Boom! Boom! Boom!
Red-eyed Long Xi and Ryu Ishigori were driven into the rubble at the same time!
Amid the dust, Takako Uro descended to hover in midair, her chest heaving.
"Damn Fujiwara brat..."
The Fujiwara brat she meant was probably Long Xi. After all, she had known the other man, Ryu Ishigori, for a long time.
But why did she call Long Xi a Fujiwara brat?
That required a look at her former identity, before Luosuo resurrected her through incarnation.
She had once belonged to an assassination unit directly under the Fujiwara Clan.
The Sun, Moon, and Stars Squad-forsaking the self in service to their masters.
She had lived her entire life in the shadows, unworthy of even having a name.
Later, those people gave her a name.
But only to make her a scapegoat, taking the blame for the Fujiwara Clan's murder of their own kin.
And so she hated them.
She hated them so much that whenever she disliked someone or wanted them dead, she would call them a Fujiwara.
In the original anime, Yuta Okkotsu really was a descendant of the Fujiwara Clan. Long Xi, however, had absolutely nothing to do with them!
Towering flames blasted the rubble apart!
Both Long Xis charged out at once.
Red-eyed Long Xi coughed up blood, swearing with absolute conviction.
"I'm Chinese, damn it!!"
Blue-eyed Long Xi forcibly straightened his twisted left arm, rapidly repairing it with Reverse Cursed Technique.
"Could you at least aim your insults properly? Even blanket accusations don't work like that! Learn some damn geography, will you!!!"
Below them, Ryu Ishigori also rose from the debris, casually tossed aside the enormous rock pinning him down, and shook the dust off his shoulders.
Cursed energy gathered again as he grinned and roared with laughter!
"I've still got a hell of an appetite!!"
"Let's keep taking great big bites!!!"
...Takako Uro showed no reaction to Long Xi's furious declaration that he was Chinese.
She had completely sunk into her own world.
She no longer wanted to hear anything. In her eyes, Long Xi's denial only meant he was afraid. He was terrified, refusing to admit the truth now that she had exposed him.
That only worked her up even more.
It was like some idiot driving a Cybertronian monster when the thing caught fire! Instead of stopping, they would just shout, "Burn your power cells! You Cybertronian monster!"
"You're afraid of me!!"
Takako Uro raised her hand, and the sky beneath her palm crumpled as though she were tugging at a piece of fabric!
"Afraid I can stand on my own, afraid of my power, afraid Fujiwara brats like you will never again be able to stand above everyone and control them!"
Long Xi's expression froze for a moment. Clearly, the last time he had encountered someone this unreasonable had been on Little X Book.
"If you've got a screw loose, go get it fixed! How can you blame other people for absolutely everything?!"
Long Xi could not be bothered reasoning with someone like her.
He was ready to shatter her Sendai spirit with three punches and make her cry, "Officer, I'm just an ordinary person!" If he failed to beat some sense into her, he would give up the surname Long!
"Hey! Takako Uro!"
"Have you ever been swallowed by flames?!"
The one standing before Takako Uro now was red-eyed Long Xi.
His first account-the flame account!
That was why he asked Takako Uro that question. But with his current strength, how did he dare talk so big to a Special Grade?!
The answer: emotional amplification!
At first, Long Xi had sometimes even found his thirtyfold emotional amplification a little disappointing...
For no other reason than that the charge time was simply too long.
Back then, his total cursed energy had been lower than even Mr. Ijichi's, allowing him to fully charge it in under a minute.
And that was already with a binding vow in place!
Now, even without the bonuses from his various binding vows, his own cursed energy had reached Grade 1!
The time required to charge it would become even longer!
If he still wanted that 3,000 percent boost without using any binding vows, he would probably need half an hour to finish charging now.
That was far too long.
So he crippled the ability and established a new binding vow!
In exchange for limiting his damage to three times its normal level, he compressed the charging time to roughly three or four seconds!
In other words, almost every attack Long Xi made could deliver his maximum threefold damage!
And if he landed another Black Flash on top of that!
Even if Takako Uro raised a spatial plane to defend herself, it would never hold!!
Just as Long Xi had anticipated, Takako Uro grasped the situation in an instant and chose to raise a spatial plane in defense!
She had already suffered once.
This time, she would not let Long Xi break through so easily!
But all of it was part of his plan!
Long Xi rushed right up to her in an instant.
"Black Flash!!!!"
Black lightning erupted as his fist swung forward. Takako Uro had never imagined he would actually land that blow!
Normally, it should have been incredibly difficult for anyone to pull off an attack like that!
And yet this man...
Takako Uro: Huh? He gets one just by asking?!
The fist, wreathed in flames and black lightning, slammed viciously into the spatial plane Takako Uro controlled!
Almost instantly, without offering even the slightest resistance, the spatial plane was punched straight through.
He had shattered it while she was still at full strength, without weakening her at all!
Takako Uro's pupils contracted. Before she could react, the remaining force of his punch sent her flying into the warped building hanging in midair!
Even after driving her into the building, Long Xi had no intention of stopping! He knew all too well how dangerous she was!
If cursed techniques were ranked, aside from those few names whose positions were practically beyond dispute, hers would absolutely place near the top!
If he did not finish her off quickly, he would never be able to face Ryu Ishigori with any peace of mind!
That would only put him at an even greater disadvantage!
Although his other self only needed to control that body and keep Ryu Ishigori occupied for a short while, exhausting both bodies at once put far too much strain on his mind.
Long Xi felt as though someone had stuffed his brain into a high-speed blender, like Dio stirring his own brain matter.
Without Reverse Cursed Technique constantly repairing it, his brain might already have overloaded with information and knocked him unconscious.
If his control reached Satoru Gojo's level, things would surely be much easier...
Under these circumstances, calmly focusing on repairing brain tissue, which was already extremely difficult to heal, was nothing but wishful thinking.
Easing the strain just a little was already the limit of what he could do...
Takako Uro escaped from the warped building with several new injuries, and her expression finally changed.
Long Xi opened up several meters of distance again, moved to the edge of the building, and began charging.
The warped floors slowly returned to the shape of a normal building. Takako Uro no longer had the attention to spare for wasting cursed energy on something like that!
"Fujiwara brat!"
Flames compressed in his palm! The dazzling light shifted from red to blue, then approached white!
The burning temperature climbed without limit, scorching even the air until it distorted! It was easy to imagine how much power he was putting into this attack.
Looking at Takako Uro, Long Xi suddenly spoke.
"I'm pretty curious about what happened to you..."
"To make you hate the Fujiwara so much..."
Takako Uro raised her hand, preparing to seize the plane of the sky again.
Long Xi compressed his flames further, gathering them at his fingertips as though charging Piercing Blood.
"But there's one thing I agree with you on..."
"There's nothing wrong with living for yourself!"
Takako Uro's movements stopped for an instant, but it was only a brief lapse. Long Xi did not choose that moment to crush her.
She was strong enough that he ought to show her some respect!
Otherwise, he would be nothing but trash who lacked the courage to face her head-on!
The flames in Long Xi's palm grew brighter and brighter. As his charging time stretched on, a strange smile spread across his face.
He would face her head-on, of course.
But nobody had said he could not play a little dirty!
This was not a speech delivered during stopped time. Of course he had been sneakily charging his attack the whole time he talked to her!
Why else would he be saying all this?!
"If possible, I'd even be willing to be your friend..."
Takako Uro froze again. She had probably never expected anyone to say something like that in a fight to the death.
There was no pity, nor any air of superiority.
Was it simply an invitation?
For an instant, she even considered whether such a thing might be possible-but only for an instant!
She raised both hands again!
There was no chance!
"Stop disgusting me with that nonsense."
"You little brat!"
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