Kinoshita silently cursed him for being shameless.
Sukuna truly was the ultimate powerhouse who had mastered the art of borrowing on credit.
Plenty of people in the original story came close to Gojo and Sukuna in talent, but Sukuna alone could take binding vows this far!
This binding vow was exceedingly clever.
It should never have worked, but once he revealed it to Hajime Kashimo, Kashimo learned that Sukuna could not use his domain.
In other words, even revealing his binding vow could become a condition for Sukuna's binding vow!!
It was the same principle as explaining one's cursed technique to an opponent to increase its effectiveness.
There was no question that Malevolent Shrine was the only domain that could stand alongside Satoru Gojo's Unlimited Void.
Judging by the restrictions of Sukuna's binding vow, the price was indeed extraordinarily steep.
But here was the catch.
With Megumi Fushiguro's soul resisting him, Sukuna had no strength to spare for deploying a domain anyway.
And so...
Sukuna, the king of borrowing on credit, had once again gotten something for nothing!
"Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!!"
"Sukuna, just how much potential do you still have?!" Kinoshita watched the two of them excitedly.
Hajime Kashimo scoffed. "Even if you grow two faces and four arms again, I'll still fight you!"
"Oh?"
Sukuna had already sensed Uraume's presence disappear. He briefly adjusted to his body, then lunged at Hajime Kashimo.
After a brief exchange, Hajime Kashimo could already feel how powerful Sukuna's body was with cursed energy enveloping it.
Now he was utterly exhilarated. This was a true powerhouse, the Sukuna he had dreamed of!
The loneliness and cold he had felt four hundred years ago quietly faded, leaving only boundless excitement and fighting spirit!!!
"Lightning... release!!"
Hajime Kashimo flashed above Sukuna, and countless fine bolts of lightning spread out like a sturdy spiderweb!
"Sukuna, you're already covered in my positive charge. You can't dodge this!"
"Get diced like a mango!!!"
Facing the sure-hit electrical net, Sukuna remained calm. He formed a hand sign and quietly murmured, "Dismantle!"
A matching grid of slashes promptly answered it.
A cloud of dust cleared.
Only then did Kinoshita get a clear view of the battlefield.
Sukuna was covered in wounds, and even part of his right arm had been blown off.
But Hajime Kashimo had already been sliced into a corpse by a powerful Dismantle and taken out of the fight.
Sukuna stood atop the ruins amid the high-rises, smiling as he looked at the lifeless Hajime Kashimo.
"Hajime Kashimo, how laughable."
"I might forget you by tomorrow."
With that exchange of wounds, the battle finally ended thanks to Sukuna's borrowing on credit.
Kinoshita felt a pang of sympathy as he looked at Roku, diced like a mango. If Sukuna hadn't been such a monster, he wouldn't have died so horribly.
"Tch, even without his domain, sixteen-finger Sukuna is way out of Roku's league..."
There was no time to mourn Hajime Kashimo's sacrifice.
Next to enter was the man known as the master of Black Flash, the future Heavenly Emperor Yuji: Yuji Itadori!
"Sukuna! Give Fushiguro his body back!" Itadori pointed furiously at Sukuna.
Kinoshita did not stop Itadori. After all, sixteen-finger Sukuna could not deploy his domain, so even the Jujutsu High students who had not mastered Simple Domain could last a few exchanges against him.
Without hesitation, Kinoshita called Kugisaki and Panda over. "We might all be cannon fodder, but that doesn't mean we have no chance..."
Panda and Kugisaki watched Sukuna, ready to strike.
Because of his injuries, Sukuna was using Reverse Cursed Technique to heal.
Kinji Hakari was still fighting Kenjaku.
There was no better moment to attack.
"Too bad I used my strongest move on Takako Uro. She got to enjoy the whole thing." Facing Sukuna, Kinoshita felt a little nervous.
But beneath that nervousness, he felt even more excitement.
"Sukuna!!"
Itadori attacked first, and their powerful bodies collided in an instant.
Sukuna had never taken Itadori seriously, but after exchanging blows with him now, he couldn't help exclaiming, "You've really improved, brat!"
"Black Flash!!"
The black flash favored Itadori once again, and his all-out blow sent Sukuna crashing back to the ground.
Panda immediately switched to his Gorilla Mode and unleashed a fierce Drumming Beat at Sukuna.
But Sukuna did not even turn his head. He casually blocked it with a single arm.
"Damn it!"
Kugisaki seized the opportunity to fire a nail as well.
Sukuna not only kicked the stuffing out of Panda, but also turned gracefully and caught Kugisaki's nail between his fingers.
"Boring..."
"This is so boring."
Itadori roared as he leaped down from above.
Boom!
Once the smoke cleared...
Panda's gorilla core had been knocked out, and his triceratops core was instantly destroyed by Dismantle.
Kugisaki could not withstand even a single Dismantle. It struck her abdomen, and she collapsed on the spot, her fate unknown.
Only Itadori remained standing through sheer grit, coughing up blood.
Ten seconds.
The Jujutsu High group had failed to hold Sukuna off for even ten seconds.
"Construction Technique."
"Interesting... absolutely fascinating."
"Sukuna, I admire your talent. To think you could take binding vows this far!"
A voice came from above.
Sukuna looked up irritably at someone daring to stand higher than him.
"In exchange for the matter I construct disappearing after ten seconds, I can create it with an extremely low cursed energy cost."
The corners of Kinoshita's mouth rose.
He had succeeded.
By following Sukuna's example, he had actually managed to establish a binding vow!
More precisely, this binding vow linked the lifespan of the matter to its cursed energy cost.
As long as that lifespan was short enough, the cursed energy cost of Construction Technique could approach zero.
Construction Technique, which originally consumed an enormous amount of cursed energy, could now unleash endless possibilities in short bursts under Kinoshita's binding vow.
"Construction Technique? That looks familiar." Seeing someone imitate him left Sukuna rather displeased.
Especially when that someone was so weak.
"Die."
The battle began.
Kinoshita constructed a metal shell just hard enough to withstand a single Dismantle.
Under the relentless slashes, the shell around Kinoshita kept breaking, only to "grow" back a second later.
"So that's it!"
After five ineffective Dismantles, Sukuna gradually understood what Kinoshita was doing.
By constantly "refreshing" the matter, he gained practically limitless defense at an extremely low cursed energy cost.
Of course.
Sukuna immediately thought of two ways to counter it.
The first.
Although the metal shell refreshed every few seconds, sufficient power, or repeated hits to the same spot in rapid succession, would naturally allow him to injure Kinoshita himself.
"A domain..."
Exactly.
Once he deployed his domain, this problem would be easily solved.
Unfortunately, the moment Sukuna deployed his domain, Megumi Fushiguro's soul would resist him.
Perhaps he could kill Kinoshita before Megumi Fushiguro fought back, but who could say for certain?
The second method was simple.
He only needed to keep his distance.
His opponent's total cursed energy was, at most, comparable to that of a Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer.
With a dud technique like Construction Technique, Kinoshita would run out of mana in less than two minutes.
On top of that, excessive use of his cursed technique would soon overheat his brain.
"But that's how a loser thinks."
Sukuna smiled, the cursed energy in his hands increasing rather than diminishing.
He would kill Kinoshita before his cursed energy ran dry!!!
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