Ding-!
Aleph’s attention was taken by the prompt that popped up.
[Achievement Unlocked: Nemesis of Frauds]
[Nemesis of Frauds: Defeat the King of Curses in a frontal and full-powered battle.]
[Achievement Unlocked: If You Want It…]
[If You Want It…: Successfully separate two souls using Yamato.]
They appeared the moment Aleph defeated Sukuna. When he saw their rewards, he nodded with satisfa.
[Information Imprint: Leave any information you possess onto a target.]
[Edge of Taixuan: A martial art created by the immortal “Jingwei” to allow humans to fight against the Honkai.]
‘Hm… They weren’t as direct as the energy boxes, but they’re of big help.’
Currently, Aleph’s nearly five-thousand cursed energy units gave him a huge physical boost. Aside from the enhahrough the Active Power State (APS), it also passively enhanced his body. The only time he used APS was when he fronted Sukuna.
It proved to be enough to overwhelm him to the point Aleph defeated his foe in under a minute.
‘I’ll look at them ter. For now…’
The biggest trouble was already dealt with. All that was left was to settle what happened inside Shibuya’s basement levels.
That, and…
‘I want to meet him.’
Aleph’s curiosity towards his cursed teique’s inal holder was bound to be fulfilled today.
*****
‘Where should I go? Maysia? That sounds alright.’
Tap.
Tap.
Psshk-!
A half-burnt man swung his blunt sword towards a deformed human. These beings akin to pieces of bare flesh with humanoid features tinued charging at him.
Amidst the one-versus-many sario, the half-burnt man’s eyes were filled with ratio lines.
Psshk-!
Psshk-!
Psshk-!
Every time he swung his bde, it was doh great proficy.
Sou-!
One of the deformed humans charged its entire body at the mao Nanami.
Bam-!
The charge ected to Nanami. His body was sent tumbling down with his face first.
g-!
His grasp failed and dropped his bde, only for Nanami tain his blurry mind again. His right hand swiftly picked up the dropped bde before swinging it in an upward strike.
Psshk-!
The dull bde struck the seventh ratio lihe deformed human lit into two.
Psshk-!
Psshk-!
The other deformed humans didn’t let him rest. One of them swung its fists at Nanami, only to get struck by the tter’s dull bde.
Drip.
Drip.
Drip.
The once prosperous portion of Tokyo was turned into a bloody hell. Blood covered the pure white floors. The signs that indicated dires were spttered with bright red blood.
Tap.
Tap.
Tap.
Beyond the horde of the deformed humans, a gray-haired man with stitches all over his body watched this se with i. His hands were drawn to his pant’s pockets.
‘Eh… When will he arrive? I'm getting bored.’
The man, rather, the special-grade cursed spirit Mahito thought of his sole target, Yuuji Itadori. He was the only one who threatened Mahito’s existence beside the King of Curses. Yuuji was the only sorcerer whom Mahito’s cursed teique did not work.
As a form of payback, Mahito wanted Yuuji to suffer.
A devious pn came to the former’s mind.
‘How would he react to this?’
His gaze shifted to the half-burnt Nanami fighting off the deformed humans. It serves to differ that Mahito could easily kill him, yet he chose to wait.
As, he didn’t knorong that decision was.
Click-!
There was n. This entire portion of Shibuya station fell into silence akin to time being stopped.
A clear cutting sound was heard.
Shiing-!
Thin silver lines decorated the space. Their surroundings turned into a broken mirror. This happened for such a short time that nobody truly saw it in full detail.
By the time their brains processed it—be they Nanami, Mahito, or the deformed humans—there was a strong surge of cursed energy.
BAM-!
BOOM-!
SHATTER-!
In a manner simir to Sukuna’s cleave, the station’s fl and pilrs were cut by invisible cuts. Every single deformed human that surrounded Nanami fell to the ground as bits of severed flesh.
Hum-!
Zoom-!
A strong pressure came out of nowhere. It was simir to the deterrence shown by Yuta Okkotsu, but different.
The already shattered ground further broke down under great pressure. The ining deformed humans rushing in this dire stopped.
Nobody said anything.
Yet, it was as if the deformed humans heard a single and:
"Kneel."
One person remained oblivious of it all.
“This is…”
Nanami, who did not feel a si of the cursed energy pressure, looked at his surroundings.
‘Am I dreaming..?’
He had that incredulous thought. One moment, he was dragging his extremely tired and severely injured body to tinue fighting. The moment, all of his oppos dropped dead.
His as fell to Mahito’s sight, but the tter did nister it.
‘What… was that?!’
It didn’t take long before his mind recalled something.
‘Shit! That strong cursed energy from earlier!’
The source of it all appeared out of thin air.
Before Mahito could react to it—
BAM-!
—a punch to his back sent him flying across the station.
“Keu—!”
Aleph’s figure doubled-down on it. His feet moved too fast to the point he caught up to Mahito’s flight speed. Bck sparks appeared around his legs. An upward diagonal kick was whipped out to Mahito’s jaw.
BAM-!
The force tained in it was enough to bend Mahito’s neto an “<” angle. His head was twisted in a weird upward manner.
However, it wasn’t enough to kill him pletely.
‘This… THIS..?!’
Mahit could not speak due to the sheer iy of the paio his chest and neck. After all, what struck him was her than the soul-seizing strikes!
Different from normal cursed spirits, Mahito’s cursed teique, Idle Transfiguration, allowed him to reshape someone’s soul as he saw fit. Iension to that, his entire body couldn’t be exorcised by normal means.
Only strikes that deal with the soul could—such as Yuuji’s.
Now, there was a sed person who could do just that. Only, he was even more terrifying than Yuuji Itadori.
“It's time to sleep.”
Mahito heard a cold voice before the terrifying silenveloped him.
Click-!
Tchk-!
The sound of a sword clig was the st thing he had heard.
