"Can I leave now?" Granny Ogami asked nervously.
Having been imprisoned for so many years, she desperately longed for the freedom of the outside world.
Mirai smiled slightly. "Of course. We already agreed on that, didn't we?"
In order to put the old woman at ease during her seance, he had promised that he and his subordinates would never do anything cruel to her, like discarding a used tool after it had served its purpose.
After Suguru Geto took control of Master Tengen, Mirai kept his promise and released Granny Ogami.
As for whether she would be crushed to death immediately upon landing from the Kamui dimension high up in the sky...
Her dying wails, as she fell to the earth, were filled with a resentment that seemed to reach the highest heavens.
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Let's go back to the present.
"He's the King of Clowns, after all. If I take him down, I'll inevitably get a little injured too."
Down on the battlefield, Gojo Satoru raised an eyebrow, looking toward Mirai high in the sky, and said provocatively, "Hiding so far away... are you planning to just reap the benefits at the end?"
The plan was nearing its grand finale, and Mirai was in a rare moment of great joy.
Waving casually to the people below, Mirai replied with a smile, "You kids play for a while. The adults have some important business to attend to."
As he spoke, he pressed his palms together and interlaced his fingers to form a hand seal.
"Return to the origin."
"A profusion of flowers."
"The boundary between life and death."
"Between existence and the void."
During the incantation, terrifying waves of Cursed Energy instantly swept across the heavens and the earth!
Satoru Gojo, Sukuna, and the Jujutsu High Sorcerers hiding in the shadows all focused their attention!
They focused their senses to the absolute maximum!
That soaring surge of Cursed Energy...
'If I'm not careful... I'll die!!!'
Pushing his ocular power to its absolute limit, Mirai rose from his shadowy throne and uttered a low shout: "Maximum Technique..."
"Kamui!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a shocking change occurred!
BOOM!!!
The rippling void resembled an invisible giant mouth capable of swallowing heaven and earth, growing ever more intense!
Centered on Mirai, the surging void radiated outwards throughout the entire world!
Looking up, the entire sky resembled a mirror about to shatter, riddled with black cracks!
The misaligned space misled the eye, making it seem as if nine blazing suns were hanging high in the dome of the sky!
Strange phenomena appeared one after another!
A bizarre ancient tree, connecting heaven and earth, stood like a mirage in the very center of the barrier!
The colossal, elusive object—the Divine Tree seemingly existing in another dimension—was gradually invading and taking root in reality!
At last...
A gigantic, exaggeratedly massive black sphere, resembling a dark sun, slowly rose into the sky!
The giant, round object seemed to contain life, still slightly bulging and pulsating like a beating heart.
The entire barrier was instantly filled with the aura of absolute curses, evil, misfortune, and taboo!
...
"...What is that...?"
Nobara Kugisaki looked completely flustered, and her body trembled uncontrollably.
Even without watching the footage broadcast from Mei Mei's crow's perspective on the screens, one could physically sense the terror in the sky simply by feeling the Cursed Energy!
"A Cursed Womb..."
Atsuya Kusakabe abruptly pulled back his chair, instinctively biting the cigarette in his mouth perfectly in two!
"Hey, hey, hey... that thing... it's a Cursed Womb, isn't it?!"
"A Cursed Womb...?"
Yuji Itadori still remembered the first time he carried out a mission at the Juvenile Detention Center; it was because of the Special Grade Cursed Spirit born from a Cursed Womb.
But the original Cursed Womb that gave birth to that Special Grade was only an egg-shaped embryo a dozen meters tall.
Now...
As they scanned the screen and saw the colossal object that nearly blotted out the entire sky, everyone swallowed hard in unison.
Shoko Ieiri murmured, "If that thing is truly a Cursed Womb, it will definitely give birth to a monster that could destroy the world."
Mei Mei temporarily cut off her visual connection with the crow, panting softly, her chest heaving rapidly.
Seeing so many horrifying scenes in a single instant caused her Cursed Technique to become momentarily disordered from the sheer shock.
"Suguru Geto has been resurrected. Presumably, that thing must be a monster created using Master Tengen as a base, assimilating the Cursed Energy of hundreds of millions of people."
After listening to Shoko's analysis, Kusakabe laughed out of pure despair.
"HAHAHA!"
"Let's just stop trying and all wait to die together."
Kusakabe plopped heavily down into a chair, lit another cigarette, and smiled bleakly at everyone. "What are our chances of winning now? A fraction of a percent?"
Yuji, Yuta, and the others clenched their fists tightly, wanting to say something encouraging, but they didn't know what to say.
The barrier enveloped Japan, and it also enveloped Hell itself.
Ring ring~
The phone rang abruptly, and Mei Mei frowned as she took out her cell phone.
"It's a call from the Zenin Clan Head. It's best if everyone keeps absolutely quiet for now," Mei Mei gave a stern reminder to the group, then connected the speakerphone.
Mirai: "Miss Mei Mei. How can such a crucial live broadcast, which is being broadcasted globally, be interrupted so easily?"
"Having made billions in ticket revenue, you should at least be more professional."
She tapped on the row of laptops in front of her and replied with a forced laugh, "So many terrifying phenomena... I was almost scared to death just now."
"I'm still inside the barrier as your live streamer, so please don't accidentally kill me too, Clan Head Zenin."
Mirai: "Don't worry, I'll add another layer of protection to your location. Resume the live stream as soon as possible."
After she hung up the phone, everyone inside the safehouse fell deathly silent.
"Hahaha!"
"So it turns out even this hidden safehouse is entirely under his control." Kusakabe shrugged, completely giving up.
...
Meanwhile, back on the battlefield.
Sukuna, and Gojo Satoru, who possessed the Six Eyes...
The two of them had discovered much more than Shoko and the others!
A misaligned space, with the giant Divine Tree appearing and disappearing intermittently.
This wasn't about taking root in the real world, but about dragging the entire Culling Game barrier into his unknown Kamui dimension!
It wasn't an invasion; it was a devouring!
Gojo Satoru and Sukuna, the two Strongest, both looked solemnly at the figure in the sky!
That guy intended to swallow an entire country, hundreds of millions of ordinary humans, that terrifying Cursed Womb in the sky, and even the two of them...
Devour them all!
The exact moment the live stream resumed, Mirai stepped out of Kamui and appeared directly on the battlefield between them.
"If we're talking about a warm-up... you three are barely qualified."
Upon hearing this...
Gojo Satoru and Sukuna both simultaneously revealed a crazy, bloodthirsty smile!
"Red!"
"Dismantle!"
Two incredibly powerful and terrifying attacks shot toward Mirai, one after the other!
BOOM!!!
The two attacks were slapped away by a single, casual palm strike, creating a towering explosion on one side of the battlefield!
"As expected, you can't use your intangibility technique right now!" Gojo deduced.
If he had faced this kind of attack before, this guy wouldn't even need to raise his hand to block it; the attacks would have just passed right through him.
Seeing the triumphant smile on Gojo Satoru's face, Mirai's lips curled into a mocking smirk. "So what? You're all still just a pack of stray dogs."
Just as the two had predicted, Mirai was not releasing the true form of the Divine Tree into the outside world.
Instead, he was dragging the entire Culling Game barrier into his Kamui dimension.
The battlefield was now gradually shifting from reality into the realm of Kamui. Because Mirai was acting as the anchor for the massive transfer, his ability to phase through attacks was naturally lost for the time being.
However... it didn't matter.
"HAHAHA! That's pretty arrogant!!"
BOOM!!!
With a sinister grin, Sukuna lunged forward, unleashing an invisible surge of kinetic energy!
"Come on! Let the ultimate feast begin!"
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