A deathly pale face, half-alive, half-dead.
"White Zetsu?!"
Just as their lives were flashing before their eyes, they were abruptly jolted back to reality by a sudden descent from above.
Everyone looked up, shock written all over their faces as they shouted his name.
With his hands behind his back, a faint smile curling at his lips, White Zetsu slowly walked toward them—upright, composed, every bit the air of a master.
"Yo. Long time no see."
Nanami, who had just retreated to the shore at high speed; Maki, gripping the Dragon Bone tightly; Kugisaki, drenched in sweat… and Fushiguro, whose Domain had been dispelled and who was already at his limit.
All four stared at White Zetsu in stunned silence.
Behind him…
Towering over the sea stood a colossal entity that seemed to pierce the heavens themselves!
A crooked, twisted dark-brown trunk, like a grotesque tree nourished by blood. Branches intertwined in all directions—yet not a single leaf, not a single flower.
Countless humanoid cocoons, wrapped layer upon layer in white cloth, hung in oval shapes.
Pale ribbons draped downward, exuding an overwhelming aura of ill omen.
"…Years ago, the one who deployed a Domain at the base… was that you?" Maki asked, disbelief in her voice.
White Zetsu gave a slight nod, his tone calm. "A Domain Expansion… isn't that something anyone can do with their hands?"
"Zetsu-senpai!"
Before they could say anything else, Fushiguro—still wary of Dagon—shouted a warning.
"What's the panic, little shadow?"
Facing the group, back turned to Dagon, White Zetsu waved a hand. "Bloom."
"BOOM!"
Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands—millions!
The swarm of fish-like shikigami surging in like a tide was instantly trapped within a massive web woven by the pale ribbons hanging from the divine tree!
They were bound, compressed, wrapped tighter and tighter—
Until the purple blood that spilled out dyed half the sea in a vivid, grotesque hue.
The countless fish were compressed into a massive oval sphere, rapidly shrinking—
White Zetsu didn't even turn around as he spoke again:
"Dead Bone."
The moment the words fell—
The struggling swarm gradually fell silent. The blood-stained ribbons returned to their pristine white.
The enormous sphere shrank further, becoming nearly identical to the countless other hanging cocoons.
"Bloom." "Dead Bone."
The first to initiate, the second to conclude.
Just four light words—yet they erased a problem Nanami and the others couldn't handle.
Kugisaki stared blankly at White Zetsu, suddenly recalling something he had once said back at the juvenile detention center… about a curse called "Mountain Chicken."
Pulling off a performance like this… it was a first.
Basking in the stunned gazes of the four, the curve of White Zetsu's lips rose higher and higher—almost impossible to suppress.
A special-grade curse spirit that had suddenly appeared.
A follower of Zenin Mirai.
And that overwhelming pressure of cursed energy…
Floating in midair, Dagon's eyes filled with killing intent.
Even setting aside that he was protecting those human sorcerers—
Just being on the same side as Zenin Mirai…
The same side as the one who killed Hanami—
That alone was enough.
Though the Domain's shell wasn't fully formed, Dagon assumed it was another incomplete Domain like Fushiguro's, and still held confidence in victory.
Dagon—A special-grade curse born from humanity's hatred and fear of the ocean.
Death Swarm Surge—a Domain technique capable of summoning an endless number of shikigami.
In theory, limitless—so long as there was enough cursed energy to sustain it.
Dagon had once been timid, hiding behind pillars in his cursed womb state when Nanami and the others appeared.
But he cherished his companions deeply—
Treating Mahito, Jogo, and Hanami like family.
If his anger toward Nanami and the others stemmed from them being human like Mirai—
Then toward White Zetsu…
Cursed energy surged together as Dagon brought his fists together, unleashing his strongest attack:
"Technique Release—Death Swarm Surge!"
"BOOM!!!"
Like a nuclear explosion detonating beneath the sea!
Water shot hundreds of meters into the air, and within a hundred-meter radius, countless shikigami filled every inch of sight—
Giant sea cockroaches magnified a hundredfold, dragon-like sea beasts with serrated jaws, blotting out the sky as they surged forward!
Facing Dagon's all-out attack, White Zetsu no longer held back.
He formed a hand seal before his chest—resembling a clone seal from another ninja anime.
"Domain Expansion: Thousand Burial White Sovereign Spirit!"
Earlier, for the sake of showing off, he hadn't formed any seals—
Only constructing a half-finished Domain with sheer cursed energy.
That had led Dagon to misjudge the situation and skip probing entirely.
The ribbons hanging from the ancient tree responded to his will, roaring into motion!
"Our cursed energy affinities really don't get along, do they?"
The divine tree he summoned wasn't the true body from Mirai's Kamui space—it was a construct born from his imagination.
Naturally, so were the burial cloth-like ribbons.
Their quantity depended entirely on the supply of cursed energy.
And White Zetsu…
Feeling the upper limit of the cursed energy stored in his mind, he grinned.
Five hundred years—
The maximum output this body could unleash burned away in an instant.
Remaining: four thousand five hundred years.
"RUMBLE!!!"
The tree's branches shook violently as the number of ribbons surged!
White ribbons howled like a blizzard—
An endless avalanche of pale destruction!
The colorful tide of shikigami clashed against the silent, ominous white shrouds.
It was a spectacle as if heaven and earth had been split apart, accompanied by deafening roars!
Kugisaki, Maki, and Fushiguro stared ahead, ears tightly covered.
Not only that—
The sea surged violently, the shoreline fractured and collapsed.
The entire ocean Domain began to crumble bit by bit.
In its place, the battlefield ruins rose to the surface—
A dark-brown terrain like the ancient tree itself, riddled with trenches and craters.
This was the completed shell of White Zetsu's Domain—resembling a battlefield from another ninja anime.
An open Domain—something he had been learning under Mirai's guidance for years.
Unfortunately, he hadn't mastered it yet.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
As the Domain shattered, the four sorcerers and the curse returned to reality.
A one-sided battle.
An overwhelming gap in cursed energy.
The final sight before the Domain collapsed—
Was Dagon, wrapped in white cloth, hanging upside down from the ancient tree.
Nanami Kento stared at White Zetsu's back, his expression complicated.
Fushiguro and the others were no different.
The battle was over.
Yet instead of relief, an eerie silence fell over them.
A former ally—
Their savior just moments ago—
But also one of the masterminds behind Gojo Satoru's sealing, with unclear motives.
The information Yuji had passed on… the intel Mei Mei had sent…
They had already known before the battle began.
Now that the enemy was gone—what would White Zetsu do next?
The Zenin clan had already been purged jointly by Jujutsu High and the Gojo family, and a warrant had been issued.
White Zetsu was no longer the weakling he once was at the school.
The initiative always lay with the strong.
Opposing Jujutsu High… opposing Gojo Satoru…
Under Zenin Mirai's leadership, would White Zetsu attack them?
With his back still turned, White Zetsu quietly reveled in anticipation—waiting for gasps of awe, praise, admiration.
Silence lingered.
Unable to ignore it any longer, he grew anxious.
Finally, he turned around helplessly:
"Thirteen… niece…"
"…Zetsu-san—was I cool or what?"
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