"What?!"
Everyone present knew their stuff.
Especially Naobito Zenin.
The Ten Shadows Technique was the Zenin Family's most important Cursed Technique.
Even though he had not inherited it, and the modern era's only inheritor of the Ten Shadows Technique had been sold off by Toji Zenin.
He was still the person present who understood the Ten Shadows Technique best.
Even better than Megumi Fushiguro himself.
That was precisely why he was so shocked.
He stared at Morien's right hand, coated in bluish-purple Cursed Energy and dotted with deep-purple particles.
Naobito Zenin narrowed his eyes.
This had to be fake...
Morien paid no attention to their shock and patted Fortune-Collecting.
"Alright, go look around somewhere else," he said gently. "Stay nearby. Don't go anywhere too dangerous."
Morien gave her a reminder.
Fortune-Collecting vibrated the air, producing a low buzz.
Then, with a flap of her wings, she flew into the sky.
"Alright, let's head in."
Holding the fluffy white rabbit in his arms, Morien stepped toward the subway stairs.
The others gave him complicated looks before following after him.
As they walked down the stairs, Maki Zenin could not help reminding him, "As a Shikigami user, aren't you bringing your Shikigami with you?"
"Me?" Morien tilted his head. "Didn't Ijichi tell you?"
"I'm not a Shikigami user."
"He did mention it," Kento Nanami nodded.
"Then that's right." Morien answered brightly, "Fortune-Collecting is my child."
The Jujutsu Sorcerers did not find that strange.
Quite a few people called themselves "Dad" or "Mom" when raising pets, let alone a Shikigami they had likely raised since childhood and fought alongside countless times.
No matter how close their relationship was, it was understandable.
However, Morien's next words shattered their worldview once again.
"She's my biological child."
"What?!"
Footsteps echoed through the stairwell.
They did not speak again until they reached the subway station.
Their minds were in turmoil.
Maki Zenin especially.
She thought of her classmate Yuta Okkotsu, who claimed he was in pure love with a Cursed Spirit.
Could it be?
Could there really be a Champion above Yuta Okkotsu?!
"Ah, there it is." Morien stopped and looked at a support pillar ahead.
The others snapped out of their mental storm and immediately went on guard.
Everyone felt the fluctuations of Cursed Energy.
And they were extremely dense.
A red hand stretched out from behind the pillar and gripped it.
Then a head poked out from behind it.
It was a red octopus Cursed Spirit, only about the size of two or three basketballs. It looked like an octopus with hands and a white, silkworm-pupa-like body.
It had huge eyes, wore a white hood, and let out childish whimpering noises.
He was Dagon, one of the Four Disaster Curses.
The embodiment of humanity's fear of the ocean.
But before anyone else could react, a hand landed on Dagon's back.
Crack!
Dagon's entire body froze in place, like a photograph pasted onto glass.
"You're a little slow." At some point, Naobito Zenin had already moved behind Dagon.
Dagon's tiny body could not move at all, sweat seeping down his face.
Naobito Zenin laughed and threw a punch into Dagon's face.
Bang!
With the sound of shattering glass, Dagon flew back and slammed into a distant wall.
That was the speed of the fastest Jujutsu Sorcerer of the modern era aside from Satoru Gojo.
That punch brought tears to his eyes.
Dagon's eyes watered, his belly swelled, and he opened his mouth to retch.
He had been beaten until he threw up.
Along with his vomit came a huge quantity of human bones, nearly forming a carpet five or six meters long.
"You bastard, just how many people did you eat?" Naobito Zenin was still smiling, but his laughter had turned somewhat low.
"Jogo... Mahito... Hanami..." The tiny Cursed Spirit crawled over the carpet of human bones, inch by inch.
His childish voice trembled, and his large eyes brimmed with tears.
"Hana..." His pupils suddenly contracted, his eyes bloodshot. "Hanami..."
His body began to shake violently.
"You actually... You actually dared to kill Hanami!"
Perhaps because there were far more people present than in the original story, Dagon had no intention of testing them like before.
In an instant, the surroundings changed dramatically.
Blue skies, white clouds, sunlight, a gentle breeze, a beach, and the ocean.
Everything looked so peaceful.
"Domain Expansion: Horizon of the Captivating Skandha." Only then did Dagon's voice reach them.
This time, however, his voice was no longer childish. It was rough and heavy.
Normally, a Domain Expansion required two prerequisites.
First, making the activation hand sign. Second, calling out the Domain's name.
But as one of the Four Disaster Curses, Dagon was insidious to the extreme.
He triggered the effect first, then said the name.
A zero-frame opening move.
Even Naobito Zenin, known as the fastest Jujutsu Sorcerer beneath Satoru Gojo, failed to react in time.
"No wonder you were so weak. You were only a Cursed Womb just now." The Old Man still wanted to throw out a few taunts.
But in the very next instant.
Splurt! Splurt! Slash!
A wound appeared on Megumi Fushiguro, Maki Zenin, and Kento Nanami respectively.
This was the Domain's 'Sure-Hit' effect.
Within a Domain, all creatures possessing Cursed Energy would be locked onto.
As the Calamity of the sea, Dagon's Cursed Technique could not only control water, but also summon fish-like Cursed Spirits.
Under the 'Sure-Hit' effect, those Cursed Spirits could appear out of thin air, strike their enemies, and could neither be dodged nor defended against.
In fact, those Cursed Spirits might not even exist before hitting their target. They were only born at the very instant of "impact."
In contrast, Naobito Zenin was unharmed. Behind him lay the corpse of a green fish-like Shikigami.
"Secret Art: Falling Blossom Emotion."
This was an anti-Domain method passed down among the Three Great Families. The instant the 'Sure-Hit' struck the user, it automatically used Cursed Energy to repel the damage and protect them.
As the reliable adult, Kento Nanami swiftly swept his gaze over the battlefield and confirmed the situation.
His shoulder was injured. Maki Zenin's waist was injured. Megumi Fushiguro's thigh was injured. Naobito Zenin had blocked the damage with Falling Blossom Emotion. Morien...
He was not injured?
Morien had not deployed a Simple Domain or Hollow Wicker Basket, nor had he used something like Naobito Zenin's Falling Blossom Emotion.
He was simply standing there, yet he had not been hurt, nor had he been affected by the Domain's 'Sure-Hit' Cursed Technique.
"I only wanted to watch the show." Morien glanced around at the suddenly transformed surroundings. "Why drag me in too?"
"Don't hurt my rabbit."
"I just got it." Morien held Rabbit Escape in his arms.
The Cursed Energy inside his body rapidly diminished the moment he entered the Domain, until it became "nothing."
He had converted all of his Cursed Energy into Spirituality.
In the world of Jujutsu Kaisen, Domains, the ultimate moves of Jujutsu Sorcerers and Cursed Spirits, possessed a 'Sure-Hit' effect.
However, that 'Sure-Hit' locked onto Cursed Energy.
Conversely, as long as one possessed no Cursed Energy at all, one would be judged as a "building" and could not be locked onto.
Unable to strike him directly, the Cursed Spirits had no choice but to appear around him first before attacking.
But he easily grabbed them and crushed them in a single squeeze.
Morien's eyes beneath his mask were filled with curiosity as he used the Eyes of Mystery Prying to carefully examine the Domain.
After realizing they had been pulled into the Domain, everyone responded in turn.
"Domain Expansion: Chimera Shadow Garden!"
Megumi Fushiguro immediately expanded his Domain, clashing against Dagon's and neutralizing its 'Sure-Hit' effect.
A black circular platform less than three meters in radius spread out beneath Megumi Fushiguro's feet.
That was his Domain, and also his shadow.
Although his Domain looked far weaker than Dagon's, that was indeed the case.
But a Domain was still a Domain. Once another Domain appeared within one, no matter how small or weak it was, the original 'Sure-Hit' effect would be neutralized.
This Domain...
Morien turned around, looked at Megumi Fushiguro's expanded Domain, and rubbed his chin.
Sukuna would probably be scared to death if he saw this Domain.
No 'Sure-Hit,' no guaranteed kill, such a tiny range, and it was an open Domain. Enemies could come whenever they wanted and leave whenever they wanted, with absolutely no restraint at all.
How much debt did this take out...