章 49: Chapter 49: The Purpose of This Journey
Chapter 49: The Purpose of This Journey
"Not bad, not bad."
"I like that look in your eyes now!"
Sukuna darted forward, slipping past the special-grade cursed spirit in the blink of an eye. With a swift flick of his wrist, an invisible blade shot from his fingertips, slicing straight through Mirai's head without hesitation!
Boom!
The wall behind him split cleanly in two, crashing down with a deafening rumble as stone fragments rained down.
"After spending so much time with them, I think my heart's softened a bit," Mirai murmured, sidestepping gracefully before swinging a fierce kick toward Sukuna's abdomen.
A sharp sonic boom echoed as Sukuna bent forward, raising an arm to guard.
Boom!
The impact surged like a tidal wave. Sukuna had just restored Itadori's hands, only for his right arm to be pulverized by Mirai's kick.
Crash!
With a violent crash, Itadori's body was sent hurtling through the bridge, plunging down into the reservoir below. Mirai stepped onto a piece of debris, falling down with it.
"An interesting technique," Sukuna muttered, twisting mid-air as he stepped off falling rocks to close in on Mirai once more, his shattered arm regenerating instantly. His eyes glinted with malicious intent as he launched a flurry of strikes from below.
Invisible slashes, cursed energy-infused punches…
As they fell onto the water's surface, Mirai stood still, watching Sukuna's display in silence. That distant gaze, that dismissive attitude…
Sukuna's exhilarated grin faltered—then intensified with a wild gleam.
Now that he had experienced Mirai's intangible technique firsthand, Sukuna had formulated a strategy. One was to wait and strike at the exact moment Mirai attacked; the other was to rely on the guaranteed hit rule of his Domain.
"To be honest…"
"With only the power of two fingers, you're utterly dull."
Mirai slid his hands into his pockets, a hint of mockery flashing in his eyes. "Should I cut you some slack?"
As he finished speaking, Mirai deactivated his intangible technique without hesitation.
Boom!
In an instant, he lunged forward, his foot shattering the ground beneath him. Although Sukuna sensed the imminent threat, he couldn't keep up with Mirai's speed.
Boom!
His left shoulder caved in, with only scraps of flesh and sinew barely holding his raised arms together. Warm blood dripped into the water below, where Sukuna's twisted, enraged face was reflected.
Mirai pressed down steadily on Sukuna's arm with one leg, forcing him to kneel on the water's surface with sheer pressure.
As Mirai had pointed out, Sukuna, with the strength of just two fingers, was no match for him.
"Here, catch."
Mirai looked down at Sukuna, tossing him a finger from his pocket as if feeding scraps to a dog. The cursed spirit in the juvenile detention center had only ascended to special-grade because of one of Sukuna's fingers, after all.
As for that white cursed spirit… It had already been sliced into pieces by the shockwaves of Sukuna's probing attacks on Mirai's technique.
Taking advantage of Sukuna's focused assault, Mirai retrieved the falling finger without a trace.
Boom!
A terrifying shockwave radiated from Itadori's body, sending slashes in all directions. True to his word, Mirai disengaged his intangible form and easily sidestepped out of range.
Seizing the moment, Sukuna rose, swallowing the finger in a single gulp.
"You little brat, you're even more infuriating than that white-haired idiot!"
At this point, the cursed energy surging from Itadori's body was more intense than ever before.
"What's wrong?"
"Weren't you the one who told me to drop the pretense?"
A hundred meters away, Mirai stepped lightly, appearing before Sukuna in the blink of an eye. With the dynamic prediction of the Sharingan and his unrelenting physical conditioning…
Boom!
Another side kick came at Sukuna, who couldn't react in time, embedding him into the wall.
Since the moment he appeared…
Mirai's hands had remained in his pockets, a silent display of disdain for Sukuna.
...
Over a millennium had passed. Sukuna had witnessed humanity's vices from the time he was a sorcerer to when he became a cursed spirit. He had seen it all.
The first time he saw Mirai within Itadori's body…
Beneath that staged smile was a cold, indifferent soul etched into his very bones. That deep-seated contempt for everything, that hollow pretense—it was as transparent to Sukuna as glass.
And it was precisely this disdain that enraged Sukuna beyond words.
Embedded in the wall, Sukuna violently tore his arms free and reentered the battlefield. In the next instant, his hands fully regenerated, and his cursed energy swelled to no end.
"Domain Expansion: Malevolent Shrine!"
The twisted shrine rose from the ground, exuding boundless malice. Despite the difference in cursed energy, Sukuna's presence while controlling Itadori's body was unmistakable—like a blinding sun in the sky.
Standing on the edge of the domain, Mirai's smile deepened.
His concern for Itadori before the fight had been merely to ensure that Itadori's consciousness remained unconscious. The mockery directed at Sukuna was all part of forcing him to unleash his domain sooner.
Mirai was wary that Itadori might regain consciousness midway, spoiling his plans.
"Come on, show me the power of the King of Curses."
Mirai slightly lowered his stance, removing his hands from his pockets for the first time.
Standing at the gates of his shrine, Sukuna's eyes flashed with intensified malice.
In Sukuna's eyes,
Although Mirai could counter with his own domain, he chose to face him barehanded.
Wasn't this another form of mockery?
Clang!
Hundreds of unavoidable invisible blades lashed toward Mirai's body in a frenzy.
Splat!
In an instant, Mirai's body was riddled with cuts, his blood spilling freely as though he'd been skewered. He looked like a bloodied mess, his crimson streaks running wild.
"What are you playing at now, boy?"
Seeing the blood-drenched figure before him, Sukuna's face twisted in confusion. Rather than using his domain, this sorcerer seemed to be willingly enduring his slashes.
One thing was clear—
Mirai's physical resilience was remarkable, even tougher than many special-grade cursed spirits.
With Sukuna's domain-enhanced, guaranteed slashes, a typical special-grade spirit would have been reduced to dust in an instant.
"Is this all your strength with three fingers?"
As Mirai's sigh faded, the myriad of deep wounds across his body began healing visibly.
Meanwhile…
A faint clicking echoed from the shadows as a spell formation rotated into motion.
Ignoring Sukuna's grim expression, Mirai strolled casually through the domain as though on a leisurely tour.
"Can't it go any harder?"
Mirai asked earnestly.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Two thousand six hundred slashes!
This was the peak of Sukuna's power with three fingers.
The onslaught of strikes descended from every direction, each one carving into Mirai's body.
Brain, neck, chest, limbs…
The torrent of cursed energy manifested into a storm of razor-sharp blades, painting the scene in a scarlet rain.
In this moment, Mirai's deep black eyes transformed into blood-red Sharingan.
Mirai was testing whether he could evade the guaranteed hit effect within someone else's domain.
Splat!
Mirai tilted his head, but the blade still split his opened eye in two.
"Experiment failed."
The blood-drenched Mirai sighed in mild disappointment.
The Sharingan could predict the trajectory of the slashes and even anticipate their points of impact. However, the domain's guaranteed hit effect was overwhelming.
Mirai had turned his head to dodge the strike, yet the blade instantly shifted to appear right at his eye socket.
But it didn't matter.
Mirai's lips curled in a smile as a reversal spell enveloped his body.
Despite the pain of countless cuts, he laughed freely in the blood rain.
The fourth goal from half a year ago in Gojo Satoru's domain had now reached new heights with Sukuna's assistance.
An open-style domain!
This was the ultimate purpose of Mirai's journey!
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