Who Defeated Him?

"What?"

The sudden new rule left Riezel, Ishiryuu, and Uro Sakurako all stunned.

"What kind of rule is this?"

Ishiryuu and Uro Sakurako were puzzled.

Clearly, they could not figure out who had added such an inexplicable rule.

Only Riezel, after being briefly stunned, immediately realized what had happened.

"It was Itadori, wasn't it?"

It was obvious.

After all, only that guy would establish a new rule like this because he did not want people slaughtering one another.

He had already stated beforehand that, in the Tokyo Second Barrier, he would join forces with players who did not want to fight and have one of them use 100 game points to negotiate with the game administrator, thereby establishing a rule that allowed game points to be transferred between players.

That way, the Culling Game's eighth rule—"If a player's points remain unchanged for nineteen days after entering the game or obtaining points, that player's cursed technique will be removed"—would effectively become meaningless.

If points could be transferred between players, then points could keep changing. Those players unwilling to fight could avoid battles by transferring points among themselves, and the Culling Game, a death game that existed to make players kill one another, would lose much of its murderous edge.

And if Kengso did not wish to see such a situation arise, he might reveal himself and interfere. That was Itadori Yuji's plan.

Now, it seemed that Itadori Yuji had succeeded.

"Kogane." Riezel turned to the Golden Bug Shikigami beside him and said, "Pull up Hagane Gakuto's information."

Very quickly, Kogane, whose abdomen transformed into a display screen, brought up the record Riezel wanted to see.

"Hagane Gakuto. Points: 001. Changes: 01. Current barrier: Tokyo First."

"So he really did get his help."

Riezel nodded to himself.

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