His skin felt as though it were being stripped away inch by inch. Agonizing pain swept through his entire body, reminding him of death by a thousand cuts, one of the ten great tortures of ancient times.
Endure it. I have to endure it!
Aikawa Kaze struggled to stay conscious as he aimed at Sukuna and unleashed his Noble Phantasm.
He desperately wanted to heal himself with Reverse Cursed Technique, but to release the Golden Armor from within his body, he could not interfere with the process. Healing would have to wait until after the attack.
This... doesn't look good, does it?
He remembered that hot spring trip, when Maki had accidentally injured him after her cursed energy was first "nullified," leaving him in so much pain that he had passed out.
He had considered improving his pain tolerance, but that wasn't something he could just train up whenever he felt like it!
Aikawa Kaze had no taste for masochism. Since he could protect himself, he naturally wouldn't deliberately get hurt, which meant his pain threshold hadn't changed at all.
If his determination to destroy Sukuna hadn't kept him going and barely steadied his shaking hands, he would have practically fired off target.
Only after he saw Ryomen Sukuna swallowed by the light of his Noble Phantasm and sensed the Heroic Spirit's presence disappear did he relax a little. The moment he let go, excruciating pain swept through his whole body.
Aikawa Kaze forced himself to use Reverse Cursed Technique, but even that needed time to repair the damage. Before two short seconds had passed, he blacked out from the pain again.
"Master! Are you all right?!"
Enkidu's expression changed. He had never imagined that the price of this Noble Phantasm would be so horrific.
There wasn't a patch of