Mahito swung the kirigiri, aiming for Gojo Satoru's forehead, the location of his Innate Technique! At this moment, he still maintained the state of Star Rage. Each of his strikes was like a comet sweeping the earth, and the ability of the blade was that of a god-slayer sword. The invincible Limitless was sliced through without even a hint of resistance, and then—half of Gojo Satoru's head was sliced open by the kirigiri.
Gojo Satoru's skull flew into the sky, along with the brain inside! But this flight lasted only an instant. In the next moment, the storm formed by the high mass swallowed his head. Gojo Satoru's Six Eyes were crushed by the mass storm without even room to struggle. All the organs above his neck were ground into powder invisible to the naked eye, and even the traces of flesh and blood vanished without a trace.
But the one whose expression changed greatly was Mahito!
Maintaining the state of Star Rage, Mahito was very clear about the destructive power he could cause. Each of his current strikes was close to the power of a real meteorite falling from the sky, let alone now that he had used a Fusion Black Flash. He could even cleave a real meteorite in two with one blow, let alone a mere human body.
Even though Gojo Satoru's head had indeed vanished, Gojo Satoru's body below the neck actually still existed. What did this mean? Mahito immediately reached a conclusion:
Gojo Satoru had predicted that his brain would be sliced off and had placed a Binding Vow in advance!
He used the Binding Vow to fully ensure that the body below the head would not be crushed by the meteorite-like impact. He had pre-set the body's movements before his head was ground to powder. He had already seen Mahito's Divine Sword, and in just that one time, he knew that as long as they attacked simultaneously, he would definitely not be able to keep up with the movements of Mukū Kūshiki. Thus, he intentionally waited for Mukū Kūshiki to slice away his brain before his body would act.
Trading injury for injury!
Thud.
The headless Gojo Satoru struck out with the Charged Heavy Punch from his waist, slamming into Mahito's abdomen. This was the location of the cursed energy core. While maintaining Star Rage, Mahito was also maintaining Strength Reversal, but this fist carrying a Black Flash still broke through the extreme limit of Strength Reversal and pierced through Mahito's body.
—Black Flash!
Gojo Satoru was the person with the highest efficiency of Cursed Energy utilization in the world. His Six Eyes ensured that he could turn 1 unit of Cursed Energy into the effect of 10,000 or even higher levels. Because of this, even if only a tiny bit of Cursed Energy remained inside his body, he could complete Cursed Energy cycles and jujutsu that surpassed common sense.
And now, he concentrated all the Cursed Energy circulating within his body into his fist, and the Limitless was operating at an unprecedented realm. In the manga pages of the original work, Gojo Satoru once said that he was not the record holder for consecutive Black Flash hits, not because he couldn't achieve consecutive Black Flashes—
—but because there was no target that could withstand a single Black Flash from Gojo Satoru!
Just like now!
Boom!
Although it was just a single punch, Mahito's upper and lower body were directly snapped into two pieces centered at the abdomen. This Black Flash not only broke through the mass increase of Star Rage and the extreme limit of Strength Reversal, but its excess power also extended infinitely behind Mahito, eventually striking somewhere unknown and producing a distant sonic boom.
The current density of Mahito's Star Rage was already extremely astonishing, almost approaching a real Halley's Comet, not to mention his Cursed Energy reinforcement and the coverage of Strength Reversal! It could even be said that he was currently sturdier than the actual Halley's Comet! But Gojo Satoru's desperate Black Flash still struck Mahito into two pieces.
It was like a tall tale—as if if the real Halley's Comet were to fall to Earth, this man, Gojo Satoru, could also kick it away. That's right, maybe he really could. After all, even Ryomen Sukuna, before reaching his peak, could use a slashing technique to cleave through Jogo's 50-meter diameter giant Maximum Technique meteorite in one hit.
Gojo Satoru was a bastard capable of rivaling Ryomen Sukuna; he could 100% do the same thing!
Damn it, just how sturdy is Ryomen Sukuna's body to be able to be hit by Gojo Satoru's Black Flashes consecutively and still use Reverse Cursed Technique to heal with an unperturbed expression? Mahito could truly feel the terror of the original work's ceiling now.
This was headless Gojo Satoru's final strike. As his body fell downward after the Black Flash was released, Mahito subconsciously wanted to pursue. Even with only his upper body, his ability to think had not been stripped away, and he still had the ability to swing his sword.
But before that, a horrifying phenomenon appeared on Gojo Satoru.
At the cross-section of the severed head, bones were growing freely, and a series of nerves and blood vessels wrapped around the bones. After that, muscle began to fill in. Mahito subconsciously swung his sword, never expecting that the headless Gojo Satoru would abruptly vanish from before his eyes without a brain. The Aerial Double Jump had activated without Gojo Satoru's own will.
Mahito immediately understood; this was a pre-set Aerial Double Jump! Just as he could set a Reverse Cursed Technique to automatically heal his damaged brain and torso during his high school days, he must have also anticipated the situation where Mahito would pursue him. Thus, he must have set it to automatically use the Aerial Double Jump to escape if Mahito pursued.
Mahito realized that Gojo Satoru had intentionally attacked his abdomen. He was giving Mahito a choice:
First, naturally, both would pull back and recuperate. Mahito, after all, did not have the Six Eyes, and his Cursed Energy utilization was far inferior to Gojo Satoru's. He needed the cursed energy core in his abdomen to extract energy. Currently, Gojo Satoru indeed had no brain and could not use his Innate Technique, but the pre-set program for the Reverse Cursed Technique—
—was still in effect. Gojo Satoru's head was regenerating at an astonishing speed. Both sides would stop and recuperate before fighting again.
Second, to hell with it! Things have already reached this point, so who cares about recuperating? Are you looking down on me? Right here, taking this opportunity, I'll kill you!
Does this even need a choice?
I! WANT! IT! ALL!
That's right. During the fight with Gojo Satoru, the latter had never noticed Mahito's Idle Transfiguration because, before then, Mahito hadn't suffered any fatal injuries! Mahito had armored himself well with Jogo's Armor and Strength Reversal. In Gojo Satoru's eyes, Mahito would probably also need to use Reverse Cursed Technique or the Cursed Energy of a spirit to recover, just like him.
Mahito's ability was also rumored in the outside world as the "ability to evolve people." At least from this name and its appearance, Mahito's ability had nothing to do with healing flesh. Even if there was the example of Miwa, there was a difference between gender swapping and healing flesh, and in the Jujutsu World, this difference was even greater.
As for the battle with the Zenin Family? Everyone who saw that Mahito could revive flesh was already dead!
The only ones who could possibly expose that Mahito's ability could heal flesh were Kinji Hakari and his sidekick Kirara Hoshi. But Kinji Hakari might talk about Mahito's personality and hobbies, but he would never go so far as to sell out Mahito's true ability. As for Kirara Hoshi, Kinji Hakari hadn't even brought her back to Tokyo Jujutsu High.
At this critical moment, Gojo Satoru finally made an empiricist mistake.
He slipped up!
Here it comes, the long-awaited Idle Transfiguration!
Mahito's lower body regenerated at an astonishing speed, even far exceeding the speed of Gojo Satoru's head regeneration. He even had the leisure to recreate his lower body's pants using Construction Technique.
While his lower body was regenerating at high speed, he reached out a hand and grasped the air. A curtain appeared in his hand, and then he swung the curtain without hesitation, wrapping his entire body in it.
In the next instant, he appeared beside the headless Gojo Satoru.
Instant Movement!
But it wasn't over yet. Mahito formed a hand seal with one hand and said in a voice as resonant as a bell:
"Domain Expansion: Dharma Realm Reincarnation Nirvana Realm!"
Mahito remembered the brief exchange he had with Gojo Satoru after the Domain battle. At that time, Gojo Satoru had said that even if Mahito destroyed his brain and abdomen simultaneously, he had a way to completely revive. Seeing it now, it was indeed so; he really had made this preparation long ago.
But even Gojo Satoru couldn't have predicted the current situation. Since destroying both the brain and abdomen couldn't kill this man, then he would use Domain Expansion!
Even if Gojo Satoru had pre-set an Aerial Double Jump, he couldn't possibly escape the speed of a Domain Expansion. The moment he was enveloped by the Dharma Realm Reincarnation Nirvana Realm, Gojo Satoru, having lost all means of counterattack, would surely lose. His Soul would be brushed by Mahito, his thoughts would be engraved with the Ideological Imprint, and all the secrets of his Six Eyes and Limitless would be completely controlled by Mahito.
—I win!
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