Inside the purple crystal, Yamada watched the whistling fire arrow, a cold sneer curling at the corner of his lips.
"Playing with fire in front of me?"
The Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan in Yamada's right eye suddenly lit up with a piercing red glow.
"You are just humiliating yourself."
The massive body of the Perfect Susanoo moved. It made no move to evade. Its left arm rose, and a terrifying longbow condensed from Lightning Release Chakra was instantly held in its hand.
The right hand pulled the string and a ball of fire as black as ink appeared out of thin air on the bowstring.
Amaterasu.
This black karmic fire, said to be able to burn away everything in the world, was quickly elongated under the precise control of Kagutsuchi, turning into a pure black arrow dozens of meters long.
Not only did inextinguishable black flames burn on the arrow's body, but it was also entwined with frantic purple lightning.
Yamada released his fingers.
Twang!
The arrow of black flames turned into a streak of black lightning that tore through the night, shooting out from above to meet Sukuna's fire arrow.
The two arrows, representing the peaks of their respective systems, collided violently in mid-air.
At the moment of contact, Sukuna's crimson fire, which could incinerate cities, was like encountering its true nemesis. It was swallowed on the spot by Amaterasu's black flames in an extremely overbearing and unreasonable manner.
The ordinary flames became excellent fuel for the black flames to burn.
The black flame arrow pierced through Sukuna's offensive, its speed not decreasing in the slightest as it hit the bone shrine below.
Boom!!!
The black flames exploded the moment they hit the ground, turning into a pitch-black sea of fire that swallowed everything within a radius of hundreds of meters.
Crack... Boom!
Before this black karmic fire that could even ignite the soul, the Malevolent Shrine constructed by Sukuna's Cursed Energy couldn't even last a second. All the bones were burned to ashes, and the domain space completely collapsed.
"Aaaaaah!"
Sukuna, at the center of the explosion, let out a shrill scream. Amaterasu's black flames instantly attached to his body, frantically consuming this physical form.
His proud Reverse Cursed Technique became futile at this moment. Before the newly grown flesh could even take shape, it was burned into charcoal by the black flames.
Escape!
This was the only thought that flashed through Sukuna's mind.
He gritted his teeth, ignoring the intense pain of being incinerated as he forcibly severed his left arm and half his body enveloped in black flames, using the shockwave of the explosion to retreat frantically.
At the edge of the distant ruins, Jogo, who had witnessed the entire process, was so terrified that even his soul was trembling.
Sukuna... was actually defeated by one move?! His domain was burned right through?!
"A monster... that is an invincible god! Run! I must run quickly!"
Jogo turned around, scrambling and crawling, large clouds of black smoke erupting from the volcano on his head as he fled desperately toward the underground entrance of Shibuya Station.
Right now, he only wanted to return to Kenjaku's side and tell him that there was a major problem with the plan—there was an absolute star of calamity in this world that must never be provoked!
"You've watched the whole show, and now you want to leave?"
A whisper like that of a Shinigami exploded in Jogo's ear without any warning.
Jogo's single eye widened suddenly. He didn't even have time to turn his head.
Puff!
A black longsword entwined with purple lightning had already pierced through his back, penetrating his chest and emerging from the front with a series of violent electrical arcs.
The Kusanagi Sword.
At some point, Yamada had already deactivated the Susanoo and used Amenotejikara to instantly swap positions with a piece of rubble beside Jogo, appearing silently behind him.
"Ugh..."
Jogo opened his mouth wide, spitting out a large mouthful of purple Cursed Blood.
High-density Lightning Release Chakra poured frantically into his body along the sword's blade, instantly electrocuting his Cursed Energy circuits until they snapped inch by inch.
"In my hunting ground, no mouse can run out alive."
Yamada twisted his wrist, and lightning erupted.
Boom!
The Special Grade Cursed Spirit Jogo, with a distinguished record in the original series, didn't even get to say a single complete last word before his entire body exploded into a cloud of flying ashes under the rampage of the lightning.
Casually shaking off the residue on the Kusanagi Sword, Yamada turned around and looked toward the other side.
Dozens of meters away, Sukuna, with half his body burned away, was kneeling on the scorched earth, gasping for air in large gulps. His only remaining right hand gripped the ground tightly.
Although Reverse Cursed Technique was working desperately, under Yamada's deliberate control, the remaining black flames were still hindering his recovery at the wound.
"Cough cough... you bastard..."
Sukuna looked up, the face belonging to Yuji covered in hideous black marks, his eyes filled with extreme resentment.
Yamada held his sword, walking toward him with leisurely steps.
"Fifteen fingers, and this is all you've got?"
Yamada looked down at the King of Curses from a height, his eyes full of boredom.
"It seems I still overestimated you. A thousand years hasn't allowed you to evolve. Instead, it has turned you into a piece of trash that only knows how to bark while cowering in a brat's body."
"I'll kill you... I'll definitely kill you!" Sukuna roared through gritted teeth, his remaining right hand attempting to condense a slash.
Bang!
Yamada ruthlessly kicked Sukuna in the chin.
The massive force dislocated Sukuna's cervical vertebrae, and he rolled several times on the ground before crashing heavily into the distant concrete ruins.
"Go back and stay there."
Yamada's gaze was icy. "The current you doesn't even have the qualification to make me serious. When you've found all twenty fingers and recovered your so-called prime, then come before me to beg for death."
The successive heavy blows and the burning of Amaterasu had already pushed this vessel's endurance to its limit.
Sukuna's consciousness began to blur. He roared unwillingly, but the black marks on his face uncontrollably receded like a tide.
Two pairs of eyes closed, and the will belonging to Yuji finally reclaimed control of the body at the moment Sukuna's power failed.
"Cough..."
Yuji snapped his eyes open, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
The intense pain of broken bones throughout his body and half his body being scorched made him convulse all over.
But as he looked at the ruins before him, which looked as if they had been leveled by a missile, and at Yamada standing not far away holding a black sword, he maintained a sliver of clarity.
"Yamada-san... thank you..."
Yuji knew that if Yamada hadn't stepped in, he, whose body was occupied by Sukuna, would have definitely started an irreversible one-sided massacre in this block just now.
"Shut up and lie still."
Yamada walked forward, putting away the Kusanagi Sword.
He raised his right hand, and a rich emerald-green Yang Release Chakra appeared in his palm.
The green light enveloped Yuji's tattered body. That near-miraculous vitality once again displayed its overbearing side.
The half of the body burned by Amaterasu began to rapidly grow flesh buds and reconstruct bones. Broken meridians and internal organs were restored to their original state within a few seconds.
Feeling the strength refilling his body, Yuji sat up from the ground with a face full of shock.
"Alright, don't just daze here."
Yamada withdrew his hand and turned to look toward the underground entrance of the Shibuya subway station.
There, an extremely obscure yet unignorable barrier fluctuation was taking shape.
"Satoru has already been locked in the cube."
Yamada's voice was calm, yet it carried a chill like the calm before a storm.
"The appetizer of the big show is over."
"Let's go. To the underground, to collect some interest from that mastermind director."
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