"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom—"
Within the vast Sendai Barrier, thunder still rumbled as lightning relentlessly ravaged the earth.
Sukuna stood atop Nue's head, his face still wearing that wanton grin, making the wicked aura radiating from him grow several times denser.
"Lord Sukuna."
Uraume, blood still staining the corner of his mouth, flashed onto Nue's head and came to Sukuna's back before dropping to one knee.
"My deepest apologies. It is all because of my incompetence that I had to trouble you to act personally and deal with such an uncivilized monkey."
Uraume seemed deeply ashamed.
Kengso, on the other hand, whose body had been reduced to only a head dangling from Uraume's hand, looked as though this were only natural.
"Though it's embarrassing to admit, if you hadn't acted, sorcerers of Uraume's and my level could never have dealt with that reverse case of Heavenly Restriction. We might even have been killed with ease. So... you really helped us out."
Unlike the ashamed and respectful Uraume, Kengso spoke to Sukuna as an equal.
"It couldn't be helped." Sukuna finally withdrew his gaze from below and rolled his neck as though he were still getting used to this body. "Even in our era, a Heavenly Restriction of that level had never appeared. It's only normal that you couldn't handle him."
"This era falls short of the Heian Era in every regard. The scale and overall strength of its sorcerers are even more laughably inferior to ours back then. Yet, now that I think about it, the unusual beings who have emerged in this era are actually more exceptional than those of our time."
For instance, Gojo Satoru. A Six Eyes user, something born only once every several centuries, who had also inherited the