In the deep mountains on a rainy night, a figure dressed in a kasaya stood on high ground, looking at the jungle below from a distance.
Behind him were several existences with strange forms that did not look human, and they were currently asking him questions.
"That guy's bloodline is considered the highest among those Ghouls that appeared, right? If we convert her, she should be a good experimental subject. Isn't it a bit of a waste to use her to test that guy's strength?"
The figure in the kasaya shook his head. "Her talent and aptitude destined her to be unable to realize her potential. Even if we force-fed her the flesh and blood of supernatural beings to raise her to special-grade, she would just be an ungrateful wretch who can't be tamed. Being used here is already the best end for her."
He looked into the distance, seeming to feel a sense of being spied on again.
Fortunately, that prying power was not overbearing. Just using some concealing techniques or barriers was enough to block the opponent's gaze.
However, even so, such power still made him a little concerned.
He had his own intelligence network. Whether it was the Jujutsu higher-ups, ordinary jujutsu sorcerers, curse users, or even Cursed Spirits, they were all within the scope of his intelligence gathering.
Even in Shinto and Buddhism, he could obtain some secret intelligence relying on the connections he had accumulated.
He knew what kind of power that boy had awakened half a month ago, and it had even cost him a very potential test subject.
For some reason, he had a feeling that if he could obtain that boy's body, it might be stronger than the body he was currently using.
But he glanced at his own body.
The original owner of this body was a special-grade curse user who could evenly match that Gojo Satoru in his youth. It was already his best choice in this era.
Although Miyauchi Hikage's power was strange, he still needed to continue observing. It wouldn't be too late to make a decision after the other party matured.
Anyway, there was still half a year before the plan.
And that Rize Kamishiro, who came from nowhere, also had strength above Grade 1. If Miyauchi Hikage died here, there would be no future matters.
"However, the other party looks quite confident," the special-grade Cursed Spirit beside him made a sound. "If he can really solve that woman, why don't you let me go up and see how good that kid really is?"
"Our target is Gojo Satoru. This boy is just an observation on a whim. It's not worth letting a special-grade Cursed Spirit like you go up to test him."
Hearing this, the one-eyed special-grade Cursed Spirit with a volcano on his head nodded as a matter of course.
"That's true. My target is only Gojo Satoru. Other guys are not worthy of my action."
Their gazes continued to rest in the distance, waiting for the final result.
Miyauchi Hikage withdrew his gaze.
Rize Kamishiro was probably released deliberately by someone, and the target was likely him.
The guy who controlled Rize Kamishiro was probably standing somewhere watching him from a distance right now.
After all, the power of Destiny allowed him to see everything around him clearly, which was much stronger than the effect in the game where only the current positions of heroes could be seen.
And in this fully open field of vision, a small shadow that could not be observed appeared particularly conspicuous.
"So which faction's villain is targeting me?"
Currently, Miyauchi Hikage was relatively close to Jujutsu High and Shinto. Only these two parties should be eyeing him.
"It couldn't be that clown, Brain-kun, could it?"
Miyauchi Hikage complained.
As a clown even more top-tier than the "Prison Teacher" (Gojo) in Jujutsu Kaisen, Kenjaku would indeed observe capable people in various eras and sign contracts with them.
But shouldn't his attention be on Gojo Satoru right now?
In order to ensure that Gojo Satoru was subdued, Kenjaku, who was resurrected using Geto Suguru's body, would not appear in Gojo Satoru's sight before the dust settled, so as not to trigger Gojo Satoru's alarm in advance.
So Miyauchi Hikage just glanced once and didn't look any further.
After all, he was indeed quite confident now.
In the past week or so, he had been beaten up by Tohru three times, but each time he could last longer in Tohru's hands. His combat experience could only be said to be skyrocketing.
Then he had been studying the structure of the dragon-slaying holy sword, simply attaching the projection of the holy sword's material properties to other weapons. Although it could only be considered upgrading those ordinary swords, which were originally scrap metal in the inner world, to the level of basic equipment, the accumulated quantity of thousands of basic equipment eventually led to a qualitative change.
Now, opening Unlimited Blade Works in reality, combined with the dragon-slaying holy sword, he could already suppress Tohru's offense in a short time.
Now he steadily had special-grade combat power. Counting the restraint of the Pure Yang Body on Cursed Spirits and vengeful spirits, and having a life-saving method of ten kilometers in two seconds, usable up to five times consecutively.
In the Jujutsu Kaisen set, except for Sukuna and Gojo Satoru, he could relax a little when facing other special-grades.
No matter who threw Rize Kamishiro over, anyway, this woman wasn't a good person to begin with, just solve her.
Both used humans as food, both had extraordinary regeneration abilities, and even had similar attack methods, but obviously, Rize Kamishiro's current state couldn't compare to a certain Demon King who had died a hundred years ago.
Although one lost half his life to explosives mixed with poison, and the other was seriously injured by steel beams, both sounding quite uncool, Muzan's regeneration ability was indeed considered hard to kill even among special-grades.
As long as a palm-sized fragment wasn't dealt with, he could find a way to resurrect.
And Miyauchi Hikage could now be considered a little Tsugikuni Yoriichi.
Although he was still lacking in sword skills and his realm wasn't that high, relying on a pile of abilities, Miyauchi Hikage felt that he could still compare with Tsugikuni Yoriichi in terms of talent and stats.
So, when he appeared in front of the starving Rize Kamishiro holding a Nichirin Blade, with the rain around him turning into steam and dissipating, he naturally asked Rize Kamishiro, whose eyes emitted a desire for food, "What do you think life is?"
If it were the normal Rize Kamishiro, she might have exchanged a few words with Miyauchi Hikage, and maybe added a sentence about Ghouls being the creatures at the top of the food chain.
But after coming to this strange world, relying on her beauty to lure those easy-to-hook, hot-blooded boys, she was captured by that powerful, non-human guy just as she started her seventh hunt in five days.
In the following days, she was confined in a laboratory by the other party using some means and underwent a series of experiments. Although she ate a lot of delicious human flesh that she had never eaten before, this also made her appetite larger than before.
She could feel that if she continued to eat like this, she might be able to complete further evolution and possess even more powerful strength.
She had been waiting for the opportunity to further herself, and swore in her heart that after completing her evolution, she would personally kill and eat the human who caught her.
However, the other party seemed to have noticed her thoughts. Since then, he gave up feeding her, and even used fresh meat to tempt her every day.
So far, she hadn't eaten for a full ten days. Although for ordinary Ghouls, eating once a month was enough, for her, especially after her appetite became larger, ten days without food was driving her crazy with hunger.
Until today, that man gave her freedom.
As long as she could kill everyone in that mountain villa, she could regain the right to hunt freely.
Even though a good-looking boy with a sword appeared in front of her at this time, usually she would definitely consider how to elegantly seduce the other party and make him obediently become her ration.
But now, she just wanted to solve the other party cleanly and use him to fill her stomach.
She could even subtly sense an aroma from Miyauchi Hikage that she couldn't refuse at all.
Perhaps just by eating this boy, she could complete her final evolution!
At the moment the two met, at the moment the boy spoke to her, six tail-like sharp Kagune emerged from behind Rize Kamishiro, launching an attack on the boy!
And from Miyauchi Hikage's body to the blade in his hand, at the moment Rize Kamishiro launched the attack, a burst of somewhat illusory but definitely real flames emerged.
Sun Breathing, Third Form: Raging Sun.
Even in the rain, the flames attached to the Nichirin Blade still ignited the nearby bushes.
Two slashes attached with flames blocked Rize Kamishiro's attack and directly cut off two of Rize Kamishiro's Kagune.
Watching the change in Rize Kamishiro's expression, Miyauchi Hikage knew that even if the Nichirin Blade itself didn't have extra special attack bonuses against Rize Kamishiro, the blade attached with thousand-degree flames could also slow down her healing speed.
Confirming this was enough.
Except for beauty and the so-called elegance in disguise, Rize Kamishiro was a standard giant baby who did whatever she wanted relying on her talent.
Pure bloodline gave her more RC cells than ordinary Ghouls from birth, and also brought her more powerful strength. Even without practice, she could possess strength superior to most Ghouls.
Kaneki Ken, relying on her power, almost destroyed the entire Tokyo after becoming a Kakuja and going berserk.
If she could control her desires and become a Kakuja while maintaining rationality to fully unleash her power, she could probably reach the level of super special-grade in this world.
But the inability to control her own desires was Rize Kamishiro's biggest flaw.
Let alone a Kakuja, even if she became a Half-Kakuja now, she would probably fall into a rampage and completely fall into the abyss.
So, just solve her before Rize Kamishiro goes berserk.
The moment Rize Kamishiro launched an attack on him, Miyauchi Hikage had already judged her current strength level.
It was indeed at the level of Grade 1.
But no skills, all stats.
Let alone him, if Zenin Maki came with a weapon, plus any support jujutsu sorcerer helping on the side, although she might get injured in the process, after adapting to Rize Kamishiro's attack methods, there was a great chance to take down Rize Kamishiro.
The only problem was that dragging it out too long might make Rize Kamishiro go berserk.
But this wouldn't happen with him.
There was no need to use the trump cards of Unlimited Blade Works and the dragon-slaying holy sword, lest that Brain-kun drool over his body all day.
This stuff had to wait until those special-grade villains couldn't hold back their temper and ran in front of him to cause trouble, then he would deal with them cleanly with these trump cards.
Before, if he only used Sun Breathing sword techniques, he might have needed more time, but the Kusanagi Style Ancient Martial Arts made his use of the Pure Yang Body and flames smoother.
Now, he only needed five seconds to solve Rize Kamishiro.
Seventh Form: Sunflower Thrust.
Accompanied by ring-shaped flames, he quickly dashed in front of Rize Kamishiro and launched continuous thrusts at her.
This speed far exceeding ordinary people, and the severe burning sensation from the Kagune, seemed to finally make Rize Kamishiro realize the threat of the boy in front of her.
But now she didn't even have the qualification to escape. She could only follow her subconscious reaction, madly using the intact Kagune behind her to attack the boy in front of her.
But what welcomed her were giant fire dragons emitting sun-like light dancing before her eyes.
Eleventh Form: Solar Halo Dragon Dance.
In just an instant, accompanied by almost invisible slashes and fire dragons wantonly devouring flesh and blood, Rize Kamishiro's body was completely engulfed in flames.
And the finishing move of the sword technique was a charged, downward flame slash.
In Sun Breathing, this was a variant of the First Form: Dance.
But in Kusanagi Style Ancient Martial Arts, this was also the 108 Shiki: Orochinagi.
It was just that in taijutsu techniques, this move gathered the Kusanagi flames in the hand and waved them at the opponent all at once.
But combined with the Nichirin Blade, it could also be displayed in the form of a sword technique.
Anyway, for Miyauchi Hikage, such techniques were not much pressure. Not considering the power of the Kusanagi bloodline, just looking at the power, the Orochinagi he displayed now was visually much more spectacular than the Orochinagi in the game.
A sword qi nearly five meters long, like a fire dragon, penetrated Rize Kamishiro's body, then flew forward for tens of meters in the air, before slowly dissipating in the rain accompanied by a burst of white steam.
Throughout the process, except for the first attack, Rize Kamishiro had almost no power to resist.
The skills were already crushing, and before becoming a Kakuja, the stats couldn't compare. Rize Kamishiro had no chance of winning from the beginning.
Five seconds, and there was still one second left. And Miyauchi Hikage held back, otherwise Rize Kamishiro should have been completely dead at the third second when the charge for Orochinagi was completed.
Miyauchi Hikage restrained his aura. At the same time, Yellow Temperance quietly spread from under his feet along the scorched earth to the body of Rize Kamishiro, who barely had half a breath left, and began to quietly devour the Kakuhou on her body.
Eating vengeful spirits and Cursed Spirits allowed Yellow Temperance to perfectly cosplay them, and it could even eat the Shadows in the Metaverse. Now, taking a bite of Rize Kamishiro's Kakuhou, let's see if it can gain the unique power of Ghouls.
Anyway, she's been burned like this; a small bite should be fine, right?