Looking Pretty Confident, Akuta!
The moment she arrived at the alley entrance, Keiko Fushiguro realized that her mother was in danger.
In order to save his mother from the "evil" Akuta.
Young Keiko Fushiguro unleashed the ultimate technique of the "Ten Shadows Technique" without hesitation.
Great Self-Destruction Technique: Mahoraga!
The moment the Mahoraga appeared, the system sent a new notification to the Akuta.
"Warning: Keiko Fushiguro is in a temporary predicament. Please handle it as soon as possible."
I can see it, I don't need you to remind me!
Akuta watched as the Mahoraga ripped open his bandages and burst forth.
Looking again at Fushiguro Keiko Fushiguro in her eyes, she felt a headache coming on for the first time.
Are you the older brother?
Why such a determined look in your eyes?
Mahoraga is not difficult for Akuta to defeat.
The problem is, this is a busy downtown area!
It would be quite difficult for him to kill Mahoraga without affecting those around him.
Before Akuta could think any further, an arc of electricity exploded beneath his feet, and he vanished from the spot as a blue-white afterimage.
Mahoraga's fist, carrying overwhelming magical Cursed Energy of the punch causing spiderweb-like cracks to appear on the brick walls on both sides of the alley.
According to the rules of the "Ten Shadows Technique," Mahoraga must fight against his summoner.
Therefore, the moment he arrived, he launched an attack on his summoner, Keiko Fushiguro.
Keiko Fushiguro stood there watching the fist fall towards her, her face pale.
She closed her eyes tightly, as if preparing to accept her fate.
But just before the fist landed, the Akuta appeared beside Keiko Fushiguro and raised its hand to block.
"Boom!"
A shockwave exploded between the two, and Akuta's feet plowed two deep furrows in the gravel ground, his entire body from the knees down was smashed into the ground.
"Little sister, could you please stop summoning Shikigami so casually in the future?"
Akuta glanced back at Keiko Fushiguro with a hint of helplessness.
What if you randomly summon Shikigami and accidentally hit a child?
Even if it doesn't hit a child, it's still bad if it hits the flowers and plants.
Keiko Fushiguro tilted her head back, her eyes wide open, seemingly surprised that the villain Akuta would save her.
And even though he saved her, what's with all this lecturing?!
The thought of her mother being forced to her knees by the Akuta made Keiko Fushiguro stubbornly insist:
"You, you're a bad person! You hit my mother!"
"When did I hit your mother? I was chatting with her!"
Just then, Mahoraga's other fist swept across again.
Akuta clicked his tongue, flipped his free hand, and condensed a ball of lightning compressed to its limit in his palm, which he then pressed directly onto Mahoraga's fist.
"Bang!"
A burst of lightning struck, Mahoraga's entire arm was jolted backward by the electric shock, his massive body staggering back half a step.
Taking advantage of the opening, Akuta grabbed Keiko Fushiguro by the waist, tucked her under his arm, and launched himself three zhang away, landing on the other side of the alley.
"Let me go! Let me go!" Keiko Fushiguro struggled under his arm, her short legs kicking wildly. "Go for it! Mahoraga with the golden wheel on his head!"
"Stop shouting!" Akuta yelled at Keiko Fushiguro, then looked at Mahoraga with a tense expression.
Seemingly having heard Keiko Fushiguro's voice, the golden wheel above Mahoraga's head spun rapidly, almost forming a blurry white shadow.
"Roar!"
A loud roar came from Mahoraga's mouth, and its aura visibly surged upwards, instantly healing the wounds on its body that had just been inflicted by the lightning strike from the Akuta.
Akuta's smile froze.
He stared at the golden wheel spinning like an electric fan, cursing inwardly.
Hey, Mahoraga, aren't you spinning your wheels a little too fast?!
Why have I never seen you spin this fast before?
That doesn't make sense, does it?
Mahoraga drew his Eight-Handled Sword and swung it horizontally, unleashing a solid slashing wave that plowed across the ground, sending pebbles flying half a meter into the air.
Akuta grabbed Keiko Fushiguro and jumped aside. The slashing wave grazed the sole of his shoe and cut the telephone pole at the alley entrance in half.
The utility pole fell and crashed to the ground, sparks flying everywhere.
"Alright, alright," Akuta shoved Keiko Fushiguro towards Jinmi Fushiguro's direction, "Go stay with your mother, don't wander off."
Jinmi Fushiguro hurriedly caught her daughter, looking at Akuta with disbelief.
Akuta glanced back.
"You all leave first. We'll talk after I've dealt with it."
Jinmi Fushiguro pursed her lips, glancing at him and then at the distant Mahoraga.
Seeing the worry and distrust on Jinmi Fushiguro's face, Akuta revealed a confident smile.
"Don't worry, we'll win."
A hint of emotion flashed across Jinmi Fushiguro's face. She nodded to the Akuta and then hurriedly picked up Keiko Fushiguro and limped away.
Akuta turned around and faced Mahoraga, who had adapted again and was now even more imposing. He raised his thumb and pointed behind him.
"The Fushiguro mother and daughter are watching, let me show off a little longer."
He bent his knees and lowered his waist, blue-white plasma spreading from the soles of his feet all the way up to his waist and abdomen, and his pupils lit up with a layer of fine electric light.
The air in the alley crackled and popped from being ionized, and even the gravel on the ground began to tremble slightly.
A burst of electricity erupted beneath Akuta's feet, and he charged towards Mahoraga, leaving a dazzling arc in the alleyway with his blue and white trail.
Instead of running away, he sped off towards the direction of Mahoraga.
Just as it was about to touch Mahoraga, it suddenly turned and flew towards the Sky Manipulation.
Mahoraga would prioritize targeting those closer to him within the amplitude adjustment ritual. Once Keiko Fushiguro had run far away, his gaze immediately locked onto the Akuta.
Although Mahoraga cannot fly directly, the Cursed Energy that erupts from his legs is enough to lift his body and leap directly to a height of over a hundred meters.
He stomped his legs hard on the ground, the boulder shattered, and his enormous figure rose up, tightly gripping the trail of the Akuta.
The Akuta Hiten was never meant to escape, but rather to deliberately lead this Shikigami, which could adapt to any Cursed Technique, to this open, high sky where there were no houses or passersby.
He carefully controlled his speed, always maintaining a distance that was neither too close nor too far from Mahoraga, so that he would not be touched by its slashes, and at the same time, he would avoid Mahoraga's aggro.
As they climbed to a height of nearly 100 meters, with the gale raging around them, Akuta judged that the time had come.
"That's about it."
The Akuta suddenly stopped its momentum, and the person paused in mid-air for a moment.
Mahoraga to his highest point, his massive body, propelled by the momentum of his upward charge, lunged straight at him, raising his Eight-Handled Sword high above his head.
Just as the sword was about to strike, Akuta shifted his body, moving like a slippery electric eel, circling around to the side of Mahoraga from its left.
He raised his hands, making a loose fist in front of his chest, like Kamehameha, and steadily aimed them at Mahoraga's massive body.
The next moment, a violent Cursed Energy gathered wildly from his palm.
Layers of blue and white lightning stacked up, and crackling arcs of electricity coiled and swirled between his palms.
Jujutsu Sorcerer who was unaware of what was happening happened to look up at that moment and immediately saw a dazzling ball of light hanging in the Sky Manipulation. He instinctively raised his hands.
"Holy crap! It's the sun!"
Mahoraga twisted his body and slashed horizontally with his Eight-Handled Sword, but the ball of something in the palm of the Akuta had already reached its limit.
"Take this!"
Akuta roared, and a bolt of lightning as thick as a giant pillar shot out from his palm.
The deafening roar shattered the wind high in the sky, and the blue-white lightning bolt slammed into Mahoraga's body.
Mahoraga roared, shaking the heavens and earth. The golden wheel above his head spun wildly as his body desperately withstood the attack.
His body's constantly circulating Cursed Energy instinctively adapted to and counteracted the erosion of the lightning. The muscles under the bandages tightened, and he withstood the thunderous bombardment for several breaths.
However, this lightning Cursed Energy, which contained the full power of the Akuta, far exceeded its current adaptation limit.
The dazzling lightning ripped through its defenses, piercing through its chest and bursting out from its back.
The blinding lightning pierced through the massive body of the Mahoraga, blasting a huge hole through it from front to back.
The roar of the Mahoraga abruptly ceased, its massive body paused slightly, and then plummeted downwards.
The undiminished power of the lightning cannon did not dissipate; after breaking through the Mahoraga, it continued its rapid journey towards the distant horizon, trailing a long tail of light.
It left a striking trail of light against the clear blue sky, until it was too far to be seen before slowly dissipating into the depths of the clouds.
On the ground.
Jinmi Fushiguro, carrying Keiko Fushiguro, hadn't run far out of the alley when she heard an astonishing pressure coming from behind and above her.
Although she, as the "Heavenly Restriction," cannot see the Cursed Energy.
But her innate perception allowed her to clearly sense that an extremely dangerous and terrifying force flashed across the Sky Manipulation.
As the aura belonging to Mahoraga disappeared from the air, Jinmi Fushiguro immediately realized that Mahoraga had been killed by this attack!
The afterglow of the beam of light shone on her face, illuminating the shock in her eyes clearly.
She opened her mouth, but no sound came out.
Keiko Fushiguro turned her head away from her embrace.
As Jujutsu Sorcerer, she can see what's happening.
Her eyes were wide open, and her small mouth was slightly agape.
"Wow, what a thick bolt of lightning!"
Jinmi Fushiguro glanced down at her daughter, then looked up at the Akuta hanging in mid-air, and after a long while, finally managed to squeeze out a sentence:
"... Who exactly is he?"