Yuki Tsukumo couldn't believe it. Kinji Hakari hadn't formed a hand sign. Because of that punch, half of Kinji Hakari's body had been shattered, including his heart; he didn't even have a second hand available to form a sign.
Could it be that he could activate Domain Expansion without a hand sign? Even Gojo Satoru couldn't do that—
A Shinkansen station suddenly appeared before Yuki Tsukumo. Rows of ticket gates materialized, and an illusory pachinko interface appeared before the two figures within the Domain barrier. A panting voice emerged. Yuki Tsukumo subconsciously turned her head, and a boy appeared from the Shinkansen passage.
Simultaneously with the Domain Expansion, the information was written into Yuki Tsukumo's brain:
A Domain Expansion modeled after the legal gambling game pachinko. The user can draw prizes infinitely but must wait a certain cooldown time between each draw. If the user hits the jackpot, they gain Infinite Cursed Energy for 4 minutes and 11 seconds starting from the moment the jackpot is won.
Yuki Tsukumo fully understood this rule and knew that Kinji Hakari must have a way to increase the odds. She had received all of Kinji Hakari's data from Tengen. Kinji Hakari's Cursed Technique was called Probability Alteration. As long as it involved gambling, he was guaranteed to hit the jackpot within 30 attempts.
However, this Cursed Technique is accumulation-based; it only guarantees success within 30 attempts, meaning the probability does not increase with each attempt as the count approaches 30.
In other words, the Cursed Technique is ineffective for the first attempt. Kinji Hakari's chance of hitting the jackpot is the same as in real-life pachinko: 1/239!
"Cancel the Domain Expansion!" Yuki Tsukumo immediately shouted. "You're inside the school right now—you can still be saved!"
"What are you talking about, Lady Tsukumo?" Kinji Hakari smiled.
"Our bout… hasn't ended yet!"
Ding! The draw begins!
Female lead, female lead—riichi!
Yuki Tsukumo was stunned by the notification because the third result displayed on the lottery interface was a female lead!
female lead, female lead, riichi, female lead! — The jackpot!
Instantly, massive Cursed Energy rose from Kinji Hakari's body. Yuki Tsukumo's long golden hair fluttered like a flag as she looked at Kinji in disbelief. His body was restoring at a speed visible to the naked eye; this was because the excessive energy triggered a positive-from-negative effect, causing the Reverse Cursed Technique to cycle automatically from now on.
Music drifted from afar—it was the theme song of "Private Railway Pure Love Train."
Kinji Hakari slowly stood up, tearing his shredded shirt and tossing it into the air. He was bare-chested; though half his body had just been blown apart and even his heart crushed, there wasn't a single scar on his bare skin now. His muscles were well-defined, appearing like a sculpture.
Until the theme song of "Private Railway Pure Love Train" ends, Kinji Hakari has Infinite Cursed Energy. 4 minutes and 11 seconds of immortality!
This man seized power through luck!
Kinji Hakari cracked his neck with a crisp sound and looked at the stunned Yuki Tsukumo, extending a hand like a gentleman inviting a lady to dance in a ballroom.
He said, "Come, Lady Tsukumo."
He grinned like a demon. "Round two, let's go!"
Suddenly, a roar came from behind Yuki Tsukumo. She turned instinctively to see a dragon stretching its body. The dragon she had flattened with one hit was also burning with Cursed Energy—Infinite Cursed Energy! As it stretched, its body grew again, its thirty-meter frame expanding at an incredible speed.
Thirty-five meters, forty meters, fifty meters!
The dragon lowered its head, looking down at Yuki Tsukumo like a giant monster in a tokusatsu film looking down at a mortal ant. Yuki Tsukumo saw the dragon's front limbs extend, forming a hand sign.
This dragon took over the hand sign for Kinji Hakari, so he could use Domain Expansion without needing seals—no, that wasn't it. Yuki Tsukumo remembered the immortality intel from Mei Mei; Cursed Spirits called this dragon a Companion Spirit, an external organ.
This dragon is Kinji Hakari!
So that was it. Was this the power of combining immortality with Infinite Cursed Energy? Normally, every step of the Infinite Cursed Energy loop required a Domain Expansion hand sign, so interrupting that motion at a critical moment would break the loop. Kinji Hakari's immortality still had its gaps and weaknesses.
As long as it wasn't a seamless connection and had gaps or weaknesses, even if Kinji Hakari possessed Infinite Cursed Energy, he wouldn't be ranked as a Special Grade—he lacked the flawlessness of a Special Grade.
But the dragon's appearance filled this weakness. Not only that, because the dragon is Kinji Hakari himself, even if the Cursed Technique in his brain and the Cursed Energy core in his abdomen were destroyed simultaneously, he could heal himself through the dragon—
—just as he is healing the dragon now after it was beaten down!
At this moment, Kinji Hakari finally shed the title of "Uncrowned Special Grade." He truly stepped into the Special Grade realm, becoming a one-man war machine capable of toppling a nation—a genuine Special Grade Sorcerer.
Yuki Tsukumo licked her lips and repeated her words from the start of the battle: "Brat… bring it on!"
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