descended the staircase at the side of the temple, reaching the iron door that led to the dungeons. It made a loud banging sound as I opened it, screeching as it was pushed forward. The dungeons were brighter than it was last time- someone probably having actually lighted the lanterns this time. I walked in nervously, half of me already wanting to turn tail and call it a day. Maybe I should have chose to do this while in the company of Sukuna, maybe then I'd be less scared.

"Help me, miss. Please!" A voice croaked out from the back of the cell closest to me. I grimaced as I kept walking, now realising that all the criminals had walked closer to the bars to look at me. They were all covered in bruises- dirty and sweaty, staring at me with chapped lips and pleading eyes.
"Help us." Another called out, his voice rasped from lack of water.

"I cannot." I whispered, my hands trembling so hard that I had to force them into a fist, clenching them roughly.
"Why? Please! At least tell us why we're here!" Another called out, on the verge of crying. Only now I realised how broken their Japanese was- how weird their accent was. But I ignored it as I shook my head, ashamed by this man's ignorance. How could they not know why they were here?