Let us turn back the clock a little over ten minutes, to when Kenjaku was still clinging to life and casting his curse on Chinatsu.
"Chinatsu, I curse you to never again enjoy the happiness you long for as an ordinary person. You defeated me, so become this world's new Buddha! Break free of the shackles in your heart and release the true self you've suppressed for all these years!!!"
His face twisted grotesquely, Kenjaku extended a finger toward Chinatsu. Overwhelming cursed energy and negative emotions suddenly swept toward her like an ocean, swallowing her in their flood before she could react.
All manner of negative emotions appeared in Chinatsu's eyes like hideous, vengeful ghosts. A suffocating sensation welled up from deep within her heart, as though she were trapped in a mire and slowly sinking.
Chinatsu raised an arm, trying to struggle free of the mire, but how could a single person's mind easily withstand such an enormous mass of mental forces?
After struggling for a moment, she lowered her arm. Just before the negative emotions could corrupt her surface consciousness, Chinatsu used the last of her awareness to form the hand seal for Domain Expansion, as though holding her breath.
[Domain Expansion: Mirror Flower, Water Moon!]
The domain opened and dissolved in an instant, for it encompassed only her. Mirror Flower, Water Moon, which had always targeted others, now targeted herself, successfully separating her original consciousness from her corrupted consciousness in the nick of time.
It was the only solution Chinatsu could devise in so little time-a last resort, and her trump card.
Deep within Chinatsu's mental world, two Chinatsus stood facing each other.
One constantly radiated dense cursed energy. Her hair and clothes billowed in its surging currents as though caught in the wind, and her expression