With their retreat cut off, the three could only steel themselves and press onward, crossing roads, clambering through trenches, and passing through one doorless room after another...
At last, they reached a cold, damp place.
A... swimming pool surrounded by tall buildings?
The layout was utterly arbitrary, defying all common sense!
The Divine Dogs went out first, followed by Megumi Fushiguro, the strongest among them. As a guy, Itadori naturally had to take the lead ahead of Nobara Kugisaki.
After briefly adjusting to their surroundings and checking for danger, Itadori was the first to notice the people lying there...
There were three in total... probably?
Two of them had been mashed into heaps-literal heaps. Their heads and feet were crushed together, their torsos forcibly squeezed into lumps, flesh intermingling in a horrific mess...
As for the only one whose features were still barely recognizable... only his face remained identifiable.
His lower half was gone. Maybe it had been eaten; maybe it was somewhere in the heap beside him. Who knew?
All the three teenagers knew was that he had died with his eyes wide open...
His passing had been anything but peaceful, and his death had been agonizing.
Itadori stepped forward and identified him by his clothes as A Zheng, the son of the woman outside the Juvenile Detention Center. "Hey, we can still recognize this guy's face. We have to take him out!"
He had to be given a proper death...
"How could a mother accept being told her son is dead without even seeing his body?!"
Suddenly, someone tugged Itadori's hood. The pull wasn't strong, but it came without warning, yanking him away from the mangled remains.
"Don't be an idiot. Our only mission is to confirm whether the five victims are alive or dead. Bringing back their