Emiya Superhero Form Activated!

"Vroom!"

The roar of a motorcycle engine echoed down the highway. When the high beams flashed on, they dazzled the curse user lying in wait at the tunnel entrance, forcing him to raise a hand to shield his eyes.

That brief moment when he lifted his hand to block the high beams was exactly what Lin Yi wanted. His left hand steadied the handlebars while his right slipped into his jacket, drew a Colt Python .357 Magnum revolver, and pulled the trigger.

Japan might have strict gun laws, but in truth, what yakuza member didn't have a couple of firearms tucked away? They just rarely used them lightly.

Not long after arriving in Japan, once Lin Yi had roughly figured out how to use his localized cheat ability, the Cursed Technique: Polarity Reversal, and established himself in Kabukicho, Shinjuku Ward, he had gotten himself one as well.

Firearms were useful, plain and simple—especially against jujutsu sorcerers. Though they could all reinforce their bodies with cursed energy to block, catch, or dodge bullets at superhuman speeds, they were still flesh and blood. Catching a surprise shot could easily make them stumble into disaster.

Jujutsu sorcerers who had not mastered the Reversed Cursed Technique could not directly heal themselves with cursed energy the way Cursed Spirits could.

Six .357-caliber rounds became six streaks of light and shot straight for the curse user's face.

Caught completely off guard, the curse user had a chunk bitten out of his shoulder by one of Lin Yi's bullets.

The pain made him even angrier. He had actually been wounded by some ordinary person with a gun?!

Cursed energy surged forth. As Lin Yi was about to ram into him on the motorcycle, he felt an immense force strike from the side. All he could do was use his gun-holding right arm to protect his head and switch into his Heavenly Tyrant: Kamen Rider Form. Then, a blast of cursed energy sent both man and bike flying off the highway and tumbling down toward the mountain road below.

The curse user, whose face had turned grim after being injured by such a petty trick, walked over to the highway guardrail. Looking down at the pitch-black forest below, he removed his sunglasses.

"Damn it. You actually dared to shoot me? You don't know whether you're dead or alive after taking a single cursed energy blast? Fine, I'll assume you're dead. I'm more interested in that first-year from Jujutsu High. Satoru Gojo, this is the first installment of interest we're collecting from you!"

The burly man muttered to himself, with no intention of going down to check on Lin Yi. Instead, he spread out his cursed energy senses, locked onto Yuko Takagi as she fled along a mountain trail, then leaped after her.

The highway fell silent once more. Given how remote Tokyo's outskirts were, it might not be until nine or ten in the morning before another vehicle passed through. Even then, no one would know what had happened here.

Several minutes after the curse user left, Lin Yi lay flat on his back at the spot where he and his motorcycle had been blasted off the road, completely unharmed. Beside him was his beloved bike, the "Hard-Boiled," its front end warped by the cursed energy blast. A massive hand had caught both Lin Yi and the motorcycle, slowly lifting them into the air and carrying them toward the mountaintop.

Then Lin Yi saw two guys, one black and one white, standing on the summit and grinning at him.

"Oh, so you two came to lend a hand. The two of you really do look like the Black and White Impermanence."

"Yi-chan~ I can call you that like Geto does, right? You made yourself look this miserable just to avoid exposing your identity as a jujutsu sorcerer?"

"You could have handled this yourself, but you still asked Suguru for help?"

"If you have power and don't use it, it expires. I don't want Jujutsu High keeping an eye on me. Besides, didn't you notice? Someone other than Suguru Geto is making moves against Jujutsu High—making a move against a school protected by Satoru Gojo, the strongest jujutsu sorcerer of the modern era."

Lin Yi jumped down from the giant hand, brushed leaves and twigs off himself, and gestured for them to put his beloved bike with its warped front end back exactly where they had picked it up.

The black and white foreigners speaking with Lin Yi were two foreign jujutsu sorcerers from Suguru Geto's faction. The black man was Miguel O'Dwyer, whom Lin Yi had met before. The white man was the blond, blue-eyed fellow Lin Yi had seen at Akasaka Palace, who loved going bare-chested and had two hearts tattooed on his chest.

His name was Larue, and his cursed technique was Mind and Body Manipulation.

Its manifestation was a giant hand formed from cursed energy out of thin air, which attacked in accordance with his movements. It was not particularly useful for direct attacks, but it possessed a powerful control ability: it could lock onto a single target and activate the technique, forcibly redirecting the target's gaze and attention onto Larue himself, creating an opening for his allies to attack.

Even Sukuna, the King of Curses from a thousand years ago, could not resist that move. Larue forcefully controlled him for three or four seconds, letting Sukuna take a Black Flash punch from Yuji Itadori, the strongest athlete.

Miguel and Larue had just been teasing Lin Yi for making himself look so miserable to conceal his identity as a jujutsu sorcerer, but after hearing his words, both froze for a moment. In a world where every jujutsu sorcerer knew Satoru Gojo was the strongest of the modern era, attacking someone from Jujutsu High carried an entirely different meaning.

It also conflicted with the jujutsu sorcerer supremacy they upheld.

Under Suguru Geto's doctrine of jujutsu sorcerer supremacy, he would not kill jujutsu sorcerers from Jujutsu High unless absolutely necessary. He also looked down on curse users who attacked ordinary people without cause or targeted jujutsu sorcerers.

Jujutsu sorcerers were their own kind. What Suguru Geto wanted to create was an era where jujutsu sorcerers lived in harmony and no longer became tools for exorcising Cursed Spirits.

In Suguru Geto's eyes, curse users who could attack their own kind were among those who needed to be eliminated.

"Ha, no wonder Suguru had us come help you. So what are you planning to do, Lin Yi? Transform into Kamen Rider with that strange technique of yours and charge in? Yeah, that sounds like you."

"A hero's entrance? Yi-chan, I want to see it too."

Larue and Miguel chimed in one after another, both egging Lin Yi on.

Lin Yi was not bothered. He had already roughly figured out how to get along with this bunch of oddballs from Suguru Geto's faction. Shaking his head slightly, cursed energy began to flow through his body as he switched into his jujutsu sorcerer form.

"A hero's entrance is too disruptive this late at night. Since you've seen the first effect of my technique, Larue, let me show you the second. I assume Suguru Geto and Miguel have told you about it."

"Of course. The manifestation effect of a Construction Technique. But what are you planning to do, Yi-chan? This place is well beyond Miguel's and my cursed energy range."

Larue, who had arrived early to meet up with Lin Yi, looked toward the direction in which the curse user had gone after Yuko Takagi, his eyes full of curiosity.

Lin Yi did not answer. He simply continued circulating the cursed energy within his body. Deep-blue cursed energy flowed, gathered, and took shape in his left hand, and a great bow appeared in his grasp.

At the same time, Lin Yi began openly explaining part of his technique. In the world of jujutsu, this was a method sorcerers used in battle: revealing information about their cursed techniques in exchange for greater power.

"As the second active manifestation of my technique, I can use cursed energy like a sorcerer with a Construction Technique to create anything I want. However, it cannot be stored permanently; it is a disposable item. In exchange, I do not need to perfectly reproduce the full effects of the cursed tool I create. They are merely shells that carry my cursed energy. My cursed energy circulation rate is high, and my cursed energy sensing range expands accordingly. Under normal circumstances, it has a radius of fifteen kilometers, enough to precisely lock onto fast-moving targets. With the boost from revealing my technique, that sensing range has doubled to a radius of thirty kilometers."

"As far as my cursed energy can sense, that is how far my constructed cursed tools can strike. So this is far enough."

As he spoke, Lin Yi raised his right hand, and a Spiral Sword with a spiraling conical blade appeared.

He drew the bow, nocked the sword, and pulled back the string.

As Lin Yi drew the bowstring, the Spiral Sword's blade gradually changed shape into an arrow. Within his current cursed energy sensing range, he had already firmly locked onto the curse user from before!

This was the first form of his Cursed Technique: Polarity Reversal—the jujutsu sorcerer form, which Lin Yi also called the Emiya Superhero Form~

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