Uraume stomped on the ground and formed hand seals.
"Yuta Okkotsu, let's see if your Cursed Speech can still work against my Ice Formation Technique!"
—Technique Release.
—Ice Formation Cursed Technique: "Straight Waterfall!"
Rumble, rumble!
The entire commercial building seemed to vibrate.
A sudden throb came from Yuta Okkotsu's heart.
Instead of looking at Uraume in front of him, he looked upward.
The floors of the commercial building were expanding outward; the rumbling sound was like something massive squeezing the entire floor.
Then, Yuta Okkotsu indeed saw what was crushing the floors.
It was a giant block of ice—
No, at this level, it shouldn't be called an "ice block" anymore.
It was an "ice meteorite"!
The ice meteorite continued to expand, pushing the entire floor outward.
The width of this commercial building could not accommodate the width of the ice meteorite, and it was being completely swept aside.
Before the ice meteorite even fell, the cold wind had already almost frozen the entire building.
Yuta Okkotsu let out a breath, and a distinct puff of white mist came from his mouth.
It was as if he had entered the coldest moment of winter.
"It's over, Yuta Okkotsu," Uraume said coldly.
"The weakness of Cursed Speech is its inability to control objects with massive mass and overwhelming Cursed Energy."
"My Straight Waterfall is not formed from simple Cursed Energy. At this scale, the Ice Formation Cursed Energy has already taken on physical properties."
"Your Cursed Speech cannot work against Straight Waterfall."
"You can only die here under the double blow of this massive physical force and Cursed Energy!"
Next, Uraume would immediately use Kogane to buy the "Recovery" points option after confirming victory, then use the "Search" option to find Yuta Okkotsu, repeating the process until Yuta Okkotsu was tortured into numbness and obediently went to the Tokyo First Barrier.
So Uraume thought.
Yuta Okkotsu sighed.
"I underestimated the Ancient Sorcerers. I thought you were as easy to deal with as Uro."
Uraume frowned.
Uro?
Who was that?
"Takako Uro. She should be a Jujutsu Sorcerer from the same era as you."
Seeing Uraume's expression, Yuta Okkotsu said strangely,
"She said she had seen Sukuna's peak form."
"Ah, she's the Jujutsu Sorcerer still floating in the sky outside."
"The name of her Cursed Technique is Sky Manipulation. She can grasp the 'surface' of the sky."
"She's an extremely troublesome Ancient Sorcerer."
"A nobody. I have no need to specifically remember her," Uraume said indifferently.
"Is that so? She has quite a deep impression of you, though," Yuta Okkotsu said meaningfully.
"Stalling tactics are useless against me!" Uraume roared.
"Now, face your first death!"
The massive ice meteorite plummeted down!
Yuta Okkotsu exhaled, then casually grabbed the "sky" above his head and violently rolled it up.
If such a massive ice meteorite hit the ground, it would undoubtedly cause a localized earthquake.
Its immense power could easily destroy everything around it.
But now, this ice meteorite fell into the "surface of the sky."
Although it was clearly falling downward, it suddenly skewed sideways along the bent plane, crashing into the wall of the commercial building with a thunderous roar.
—Technique Release.
—Copy Technique: Sky Manipulation!
Uraume's eyes widened.
She suddenly remembered.
That was something from a thousand years ago.
It seemed someone indeed used such a Cursed Technique.
Was she the captain of the Sun, Moon, and Stars Squad directly under the Fujiwara Clan?
How did she die in the end?
It seemed she was directly struck by Ryomen Sukuna's Cursed Technique and fled in a miserable state.
Yuta Okkotsu said calmly:
"She... is no nobody."
"I remember her saying she was defeated by Sukuna in his prime, not you."
"It's not over yet!"
Uraume suddenly stomped her foot.
"Frost Calm!"
The Ice Formation Cursed Technique: Frost Calm had shone brilliantly in the original work.
Uraume had relied on this move to nearly wipe out the entire protagonist group.
This was a move that integrated control and attack power.
The massive ice spreading from under Uraume's feet would freeze everything in front of her.
Although its direct attack power was far inferior to Straight Waterfall, it excelled in ease of use and overwhelmingly strong control.
To prevent it from being countered by Cursed Speech, Uraume specifically increased the amount of Cursed Energy when releasing Frost Calm.
But Yuta Okkotsu didn't use Cursed Speech at all.
He calmly pulled out a straw doll and a hammer.
During this time, Frost Calm violently struck Yuta Okkotsu, but just like the ice meteorite before, the space hit by Frost Calm distorted, bending and scattering in other directions, unable to touch Yuta Okkotsu at all.
Uraume felt disgusted.
How could there be such a disgusting Cursed Technique?!
No wonder the Queen of Curses stood motionless against these attacks.
There was really no need to move at all!
The defense of Sky Manipulation was all-encompassing.
This kind of direct Cursed Energy attack simply couldn't threaten Yuta Okkotsu.
So, in the end, it had to be close-quarters combat?
Uraume stepped forward without fear.
Uraume's judgment was correct.
Sky Manipulation had complete defensive capabilities against this type of direct attack.
In the original work, Yuta Okkotsu relied on a surprise attack because Takako Uro mistakenly believed Cursed Speech was transmitted by sound waves and lost due to a momentary mistake.
Uraume's rich experience made her realize what to do.
She was just about to implement her plan and continue the fight, but—
"Pfft!"
She spat out a mouthful of blood.
—Technique Release.
—Copy Technique: Resonance!
This was Nobara Kugisaki's Cursed Technique, which could curse a target by capturing a part of them.
Usually, blood was enough.
And just now, the Queen of Curses had indeed landed a punch on Uraume's cheek.
At that moment, the Queen of Curses had captured the blood.
Now, this blood was buried inside the straw doll, and finally, it was violently struck by the hammer in Yuta Okkotsu's hand.
The damage to the straw doll was synchronized to Uraume's body.
It was as if she had been struck by a heavy hammer.
"This is truly the end," Yuta Okkotsu said.
This was merely a fleeting instant in battle.
Uraume was confident she could use Reverse Cursed Technique to recover in the next instant, but this one instant was enough.
Just as Ryomen Sukuna was controlled for an instant by Nobara Kugisaki's Resonance Technique, Uraume was now also controlled for an instant.
Then, the fist of the Queen of Curses appeared before Uraume's eyes.
This time, Uraume had no time to use a defensive Cursed Technique.
Thud!
Uraume's head was completely blown apart.
Uraume, dead.
Yuta Okkotsu called out Kogane, licked his lips, and asked:
"Uraume's Information Lock hasn't been closed to me yet, right?"
Kogane shook its body.
"No, no!"
"As soon as she resurrects, automatically deduct my points," Yuta Okkotsu said.
"Then use points to automatically transfer me to her place of resurrection."
Uraume had once told Yuta Okkotsu that she would use violence to make him despair, then use that despair to make him numb and turn him into her puppet.
This was the contempt of the strong toward the weak, and also an extremely dark practice.
But to put it the other way around—
If Yuta Okkotsu was the strong one, then he could also do this to Uraume.
The only issue was morality.
And regarding morality, as a healthy high school student, he shouldn't do such a thing.
But Yuta Okkotsu was an oddity.
In the original work, he was the one who actively proposed that if Gojo Satoru was defeated, he would go and "eat" Kenjaku's Brain Exchange Technique, then use Gojo Satoru's corpse for the brain transfer and join the battle using Gojo Satoru's body.
This became another meme from the original work:
Gojo Satoru Pilot.
This underage boy, as long as it was for victory—
—was willing to trample on all morality.
And now, he was doing the same.
He thought:
Uraume is Ryomen Sukuna's follower and knows all of Ryomen Sukuna's secrets.
At the same time, the reason she secretly contacted me and forced me to go to the Tokyo First Barrier is also unknown.
All these questions can be answered through this kind of interrogation.
Fortunately, death does not exist in the Dream Walk Migration.
Isn't this just perfect?
"Beep beep beep, new message, new message!" Kogane suddenly said.
"A group message from Gojo Satoru."
"He says:
'Already engaged in battle with Sukuna, and after killing him twenty times, have forced him to transfer to another barrier.'
'Now, all Jujutsu Sorcerers, find out which barrier Sukuna has transferred to.'"
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