Mahito slammed open the rooftop iron door.
Before his eyes was a fist, barely half an inch from his face.
Mahito's shoe suddenly swelled and exploded, revealing not a human foot but a gazelle's hoof.
His entire leg had transformed into the structure of a gazelle's leg.
As he landed, Mahito suddenly vanished from Kinji Hakari's sight.
Kinji Hakari's eyes widened sharply.
A gazelle hoof appeared beside his face.
Thud!
Kinji Hakari was struck by the gazelle hoof, his whole body flipping sideways.
He grabbed the ground with both hands, fingers digging into the rooftop surface, scraping sideways for a full five meters.
His face was nearly destroyed by the sudden blow, facial bones shattered, muscles torn apart.
But in less than 0.2 seconds, his face returned to its original state amidst the steaming Cursed Energy.
The unlimited Cursed Energy had liberated the internal restrictions within his body.
The overflowing power, to prevent the destruction of his flesh, kept his body constantly in a state of Reverse Cursed Technique.
Even the most severe injuries could be restored in an instant.
A true, textbook immortal body.
But even an immortal body only guaranteed that he wouldn't die.
Mahito lunged forward.
He leaped while running, performing a perfect rider kick mid-air, driving it with immense force and body weight toward the half-crouching Kinji Hakari.
At the critical moment, Hakari adjusted his posture.
In his half-crouch, he crossed his arms to block.
The rider kick slammed into his forearms.
Crack!
A clear bone-breaking sound reached Kinji Hakari's ears.
Kinji Hakari tumbled across the ground like a ball kicked by a child, finally crashing into the rooftop wire fence.
The fence was almost instantly shattered, but in that moment, Hakari had already reacted.
One hand desperately grabbed the edge of the rooftop, fingers digging in, stopping his fall.
Crack, crack.
His fractured arms had already recovered.
He looked up.
A gazelle hoof appeared before his eyes.
The gazelle hoof slowly faded and transformed, eventually changing back into a human foot.
The foot stepped beside his hand.
He continued looking up.
Mahito's smiling face appeared in Hakari's vision.
The foot stomped down.
What the hell is up with this guy's body?
Kinji Hakari had no time to think.
Before Mahito's foot could stomp down, he released his grip early.
But this was not giving up.
Before letting go, he violently kicked against the wall, using clever force to catapult himself upward through the reaction, leaping up like a soaring eagle.
Mahito looked up.
Kinji Hakari, mid-air, spread his arms wide.
He adjusted his posture, plummeting down like a meteor.
Blazing Cursed Energy burned on the surface of his skin.
At this moment, he truly became a falling meteor—
a Cursed Energy meteor.
Infinite Cursed Energy was too potent, allowing him to forcibly use power beyond his limits, ignoring bodily functions.
Any other sorcerer daring to use power like this would be covered in wounds, but Kinji Hakari, possessing Infinite Cursed Energy and continuously, automatically using Reverse Cursed Technique, could wield it effortlessly.
Mahito suddenly spread his arms.
Both arms transformed into wings before the Cursed Energy meteor struck.
He flapped his wings.
The immense wind pressure generated by the falling Cursed Energy meteor actually aided him.
His wings rode the wind back.
The Cursed Energy meteor crashed down but couldn't harm him in the slightest.
A deafening roar erupted.
A corner of the rooftop was shattered.
This was the rooftop of an old multi-story parking garage, designed to park dozens of private cars.
The force of the impact now affected over a quarter of the entire rooftop.
A direct hit would shatter even Mahito if he turned himself into solid iron.
Amidst the flying rubble, Mahito changed his wings back into arms, landing steadily.
A storm of rubble raged.
Kinji Hakari's Infinite Cursed Energy was being released tirelessly, like a tsunami.
Stronger than imagined, Mahito thought.
Cursed Energy reinforcement theoretically had limits because the human body couldn't fully withstand omnidirectional Cursed Energy enhancement.
Every Special Grade sorcerer was cautious when reinforcing themselves.
Most of the time, rather than reinforcing the body, it was safer and more effective to enhance Cursed Energy output to release more powerful Cursed Techniques.
Even Gojo Satoru and Ryomen Sukuna, who stood at the pinnacle of the original work, were no exception to this.
Momo Nishimiya, a Grade 2 sorcerer from the original work, once said that neither physical ability nor physical enhancement achieved through Cursed Techniques could increase without limit.
The most obvious example was Yuta Okkotsu from the original work.
Yuta Okkotsu was called the strongest in history in terms of Cursed Energy reserves.
In terms of Cursed Energy alone, no one in the jujutsu world could compare.
His own physical strength wasn't great, but his surging Cursed Energy could envelop his entire body.
Every strike of his could be fatal, every injury minimized.
He himself also possessed Reverse Cursed Technique.
Even without using his Innate Technique, he could overwhelm others with pure power.
But even he had openly stated that there were times when his Cursed Energy reserves would eventually run out.
But Kinji Hakari was different.
He had no limit.
The Cursed Energy enhancement brought by Infinite Cursed Energy allowed him to infinitely raise his physical upper limit.
It didn't matter if his body couldn't withstand the reinforcement and broke down, because the overflowing Infinite Cursed Energy would automatically use Reverse Cursed Technique.
Before the body was destroyed, the Reverse Cursed Technique would heal it completely.
Too perfect.
So perfect it made Mahito dizzy.
This was overwhelming numerical superiority.
This was Infinite Cursed Energy.
Gojo Satoru had judged that, with normal growth, both Yuta Okkotsu and Kinji Hakari could stand shoulder to shoulder with him in the future.
Before this, Mahito couldn't quite understand.
If Yuta Okkotsu relied on unlimited potential from copying others' Cursed Techniques, then Hakari merely had Infinite Cursed Energy.
How could he stand alongside the future Yuta Okkotsu and Gojo Satoru?
But now, Mahito understood Gojo Satoru's thinking—
not just shoulder to shoulder.
If Kinji Hakari continued to grow, once his body fully adapted to Infinite Cursed Energy, it was hard to imagine what kind of superhuman this guy would become.
Even Special Grade sorcerers like Yuki Tsukumo still needed their Cursed Technique to achieve a punch that could shatter a barrier.
In the future, wouldn't this guy be able to do the same thing even without relying on a Cursed Technique?
We came at the right time, Mahito thought.
Coming here before Kinji Hakari fully matured was really the correct decision.
Amidst the storm, Kinji Hakari's roar was deafening.
"Don't dodge, King of Curses! Face me!"
Mahito breathed slowly, tore off his already tattered white shirt, and casually threw it behind him.
He placed his hands on the ground.
As he breathed, his body began to transform.
Kinji Hakari emerged from the storm.
His upper garment was long gone.
His bare torso was covered in bloody marks, but in the next instant, the marks vanished.
No dust was visible on his skin because the storm stirred by his rising Cursed Energy blew away the fine dust, revealing his lean, powerful physique.
"Have you ever fought a beast possessing Cursed Energy, Kinji?!"
Mahito howled.
He was truly howling, but not with a human voice—
it was a beast's roar.
He ran on all fours.
As he ran, fur began to grow on his body.
In an instant, white fur covered his entire frame.
His head elongated, teeth bared.
Black markings appeared on his forehead, and the character for "King" was engraved there.
(T/N: Ooh, I know this one. The stripes on a Tiger's forehead look lie the Chinese character for 'King')
Idle Transfiguration: White Tiger!
He transformed into a white tiger, shoulder height one meter, total length over three meters.
Its long white tail swished casually through the air, creating sonic booms.
The white tiger opened its mouth and roared, the roar carrying the sound of thunder.
Its tiger claws shook the rooftop as they landed.
Mahito's Idle Transfiguration perfectly replicated even the white tiger's weight.
Only its tiger eyes were different—
one gold, one blue—
symbolizing Mahito's irremovable heterochromia.
Kinji Hakari's pupils contracted.
The white tiger slammed into him.
Tiger claws tore his body, teeth biting into his neck, ready to rip his head off in the next moment.
An ordinary tiger's bite force is around 500 kilograms, and the Idle Transfiguration white tiger, enhanced with Cursed Energy, would only be stronger.
A mere human neck was nothing.
But at the critical moment, Hakari's hands pressed against the white tiger's jaws.
The tiger's teeth had already pierced Hakari's carotid artery.
Blood gushed out like a violently erupting volcano.
Yet the Reverse Cursed Technique instantly stopped the bleeding.
Only the tiger's fangs remained firmly lodged in the wound, preventing the Reverse Cursed Technique from continuing its work.
The white tiger pinned Kinji Hakari to the ground.
This position made it hard to exert force, but Hakari used Cursed Energy to leverage his own muscles—
a technique an ordinary person without Cursed Energy could never hope to master in a lifetime.
Yet Kinji Hakari, with Infinite Cursed Energy, could do it by instinct.
Even in this situation, he could slowly pry the tiger's jaws open.
But in the next instant, the tiger's jaws shrank.
The inertia from Hakari's excessive force caused his hands to swipe through empty air.
What appeared before Kinji Hakari's eyes was that annoying smiling face of Mahito.
Mahito had changed back in an instant.
Mahito pressed Hakari's body down with one hand, while the other fist pummeled Hakari's face wildly.
Hakari wanted to counterattack, but Mahito's fists accurately and repeatedly struck his temples.
Dizzy, he simply couldn't fight back, only taking the beating passively.
Infinite Cursed Energy could grant him invincibility, but not immunity to pain.
Mahito seized this weakness, using endless disorientation to deal with his immortal body.
While brutally beating Kinji Hakari, Mahito was also continuously using Idle Transfiguration.
But as expected—
he simply couldn't twist Kinji Hakari's soul.
No, to be precise, it wasn't that he couldn't twist it, but that it had no effect.
Aside from the physical Reverse Cursed Technique, the Infinite Power seemed to also protect Kinji Hakari's soul.
The Cursed Energy of Idle Transfiguration had just entered Hakari's body when it was devoured and repelled by the berserk Cursed Energy.
In the end, the remaining Cursed Energy was less than one-tenth of normal.
And if Mahito dared to use this remaining power to attempt modification, Kinji Hakari could expel it at any moment.
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