"Take a look…"
Mirai slightly looked down at the grim-faced Sukuna and softly said:
"You already noticed the existence of the clone, and yet you still carelessly exposed your back."
Walking out from behind Sukuna was Mirai's second clone, enhanced by his Domain.
Purple light faded from its eyes, while arcs of electricity still crackled faintly across its body.
The fact that only a single clone had appeared…
…meant that the strongest sorcerer from four hundred years ago had already followed in Satoru Gojo's footsteps.
The overwhelming speed that even Sukuna could barely react to, along with the ability to communicate across ten thousand meters to notify Uro—
All of it was because the battlefield existed within the Kamui space controlled by Mirai.
While he had lost the intangibility effect of Kamui, he had instead gained speed approaching teleportation itself.
As well as precise awareness of every sorcerer's location within the barrier.
In the end, whether it was Gojo or Sukuna…
Mirai had always approached this battle with the mindset of playing around—a mere warm-up.
If he had truly gone all out, the fight would never have dragged on this long.
He was simply waiting.
Waiting for the cursed womb hanging in the sky to fully mature.
"So?"
Mirai looked at the figure lying in a pool of blood and smiled.
"How satisfying was this journey of reincarnation?"
Though Sukuna had supposedly survived for a thousand years, in truth, after taking over Megumi Fushiguro's body, he had only enjoyed a few brief days of freedom.
Calling it a "journey of reincarnation" wasn't entirely wrong.
"Heh… hahahaha!"
Sukuna laughed wildly and joyfully.
Through the high-speed operation of the Reverse Cursed Technique, his twisted, obliterated four arms slowly began regenerating!
From bone and muscle…
…to blood and flesh!
But in the very next second, the smile on Sukuna's lips abruptly froze.
Space shattered instantly—
Thick blood splattered everywhere!
Not only the four arms that had just regenerated, but even the large mouth opening slightly across Sukuna's abdomen was blown apart.
"I already told you."
"There's no point trying those cheap little tricks."
Mirai looked down at Sukuna and calmly said:
"Using your laughter to cover up the sound of chanting curse incantations from your stomach…"
"Your will to survive is stronger than I imagined."
"…No."
Meeting Sukuna's four violent crimson eyes, Mirai corrected himself indifferently:
"It's not a will to survive."
"It's your desire to keep fighting."
"Or rather… your obsession with cutting me to pieces."
Sukuna did not argue.
He merely stared at Mirai with a savage grin.
He still had hope.
Provided the people at Jujutsu High weren't idiots.
And sure enough—
From far away came another crisp clap.
Clap!
One fragment of the broken blade beneath Yuta Okkotsu's feet vanished before his hands had even fully separated from the clap.
Beside him stood the tense-faced Yuji Itadori, along with Choso, who was worried whether his younger brother had been injured.
And there was also the solemn-faced Higuruma Hiromi.
Among everyone participating in the battle, Higuruma was the only one who had remained in the monitoring room and watched every fight unfold.
Thanks to Ui Ui's technique, he could be teleported to any battlefield at any moment as a surprise trump card.
He was the final insurance left behind by Jujutsu High.
As for when he would enter the battle—that judgment was left to Higuruma himself, the legal expert.
When Gojo fell, Yuta had still not arrived at the battlefield.
Against Zen'in Mirai, who had no cursed technique burnout period, Higuruma alone had no confidence in saving Gojo.
But now that Yuta and the others had arrived to assist, Higuruma finally had a chance to play his role.
The instant Yuta activated Boogie Woogie, Higuruma had already formed the hand sign for Domain Expansion.
His target was not Zen'in Future—
…but the heavily wounded Ryomen Sukuna.
Time rewound to the tactical meeting before the battle began.
After learning the details of Higuruma's Domain, Angel and Kusakabe had proposed several strategies.
If the battle ended with Sukuna victorious, he would still be severely injured.
Higuruma could then enter the battlefield, drag Sukuna into his Domain, confiscate his technique, and everyone could kill him together.
The second scenario:
If Sukuna was critically wounded during the battle and unable to win…
Yuta would cooperate with Higuruma to drag Sukuna into the Domain before Mirai could kill him, destroying only Sukuna's soul.
Higuruma's Domain was called Deadly Sentencing.
Within the Domain, all violence was prohibited.
Its manifested form resembled a solemn courtroom.
Once the blindfolded Lady Justice judged someone guilty and sentenced them to death, the criminal's cursed technique would be confiscated.
As the executioner, Higuruma would also obtain the Executioner's Sword.
This was a special cursed tool materialized by the Domain itself.
The moment it pierced a criminal, it activated the concept of "certain death."
Back when the Culling Game had first begun, Yuji had fought Higuruma in the Tokyo No. 1 Colony over points.
At the time, Sukuna was still hidden inside Yuji's body, and Higuruma's Domain had already sentenced Yuji to death once.
Because during the Shibuya Incident, Sukuna had taken over Yuji's body and slaughtered countless civilians.
Now, all they needed to do was drag Sukuna into the Domain.
That would allow them to skip the trial entirely and immediately summon the Executioner's Sword.
A weapon capable of erasing the soul of the guilty party…
…was also the only way to save Megumi Fushiguro.
Zen'in Mirai, who suffered no cursed technique burnout, would not be affected by Higuruma's Domain.
On the other hand, the critically wounded Sukuna was at his easiest to kill right now.
Yuta, Higuruma, and the others' plan was very simple:
Destroy Sukuna's soul and let Megumi reclaim control of the four-armed body.
The slashing technique engraved into the flesh—
Once Megumi awakened, even if he could not reach the same terrifying level Sukuna displayed while controlling the body, he would still far surpass ordinary Special Grade sorcerers.
At that point, everyone would join forces to fight the monster known as Zen'in Mirai together.
Boom!
Sukuna's body truly was teleported before them.
But appearing together with him—
…was Zen'in Mirai, stepping on Sukuna's mangled body.
"It's good to have dreams."
"But reality is usually much crueler."
With a casual sigh, Mirai swept his gaze across the horrified expressions before finally stopping on Higuruma's flustered face.
"I could hear your little scheme from all the way over there."
"I've worked hard for an entire year, and now at the very end you people want to swoop in and steal the fruit?"
"That's not very nice, Mr. Lawyer."
Ever since the death of Suguru Geto's original body and the deal with Kenjaku, exactly one year had passed.
Everything Mirai had done during that year had been for the sake of waiting for the fruit to ripen at the final moment.
If Sukuna could instantly figure out the activation conditions of Boogie Woogie, there was no way Mirai would fail to notice them.
Now that the barrier had almost entirely sunk into Kamui space, Mirai movement speed within it approached the speed of light itself.
Under Mirai amused gaze—
…it felt as though time itself froze for a second.
Clang!
The brand-new katana Yuta drew from Rika—
Yuji's iron fist already inches away—
The streams of blood Choso launched from both palms—
And Higuruma preparing to forcibly activate his Domain—
"Disappear."
BOOM!!!
With a light rebuke from Future, everyone except the Sukuna beneath his foot coughed blood and was blasted flying.
Looking down, Mirai noticed the trace of frustration on Sukuna's face—as though he hated how incompetent the others were.
Mirai found it slightly amusing.
"You weren't seriously placing your hopes on those brats you always looked down on… were you?"
His foot pressed down slightly harder.
The ground shattered layer after layer.
As Sukuna continued struggling, blood sprayed repeatedly from his limbs.
Mirai slowly bent down, anticipation flickering in his eyes.
"Sukuna… the moment you used the World Slash…"
"You felt it too, didn't you?"
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