Watch me stand firm as a mountain

Suguru Geto frowned and summoned Cursed Spirits to escort Riko Amanai away.

Toji Fushiguro watched as Miwa Chisei suddenly turned back, her scarlet eyes utterly serious.

"You're not my target. Why insist on getting in my way?"

Toji Fushiguro twirled a chain in his hand. Attached to one end was the special-grade Cursed Tool that had pierced Satoru Gojo, known as the Inverted Spear of Heaven.

"I wouldn't mind if you chatted with me for three minutes."

Miwa Chisei suppressed her emotions beneath her cold expression. What she really wanted was to beat this man unconscious, but she wasn't strong enough yet.

"I won't kill you. Turn around and run now, and I'll let you go."

Toji Fushiguro spoke with a smile, though that smile made his words far less convincing.

But at that moment, Toji Fushiguro genuinely had no desire to kill Miwa Chisei. More precisely, he had no interest in killing anyone other than his target.

As for Satoru Gojo, that guy was a problem. Unless he killed him, he couldn't get anywhere near his target.

"Go ahead and try. If you kill me, I'll drag you down to hell with me."

Miwa Chisei formed a complex hand sign, her eyes brimming with murderous intent as she stared at Toji Fushiguro.

That was an outright threat. The girl before him looked furious.

An unexpected second troublemaker.

Toji Fushiguro's eyes darkened slightly. He gripped the Inverted Spear of Heaven, his muscles taut like a black panther poised to spring.

"Sure. I'm looking forward to it."

Here he comes!

Toji Fushiguro was fast. In an instant, he hurled the Inverted Spear of Heaven, guiding its trajectory with the chain as it shot toward Miwa Chisei.

Yet the girl calmly clenched her fist and slammed it into the ground in front of her. The earth cracked and caved in, and surprise flashed through Toji Fushiguro's eyes.

"Fly over it if you've got the guts."

With that, Miwa Chisei mercilessly struck the ground again. Black Flash came roaring forth, sending sand and stones swirling through the air. The rising dust obscured Toji Fushiguro's vision.

The ground beneath his feet was riddled with craters. Toji Fushiguro lost his footing, but leaped high into the air, drawing an enormous blade from the mouth of the Cursed Spirit coiled around him.

He swung it forcefully downward several times, and the gusts from his blade swept the debris aside, revealing the girl clearly-without hesitation, he brought the huge blade straight toward her face!

But Miwa Chisei flashed an eerie smile. Throwing caution to the wind, she leaped up and wrapped her arms around Toji Fushiguro's thigh.

Toji Fushiguro: ?

Then he saw the girl's hair coil around him as though it were alive. They hung in the air for a heartbeat before crashing to the ground.

"I've already passed Judgment on myself. Even if I die, I'll stay right here, immovable as a mountain."

"You're really strong. I honestly want to run. I can't even last three minutes, but that would count as breaking our agreement, wouldn't it? Integrity matters most to a businesswoman."

It was Toji Fushiguro's first time seeing a technique like this. He tried to raise his leg and kick away the girl clinging to his thigh, but that leg wouldn't budge, as though it had been filled with lead.

My body, with its Heavenly Restriction, would tear through her Judgment, so she placed it on herself to create a chain reaction?

Fuck. I really can't get up.

"Let go, or I'll cut you to pieces!"

Miwa Chisei sneered. "Then do it!"

She was gambling on whether Toji Fushiguro was truly a psychopath who slaughtered people without a second thought, or simply someone working for a bounty.

Sure enough, Toji Fushiguro's face twisted. He could bring himself to kill Satoru Gojo with a touch of personal resentment; after all, he had long since prepared himself for it. That kid would get in the way of plenty of his bounty jobs.

But he hadn't prepared himself to kill this girl. The image of her telling him he ought to spend more time with Megumi even flashed through his mind.

There seemed to be a little longing in her expression. Did she miss her own family?

Toji Fushiguro plunged the Inverted Spear of Heaven into Miwa Chisei's arm, his black eyes filled with ice.

"Let go, or next time it'll be your heart!"

"Stab me, then. Even as a corpse, I'll stay immovable as a mountain—that's the Miwa Family Judgment. It transcends time and life."

For the first time in his life, Toji Fushiguro felt truly stumped. The girl's expressionless face held extraordinary resolve.

Was she sick in the head? Had she gone insane?

"Fine. Then I'll slice you into tiny little pieces and see how you hold me down after that."

Toji Fushiguro's voice was soft, a hint of madness lurking in his narrowed eyes.

Miwa Chisei caught that look, and her heart sank.

He's seriously going to do it. I've already said all those badass lines-wouldn't running now be pathetic? It's only been two minutes. Have Suguru Geto and that young lady found somewhere safe?

More importantly, have they found Satoru Gojo?

That guy... was he still alive?

No matter what, she couldn't give Toji Fushiguro a chance to finish him off.

Miwa Chisei gritted his teeth and silently cursed the Scourge of the Gojo Clan ten thousand times.

Screw it. I'm going all in!