Shibuya Station — Basement Level B5
This place had become the center of hell.
Thousands of civilians were trapped underground.
Packed together in terror.
Their faces pale.
Their bodies trembling.
And standing among them—
Was the strongest sorcerer alive.
Satoru Gojo.
Opposing him were multiple Special Grade threats.
Jogo
Hanami
and Choso, the eldest of the Death Painting Wombs.
Despite this—
Gojo remained relaxed.
Almost amused.
He slowly removed his blindfold.
Revealing the radiant brilliance of the Six Eyes.
"What's wrong?"
Gojo smiled lightly.
"Is that all?"
Even surrounded by enemies.
Even with thousands of hostages nearby.
He still protected every civilian with perfect control of Infinity.
"Damn it!"
Jogo growled.
"Is he even human?!"
His volcanic flames could not reach Gojo at all.
Infinity stopped everything.
Hanami was already severely injured.
Gojo had previously torn away the branches from its eyes.
Its cursed energy was weakening rapidly.
"Don't panic."
Choso spoke coldly.
"Our job is simply to stall him."
"Someone else will handle the rest."
"Stall me?"
Gojo laughed.
A wild, fearless laugh.
"You're misunderstanding something."
"In this world…"
"No one can stall me."
"Whether I leave or stay…"
"Is entirely my choice."
Before his words even finished—
Gojo vanished.
Then—
THUD.
Hanami froze.
Gojo's arm had already pierced through its chest.
Crushing its core.
The cursed spirit collapsed instantly.
"First one."
Gojo flicked the blood off his hand.
"Next."
At that moment—
A train suddenly roared into the station.
The doors opened.
Thousands of transfigured humans flooded out.
Monsters created by Mahito's Idle Transfiguration.
They surged toward the civilians like a tidal wave.
Gojo frowned.
"So that's your plan."
"To overwhelm me with numbers."
It was disgusting.
But effective.
Because Gojo had to protect the civilians.
Every attack had to be perfectly controlled.
The strain on his brain increased rapidly.
Then Gojo made a decision.
A terrifying one.
"If that's the case…"
"Then I'll end this instantly."
"Domain Expansion — Unlimited Void."
White light exploded outward.
The entire B5 floor was engulfed.
But Gojo did something insane.
To protect the civilians—
He limited the domain duration to 0.2 seconds.
Normally, even a moment inside Unlimited Void would destroy a human mind.
But this precise timing prevented permanent damage.
For 0.2 seconds—
Everyone froze.
And Gojo moved.
In that instant—
He eliminated every transfigured human.
Hundreds.
Thousands.
All destroyed.
When the domain collapsed—
The monsters fell.
Dead.
The civilians merely staggered.
Dizzy but alive.
Gojo exhaled slowly.
Even for him—
That level of precision was exhausting.
Then—
Something dropped to the ground in front of him.
A small cube.
Gojo looked down.
"…What's this?"
A familiar voice answered.
"Yo, Satoru."
Gojo's eyes widened.
Standing before him—
Was his former best friend.
Suguru Geto.
"…Geto?"
For a brief moment—
Gojo hesitated.
Memories flooded back.
Their youth.
Their friendship.
Everything they once shared.
Three years of memories.
That single moment of hesitation—
Was enough.
The cube opened.
Crack. Crack. Crack.
The cursed object transformed.
Blood-red eyes appeared across its surface.
"Prison Realm — Open."
The sealing power activated instantly.
Chains of binding force surrounded Gojo.
"…What?!"
For the first time—
Gojo could not move.
His cursed energy was suppressed.
His body locked in place.
"Long time no see, Satoru."
The man smiled.
But Gojo's eyes were cold.
"My Six Eyes say you are Suguru Geto."
"But my soul says otherwise."
"…You're a fake."
"Disgusting."
"You stole Geto's body."
The man laughed softly.
Then opened the stitches on his forehead.
Revealing the brain within.
"Allow me to introduce myself."
"I am Kenjaku."
"This body simply happens to be convenient."
"Goodnight, Gojo Satoru."
"You'll remain inside Prison Realm until the new world I create is complete."
"A new world?"
Gojo smirked.
"You think sealing me is enough?"
"You forgot someone."
Kenjaku raised an eyebrow.
"Someone else?"
"Yagami Sora."
Gojo's smile widened.
"You think I'm the only strongest?"
"That kid…"
"…is an even bigger monster than me."
"When he gets here…"
"You'll be crushed."
Kenjaku paused briefly.
But quickly regained composure.
"Yes."
"Yagami Sora is indeed a variable."
"But…"
"It's already too late."
Just as Gojo predicted—
Yagami Sora was rushing toward Shibuya Station.
But he was stopped.
Not by curses.
By civilians.
Tens of thousands of ordinary people trapped inside a massive barrier.
"Help!"
"I can't move!"
"My body… it's getting heavier!"
The barrier activated its trap.
A gravity-collapse barrier.
If anyone tried to break it from outside—
The gravity inside would increase instantly.
Crushing every civilian into blood and bone.
Yagami Sora clenched his teeth.
"Damn rats!"
He could break the barrier instantly.
He could rush inside and save Gojo.
But the cost—
Would be tens of thousands of innocent lives.
"Vector Manipulation — Refined Gravity Analysis!"
Sora forced himself to stop.
His brain began calculating.
Every gravitational vector.
Every pressure distribution.
Every civilian's position.
To neutralize the gravity without harming anyone—
He had to calculate tens of thousands of vectors simultaneously.
The computational load was astronomical.
"Give me…"
"Three seconds!"
His eyes turned bloodshot.
But on a battlefield—
Three seconds was eternity.
Deep underground—
The final command was spoken.
"Prison Realm — Close."
BOOOOM.
The cube shut completely.
The strongest sorcerer of the modern era—
Satoru Gojo
Was sealed.
Shibuya's underground fell silent.
Then slowly—
Despair spread.
The strongest had fallen.
And the night of Shibuya—
Had only just begun.
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