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Shibuya, Tokyo: 7:00 P.M.
(On Daoist1vezbL's recommendation, I will try to integrate the timing to the best of my capabilities. There might be some mismatch in the events and timing, so I humbly ask you to either forgive that, or tell me what it should be so that I can check and change that.)
A massive curtain was dropped on the night of Halloween, trapping countless innocent civilians inside and preventing them from leaving.
Most of the crowd had no idea what was happening, but a few people saw the dark, liquid-like curtain falling and trapping them inside. The people who were on the boundary of the curtain were blocked by an invisible wall, and after not finding any way out, the people started to complain.
Elsewhere within the barrier, a swarm of people were starting to get sucked in by an invisible force, and the screams of panic started rising.
People saw that and tried to escape, but the majority of them were unable to run fast enough to dodge the invisible suction force.
Similar incidents continued to occur throughout the barrier, and at the end of it, the helpless and unaware humans could only do one thing.
Call for help.
And among those panicked voices, a single name started to echo.
"Satoru Gojo!!!"
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Shibuya: 8:00 P.M.
A curtain of that size wasn't exactly difficult for the local Windows to notice.
Reports were immediately sent to the HQ, and because the Jujutsu world was already on high alert after the recent attacks, the sorcerers and advisors acted fast.
Within an hour, a perimeter was formed around the barrier with sorcerers and advisors already circling the barrier and checking the insides of the city.
The giant barrier only restricted the entry of the civilians, and the advisors and sorcerers were free to go in and out of it.
Still, communication from inside the barrier was impossible, so the advisors had to serve as the point of contact for the sorcerers.
Luckily, not all forms of communication were gone.
Kokichi Muta, better known as Mechamaru, proved invaluable, as he could remotely control his puppets over long distances and interact with the environment through them.
Because of this, Mechamaru was working as a communication link between the sorcerers inside the barrier.
A mini puppet in the form of a Bluetooth earpiece was distributed to all the sorcerer team leaders and the advisors who were to move inside the barrier.
Though it still required the advisors to go out of the barrier to contact the people, they now at least had a means of communication inside.
As for the sorcerers,
Multiple Grade 1 sorcerers were currently on standby, along with some other sorcerers in their teams, to handle the situation.
The teams were:
Team Nanami: Nanami, Megumi, Ino
Team Zenin 1: Naobito, Nobara, Maki
Team Zenin 2: Chojuro, Mako, Ogi
Team Okkotsu: Yuta, Haruto, Toge
Team Mei: Mei Mei, Ui Ui, Itadori
Team Kusakabe: Kusakabe, Panda
Because of how suddenly the incident occurred, the Kyoto forces had not arrived yet, and thus, the Zenin clan was called in to help.
And because of Naoya's orders, multiple people from Zenin's top squad were present.
It should also be noted that it was Naoya who advised the Jujutsu HQ to deploy Kokichi as the communication link instead of having him fight.
In such situations, a lack of support and communication was the worst possible handicap they could have.
The Special Grade sorcerer and his students were not present yet, but Naoya was still helping the best way he could.
Out of these teams, Team Okkotsu was assigned to rescue the people and bring them to safety.
Toge and Haruto were effective crowd controllers, and Yuta could heal the injured while also fighting any unexpectedly strong enemies that came to attack the civilians.
The rest of the teams were placed on standby and were waiting for the signal.
And that signal was....
Satoru Gojo.
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Shibuya: 8:15 P.M.
Satoru Gojo entered the barrier alone and started making his way to the lowest levels of Shibuya Station.
"Really chose a sweet time when my best buddy is not here.... They really have a huge mole in the HQ.... Now then, shall I show these bastards their place?"
Satoru smiled and cracked his knuckles.
He could sense the complex emotions of the people around him and the Cursed Energy that was coming from the station.
These people were especially asking for him as well.
It didn't take a genius to understand that this whole thing was a setup. A set-up to corner him while not having a backup.
Whoever these people are, they are hell-bent on not facing them in a group. Especially both him and Naoya together.
It's not like he didn't understand that, but it also seemed like they were underestimating him a bit, too.
Did he look like an easier target compared to Naoya?
He'd have to show these dumb bastards just how wrong they were.
He walked over the people using his technique and finally jumped down to the lowest level.
"I am here as you guys asked~"
Satoru called out loud.
There were people everywhere in the station. They looked at Satoru weirdly, though, a human who was floating in mid-air was far from normal anyway.
As if waiting to be called, a group of people walked out and stood in the middle of the tracks.
"Oh, what a surprise, I am fighting a volcano cyclops again. I mean, can't you get a hint that you are shit?"
Satoru jumped on the tracks as well and looked at the people he would be facing.
The group consisted of Jogo, the lava cyclops, a pale man with markings across his face (Choso), a black dude(Miguel), a shirtless man wearing heart-shaped pasties (Larue), and a monk-like figure with a bob cut (Uraume).
"Quite a variety of people to fight me? Do you guys believe in diversity hiring? Quite a modern group of villains."
Satoru remarked and checked on each one of the enemies.
He might be looking calm on the surface, but in his head, he was already analysing the ways to fight, especially when he couldn't go all out with all the people present there.
The monk kid raised their hand, and the giant opening from where Satoru Gojo entered was blocked with a thick layer of ice.
'An Ice Cursed Technique user, huh....'
Gojo looked up.
"I wasn't going to run anyway. You wasted your CE. Sucks to be you."
Satoru stuck out his tongue.
"Satoru Gojo. Today is the day you finally fall!" Jogo declared.
"Sorry to say this, but you are not my type. I don't fall for people like you."
Satoru stood with his hands in his pockets as Uraume and Jogo rushed forward towards Gojo.
Gojo stood without any worry and waited to see what the two were planning.
"Huh?"
[Domain Amplification]
They were not touching him, just like he presumed, but the two of them were slowly shaving away his [Infinity].
Gojo observed that for a bit longer before he teleported away.
"A method to counterattack my [Infinity], now that's new....Usually, only Naoya does things like this."
Gojo muttered with a slight smirk on his face as he pulled down his blind fold.
"And if you guys are thinking like Naoya, then I have no other choice but to take you guys a bit more seriously."
[Piercing Blood]
A blood beam headed straight for Satoru, only to be blocked by [Infinity].
Satoru looked at the [Blood Manipulation] user and concluded that it must be the [Death Painting].
'Not a threat.'
Satoru focused back on the actual threats, the monk and the cursed spirit.
Jogo and Uraume looked at Satoru Gojo as well, and with a snap of Jogo's finger, the gates of the platforms opened, and the people who were crowding up fell on the tracks.
"Watch this."
Jogo smirked and used his technique to burn multiple humans.
Seeing the cursed spirit getting a bit too cocky, Satoru moved to snap him back to reality.
Without hesitation, Satoru grabbed Jogo's head and threw him away, sending him crashing into the wall.
Jogo, feeling contact from Satoru, immediately activated [Domain Amplification] once again.
Gojo was about to launch forward, but felt incoming attacks and looked to his side.
[Piercing Blood]
[Icefall]
The attacks were getting blocked by [Infinity] as usual.
However, from the corner, another attack came.
Miguel used a black rope that was woven like a whip to strike Satoru Gojo.
Gojo noticed the unusual CE from the rope. Though the cursed energy was different, the principle felt familiar.
'Naoya's Cursed Tool!'
And just like that, cursed tool, the [Black Rope] tore through [Infinity] and struck Satoru.
However, unlike the [Inverted Spear of Heaven], the [Black Rope] didn't shut down Satoru's technique completely. It only cancelled the technique in the area it was touching.
Satoru shrugged off the hit from Miguel and looked straight at him.
Miguel's, or more accurately, the cursed tool's threat level suddenly skyrocketed in Satoru's head.
He couldn't allow that tool to remain in the battle for long.
Satoru beelined straight towards Miguel, but out of nowhere, he saw multiple humans being tossed his way.
"Now now, don't be in a hurry. We have quite a lot of people here you can play with."
Larue smiled as he used his technique to throw people at Satoru.
Uraume and Jogo jumped back with their [Domain Amplification] active to strike Satoru.
Satoru stood at his spot as people kept coming up to him and sighed.
"...You all....do you really think I can't fight without my techniques?"
Satoru asked coldly as he teleported behind Jogo and Uraume and grabbed their heads before smashing them together.
"GAH!"
Uraume bled while Jogo hit his eye and was momentarily blinded.
Satoru looked towards Choso, who fired another [Piercing Blood] at him and smirked.
'!!!'
Seeing Satoru smirk, Choso felt a bad premonition and tried to stop his technique.
But it was already too late.
Satoru threw Jogo and Uraume towards the blood beam and had the attack pierce through them.
"AHH!!!"
Jogo screamed as the blood stung him from the inside.
Uraume gritted their teeth, but they were not in a better condition than Jogo since the blood pierced through their stomach and chipped away some vital organs as well.
Choso, being a [Death Painting] with Blood Manipulation, had blood that was toxic for humans and cursed spirits alike, and right now, both Jogo and Uraume were witnessing just that.
"Now now, death painting-kun. Friendly fire is bad, you know~ If you hurt your teammates-"
Satoru vanished from his spot and appeared beside Choso.
"-Who is going to distract me from hitting you?"
Satoru simply used his CE-reinforced strength to punch Choso.
Though just that simple punch was enough to send the Blood user crashing through walls.
Uraume and Jogo healed themselves and looked at Satoru Gojo with wariness.
"Even without his offensive techniques. He is still a nuisance."
"Stop complaining and get back to work."
Uruame, Jogo, Miguel and Larue ran through the crowd and continued to fight Gojo. Choso quickly rejoined the fight as well.
Because of Miguel, there were a few attacks that landed on Gojo, but he was able to shrug them off and heal himself instantly.
The five of them were starting to get desperate while fighting Gojo, who had begun gathering the civilians to one side so that he could start with his offensive techniques as well.
It wasn't like he couldn't beat the opponents he was facing with the limitations that he was currently facing; however, the opponents themselves merged with the crowd to attack him, making him pull his punches during the fight.
As a seasoned sorcerer, he wasn't an idealistic man who couldn't see people die during a mission.
However, he still was a guy who could not bring himself to kill people for the sake of a mission.
...And that's what the enemies were taking advantage of.
The hit-and-run tactics were not having any effect on Satoru. He was totally fine. Not even a single scratch on his body.
On the other hand, the group that was attacking Satoru seemed to be getting restless and was starting to look battered as well.
Satoru Gojo was turning out to be an incredibly annoying person to deal with, even when they had nerfed him so much.
Even a single attack from him caused severe damage to them, and they were starting to wear down.
8:50 P.M.
An announcement suddenly occurred at the Shibuya Station.
[Train-]
The announcement of an arriving train at the platform came, making the crowd that Satoru had gathered to a side rush back towards the edges of the platform.
The panicked people ran without thinking about anything. They just wanted to get out of this place.
The train finally arrived, and the people got even more excited.
...only for that excitement to turn into horror.
Inside the train, there weren't normal people.
In there were what people could only call monsters.
The train was jam-packed with [Transfigured Humans], and the moment the train doors opened, the transfigured humans jumped out, killing the people closest to them.
"URAUME!!! CHOSO!!!!"
Jogo yelled out loud.
Uraume smirked and deactivated the technique that was blocking the entrance to this level.
The thick ice wall disappeared, and a large number of humans who wanted to get on the train that had finally arrived at the lower level fell.
They were standing on ice, and the moment the ice vanished, they saw the ground approaching closer.
[Piercing Blood]
Choso used his technique to carve massive holes in the ceilings and had more people fall onto this level.
The cursed spirits, curse users, transfigured humans, and falling rubble.
All of these things were wrecking the civilians who were gathered on the platform.
Even the patchface cursed spirit, Mahito, joined the chaos and together all these things started to kill people around them.
Seeing the chaos happening, Satoru racked his brain for a solution.
If he used his technique, the people would die. If he doesn't use his technique, the people will die.
After racking his brain for a while, Satoru came to an answer.
[Domain Expansion: Unlimited Void]
The domain opened and closed almost immediately.
The whole thing happened for only 2/10 of a second.
But that was enough.
Everyone standing on the platform was stuck processing the information they got through the domain.
The brief stun was enough to give Gojo the opening he needed.
The transfigured humans were being mowed down by the special grade sorcerer at a massive speed.
It took Satoru around 5 minutes to deal with every Transfigured human present there.
"Haah....now let's deal with the remaini-"
Satoru Gojo turned around. His [Six Eyes] immediately caught onto a sealed box.
[Prison Realm - Gate Open]
The box expanded and unfolded into a giant bleeding eye with stretched out flesh, with the pieces of the box stretching out the flesh, making the stitches around the eye bleed even more.
Satoru stared at the eye for a second before he realised that he needed to move away and turned around.
"Hey, Satoru"
A familiar voice echoed from behind.
"...Suguru....so you really were ali-"
[Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue]
A swirling mass of [Blue] appeared in front of Satoru as his eyes widened in surprise.
...He wasn't the one who used [Blue]
Another figure stepped out from behind the bleeding eye.
A tall man with white hair and blue eyes stood there, looking disturbingly similar to Satoru himself.
Satoru's eyes widened even more.
The figure that stood in front of him was.....a Gojo.
"What? Never seen a person with such beautiful eyes?"
The white-haired stranger asked as he pointed at his eyes and smirked.
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A/N: Oh boy, time to follow the footsteps of our lord and destroyer, Gege.