Kyushu Island.
The resort beach, once teeming with people, was now utterly deserted.
All that remained were mountains of human bones.
Looking up, the sky was gray and overcast, dark clouds blanketing everything as fierce winds howled. Every so often, a deafening clap of thunder rang out!
Through the thick fog, Gojo Sawa clearly sensed an enormous surge of cursed energy from the sea several kilometers away.
"Dagon? He devoured so many humans that he must have evolved from a cursed womb into his complete form!"
Gojo Sawa slowly rose into the air before shooting toward the sea like an arrow.
Before long, Gojo Sawa found Dagon.
Dagon stood atop the sea. When he saw Gojo Sawa approaching, he slowly stepped forward with an icy gaze.
Gojo Sawa looked slightly puzzled. "Oh? Rather than running away, you're walking toward me?"
Dagon rumbled, "Why should I run? This is the sea. This is my home ground!"
"Gojo Sawa, I'm going to kill you!"
Gojo Sawa's eye twitched. "Have you had too much to drink?"
Dagon gave no reply, but the terrifying cursed energy churning within him already gave Gojo Sawa his answer.
As the last of the Four Great Calamities, Dagon had never been particularly conspicuous.
If Jogo played the role of the father, Hanami the mother, and Mahito the older brother, then Dagon was the younger brother who needed the most care.
But that was not what Dagon wanted.
He was unwilling to only be protected by his family. He wanted to prove himself too, to use his own strength to help Jogo and the others.
Yet not long ago, Jogo and Hanami had returned gravely wounded.
It was the first time Dagon had seen his "mother," Hanami, so severely injured—so close to losing her life.
From that moment onward,