Black Flash? Knight Punch!

Lin Yi returned to the domain space unfolded by the Cursed Spirit as if no one else was there.

Watching the Special-Grade Cursed Spirit vent its fury on his Kamen Rider suit, Lin Yi fell into thought. Suguru Geto, who was watching from the side, also noticed Lin Yi's return. Maintaining his Simple Domain, he still had the spare energy to greet Lin Yi.

"Yi-chan, did you find a way to exorcise this Special-Grade Cursed Spirit?"

"Don't disturb me. I'm thinking."

Lin Yi replied, casually setting the ice-cold Coca-Cola he had bought in an area untouched by the Cursed Spirit's attacks. The Special-Grade Cursed Spirit noticed Lin Yi's appearance as well, but it was smart enough.

From their brief exchange earlier, it had determined that without relying on a Cursed Tool, Lin Yi's attacks could only cause pain, not kill it. Not particularly bright, it simply gave up on Lin Yi, who had no cursed energy, and focused on the Kamen Rider suit Lin Yi had left within the domain. As long as it destroyed that suit, it could wear down a Lin Yi with no cursed energy until he died. At worst, it could still escape.

That was the problem Lin Yi needed to solve now.

If he merged with his Kamen Rider suit, the Cursed Spirit's domain would judge him as an object with cursed energy. He would be continuously subjected to the domain's sure-hit attacks, disrupting his offensive rhythm.

If he did not merge with it, then although the physical strength of the Heavenly Tyrant form far surpassed that of an ordinary Special-Grade Cursed Spirit, he had no cursed energy and therefore lacked any lethal effect.

Tch, what a pain.

"Suguru Geto, can I learn this Simple Domain?"

"I'm sorry, Yi-chan. Every sorcerer who learns New Shadow Style: Simple Domain has to make a Binding Vow with New Shadow Style not to pass its method on to others. But Yi-chan, you've probably noticed the flaw in this form of yours, right? You lack a Cursed Tool capable of killing Cursed Spirits. I happen to have one."

Suguru Geto explained the key to learning Simple Domain. With a thought, a gray, human-faced worm emerged from the shadow to his left. It opened its massive mouth, and a red three-section staff slid out from within.

Grade 2 Cursed Spirit, Cursed Womb: Death Painting?

Harmless. Its original owner had been the first Heavenly Tyrant, Toji Fushiguro. His original surname had been Zenin, but after marrying into the Fushiguro Family, he changed his surname.

Its function was storage. Though nearly one and a half meters long, it contained an enormous storage space and could spit out whatever Cursed Tool its owner wanted.

After Toji Fushiguro was killed by Satoru Gojo, who had awakened the Reversed Cursed Technique, Cursed Womb: Death Painting? and all the Cursed Tools stored inside it fell into the possession of Suguru Geto, who wielded Cursed Spirit Manipulation.

Special-grade Cursed Tool, Playful Cloud.

A three-section staff worth five hundred million yen. Its Cursed Tool effect was attack amplification: the greater the damage dealt by its wielder, the more Playful Cloud could amplify that damage.

A simple and brutal damage-amplification Cursed Tool like this, paired with a Heavenly Tyrant who had no cursed energy and possessed a fully enhanced body, would mean every strike was a critical hit against Cursed Spirits.

Lin Yi also coveted the Playful Cloud in Suguru Geto's hands. No, what he coveted was the various Cursed Tools with different effects stored inside Cursed Womb: Death Painting? But for this round, he intended to clear it himself.

"Since staying separate can't deliver a one-hit kill against a Cursed Spirit, then I'll gamble on the single-target damage after merging. Both forms have to have some sort of trump card."

Having figured that out, Lin Yi summoned the Kamen Rider Joker suit that was currently being ravaged by the Special-Grade Cursed Spirit.

At Lin Yi's command, the Kamen Rider Joker suit, which had been bombarded by the Special-Grade Cursed Spirit without suffering much damage, instantly transformed into a stream of black matter and flowed toward Lin Yi. Suit merge!

I will sortie in Heavenly Tyrant: Kamen Rider Joker form!

The instant Lin Yi merged with the permanent Cursed Tool that was the Kamen Rider Joker suit, the domain space unfolded by the Special-Grade Cursed Spirit instantly locked onto Lin Yi, who had previously been invisible within the domain. Several cursed energy shells appeared around him in an instant.

Relying on the extraordinary five senses, intuition, and physical capabilities granted by the Heavenly Tyrant form, Lin Yi struck left and right, knocking away the cursed energy shells that had suddenly appeared around him and causing them to explode.

Feeling the cursed energy feedback through his gauntlets, Lin Yi made his judgment.

"Complete immunity to cursed energy damage from Grade 1 Cursed Spirits and below, while damage from Special-Grade Cursed Spirits is reduced based on the opponent's strength? Good. I can fight!"

Lin Yi locked his gaze on the Special-Grade Cursed Spirit ahead of him. With one step, he charged straight at it.

Locked onto by Lin Yi's gaze, the Special-Grade Cursed Spirit's heart skipped a beat. Raising both hands, it generated countless cursed energy shells throughout the domain space and blanketed the charging Lin Yi with firepower.

Lin Yi swung both fists. With his overwhelmingly sharp five senses, he easily predicted the trajectory of every cursed energy shell flying at him. Every punch he threw struck a shell with perfect accuracy, sending it flying. His speed did not slow in the slightest, and in the blink of an eye, he had reached the Special-Grade Cursed Spirit.

"Tak! Rider Punch!"

His fist came down, instantly shattering the ground. Sand and shattered stones flew everywhere, but the Special-Grade Cursed Spirit was nowhere to be seen.

"Kekekeke!"

The Special-Grade Cursed Spirit's eerie laughter came from above Lin Yi's head. It had seemingly teleported to the doorway of a room within its domain space. Making a face at Lin Yi, it flicked its hand and fired two more cursed energy shells at his position.

"Rider Punch!"

Lin Yi could not catch the Special-Grade Cursed Spirit as it freely shifted positions throughout the domain space, but the cursed energy shells of this Special-Grade Cursed Spirit could not keep up with Lin Yi's speed either. His fist came down and violently smashed the room apart, but the Special-Grade Cursed Spirit had already appeared elsewhere and continued its attack.

Lin Yi flashed forward once more and threw another punch, only for it to miss again.

At that moment, Lin Yi understood what kind of domain this Special-Grade Cursed Spirit's Deadly Labyrinth truly was.

Aside from its passive sure-hit effect, its active effect was exactly like its name: it trapped its opponent in a maze where they could not distinguish direction. Unless one had mastered Domain Expansion, one could only passively play hide-and-seek with this Special-Grade Cursed Spirit, getting kited to death by its omnipresent active effect combined with the domain's sure-hit judgment.

"What a domain that's utterly incompatible with me."

After figuring out the active effect of the Special-Grade Cursed Spirit's domain, Lin Yi grumbled. He no longer paid attention to the Cursed Spirit's interference, instead emptying his mind and body, shutting out his five senses, and focusing all his attention on his sixth sense.

This sixth sense, which required neither thought nor hesitation, was one of the Heavenly Tyrant physique's greatest killing moves. With that instinct alone, a Heavenly Tyrant could even see the outline of souls.

Lin Yi was not sure whether he could see the outline of souls yet, but he knew he had already thrown two Rider Punches with everything he had. If either punch had truly landed on the Special-Grade Cursed Spirit, one punch would have been enough to flatten the thing.

Things never happened three times. He did not want his third punch to miss, so he had to use his instincts to accurately predict where the Special-Grade Cursed Spirit would appear next. Then, moving faster than it could, he would block that exit and give the Cursed Spirit a savage punch.

"Bang! Boom!"

Several cursed energy shells struck Lin Yi, knocking him off balance. He neither dodged nor evaded, allowing the enemy to continue harassing him as he followed the judgment of his intuition.

Very soon, a three-dimensional map of the domain space unfolded by the Special-Grade Cursed Spirit appeared in Lin Yi's mind. The image of the Special-Grade Cursed Spirit appeared along with it, constantly darting and shifting through the three-dimensional map. It was deeply annoying.

But Lin Yi quickly noticed a difference between the three-dimensional map in his mind and reality. What the map displayed was what would happen in reality five seconds later.

Is this the mechanism of my Heavenly Tyrant form? Sixth sense, Future Sight?

Lin Yi's brain trembled. This ability was incredible!

Excited, Lin Yi carefully sensed the Future Sight manifested by his sixth sense. The Special-Grade Cursed Spirit's next appearance point was firmly locked in.

Lin Yi clenched his fist and steadied his breath. The next second, he disappeared from where he stood, dodging the cursed energy shells fired by the Special-Grade Cursed Spirit. He charged toward the Cursed Spirit's current position and feigned a punch.

Facing Lin Yi's devastating fist, the Special-Grade Cursed Spirit repeated its old trick and shifted positions once again. But that was exactly what Lin Yi wanted. He was forcing the Special-Grade Cursed Spirit to move along the future path he had seen.

The Special-Grade Cursed Spirit appeared again. Before it could even see its surroundings clearly, Lin Yi's fist was already before its eyes. This time, it had nowhere to run!

"Tak! Rider Punch!"

As Lin Yi exhaled with a shout, the heavy, powerful Rider Punch struck the Special-Grade Cursed Spirit squarely in the face. The instant Lin Yi's fist hit its face, a visible black flash burst from his fist.

Suguru Geto, who had been watching the show, widened his narrow eyes in disbelief and said:

"Black Flash?"

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