#actually why does Kokujouji get to be resurrected he lived a whole life

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After rok the strains and kings aura are 100% gone shiro become uninvincible and all the person that used to be kings and dead gain one wish from the slate and that was to come back to life at the age that they die as king but for the gold king and nagare the slate(in white hair form) ask both of them about their choice. The gold king choose to come back at the age he first gain king power while nagare choose 25.

Kokujouji got the lucky pick in that situation since he already got to live to be an old guy and now he gets to start all over again, at least Nagare legitimately didn’t get to live a full life. Maybe it’s sorta related to how Shiro gets sent back into his old body at the end of ROK, like destroying the Slate doesn’t just make superpowers go away but it kinda does a ‘reversal’ of some of the things that were changed due to its influence. There’s not enough power left to reverse major damage — like the Kagutsu Crater is still a thing, and all the people who died there won’t come back — but it can at least reach out to the ‘souls’ of former Kings who died and bring them back to life. Generally this would be at the point that they died but say for Kokujouji, who died of old age rather than due to being a King, he’s allowed to choose either the day he became King or when he died. Hisui is also a similar case since technically he ‘died’ when he was a child at the same time he became King, but he’s allowed to choose the age of his ‘second and final’ death when the Slate was destroyed. 

Though this does beg the question of how far back is the Slate willing to go here in the resurrection fest, what about Iwafune? Kagutsu? Habari? The first group of Kings? I could see this causing new trouble if everyone is brought back, like Kagutsu is presumably less dangerous now that he’s not a King but I could still see him as an underworld figure with strong influence who could become a problem. Similarly I could see Habari feeling obligated to go after Kagutsu even after being reborn because he doesn’t want to fail in that duty again, and probably arguing with Zenjoh who’s happy to see Habari back but doesn’t want him to give up his new life just chasing the old one again. Maybe the Slate only undoes the most recent deaths, which would just add Iwa-san to the mix. Imagine he’s still an older guy though, since this was at the point of his death, I feel like this would lead to some interesting interactions with him and a younger Gold King who is now a young whippersnapper who doesn’t get to be the boss of him anymore. Iwafune would probably follow whatever Nagare wants to do, I could see them both joining back up with Yukari and Sukuna because Hisui wants to explore that ‘small table and a family to eat with’ that Shiro spoke of.