Chapter 63: Butcher
"Do you know who are the greatest obstacles to your plans?" Kenjaku asked the cursed spirits beside him. Blowing bubbles in the air while ignoring the corpses around him dying the park that they were at red.
"Gojo?" The volcano cursed spirit said.
His head was formed as a volcano. It had gray skin but the top of his head faded into a brown color where the volcanic opening was. He had a single cycloptic eye, two openings on the sides of his head that served as ears, and black teeth while carrying a cane with him
"Yes, Gojo is indeed the biggest obstacle. But after that, who is it, Jogo?"
The cursed spirit named Jogo narrowed down his one eye at Kenjaku. "Hmph! You mean those special grades. What are you so worried about, we can take them on."
Kenjaku inwardly snickered amused by the delusion of the cursed spirit but held it in as he continued. "Even if you can take them on, you will certainly have casualties. And casualties cannot be allowed when the sealing of Gojo is just about to happen."
Jogo grumbled but obliged.
"There are only a couple of sorcerers you need to worry about. Okkutsu Yuta, who holds the greatest amount of cursed energy in the modern era, is one you need to be careful of. Tsukumo Yuki, frankly I don't know much about her but the fact is that she holds the title of special grade makes her a threat. And lastly, there is Isao Arai. He can use whirlwinds and clay as his main power but can also attack the mind. So be careful of him. Which brings me to my last point."
Kenjaku looked to Hanami beside him. "When you go attack Jujutsu Tech, make sure to kill no one. Sukuna's actions are a bit odd to me and I think one of the students acts as a landmine. If we step on it, worse case scenario is that we all die. And make sure you never let Isao Arai get a hold of you."
Hanami was confused, it looked like Kenjaku was seriously taking this Isao Arai as a threat. In fact, it looked like he was placing him as a danger greater than Gojo and the special grade did.
"Why is that?"
His eyes looked deeply at Hanami. "Because he can take something that all living beings hope to keep desperately in their grasps. That is his power, to take away freedom."
Hanami remembered her interaction with Kenjaku. Laying on the ground, Hanami felt exhausted. Her cursed energy was lower than it ever was. And all she did was fight students, now in front of her was someone that was more ruthless, powerful and smart than any of the students she had fought.
"Be careful of him, Hanami." Kenjaku's words echoed in its mind.
Arai wrapped his leg in clay and wind, stomping on Hanami's stomach blowing a hole through its stomach. She grunted in pain and held her stomach bleeding out. Arai who was towering over Hanami grabbed Hanami by the chin and lifted her up with one arm.
"Is that all, special grade?"
The difference in strength was too great, and she knew that. So before he could put any defense up, Hanami was going to attack with everything she had. It quickly made its hand sign and used its greatest card.
"Domain Expansion: Garden of Paradise!"
A domain had been formed using the cursed energy that the rose on her left shoulder had gathered. What seemed to be a garden arose from nowhere. Trees, plants and all plantlife had been made into the domain.
"A domain, huh. Quite a refined one too. It was better than the other special grade that I fought last year." Arai observed the domain around him, intrigued by the formation. A domain expansion was a rare technique in this day and age. It was quite hard to find one.
'Before he can defend himself, I need to attack.' Hanami thought as it sent roots to attack him.
The sure-hit effects of her domain was the roots, curse buds and flower field. The roots was the simplest attack and would just send roots to attack a target. But the buds would guarantee to hit him and drain the cursed energy from Arai if hit. The flower field would put Arai in a daze and render him vulnerable.
But as she sent the roots, she felt something wrong.
No, the problem was that she felt nothing.
Her domain could not identify him as a target!
The wind wrapped around his body and like an explosion pushed everything thrown at him. All the attacks had been completely destroyed.
"A domain that is a sure-hit and sure-kill. Seems like a modern day domain." Arai commented while still holding onto its chin but the grip was beginning to be greater as his hands were wrapped into clay.
'How?! Why can't my domain lock him as a target?' Hanami was baffled at this development. He was in her domain and yet she was the one being completely crushed. But she was unaware of Aria's unique trait, her domain was at the end of the day a barrier.
Arai who had invisible cursed energy was invisible to a barrier. He could not be identified, this was why to stop Arai from entering the forest. It was necessary to stop him by putting a barrier to stop all things who held no cursed energy. That was Kenjaku's plan that he wanted to test.
Gritting its teeth, Hanami brought out her cursed energy and brought out a massive wave of roots at him. Arai backed away seeing this and gather his cursed energy.
"Even if you can't be targeted, a domain will still bring out 120% of what I can normally do." Hanami said as she slammed the wave towards Arai.
"That's ignoring the fact that I have my own domain." Arai said as he shaped the wind in his palms into a thin circular formation of wind. A thin like saw was formed between his palms. "But don't worry, I won't use it. There are bigger fish to catch after all."
The wind accumulated in his hands shot out faster than the speed of sound are cut right through the wave of roots.
"Wha-"
And before Hanami could react, her entire body was split in two diagonally. Her upper half slid off its lower and they both fell to the ground. The cursed spirit was still alive, but exhausted her cursed energy far too much and can't even heal correctly.
"You are not a threat, especially when you are so exhausted." Arai said as the domain around them collapsed. Shattering like glass. Arai walked towards her ignoring the domain shattering and the flora disappearing. "Still, you will prove yourself useful in the hands of a competent master. Me."
Hanami could feel it, what was about to happen. As his hands slowly reached to her head, she could feel his intentions all to clear. He wanted to control her, to enslaver her. 'No, I can't lose, I can't let myself be controlled by another. Especially a human!'
It felt fear, desperation and anger at this sorcerer.
'I won't let him!'
It gathered the little amount of cursed energy left within it.
"Make sure you never let Isao Arai get a hold of you because he will control you like a puppet." Kenjaku's words resounded within its head.
Hanami was now certain of its duty, its purpose. Holding its own head tightly, it poured all of its cursed energy into it and it soon began to grow bigger and bigger until-
*Pop!*
With resounding pop, the special grade killed itself before Arai could reach it. Not wanting to be controlled and ordered by a human, it left its desires and goal to its comrades.
Its last thoughts, Hanami knew it was done for and accepted its faith. It was in a white void where Hanami could see the figures of its comrades. 'Jogo, Dagon, Mahito, you will succeed. When I get reincarnated, hopefully the world will be ruled by cursed spirits.'
In the real world, Arai looked down on the corpse slowly disappearing. Its head was missing and its body was turning into dust. He calmly looked at the special grade slowly disappearing and shook his head.
"What a disappointment."
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{AN: TheEpic_Gamer stop giving good ideas ur running the surprise. This is why smart readers are such a bother.}
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