"Malevolent Shrine!"
"Unlimited Void!"
Gojo's barrier closed around the two of them as Sukuna's shrine burst into existence behind its creator.
Instantly, Gojo found his domain barrier bombarded by slashes from every angle simultaneously, yet it would be foolish to assume he hadn't learned any new tricks after so long.
With a hand gesture and the muttering of a chant, Gojo's barrier on the outside rippled then violently shrank. When he had first learned this, it shrank to the size of a basketball. But with his current mastery, and insight into Sukuna's domain since the last time they battled, his domain mastery had grown to such a level that the outside barrier was reduced to the size of a marble, the deep black sphere shining as the slashes barely scraped the shell.
"I'm impressed. I hadn't expected you to grow the refinement of your domain so much in such a short amount of time," Sukuna praised as Gojo smirked, rushing at the King of Curses.
"And I've got a lot more where that came from."
Gojo kicked at Sukuna's blind spots, slamming his heel into his ribs with a snap. Yet, he had to lean backward just as a large hand swiped over the space his face had occupied an instant ago.
Using his backward momentum, Gojo's hand planted on the ground as he flipped, kicking Sukuna into the air before crouching and jumping up, grabbing Sukuna's ankles to try and slam him through his own shrine.
"It's not going to be that easy, brat!" Sukuna grinned. Using Search, he saw multiple weak spots appear on Gojo's body and, with blinding speed, slammed a fist into the weak spot on his arm.
SNAP!
Gojo's arm bent the wrong way as the surge of pain caused him to stagger, letting Sukuna land safely only to jump at Gojo, driving a knee into the sorcerer's face. Gojo rocketed back, bouncing off the ground.
He recovered quickly, however, and snapped his broken arm into the correct position so it would heal faster after the domain clash ended.
That was when Sukuna put his lower arms back into his domain hand sign, amplifying the slashes of his domain as Gojo felt his barrier start to break rapidly.
Entering a sword stance, Gojo deployed New Shadow Style: Simple Domain just as his domain broke, putting his technique into burnout.
Slashes ate away at the edges of the Simple Domain, causing it to shrink at a visible rate. Then, after using RCT to clear his burnout faster, Gojo began running to escape the range of Sukuna's domain.
"Not so fast." Sukuna, with his physically superior speed, arrived in Gojo's path. Gojo was forced to block a powerful, crushing punch that would have killed a lesser sorcerer.
Luckily I'm no lesser sorcerer! Gojo grinned and swept Sukuna's legs as he redirected the force of Sukuna's punch. As he rapidly spun, he let his leg slam into Sukuna's head, all the built-up momentum launching Sukuna back.
This gave Gojo the time he needed to make it out of Sukuna's range.
Yuji was killing Cursed Spirits and transfigured humans alike as he guided civilians out of Shibuya.
He was glad they were able to begin saving people, but he couldn't help having a terrible premonition about the battle between Gojo and Sukuna still raging on in the distance.
"Yuji!" Nobara shouted, approaching after leading a different group of civilians out of the combat area.
"What's going on, Nobara?"
"Megumi just started fighting with a Special Grade Curse. They entered a domain battle just as I left to get you."
"Maki and the others are also dealing with the curse users and Cursed Spirits in their section, too. It's just me, you, and Mr. Nanami until reinforcements from Kyoto Jujutsu High arrive."
Nobara was sweating; she was surprised that after all her training she actually managed to take on so many Grade 2 curses and even a couple of Grade 1 Cursed Spirits. But she wasn't used to being so drained during a mission.
I'll have Yuji protect me until my stamina recovers... she thought as Nanami approached them, a dozen or two civilians running toward the barrier's exit.
"Have you two evacuated everyone?"
"Yeah, everyone over here has been cleared out already." Yuji nodded as Nanami began making a plan to go and cover the others with their tasks.
It was already 8:00 PM in Shibuya, an hour since the incident began, and yet they had already cleared out so many people.
"Yuji Itadori, we meet in person at last~" a cheerful voice said as the three Jujutsu Sorcerers looked up to see Mahito sitting happily atop some rubble.
"Sukuna got in the way of me and Junpei, but this time, there's no Sukuna in my way to save you." Mahito leaped down, landing in front of the three of them. With a blur of speed, his arm turned into a bladed whip, cutting through the trio.
At least that was what should have happened. Yuji moved even faster than he did, catching the whip arm and slamming Mahito through the walls of a building.
"This guy's a Special Grade, be careful," Nanami said, gripping his cleaver tight as he dashed at the recovering Mahito.
Mahito attempted to cut Nanami down using his second arm, which he turned into a drill, but a ratio line appeared across Mahito's body at that instant.
Hitting the weak spot on the ratio, a violent Black Flash cleaved through Mahito's body, stunning the curse, who leaped back to regenerate.
"Ha!" Yuji roared from above, slamming a fist into Mahito's head, punching a crater into the ground as Mahito's body bounced off the impact.
Yuji rained punches on Mahito's body without giving the curse a chance to breathe, and with a final wind-up, Yuji punched Mahito in the face so hard his head nearly spun off.
"Wow, I thought a Special Grade would put up more of a fight. Maybe this one was a little bitch, hahaha!" Nobara laughed at the pathetic look Mahito had after talking so big.
However, Mahito's body twitched as it reformed. He spat out a tooth and some blood as Yuji's attacks hit the outline of his soul, dealing real damage to him.
"Dammit, I didn't expect something like this..." Mahito wiped his face and closed his eyes, remembering what he saw: the pinnacle of power, unlike anything he'd witnessed before.
He pictured it, and envisioned himself in the place of that power. Then he grabbed his own face, absorbing thousands of both transfigured humans and Grade 1 Cursed Spirits he had made artificially over the planning time before Shibuya.
He wouldn't be wasting these as mere grunts when they could be used as fuel to further his own strength, a solitary strength that could stand against everything!
As the mountain of flesh condensed back around Mahito, he changed. His long hair was now pure white, his four heterochromic eyes brushing over them with a hazy gaze. His body was coated in dense gray plating, and he boasted four arms and extra mouths on his palms.
"Instant Spirit Body: Mirror of the Cursed King~"
"How about wishing me a Happy Birthday, Itadori?"
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