An anomaly appeared above the barren battlefield left by Chinatsu and Sukuna's fight-or rather, in the skies over the entire country. Even the two of them, poised to tear into each other, were shaken by it.
Both immediately thought of Kenjaku, lurking in the shadows and quietly building his strength. Sukuna's face, in particular, twisted with disgust.
"Kenjaku? What a revolting piece of work." Sukuna tilted his head up toward the strange sky and spoke in a low voice.
If the cursed energy Sukuna released embodied absolute evil and an overwhelming sense of danger,
then the cursed energy emanating from the sky leaned more toward unease and a weight on the heart. It was like watching a bomb with its fuse burning, filling people with dread and waves of suffocating pressure.
At the same time, because Chinatsu knew Kenjaku's original plan, she found the anomaly in the sky even harder to believe. It was difficult to connect it to him.
She was certain that Tengen, who possessed the Immortality Technique, could not possibly be in Kenjaku's hands. Yet Tengen's existence should have been the most indispensable part of his plan.
Could he carry out the plan without Tengen? Right, if his plan were impossible to execute, he wouldn't have turned the whole country into something resembling the Culling Game in the original work. But how exactly had he managed it...?
The early days of the nationwide chaos.
When Chinatsu first learned what had happened, she did not immediately use Teleportation's high mobility to save ordinary people. Instead, she rushed straight to Tengen as though charging off to confront her father's killer.
Tengen was still bewildered at the time. She had set up all sorts of barriers throughout the country, so whenever something happened, she was undoubtedly the first to notice.