Jujutsu Kaisen: Does the Raiden Ei Also Have to Fight Sukuna?
Chapter 37

The Absolutely Unsolvable Ultimate Domain!

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The Absolutely Unsolvable Ultimate Domain! When words failed, swords did the talking.

After a few casual remarks, the battle began at once.

Dozens of higher-ups, each at least a Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer, launched a merciless siege against Ronawa.

The old head of the Gojo Family took the lead, opening with the Gojo Family's signature technique, Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue!

Its power, however, was nowhere near comparable to the "Blue" wielded by Satoru Gojo.

After all, not just anyone had the Six Eyes empowering them.

Still, relying on his own sheer power,

the old head of the Gojo Family's "Blue" remained at the Special-Grade Rank.

An ordinary Special-Grade Curse would suffer terribly if it took a direct hit.

Unfortunately, his opponent was Ronawa.

Facing the assault of so many Jujutsu Society higher-ups, Ronawa simply pressed her palms together.

Domain Expansion: Between Existence and Nonexistence!

She had just been regretting that she had not been able to let Satoru Gojo experience the power of her Domain.

She had not expected the Jujutsu Higher-Ups to jump out so eagerly.

Since that was the case, she might as well grant them the honor!

As an immense amount of cursed energy poured from Ronawa, a gigantic black hole appeared before everyone.

Then, a unique field spread outward, enveloping everything within a radius of more than two hundred meters.

It also dragged every Jujutsu Society higher-up into the Domain.

It was worth mentioning that, unlike Domains such as "Unlimited Void,"

Ronawa's "Between Existence and Nonexistence" had no Domain barrier.

In other words, Ronawa's "Between Existence and Nonexistence" was an open-type Domain!

Domains were generally divided into two types.

The first was a closed-type Domain, like "Unlimited Void."

It possessed a clearly defined Domain barrier.

For this type of Domain, it was either impossible to break from within or impossible to break from without.

The advantage of such a Domain was its overwhelming power in one-on-one combat.

But its weakness was equally obvious: it only held an absolute advantage in a duel.

Once the opponent consisted of multiple targets,

this kind of closed-type Domain became easy to counter.

Mahito's "Self-Embodiment of Perfection," for example,

was the most typical case.

Inside Mahito's Domain, it was nearly impossible to escape through individual strength alone.

But as long as someone attacked the Domain barrier from outside, the Domain could be broken quite easily.

The same was true of Unlimited Void.

It was nearly impossible to counter from within, but it could be broken easily from the outside.

One could say that this type of closed Domain had very obvious strengths and weaknesses.

The second type was the open-type Domain Ronawa possessed now.

The greatest advantage of an open-type Domain was its versatility.

It had no obvious weaknesses, but likewise, no obvious strengths.

Whether it was powerful or not depended entirely on the person casting it.

Take Sukuna's "Malevolent Shrine," for example.

Was Malevolent Shrine powerful? In truth, it was not especially powerful.

Its mechanics were ordinary: the guaranteed-hit effect every Domain possessed, along with an enhancement to the user's own cursed techniques.

It lacked the absurd, bug-like power of a mechanism such as Unlimited Void.

But could one call Malevolent Shrine weak?

Of course not.

Because the one using that Domain was Ryomen Sukuna!

Theoretically, it was easy to escape after being enveloped by Malevolent Shrine.

After all, Malevolent Shrine had no sturdy Domain barrier.

But once someone was truly caught inside Malevolent Shrine, how many could escape the endless slashes?

In summary, both types of Domains had their own advantages and disadvantages.

Closed-type Domains had stronger effects and greater advantages when facing powerful foes one-on-one.

Open-type Domains, meanwhile, were more versatile, capable of adapting to all kinds of combat situations without any clear weaknesses.

Of course, whether a Domain was strong or not ultimately depended on its user.

If the user was strong enough, then even a Domain with no special effects would still be practically impossible to solve.

Ronawa was even more outrageous.

Not only was she powerful herself, but her Domain's effect was also utterly heaven-defying.

And it was an open-type Domain, completely without any exploitable weakness.

That meant that once someone was enveloped by Ronawa's Domain,

they could only open a Domain of their own and clash with hers.

Otherwise, death was the only path.

But the question was, would having one's own Domain make it possible to resist Ronawa's "Between Existence and Nonexistence"?

As Ronawa's Domain unfolded,

higher-ups like the old head of the Gojo Family reacted swiftly.

Several powerful elders then prepared to deploy their own Domains

to oppose Ronawa's "Between Existence and Nonexistence."

Faced with this scene, Ronawa stood high in the air, with the enormous black hole behind her.

Facing opponents who were preparing to deploy their Domains one after another, Ronawa merely said coldly, "I forbid it!"

The next moment, the elders discovered in horror that they could not deploy their Domains at all.

It was as though they had never awakened a Domain in the first place.

"How is that possible? Why is this happening?"

"Why can't I deploy my Domain?!"

"It... it's your Domain's effect!"

The old head of the Gojo Family reacted quickly, abruptly raising his head to stare at Ronawa.

Ronawa smiled as she explained, "Correct. Too bad there's no reward!"

"My Domain is called Between Existence and Nonexistence!"

"Existence and nonexistence are both decided by a single thought of mine!"

"Anything I do not permit does not exist."

"Your Domains are included!"

Simply put, within Ronawa's Domain, whether anything—even a concept—existed or did not exist was entirely determined by a single thought of hers.

Anything she did not permit to happen would become "nonexistent," even if it had existed.

And anything she permitted would become existent, even if it had been "nonexistent"!

That was the mechanism of "Between Existence and Nonexistence."

Of course, it was not truly unsolvable.

At least for now, "Between Existence and Nonexistence" could still be resisted.

For example, Satoru Gojo could forcefully deploy his own Domain even if Ronawa did not permit it.

That was not a problem with "Between Existence and Nonexistence," but rather a matter of Ronawa's current cursed energy being insufficient.

No matter how powerful a mechanism was, it still required sufficient power to support it.

The same applied to Ronawa.

As long as someone's total cursed energy and cursed energy output efficiency, taken together, exceeded Ronawa's,

they could forcibly resist the suppression of "Between Existence and Nonexistence" and fight back.

At most, their deployed Domain would be severely weakened, rather than becoming impossible to deploy altogether.

But were these old geezers of the Jujutsu Society Satoru Gojo?

Clearly not.

So the outcome was utterly despairing.

Within "Between Existence and Nonexistence," these Jujutsu Society higher-ups could not even deploy their own Domains.

And in a battle between experts, if one side could not even deploy a Domain,

then the result was obvious to anyone who understood.

It would inevitably be a complete and utterly one-sided crushing.

And that was exactly what happened.

Once they realized that they could not even deploy their Domains within Ronawa's Domain,

every higher-up was left with nothing but despair.

Only then did they realize that Satoru Gojo had set them up.

Ronawa was simply not an existence they could oppose by joining forces.

But by the time they understood that, it was already too late.

Because Ronawa had already begun her hunting feast!

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