As they faced off, the surrounding Jujutsu Sorcerers closed in.
Ronova looked at the Jujutsu Sorcerers encircling her.
She casually untied her hair, letting her long white locks fall loose.
Then she addressed them. "I know this probably won't work, but I have to say it anyway."
"Are you sure you want to make an enemy of me?"
"If you leave now, I promise no one will get hurt."
"But if you stay, don't blame me for showing no mercy!"
Ronova wasn't really saying this for the Jujutsu Sorcerers around her.
She knew perfectly well they wouldn't let her go that easily.
This was more of a disclaimer.
She was making her position clear in advance.
That way, even if she went on a killing spree, Satoru Gojo couldn't blame her.
She had warned them.
And just as Ronova expected, no one heeded her warning.
Almost the moment she finished speaking, the surrounding Jujutsu Sorcerers lost patience and attacked.
As "Elbow Sorcerers," of course their first move was to throw an elbow.
One Jujutsu Sorcerer who stood close to Ronova rushed straight at her.
He raised his arm, ready to show off his hand-to-hand skills.
Ronova gave a cold laugh. She slipped past a sweeping kick, then seized the unlucky man by the throat with blinding speed and lifted him off the ground.
Ronova might have had an adorable face.
But she was over five-foot-nine.
She was tall enough to hold a man up by the throat with one hand, his feet dangling in the air.
Ignoring his struggles, Ronova turned her head and glanced at him.
Then her exquisite, almost sculpted hand tightened slightly and snapped his neck.
As the Death Curse Spirit, killing without hesitation was second nature to Ronova.
Her actions enraged the surrounding Jujutsu Sorcerers.
They charged at her from every direction.
Ronova's expression remained indifferent as she raised a hand and snapped her fingers.
In an instant, a vast amount of blood-red Cursed Energy gathered around her.
Her transformation was complete in the blink of an eye.
Her ordinary clothes had been replaced by an extravagant black outfit.
Behind her spread a pair of blood-red wings studded with eyeballs.
Two eye-shaped ornaments appeared atop her head as well.
This was Ronova's true form.
It was also the form that let her wield her power to its fullest.
As Ronova revealed her true form, a terrifying pressure spread outward.
Fear crept into everyone's eyes despite themselves.
It was the instinctive fear of death shared by all living things.
But they were trained Jujutsu Sorcerers. They soon suppressed that primal fear.
Then they launched a fierce assault on Ronova.
Countless Cursed Techniques erupted, all aimed at one target: Ronova.
Ronova watched the dense barrage of Cursed Techniques hurtle toward her.
She raised her right hand slightly and snapped her fingers again.
The next instant, every one of those techniques was declared "dead"!
Before they could even reach her, the techniques broke apart and dissipated in midair.
At the astonishing sight, Yuki Tsukumo's pupils contracted sharply.
In the end, she could only marvel: the Death Curse Spirit lived up to her name.
She had been born only recently and had yet to reach her full potential.
Even so, her strength was astounding.
But Yuki Tsukumo quickly reined in her thoughts.
She focused all her attention on Ronova.
As a Special Grade Sorcerer, she couldn't keep watching from the sidelines.
She had to suppress Ronova!
With a roar, Yuki Tsukumo rushed up to Ronova.
She threw a ferocious punch at the impassive Ronova.
Yes, a punch.
But it was no simple Basic Attack. It carried terrifying kinetic energy.
Before it even reached her, Ronova felt an immense pressure bearing down on her.
It was like facing a speeding truck head-on.
This was Yuki Tsukumo's Innate Cursed Technique: Star Rage!
It worked by continually adding mass to her body.
In theory, if she kept adding mass without limit, Yuki Tsukumo could even become a human-shaped black hole that swallowed everything.
Of course, that was only theory.
In theory, Ronova could also snuff out the universe and kill the stars with a snap of her fingers.
Theory didn't always translate into reality.
Even so, Yuki Tsukumo's punch was terrifying.
Enhanced by Star Rage, her fist had reached a staggering mass.
At that moment, even ten trucks together weighed less than her fist.
If a punch with that much weight and force landed,
even Ronova would likely be flattened.
But fighters who relied on overwhelming power generally shared one flaw: they were too slow.
Ronova had no intention of standing there and taking Yuki Tsukumo's punch.
Instead, she flickered into an empty space nearby.
Distance Kill was, in essence, unrestricted teleportation!
And Ronova didn't need to teleport a long distance to escape.
By killing only a short stretch of distance, she could easily evade Yuki Tsukumo's attack.
It cost her far less, too.
That was the power of All Things Die.
A powerful Cursed Technique truly held surprises at every turn!
The heavy punch missed, but the force spilling from it demolished half the street.
Yuki Tsukumo was in no mood to admire the destruction she had caused.
She whipped her head around with a grim expression and looked at Ronova, who had appeared nearby.
"Spatial teleportation? Damn it, what kind of intelligence did those people gather?"
Yuki Tsukumo was dumbfounded.
She was a classic heavy-hitting Jujutsu Sorcerer.
And they had sent her to deal with a Cursed Spirit who could teleport.
Did they think she was wasting air by being alive?
Did they want her dead that badly?
But Yuki Tsukumo quickly cast those distractions aside.
She began working out how Ronova had done it.
As the Death Curse Spirit, Ronova's abilities had to be related to death.
So where had teleportation come from?
Unless...
"You killed the distance!"
Yuki Tsukumo stared at Ronova in shock, certain of her conclusion.
Ronova was at a loss.
Were Special Grade Sorcerers all this capable?
Every one of them could figure out how her abilities worked.
Were they all master analysts?
Then again, no one reached Special-Grade Rank by being an idiot.
Even knowing how Ronova teleported, though, Yuki Tsukumo still had no good way to deal with it.
A powerful Cursed Technique could be impossible to counter by its very nature.
Take Satoru Gojo's Limitless Technique. How it worked was practically public knowledge throughout Jujutsu Society.
Yet no one had managed to overcome it.
That was because the technique itself was inherently difficult to counter.
Knowing how it worked wasn't enough to beat it.
The same was true of Ronova's ability.
Knowing what she could do didn't mean anyone could stop her.
At best, they would understand what had killed them.
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