A Different Mahoraga

Whoosh!!

"I'm back..."

Inside Aleph-1, where time and space lay in disarray...

Apart from some inorganic matter, Mo Bai detected no human frequencies here.

The Threnodian had probably devoured and digested them all.

Except...

Mahoraga, still fighting without pause in the distance.

Its senses were still locked on Aleph-1. After all, Aleph-1 had swallowed its entire body.

How long would it keep swinging its sword?

[Shikigami].

Ultimately, they were summoned beings that served humans. Their abilities were limited to some degree by their summoners.

Some were weak, some lacked intelligence, and some even had time limits despite both they and their summoners possessing abundant Cursed Energy.

In short, as the "assistants" and "other selves" of Jujutsu Sorcerers, these nonhuman beings came with an inborn failsafe.

Mahoraga was no exception. There were three ways to make it disappear.

First, kill it head-on.

Second, put nearly an entire planet's distance between them. That would work too, but Mahoraga had dragged Mo Bai right back to its side earlier.

The wheel above its head had turned far too many times by then. Its speed and strength were absurd, and Mo Bai had not used a Shikigami's abilities to bolster himself.

In the end, Mo Bai had underestimated its intelligence.

Third, wait for everyone drawn into the ritual to die. That was another way to make Mahoraga disappear.

Even the [Strongest Shikigami] still fell under the category of [Shikigami].

But the first problem Mo Bai faced now was how to get out of here.

If he could leave, he could return. Mahoraga would also disappear automatically once the distance between them grew too great.

Bzzz—

The surrounding chaos reminded Mo Bai how precious time was.

Time and space were so disordered here that even one extra second carried unpredictable risks...

And besides...

Tap.

Mo