"Domain Expansion — Malevolent Shrine!"
The overwhelming flood of information, the invisible blades of slashing force...
All of it came to a halt before Mirai.
This was the instant-kill technique unleashed jointly by the two strongest sorcerers!
A third domain?!
Shock exploded across the faces of Sukuna, Satoru Gojo, and Suguru Geto alike.
Two innate domains alone were already enough to defy reason.
And now there was a third?!
At that moment, the very understanding of jujutsu held by the two strongest seemed to shatter into pieces.
After Gojo had been unsealed, Jujutsu High had provided him with every scrap of information they possessed.
Sukuna, meanwhile, had once resided inside Yuji's body and personally experienced the properties of Mirai's first two domains.
Those two domains, at least, were things they understood.
But neither of them had the faintest clue what the third domain's effect could be.
In the next instant, the shock on their faces gave way to deep confusion.
There was no closed barrier shell...
Nor was there any manifested construct like an open-type domain.
The invisible defense before Zen'in Mirai completely neutralized the sure-hit effects of the domains, yet the three of them could sense no domain property whatsoever, nor did they suffer any guaranteed attacks.
A domain technique specialized entirely for absolute defense?
The thought surfaced in their minds—
And was rejected immediately.
A power that only defended and never attacked was completely unlike that monster.
"I told you not to rush," Mirai chuckled lightly. "The best things should be savored slowly."
With that—
Four arms suddenly burst open behind him!
Then came heads, torsos, bodies, legs—
From the shadows at Mirai's back, two humanoid figures split apart and emerged.
The pupils of the three observers shook violently.
These weren't mere clones!!!
The shoulder-length black hair.
The deep ripple-patterned eyes.
And that signature pressure of bottomless cursed energy.
No wonder they hadn't sensed any attacks earlier—
That monster had applied the rules of the domain entirely onto himself!
This was bad!!!
For the first time ever, an overwhelming sense of danger surged through the hearts of the two strongest sorcerers.
Mirai lowered his gaze toward the two figures beside him, reveling in the perfect unity between them—the sensation of moving them as naturally as his own limbs.
Then he laughed wildly.
"HAHAHAHA!!!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
"Subarashii… this is incredible!"
This was the first time Mirai had ever used the domain opened by the Rinnegan eyes.
With a single step, the two figures shot forward like lightning, charging from both front and rear toward the two strongest sorcerers!
BOOM!!!
Purple light flashed within their eyes!
The invisible defenses deployed by the two clones completely nullified Sukuna's slashing effects and Gojo's information overload!
The thousand years of jujutsu knowledge possessed by Sukuna, and the all-seeing perception of the Six Eyes—
Even they could no longer distinguish whether the figures before them were Zen'in Mirai's real body or merely clones.
Just as the two strongest prepared to strike—
Mirai's delighted voice rang out once more beside their ears.
"Don't misunderstand, strongest ones..."
"These aren't simple one-plus-one clones."
"Experience for yourselves the gap between our dimensions!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
As the shrill laughter echoed—
The clone figures that had rushed before the two strongest revealed savage smiles of amusement.
If Sukuna's true body possessed superior close combat through four-armed hand signs, and faster technique chanting through the mouth on his abdomen—
Then the clones empowered by Mirai's Rinnegan domain...
Thought and action were one.
The instant Mirai's thoughts moved—
Three heads and six arms simultaneously formed three different domain seals!
"Domain Expansion — Final Scene: Glazed Moon!"
"Domain Expansion — Shadow Execution Mausoleum!"
Within less than ten seconds—
A collision between six supreme domains erupted at once!
Multiple layered domains with incompatible properties overlapped, while violently complex cursed energy surged and twisted together!
Crack! Crack!!!
BOOM!!!
The enhanced barrier of Unlimited Void shattered apart!
BANG!!!
The shrine overflowing with corpses split apart beneath countless fractures before exploding completely!
"Gah!!!"
The first one unable to endure the strain was Geto, who dropped to one knee and coughed up a mouthful of blood!
Gojo still maintained his hand seal with one hand, but thick streams of blood flowed from his nose.
Within the ruined remains of the shattered shrine, tears of blood streamed from all four of Sukuna's eyes!
The two strongest suffered severe injuries simultaneously—
And both entered a temporary cursed technique burnout state.
The repeated damage they had already taken also lengthened the time needed for their Reverse Cursed Technique recovery.
"Well, strongest ones?" Mirai asked.
Black hair danced wildly.
Mad laughter echoed freely.
At this moment, Mirai resembled a god possessed by a demon.
The two figures standing at his side stared coldly at the three of them.
The closed barrier domain had shattered.
The open-type domain had collapsed.
Only the domain reinforced upon himself remained standing.
"Continue!!!"
Mirai roared excitedly as the fingertips of both clones condensed deep black points of light.
The shadows on the ground churned and boiled.
In only a few seconds, an enormous amount of cursed energy compressed into spheres no larger than thumbs.
"Maximum Technique — Night King!!!"
Another hidden trump card never before revealed—
The ultimate technique born from the Ten Shadows domain!
"—————HAAAH!!!"
The rubble sinking into the earth.
The dust floating in the air.
All vanished without trace the instant black light flashed across the battlefield!
Space itself trembled for a moment as a death ray surpassing the speed of sound tore forward, dragging boundless spatial ripples behind it!
There was no sound of explosion.
Only silence remained along the path carved by the black beam.
A perfectly straight ravine stretching thousands of meters across the earth silently testified to the terror of "Night King."
"Geto!!!"
Seeing the figure collapse beside him, terror flashed across Gojo's face for a brief instant.
He had already begun restoring his burnt-out technique with Reverse Cursed Technique at maximum speed—
But Mirai's black beam had come too fast.
Because of the peculiar nature of his body, Geto's domain had shattered first, leaving him with the slowest recovery time.
When Unlimited Void had been deployed, Gojo's close physical contact had also spared Geto's brain from destruction.
Thus, among the three of them, Geto had been the first able to move after the domains collapsed.
But in that tiny fragment of time...
He could only save one person.
His heart.
His abdomen...
Two horrifying wounds pierced clean through him, still contaminated with the lingering remnants of Mirai's cursed energy.
"Gojo... cough..."
"I warned you several times already... cough... don't lose focus during battle."
Gojo.
Blood spilled continuously from Geto's mouth, staining half his face crimson.
Yet he only gazed at Gojo with gentle affection.
"It's nice... being able to fight beside you one last time."
"Cough... I have no regrets anymore..."
"A jujutsu sorcerer dies without regrets..."
In his final moments, the words once taught by Yaga flashed through his mind.
Teacher...
It seems you were wrong after all.
A satisfied smile rested on Geto's face as his gentle words faded away.
Then his half-closed eyes shut completely.
Within those azure eyes, a trace of sorrow surfaced—
Only to disappear immediately afterward.
Battle intent surged once more.
Cursed energy boiled violently.
At the same time—
Sukuna, who also failed to evade "Night King," sprayed massive amounts of blood from the hole blasted through his chest and heart!
Dark smoke rose faintly from the completely penetrated wound.
"Heh... heheheh!"
Collapsed within the ruins, Sukuna let out an exhilarated laugh as his flesh twisted grotesquely!
The features belonging to Megumi Fushiguro writhed and distorted.
Two additional blood-red arms burst from both sides of his waist!
The black curse markings across his bare upper body became even more intricate as his cursed energy skyrocketed!
The gaping hole in his chest slowly regenerated—
And from it grew a stomach-mouth with its tongue hanging out!
BOOM!!!
Returning to the original form from a thousand years ago, Sukuna's combat power climbed to its absolute peak!
Like a madman intoxicated by battle itself, the King of Curses immersed himself in ultimate ecstasy.
Laughing maniacally, Sukuna roared:
"HAHAHAHAHA! COME!!!"
"Let us curse one another to the very end!!!"