"Boom—!"
The terrifying pressure of a Special Grade Curse User radiated from Suguru Geto like a physical black tsunami, instantly sweeping across the entire training ground of Jujutsu High.
The surrounding snow evaporated instantly under the violent cursed energy, and visible cracks spider-webbed across the frozen ground.
Taking the brunt of this pressure...
Maki, Toge, and Panda felt as if an invisible mountain had been slammed onto their shoulders, making even breathing a Herculean task.
"Is this... the power of a Special Grade?"
Maki grit her teeth, her hands gripping her polearm so hard they trembled.
Although she had undergone a complete transformation under Yoru's special training, facing a monster at the peak of the jujutsu world's pyramid like Suguru Geto...
That soul-deep tremor still filled her with a sense of profound despair.
However.
There was no backing down!
"Don't underestimate us, you cultist who just plays with monsters!"
Maki let out a roar, forcibly pushing against the terrifying pressure and lunging off the ground.
"Bang!"
She left a crater in the hard stone ground.
Maki's figure blurred into an afterimage as her long-handled blade whistled through the air, aimed directly at Suguru Geto's head!
"Admirable courage."
"But your speed is too slow."
Suguru Geto didn't even blink. He simply shifted his body slightly, dodging Maki's full-force strike with the ease of a casual stroll.
Then, with a casual wave of his hand.
A Grade 2 Cursed Spirit hidden in his shadow lunged out, its sharp claws tearing through Maki's abdomen!
"Pfft!"
Blood splattered as Maki let out a muffled groan. She was sent flying like a broken doll, crashing heavily into the snow and staining the white pristine crimson.
"Maki!"
Seeing Maki injured, Panda let out a deafening, savage roar.
"You bastard! Unforgivable!"
Panda's eyes instantly turned blood-red.
His already massive frame began to swell violently, his fur standing on end like an ancient beast driven into a frenzy.
"Core Swap—!"
"Gorilla Mode!"
Accompanied by the sickening sound of shifting bones.
Panda's adorable appearance vanished, replaced by a muscular gorilla radiating a terrifying aesthetic of raw violence!
"Die!"
Panda lunged, his massive body soaring like a cannonball across ten meters to appear above Suguru Geto's head.
He raised his massive fists, each the size of a millstone, and brought them down with crushing force!
"Drumming Beat!"
It was a devastating strike that used high-frequency cursed energy vibrations to bypass defenses and destroy the target's internal structure!
Facing Panda's all-out attack, a hint of seriousness finally flickered in Suguru Geto's eyes.
"Even a Cursed Corpse can reach this level? Principal Yaga truly is a genius."
Suguru Geto looked at the rampaging gorilla with a fleeting moment of nostalgia, which was quickly replaced by cold resolve.
He didn't choose to tank the hit.
He tapped his toe on the ground, floating backward like a weightless feather for a dozen meters.
"Rumble—!"
Panda's fists slammed into the spot where Suguru Geto had just stood.
A terrifying shockwave erupted underground, causing the entire courtyard to shake violently as a massive crater over ten meters wide appeared, sending debris and soil flying into the sky!
However, before Panda could even stand up from the pit.
Suguru Geto snapped his fingers.
"A pity. Against absolute numbers, an attack of this level is meaningless."
"Roar—!"
Following Suguru Geto's snap.
Three Cursed Spirits, each no smaller than Gorilla Mode Panda, lunged from different directions and pinned Panda down at the edge of the crater!
"Let go of me!"
Panda struggled frantically, his raw power even tearing the arm off one of the spirits.
But under the desperate suppression of the other two, he couldn't break free immediately.
At that critical moment.
"[TWIST]!!!"
A roar, raspy from a torn throat yet filled with suicidal resolve, suddenly echoed from behind Suguru Geto.
Toge Inumaki!
The boy who usually masked his kindness with rice ball ingredients was now clutching his collar, his eyes bloodshot with blood leaking from the corners of his mouth.
To restrain a monster of Suguru Geto's caliber, he was overextending his life, forcibly using a high-level destructive Cursed Speech!
"Buzz—"
An eerie, invisible wave of law-like energy instantly enveloped Suguru Geto.
Under the forced interference of the incantation, Suguru Geto's hands, which were about to form a seal, froze mid-air!
Visible ripples of spatial distortion appeared around his body!
"Now!"
Maki, who had been sent flying earlier, had somehow crawled back up from the snow.
Enduring the searing pain in her abdomen, she gripped a Special Grade Cursed Tool radiating dense cursed energy—
The three-section staff, Playful Cloud!
'Instructor Yoru taught me...'
'Focus all your strength into a single point!'
Maki took a deep breath, pouring all her power and her unyielding will into Playful Cloud.
She leaped high like a tigress pouncing on prey, swinging Playful Cloud with world-shaking force toward the frozen Suguru Geto!
Panda's violent diversion, Toge's suicidal restraint, and Maki's fatal strike!
At this moment, the coordination of the first-year trio was flawless!
It was a perfect execution capable of heavily wounding or even killing an ordinary Special Grade Cursed Spirit!
However.
Watching the Special Grade Cursed Tool Playful Cloud grow larger in his vision.
A helpless, almost mocking sigh escaped Suguru Geto's lips while he was still frozen.
"Monkeys will always just be monkeys."
"No matter how well you imitate, it's all in vain."
"Boom—!!"
Just 0.01 seconds before Playful Cloud could crush Suguru Geto's head.
A surge of black cursed energy dozens of times more terrifying than before erupted from his body like a volcano!
"Pfft!"
Under the backlash of that horrific energy, Toge Inumaki could no longer hold on, coughing up a large amount of blood before collapsing onto the snow, losing consciousness.
With the Cursed Speech broken.
Suguru Geto simply raised a hand and effortlessly caught Maki's thunderous strike!
"Bang!"
He swung his arm back, the terrifying force traveling through Playful Cloud and into Maki.
Before she could even scream, she was slammed into the ground like a sack of trash.
"Crack!"
Accompanied by the sickening sound of breaking bones.
Suguru Geto mercilessly stepped on Maki's back, pinning her deep into the snow.
Crimson blood flowed from her mouth, instantly staining the surrounding snow.
In less than a minute.
Despite their all-out effort, the first-year trio suffered a complete and utter crushing defeat before the bottomless power of the Special Grade Curse User, Suguru Geto!
"Maki! Toge! Panda!"
Yuta Okkotsu, who had been protected in the rear, watched his companions fall into pools of blood to save him, his pupils shrinking to pinpricks.
A violent rage, as if wanting to destroy the entire world, boiled and churned in his chest like molten lava!
"Don't be in such a hurry, Yuta Okkotsu."
Stepping on Maki, Suguru Geto looked coldly at Yuta, who was on the verge of snapping.
"Now, it's your turn."
"Show me exactly what that monster inside you is capable of."
As soon as Suguru Geto finished speaking.
"Buzz—!!!"
A surge of pure, concentrated negative cursed energy suddenly erupted from Yuta Okkotsu like a nuclear explosion!
Under the influence of this horrific energy, the already gloomy sky above Jujutsu High turned pitch black.
"Anyone who hurts Yuta..."
A colossal vengeful spirit, radiating a suffocating aura of death, slowly materialized behind Yuta Okkotsu.
Its massive ghost eyes, filled with endless killing intent and madness, locked onto Suguru Geto.
"MUST DIE!!!"
A deafening roar that seemed to tear at the soul echoed throughout Tokyo Jujutsu High!
The God of Pure Love.
Was about to go berserk!