Under the attack of Hollow Technique: Purple, not only was Jogo's Maximum Technique: Meteor destroyed, but even the Domain "Coffin of the Iron Mountain" was completely shattered by the blow.
However, Gojo Satoru didn't deal a killing blow to Jogo himself, controlling Hollow Technique: Purple to only blast away the parts of Jogo below the neck.
After all, as Gojo Satoru who possesses the Six Eyes, even if the meteorite from Maximum Technique: Meteor was massive, he could still sense Jogo's specific location behind it.
To some extent, although the battle process between Jogo and Gojo Satoru was different, it reached the same result as the original plot.
After all, Gojo Satoru still had a lot of questions to ask Jogo, including how the other party knew his travel route and used it as a trigger to intercept him.
Moreover, Gojo Satoru was certain he hadn't met Jogo before, so who had given Jogo this information about him?
Jogo's series of attacks were too targeted. Gojo Satoru knew he possessed decent intelligence, but he absolutely didn't believe this was just Jogo's combat instinct—using Domain Expansion overlaid with a Maximum Technique to counter immediately after just one attack failed.
It was pure nonsense. Even if Gojo Satoru were in Jogo's place, he wouldn't have made such a decisive choice; he would have at least tested the waters a few more times to confirm information before pulling out a strategy of Domain Expansion combined with a Maximum Technique for a one-shot burst.
Not to mention Jogo didn't have Gojo Satoru's Six Eyes. Gojo Satoru wouldn't believe for a second that Jogo could analyze the Limitless / Limitless Void technique after just one attack.
Gojo Satoru walked to Jogo's side, stepped on his head, and said:
"There's a reason I'm sparing you. I'll ask you one by one. Tell me, who sent you here?"
At this moment, Jogo was left with only a head. His Cursed Energy was mostly consumed from just releasing his Domain, and with the severe damage to his body, he didn't have enough Cursed Energy to recover in a short time.
Furthermore, because the Domain was destroyed, Jogo had also entered a state of cursed technique disruption.
But for some reason, recalling Mahito's previous words, Jogo wasn't actually that frustrated or terrified.
At that time, Mahito had said this: "However, even if you fight in the way I instructed, there is a high probability you will still lose to Gojo Satoru. It's just that he won't kill and exorcise you so quickly."
When Mahito said this, he deliberately paused and turned his gaze toward Hanami.
"After Jogo loses to Gojo Satoru, don't expect that guy Geto to make a move; he is just an enemy whose interests temporarily align. So, I must ask you, Hanami, to save Jogo. Because your Cursed Technique, which can affect emotions, won't be directly judged as damage and blocked by the Limitless / Limitless Void technique, it can cause a brief moment of control over Gojo Satoru. That will be your chance to act. You won't refuse my request, will you?"
Hanami's voice rang out in everyone's minds simultaneously: "Leave it to me."
"I won't lose!" Jogo argued stubbornly.
Although Jogo said this, he could actually feel that Mahito's arrangements and the disclosure of information about Gojo Satoru obtained from that unreliable manga were, to some extent, for his sake.
And given that he was beaten to near death by Gojo Satoru, Hanami's lack of hesitation when faced with the request to save him from such a terrifying opponent also showed that Hanami was taking such a risk for his sake.
The expression of emotion between Cursed Spirits is direct and pure, without awkward sentimentality. Accepting this was Jogo's reaction, because if it were Mahito, Hanami, or Dagon in danger, he would do the same.
Time returned from memory to the present. Hanami and Kenjaku, who were observing the battle from a high cliff, had both noticed the destruction of Jogo's Domain and his dying state.
Kenjaku couldn't help but sigh, "To pull Gojo Satoru into a Domain right from the start was actually quite a clever move. But that's as far as it goes. What should we do? Are we going to save him?"
As Kenjaku spoke, he turned his head to look at Hanami beside him.
"I cannot show my face in front of Jujutsu High personnel for certain reasons, so I'll head to the meeting point first. If you want to save him, go ahead. But I'm not sure if Cursed Spirits possess such emotions."
Hanami also remembered what Mahito had said back then because of Kenjaku's words: don't expect Kenjaku to help.
Before Hanami left, his voice rang in Kenjaku's ear.
"Of course we do. Compared to you, we are the true humans."
Although Hanami's intention was merely to mock Kenjaku from an emotional level, it sounded like something else to Kenjaku.
Kenjaku felt that Hanami was mocking him, implying that Kenjaku—who wished to merge all the humans in Area 11 into a Great Cursed Spirit to satisfy his own curiosity—was even less worthy of being called human than they were.
Kenjaku certainly knew what kind of person he was. Even if he didn't care about others' opinions, there was an arrogance in his heart that didn't want this point to be called out to his face.
Kenjaku smiled disdainfully and muttered to himself.
"What bold words, for a mere Cursed Spirit..."
...Gojo Satoru treated Jogo's head entirely like a stress-relief toy, stepping on it and rolling it back and forth on the ground while his mouth chattered away like a machine gun.
"But speaking of which, you don't seem like the type to follow orders, do you?"
"Is there some benefit for you if that person kills me?"
"Anyway, hurry up and tell me who gave you the information."
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! If you don't talk, I'll lose my patience and exorcise you!"
"Though I'll still exorcise you after you talk."
"But in any case, confess honestly! Or I'll finish you off right now!"
"Here I come!"
At that moment, a field of flowers suddenly grew beneath Gojo Satoru's feet. Due to the effect of Hanami's Cursed Technique, Gojo Satoru unconsciously entered a peaceful state.
And before Gojo Satoru could react, Hanami immediately grabbed Jogo's head and fled quickly.
But in fact, it wasn't just Hanami who came. Because this time Yuji Itadori wasn't by Gojo Satoru's side to be used as leverage to restrain his actions, Mahito had actually come as well to buy time for Hanami to leave.
However, only Mahito's clones had come. Those thumb-sized Mahito clones jumped off Hanami as he emerged from the ground.
At this time, Gojo Satoru also realized that his will seemed to be affected by a Cursed Technique.
Rather than the incredibly weak Mahito clones at his feet, he focused his gaze entirely on the fleeing Hanami.
The Mahito clones didn't attack. As mere clones, there was no way they could stall Gojo Satoru just by attacking, so Mahito used another method to hold him back.
"He's still alive~"
"Geto Suguru~"
"It's him~"