Omnibus Anime: The Invincible Me Just Wants to Lie Flat Chapter 5

When Sukuna's laughter reached its peak and then abruptly ceased, Chen Tian's voice cut through the silence, each word like ice and snow hitting the ground, chilling to the bone:

The sound wasn't loud, yet it clearly overpowered the lingering wind whistling through the ruins and the distant, muffled cries.

"Amuse me."

Chapter 6: King of Slashes? More Like a Sideshow!

"Amuse me."

Four words that crashed into the wild laughter like boulders!

Sukuna's laughter cut off as if he were a beast with its throat choked, leaving only a hoarse, irrepressible surge of excitement in his throat.

The violent red light in his eyes flared, and the black curse marks on his face seemed to ignite!

How many years? No! Ever? No one had ever dared to speak to him in such a tone!

"Hahahahaha! Good!!" Sukuna's wild laughter exploded again, shaking the ruins and causing debris to tumble down, filled with pure destructive desire. "Let this great me see what you're made of!!! Open--!!!"

He clapped his hands together fiercely, and a violent flame compressed and collapsed in his palms! The air let out a piercing shriek as it was scorched by the high temperature! The flames twisted and took shape in his hands!

The next instant! His left index and middle fingers formed a sword-like gesture, his other three fingers held loosely, like drawing a giant bow! His right hand pulled back, as if drawing a thousand pounds!

A monstrous flame greatbow, several meters long, formed from condensed flames and curses, appeared out of thin air!

The bowstring hummed as it was pulled to its limit, and a flame arrow, crimson and dripping, exuding an aura of all-consuming destruction, locked onto the tiny figure in the sky!

Where the arrow pointed, space itself distorted!

"Here's a welcome gift for you!!! Bastard!" Sukuna sneered, suddenly releasing his right hand from the drawn bow!

Twang--!!!

The bowstring snapped like thunder!

The flame arrow vanished! No, it was too fast to even capture a afterimage! All that remained in view was a straight, scorching crimson trajectory that pierced the heavens and the earth!

Where the trajectory passed, the air was instantly vaporized, leaving behind a tunnel of black vacuum!

Zero point zero one seconds later!

BOOM--!!!!

High above, the clouds directly above where Chen Tian had been floating suddenly caved inward like a lake struck by a boulder, then exploded outwards!

A massive fiery void, hundreds of meters in diameter, suddenly expanded, its edges churning with lava-like waves of fire. The violent shockwave violently tore apart and pushed away the surrounding clouds!

The delayed thunderous roar, like the war drums of gods, rolled across the entirety of Shibuya!

Sukuna's crimson eyes stared intently at the center of the destructive crimson lotus, his lips curled, waiting to witness the sight of his opponent turning to ash or fleeing in disarray.

The center of the crimson lotus was empty! The white-haired shadow seemed to have evaporated into thin air!

An icy chill, sharp enough to pierce bone, without any warning, like a polar wind, instantly penetrated Sukuna's hellish, scorching cursed energy barrier, and blew against the skin of his nape!

The sinister smile on Sukuna's face froze once more.

His crimson pupils, with a hint of stiff disbelief, turned to his side.

He was standing right there! Less than a meter away from him!

The hood was slightly lifted by the wind from his high-speed movement, a few strands of white hair fluttering in the breeze.

He was completely spotless, not even his breathing was disturbed in the slightest! It was as if the destructive arrow that tore through the clouds and could vaporize mountains had merely been a gentle breeze brushing past his ear!

He didn't even glance at Sukuna's frozen face.

A dull thudding sound.

Chen Tian casually flicked his left hand.

Jogo, like a tattered sack, along with dripping blood and the remnants of nearly extinguished cursed energy, arced through the air and slammed heavily into Panda's fluffy, stiff body.

The immense impact made Panda's massive body wobble. It instinctively hugged the hot, disgusting 'trash' in its arms, its eyes wide open, its brain completely short-circuited.

Only then did Chen Tian's gaze sweep over Kusukabe, who was similarly petrified beside them, and Panda, who was holding the volcano-headed Curse Spirit with a bewildered expression.

"Still not leaving?"

The space emitted an extremely subtle hum.

Kusukabe and Panda, holding Jogo, blurred and distorted instantly, as if erased from the drawing paper by an invisible eraser, leaving the spot completely clean, without a trace, not even a speck of dust stirred.

And in the very same instant they disappeared--

Two extremely faint sounds, like a sharp blade cutting through new paper.

Beside them, the two Curse Users who had been pinned in place by Sukuna's cursed energy, unable to move, still had expressions of bewildered relief and lingering fear on their faces.

Their bodies, along with the cursed tools, clothes, and accessories they wore, were simultaneously pierced by billions of invisible, perfectly parallel, sharp threads!

There was no blood splatter, no screams of agony.

Their bodies, in an extremely bizarre manner, transformed into hundreds of cubes of identical size, with edges as smooth as mirrors!

Flesh, bone, clothing, metal cursed tools... all matter was neatly sliced apart, the cuts so smooth they reflected the distant explosion's firelight! The blood was instantly sealed within the cut surfaces, presenting a strange dark red hue.

A pile of turbid, angular flesh mixed with fabric and metal fragments, like garbage dumped from a slaughterhouse assembly line, crashed to the ground.

The silence of the entire process, contrasted with the expanding and churning mass of destructive fire clouds high above and the delayed thunderous roars, created a terrifying disparity that made one's scalp tingle.

Chen Tian slowly, completely turned around, facing Sukuna's blood-red eyes that stared intently at him, the depths of his pupils revealing surprise and extreme rage for the first time.

His right hand, resting on the hilt of the Enma Sword, flicked his thumb lightly.

A faint, crisp click.

The blade, as sharp and cold as ice, slid out an inch from Kazuya's scabbard, a silent gleam of cold light.

The stiffness on Sukuna's face shattered like an ice shell. The curse marks on his face writhed wildly, his lips curling bit by bit, revealing sharp, pointed teeth, pulling into a hideous arc mixed with rage, excitement, and disbelief.

"Slash... strike?!"

"Slash... strike?!" The stiffness on Sukuna's face peeled away like a shattered ice shell, replaced by an extreme, absurd, and then distortedly expanding fury and excitement!

He stared intently at the inch of cold, snow-like blade Chen Tian had lightly flicked, then glanced at the pile of Curse User remains beside him, cut as if forged by a precision mold.

Furious Cursed Energy boiled and churned within his body, almost breaking free from the confines of this vessel!

This man... was he using a slash strike?!

He dared to play with slash strikes in front of the King of Curses, who had mastered the ultimate slash strike and carved "Kai" and "Hachi" into the very origin of his Cursed Technique?!

Sukuna's facial muscles twitched uncontrollably, then he broke into an increasingly wide, hideous grin that almost tore at his ears, revealing bone-white, sharp fangs. A low, crazed laugh rumbled from his throat: "Heh... Hehehe... Hahahahaha! How amusing! You mongrel!!!"

Before his laughter even died down, his madness reached its peak!

Without the slightest warning, Sukuna's extended right hand, forming a sword finger, slashed violently towards Chen Tian, who was less than five meters away, as if tearing through cloth!

The air vibrated and distorted with an extremely subtle, almost imperceptible tremor! An invisible, intangible slash, yet imbued with pure cutting will, instantly crossed space, aiming to tear Chen Tian apart along with the ground beneath him!

Fast! Ruthless! Decisive!

This was Sukuna's slash strike! The origin of Cursed Techniques! The embodiment of death!

Chen Tian didn't even glance at the trajectory of the slash.

He casually, as if on a stroll after a meal, shifted half a step to his side.

The slash, capable of cleaving a Special Grade Cursed Spirit in two, whistled past the hem of his fluttering clothes and fiercely struck a dilapidated office building dozens of meters behind him!

Chiiii--!!!

The massive glass curtain wall of the office building was silently sliced open from top to bottom, forming a smooth rift like thin paper!

Immediately after, the entire colossal structure slowly slid along this rift, misaligned, emitting a grating groan of steel and reinforced concrete, and finally, with a deafening roar, broke in half from the middle, kicking up a sky full of dust!

Chen Tian slightly turned his head, his icy eyes glancing sideways at Sukuna, whose expression instantly froze. His gaze was as calm as still water, not even a ripple.

The meaning was as clear as if etched onto Sukuna's retina:

"..." Sukuna's ecstatic laughter froze for a tenth of a second, then, the halted smile exploded like cold water thrown into boiling oil!

Furious Cursed Energy erupted from every pore of his body like an out-of-control volcano, sending the shattered stones on the ground scattering like bullets!

"Interesting! So interesting!" Sukuna roared, his voice distorted by extreme excitement, "Then come again!!! Kai! Kai! Kai! Kai! Kai--!!!"

He completely transformed into a berserk slash strike cannon!

His sword fingers waved frantically! The speed was so great that they left blurry afterimages under the dim moonlight!

One! Two! Ten!!

Dozens, hundreds of invisible slashes like a furious swarm of bees, filled the sky! Dense and numerous!

Instantly tearing apart everything between the two of them! The trajectories of the slashes crisscrossed and overlapped, forming a death net that covered all possible evasion angles, capable of grinding an iron jungle into powder! It descended upon Chen Tian!

This was the slash strike of the King of Curses! Continuous! Unavoidable!

Facing this world-destroying slash strike storm, Chen Tian's figure moved!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no surge of Cursed Energy.

He was simply... walking.

His figure, like a blurry white smoke in the moonlight, moved leisurely within the confined space.

A light tap of his left foot dodged three intersecting slashes;

A slight step back with his right foot allowed seven slashes that grazed past him to explode behind him;

His upper body casually shifted, several slashes grazed past his nose and waist, shattering a twisted bus in the distance!

Walking leisurely! At ease!

Every movement was precise to the millimeter, every evasion as easy as breathing!

The slash strike storm, capable of tearing space to shreds, seemed as slow as toy blades thrown by a child before him!

Boom! Boom! Boom!!

The entire Shibuya battlefield became Sukuna's slash strike arena!

Each "Kai" was like the brush of a grim reaper, daubing indiscriminately on the iron jungle!

The high-rise apartment on the left was cut in half, its upper section tilting and crashing to the ground!

The outer wall of the commercial center on the right was hit by countless slashes simultaneously, glass and concrete pouring down like a waterfall!

The entrance to the abandoned subway station ahead was split vertically in two, revealing the pitch-black tunnel below!

The advertising tower behind was cut diagonally, its massive screen crashing down with sparks!

Smoke and dust continuously rose! Explosions flared up one after another! Chunks of concrete, twisted rebar, and burning car fragments rained down like a storm!

In the center of this scene of utter destruction, only the small area where Chen Tian stood was calm, like the eye of a hurricane.

The ground beneath his feet was intact, not even a speck of dust disturbed, his white hair unruffled.

And so, amidst the violent slashing storm Sukuna had unleashed, capable of destroying half a city block, he moved like a phantom, weaving through it with ease, effortlessly dodging every fatal cut.

Sukuna's frenzied slashes continued for a full ten seconds!

When the final "Kai" diagonally sliced a low building in the distance in half, its deafening collapse echoing, he finally stopped pointing his finger.

His chest rose and fell slightly from the extreme exertion, his crimson eyes fixed on the blurred white figure in the smoky center. What burned within them was no longer just rage and excitement, but a mixture of... unbelievable disbelief!

The slashing storm ceased.

The smoke and dust slowly settled.

Chen Tian's figure reappeared clearly.

He was still standing in the same spot, not having retreated an inch. Not even a wrinkle had been added to the hem of his clothes! His cold gaze pierced through the swirling dust and landed on Sukuna's contorted face.

The same two words, clearly echoing over the collapsed ruins:

Sukuna's breath hitched, the muscles in his face twitching wildly. The emotions of anger, excitement, and humiliation surged like lava in his eyes!

He slowly raised his right hand, his thumb hooked over his bent index finger, aiming at Chen Tian.

At his fingertip, a deep, heart-stopping black cursed energy coalesced.

"... 'Hachi'!"

Sukuna's thumb snapped off his index finger!