I kept attacking Uraume with my swords and shields.
At this point, I was already stronger than her, and Yuji fighting alongside me turned the entire battle into a one-sided beatdown.
Uraume tried to regain control of the fight several times, but every time she attempted to form ice constructs or gather cursed energy for a technique, I interrupted her.
Whenever she tried to use her technique, I used mine to counter it.
Meanwhile, Yuji kept attacking her relentlessly, never giving her a moment to breathe.
It was brutal pressure.
Uraume tried to launch a barrage of ice spikes at Yuji.
"Die!" yelled Uraume.
Before the spikes could reach him, I threw a fire shield directly in front of him.
The shield burned dark red as it appeared.
The icicles slammed into it.
Crack. Crack. Crack.
They shattered instantly when they hit the shield.
Yuji didn't even slow down.
Instead, he grinned and kicked my shield towards Uraume like a soccer ball.
The flaming shield slammed straight into Uraume.
She barely had time to raise an arm before impact.
The moment the shield hit her—
I dispelled it. BOOM.
The shield detonated in a massive explosion.
It was easily the size of a small building.
The ground trembled as smoke and fire filled the street.
For a moment, everything went quiet.
Then a figure staggered out of the dust.
Uraume.
Her entire body was burned. Her clothes were torn and charred, pieces barely hanging together. Her skin was blackened in several places, and she limped forward slightly.
But I knew better than to relax.
She had Reverse Cursed Technique.
If we gave her even five seconds, she could recover.
I didn't give her a single second.
I created ten flaming swords behind me.
They shot forward like missiles.
Some rushed directly at her and exploded near her body.
Others curved around her, hovering unpredictably.
I deliberately made some of them not explode.
Uraume had no idea which swords were real threats.
One sword sliced across her shoulder.
Another detonated beside her leg.
Another cut her arm.
Then another explosion blasted her sideways again.
She couldn't properly defend. She couldn't heal.
She could only endure.
After another explosion shook the battlefield, Uraume staggered backward.
That was when Yuji appeared behind her.
He twisted his body and threw a punch straight at her face.
BLACK FLASH.
The world cracked with red lightning.
The impact exploded with cursed energy as Yuji's fist connected.
Uraume's head snapped sideways as the Black Flash launched her straight toward me.
She flew through the air like a baseball.
I grinned.
I created a massive fiery baseball bat in my hands.
"Home run."
WHAM.
I smashed her flying body straight back toward Yuji.
Yuji stepped forward and kicked her mid-air.
BLACK FLASH.
Another surge of black lightning erupted.
Two Black Flashes in a row.
Uraume's body flew through the air again.
Before she could land, I created a forest of flaming spikes across the ground where she would crash.
Her body crashed into them.
Thud. Crunch.
The spikes impaled her through multiple parts of her body—shoulder, thigh, chest.
She hung there, barely moving.
Blood dripped slowly down the red spikes.
I walked toward her calmly.
"Any last words?" I murmured, forming a flame sword in my hand and aiming it at her head.
She lifted her head slightly.
Even now, she was smiling.
"Sukuna-sama… will kill you all…"
She chuckled weakly.
I didn't let her finish.
I stabbed the sword straight through her head.
Her body went limp.
Dead. I let out a breath.
"This took faster than I thought…" I muttered.
Then I turned my head toward Yuki's fight.
My relaxed expression vanished instantly.
Kenjaku was fighting her alongside three cursed spirits.
Two Special Grade cursed spirits.
And one Grade 1.
Yuki was desperately dodging attacks as she tried to survive.
Garuda circled her defensively while the cursed spirits attacked from multiple directions.
Kenjaku suddenly brought his hands together, interlocking his fingers.
Yuki saw it immediately. Her eyes sharpened.
She brought her own hands together as well.
Domain Expansion.
Domain Expansion.
"Womb Profusion."
"Celestial Star Forge."
Both domains exploded into existence.
The air warped violently as the two barriers expanded and collided.
Yuki's domain wasn't as refined as Kenjaku's.
But it was powerful enough to hold.
I had already warned everyone about open domains earlier.
Because of that, Yuki flipped her domain's barrier. Outside of her barrier was thicker than inside.
So when the clash happened—
Kenjaku let 2 cursed spirits outside of the barrier; he wanted to destroy the barrier from the outside to end the fight quickly.
He didn't know we had developed a countermove against this.
Two cursed spirits he let out were attacking the barrier.
Slenderman and Akuro-o Otake
But because Yuki's domain was a flipped barrier, it held.
That was when Yuji and I moved.
We noticed the two cursed spirits Kenjaku released rushing toward Yuki's barrier from outside.
They were trying to break it.
"Yuji!"
"I see them!"
We charged.
Yuji went straight for the Slenderman.
I rushed toward Akuro-o Otake.
Akuro-o Otake was massive.
A humanoid cursed spirit with four glowing eyes and three horns rising from its head.
Kenjaku had ordered them to attack the barrier.
So when Yuji and I rushed them—
They didn't react at first.
Perfect.
I jumped straight onto Akuro-o Otake's body and wrapped my arms around its head.
It roared as it tried to shake me off.
A second later—
BOOM.
The cursed spirit exploded in a massive blast of cursed energy.
Pieces of its body scattered everywhere before dissolving into nothing.
I channeled my positive energy into the cursed spirit. I was bad at outputting positive energy, but because I had grabbed its head, it instantly died.
I turned to help Yuji.
But the moment I got close to him—
The world changed.
Everything around me warped.
The battlefield disappeared. I was standing in a forest.
Tall trees stretched endlessly in every direction.
Wind rustled through the leaves.
Then information flooded into my brain.
I had to collect eight pages.
Ah. I sighed.
"I'm inside a domain expansion…"
I started walking through the forest.
The place was enormous.
Dark trees stretched endlessly into the distance.
Eventually, I spotted a page lying on the ground.
I picked it up. The moment I touched it—
It turned to dust.
At the same time, I felt a disturbance of cursed energy nearby.
I rushed toward it. When I arrived—
I saw Yuji.
He was fighting the Slenderman-cursed spirit.
Honestly… It looked pretty cool.
Seeing a creepypasta character as a cursed spirit was kinda hilarious.
Slenderman's back was covered in long, writhing black tentacles that lashed around the battlefield like whips.
Yuji kept dodging and punching them aside.
The moment I arrived, several tentacles shot toward me.
I created flame swords and sliced them apart mid-air.
Slenderman turned its attention toward me.
To be honest… The thing was weak.
It was a grade 1 imaginary cursed spirit. It was a cursed spirit Kenjaku recently found during his American adventure.
And fighting it was just extremely annoying.
Yuji could have beaten it alone eventually.
But its attacks were endless, and we were inside its domain.
So I decided to end it quickly.
I rushed forward. And jumped towards him.
The tentacles whipped toward me again.
I cut them all. Then I grabbed Slenderman's head.
And ripped it straight out of its torso.
The cursed spirit dissolved instantly.
The domain shattered. Reality returned.
I looked around quickly.
Yuki's domain was gone.
Kenjaku had also dispersed his.
Yuki was lying on the ground. Blood covered her body.
She wasn't moving.
For a terrifying moment—
She looked dead.
My eyes snapped toward Kenjaku.
He was staring directly at me.
From far away, thunderous explosions echoed through the sky as Sukuna and Gojo continued their battle.
And the real fight…was just getting started.
I looked at Yuji, and we both nodded.
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