Hollow Technique: Purple

Boom!!!

Toji Fushiguro stomped the last Rainbow Dragon firmly underfoot, watching as it gradually dissolved into flickering dust and scattered.

He then looked up into the sky, where Gojo Sawa and the other two were arguing about meaningless topics as if no one else existed.

Rage surged straight to the crown of his head.

Even though Toji Fushiguro was always calm and rational, he still carried the pride of a strong man.

Especially when facing sorcerers—perhaps because of the Zenin Clan, he harbored a hidden will to win that even he himself hadn't noticed.

He wanted to become stronger than every sorcerer!

He wanted to prove to that rotten clan that a monkey without cursed energy could still stand at the peak!

But now, the attitude of Gojo Sawa and the other two seemed to ignore him entirely.

That infuriated him!

"Don't get too cocky, you three brats!"

Toji Fushiguro shot into the sky, unleashing a speed he had never reached in his life.

Yet such power was clearly not enough against the three who had already awakened.

"Cursed Technique Reversal: Red!"

Red cursed energy expanded rapidly, and a powerful repulsive force pushed open the surrounding space in every direction!

Toji Fushiguro grinned savagely as he thrust the Inverted Spear of Heaven forward. Red only lasted an instant before it was nullified.

But even though the technique vanished, that repulsive force poured out like a flood with no dam to hold it back.

Red had at least twice the power of Blue, and at maximum, it was infinite!

Although the Inverted Spear of Heaven could forcibly dispel techniques, the stronger the technique being dispelled, the longer it took.

For example, Blue might have been dispelled in 0.0001 seconds, but Red took 0.001 seconds.

While 0.0001 seconds and 0.001 seconds were almost indistinguishable to ordinary people.

To monsters like Gojo Sawa and Toji Fushiguro, that was a real tenfold difference.

Even if Red only existed for 0.001 seconds, it was already an unstoppable killing move against Toji Fushiguro!

(In the original work, Toji Fushiguro caught Red with the Inverted Spear of Heaven, but Red wasn't forcibly dispelled—neither was Purple. So here, the author added this based on speculation.)

Boom!!!

Toji Fushiguro's body smashed a huge crater into the ground.

He staggered to his feet, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and looked at Gojo Sawa, who had struck, and behind him, the calm Gojo Satoru and Suguru Geto.

"Really... three monsters!"

"Still want to fight, Toji?"

Toji Fushiguro shook his wrist, holding the Ten Thousand Mile Chain, the Inverted Spear of Heaven attached to its end spinning continuously.

He revealed a wild and unrestrained smile, the scar at the corner of his mouth carrying a hint of dashing boldness.

He knew that facing Gojo Sawa and the other two, he had no hope of winning. The best plan was to run away immediately.

But for some reason, he had no desire to flee now.

As if running away now would mean that from then on, "monkeys" would truly be inferior to those lofty sorcerers!

"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 technique, unknown even to the Gojo Clan!"

Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue!

Cursed Technique Reversal: Red!

Gojo Sawa held Blue in his left hand and Red in his right, then slowly merged them together into a purple orb.

The infinite conflict between lapse and reversal became an imaginary mass!

"Nine Gates"

"Polarized Light"

"Crow and Declaration"

"Between Front and Back"

"Hollow Technique: Purple!"

Gojo Sawa spoke softly, and the orb in his hand was lightly flicked out with his finger.

Gojo Satoru watched from the side, his heart itching. "As expected, my brother can do this too!"

Suguru Geto stared solemnly at the purple orb. "Such a terrifying aura... a combination of Cursed Technique Lapse and Cursed Technique Reversal?"

He wondered if his own "Subjugation" and "Bestow" could also be combined into some powerful killing move.

But as soon as he ran the scenario through his head, Suguru Geto rolled his eyes.

"Subdue" converts cursed spirits into cursed energy, "Bestow" converts cursed energy into cursed spirits—combine them, and you get nothing at all!

At this moment, facing Hollow Purple head-on, Toji Fushiguro's pupils dilated to their limit.

It was just a violet orb the size of a basketball, yet it gave him the absurd sensation of staring straight at the sun!

Powerful, terrifying, unstoppable!

Every cell in his body was screaming, driven by instinct to flee this place.

This was the animal will to survive—especially for a sorcerer killer like Toji Fushiguro, who lived off bounties and should have valued his life enough to run.

But in that instant, Toji Fushiguro didn't want to run anymore.

As if some obsession drove him, he grabbed the Inverted Spear of Heaven and charged headlong into Hollow Purple without a care for his life!

Was it the resentment of being humiliated by the Zenin Clan? Or the refusal to accept defeat, the drive to surpass every sorcerer?

None of that mattered now.

In this moment, Toji Fushiguro only wanted to savor this.

This was the strongest strike from the strongest sorcerer of the era—and he would take it head-on!

Boom!!!

Visible to the naked eye, the earth for miles around trembled.

Everything in Hollow Purple's path was erased, an endless circular black hole boring straight through the buildings into the mountain core beyond!

And outside, Toji Fushiguro still stood in place.

But the left side of his torso was mostly gone, burned away into a massive bloody cavity by Hollow Purple.

Clink, clink...

The Ten Thousand Mile Chain and the Inverted Spear of Heaven fell to the ground.

Toji Fushiguro gave a bitter smile. "What a powerful blow. Completely defeated, huh."

"How ironic. I threw away that thing called pride a long time ago, didn't I? The strongest, huh..."

A breeze lifted his hair, bringing a trace of chill.

He could feel his life force rapidly draining away, and soon he would close his eyes forever.

Toji Fushiguro thought to shut his eyes and await death, but the image of his son, Megumi Fushiguro, suddenly surfaced before him.

"Ah... how strange. I never cared about my son in life, yet he's the first one I think of at death's door?"

Toji Fushiguro looked up at the three figures—Gojo Sawa and the others—approaching slowly.

"Looks like you still have something to say?"

"In a couple of 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 death.

But the next moment, a surge of immense life force flooded his body.

The wounds on Toji Fushiguro's body—flesh grew back and healed at a visible rate.

Toji Fushiguro opened his eyes and saw Gojo Sawa with a hand on him, using Reverse Cursed Technique.

"Wh... why?"

Toji Fushiguro was baffled. They were enemies!

Gojo Sawa sighed. "Let's just say... it's for your son's sake."

Megumi Fushiguro—his name meant "blessing from heaven," but that blessing had never come to him.

In the original story, his mother died giving birth to him, his father Toji Fushiguro was killed by his own respected teacher when he was young, his sister became the vessel for Vessel, and he himself became Sukuna's vessel.

One by one, his comrades fell in battle, and in the end, Sukuna used his own skin to kill his teacher.

Gojo Sawa's favorite character, but without a doubt the most tragic in Jujutsu Kaisen.

Since Riko Amanai was still alive anyway, giving Toji Fushiguro a good beating was enough. Letting little Megumi experience losing his father again—that sat a bit poorly with him.

"For my son's sake? Do you know him?"

Toji Fushiguro was puzzled.

"You could say I do..."

Gojo Sawa didn't know how to explain.

He looked at Toji Fushiguro and said, "Since you thought of your own child at death's door, then set a good example for him!"

"If you really can't hold it in, go ahead and cut down everyone in the Zenin Clan."

Toji Fushiguro: "..."