"A challenger?"
Sukuna let out a mocking laugh, as if Gojo Satoru had said something amusing.
"It seems a successful sneak attack has made you quite arrogant, Gojo Satoru."
Sukuna raised his head, and despite looking up, he exuded an Aura no weaker than Gojo Satoru's.
"You are merely an insignificant fish, jumping a bit more lively on the chopping board than the others."
The same arrogance as Gojo Satoru appeared in Sukuna's eyes, even mixed with a hint of disdain.
"Let me peel off your scales first."
Crack, crash.
The billboard, which had been broken by Ryomen Sukuna and was hanging from the rooftop, finally snapped completely and fell.
The moment their vision was obscured by the billboard, both acted simultaneously.
Bang.
Two fists, one large and one small, collided fiercely through the billboard, shattering it directly by their immense power.
Gojo Satoru looked arrogantly at Sukuna, then increased the power in his hand again.
Whoosh, boom.
Sukuna was once again sent flying back into the building he had just exited.
"Tch, this body is really weak."
Sukuna looked at his flawless arm with dissatisfaction.
This was a hand that could arouse a man's desire and make him obsessed with it, with just one touch.
Especially for a certain hand-obsessed Yoshikage Kira, he would absolutely not be able to refuse such a beautiful hand.
Clearly, this was not a hand meant for fighting.
Aside from anything else, Gojo Satoru's arm was almost twice as thick as this body's arm.
Fortunately, Sukuna's even more immense Cursed Energy could compensate for this.
Gojo Satoru stepped through the air, punching Sukuna's head.
Sukuna, having experienced countless battles, reacted instantly.
First, he formed his left hand into a palm and struck Gojo Satoru's wrist.
The wrist is not only much more fragile than the fist, but being hit there also prevents the fist from exerting normal force.
Then, Sukuna's right hand attacked Gojo Satoru's jaw.
If this blow landed, Gojo Satoru would fall into a brief daze due to the impact on his brain.
Gojo Satoru dodged Sukuna's attack with a backflip, then slightly crouched.
After crouching, he pushed off with his legs again, launching himself forward at an even faster speed, aiming a punch directly at Sukuna's vital points.
The current Gojo Satoru was different from his slender physique during his High School days.
To thoroughly beat Toji Fushiguro, Gojo Satoru had invested much more in martial arts than originally.
So, the current Gojo Satoru's physique was more robust.
The current Gojo Satoru was typically lean in clothes but muscular when undressed, his physique's lethality rivaling Toji Fushiguro's.
"Tsk."
At this moment, Ryomen Sukuna had a strange feeling.
He used to be taller and stronger than Gojo Satoru, and he had always crushed others with absolute power.
Then those people would desperately cling to life using various minor tricks disguised as skills.
However, now, it was he who needed to rely on skill to fight.
Watching Gojo Satoru charge at him rapidly.
Sukuna immediately jumped backward, simultaneously parrying downwards with his right hand, deflecting Gojo Satoru's heavy punch.
Gojo Satoru lightly tapped the ground with his toes to adjust his posture, then delivered a mid-level roundhouse kick towards Sukuna.
The height difference between the two was too great, so a high kick would easily miss.
Sukuna bent his arm and raised his knee to block, but was directly kicked away by the blow.
Crash.
Sukuna's body, like a cannonball, smashed through the glass and flew out the window, then spread his arms and free-fell through the air.
Gojo Satoru pursued closely, once again closing in on Sukuna's position.
"Dismantle!"
Sukuna bent his body, hugged his knees, and rotated, adjusting his falling figure from a spread-eagle position to a standing one.
Then, with a swing of his right hand, a powerful slash flew towards Gojo Satoru.
Sukuna used a Cursed Technique, so Gojo Satoru naturally no longer confined himself to fisticuffs.
Under the effect of Limitless, Sukuna's Dismantle did not harm Gojo Satoru in the slightest, instead slicing through the building behind them where they had just fought.
A trace of mockery, which annoyed Sukuna, appeared on Gojo Satoru's lips.
He pointed his right hand behind him, aiming at the falling half of the building.
"Cursed Technique Reversal: Blue."
The building, which was originally crashing down on Gojo Satoru, was continuously compressed by the effect of Blue, and under Gojo Satoru's control, it smashed towards Sukuna like a meteor hammer carrying immense force.
Sukuna once again used dozens of slashes to neutralize Gojo Satoru's attack.
Bang, bang.
Both landed almost simultaneously, adding two new craters to the previously flat asphalt road.
"You really are interesting, you guy."
Gojo Satoru happily stretched his shoulders.
Although it was just a test, because his opponent was the legendary Ryomen Sukuna, Gojo Satoru held nothing back and seriously beat him.
There weren't many who could take such a serious beating from him and still be fine.
One must know that even when he beat Toji Fushiguro, he had to hold back a little.
Otherwise, Megumi would cry for him.
Megumi Fushiguro's feelings towards his father, Toji Fushiguro, were very complex; it was a case of a small beating being affectionate, but a big beating causing heartache.
"Oh, right."
Gojo Satoru gave a thumbs-up and then pointed to the building behind him that had a section sliced off.
"All this destruction is on your tab."
"Where do you get the nerve to say that?"
Sukuna's tone even carried a hint of exasperation.
The probing had ended, and both sides had gained some understanding of each other's capabilities.
Gojo Satoru concluded that he had the advantage in hand-to-hand combat.
Ryomen Sukuna also concluded that if he didn't revert to his true form, he would be at a disadvantage in close combat.
Round two began, and the true battle was about to commence.
Both simultaneously formed hand signs, and vast Cursed Energy began to rapidly spread out from their centers.
"Domain Expansion: Unlimited Void."
"Domain Expansion: Malevolent Shrine."
A wilderness filled with countless skeletons emerged beneath their feet, and on the hills made of countless piled-up skeletons, a shrine stood at the summit.
Unlike the Hell-like ground, the sky within the Domain was like a deep starry sea.
In the center of the starry sea, an existence resembling an eye and a black hole watched over the desolate land.
At this moment, Gojo Satoru, standing in the sky, was like a Heavenly God descending to smite evil.
Both Domains expanded simultaneously, and their sure-hit effects canceled each other out.
Since Gojo Satoru's Domain was a closed-type Domain, its range was smaller.
Therefore, Ryomen Sukuna's open-type Domain, Malevolent Shrine, successfully enveloped Gojo Satoru's Domain completely.
Countless slashes struck the outer shell of Gojo Satoru's Domain from the outside.
'No, wait.'
Sukuna, who had been mockingly looking at Gojo Satoru, suddenly noticed something was wrong.
Why had the slashes continued for some time, yet the outer shell of Gojo Satoru's Domain still hadn't shattered?
"You… reversed the conditions of the barrier for inside and outside?"
"That's right. Coincidentally, we also have someone who can use an open-type Domain, so I'm quite familiar with them too."
Seeing Sukuna's gradually fading smile.
Gojo Satoru, on the other hand, seemed very happy.
Indeed, smiles don't disappear; they merely transfer.
During the brief few seconds of Domain clash, Gojo Satoru also assessed the situation of Sukuna's Domain.
Under the attack of Sukuna's Domain, his Domain's outer shell could withstand a maximum of 216 seconds.
This was one-fifth longer than the 3 minutes Eichi initially estimated.
Gojo Satoru immediately thought of a possibility.
The current Sukuna had 16 fingers, not 20, and Eichi's estimated 3 minutes might have been calculated based on 20 fingers.
The condition for victory was clear: defeat the person in front of him completely with martial arts before the Domain shattered!
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