Frontline of the Battlefield
Compared to the lineup that had besieged the King of Curses a thousand years ago, this force was even more outrageous.
It was an epic-scale army—a deluxe, enhanced version of the original.
Not only were the core forces of the four great factions present,
but Sukuna himself, who had once been surrounded and attacked, had been revived.
So had the Six Eyes.
Along with hundreds of Special Grade Curses.
These were all the most powerful beings recorded within Kenjaku's memories.
"ROOOAAAR!!!"
Without warning, a massive ultimate technique erupted.
A deep-sea dragon over a hundred meters long roared as it charged toward Mirai at the center of the battlefield.
"That's the technique of the Five Void Generals!"
Uro shouted and immediately stepped forward, eager to demonstrate her loyalty.
Mai gritted her teeth as cursed energy began gathering inside her twin pistols.
"Stand down."
Mirai spoke calmly.
An overwhelming surge of cursed energy exploded outward.
Bones.
Muscles.
Flesh.
Armor.
"Perfect Susanoo!"
BOOM!
Crimson cursed flames surged skyward as the dark earth trembled violently.
A giant over one hundred meters tall appeared.
A sword in one hand.
A shield in the other.
SLASH!!!
Before the deep-sea dragon could even approach, it was cut in half by a single swing of Susanoo's blade.
"Technique Release: Dragon Flame!"
Like a supervolcano erupting.
The sorcerer who launched the attack wielded flames even more terrifying than Jogo's.
"Crackle!!"
"Technique Release: Thunder Fury!"
Brilliant lightning illuminated the dark heavens.
The bolts howled as they descended upon the giant Susanoo.
"Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue!"
"Technique Release: Eight!"
The resurrected Sukuna and Gojo immediately unleashed ultimate techniques one after another.
Around the hundred-meter-tall Susanoo,
over a hundred different techniques erupted like dazzling fireworks.
Countless multicolored blasts converged from every direction.
Standing on either shoulder of the giant, Uro and Mai felt their hearts pounding wildly.
If those attacks came even one meter closer,
they could wave goodbye to the world.
Facing attacks that surpassed even the concept of Special Grade,
Mirai stood atop Susanoo's head and calmly extended both hands.
"Shinra Tensei."
BOOM!!!
Space shattered.
More than a hundred attacks were simultaneously reduced to dust by the overwhelming repulsive force.
High above the battlefield, Kenjaku's true body visibly changed expression.
Every time Zenin Mirai fought,
his combat power completely overturned Kenjaku's understanding.
As a mere individual human—
How could he possibly be this powerful?
Watching Mirai deal with everything so effortlessly,
a seed of unease began taking root in Kenjaku's heart.
Mirai paid no attention to the brain sorcerer's emotions.
He was simply enjoying the process of harvesting the fruit.
"ROAR!!!"
The resurrected dead possessed no true souls.
They were merely puppet bodies formed from Kenjaku's abnormal cursed energy.
They knew neither fear nor death.
And so they charged forward once more.
BOOM!!!
A single sword strike landed.
More than a dozen Special Grade Curses were instantly reduced to ashes.
The dark earth itself was split apart,
leaving behind a trench hundreds of meters long.
Looking down upon the resurrected dead below,
Mirai spoke calmly.
"As a return gift..."
"I think a meteor more valuable than diamonds should suffice."
The moment he finished speaking,
the sword and shield in Susanoo's hands dissolved into energy and merged into its arms.
Both Mirai and Susanoo formed hand seals simultaneously.
"Supreme Art: Tengai Shinsei."
Like floodwaters bursting through a broken dam,
an ocean of cursed energy erupted from Mirai's body.
The instant the barrier trembled,
every one of the hundreds of undead froze in place.
For a brief moment,
the vast cursed energy Kenjaku was using to sustain them disappeared.
High above,
Kenjaku's cursed-spirit form darkened dramatically.
The attack launched by that monster—
Zenin Mirai—
had originated from the void beyond the domain itself.
That monster was trying to destroy the outer shell of his domain from the outside.
If Kenjaku had not diverted all his cursed energy to reinforce the barrier moments earlier,
the entire battlefield would have collapsed.
Even so—
Looking upward,
he saw countless cracks spreading across the sky formed by the domain's outer shell.
Before he could repair them,
Mirai's amused voice pulled him back to reality.
"Not bad."
"Your toy is tougher than I expected."
BOOM!!!
The giant Susanoo took a single step.
Its body expanded once more.
One hundred meters.
Two hundred.
Three hundred.
Empowered by endless cursed energy,
the giant became increasingly terrifying.
"ROAR!"
The three-hundred-meter armored giant sprouted a pair of crimson flesh wings from its back.
With a single flap,
hurricane-force winds made of cursed energy swept across the battlefield.
CRACK!!!
Countless newly formed undead corpses were shredded before they could even steady themselves.
That monster...!
Kenjaku cursed inwardly.
He no longer had time to repair the damaged barrier.
Instead, enormous amounts of cursed energy surged into the undead army led by Sukuna.
Seeing the undead growing stronger,
Mirai merely smiled.
Kenjaku could perceive everything happening inside the Culling Game Barrier.
Everything within his giant enclosed domain.
But he could not perceive the far more vast and boundless world outside it—
The Kamui Dimension.
And he had forgotten something important.
Something he knew nothing about.
The Divine Tree.
The enormous enclosed domain.
The Culling Game barrier that enveloped all of Japan.
Within Kamui Space,
it was no more significant than a tiny star floating in the universe.
Within the endless void,
blood-red branches covered the black outer shell of the domain.
Like living crimson spikes,
they writhed and pulsed.
Most terrifying of all were the ten massive tails.
They wrapped tightly around the spherical barrier,
holding it in their embrace.
White Zetsu's true body.
The being whose full appearance had never once been revealed.
The Ten-Tails Demonic Statue.
The Divine Tree that devoured worlds.
After years of feeding under Mirai's care,
its size had become absurd.
A far more horrifying existence than even Kenjaku's cursed-spirit form.
Its enormous single eye possessed a scarlet nine-tomoe pattern,
nearly identical to the blood-red moon that appeared whenever Mirai expanded his domain.
The Divine Tree stared greedily at the "candy" in its grasp.
Drool dripped continuously from its mouth.
The greed in its gaze looked remarkably similar to President White Zetsu's own expression.
Earlier,
Mirai's Supreme Art meteor strike had created faint cracks in Kenjaku's domain shell.
Now,
countless branches from the Divine Tree were slowly worming their way into those tiny fractures,
greedily feeding.
In truth,
the outcome of this game had already been decided the moment the barrier was dragged into Kamui Space.
If Mirai had not wanted to preserve Kenjaku's physical body intact,
he would never have dragged things out this long.
Kenjaku's current state was no longer that of a normal cursed spirit.
He was a special creation capable of retaining a physical body after death.
And the key lay within the six Death Painting Wombs that Yuji had swallowed—
The ones Mirai had secretly tampered with beforehand.
On the surface,
nothing had been added to them.
Mirai had simply learned one trick from Kenjaku himself:
Soul Division.
With the assistance of the Rinnegan,
Mirai had performed the process even more skillfully than Kenjaku.
Back during his days at Jujutsu High,
White Zetsu had already been capable of simultaneously controlling two bodies by splitting his own soul.
After all this time,
he had not remained stagnant.
In fact,
after handing over the "Unit Two" body,
White Zetsu had never once appeared on the battlefield with a second vessel again.
His extra soul fragment had already been fused into the Death Painting Wombs long ago.
Kenjaku's body...
Had always been reserved by White Zetsu for one purpose.
"Unit Zero."
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