Bang!
Ryomen Sukuna tumbled across the White Desert, but it wasn't over.
Although the desert easily absorbed impact, he still didn't sink directly into it. Instead, he skipped across the white sand like a flat stone thrown by a child, bouncing up and down again and again.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The continuous impacts made the entire desert look as though it were being bombarded.
Ryomen Sukuna suddenly spread all four arms. Using all four hands and both feet, he seized the opportunity to dig into the desert, carving a deep trench like an airplane crash-landing across the sea.
Ryomen Sukuna felt the Cursed Energy within his body ignite instantly.
The tremendous pressure forced him into a maximum-output combat state.
He knew Gojo Satoru would counterattack.
But even he hadn't expected the counterattack to be this fierce and terrifying.
Despite preparing himself in advance, he still hadn't managed to completely block that strike.
Suddenly—
the head of a staff appeared before his eyes.
"—!"
He didn't even have time to let out an involuntary grunt.
The head of the staff grazed past the side of his face.
At the critical moment, he had tilted his head.
But in the very next instant, his eyes widened.
Bang!
Gojo Satoru's knee had already slammed into his chest and abdomen.
If he had been an ordinary Jujutsu Sorcerer, he would have been kicked flying once again.
With Gojo Satoru's strength, that kick alone would have turned him into another skipping stone, bouncing helplessly across the desert until he was beaten to death.
Of course, that assumed the Sorcerer's body was sturdy enough.
Otherwise, that single strike alone would have decided the battle.
But this time, Ryomen Sukuna wasn't sent flying.
At the point where Gojo Satoru's knee connected, a huge mouth suddenly opened and bit down, using that grotesque method to absorb and disperse the force behind the attack.
Ryomen Sukuna's body was abnormally constructed.
One face occupied the side of his head, giving him four eyes.
Meanwhile, the mouth belonging to the lower half of his face—
was located on his stomach.
Ryomen Sukuna had used the mouth on his abdomen to block Gojo Satoru's knee strike head-on.
"What an interesting way of handling close combat, Sukuna!" Gojo Satoru laughed loudly.
"You're the one."
"In a thousand years, you're the first Jujutsu Sorcerer who's dared to fight me in close combat."
"Weren't you killed by Mahito countless times back in your prime?"
"Hmph. He never fought me in close combat!" Ryomen Sukuna sneered.
Ryomen Sukuna wasn't lying.
During those battles, he had never enjoyed a proper fight.
Most of the time, he was killed before he could even react.
In other words, he had almost always died to unavoidable one-shot attacks.
That certainly couldn't be called close combat.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Accompanied by the sound of air being torn apart came Ryomen Sukuna's four fists.
Gojo Satoru didn't rely on Limitless to attack without defending.
Instead, he rapidly retreated, using the Six Eyes to perfectly read Sukuna's punching trajectories.
He dodged within the blink of an eye before swinging his staff, striking one of Ryomen Sukuna's fists with its head.
Ryomen Sukuna immediately withdrew his hand, avoiding direct contact with the head of the staff, causing his offensive momentum to stall.
Gojo Satoru gripped the end of the staff with both hands and brought it crashing down upon Ryomen Sukuna like a swordsman executing a powerful overhead strike.
Ryomen Sukuna raised all four arms above his head in defense.
Thud!
The head of the staff smashed into Ryomen Sukuna's forearms.
He felt as though an entire mountain had come crashing down on him.
Taking advantage of the impact, Ryomen Sukuna stepped forward, attempting to force his way into Gojo Satoru's range while enduring the pressure of the staff.
However, Gojo Satoru retreated at precisely that moment, displaying absolutely none of a swordsman's supposed honor.
He repeatedly pushed off with both feet.
Although he was retreating, his speed remained astonishingly fast.
Even after taking several steps forward, Ryomen Sukuna still couldn't close the distance.
Gojo Satoru immediately seized the opportunity to retract the staff before swinging it once more.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The staff whirled like a violent storm.
Although Ryomen Sukuna possessed four arms, he simply couldn't break through the wall created by the spinning staff.
Both Gojo Satoru and Ryomen Sukuna were exceptionally tall men.
Even if there was some difference in their arm spans, it wasn't enough to create a decisive advantage.
As a result, Gojo Satoru, wielding a staff, held an overwhelming reach advantage.
Despite having four arms, Ryomen Sukuna simply couldn't break through Gojo Satoru's defense while that staff remained in his hands.
Throughout his life, Ryomen Sukuna had naturally fought countless warriors wielding weapons.
But those mediocre opponents had always been punched to death before they could even complete a single swing.
Ryomen Sukuna was extraordinarily powerful.
In terms of raw physical ability alone, even Gojo Satoru couldn't compare to him.
Nor was he unfamiliar with difficult battles.
Even during his era of slaying gods, Ryomen Sukuna had experienced periods where he fought at a disadvantage.
He wasn't the sort of Sorcerer who only bullied the weak.
But this battle was completely different.
The enhancement provided by the Six Eyes when using a weapon was simply too overwhelming.
Even though Ryomen Sukuna attacked with four different fists along completely different trajectories, every movement was perfectly seen through by the Six Eyes.
Combined with the reach advantage created by the staff, Ryomen Sukuna couldn't touch his opponent at all.
He could only endure one heavy strike after another from Gojo Satoru.
Don't forget—
Gojo Satoru himself was also an exceptionally tall man, nearly two meters in height.
The reach of his arms combined with the length of the staff meant Ryomen Sukuna couldn't counterattack no matter what he tried.
It felt as though he were facing an impenetrable wall.
Gojo Satoru couldn't help bursting into laughter.
"So this is what it feels like."
"So this is what it felt like when Mahito fought me using that god-slaying sword..."
"Having a weapon feels so damn good!"
Holy.
Fucking.
Shit.
Having to consider attack range after entering a jujutsu battle sounded ridiculous.
Yet Gojo Satoru's Limitless made exactly that necessary.
Because, in the eyes of a Limitless user, virtually every long-range attack was meaningless.
The only reliable way to injure a Limitless user was through close combat.
The method Ryomen Sukuna employed was the Simple Domain.
The essence of a Simple Domain is the creation of a miniature, constantly flowing Domain around the user's body, almost like wearing a protective suit made from a Domain.
Its principle can be understood as using a smaller, denser, and more focused Domain to interfere with or neutralize the effects of an opponent's Cursed Technique.
It is a common jujutsu that is extremely effective against defensive-type Cursed Techniques.
In the original work, both Jogo and Ryomen Sukuna used it to deal with Limitless.
However, this technique has a fatal weakness: while using a Simple Domain, one cannot use a Cursed Technique to attack and must rely on physical means such as fists and feet to make contact with the opponent.
And now, Ryomen Sukuna had fallen into exactly that predicament.
Even though he had a way to bypass Limitless, he still couldn't touch Gojo Satoru himself!
In the original work, Gojo Satoru had at least fought him barehanded. When Ryomen Sukuna activated a Simple Domain, Gojo Satoru still had to prepare to defend against his strikes.
Therefore, the Ryomen Sukuna of the original work remained calm and unhurried, without the slightest irritation, because he knew that once Gojo Satoru was struck, he would die.
All he had to do was wait for that moment and steadily work toward it.
But now—
Damn it!
Gojo Satoru had picked up a staff!
Shit!
"What's wrong, Lord Sukuna?" Gojo Satoru taunted loudly, using psychological warfare while swinging the staff to restrict Ryomen Sukuna's movements.
"Didn't you say you were going to kill me and then go kill Mahito?"
"But looking at things now..."
"...you can't even get past me!"
Boom!
Ryomen Sukuna suddenly punched the ground beneath their feet.
The immense force altered the desert terrain itself, sending white sand flying in every direction.
The deafening roar, accompanied by the rising sand, turned the entire world white as a sandstorm formed almost instantly.
Gojo Satoru's Six Eyes could normally see through such obstructions.
But what stood before him now was an overwhelming mass of Cursed Energy.
In the original work, Ryomen Sukuna had used the same tactic.
At the time, he sliced a building in half with his Dismantle Technique and physically hurled it toward Gojo Satoru.
When the severed building blocked Gojo Satoru's vision, Ryomen Sukuna immediately rushed in for close combat.
Why?
Because Ryomen Sukuna could drastically increase his own Cursed Energy output, preventing Gojo Satoru from reading his movements once his vision had been physically obstructed.
It was just like when Itadori Yuji and Okkotsu Yuta first met in the original work.
Yuta constantly released an enormous amount of Cursed Energy, making it impossible for Itadori Yuji to determine the trajectory of his attacks through Cursed Energy perception.
The logic was actually simple.
If the opponent's Six Eyes could perfectly perceive every flow of Cursed Energy—
then overwhelm them with an even greater flood of Cursed Energy.
Okkotsu Yuta had fought Itadori Yuji this way.
Now, Ryomen Sukuna had chosen to fight Gojo Satoru the same way.
Sukuna formed one hand seal with one pair of hands and another seal with the second pair.
—Technique Release.
—Ten Shadows Technique: Rabbit Escape, Piercing Ox.
Every time Fushiguro Megumi used the Ten Shadows Technique, he could only summon one shikigami at a time. To summon another, he had to form another hand seal.
Not only him—even every Ten Shadows Technique user throughout history had followed this rule.
But Ryomen Sukuna was different.
He had four hands.
He could summon two shikigami simultaneously.
This greatly expanded the possibilities of the Ten Shadows Technique.
For example—
right now.
Countless rabbits poured out from Ryomen Sukuna's shadow.
There were so many that they piled together like a mountain.
Although Rabbit Escape wasn't particularly powerful, its overwhelming numbers made it fearless of death.
Furthermore, every rabbit carried the user's Cursed Energy.
As a result, from Gojo Satoru's perspective, his vision was almost completely filled with Sukuna's Cursed Energy.
It effectively blocked the Six Eyes' field of view.
Farther behind them, Piercing Ox had already appeared.
Piercing Ox is a shikigami whose attack power increases with the distance it travels.
However, it can only charge in a straight line and is notoriously difficult to hit with.
But now, with Gojo Satoru surrounded by Rabbit Escape and his vision obstructed, Piercing Ox could finally unleash its greatest killing potential.
Gojo Satoru was indeed surrounded by Rabbit Escape.
However, he didn't need to defend at all.
The rabbits collided with him without producing any effect because Limitless was already active.
No matter how many rabbits attacked him, they couldn't truly harm him.
On the contrary, as Gojo Satoru casually stepped forward, the rabbits were crushed one after another beneath immense invisible pressure.
In the original work, Gojo Satoru had also used this application of Limitless.
By adjusting Limitless, he could generate crushing pressure against a target.
Hanami had died precisely because of this.
Throughout the entire process, Gojo Satoru didn't even need to attack.
He simply walked forward one step at a time.
The next instant, a straight line of Rabbit Escape shikigami was blasted aside by an overwhelming impact.
From the distance, Piercing Ox charged forward wildly.
Gojo Satoru merely glanced at it.
Bang!
The horns of Piercing Ox slammed into Gojo Satoru.
But it wasn't Gojo Satoru that shattered—
it was Piercing Ox's horns.
Then, driven by its tremendous momentum, Piercing Ox failed to stop.
Instead, it crushed itself inch by inch under its own inertia.
In less than a second, Piercing Ox resembled a car crashing into a steel battleship.
Killed by the recoil of its own charge, it dissolved back into ink-like shadows.
Before Gojo Satoru could make another move, however—
the sky suddenly darkened.
He looked upward.
An elephant was falling from the heavens.
—Ten Shadows Technique: Max Elephant!
Rumble!
Max Elephant crashed down violently, the force of its impact making the entire White Desert tremble.
Behind the countless rabbits, the hand seals formed by Ryomen Sukuna's four arms changed once more.
This time, however, they were not all Ten Shadows Technique seals.
—Ten Shadows Technique: Orochi!
—Dismantle!
A gigantic serpent suddenly burst from beneath Gojo Satoru's feet.
Its enormous jaws opened to their limit, swallowing Gojo Satoru whole.
Ordinarily, the next step would have been a follow-up Dismantle for a guaranteed kill.
But Ryomen Sukuna didn't do that.
He knew such an attack wouldn't kill someone protected by Limitless.
Instead, both of his mouths began chanting simultaneously.
"Dragon Scales," his upper mouth chanted.
"Repulsion," his stomach mouth followed.
"Meteor of Encounter," his upper mouth continued.
"—Dismantle."
The final phrase came from the mouth on his abdomen.
Four incantation phrases—
completed in the time it would normally take to speak only two.
No ordinary Sorcerer could achieve such a feat.
When a Jujutsu Sorcerer uses a technique while completing both the full incantation and proper hand seals, the stronger the technique, the greater the resulting amplification.
This was the Binding Vow Ryomen Sukuna had made in order to unleash an extraordinary strike.
The incantations.
The hand seals.
Not one could be omitted.
And when every condition was perfectly fulfilled—
Ryomen Sukuna could unleash the attack capable of cutting through Limitless from afar.
The extension target of the technique:
Space itself.
This was—
World-Cutting Slash.
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