A hazy, ethereal blood mist completely permeated the heavens and the earth of the Kamui space.
A column of concentrated blood, about the width of a finger, rose from the ground exactly like a phantom.
Hundreds... thousands... tens of thousands...
Hundreds of millions of rising pillars of blood mist dyed the entire Culling Game barrier an eerie, apocalyptic crimson color!
The pillars of blood were intrinsically connected to the giant Cursed Womb that blotted out the sky high in the air, and its heartbeat became more and more surging!
The artificial sun and moon of the domain looked exactly like pools of blood!
A profound, distant feeling slowly descended with the thunderous sound of the heartbeat!
The indescribable sense of terrifying oppression, like Mount Tai pressing down or a massive snow mountain collapsing directly in front of you, kept growing stronger and heavier!
All the surviving students and staff from Jujutsu High, including Takako Uro, looked up at the sky with their hands and feet turning ice-cold!
A suffocating feeling of pure dread shot straight from their feet up to their brains!
"What the hell is this?!"
Atsuya Kusakabe, who arrived hastily on foot, finally reunited with Nobara Kugisaki, Maki Zenin, and the others at this moment.
Instead of being eliminated by the group, Mahoraga had deliberately sank back into the shadows when Mirai willed it.
Looking up at the massive, falling behemoth, Kinji Hakari felt utterly, completely hopeless.
Utahime, Principal Gakuganji, Maki, and the others also looked utterly defeated.
The next second, Kusakabe plopped down on the ground, his knees giving out as he trembled all over. "It's over... everything is going to be over!"
It wasn't just that the apocalyptic Womb had hatched.
They also clearly observed a glaring, massive bloodstain on the tattered ground far ahead of them.
Above it lay the remnants of Gojo Satoru's Cursed Energy, which they knew all too well.
And at the feet of Zenin Mirai, there was Sukuna, whose physical body had been shattered into countless, bloody pieces like broken glass.
The complete fall of the two supreme powers...
Those Jujutsu High Sorcerers who arrived a step too late now fully realized just how completely hopeless the reality they were facing truly was.
An unknown, apocalyptic monster hatching in the sky, and Zenin Mirai standing on the ground—an entity even more monstrous than the monster itself.
"Fuck you!"
Hakari, standing shirtless, violently spat a thick glob of blood and phlegm onto the ground!
With a deeply furrowed, thug-like face, he growled, "Our win rate is literally negative right now!"
—SWISH!
Momo Nishimiya, flying at low altitude, brought Noritoshi Kamo to safely join the Jujutsu High faction's team from the other side of the ruined battlefield.
Mai Zenin walked to Mirai's side with her head down, not daring to look up at her sister, Maki, or the others.
Apart from White Zetsu and Fumihiko Takaba, absolutely everyone had gathered in the center of the barrier.
Even the money-loving siblings, Mei Mei and Ui Ui, arrived at the edge of the battlefield at this exact moment.
Originally, Mei Mei had intended to finally use Ui Ui's Spatial Transfer to escape the country entirely, but...
The moment the Culling Game barrier completely merged with Mirai's Kamui space, Ui Ui could no longer perceive the outside world or space to teleport to.
They were entirely trapped in the hell before their eyes.
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Mirai stood firmly on the ground, quietly observing the hatching Cursed Womb.
His Rinnegan eyes darted around, revealing hundreds of millions of swirling, twisted pillars of blood—the combined Cursed Energy of all the ordinary humans trapped within the national barrier.
Not only the living, but also the residual Cursed Energy of all the dead Sorcerers was being actively absorbed into the Womb.
For example, Gojo Satoru, Sukuna, Kenjaku, Geto...
Through the translucent surface of the Cursed Womb, Mirai's Rinnegan could clearly see the stacked, agonized, and distorted faces and souls trapped inside.
It was a strange, horrific situation.
The Death Barrier not only gathered the Cursed Energy, but also actively prevented the scattered soul energy from escaping the Kamui Space into the afterlife.
Just as Sukuna had realized... whether it was the soul or the body.
The only way to ever leave this place was to kill Zenin Mirai.
THUMP... THUMP... THUMP!!!
The earth-shaking heartbeat grew infinitely more intense, and the colossal object began to violently stretch and deform!
It gradually changed from a massive circle to a flat, elongated shape, with a dark red head and a blood-red, segmented body!
Hundreds of millions of illusory blood pillars gradually solidified, forming exactly like the countless, writhing feet of that unknown monster!
It completely resembled a highly venomous centipede that was thousands of meters long, but it was even more bizarre and terrifying!
Dark, thick black stitches were wrapped tightly around the entire length of the giant creature's body!
Its downward-facing abdomen was entirely composed of human faces with their eyes squeezed tightly closed!
These faces were those of the hundreds of millions of citizens trapped within the barrier, including all of the recently deceased!
Black Cursed stitches tightened around the massive body, violently piercing and binding together the countless faces that were exposed!
The blood-red hue on the monster's head gradually dissipated!
It was completely made of a pile of hundreds of rotting, mutated faces, grotesque and terrifying!
Among them, one could still barely recognize the deformed appearances of Suguru Geto, Noritoshi Kamo (the ancestor), Kaori Itadori, and a few others!
These were all the physical containers that had once held the brain of Kenjaku!
The very next second!
Facing the crowd of Sorcerers on the ground, the countless human faces on the monster's abdomen simultaneously snapped open their blood-red eyes!
Their eyes held an incredibly eerie, religious fervor, and they kept muttering incoherently.
—BUZZ!
The strange, overlapping syllables sounded absolutely nothing like what a human vocal cord could make, yet they were clearly incomprehensible babbling.
Yet it was exactly like a demonic sound, violently penetrating the ears, piercing straight through the physical body and reaching the soul.
"Praise... the Gods!"
"Chaos... forever!"
"To guide... all living beings!"
"Let's go together... to the other shore!"
The demonic, collective sounds pierced their ears!
Meeting those countless, fanatical eyes looking down at them, the crowd below couldn't help but feel their scalps tingle with absolute dread!
Amidst the frenzied, chaotic praise, the creature, driven by a nightmare, became utterly foolish and reckless...
The part of its massive forehead that was tightly bound by black lines suddenly tore open!
Inside, an absolutely enormous vertical pupil was revealed, with the whites of the eye covered entirely in blood-red patterns like a spiderweb!
Just the look in its eye...
Those indifferent, cosmic eyes suddenly radiated a holy, blinding white light amidst the praise of the millions of faces!
The overlapping and blended faces on its head also revealed a bizarre, compassionate expression of pity for all living beings at this moment!
...
I want to give up... I want to go home...
Struggles, self-respect, hope, and even the future of humanity...
I want to throw all of this away... even a painless death would be fine right now...
These were the exact, defeated thoughts in the minds of everyone from Jujutsu High at this moment.
The most extreme, crushing despair. A battle situation where there was absolutely no mathematical or physical chance of winning.
Let alone Jujutsu High...
Even Takako Uro standing safely beside Mirai, and Mai Zenin.
Looking up at the ominous, god-like monster high in the sky, a sense of primal fear arose from within them that could not be suppressed.
An eerie, absolute silence fell over the real world below.
Only the monster high in the sky remained active, its incessant, millions-strong babbling echoing painfully in everyone's minds.
"Stop with these fancy, pathetic tricks and get ready right now!"
Mirai frowned slightly, his slightly dissatisfied tone soaring all the way up to the sky to command the beast!
His black robes surged, and a Cursed Energy darkness deeper than the night instantly engulfed the world!
The mere rising fluctuations of Mirai's Cursed Energy instantly vanished the demonic murmurs that had completely enveloped the heavens and the earth!
The countless fanatical eyes that had opened on its massive abdomen were instantly, violently stitched back together by black lines out of pure submission to Mirai!
Only Mirai completely knew for sure what that monster in the sky was like...
Or, to put it another way... it was like a loach, scraped and dried.
It was still exactly one step away from finishing its evolution into the true Merger.
Uro patted her heaving chest repeatedly with her trembling little hands, and breathed a massive sigh of relief.
It was entirely obvious that her own boss was worse than that monster...
He was even more of a monster.
Although Mirai had a bad temper, his abilities were absolutely reliable in this hellscape.
In Uro's view, considering the brutal Heian era and environment in which she lived...
Her future boss's temper could only be described as a little bad.
As for the Jujutsu High Sorcerers...
They were still completely lost on the edge of the battlefield, unsure of what to do next.
However, a shocking, bloody change occurred the very next second!
PFFT!
Thick blood splattered violently!
Yuji Itadori's eyes suddenly shrank to the absolute size of pinpoints!
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