"Run!"
Seizing the moment just before Yamata no Great Serpent and Sukuna clashed, Kenjaku sprinted out of the underground station at tremendous speed.
Seeing that it was Kenjaku, Sukuna chose not to pursue him.
"I'll warm up with this one. Don't go running off again. Stay right where you are and don't move, or you'll die."
"Ten Thousand Snake Prison! Devour!"
The snakes dissolved into water, flooding the entire underground passage. Countless tiny snakeheads crowded through the viscous water, burrowing toward Sukuna's body.
Sukuna pressed his index and middle fingers together and swept them across the sea of snakes before him. A continuous barrage of invisible slashes sliced hundreds upon thousands of snakeheads into tiny droplets.
"Jogo! Can we leave?"
The other two disaster cursed spirits stood with their calves trembling, looking desperate to flee but too afraid to do so.
Their leader, Kenjaku, was gone, so they could only turn to Jogo, the strongest among them, for guidance.
"Go!"
Jogo spoke, but his legs did not move an inch. Only Hanami noticed; the other two disaster cursed spirits turned and fled at full speed.
"Rumble..."
Two round heads dropped to the ground and rolled like balls. Jogo had only meant to test the waters, but now he was even more afraid to move.
"Sukuna! With sixteen fingers, you're merely my challenger!"
Yamata no Great Serpent's hair whipped around, transforming into little snakes that kept growing longer. The katana appeared in her hand once again.
"Small fry. Die the same way you did a thousand years ago."
Sukuna raised his head slightly, formed a hand sign, and chanted his cursed speech.
"Domain Expansion! Malevolent Shrine!"
A shrine of white bones rose from beneath the horizon. Eaves piled with skulls and interlocking skeletons formed an altar standing open, without doors.
"Then