Shiing-!

  Shiing-!

  Shiing-!

  The first thing that greeted Aleph was the swathe of invisible arcs headed towards him. The moment they touched his body, however, they seemingly lost all of their funs.

  The ewenty-meter radius where Aleph stood was turned into nothing but a space for these arcs.

  Most batants would have been seriously injured with it. The stro special-grades would have to put their mind oing their reversed curse teique to mitigate its damage.

  Yet, this danger did for Aleph at all.

  For a while, Aleph only stood still. This made Sukuna’s fident smile even more beaming.

  “You are mitigating my sshes. Was it something simir to Satojo’s Infinity?”

  His self-musings were respoo by a sharp increase of danger.

  Hum-!

  The pressure exerted by Aleph went to another level. Every bit of his exerted cursed energy dominated the surroundings.

  It was extremely simir to the ‘intimidation’ released by strong people. Only, it lified dozens of times.

  Such was the effect of Aleph's glimpse into Li Shuwen's No Sed Strike. Although it was dohrough his Juezhao, it was more than enough.

  Crack-!

  The edges of Sukuna’s domain began crag.

  ‘This guy—!’

  Before he could react, Aleph’s figure appeared in front of him—out of thin air. None was the sword he once held. A trated bergy was all his fists had as it struck his chest.

  BAM-!

  CRACK-!

  SHATTER-!

  Sukuna’s Malevolent Shrine colpsed in one go. His body fleidly into the air.

  “Keuk..!”

  It was a strike at the boundaries of the soul—one he was too weak against.

  It didhere.

  Like a ghost, Aleph reappeared on top of Sukuna’s figure. All the tter saw inning kick directed to his stomach. The kick tained a trated cursed energy once again.

  Bam-!

  Sou-!

  Boom-!

  “Kuk..!”

  Blood dripped out from the ers of his mouth. His eyes became slightly unfocused as it was directed towards the night sky.

  Tap.

  The familiar sense of danger reappeared.

  Without hesitation, Suku out numerous Dismantles all around him.

  Unfortunately, they did not work.

  Swoosh-!

  Aleph gripped his ned tossed him into the air.

  Zoom-!

  Bam-!

  Sukuna’s body flew midair for the third time. Having weakened due to the three secutive Bck Fshes mixed with the Soul-seizing strikes Aleph used against the Herrscher, Sukuna became briefly incapacitated.

  For the current Aleph, it was more than enough to ect a bo against him.

  Another spinning kick sent him flying horizontally.

  Bam-!

  Aleph sent Sukuna’s body through several buildings at once. More than five high-rise buildings colpsed within the one-minute duration of their fight—rather, one-sided beatdown.

  The tter utilized his reversed curse teique to barely regain his crity.

  His body spun several times on the office grounds before stopping. He tried standing up on the office floor, but to no avail.

  His arms were shaking. His entire body felt extremely heavy. Each of Aleph’s strikes hit like an unbreakable boulder. Add to that the effects of Bck Fsh and its effe Sukuna’s trol over this body, it almost incapacitated him.

  Still, Sukuna forced himself to plete a haure.

  From the time he fired off Cleave and Dismantle, all the requirements were met.

  “Open.”

  A fire arrow emerged from Sukuna’s hands. Its brightness far exceeded what Jogo demonstrated moments ago. It was the Fuga that could outcss a special-grade curse's special attack.

  Boom-!

  This siack devastated multiple buildings at once. Everything at its bsting range was turned into ders. The office ground was burnt into ders as he got exposed into the night sky.

  Even so—

  Sou-!

  —it wasn’t enough to stop Aleph. He came out unscathed a dozeers away from Sukuna. The only thing that it did to him was to push him back slightly. That, and the surface-level burns on his skin.

  With Aleph’s legs bent on the scorched ground, his entire figure shot towards him. His figure disappeared in the midst of it, turning Sukuna’s senses into a brief period of bnkness.

  ‘What–?’

  Bam-!

  All he got was another punch to his fabsp;

  His entire figure flew straight out of the office building. It didn’t take long before he crashed diagonally to the ground.

  Boom-!

  Rumble-!

  A cloud of dust kicked off. Sukuna’s mi pletely bnk. He didn’t have the slightest bit of time to react to Aleph’s insanely strong strikes.

  Bam-!

  Aleph nded into the ground. He looked at Sukuna’s current state and thought:

  ‘Nearly five thousand units of cursed energy… I didn’t eveo use Juezhao directly.’

  Although he expected Sukuna to be weaker than him, he didn’t expect the fight would be this one-sided. He hadn’t even used Simple Domain to e Sukuna’s Malevolent Shrine.

  Unknowingly, Aleph became capable of easily dealing with what the others sidered as a fraud.

  ‘Separating him from this boy…’

  It didn’t take long for him to act. His thoughts were pletely within a split sed.

  Aleph took out Yamato once again. His cursed energy began trating at one point. It was, by far, the stro attack he was about to unleash in this world.

  ‘That deadbeat used Yamato to split himself in half. If so, it should be able to separate souls.’

  His thoughts were firmed by the Great Sage.

  {Result: The analysis of the item “Yamato” firmed it possesses the power to cut souls. sequently, it was found that it ters on its ability to bolster the cept of cutting…}

  Aleph wao use this move against Herrschers with an alter ego. That way, he would be able to ‘save’ these Herrschers in another sense.

  The world did not give them a ce, but Aleph wants to ge that.

  ‘Not only to separate, but to pletely exorcise him…’

  His eyes became clear. The sheathed bde in his hands was held tighter. His feet walked towards the nearly unscious Sukuna.

  ‘Judgement Cut… What a fitting name.’

  Click-!

  Tchk-!

  Yamato left its sheathe. The space around them was turned into a broken mirror. Be it the buildings, postlights, or Sukuna, they were all covered in thin silver lines.

  Klink.

  The moment the bde was sheathed once more, their surroundings went back to normal.

  Shatter-!

  Aremely strong surge of cursed energy erupted. The buildings around their thirty meter radius got obliterated. Every single building that got hit began crumbling down. The rest that got impacted by the leftover force, those beyond thirty meters, couldn't escape as well.

  RUMBLE-!

  Amidst everything, Sukuna’s body seemed fine.

  However, it wasn’t just that.

  Sizzle-!

  A deformed body existed right beside Yuuji Itadori’s body. At its end air of clouded eyes and a big mouth. Its entire shape was akin to that of aire right hand.

  It began to slowly disappear as it got separated from Yuuji.

  It was only then did Sukuna regain a trace of his sciousness.

  “You…”

  “How was it? I told you, didn’t I?” Aleph paused before tinuing, “You wouldn’t regret this now, would you?”

  Aleph half-expected to hear curses from his mouth, though it was something else he heard.

  “You are very strong. Go take that.”

  The full-powered Juezhao that gathered his cursed energy, added on top of Yamato’s own sharpness, brought ao the King of Curses that brought fear to the entire Heian Era.

  ‘The person Kashimo talked about with great i… how would he reace he knew I killed him?’

  Seeing the piles of ashes left on the ground as well as the unscious Yuuji with a severely injured body, Aleph touched his .

  ‘What should I do ?’

  *****

  A/N: The bonus chapter and the Christmas omake es tomorrow.

  Happy Holidays~!