"Excellent! Excellent!"
Looking down at the seven figures rushing upward toward him, Mirai's extremely dense Cursed Energy exuded a unique, absolute top-tier pressure!
"The scenery is truly beautiful from up here!"
With a smile, Mirai commented casually, his hands slowly forming a familiar shadow puppet seal that surprised the two 'Strongest' men charging at him.
"Divine Dogs."
Two enormous creatures, one pitch black and one pure white, each tens of meters tall, descended from the sky!
Sukuna and Gojo Satoru both had looks of pure doubt on their faces.
This was the most basic Shikigami for the Ten Shadows Technique—a beginner's reward that could be summoned and used without even needing to be subjected to the taming ritual.
Despite being empowered and enlarged by Mirai's massive amount of Cursed Energy, making them strong enough to easily crush ordinary Special Grade Cursed Spirits... against them?
Was he only going to use them to this extent?
After a brief moment of hesitation, the two 'Strongest' fighters made their move!
Sukuna released point-blank Cleave slashes, the ecstasy of battle rising from his fingertips!
Before the two massive Divine Dogs could even howl in attack, they were blown to absolute bits!
They didn't escape back into the shadows; they suffered utter death!
"What's going on?! Show me what you've really got!"
Sukuna looked up, his tone extremely dissatisfied.
The initial passion of the fight seemed to have been extinguished considerably. Instead, Mirai's weak move evoked a feeling of being humiliated.
"Don't rush. Take your time."
Mirai responded with a light laugh, and his hands formed another mudra.
"Toad. Great Serpent."
Another pair of beginner-level Shikigami, fused using the Unknown Well's Abyss technique, charged straight down from the massive shadow at Mirai's feet!
"You're really underestimating us!"
Gojo Satoru also spoke up in intense displeasure, unleashing his full power with Blue, instantly piercing straight through the giant winged serpent's body...
But suddenly, the trajectory of Blue curved violently toward Sukuna!
"Brat! I'll peel off your scales later!"
Sukuna casually dodged the attacking Blue by tilting his head, and effortlessly killed the falling winged Toad with a slash!
"Nue. Round Deer."
Wings that blotted out the sky, carrying an overwhelming pressure!
With brilliant flashes of lightning and positive energy, the two Shikigami fell once again to their immediate deaths!
"Piercing Ox."
Sukuna and Gojo Satoru finally realized something was horribly wrong with Mirai's act of summoning these Shikigami at once on a suicide mission!
Standing atop the Susanoo giant's head, the once spotless white kasaya of Zenin Mirai was slowly fading and turning entirely pitch black!
It was the exact same dark color as his shadows, thick and rich with profound Cursed Energy!
Sukuna's face darkened; he had a rough idea of what Zenin Mirai planned to do!
Sukuna slammed his palms together, leaving a tiny gap between them!
His surging Cursed Energy was channeled, and a highly pressurized column of water—as powerful as Piercing Blood—shot straight up to the top of Susanoo's head like a stream of light!
The jet of pressurized water was easily shattered by Susanoo's massive, outstretched palm before it even got close to its target!
High in the sky, Mirai looked down at Sukuna and smiled slightly.
It seemed to be an expression of pure appreciation for Sukuna seeing through his plan.
Sukuna's face instantly turned extremely gloomy!
That previous attack was Sukuna using his own physical vessel to directly unleash the power of Max Elephant—an advanced technique he could only use after he fully mastered Megumi's Ten Shadows Technique!
The absolute sharpness of the Divine Dogs, the agility of the Great Serpent, the defense of the Piercing Ox, the healing of the Round Deer, the soaring speed of the Nue...
That kid is deliberately sacrificing his own Shikigami!
He's permanently adding all their destroyed traits and abilities to himself via Totality!
This was an absolute mastery that Sukuna—who had only recently acquired the Ten Shadows Technique—could not safely do to his own physical body without risking catastrophic cellular breakdown!
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"Damn it! This is a huge problem!"
With a low shout, Sukuna spat out his commands, and the speed of Mahoraga and Agito increased to another level!
Gojo Satoru, who was the last to discover the horrible truth, turned his head and glanced at Suguru Geto, nodding slightly!
Mirai's white robes had faded more than halfway to black, and only two of the ten Shikigami remained alive in his shadows!
Just as Mirai was preparing to unleash the Escape Rabbit to sacrifice it next, seven streaks of light shot out before his eyes!
Before Sukuna could make his ultimate move, Suguru Geto, who had sensed that they were finally close enough, launched the first attack!
Geto flicked his finger, and the Vengeful Spirit Naoya rapidly formed a hand seal.
"Domain Expansion—Time Cell Moon Palace!"
Susanoo was neither a Cursed Spirit nor a Shikigami!
It was a construct solidified entirely from the ocular power of the Mangekyo and Mirai's own Cursed Energy!
Therefore, the Domain barrier could not simply expel it; the massive barrier could only physically envelop the giant construct inside!
A desolate, fleshy starry sky! At the end of a long passage paved with writhing flesh and blood, stood a huge, blood-red, monocular eye!
The single, massive eye swept up and down, simultaneously marking Mirai high above and Sukuna down on the ground!
SNAP!
Before the Domain's sure-hit Projection spell could even be activated, a massive crack suddenly appeared in Naoya's barrier!
"Brat, what kind of pretend game are you playing?"
Sukuna retorted sarcastically, glaring at Geto. "I have absolutely no interest in this low-level trash Domain!"
Standing in a corner of the rapidly shattering barrier was Mahoraga, who was already raising the Sword of Extermination to completely destroy the Domain!
For a Domain of Naoya's level, Mahoraga only needed a few seconds to fully adapt to its rules!
Sukuna didn't even have time to make a move before Mahoraga broke through it!
He didn't think this weak Domain had even the slightest possibility of harming Mirai!
"What's the rush, Clown-senpai?"
"Are you in a hurry to be reincarnated?"
Suguru Geto responded with a mocking smile, and the exact moment Naoya's barrier shattered, his Cursed Energy surged once again!
Yorozu, now transformed into a Special Grade Cursed Spirit, formed a heart-shaped hand seal.
"Domain Expansion—Threefold Affliction!"
BOOM!
This was not Suguru Geto's own Domain Expansion, but rather the Domains of the Cursed Spirits he controlled via Uzumaki!
Therefore, during the consecutive release process, Geto was not affected by Cursed Technique Burnout!
In a fraction of a second, before the outer shell of Naoya's shattered Domain had even fully fallen away, it was suddenly, seamlessly covered by Yorozu's True Sphere Domain!
"It's all exactly the same, no matter how much of this garbage you throw at me!"
Sukuna's tone was incredibly impatient. The Dharmachakra wheel above Mahoraga's head turned with a click, and the massive Shikigami shot directly toward Yorozu!
The greatsword bound to Mahoraga's right arm was the Sword of Extermination—a blade entirely enveloped in Positive Cursed Energy, possessing the absolute ability to instantly kill any Cursed Spirit it touched!
Facing Yorozu, who had once loved him to the point of absolute madness, Sukuna did not hesitate to order her execution for a single moment!
Looking down at the farce below from the Susanoo's head, a playful smile suddenly appeared on Mirai's lips.
At this moment, Mirai's eyes finally turned to Gojo Satoru, who had been completely silent for a long time during the Domain clashes.
The slowly rising fluctuations of Gojo's Cursed Energy had been completely, flawlessly concealed by Suguru Geto chain-casting the Domains!
Hidden behind Gojo's fingertips, a secret, highly concentrated red light flickered.
The exact moment Mirai realized the trick... the exact instant Mahoraga shattered Yorozu's Domain!
"Phase", "Twilight", "Eyes of Wisdom"!
Gojo Satoru chanted a rapid, brief incantation, and the Red at his fingertips erupted with an astonishing, hyper-focused repulsive force!
The Domain shattered with a massive crash, and Sukuna instantly noticed something was horribly amiss!
The Blue that he had casually dodged by turning his head earlier... it had circled the entire Shinjuku area without dissipating and had returned to the battlefield once again!
Given Gojo Satoru's notoriously mischievous personality, the technique of piercing through Mirai's Shikigami and shooting Blue at Sukuna earlier didn't seem wrong or out of character to Mirai at the time.
Mirai had only just discovered that the tiny bit of ambient Cursed Energy from the errant Blue was completely abnormal.
It had to be said... the former Strongest Duo of Gojo and Geto possessed unparalleled teamwork.
Suguru Geto ruthlessly abandoned two top-tier Special Grade Cursed Spirits via Domain clashes.
He used them solely to cover the fluctuations of Red's Cursed Energy buildup, and to physically block Mirai and Sukuna's line of sight as Blue silently flew back through the air behind them.
The collision of Blue and Red was absolutely imminent!
Having missed the only viable window to stop their convergence, Sukuna's face showed a look of absolute caution!
"HAHAHA! COME ON!"
Gojo Satoru's maniacal laughter echoed as he sent the crimson orb of Red shooting into the air from his fingertips to perfectly meet the returning Blue!
"Nine Ropes", "Polarized Light", "Crow and Declaration", "Between Front and Back"!
"Hollow Technique—Purple!!!"
The 200% Hollow Purple light that filled the sky and earth was like countless sharp swords piercing into everyone's eyes!
In the final microsecond before the explosion, Mirai also summoned a massive number of Escape Rabbits to wrap his Susanoo in an extra layer of dense shadows!
As for Sukuna...
"MAHORAGA!!!"
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