"Sukuna is sealed inside Yuji Itadori." Kinoshita took a step back and honestly shared what he knew.
Panda, the last one who had refused to talk, had even had his stuffing beaten out of him!
Hajime Kashimo scratched his head. "Yuji Itadori? Who's that? Tell me where he is."
Seeing no one else beside Hajime Kashimo, Kinoshita asked in confusion, "Do you know Kinji Hakari?"
"Who?" Hajime Kashimo grew even more impatient. "Hurry up and tell me where this Yuji Itadori is!"
Kinoshita raised both hands. "Okay, okay! Calm down, I'll tell you!"
"He's in the Tokyo No. 1 Colony. We're in the Tokyo No. 2 Colony, so you have to leave before you can meet him!"
Hajime Kashimo raised an eyebrow. "Kogane, where are we?"
Kogane appeared, swayed twice in the air, and gave its answer.
"Lord Kashimo! This is the Tokyo No. 1 Colony!"
Hajime Kashimo looked back at Kinoshita. "Now you can take me to him, right?"
Kinoshita's eyelid twitched.
What!?
Why would Hajime Kashimo come to the Tokyo No. 1 Colony at this point in time?!
And another thing!
He actually didn't get lost?!
"Could it be because of Okkotsu and me...?"
Kinoshita slapped his forehead. "But I don't know where he is either!"
"How about you go look for him yourself?"
Hajime Kashimo sighed. "As I thought, I should have just started hitting you first."
Kinoshita took a deep breath.
Hajime Kashimo had one, and only one, cursed technique: an ability called "Mythical Beast Amber," which could manifest transformations of cursed energy in reality, thereby changing the structure of his body.
Its performance in actual combat... uh... well... it could... be very strong!!!
But even with his formidable hand-to-hand skills alone, Hajime Kashimo was someone who could rank among the Special Grade Sorcerers.
Although he couldn't use a domain, couldn't use Reverse Cursed Technique, and couldn't use a normal cursed technique, leaving him with only his self-destruct move.
Still, Hajime Kashimo's strength was beyond question.
It wasn't that he couldn't use a domain. He simply didn't need one.
Hajime Kashimo's cursed energy was unusual. Not only could he paralyze opponents with lightning during close combat, he could also use the attraction between positive and negative charges to imitate a domain's sure-hit effect.
As for his inability to use "Reverse Cursed Technique," that was simply because he was too strong!
Don't slander Roku!
"What kind of roadside nobody are you? You seriously think you can measure up to the thousand-year-old King of Curses?" Kinoshita's demeanor changed instantly.
He immediately switched into internet troll mode.
Hajime Kashimo bristled at those words. He hoisted the red-and-black electric staff in his hand onto his shoulder and challenged him. "Looks like you don't know who I am. That's fine. Once you tell me where Sukuna is, I'll send you to the afterlife."
Kinoshita folded his arms and snorted with laughter.
"Hajime Kashimo, the Thunder God, the strongest of the Edo period. Who hasn't heard of you?"
"Since you were invincible in your own era, you made a pact with the thousand-year-old jujutsu sorcerer Kenjaku, hoping to be reborn through incarnation in the future and challenge Sukuna, the man hailed as the strongest."
"Don't underestimate how fast I can dig up your personal info!" Kinoshita looked down his nose at Hajime Kashimo.
Hajime Kashimo had initially been rather angry, but after hearing Kinoshita's information, he immediately grew curious.
"You know who I am and still dare provoke me?"
"Are you one of Kenjaku's people?" Hajime Kashimo smiled as he sized Kinoshita up.
In his eyes, a sorcerer who knew this much had to be fairly strong.
"Who do you think is stronger, Sukuna or me?"
Kinoshita picked at his ear, as though he had just heard a lame joke that wasn't funny at all.
"Huh?"
"Don't make me laugh."
"Sukuna would beat the shit out of-"
Kinoshita was only halfway through his trash talk when Hajime Kashimo vanished from his spot. The next second, he flashed straight toward Kinoshita.
"Construction Technique."
"Faraday Cage!!!"
The principle behind a Faraday cage was simple: electrons were confined to the metal shell, while excess electrons flowed into the ground.
The interior of the Faraday cage would remain unaffected by electromagnetic waves.
Hajime Kashimo slammed a fist into the hard metal shell. The instant the cursed energy in his hand turned into lightning, he felt it being completely absorbed by the strange hunk of metal.
"What's going on!?" Hajime Kashimo backed away, watching Kinoshita warily.
Seeing that Roku's attack had failed, Kinoshita immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
It had only been an idea. Whether it would actually work was another matter.
But from the look of things, the lightning accompanying Hajime Kashimo's attacks really was being absorbed.
"Ha... scared me half to death." Seeing Hajime Kashimo's attack fail, Kinoshita immediately burst into hearty laughter.
"Roku, look, your hand-to-hand combat is impressive. As long as you can hit someone, your lightning cursed energy has enough power to one-shot a special grade."
"But apart from hand-to-hand combat, you can only land a hit by relying on the attraction between positive and negative charges."
"And to put a charge on an enemy, you still have to hit them!"
"Seriously, aren't you a little too washed?" Kinoshita kept analyzing Hajime Kashimo as he watched him.
Hajime Kashimo's expression grew serious. He didn't know why Kinoshita understood his abilities so well, but he had indeed driven a positive charge into that hunk of metal.
By rights, he should have been able to sense the direction of the charge, yet he couldn't feel anything at all.
"Lightning Release...!"
Hajime Kashimo slowly bent at the waist, and cursed energy began spreading from his entire body.
Only when that cursed energy turned into dazzling blue arcs did Kinoshita swallow nervously.
Drawing on his immense reserves of cursed energy, Kashimo poured a tremendous amount of lightning into the Faraday cage.
"Eeeek-!"
Kinoshita fearfully opened one eye, then checked his hands and feet.
"I'm fine?"
"Pfft..."
Kinoshita pointed at Hajime Kashimo, deliberately pretending he couldn't hold back his laughter.
"Hahahahaha!!"
"Roku! Seriously! You're just an ordinary man who happened to be born in an era without Sukuna!"
Hajime Kashimo's eyes trembled. He had no idea what this damned hunk of metal was, or how it could withstand such powerful lightning.
"Is it a shikigami?"
"Or his cursed technique...!"
Hajime Kashimo was a formidable fighter in his own right, and he quickly came up with possible explanations.
"No, wait." Watching Kinoshita stay inside, Hajime Kashimo looked puzzled.
He stepped forward and felt the mesh cage.
"If you can't do anything, then hurry up and leave! I already told you Sukuna's in the No. 1 Colony. Hanging around here won't make him appear." Seeing that Hajime Kashimo still refused to give up, Kinoshita launched into another round of mockery.
Then came a series of cracks.
Hajime Kashimo simply pulled open the outer shell of the Faraday cage, leaving the two of them staring awkwardly at each other.
"Esteemed Lord Hajime Kashimo, I know Sukuna's plan very well."
"He's planning to transfer his soul into Megumi Fushiguro, the current wielder of the 'Ten Shadows Technique.'"
"But even if I had to do it all over again, I would still believe Lord Hajime Kashimo would win!!!"
Before you continue