"Oh, you still aren't finished?"
Satoru landed beside Suguru, greeting him the same way he always did.
"I was just about to finish. Did you have fun playing with your old ancestor?"
Suguru's faint blue Simple Domain, which had been flickering and on the verge of disappearing, vanished.
Limitless had already enveloped and protected him.
"I thought an old man from over a thousand years ago would be better than those old fossils back home, but it turns out he's not even as fun as they are. What a miscalculation."
Satoru spread his hands and made a disgruntled face.
"It seems you two had a good time. Remember to tell me about it later."
"Alright, alright. Let's quickly take care of these guys, then we can take Shoko out to eat."
The two exchanged a smile, striking their classic lawless walking pose.
"I'm afraid your dinner plans will have to be postponed."
Abe no Seimei appeared at the edge of the Domain after it shattered.
His hands were pressed against the ground, and peculiar patterns were forming across the surface.
"A barrier?"
Satoru immediately recognized what Seimei was doing.
His Six Eyes quickly scanned the area, and a smirk appeared on his lips before he formed a single hand sign.
"Domain Expansion: Unlimited Void."
Unlimited Void descended upon the battlefield and expanded outward.
Kenjaku and Seimei immediately ordered the remaining Shikigami and Cursed Spirits capable of using Domain Expansion to resist Satoru with all their might and buy time.
The Domains shattered, yet all enemies except Kenjaku and Seimei were frozen in place, as if time had stopped.
They had been hit by Unlimited Void, and their brains had temporarily stopped functioning.
Satoru and Suguru immediately moved, charging toward Seimei's location.
Clang, bang.
Just then, all the Shikigami affected by Unlimited Void moved.
With vacant stares, they surrounded Satoru and Suguru, and countless attacks rained down on the two of them.
"So that's it. You're controlling them."
Satoru saw Seimei in the distance, one hand still pressed to the ground while the other formed a hand sign.
"Isn't it only natural for a Shikigami user to control his Shikigami?"
Seimei smiled. His plan had succeeded.
"Prison Realm: Open Gate."
An eye suddenly opened on a wall of flesh, appearing before the two of them.
The moment Satoru and Suguru saw that eye, they realized something and both retreated.
Then they crashed into a wall made of barrier roots.
Around them, several Special Grade Shikigami and a large number of Grade 1 Shikigami began rushing forward recklessly.
Splish, splish, splish.
One Shikigami after another was torn apart by Satoru and Suguru.
Even during Cursed Technique Burnout, Satoru was not someone ordinary Special Grade combatants could challenge.
Suguru also immediately ordered the Four Calamities to fall back and defend.
Because of Unlimited Void just now, all of Suguru's other Cursed Spirits, aside from the Four Calamities who had just been pulled into the Domain battle, were in a brain-dead state.
Kenjaku immediately controlled Womb Profusion to block the Four Calamities.
Since two of them were already in Cursed Technique Burnout, Kenjaku's obstruction was not too difficult.
A stalemate began, but this time, the stalemate favored Seimei and his allies...
In the sky above the battlefield, after defeating Shōkera and his Shōkera Swarm, Eichi finally gained control of Hana.
Rule Breaker successfully pierced her body.
"Ah, ah, ah."
Soon, an old man with a large red eye on his forehead was driven out of Hana's body by Eichi.
Oodokuro, a Shikigami capable of possessing and controlling others.
Eichi casually eliminated Oodokuro, then began checking Hana's condition.
After confirming that Hana was unharmed and had merely overexerted her Cursed Energy, Eichi felt relieved.
Just then, Eichi noticed that the surrounding barrier had dimmed significantly.
His eyes quickly scanned the battlefield, and he soon discovered the reason.
"Has the Cursed Energy of the entire grand barrier been gathered to seal Satoru and Suguru?"
Eichi landed on the ground, summoned a Spirit Origin Shadow to look after Hana, then flew back into the sky.
His gaze constantly moved across the grand barrier, and bursts of magical bullets continuously exploded against it.
These magical bullets targeted the weak points that had appeared in the grand barrier due to the sudden withdrawal of Cursed Energy.
Crack, crack, crack.
Cracks appeared one after another across the grand barrier.
Originally, destroying this barrier would have required a long time or a more powerful Heroic Spirit.
Now, Seimei had suddenly weakened the entire grand barrier's power just to seal Satoru.
So, Eichi naturally did not hold back.
As for Satoru?
There was no need to worry about him. Setting aside his strength, even if he were truly sealed, a method to release him had already been prepared.
Satoru was not from the Tohsaka family. He would not mess up at a critical moment.
Snap.
The cracks on the several-kilometer-wide barrier grew more numerous, and dense fissures quickly covered the entire barrier.
"Done."
Eichi extended his hands forward, and a massive magic cannon quickly condensed and fired.
The cracked grand barrier was blasted open, leaving a huge gap.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
Countless barrier fragments fell like glass rain.
After completing all this, Eichi turned to look at the ground and saw the trembling blue Prison Realm holding Satoru.
Eichi: ...
But the next second, seeing the large number of corpses around the Prison Realm, Eichi understood Satoru's intentions.
"I remember the Prison Realm is quite sturdy. This shot probably won't break it."
With that, the purple disappeared from Eichi's body, and his attire changed from that of a mysterious purple mage into a blue bodysuit.
His crimson spear was raised, then aimed at the only remaining Shikigami around the Prison Realm.
To restrain Satoru, Seimei had clearly gambled everything.
"Gáe Bolg!"
It was not the infallible spear that pierced the heart and reversed karma.
Eichi was currently using Gáe Bolg's original application.
Once thrown, it manifested as an attack that scattered countless arrowheads.
It was a B+ ranked Anti-Army Noble Phantasm.
Crimson arrowheads rained down, and all the Shikigami around the Prison Realm that were not quite dead yet, as well as those that had not had time to act, were taken out by this Anti-Army Noble Phantasm.
"Is that guy trying to kill us too?"
Jogo, with his head aflame, looked up at Eichi in the sky.
They were allies now, allies!
"Never mind that. What are you going to do?"
Mahito glanced at Jogo.
The moment Suguru and Satoru were sealed by the Prison Realm, Mahito felt Cursed Spirit Manipulation's control over them weakening.
He estimated that it would not be long before the blue eyes on the Prison Realm completely closed, and then the four of them would regain their freedom.
As if sensing their thoughts, Kenjaku also stopped his Domain attacks on them.
Thump.
Eichi landed, then charged at Kenjaku with his spear.
Artoria, who had slain Kyokotsu and a host of Cursed Spirits, once again attacked Seimei.
(To be continued.)