After a brief moment of surprise, Kana Shizumi quickly regained his composure.
Domains might be the pinnacle for Jujutsu Sorcerers, but they appeared surprisingly often on the Cursed Spirit side—
Perhaps because of their innate limitations, Cursed Spirits often displayed inhuman talent for developing Cursed Techniques.
The Four Calamities were like that, and so were some of the strange Cursed Spirits he had encountered before.
Kenjaku had collected plenty of curious creatures through Cursed Spirit Manipulation. Pulling out one of this caliber was hardly surprising.
What mattered now was how it attacked.
What did its domain do?
After a split second of hesitation, Kana Shizumi made his choice.
He dropped into a half crouch, taking a stance like someone about to draw a sword.
Simple Domain!
Defend, then counterattack. That was the strategy Kana Shizumi chose for his current situation.
He had yet to properly define the boundaries of Blood Prison Mandala. If its instability caused him to make a mistake, his Cursed Technique would burn out—
Unless he had no way out, as in his fight to the death with Sukuna.
Otherwise, it was better to rely on methods he could trust.
Stability, after all, was the clearest measure of combat strength.
Something learned in the heat of battle still needed careful refinement—
As the domain expanded, a space roughly three meters across appeared beneath Kana Shizumi's feet.
It pushed aside the sand and dust, instantly forming an outline like a circle of vacuum.
At the same time, Kana Shizumi saw his opponent separate its hands.
Its left hand dropped to its knee, while its right hand rose as though holding something up. It raised that hand toward where he stood and made a pushing motion.
Then—
Its thumb slowly folded inward, changing its gesture from "five" to "four"