Jie Jian fell from the sky, piercing through Jogo's head and pinning him to the ground.
Jogo's single eye flew wide open.
"Y-you... you..."
His voice came in broken fragments, already reduced to a flickering candle in the wind.
Jie Jian did not stop. He raised Playful Cloud in his left hand and drove it down again, its other pointed end piercing through Jogo once more.
Jogo's body twitched violently.
Then, under Jogo's unwilling gaze, he rapidly collapsed into particles of cursed energy.
Without Jogo's support, the domain began to crumble rapidly.
When the last fragment of the domain vanished, Jie Jian landed steadily on both feet.
The subway station returned to its original appearance, except scorch marks and rubble lay everywhere, while the air was thick with choking smoke.
Megumi Fushiguro's legs gave out, and he dropped to his knees.
Though he had not fought Jogo head-on, maintaining his domain for so long to clash against Jogo's had exhausted Fushiguro terribly.
Nanami stood where he was and let out a long breath.
He patted Fushiguro on the shoulder.
"Fushiguro, you did well."
Fushiguro waved a pale hand.
"I only helped a little. We really had Senior Maki to rely on."
"This has nothing to do with me. He did all of it."
Completely unlike Jie Jian's wild tone from before, a somewhat dejected female voice suddenly rang out.
Megumi Fushiguro and Kento Nanami both froze, then sharply looked toward the source of the voice.
Maki stood there, staring down at her hands with confusion in her eyes.
"Huh?! Where did that guy go?"
Maki suddenly realized that she had regained control of her body!
Jie Jian had gone offline!
"Hey! Where the hell did you go? Why did you leave?!"
There was urgency in Maki's voice that even she