Chapter 175: Itadori: My Current Self is Terrifyingly Strong
[Eight-Handled Sword Divergent Sila Divine General Mahoraga], the strongest shikigami in the history of the Ten Shadows Technique.
Its head has no eyes, but features four wing-like protrusions on both sides. A tail is attached to the back of its head, the Sword of Extermination is attached to its right arm, and a ship's wheel-like disc is attached to its crown and back.
Because the Sword of Extermination in its hand is enveloped in a layer of positive cursed energy—identical to Reverse Cursed Technique—true to its name, any Cursed Spirit struck by it will be reduced to ash.
After all, the essence of Cursed Spirits and curses is negative energy; they are completely neutralized and evaporated by the positive energy of the Reverse Cursed Technique. It's just that very few sorcerers bother with such a laborious and unrewarding task.
Even without considering its raw power, which far exceeds that of Chimera Beast: Agito, its extreme recovery and learning-adaptation abilities are enough to give any enemy a massive headache.
True legend has it that moves it has seen even once will find it difficult to produce an effect again, and it doesn't necessarily have to take damage first... Of course, such unconfirmed and outrageous intelligence should be ignored for now.
As for what information is true?
It is likely that shadow users throughout history used the Mahoraga subjugation ritual as a means of mutual destruction with their enemies. A previous head of the Zen'in clan once used this method to take down a head of the Gojo clan, which led to the strained relationship between the two families ever since.
However, currently, the Mahoraga that countless Zen'in ancestors failed to subjugate has truly appeared under the command of Megumi Fushiguro.
If the Zen'in clan learned of this, they might beg him to return as the clan head overnight—and perhaps ask him to write a detailed Yu-Gi-Oh! strategy guide for the family while he's at it.
After all, even if they planned to use force, they wouldn't just have to get past Satoru Gojo and Emiya; they might not even be able to handle the current Megumi Fushiguro.
Therefore, by a comprehensive estimate, even a Mahoraga that has discarded all offensive utility is an insurmountable threshold for most sorcerers. It merely discarded that specific "trait" of offensive moves; it isn't actually a stationary target just waiting to be hit.
For Emiya, however, the concept was much the same.
Perhaps Mahoraga's learning ability is indeed very, very strong—perhaps even surpassing Fushiguro Toji 's—allowing it to understand and crack all the techniques contained within Nine Lives Shooting the Hundred Heads in a matter of seconds.
But unfortunately, Emiya's attack this time didn't bet on technique at all. It was pure, raw, physical pressure.
In fact, the moment Emiya finished chanting the True Name of the Noble Phantasm, he had already moved.
Facing Emiya, whose presence had surged with oppressive force, Megumi had summoned every ounce of his focus, yet his eyes still only captured a single streak of black lightning flashing past.
Under such circumstances, Megumi no longer had any commanding role over Mahoraga; everything relied on its "invincible" learning ability to adapt.
"ROAR—!"
It let out a thunderous howl and reacted to the incoming attack from Emiya with extreme speed. But as for the actual effect...
Unfortunately, while Mahoraga might truly be able to adapt to and immunize itself against most techniques, pure physical attacks will always be its weakness—especially an attack as pure as this one.
Theoretically, an accidentally triggered Black Flash only empowers a single strike. However, the trait of Nine Lives is a nine-hit combo that erupts in a single instant. In truth, as long as one of those strikes triggers the technique and power of a Black Flash, the entire Nine Lives attack receives an unimaginable empowerment—the conclusion Emiya had reached earlier.
A fifteen-fold boosted Noble Phantasm release!
BOOM!!!!!!!!!!
All the damage was converged into a point as deep as a black hole, which then exploded violently, pulling Mahoraga's entire body into the range of the attack.
It was as if the entire world had turned into a scene of only black and white, and Mahoraga's struggling silhouette was painted pitch-black in an instant.
There was no world-shaking roar, because even the sound—which should have been terrifying to the extreme—was completely erased within this spatial distortion.
The final result was that Mahoraga, claimed to be able to learn all moves and adapt, was sent back to the "Graveyard" almost the moment it was summoned.
Incidentally, the poor back mountain that bore the brunt of it all suffered as well.
Several cracks, each several meters wide, spread in a fan shape from the spot where Mahoraga vanished to a distance of several hundred meters, completely reshaping the terrain of the mountain.
Well... if the topsoil and forest scraped away by the previous battle between Gojo and Emiya were still "savable," this time it was likely beyond repair. Perhaps... perhaps Jujutsu High could slightly relax the restrictions nearby and turn this place into a tourist attraction?
"Seems I accidentally overdid it a bit. Megumi Fushiguro, don't you think—eh?"
Emiya was about to turn around and complain to Megumi about his own handiwork, when he suddenly remembered a very important thing—
In that last exchange, had Megumi deactivated Chimera Shadow Garden?
In other words, since Megumi was the one "carrying" the weight of the Domain, he must have also sustained a "tiny" portion of that attack the mountain just took...
"Fushiguro Megumi??!!"
The scene shifted slightly to the medical wing inside Jujutsu High.
At this moment, Tsumiki Fushiguro had just recovered enough to walk out of her ward. She was preparing to report the good news to her brother and thank Emiya for helping them so much.
But the moment she pushed open the door with joy, she found the two people she wanted to see both standing (or lying) at the entrance.
Except Megumi Fushiguro was lying there with his eyes closed, motionless.
"...?"
Thus, when Tsumiki sat before the hospital bed ten minutes later, she still didn't quite understand what had happened. How was it that one moment she was waking up to start a new life with her brother, and the next moment she was off the bed, and Megumi was back on it?
What exactly were they working so hard for?!
Before Tsumiki could think it through or ask Emiya, the door to the ward was suddenly slammed open—
"What happened here, Emiya-sensei! How did Fushiguro fall unconscious!"
"Quick, tell me who did this! I'll go tear them into ten thousand pieces right now!!!"
Emiya: "..."
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