"Oh, I wouldn't say that, the timing there really came down to the wire, I honestly didn't expect it to be that fast." 'But really that was seriously close.' Sans was telling the truth.
Just a few seconds ago Sans had planned to provoke Atsuya to attack by getting within his range, he had noticed the gathering CE hidden within Atsuya's sheath and wanted deal with it in a way to convince Atsuya there was no hope in fighting back.
So just as Sans was about to enter Atsuya's range he covered himself with a large GasterBlaster as a sort of shield and reinforced it with CE hoping to stop the blow dead in it's tracks. However Atsuya's strike was even stronger than he had anticipated and barely slowed the strike by one ten thousandth of a second, and in that ten thousandth of a second Sans realized it wouldn't hold and teleported a safe distance behind Atsuya.
'I almost died there, it's a reminder that I need to be more careful because if that had landed, I would have died.' It's true, a normal special grade would have survived that hit with the GasterBlaster to weaken the blow, but with the conflicting energies of CE and PE within him, even a casual swing from Atsuya would have ended him.
'What on earth happend, I know I hit him with that attack, I saw the shards of bone, unless teleportation isn't everything to his technique, I don't have time to think about that though, I have to press the attack and increase my power.' Atsuya charged towards Sans, sword at the ready.
"What you saw just now," Atsuya reached Sans begun swing slash after slash trying to cut him as Sans teleported between each slash, "was a technique from the New Shadow Style, specifically a combination of Simple Domain, which allows me to automatically attack anything that enters my range of 2.34 meters around me and defend against sure hit attacks from a domain, so long as I don't move my feet from their start position." Atsuya said, taking advantage of Binding Vows to strengthen his techniques.
Sans then teleported a short distance away and begun firing femur bones at various sizes, speeds, and directions towards Atsuya. 'He can summon bones as well, that's probably what I hit earlier, these ranged attacks make Simple Domain even more useless in this fight.'
"The other component was Batto Sword Drawing, a drawing technique that wraps my blade in Cursed Energy and rotates it, increasing the drawing speed and strength of my swing to quickly dispatch an opponent." Atsuya once again closed the distance between them only for a yellow blue heart to appear in front of his chest before turning completely blue as his world rotated 90° and he begun to fall sideways, away from Sans.
'He can rotate the direction of gravity as well, just what kind of technique is this!?' Atsuya caught himself by stabbing his sword into the ground then swinging himself onto the side of a nearby building and resuming his charge to get close to Sans, jumping between buildings to climb and using them as cover from the occasional volly of bones
"Another technique under New Shadow Style is Evening Moon Sword Drawing, basically a more advanced form of Simple Domain, even weakening the strength of intruding Cursed techniques and increasing the strength of my own." Atsuya finally managed to climb up high enough and jump towards Sans with an overhead swing enhanced with CE to bisect him.
It's however stopped as Sans summoned a giant GasterBlaster to shield himself once again and it held this time but still cracked. It opened it's mouth and charged up some CE, Sans turned to look at him with empty eye sockets, "Are we done playing around now?" He asks in a tired tone as his left eye socket alights with Cursed energy.
"What?" Atsuya asks in disbelief as he is blasted away by the GB (GasterBlaster) up the street and getting cratered in a building.
"What I used to change your direction of gravity is an aspect of my of my technique called Blue, it allows me to change the direction and weight of your Soul, allow me to demonstrate." Sans said as his voice deepend with his final line.
As Atsuya began to fall from his crater towards Sans, he used Blue, now empowered by a Binding Vow, to rapidly change Atsuya's direction of gravity. Slamming him against walls, floors, and ceilings at twice the acceleration of gravity. To finish it Sans let him fall upwards four stories before making him fall to the ground under 2x gravity, once again cratering the ground.
As he was recovering cyan bones impaled every limb and organ as Sans began to explain, "Don't move, those bones can't harm you for now as they react to movement, which means with all these impaled into you the momment you move all your organs and limbs will be destroyed. Now, where did we leave off?"
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Over at the edge of Okutama, Akari Nitta was restless, there was about 40 minutes of silence since Atsuya has gone into the Curtain when it seemed like Atsuya had found the Curse, judging by the sound of a fight happening coming from the west side of town. The fight had lasted only about 5 minutes when after a loud series of crashes, the noise stopped.
'You better have won Atsuya,' She thought, promising kill him if he died and left her there alone with the Curse. After another 10 minutes and getting no word from Atsuya she decided to give him a call. *I'm sorry, but the number your tryi-* she hung up and tried again. *I'm sorry, the numb-* she hung up again.
She tighted her grip on her phone, 'It's so hard every time.' She turned away from the city got in her car and began to drive off. As she drove back towards Tokyo Jujutsu High, she let a few tears drip down her face as she thought of how she was going to tell everyone.
When she got about 5 minutes away she got a call from an unknown number, she reluctantly took it. "Hello," she answered shakily.
"Hey, Akari, where on earth did you go?" Came a voice she recognized
She slammed the brake and asked a bit and unsurely asked, "I-is that you Atsuya?"
"Yeah, what? Did you think I died?" He asked in a somewhat joking manner.
"YEAH YOU IDIOT, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW WORRIED I WAS WHEN YOU DIDN'T PICK UP!? YOU CAN'T JUST-" Akari then began to berate him for awhile for worrying her so much. Eventually she calmed down enough for Atsuya to get a word in.
"Yeah yeah, I'm sorry Akari it won't happen again don't worry, my phone just happened to break during my encounter with the Curse."
"So if you're talking now I assume the situation has been resolved."
"Well, you can say that, just when you come back to pick me up, I'm gonna have a guest to bring back with us, and just try to remain calm when you see them," He said cautiously.
"Atsuya, what did you do?" She asked in a menacing tone
"Nothing, nothing, just be prepared for something unusual when you get here." He answered plactatingly.
"Alright, I'll be there in about 5 minutes." She said as she started to make a U-turn to go pick him up.