In his Inner World, Sukuna watched Itadori eat the fingers one by one, feeling a little nervous.
Back then, he had wondered whether collecting all twenty fingers would let him summon the Divine Dragon...
Only now did he realize that this wasn't summoning the Divine Dragon at all. This was summoning Sukuna himself!
Well, Sukuna had finally figured out how this card-collecting game worked!
As the fingers were swallowed, the sinister, icy presence within the innate domain grew stronger and stronger.
Sukuna sat on the bed, but the drowsiness he had expected never came. Puzzled, he stood and left the hut-then stared in astonishment at the changes unfolding in the innate domain.
A pitch-black Curtain rapidly descended from the outermost edge of the innate domain, concealing everything happening within it from the outside world.
Vast surges of cursed energy gathered and swirled overhead, forming a violent tornado at the very center. Its tip plunged straight toward the hut where he had been.
Alarm flashed in his eyes. He darted away from Bone Mountain, landing in the sea of blood below after a few bounds.
He looked up. Everywhere he could see, raging cursed energy filled the space. The swirling winds tore at the surrounding air with sharp, piercing howls.
He hurriedly summoned his cursed energy to resist it, only to discover in shock that the surrounding wind was slowly drawing the cursed energy out of his body.
Black cursed energy suffused with a bloody glow seeped out of him, and the cursed markings on his wrists began to fade as it drained away.
The cursed energy within him floated uncontrollably into the air, merging with the enormous vortex overhead. Intertwining red and black light released dense energy like pitch-black lightning, and almost tangible power condensed above the hut.
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