As Hanami unleashed her Domain Expansion, the classic closed domain barrier spread over their surroundings until it formed a sphere enclosing Hanami, Mei Mei, and Itadori.
Countless golden flowers carpeted the ground inside the barrier, while the sky turned to a golden dusk. Butterflies fluttered past them, and everything looked so beautiful, so utterly harmless.
Suppression of fighting spirit!
Mei Mei frowned slightly. The moment she noticed something wrong with her condition, she bit her tongue without hesitation, using the pain to clear her head as much as possible. Yet the suppression of her fighting spirit was only the appetizer.
Mei Mei could clearly feel the cursed energy inside her rapidly draining away. More precisely, her cursed energy was being devoured.
Was it these golden flowers?!
Mei Mei soon identified the source of the anomaly. She also noticed that Yuji Itadori, standing behind her, was unaffected. Apparently, the domain's full effects had been concentrated on her alone.
While Mei Mei considered how to respond, the garbled sounds coming from Hanami's mouth reached her mind and were converted into human language.
"This is my domain, [Gluttonous Sea of Light]. Within it, both my cursed energy output and the effects of my cursed technique are enhanced. The domain greedily devours its target's cursed energy. Once that energy is exhausted, it automatically begins absorbing the target's life force."
As Hanami finished speaking, Mei Mei could distinctly feel the flowers devouring her cursed energy even faster.
This was... cursed technique disclosure!
Both cursed spirits and jujutsu sorcerers could strengthen certain abilities by revealing how they worked. This was a form of "binding vow."
Although Yuji Itadori was unaffected by the domain behind Mei Mei, he wasn't blind. Naturally, he could tell that something was wrong with her and that the battle had turned against