It wasn’t the first time Sukuna faced off agaiistical enemies.

  However, the man opposite him gave off something different.

  A feeling of death.

  Tap.

  Tap.

  Tap.

  The man, Aleph, took his time leisurely. He strolled to Sukuna’s position as if he was walking in a park.

  “Hoh..?”

  Sukued the waters. His current strength, havien sixteen fingers in total, almost brought him to his peak. There’s only this much differenpared to the Sukuna whom Kashimo and the others fought.

  Shiing-!

  An ‘invisible’ arc flew straight to Aleph. Given its nature, it was able to dismantle anything it touches.

  Although, it wasn’t as invisible as Sukuna thought.

  Shiing-!

  Shiing-!

  A simple tilt of Aleph’s body narrowly avoided it. The arded at a building behind him, which then disma diagonally in half.

  Bam-!

  Rumble-!

  Several more arcs flew at Aleph, only for him to avoid them all. The distaweeeadily decreased. The sery behind Aleph was that of a ruin’s, yet he didn’t seem affected by it.

  At this moment, Sukuna realized something.

  “You see it. You see my cursed teique!”

  The dark blue world in Aleph’s sight firmed Sukuna’s words. The invisible arc articurly noticeable in this dark blue world.

  It took Great Sage a while to analyze its position. Its resources were poured into the Evolution Cube, hehe dey.

  {Result: The invisible attack has a property of separating everything it es in tact with. It is simir to cursed teiques that follow a rule in terms of operation…}

  The flying ssh attack, to which Kashimo dubbed ‘Dismantle’, was one of Sukuna’s lethal attacks. It could be fired off without any notice while having a strong offensive power. It was silent and deadly.

  Iingly, it was supposed to be invisible to the naked eyes which amplified its dao aremely high degree. However, Aleph had the elemental sight. Its lethality was reduced by half as a result.

  “Hm.”

  trary to his usual serious attitude, he taunted Sukuna with his fingers.

  The tter did not take it lying down.

  Bam-!

  Sukuna’s figure turned into a blur as it headed towards Aleph.

  By this time, Sukuna already aowledged him as a strong enemy. He was on a pletely different level pared to Jogo whom he pyed for five miraight.

  Shiing-!

  Shiing-!

  …

  Numerous Dismantles flew at Aleph. Every time they did so, he avoided them.

  The distaween them was now less than five meters at best.

  Sukuna fired another Dismao which Aleph avoided by stepping backwards.

  Shiing-!

  The former was about to touch Aleph wheer finally uhed Yamato.

  Shiing-!

  Shatter-!

  A power simir in nature to his Dismantle flew right at Sukuna’s face.

  ‘This power..!’

  Sukuna blocked it once. Little did he know it was merely an ‘aftershock’ of its real power. Although he estimated it to be beyond the one he blocked, it was still overwhelmingly strong.

  As a result…

  Bam-!

  He was forced to step back several meters.

  Thud-!

  Using both his hands, Sukuna was able to block the blow. It resulted in his right hand falling into the ground. His gaze never left Aleph’s figure.

  Click-!

  Upohing the bde, Aleph looked at him. He did not say anything, but Sukuna was all too familiar with this gaze that he himself gave to his weaker enemies.

  “You’re the sed in this era.” Sukuna spoke as he restored his severed arm with reversed curse teique. “Try to keep this up.”

  Akin to Satojo, Aleph pissed him off. At the same time, he was gd he finally had another ce at fighting someo this level.

  “...I got it.”

  Unbeknownst to Sukuna, Aleph was immersing himself in something else.

  *****

  Li Shuwen.

  The man who kills everything irike. He once cimed that he did not need a sed strike.

  All of his ideas were received by Aleph like a spohe things he had previously overlooked as well as the things he missed out appeared under his ‘guidance’.

  One of them h’s ‘iion’. It was the secret to Li Shuwen’s strength. It was the key to learning his ‘No Sed Strike’.

  At this moment, he felt like he was about to learn it.

  ‘What am I missing?’

  Aleph had the time to think about it in the midst of his brief csh against Sukuna. The case of someone who was hailed as the stro for a thousand years was a helpful refereo him.

  Uionally, Aleph’s act of being in a daze during bat was seen as Sukuna as a form of provocation.

  heless, it didn’t take long before Aleph realized something.

  ‘Ag upon what you deem right.’

  For Sukuna, weaker oppos served as a toy. They were weak, yes, but they served him the purpose of finding a brief eai. That was the case when Sukuna fought against Jogo for five minutes when he had the ce to finish the cursed spirit in one go.

  For Aleph…

  ‘To bee strong enough to not be dictated by fate..!’

  His heart began pounding. It was at this moment did he realize something that beloo his own.

  Saving the world.

  Proteg his friends and lovers.

  It went beyond that. What the people in the Previous Era failed to achieve, he would do it.

  ‘A good ending… and the strength to actualize that. A power that could protect their smiles.’ He thought. ‘To do that… I must bee strong enough.’

  Aleph thought of the one in Venus as well as the Aeons outside of their star system.

  The beginning of that y in the premise of utterly obliterating the foe in front of him.

  Just then, Aleph felt something.

  ‘Hm..?’

  It was hard to expin, though he could tell it was somethied to his cursed teique—Ratio.

  He pushed this matter at the back of his mind.

  “Use it. Your domain.”

  Aleph spoke once again.

  “You won’t regret it.”

  “Hoh..?”

  Sukuna gave the look of meeting someoeresting. Strength wise, he hasn’t properly estimated Aleph’s full power. However, this mentality that beloo the ‘strong’ made him feel as if he was meeting one of his people. It was pletely different from the aowledgement he gave to his weaker enemies.

  “Then, show me where your fidence lies.”

  He made an Enma hand sign. Both of his hands touched each other.

  “Ryouiki Tenkai.” (Domain Expansion.)

  The world under Aleph’s dark blue sight ged. A small dot rapidly expanded until his surroundings ged.

  Aleph’s world became that of darkness.

  The bck water in his feet rippled.

  He looked up and saw Sukuna standing at the mouth of his shrine.

  Just like that…

  ‘His stro… for my stro.’

  …Aleph faced the King of Curses.

  *****

  A/N: Welp, guess who gets cooked this time. The results will be out in the chapter. The Shibuya Ar't be that long pared to others (si's a given how utterly strong Aleph was). Though, do look forward for the cursed teiques that would be unlocked ter on. There are only two unknown CTs. I chose the iing ohat has good potential.