Kento Nanami walked silently along a country road.
His mind constantly rehearsed what might happen next.
After Tomie escaped from the hospital, Kento Nanami had been tracking her whereabouts.
However, the previously stalled investigation suddenly made a Breakthrough yesterday.
They found Tomie's trail at a High School where a student disappearance had occurred.
And obtained Tomie's whereabouts from a girl named Tsukiko.
Tomie invited this girl named Tsukiko to a country villa.
Kento Nanami naturally would not agree to this.
He let Yu Haibara continue to investigate the situation at the High School.
Kento Nanami came alone to the country villa Tomie had mentioned.
'Many windows, if an accident occurs, it won't be difficult to leave…'
Kento Nanami circled the villa from a distance, taking in all of its details.
Then, he drew his blade and walked directly into the country villa, which was very likely a trap.
"Oh, is it just you?"
As soon as he entered the hall, Tomie's voice came from above.
"I alone am enough."
'Is it a trap after all...'
Kento Nanami prepared for Battle.
"Where are the original occupants of this villa?"
Kento Nanami looked up at Tomie on the second floor.
Tomie leaned one hand on the railing, her expression like a cat toying with its prey.
"Well, what do you think?"
"I actually don't care."
When Tomie spoke in a playful tone, Kento Nanami already had the answer in his heart.
What he needed to do next was to eliminate Tomie.
"What a pity, I originally wanted to get rid of you and that woman together, why did you stop her?"
Tomie gently caressed her face with one hand, her tone full of regret.
Her disappointed expression made one want to immediately go forward and comfort her in their arms.
"She is a child, I am an adult, so I have the obligation to take care of her."
Kento Nanami pushed up his glasses.
"You don't need to worry about this, because I will eliminate you here."
Kento Nanami took a running start, using a wooden table with a vase next to the stairs, and jumped to the second floor.
Tomie stood with her arms crossed, watching the serious-faced Kento Nanami with a mocking gaze.
Suddenly, a tentacle, like an earthworm, extended from below and wrapped around Kento Nanami's ankle.
Kento Nanami frowned, and before he was thrown to the ground by the tentacle, he bent down and swung his blade, severing the tentacle.
After landing, he looked in the direction from which the tentacle had attacked, and what met his eyes was a horrifying abomination.
At the very top of the abomination was a huge, unsettlingly crooked head.
Its entire face was covered with peculiar cracks.
Below that was something that would make one's sanity plummet.
One after another, heads of various sizes, connected by earthworm-like tentacles.
Perhaps because they were still growing, the originally beautiful faces became swollen and cracked.
Limbs longer than a normal person's height extended from the heads, dangling limply.
Braids, like decaying spider plants, obscured the twisted body below, which was made of incomplete heads.
This was Tomie's latest work.
She used her own flesh and blood as Materials, repeatedly transplanting them onto the daughter of the villa's owner.
Then, she controlled these flesh and blood to grow continuously.
Initially, this endeavor was not smooth, but after another Tomie received the Materials Kenjaku gave her.
The experimental progress advanced by leaps and bounds.
Since all Tomies were split from the same individual, they could all see each other's situations.
If there were no external enemies, these Tomies might kill each other out of desire.
However, with a large number of Jujutsu Sorcerers currently pursuing them, the Tomies chose to cooperate.
The Materials Kenjaku sent were not profound; they were relatively basic Jujutsu Materials.
But these were all things the current Tomie needed, not to mention they included many twisted experiments Kenjaku had once conducted.
These Materials also made Tomie understand why she hadn't been able to take down Kenjaku.
Because her power was too dispersed.
If all the Tomies were to unite now.
Then Tomie's strength would instantly become a Special Grade powerhouse.
At that time, even Kenjaku, a Special Grade, Tomie would have a chance to take him down.
But Tomie knew that the person who had fought against top powerhouses of the Jujutsu World multiple times and still managed to escape unscathed could not be so kind as to tell her the method to subdue herself.
'He must have some means to ignore my abilities.
Once my complete self appears before him, he will surely completely possess me.'
However, this possession might not be the possession Tomie desired.
So Tomie also had her own plan.
The monster in front of her was one of Tomie's "plans."
As the old saying goes, it's better to rely on yourself than on others.
If she could create sufficiently powerful and controllable Battle Intent through her own characteristics, that would naturally be the best.
'Let me see the strength of a Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer, Kento Nanami.'
Thinking of this, a hint of expectation flashed in Tomie's eyes.
In the villa's hall, Kento Nanami was already fighting this three-meter-tall Tomie abomination.
When he pulled away, earthworm-like tentacles extending from below would attack Kento Nanami with terrifying force.
Once he got close, the slender limbs dangling around its body would relentlessly punch and kick him.
And the sounds emitted by each head, and the gazes from them, constantly stirred Kento Nanami's desires deep down.
Kento Nanami found that he was gradually losing his Battle Intent.
Instead, he wanted to possess this monster.
'This guy's ability is stronger than before.'
Kento Nanami bit the tip of his tongue, and the sharp pain brought some of his consciousness back.
'I need to first figure out the defense of this abomination, and also be wary of other abominations.'
Thinking of this, Kento Nanami, whose attack had failed again, leaped backward, creating distance from the abomination.
Then he placed his short blade behind him, assuming a stance similar to Iaijutsu.
The next moment, Kento Nanami activated Tokyo Jujutsu High's mandatory skill, American Iaijutsu.
Kento Nanami swung one hand fiercely.
However, what Kento Nanami held in his hand was not the short blade Tomie imagined, but a pistol.
Bang bang bang!
Kento Nanami quickly emptied the magazine.
Bloody blossoms bloomed on the abomination's body.
'The main body's defense isn't strong, my attacks can easily cut it, the only troublesome thing is that tentacle, isn't it?'
Kento Nanami got his answer.
Upstairs, Tomie frowned for the first time since the Battle began.
Kento Nanami's actions seemed strange to her.
Are exorcism methods so up-to-date now?
Tomie, who had encountered several Curse Users, had never seen anyone use a pistol for exorcism.
Then, Kento Nanami took out something that made Tomie even more speechless.
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