I've got you now!
Sure enough, outward toughness was only a cover for inner fragility. As long as you struck a sore spot, even a thousand-year-old turtle couldn't help but crack.
"What the—"
The instant he had only half turned his head, an invisible force was already rushing at his body.
Kana Shizumi instantly activated his cursed energy and bent backward, barely dodging the slash sweeping toward his neck.
Even the air seemed to tremble, rippling in waves.
Cursed energy itself possessed a certain shape and color, but after being processed through a technique, most cursed energy would take on a color unique to its sorcerer.
And Sukuna's defining trait was "invisibility."
Previously, he had only learned of this technique's characteristics through various descriptions and impressions from the anime.
But having experienced it firsthand now—it truly was formidable.
Kana Shizumi flipped backward, hopping back several times in succession as he widened the distance.
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His body bent slightly forward, his expression serious as he casually glanced behind him.
The slash had sunk deep into the distant side wall, then exploded with a thunderous boom as though several pounds of explosives had been embedded within it.
"Indeed, I couldn't see it at all."
Colorless, odorless, without warning—it was like some sharp object had suddenly taken shape out of nowhere.
Kana Shizumi silently touched the left side of his neck.
A wound the size of a fingernail had opened there, its edges curled back as blood trickled from it like an infant's mouth.
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Kana Shizumi made his assessment in an instant.
Its attack power was high.
Defense reinforced solely through Cursed Energy Reinforcement simply could not block the damage from this kind of slash.
So this was Dismantle—
Sukuna's technique, Malevolent Shrine, possessed two types of slashing attacks.
Dismantle and