Maximum Technique — the ultimate expression of one's innate cursed technique.
The strongest power beneath a Domain Expansion.
Every innate technique corresponds to a different domain property.
And the techniques possessed by Zenin Mirai — the Ten Shadows Technique, the Sharingan, and the Rinnegan — represented three separate domains, and thus three separate Maximum Techniques.
Kamui, evolved to its absolute limit and amplified by the Culling Game barrier's spatial isolation, had become a divine technique capable of dragging the entirety of Japan into the void itself.
And even with only a single Rinnegan activated, the Maximum Technique still retained half of that power.
Even so...
The cigarette hanging from Kusakabe's lips burned down and fell to the floor. Slumped weakly in his chair, he muttered in utter despair:
"I'm done... just destroy everything already."
"That monster..."
At that moment, even the battle lust surging through the combat maniac Kashimo quieted for an instant.
Staring at the screen broadcasting the battlefield, everyone unconsciously trembled in fear.
Nobara bit her lip tightly, her voice shaking.
"The sun... is falling."
"SHHHHH—!!!"
A deafening roar echoed across the heavens as catastrophe descended from above!
The atmosphere scraped violently against the meteor's surface, igniting scorching flames!
The nine blazing suns that had seemed like an illusion before were now crashing down in terrifying reality!
Everything shown on the screen resembled a doomsday disaster film.
Yet everyone could clearly feel the world outside trembling.
Because of Mei Mei's live broadcast, Mirai had deliberately avoided the location where Jujutsu High was hiding.
But inside the barrier...
"There are still so many ordinary people outside! We can't just stand here and watch anymore!"
With a determined expression, Yuji leapt to his feet and rushed toward the door. He couldn't ignore death.
"Oi!"
Nobara frowned and immediately ran after him.
A small crack opened beneath Hana Kurusu's eye as she sighed.
"Go ahead. That guy already saw through this hideout long ago anyway, didn't he?"
The entire point of hiding here had been to launch a surprise attack, but the enemy had already discovered their base before the battle even started.
Everyone's roles had already been assigned. There was no meaning in continuing to hide.
Watching the meteors descend, the terror, panic, and despair they inspired—
It was like pouring oil onto an already raging fire.
An immeasurable flood of negative emotions exploded outward!
Those invisible emotions continuously poured into Mirai's blood-red left eye.
"Ah... what an exquisite feeling."
Mirai spread his arms wide, narrowing his eyes in blissful enjoyment.
Sukuna raised his head toward the sky. All four eyes turned solemn, yet a crazed grin spread across his face.
"Heh... now this is impressive."
He lowered himself into a stance and formed hand seals as shadows surged violently upward.
"Nue!"
A gigantic shikigami materialized out of thin air, its outstretched wings large enough to blot out entire skyscrapers!
Countless thick bolts of lightning wrapped around the beast's body, radiating terrifying power.
Sukuna, having activated the Ten Shadows Technique first, leapt atop the shikigami and shot straight into the sky!
After regaining his full power, Sukuna had utterly annihilated the Zenin estate before heading toward the center of the barrier.
Not out of spite—
But to complete the exorcism ritual required for the Ten Shadows Technique.
Yet even such a colossal beast appeared no more than a slightly larger ant before the descending meteor.
Like a mayfly trying to shake a tree.
Utterly insignificant.
"Gojo!!!"
Geto shouted sharply as cursed energy erupted around him!
The understanding between best friends required nothing more than a glance.
"Yeah, I know!"
Gojo unleashed his technique reversal at maximum output!
A massive azure beam erupted from his palm and blasted into the sky!
"Cursed Spirit Manipulation!"
From a crack splitting open in space, a familiar figure crawled out.
Yorozu—her entire body encased in insect-like armor—had transformed from an incarnated sorcerer into a cursed spirit!
Mirai had used the dying Yorozu as an experiment.
If a sorcerer wasn't killed using cursed energy, there was a possibility they would become a curse after death.
After borrowing several modern firearms from a few American soldiers and riddling her body with bullets...
It had actually worked.
Yorozu's obsessive love and overwhelming longing to see the one she loved one final time—
Had allowed her to be reborn.
Controlled by Suguru Geto, Yorozu formed a hand seal.
A perfect black sphere appeared before her—an impossible object that should not exist in reality itself!
"BOOM!"
Using the immense attraction generated by Gojo's Blue, the black sphere shot toward the meteor overhead!
Geto continuously poured cursed energy into Yorozu, causing the sphere to expand larger and larger as it flew.
It reached the meteor first—
And pierced a perfect vacuum tunnel straight through its center!
Meanwhile, Sukuna reached the meteor's surface first, grinning savagely as he pressed both hands against the burning mass.
Just before his arms carbonized completely, an overwhelming surge of cursed energy erupted forth.
"Maximum Output... Cleave!"
Like a sun being sliced apart, countless razor-sharp cuts spread across the meteor's surface!
Then—
It exploded violently!
Amid the raining fragments of burning meteors, Sukuna's half-charred body plummeted back toward the earth.
Compared to Sukuna's sheer madness, the cooperation between the two best friends was far more calculated.
Floating midair, Gojo carried Geto directly through the vacuum tunnel carved into the meteor.
"BOOOOOOM—!!!"
The meteor crashed down.
Dust and smoke swallowed the city.
The blood-red streets were littered with mangled corpses and severed limbs, while endless cries of grief echoed everywhere.
A suffocating atmosphere of despair engulfed all of Japan completely.
Negative emotions surged to their absolute peak!
The crimson color slowly faded from Mirai's left eye—
Both eyes now transformed into Rinnegan.
"So this really was the correct choice after all!"
Standing high in the sky, Mirai felt exhilarated to the very core.
"He's still getting stronger? That monster?!"
Geto muttered grimly before glancing sideways at Gojo and quietly whispering something.
"THIS IS AMAZING! AMAZING!!!"
Laughing wildly, Sukuna formed another series of hand signs and finally revealed one of his hidden trump cards.
"Furube... Yurayura..."
"Divine General Mahoraga!"
But the summoning did not stop there.
With an immense flood of cursed energy, Sukuna formed another seal.
"'Kangyu'... 'Kon'!"
Boiling shadows churned as two grotesque shikigami emerged behind him like bodyguards.
One male. One female.
A Ten Shadows user normally cannot summon more than two shikigami simultaneously.
That was the rule imposed by the technique itself.
But shikigami could be fused.
Their powers could overlap.
The Mahoraga Sukuna summoned looked almost identical to the one Mirai used.
The other grotesque humanoid creature possessed the upper body of Nue and the lower body of a human woman.
It had antlers like Round Deer, claws like Divine Dog, and the tail of Great Serpent.
This was a newly fused shikigami—
"Koutou."
Sukuna had stolen Megumi's body precisely because he had witnessed how terrifying Mirai's Ten Shadows Technique truly was.
And as another Ten Shadows user himself, Sukuna knew there was no way he could secretly hide Mahoraga's wheel in the shadows to adapt beneath Mirai's watchful eyes.
If his opponent had only been Gojo, he might have attempted such a strategy.
But compared to the new trump cards the King of Curses gained after stealing Megumi's body—
The other pair of best friends had also acquired matching forces of their own.
The cursed-spirit versions of Yorozu and Naoya.
Two cursed spirits capable of deploying Domain Expansions—
Both gifts personally handed to them by Mirai.
Sukuna, accompanied by his two shikigami, charged forward like a thunderbolt!
From the opposite side, Geto and Gojo erupted forward simultaneously!
Seven terrifying beings radiating Special Grade-level presence surged toward Mirai all at once!
Sukuna, hailed as the strongest sorcerer in history.
Gojo Satoru, revered as the strongest of the modern age.
The absolute strongest.
The loneliness born from overwhelming power...
Yet now, these two supreme beings—both of whom had repeatedly suffered defeat—smiled sincerely at the exact same moment.
As though the emptiness within them had finally been filled by something real.
If there were only one phrase to describe what they felt at that moment—
"THIS IS SO FREAKING AWESOME!!!"
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