Honestly, the situation had gone far beyond anything Kana Shizumi had expected.
By his reckoning, Sukuna with only one finger should never have been capable of this level of power.
But the facts proved he had underestimated that thousand-year-old king of freeloaders. Just to keep Kana Shizumi from having an easy time, the bastard had even found a way to take them both down together.
When it came to borrowing power against Binding Vows, Sukuna was an opponent no one could afford to underestimate.
There was a gap in what Kana Shizumi knew, too.
He had never imagined that something already put on the table as a wager could be used a second time.
"You'd go this far just to piss me off? I underestimated you, Sukuna!"
As the words "Domain Expansion" fell, the entire Inner Domain underwent a violent transformation.
The bones scattered across the ground seemed to come alive. They writhed and gathered, piling together beneath Sukuna's feet.
They twisted silently into shape, joining until they formed a towering, bone-white shrine.
It was a plain, unadorned white, yet to Kana Shizumi, it somehow evoked a wholly different impression.
Eerie. Vivid. Exquisite.
No one would have found any of those words strange when applied to it.
And atop the ever-growing platform, Sukuna was lifted higher and higher.
Blood poured from his body, and the wounds on his face throbbed, but they only made his smile look more savage.
"Watch closely, Kana Shizumi. This is a realm that a nobody like you will never reach in your lifetime."
Domain Expansion!
"Malevolent Shrine."
Ding—
A soft note like a wind chime rang out, and the boiling Inner Domain fell into boundless stillness in an instant.
It was like a sea without a ripple, stretching to the horizon with nothing else left