There is a fine line between idiocy and brilliance.
Akira likes to use that line as a whip to whip me into shape, apparently... I just call it torture.
"Do it again!"
I grunted, a simple domain deploying around me as my cursed energy flared, trying to form a shell around the barrier of the simple domain.
Akira, in response, flared his own cursed energy, trying to disrupt my attempts.
The standoff later a few seconds before my attempt was thwarted.
I sighed, tilting my body to the side to avoid a kick that would have ended up stealing my first kiss.
"Come on you pussy!"
Another simple domain deployed, another thwarted attempt. I raised my hand to push away a punch and jumped back, to gain some distance from Akira.
The process was repeated, the semblance of a barrier forming around the edges, raising from the ground before Akira burst through, his leg coming in a sweep.
I scowled, jumping up and tucking my legs up. Akira twisted on the bowls of his feet, a backhand that would have hit my cheek was avoided by me laying on the ground in a pushup position, instead of landing normally.
Lifting my legs I pent my arms and launched myself back, my feet skidding on the ground, kicking up dust.
He was always breaking the barrier before it could form, and forming a barrier from scratch wasn't easy when doing it for the first time, it was harder when a certain asshole was breaking it.
If only I could put it out of his... Reach...
Oh, this bitch...
My cursed energy flared, foregoing the simple domain, and spread out my cursed energy as far as I could in a single output.
Akira looked back as the barrier formed. He was too far to do anything about unless he found a way to teleport without any of us noticing, he wouldn't break it before it formed.
He looked back at me and grinned, then he proceeded to flip me off, deploying his own domain before my barrier could even form.
It was fast.
I've only seen it once from the inside, but it was fast. It was like someone poured white paint on a colorful canvas. It started spreading from his feet, encompassing me in the blink of an eye, too fast for me to respond, or use simple domain before it was primed and ready.
The world turned white, and I only had the time to use reverse cursed energy on my right prefrontal cortex to recover my cursed technique before an overgrown cat lounged at me, its teeth sinking into my forearm.
Water gathered above my abdomen, before spiking up and freezing, skewering the cat and forcing the ink manifestation off of me.
I rolled my shoulder, ignoring the pain momentarily and deploying the simple domain, pouring as much cursed energy as I could into the confined space, trying to open a hole in the barrier, however, Akira wasn't sloppy enough to let it happen.
A hawk was on me like I was a small mouse, which, compared to it, I certainly was.
I ducked, and the guaranteed hit of the domain, which, I didn't even know if it had one, canceled out as a kick connected with the back of my knee, forcing me to kneel.
I raised my hand, bragging the leg of Akira's ink clone. A chain wrapped around my other leg and my leg was forced out, forcing me to the ground.
Grunting, I rolled on the blank canvas of the domain, my simple domain gone. As soon as I got to my feet, something wrapped around my legs, and my eyes snapped down, seeing two ink snakes, wrapping around my feet to keep me in place, seemingly coming right out of the ground.
Ah, shit...
I looked up, seeing Akira about to kick my lights out.
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"Hey you, you're finally awake."
Akira grinned down at me as I groaned, that fucking reference...
A palm was pressed to his face as Shoko pushed him away with an irritated look, before going back to healing me.
"You have been wanting to say that for five minutes, you did, now give me space."
She grumbled and pressed her hands to my abdomen, the distinct feeling of reverse cursed energy spreading through my body.
My cursed energy flared, the hands of the clock I was using as the mental image turning in reverse as my cursed energy flowed, mimicking the feeling and healing the areas of my body where I felt spikes of pain faster.
I sat up, rubbing my jaw as the pain disappeared, and tilted my head to the side, getting a few pops.
"Man, you got your ass kicked."
Gojo snickered, looking down at me as Geto looked at me curiously, seemingly wanting to ask something, but nothing came from him.
Well, at least I had a lead on how to make a domain now, so that was good, Akira's way of brute forcing everything just did not work with me.
"I'll kick your ass again, next time..."
I muttered groaning as I sat up, tracking Akiras offered hand to help me to my feet. He slapped me on my back, still grinning.
"You did good."
He praised and in response, I elbowed him in the ribs.
Ah, friendship.
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