Fire Release: Majestic Flame Destroyer!

After his shock faded, Megumi finally came to his senses and stepped in, ordering the Divine Dogs to help.

Although Lin Mu killed cursed spirits quickly, the number of cursed spirits surrounding him continued to rise, and his situation remained dangerous.

Megumi was, after all, a Grade 2 jujutsu sorcerer. The Divine Dogs were not slow at killing these cursed spirits either, taking down one with an average of one or two bites.

Very soon, the cursed spirits behind Lin Mu had been cleared out.

Megumi stepped forward and gave Lin Mu a long look. He had many questions, but now was not the time.

Lin Mu had long known Megumi would come. He had no qualms about displaying his strength in front of Megumi. After all, he had planned to join Tokyo Jujutsu High anyway. They would be teammates from now on, so there was nothing to hide.

After scanning the remaining cursed spirits, Megumi spoke. "The ten on the left are mine. You take the five on the right!"

He acknowledged that Lin Mu was strong, but he was the professional jujutsu sorcerer here. Exorcising cursed spirits was his job, and taking on more of them was his responsibility.

Lin Mu shook his head slightly.

"Is that too much? Then I'll take another two."

"We need to kill them quickly, or those two students may be in danger."

Megumi assumed Lin Mu had used too much stamina in the previous battle, making five cursed spirits somewhat troublesome for him.

"I'll have the Divine Dogs go all out and end this within twenty seconds!"

Lin Mu still shook his head before saying, "No. Leave all of them to me!"

"Now isn't the time to show off. Don't you understand the situation? Even wasting a second could get them swallowed by cursed spirits!"

After refuting him, Megumi immediately realized something. "No, you mean I should go save them first?"

"No, you'll die if you get surrounded by this many cursed spirits!"

The moment Megumi said it, he felt an intense heat beside him, as though burning coals had fallen onto his skin, sending waves of searing pain through him.

"An explosion? No, this is a school. There's no way an explosion could happen here!"

Megumi turned toward the source of the heat and saw dazzling flames pouring from Lin Mu's mouth!

"Fire Release: Majestic Flame Destroyer!"

A massive torrent of flames erupted, consuming a third of Lin Mu's chakra.

The hallway was too narrow, while Majestic Flame Destroyer covered too wide an area. Unable to spread outward, the flames could only whirl through the confined corridor.

As a result, Majestic Flame Destroyer formed a fiery tornado in the hallway, sweeping along the walls toward the mass of cursed spirits!

The fire tornado filled the entire corridor, leaving the cursed spirits nowhere to flee. The extreme heat instantly incinerated all fifteen cursed spirits, leaving not even ashes behind!

"Boom—"

The immense wind pressure created by the heat shattered every window in the corridor. The glass fragments melted instantly in midair and fell like fiery rain.

The flames, with nowhere else to go, shot out through the broken windows. It was like a high-yield bomb had exploded, leaving the entire hallway in ruins.

The surrounding walls and floor cracked beneath the terrifying heat of Majestic Flame Destroyer.

Megumi Fushiguro was completely stunned by the strength Lin Mu had displayed. "What was that!?"

"A fire-based cursed technique that spits flames from the mouth? It felt like a volcanic eruption!!"

In terms of raw power, Lin Mu's flame cursed technique was probably even stronger than his Max Elephant!

At first, he had thought Lin Mu's cursed technique enhanced his physical abilities or something similar, since his eyes had glowed red during battle.

But now it seemed this was his cursed technique!

"Did you say something just now?" Lin Mu asked after clearing out the cursed spirits.

"Uh, nothing..." Megumi said awkwardly. "Let's save them first!"

Lin Mu did not ask further and quickly rushed toward the place where the two upperclassmen had last screamed.

"Are you a jujutsu sorcerer?" Megumi could not help asking as they ran.

"A jujutsu sorcerer? What's that?" Lin Mu feigned confusion. His previous self had only been an ordinary person, so naturally he had never come into contact with the world of jujutsu sorcerers.

To prevent his secrets from being discovered, it was important to maintain his previous self's persona.

Naturally, he could never reveal the truth about transmigration or the system to anyone. It would only invite unnecessary suspicion and trouble.

"You can use cursed techniques, so how could you not know what a jujutsu sorcerer is?" A troubling thought suddenly arose in Megumi's mind: Lin Mu might actually be a curse user!

In other words, one of those jujutsu sorcerers who abandoned morality and abused cursed techniques for money and power!

Perhaps Lin Mu had sensed Sukuna's Finger and come to seize the cursed object!

But Megumi quickly dismissed the thought. If that were true, Lin Mu could have simply killed him directly.

And inside this cramped school building, Megumi would have had no chance at all against the flame cursed technique Lin Mu had unleashed earlier!

In response to Megumi's question, Lin Mu said, "I don't know either. After I woke up in the club activity room, I suddenly felt like my body was filled with strength."

"Then these monsters appeared. I kept fighting them, and somehow learned the cursed technique you mentioned along the way."

Megumi frowned. Based on his description, Lin Mu should have awakened under the influence of Sukuna's Finger.

Though rare, there had been precedents. But he had never seen anyone like Lin Mu, who awakened with the strength of a Grade 2 jujutsu sorcerer and could skillfully use cursed techniques right away.

"Weren't you scared?"

"I didn't really feel anything. It was kind of like grinding monsters in a video game, I guess?"

Megumi sighed helplessly. Though he had his doubts, there was no better explanation than what Lin Mu had said.

Someone who had only just awakened to cursed spirits yet managed to figure out cursed techniques on his own was probably a monster on the same level as Gojo-sensei, wasn't he?

Later, he would see if he could recruit him into Tokyo Jujutsu High. Once Gojo-sensei saw him, perhaps he could unravel some of the mysteries surrounding him.

Before long, after rounding a corner in the hallway, they spotted a massive cursed spirit. Its body was covered in grotesque eyes and arms, while a huge hand resembling a mouth on its chest tightly gripped the two upperclassmen.

Arms crawled over Sasaki's body. In her pocket was Sukuna's Finger, its seal already removed.

"Damn it, is it planning to devour both the cursed object and the people?!" Megumi's expression darkened.

The cursed spirit noticed the two of them as well. After letting out a chilling cackle, it suddenly sped up its devouring.

"It's too late!"

At this rate, the two students would be swallowed. And whether intentionally or not, the cursed spirit held them in front of itself like human shields, preventing Megumi from using many of his attacks!

If the cursed spirit devoured the finger, it would no longer be something a Grade 2 jujutsu sorcerer like him could handle!

This cursed spirit's strength could very well soar to Grade 1—or even Special Grade!

Unlike Megumi's panic, Lin Mu remained calm. Knowing the story, he knew that Itadori was about to burst through the window!

"Bang—"

The sound of shattering glass rang out, drawing both Megumi's and the cursed spirit's attention to the figure that had suddenly barged in.

A pink-haired boy twisted through the air, his heavy fist smashing fiercely into the cursed spirit!

Though Itadori still had no cursed energy and could not inflict any real damage on the cursed spirit, the sheer force of the blow still sent its massive body staggering.

Seizing the chance, Itadori immediately scooped up the two upperclassmen and leaped to safety.

Megumi reacted quickly, recovering from his shock at once. Cursed energy gathered in his hand as he prepared to blast the cursed spirit to death.

But someone reacted even faster than he did!

Before Megumi's cursed energy had fully gathered, a torrent of flames spread out beside him. Blazing tongues of fire instantly engulfed the cursed spirit, reducing its enormous body to ashes in an instant before it could even let out a dying scream!