The Harem Grows Again

"No... I can't die here! I have to get away!"

Jogo's enormous ice sculpture dissolved into a cloud of icy dust.

Hanami, the only surviving Special Grade Cursed Spirit, was scared out of her wits.

Overwhelming terror crushed every trace of her arrogance and will to fight.

In a millionth of a second, both were gone.

"I was born from humanity's fear of forests."

"Earth! Forest! Protect me!"

Hanami screamed in terror inside her mind.

She pressed both hands hard against the cold, solid black ice.

In an instant, all the Special Grade Cursed Energy in her body surged violently toward her feet.

Buzz!

Her entire body rapidly flattened and turned insubstantial.

She tried to use her absolute affinity with plants and earth.

She would turn herself into a tree's shadow and slip into roots deep underground.

That way, she hoped to escape the terrifying Gravity Barrier entirely.

"Trying to run?"

"Manipulating plants in front of me? How ignorant."

Tobirama stood proudly ten thousand meters in the air, his white robes snapping in the wind.

His expression was cold as frost.

He watched the white figure below try to merge with the underground shadows.

Tobirama raised his right foot.

He stepped casually downward through the air.

That step formed a seal.

[Wood Release: Myriad Manifestations. Two-hundredfold enhancement activated!]

Rumble!!!

The earth shook and the mountains trembled.

The black earth across Jujutsu High's rear mountain split apart in an instant.

Millions of enormous divine-tree roots, thick as ancient pythons and glowing with golden life force, surged upward.

In the blink of an eye,

they burst violently from deep beneath the soil like earth dragons rising from the dead.

Those golden divine-tree roots

carried the oppressive might of a primordial age.

They caught the shadow Hanami had become in midair and