Mahito sneered at Todo's words.
"With this kind of absolute suppression in numbers and ability, what kind of tricks could you possibly play?"
He slowly reshaped the arm Yuji had broken, his eyes filled with mocking amusement.
"It's nothing more than a deathbed struggle."
However, Aoi Todo didn't pay any attention to Mahito's ridicule at all.
He bent down and picked up a fist-sized concrete fragment from the debris-strewn platform floor, casually weighing it in his hand.
"Here I go, brother!"
Todo roared, his massive frame lunging at Mahito's main body like a cannonball.
"Seeking death."
Mahito snorted coldly. His right arm instantly transformed into a massive bone hammer, whistling through the air as it smashed down toward the charging Todo!
Just as the bone hammer was about to crush Todo into a pulp...
"Boogie Woogie!"
Clap!
The crisp sound of palms meeting rang out!
Swish!
Space swapped instantly!
Todo, who had been charging Mahito, vanished into thin air. In his place stood Yuji Itadori, whose fists were already glowing with the bright light of cursed energy!
"What?!"
Mahito's pupils shrank.
Due to inertia, he couldn't pull back the bone hammer he had swung. He could only watch helplessly as Yuji's straight punch, carrying terrifying power, slammed toward his face!
"Divergent Fist!"
Bang!
Although Mahito's reactions were extremely fast, and he managed to avoid a fatal hit by forcibly hardening and pulling back his facial muscles at the last second...
Yuji's violent punch still grazed his cheek, tearing half of it away!
"Damn brat!"
Mahito roared, about to counterattack.
"It's not over yet!"
Todo's voice suddenly came from behind Mahito.
It turned out that during the swap with Yuji, Todo hadn't been idle. He had immediately locked onto a pebble near Mahito's feet!
Clap!
Another clap!
Todo's figure swapped with the pebble, appearing behind Mahito like a phantom!
"Ora!"
Todo delivered a heavy low kick, slamming it into Mahito's lower back. The force made Mahito stumble, losing his balance entirely.
"You damn gorilla!"
Mahito was completely enraged by their coordinated play.
He stabilized himself, and countless sharp bone spikes suddenly erupted from his body, performing an all-directional attack like a hedgehog!
"Don't give him a chance to breathe, brother!"
Todo roared. He twisted his body in mid-air to dodge the spikes, and at the same time, he actually threw the concrete fragment he had been holding high into the air!
The fragment traced a parabolic arc across the dim platform, falling directly above Mahito's head.
At this moment, time seemed to slow down.
Todo took a deep breath and raised his hands again.
Mahito stared intently at Todo's movements.
He knew this damn gorilla was about to trigger that troublesome swapping technique again.
'As long as I predict his attack trajectory after the swap...'
Mahito's brain worked at high speed, his gaze switching back and forth between Todo and Yuji in the distance.
'Who will he swap with? That vessel, or someone right next to me?'
"Boogie Woogie!"
Clap!
The moment the sound rang out, Mahito's pupils shrank. He instinctively focused all his defense in front of him, bracing for Yuji's heavy punch!
Swish!
Space swapped!
However, the one appearing before Mahito wasn't Yuji Itadori.
It was... that concrete fragment thrown into the air!
"What?!"
Mahito was completely baffled.
He never imagined that Todo would choose to swap with a harmless stone!
"You fell for it, idiot!"
Todo's voice actually came from the location where the stone had been in mid-air!
It turned out that the moment Todo threw the stone, he had swapped it with the distant Yuji! Yuji appeared in mid-air where the stone had been.
Then, at the moment of the clap, Todo swapped himself with Yuji, who had just appeared in mid-air!
A three-way swap!
This extreme level of continuous misdirection—one that required high concentration even for Todo himself—caused Mahito's brain to fatally stall for a split second!
He completely lost his grasp on the situation!
"Now!"
In mid-air, Yuji Itadori's figure pounced down like a hawk!
All his spirit, his anger, and his guilt converged onto his right fist at this very moment!
The cursed energy inside him surged like boiling lava, even causing the surrounding space to ripple slightly!
"Drop dead!!!"
Yuji's roar echoed throughout the subway station.
That punch, carrying an unstoppable momentum, slammed accurately into the center of Mahito's completely undefended chest!
Boom—!!!
A flash of black lightning, so bright it seemed capable of swallowing everything, erupted at the point of contact!
Black Flash!
The ultimate physical impact, coupled with the terrifying power of spatial distortion, bypassed Mahito's physical defenses and struck directly at his soul!
"Aaaaaaaah!!!"
Mahito let out a scream that was shrill to the extreme!
The power of the Black Flash rampaged through his body. His chest caved in instantly, and his entire frame began to crack like broken porcelain, with countless deep fissures appearing.
Purple-black blood sprayed from his eyes, nose, and mouth like a fountain.
"Nicely done, brother!"
Todo, watching from a distance, pumped his fist in excitement.
However...
Just as the two thought this strike had secured their victory...
Mahito, who had been blown away into the rubble, suddenly stopped screaming.
"Heh... Hahahaha!"
A low, eerie, and twisted laugh slowly drifted from the ruins.
There was no pain in that laughter, only a kind of mad joy, as if he had broken through some kind of shackle.
"Fantastic... Truly fantastic!"
Mahito slowly stood up. His shattered body began to reorganize itself in an unbelievable way.
"After experiencing the soul-burning of that human swordsman, and then taking this soul-striking Black Flash..."
"I finally... understand!"
Mahito's eyes became as deep as black holes, and he threw his arms wide.
Crack, crack, crack!
Accompanied by the soul-wrenching sound of bone-breaking, Mahito's body began to deform violently.
His muscles swelled madly, and bones broke through the skin to form a layer of indestructible pale armor over his body.
His human form disappeared completely, replaced by a massive, demon-like monster radiating a suffocatingly terrifying pressure!
"Soul Multiplicity: Repel..."
"Instant Spirit Body of Distorted Killing!!!"
Boom—!!!
A surge of special-grade cursed energy, several times stronger than before, erupted from Mahito's body like a volcanic explosion!
The violent shockwave shattered all the surrounding support pillars, causing the entire B5F level of the subway station to collapse instantly!
Mahito's new form—a terrifying monster with blade-like arms and a massive tail—smashed through the thick concrete ceiling and burst onto the streets of Shibuya amidst a rain of rubble!
"What... kind of monster is that?"
Yuji and Todo managed to stabilize themselves in the collapse. They looked up at the massive figure soaring into the sky, their eyes flashing with gravity.
"It looks like..."
Todo wiped the blood from his mouth and grinned.
"The real deathmatch starts now, brother."
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