"You can probably make Orizuki bigger. Practising using your technique and cursed energy control will make you more powerful and versatile."

"Yeah. It just, um. Changes things if it's a... thing I do as a hobby versus. A thing I could do with the rest of my life?" Then he smiles a little, shy and self conscious. "But uh, you wanted to watch Earthworm 2, so. I can practice while we do that?"

"Sure! That'll bring me back, I also had to practise cursed energy control while watching this movie. I had this cursed plush toy that would punch me if I changed my cursed energy output for any reason, like a jumpscare or tension in the movie or whatever." His face grows steadily less cheerful as he recounts the anecdote, ending with him rubbing one of his cheeks. "Little hateful bastard."

"... It would punch you??? Why?????"

"To give me appropriate incentive to learn how to control my cursed energy as quickly as possible! Also because Sensei is a sadist. ...and maybe because that was the only cursed doll he could pilfer from Gakuchou-sensei without being noticed."

"I... see. Being a sorcerer sounds hard."

"But it's fun! ...and other people don't need to be punched. I never explained, did I? I don't have any cursed energy of my own. I'm a normie. Except for the super-strength, which I dunno where it comes from. Then one day my friends accidentally released the seal on a cursed object which attracted a bunch of curses and I ate the cursed object which made the evil curse that was trapped in it possess me but then it turns out I am the first vessel in a thousand years who can completely contain him."

"You're very full of yourself, aren't you."

Tōkan slaps his cheek where that mouth showed up. "Except sometimes he shows up like this to undermine me."

"And anyway most sorcerers have a much easier time controlling their cursed energy."

"... You have a curse in you?? Is he there... always...? Like even when you go to the bathroom...??"

"Yeah."

"As if I'd pay attention to anything as mundane as that."

Another slap. "I think he's just asleep most of the time. Normal sorcerer life is boring to him."

No comment.

"O...kay. Uh. Does he. Also want to watch Earthworm 2...?"

"You are incredibly boring," Sukuna drawls to Junpei, "and this one is wasting his time with you. You will live a short, sad, path—"

He vanishes without Tōkan having to slap himself. "Okay, that's enough from you for now." And to Junpei: "He's really evil. He's the one who killed me that one time. ...he also brought me back, but still. I am not particularly interested in respecting his movie opinions."

"O-Okay. Makes sense. Um."

Junpei is totally going to put the movie on now, instead of hovering vaguely in indecision. ... And then he'll play with his jellyfish. This is not a euphemism.

And they can have a more cheerful time of watching a movie about horrible unethical medical experiments performed on people!

There's a human in the sewers. He walks slowly, unhurriedly, until he reaches the foot of the rubble left by the wall and ceiling Nanami Kento collapsed on top of Mahito earlier. He takes a long look from top to bottom and whistles, impressed

A small slimy stitched worm pulls itself from within the rubble, and once it's all the way free it metamorphoses back into a more human-looking form. They look up at the human and start laughing. "Getō! Oh, that sorcerer was a lot more reckless than he looked!"

"So it seems. He almost got you."

"Nope!"

"No?"