"What was that?"
When Mahoraga manifested on this battlefield, it was not only Gojo Satoru who saw it. Kurusu Hana, who had flown over to watch, saw it as well and widened her eyes.
"The Fallen... has such power?"
Angel's mouth appeared on Kurusu Hana's face, her voice filled with gritted fury.
"That shikigami..."
Even Kashimo Hajime, who had likewise come to watch, showed a slight change in expression at Mahoraga's appearance.
"So that is the Zenin Family's ultimate inherited shikigami... Mahoraga?"
Gojo Satoru's azure eyes flickered faintly.
At that moment, the sense of presence, pressure, and alienness radiating from Mahoraga as it emerged from the dark shadows filled the entire world.
Everyone could feel a suffocating pressure from that shikigami, making them realize that it was an utterly terrifying existence.
Especially Riezel, who stood directly before Mahoraga. Looking at the shikigami that was far from unfamiliar to him, his clothes and bangs fluttered in the Cursed Energy ripples kicked up by its appearance.
"It's here, Mahoraga."
Riezel raised his eyes and looked at the towering divine general less than two meters away, murmuring those words.
"----"
At that moment, Mahoraga lowered its head and met Riezel's gaze.
Then, it moved.
"Boom!!!"
With an earth-shattering blast, the ground shattered in response.
It was destruction over a vast area, devastation over a vast area.
All anyone saw was Mahoraga's body move. Then, the sword attached to its arm was somehow already raised high, and somehow already crashing down. It struck Riezel's raised arm with a blow like a meteor crashing into the earth, smashing apart the entire ground.
"Boom—"
Amid the roar, the shattered ground collapsed downward. Everything within a hundred-meter radius caved in, as though an abyss had opened beneath the earth, sending countless rocks and chunks of rubble tumbling