"Wait, no!" Itadori immediately realized something was wrong.
Although the man before him resembled Fushiguro, a closer look revealed that he was considerably bigger-and had absolutely no cursed energy!
Kinoshita rolled aside and finally got a clear look at the newcomer.
No.
Judging by the timing, Jogo should have already intervened in Megumi Fushiguro's fight, and Megumi should already be fighting Toji Fushiguro.
But Kinoshita quickly caught on. Toji was driven by instinct to seek out powerful opponents.
After killing Dagon, Toji had instinctively locked onto Megumi Fushiguro, who possessed an incomplete domain.
But now, it seemed Choso's attack earlier had thrown off Toji's targeting and brought him charging over here instead!
Sure enough, when Kinoshita got a good look at the newcomer, it was Toji, wearing a wicked grin and holding the now-sharpened Playful Cloud!
Toji won't come after me until he's killed the strong ones. That's good news!
Despite that advantage, Kinoshita still felt a little annoyed.
Fortunately, though, the newcomer was Toji. It looked like he wouldn't get caught up in the fight.
"Yuji, watch out! This guy is fast. Even with Flowing Red Scale: Stack, I could barely keep up with his movements."
Seeing Choso's missing arm, Itadori asked worriedly, "Can you still restore your arm?"
Choso froze, then his face lit up with delight. "Yuji's actually worried about his big brother!"
"Buy me ten seconds, and I can reattach it!"
Itadori nodded, gathering cursed energy around both hands again.
Then Toji blurred, seeming to vanish into thin air.
"Ugh!!"
Toji's flying kick slammed into Itadori's arm. Itadori forced himself to catch the blow, then used the momentum to swing a fist at Toji.
Seeing the astonishing toughness of Itadori's body, Toji couldn't keep a grin off his face.
They exchanged a few moves.
With the advantage of his cursed tool, Toji left cuts on Itadori's face.
Just as he was about to press his attack, Choso finally finished recovering.
"How dare you hurt my little brother!!"
"Piercing Blood!"
With his superb evasive skills, Toji easily dodged the straight-line attack.
Choso wasn't disappointed when his attack missed. He even smiled.
"You're fast. I have to use a draining ability like Flowing Red Scale: Stack just to barely keep up."
"But no matter how fast you are, you can't move faster than flying blood!"
"Supernova!"
This was an ability Choso had developed himself, bursting compressed blood to attack his enemies.
If Piercing Blood was a powerful sniper rifle, then Supernova was a shotgun with an enormous blast radius!
Toji turned to look at Itadori, only to find him already hiding behind a panel of Blood Armor.
The next instant-
Boom!
Toji shielded his head with both hands and was blasted several meters away.
Kinoshita silently thanked his luck that he'd hidden far enough away.
The drawback of Supernova was that its attack radius couldn't be controlled. Even Choso himself had to avoid the blood's impact.
"Come on! Take Toji down, and I'll have another impressive achievement on my evaluation!" Kinoshita muttered, afraid Toji might notice him.
After a brief pause, Toji blurred again.
Choso activated Flowing Red Scale: Stack and caught Toji's physical attack with both hands.
"Blood Gauntlets!"
Hard blood encased Choso's hands, and he drove a heavy punch toward Toji.
Toji cleanly caught the attack, then sent Choso flying with another whipping kick.
"Black Flash!"
At some point, Itadori had appeared behind Toji.
Kinoshita saw how in sync they were. They really were brothers-even their first fight together showed astonishing teamwork.
The armor used to defend against Supernova had never disappeared, but Itadori had actually slipped into Toji's blind spot long ago, waiting for his chance!
"Now that's the master of Black Flash!!"
"Even at his lowest, our boy Itadori had Jujutsu Kaisen made about him!"
Kinoshita's blood boiled with excitement as he watched. He even wanted to jump in and throw a few kicks himself.
As the black flash warped space, even Toji was sent flying, unable to recover for some time.
"Choso!" Itadori roared, with no intention of giving Toji a moment's respite.
"Piercing Blood!!!"
Both attacks came at once. Before Toji had recovered from Black Flash, Itadori was already charging straight at him!
"Are they going to win?" Kinoshita asked excitedly.
Whoosh!!
Toji dodged the initial Piercing Blood at an incredibly tricky angle, then pressed close to Itadori. He chose neither to attack nor to defend. He simply danced!!
Choso silently cursed.
Although Piercing Blood was powerful, it was ultimately a straight line fired from his hands. As long as Toji stayed close to Itadori, Choso had no choice but to stop pursuing him with it!
Caught in a pincer attack, Toji could neither flee nor fight, so he chose the most elegant way to defuse the crisis!!
"Isn't that way too sneaky? And he's doing it without a conscious mind, on pure combat instinct!" Kinoshita complained.
Once Piercing Blood was neutralized, the grin at the corner of Toji's mouth grew increasingly manic.
Under Playful Cloud's vicious barrage, Itadori was completely unable to fight back and could only retreat again and again.
"Yuji! Get behind me!" Choso was already suffering side effects from Flowing Red Scale: Stack.
He formed Blood Gauntlets and was just about to help Itadori when Toji swung Playful Cloud, knocked the gauntlets aside, then kicked Itadori away and clamped a hand around Choso's neck.
"That stance... he looks so strong..." Kinoshita swallowed.
In that scene, Toji seemed to be saying, Do you want to dance too?
"Damn it!"
Naturally, Toji wouldn't give Choso a chance to activate his cursed technique. He viciously drove Playful Cloud into Choso's heart.
"Choso!!"
Itadori immediately rushed in and knocked Toji away with a punch.
"Are you okay, Choso?" Itadori stood in front of Choso and asked anxiously.
"Cough, cough!"
Choso exposed his chest. His heart, which should have been pierced, was protected by thick Blood Armor.
"I'm fine. The wound's shallow." Choso turned to face Toji again.
He had no idea where someone so powerful had come from-someone who didn't even use cursed energy and relied solely on physical combat.
Choso shouted to Kinoshita, over a hundred meters away, "How much do you know about this guy?"
Kinoshita gave a cold chuckle and slapped both hands against his knees.
"Don't underestimate me, the Mysterious Account-Opening Guy!!"
"Toji Fushiguro was originally a descendant of the Zenin Clan, but those stubborn old fools bullied and discriminated against him, driving Toji, who possessed a heavenly restriction, to leave home!"
"Even the scar at the corner of his mouth came from being thrown into a pit of cursed spirits because of the Zenin Clan's discrimination!"
"He's Megumi Fushiguro's biological father, and the man who killed Satoru Gojo-only to be killed by Satoru Gojo himself!"
"He's a revenant who crawled out of hell through Impure World Reincarnation!"
After Kinoshita's impassioned explanation, Itadori and Choso could only stare in utter bewilderment.
"What's this guy talking about!?"
"What does he mean, he killed Satoru Gojo and was then killed by Satoru Gojo?"
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