Chapter 24: Chapter 13 - His Malevolent Playground (Part 2)
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'Thoughts'
[Narration]
{Chat}
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"What's wrong, Akira?" Omni Gojo asked as both he and Akira walked through the street.
"I don't know..." Akira responded cryptically as his eyes squinted as if his head were hurting. "Something is happening; I can feel it, but I don't know what it is."
"Meh, it's alright, we'll figure it out." Omni gave a massive smile and lowered his blindfold. "After all, we're the-?"
Time seemed to slow, and before Omni could finish his sentence, a hand tried to come toward his face and grasp on.
Infinity immediately activated as the hand wasn't allowed to get anywhere near close to him and began sliding off the barrier like it was being dragged off the windshield of a car by the wipers.
Omni turned to Akira, who seemed to have ducked the other hand before it had even appeared.
The figure that had tried to grab them came to a halt immediately. Both Akira and Omni gave him inquisitory glances before looking at each other.
"Was that Sukuna?" Akira whispered to Omni with his hand covering his mouth as if to make sure Sukuna wasn't listening.
"I think it was..." Omni quickly answered Akira's question as they both stared down at Sukuna.
""He seems… kinda weak."" Both Omni and Akira spoke at the same time. A devious smile appeared on both their faces.
Sukuna's clothes were wet, but it was a sunny day. There were no storm clouds in sight.
Sukuna turned around with a smirk on his face. Now facing both Omni and Akira, he opened his mouth.
Only for his eyes to widen as he held up his guard. Akira instantly broke through his guard and pulled him in close. He gave Sukuna the most powerful punch in the stomach he could.
Sukuna nearly fell over forward but was now folding over Akira's fist.
Omni Gojo came in next as the bottom of his foot made contact with Sukuna's face. He ended up doing a backflip off of Sukuna's face before Sukuna went flying backward.
Sukuna bounced off the concrete multiple times before flipping mid-air and landing on his feet.
"And here, I thought we would be able to have a conversation before the fighting started," Sukuna said as his wounds began healing.
"A civil conversation? You started the fight when you tried to grab us by the face!" Omni Gojo said with a dumbfounded look on his face.
"You're right; usually I converse due to the fights I enter, never lasting long enough to have a meaningful conversation." Sukuna nodded to himself as if to mentally check off that he should no longer be so sure of everyone's weakness. "The last two brats held nothing meaningful, and dealing with them brought only the satisfaction I get from beating on children."
Akira and Omni both frowned upon hearing what Sukuna had said. They both shared a look before nodding at each other and turning back to Sukuna.
"See, the difference between them and us is that you were picking on small fry," Omni said as both he and Akira began walking up to Sukuna. "After all, you're not dealing with children at this moment. You're dealing with the peak. The strongest."
Sukuna grew a devious grin, and immediately it was wiped off his face as his eyes widened. Akira was already in front of him!
Sukuna stretched out his arm as a barrage of dismantles quickly approached Akira. Twisting his body in almost semi-impossible ways, Akira dodged the dismantles, grabbed Sukuna's right wrist, twisted it, and gave him a hard punch to the face.
To Sukuna's credit, he tried to catch the oncoming hand with his other hand. The keyword was tried.
The fist not only crashed into his palm but also forced his palm so far back that it touched his face.
Akira wasted no time in grabbing Sukuna's other wrist, pulling both his arms toward himself, and then smashing his knee into Sukuna's chin.
Not letting go of Sukuna, Akira spun him around before throwing him into the air.
"Nice layup!" Omni Gojo shouted as he appeared in the air, right next to where Sukuna was heading with his leg outstretched.
Omni kicked Sukuna right in the chest, sending him crashing back down into the concrete below.
Akira wasn't one to drop a combo. Rushing at Sukuna, he indented his foot into his stomach. From the kick, Sukuna went flying into a building, straight through it and landed on a counter that was now semi-broken.
Akira rushed inside, with Omni walking in behind him with his hands in his pockets. Taking one hand out, a can of soda appeared in his hand. Cracking it open, Omni took a sip as he bore witness to a one-sided beatdown.
Akira had Sukuna with his back against the wall, and he was currently in a 32-hit combo that was rapidly rising.
The punches he delivered shook the side of the building they were against, and the wall quickly began showing signs of breaking.
Every time Sukuna tried to grab onto Akira's hand or deliver a dismantle, he would slap his hand or dodge.
As if he were beating a child, he would give a barrage of punches to the gut, followed by two to the chest, and finally three more punches to the face before the wall finally broke and Sukuna crashed through it.
Upon landing and standing up, Sukuna was puzzled. That was until a knee found itself indented into his back. Sukuna's eyes were wide as he turned his head to see Akira with a smirk on his face.
'A heavenly restriction?' Sukuna thought with rage as he thought of the reason he couldn't sense the cursed energy from the person behind him. 'No, it's much more than that! No heavenly restriction has been this powerful. It's as if he can tell what move I can make before I make it!'
Omni Gojo walked lazily and looked as if he were drunk while drinking the soda. However, Sukuna finally realized what he needed to do.
He tried to grab Akira's hand, only for Akira to push him forward with a kick to the back. Instantly, Sukuna jumped high into the air. Was he going to make this-?
Sukuna's body had begun being rapidly pulled toward something. The distance to the ground he had made quickly faded away.
He appeared in front of Omni Gojo, who had his left hand held out where Sukuna was standing.
"Nu-uh," Omni said as a force hit Sukuna, blasting him backward through multiple buildings.
While embedded in the rubble, Sukuna tried to get up. It was slow going as he began healing his body.
A shadow stood over Sukuna's body. It was Akira who grabbed Sukuna by his hair, lifting him off the ground so as to be face-to-face with him due to the height disparity.
"Just give up; you're too weak to handle even me as you are. One finger isn't enough." Akira said with a frown, feeling very disappointed in the great evil that they were hyped up against.
Sukuna's arm shakily rose, as if he were out of strength, as his hand grabbed Akira's wrist.
Suddenly, a malevolent grin that threatened to split his face appeared. Sukuna's grip on Akira's wrist tightened as Akira's instincts went crazy.
Sukuna immediately closed the distance as he saw Omni Gojo standing on the sidewalk behind the hole he made in the building. Lining it up, Sukuna's fist was pulled back.
His eyes dilated as his free hand closed into a fist and rushed to Akira's stomach.
"BLACK FLASH!" Sukuna screamed out as black lightning arced all throughout the building they were in.
{Azaogdesz Sukuna has completed the challenge: Black Flash}
Akira's body was instantly flung backward toward Omni, who was wide-eyed.
There were two options that Omni could decide on at this moment.
Option one: he allows Akira to hit his infinity barrier, which will stop his momentum completely and probably open him up to a hail of dismantles.
Option two: he drops the barrier for a second and allows Akira to fly by before reactivating it.
As Akira's body got closer, it soon made contact with where Omni's infinity would be, and Akira... flew by harmlessly.
'That wasn't-!!' Omni Gojo didn't get the luxury of finishing that thought as an absolute hail of dismantles hit him. He had instantly picked himself back up to infinity, and more than half of the dismantles couldn't reach him, but the damage was done.
One of his arms was gone, and the other was missing a few fingers and a portion of flesh on his arm. Omni fell to the ground due to his lack of even legs.
He was now lying on his back in shock, as one of his eyes had been gouged out and both of his legs were mangled. The left had a portion of the thigh cut off, while the right had the whole knee and below cut off.
His chest had multiple large gashes in it, and his face had three long slash marks on it.
"The way to deal with someone who can instinctively feel your attacks?" Sukuna spoke as he now stood in front of the downed Omni Gojo. "Make their instincts believe you won't attack."
Sukuna's attention went back to Akira, who was now on the street and had begun stretching as some blood dripped down the side of his mouth.
"It was fun, Gojo brat, but as you are now, you're in too much pain to focus on your infinity. Too little training, too little time." Sukuna said as he walked past Omni with a smirk. "Perhaps in the next life, you'll learn to take your opponent seriously and not with such arrogance."
*Dismantle* *Dismantle* *Dismantle* *Dismantle* *Dismantle* *Dismantle* *Dismantle* *Dismantle* *Dismantle* *Dismantle* *Dismantle* *Dismantle*
Omni Gojo's body was alit with dismantles as each and every corner of his body gushed blood from the slashes.
Sukuna continued walking toward Akira as Akira wiped the blood from his mouth.
Taking a step forward, Akira found himself wobbling from the aftereffects of taking his first black flash. Falling to a kneeling position while trying to hold himself up, Akira smiled.
"Any last words?" Sukuna said while only ten feet away.
"Yeah," Akira said, having this 'you fucked up' fat grin on his face as he spoke up. "Here it comes..."
{Omni Gojo has made the advancement: [Reverse Cursed Technique Lv1]}
{Omni Gojo has made the advancement: [Cursed Technique: Reversal Red]}
{Omni Gojo has made the advancement: [Hollow Technique: Purple]}
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