The strange sensation in his body suddenly vanished. That brat really was afraid of dying...
A hole gaped in his chest, blood trickling from the wound and dripping into the rubble at his feet. The feeling of having no heart inside him irritated him immensely, but it was also his only possible chance at freedom right now.
Sukuna rolled his shoulders, his bones cracking all over, and sneered at Kamo Xu with an arrogant grin.
"See? This is what you wanted to protect. A coward clinging to life."
He meant Itadori, who kept talking about protecting others, yet when someone risked his life for the choice Itadori had made, the brat abandoned his attempt to reclaim his body out of fear of dying...
"Heh heh heh. You have no idea how ridiculous this brat sounded before he called me out."
"He kept yelling that he was going to die, crying that he didn't want to die while admitting how weak he was."
"What a pathetic, contradictory little wretch!"
His unrestrained laughter drew the attention of everyone amid the rubble.
Some of the civilians still hadn't recovered from the terrifying scene or the searing pain of the slashes, but Megumi Fushiguro and the other jujutsu sorcerers forced themselves to look at the two figures in the center of the crater.
Both had frighteningly little cursed energy left, especially Kamo Xu.
He had drained almost every last bit of his cursed energy!
Without a doubt, it was because of the Reverse Cursed Technique he had just used.
To save everyone present, Kamo Xu had recklessly maintained his domain while continuously using Reverse Cursed Technique to heal every civilian and everyone from Jujutsu High.
Reverse Cursed Technique was not only difficult to use; projecting his cursed energy outward to heal others cost several