Domain Expansion-Chimera Shadow Garden.
A black-and-white world spread rapidly from Megumi Fushiguro. Light and shadow intertwined, brightness and darkness shifting as the gymnasium's walls, floor, and dome were swallowed, covered, and replaced by the ever-expanding gloom.
"He's actually-" Reggie's pupils contracted, his steps faltering. "A Sorcerer of that caliber?"
Megumi Fushiguro offered no answer to his surprise, his gaze as calm as still water.
"I never said... I didn't have a big move."
Reggie stared at him for two seconds, then suddenly smiled. He formed a hand seal, shifting his fingers as an invisible barrier rapidly closed around him.
"Secret art-Hollow Wicker Basket."
Hollow Wicker Basket was the predecessor to New Shadow Style: Simple Domain. Rather than expanding a domain, it turned the user's body into a barrier against a domain's sure-hit effect, neutralizing the opposing domain's guaranteed hits.
Megumi Fushiguro never stopped moving. Something suddenly tightened around Reggie's ankle-Toad's tongue, silently emerging from the shadows on the floor and wrapping tightly around him. The next instant, Megumi's fist slammed squarely into Reggie's face.
Reggie's body twisted with the punch, and he grunted, but he did not retreat a single step.
"Why... isn't it working?!"
In Shibuya, Jogo and Hanami had enveloped their bodies in domains without imbuing them with cursed techniques, allowing Satoru Gojo's Limitless to enter and thereby neutralizing the technique itself. Kashimo had used the same principle.
But this was clearly different from Simple Domain and Hollow Wicker Basket. Those could not directly neutralize the barrier attached to a cursed technique; they only nullified the "sure-hit effect imbued with a cursed technique" within their barriers.
Megumi Fushiguro's domain, however, was still incomplete. He had not imbued it with a sure-hit cursed technique. He had merely forced the gymnasium's physical space to become his domain and sealed it