After fully enjoying the beach, they fueled up at a soki soba shop the next day and toured the Churaumi Aquarium. From there, they visited Shuri Castle, and finally picked out souvenirs for their classmates on Kokusai Dori, bringing their Okinawa sightseeing trip to a successful close.
All that was left was to meet up at the airport with Toji Fushiguro and Naoya Zen'in, who had built a mountain of half-dead bodies. After tightly binding the heap of men with the Chain of a Thousand Miles, Toji had his tamed Storehouse Cursed Spirit swallow and retrieve them.
From there, they used Satoru Gojo's Warp to teleport, finally and happily completing the escort of Riko Amanai to Tokyo Jujutsu High.
"Man, good work, Satoru."
"Seriously. I'm never doing this again. I'm done babysitting brats."
"You say that, but you actually like those kids. Your attempt to hide your embarrassment is totally obvious."
"Oh? What is this? Are you sad to be parted from me? You have a cute side after all!"
"Shut up, brat."
"...He is acting a bit more docile than usual, isn't he, Gojo-san?"
"Gojo-senpai gets lonely pretty easily!"
"I can hear you, Nanami, Haibara...!"
As they exchanged these words, the atmosphere naturally grew more sentimental.
However, that damp mood was instantly wiped away by a massive alarm echoing through the high school grounds.
"What—!?"
"Suguru! Take Nanami, Haibara, and Shoko and get Amanai to the Star Sanctuary! Take the teacher too! Naoya, you're with me to intercept!"
"Well, that's reasonable. Let's go, Geto!"
"Understood! Satoru, Naoya, I'm counting on you!"
Immediately following that conversation, a powerful explosion roared, strong enough to blow away the school's barrier.
"You again? I already killed you. Just stay dead."
"I decline, Original. After all, I have been granted new power by Lord Wessen."
The culprit descending leisurely from the hole in the barrier was Bitz, the biological sorcery weapon they were supposed to have killed. He looked largely the same as the version Naoya knew, but the sole difference was that one of his arms was grotesquely enlarged and twisted, resembling a cannon barrel.
The 'new power' he declared was clearly that arm.
But there was one man who didn't care about such tricks at all.
"Nine Realms. Polarization. Crow and Declaration. Between Front and Back. Max Output: Hollow... Purple!"
To Megumi Fushiguro, who had been watching Ultraman Mebius and remarked, "He should just fire his beam at the very start," Satoru Gojo was the unromantic man who had been beaten up by an angry Megumi for actually doing just that.
As if putting those words into practice now, Gojo unleashed his ultimate move right at the opening. In response, Bitz countered using a cursed energy cannon from his arm.
"Just as predicted, Satoru Gojo. 'Granite Blast!'"
As Bitz shouted, a mass of ultra-high output cursed energy fired from his arm. The mechanism was a very simple 'discharge of cursed energy,' but by relying on Bitz's immense total cursed energy reserves, it possessed enough power to cancel out the Purple that Gojo had fired at full strength.
The explosion of cursed energy ravaged the school grounds, blowing away numerous buildings, yet neither Gojo's group nor Bitz suffered a single scratch.
"Man, maybe Megumi was right after all. He said, 'The opponent is a strong kaiju too, so you can't hit them unless you weaken them first!'"
"He didn't have a move like that before, did he, Toji-kun?"
"Yeah. His innate technique was fire and explosions. But that barrier destruction just now was his explosion technique. Can he use two different techniques?"
"Normally, that's impossible. But... you, you ate an unregistered special grade cursed object, didn't you? A 'living' one. And a former human at that."
"As expected of Satoru Gojo. That analytical ability is the Six Eyes, I assume? Terrifying performance. Since it seems useless to hide it, I shall answer your question. This time, I have ingested Ryu Ishigori and acquired his technique. Though, it is a sham created by copying and extracting soul information from a cursed object and implanting it into a Bitz model identical to myself before turning it into a separate cursed object."
"That sounds even worse than the original. The depth of that sin is actually higher."
"So, basically, you combined yourself with an individual who had a different technique. Honestly, doing that to humans like they're used cars is disgusting."
"What a cruel way to put it. We are the latest models. I find being called 'used' offensive."
While exchanging these words, flamethrowers and fireballs were unleashed from the muzzle of Bitz's arm.
It seemed his own innate technique had been thoroughly reinforced, and by absorbing another individual turned into a cursed object, his cursed energy was effectively doubled.
To put it lightly, his combat performance was 'monstrous,' and against an average sorcerer, he could likely act as a match for a thousand.
After all, even in the eyes of the airheaded Gojo, he appeared as a 'kaiju.' In that regard, he was the same type of being as Naoya.
However, if there was one distinct difference...
"Your ability alone is impressive, but... a brat is still a brat. You're stupid."
That voice came from behind Bitz. By the time the words from Naoya—who had used the flames Bitz fired as a screen to move at ultra-high speed—reached Bitz's ears, a Mach 3 heel drop had already violently caved in the back of his head. Bitz was slammed into the ground, causing spider-web-like cracks to spread across the earth that was already a crater.
Then, against the wide-open Bitz, Toji Fushiguro's maximum firepower was unleashed without mercy.
The Special Grade Cursed Tool: Playful Cloud. A mass of pure power that had reached Special Grade without any technique effect. The destructive power generated when Toji swung it with all his physical strength was equivalent to a railway gun. Even Naoya, who had retreated instantly, broke into a cold sweat, thinking, 'I would have died if I was even a moment late.' The strike smashed Bitz's body into a grotesque paste, splashing it across the area and carving a foul geoglyph into the school grounds.
However...
"Get back, Teacher! 'Phase.' 'Satori.' 'Summer Camellia.' Cursed Technique Extension...!"
Immediately after Satoru Gojo used Blue to dilute and erase most of the splattered Bitz with a grimace, a single piece of meat that had popped and flown into the distance began to bubble as if boiling. It expanded, forming a completely naked Bitz.
"How cruel. I thought I was going to die."
"Just stay dead as a human...! That was a piece of meat the size of a pinky tip!"
"Even so, it makes no difference to my living cells. Every human began as a single fertilized egg, did they not? Were you unaware of even that?"
Bitz spoke of this absurd theory with a self-satisfied look, but his complexion was far from good, and a slight shadow could be seen in his immense total cursed energy.
He had likely made a snap judgment to enable regeneration from a fragment by making a binding vow to sacrifice a certain amount of his total cursed energy, but even so, his original total was simply too vast.
The sudden kaiju showdown that had begun on the high school grounds looked like it was going to drag on for a while.
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