Bang!!!
Toji Fushiguro stomped the last Rainbow Dragon into the ground and watched as it gradually dissipated into flickering motes of smoke.
Then he looked up at the sky. Gojo Sawa and the other two were casually arguing about a meaningless topic, as if he weren't even there.
His anger shot straight through the roof.
Toji Fushiguro was always coolheaded and rational, but he still had the pride of a strong man.
Especially when it came to Jujutsu Sorcerers. Perhaps because of the Zenin Clan, there was a competitive streak buried in him that even he hadn't noticed.
He wanted to become stronger than every Jujutsu Sorcerer!
He wanted to prove to that rotten clan that even a monkey with no Cursed Energy could stand at the summit!
And yet now, the attitude of Gojo Sawa and the other two made it seem as though they were ignoring him.
It infuriated him!
"Don't get too cocky, you three brats!"
Toji Fushiguro shot into the sky, moving faster than he ever had in his life.
But that kind of power clearly wasn't enough to face the three of them now that they had awakened.
"Cursed Technique Reversal: Red!"
Red Cursed Energy rapidly expanded, its powerful repulsive force pushing out in every direction!
Toji Fushiguro grinned savagely as he thrust the Inverted Spear of Heaven in his hand. Red lasted only an instant before it was dispelled.
But even after the Cursed Technique vanished, its repulsive force poured out like a flood with no dam to hold it back.
Red was at least twice as powerful as Blue, and at its maximum, it reached Infinity!
Although the Inverted Spear of Heaven could forcibly dispel a Cursed Technique, the stronger the technique, the longer it took to dispel.
Blue might have been dispelled in just 0.0001 seconds, while Red took 0.001 seconds.
Although ordinary people would see almost no difference between 0.0001 and 0.001 seconds,
in the eyes of monsters like Gojo Sawa and Toji Fushiguro, that was a very real tenfold difference.
Even though Red had existed for only 0.001 seconds, it was already an unstoppable killing blow against Toji Fushiguro!
(In the original work, Toji Fushiguro blocked Red with the Inverted Spear of Heaven, but Red wasn't forcibly dispelled. The same went for Purple. So this is a setting the author added based on speculation.)
Boom!!!
Toji Fushiguro's body slammed into the ground, leaving a massive crater.
He staggered to his feet, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and looked at Gojo Sawa, who had attacked him, then at Gojo Satoru and Suguru Geto standing calmly behind him.
"Now those... are three monsters!"
"Do you still want to fight, Toji?"
Toji Fushiguro held the Ten Thousand Mile Chain and flicked his wrist. The Inverted Spear of Heaven attached to its end spun around and around.
He flashed a wild, carefree grin, the scar at the corner of his mouth lending him a touch of swagger and menace.
He knew he had no hope of defeating Gojo Sawa and the other two. The best course of action should have been to run as fast as he could.
But for some reason, he had no desire to run at all.
It was as though if he ran now... then the "monkeys" really would be beneath those lofty Jujutsu Sorcerers from that point on!
"Come on!!!"
Gojo Sawa's lips curled slightly. "I admire you, so... I'll answer you with this move!"
"This is the ultimate secret of the Limitless Cursed Technique, something no one in the Gojo Clan has ever known!"
Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue!
Cursed Technique Reversal: Red!
Gojo Sawa held Blue in his left hand and Red in his right, then slowly brought them together, forming a purple orb.
The infinite clash between lapse and reversal became imaginary mass!
"Twofold"
"Polarized light"
"Crow and declaration"
"Between front and back"
"Hollow Technique: Purple!"
Gojo Sawa spoke softly, then flicked the orb from his hand with a finger.
Gojo Satoru watched from the side, practically itching with excitement. "I knew it—Big Brother can use this too!"
Suguru Geto stared at the purple orb with a grave expression. "What a terrifying presence. Is it a combination of Cursed Technique Lapse and Cursed Technique Reversal?"
He wondered whether his own "Subdue" and "Bestow" could combine into some kind of powerful finishing move.
But after running it through in his head, Suguru Geto rolled his eyes.
"Subdue" turned Cursed Spirits into Cursed Energy, while "Bestow" turned Cursed Energy into Cursed Spirits. Combining the two would amount to nothing at all!
At that moment, Toji Fushiguro faced Purple head-on, his pupils dilated to their limits.
It was only a purple orb the size of a basketball, yet it gave him the absurd sensation of facing the sun!
Powerful, terrifying, unstoppable!
Every cell in his body wailed, instinctively urging him to flee.
It was the instinct to survive, especially for a Sorcerer Killer like Toji Fushiguro, who lived off bounties. He should have been even more determined to save his own skin and get away.
But at that moment, Toji Fushiguro didn't want to run.
It was as though some obsession drove him to take up the Inverted Spear of Heaven and face Purple head-on, even if it cost him his life!
Was it resentment over the Zenin Clan's humiliation? Or his refusal to give up on surpassing every sorcerer?
None of that mattered anymore.
At that moment, Toji Fushiguro just wanted to savor this.
This was the strongest attack from the strongest Jujutsu Sorcerer of the modern age. He would meet it head-on!
Boom!!!
The earth trembled visibly for miles around.
Everything in Purple's path was erased. The seemingly endless circular crater reached all the way to the mountain at the innermost part of the structure!
And outside, Toji Fushiguro was still standing where he'd been.
But most of the left side of his torso had vanished, burned away by Purple and leaving behind a massive, bloody cavity.
Clink, clink...
The Ten Thousand Mile Chain and the Inverted Spear of Heaven fell to the ground.
Toji Fushiguro gave a bitter laugh. "That was one hell of a blow. I lost completely!"
"How ironic. I'd thrown away that thing called pride a long time ago, and yet here I am, facing the strongest..."
A breeze lifted his hair, bringing a hint of coolness.
He could feel his life rapidly slipping away. Soon, he would close his eyes forever.
Toji Fushiguro was about to close his eyes and wait for death, but the image of his son, "Megumi Fushiguro," suddenly appeared before him.
"Ah... that's strange. I usually don't give a damn about my son, yet he's the first person I think of before I die?"
Toji Fushiguro lifted his head and looked at Gojo Sawa and the other two as they slowly approached.
"Looks like you still have something to say?"
"In two or three years, my kid will be sold to the Zenin Clan. He... do whatever you want with him..."
With that, Toji Fushiguro closed his eyes and calmly accepted the arrival of death.
But the next moment, a vast life force flooded through his body.
The flesh around Toji Fushiguro's wounds rapidly grew back, healing before their eyes.
Toji Fushiguro opened his eyes and saw Gojo Sawa place a hand on him, using Reverse Cursed Technique.
"Wh... why?"
Toji Fushiguro was bewildered. They were enemies!
Gojo Sawa sighed. "Even if it's just... for your son's sake."
Megumi Fushiguro's name meant "blessing from heaven," but that blessing had never once fallen upon him.
In the original story, his mother died giving birth to him; when he was young, his father Toji Fushiguro was killed by the teacher he respected; his sister became Yorozu's Incarnation, and he himself became Sukuna's Incarnation.
His comrades fell in battle one after another, and in the end, Sukuna used his body to kill his teacher.
He was Gojo Sawa's favorite character, but without a doubt, he was also the most tragic character in Jujutsu Kaisen.
Riko Amanai was still alive anyway, so it was enough to teach Toji Fushiguro a lesson. Gojo Sawa couldn't quite bring himself to make Megumi go through losing his father again as a child.
"For my son's sake? Do you know him?"
Toji Fushiguro looked puzzled.
"I suppose you could say that..."
Gojo Sawa didn't know how to explain it either.
He looked at Toji Fushiguro and said, "Since you thought of your child when you were on the verge of death, then be a good role model for him!"
"If you really can't hold back, you can go chop up everyone in the Zenin Clan instead."
Toji Fushiguro: "..."
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