Strength

A pitch-black figure, like a demon god descending from the heavens, slammed down in front of Asakura Yuki amid a devastating surge of air!

Bam!

The floor of the entire slaughterhouse shook violently!

The terrifying shock wave became a visible blast of air, instantly sending every grade 3 cursed spirit lunging at her flying!

The dust cleared.

Yagami Jue slowly straightened.

With one hand in his pocket, he turned his head slightly and glanced at Asakura Yuki on the ground as though she were garbage.

"Waiting to die with your eyes shut?"

"This is what you meant by getting stronger?"

Yagami Jue's voice was ice-cold, yet at that moment, it was the most reassuring sound Asakura Yuki had ever heard!

"Yagami!"

Asakura Yuki's eyes flew open. Looking at the broad back before her, she burst into tears!

He came!

He really came!

"Shut up. Keep crying and I'll throw you to the pigs."

Yagami Jue cut her off impatiently and turned toward the grade 3 cursed spirits that had climbed back up after being flung away.

"A few small fry dare steal my prey?"

A vicious gleam flashed in Yagami Jue's eyes.

There was no need for words.

Whoosh!

His figure vanished instantly!

He unleashed all 152 points of speed!

Under Asakura Yuki's utterly stunned gaze, Yagami Jue became a black afterimage, darting among the cursed spirits!

Splurch! Splurch! Splurch!

He used no weapons.

Nothing but raw physical strength!

Every punch Yagami Jue threw cracked with a sonic boom!

He punched straight through one grade 3 cursed spirit's chest!

He split another in two with a knife-hand strike!

With a kick in midair, he stomped the last three spirits' heads into pulp!

Black blood and brains splattered all over the walls!

In less than ten seconds.

All five or six grade 3 cursed spirits crumbled to ash!

"Holy shit... he's insane..."

Huddled in the corner, Asakura Yuki even forgot to cry.

Her mouth hung open as she stared blankly at Yagami Jue's brutally savage slaughter.

It was ten thousand times more breathtaking than a Hollywood action blockbuster!

[Ding! Six grade 3 cursed spirits killed. Reward: 120,000 Japanese yen!]

The system notification sounded.

Yagami Jue shook the grime off his hand, but his brow remained furrowed.

"Stop playing dead. You're the one I'm here for."

Yagami Jue stared fixedly at the massive iron cold-storage door shut tight at the back of the slaughterhouse.

"All your lackeys are dead. How much longer are you going to hide, you fat pig?"

The moment he finished speaking!

Boom!!!

The blastproof cold-storage door, weighing several tons, was blasted clean off by a terrifying display of brute force from inside!

The heavy iron door tumbled through the air like a sheet of paper and crashed beside Yagami Jue's feet!

A nauseating stench, accompanied by purple-black cursed energy so dense it was almost tangible, surged out of the cold-storage room like a tsunami!

The air temperature instantly dropped to freezing!

"Urgh..."

The stench made Asakura Yuki retch outright. Her eyes rolled back, and the terrifying pressure nearly frightened her into unconsciousness!

Thud... thud... thud...

Heavy footsteps came from deep within the cold-storage room.

With every step, the entire slaughterhouse trembled slightly.

Under Yagami Jue's icy gaze.

A terrifying monster four meters tall, like a mountain of flesh, slowly emerged from the shadows!

He had an enormous pig's head, two sharp tusks jutting from the corners of his mouth, and countless human arms and legs stitched into the fat covering his body!

In his thick right hand.

He dragged a massive, rusty boning knife two meters long, coated in black blood!

The blade scraped along the ground, trailing a shower of glaring sparks!

A grade 1 cursed spirit! Butcher!

"Fresh meat..."

The Butcher Cursed Spirit let out a bloodcurdling growl, its enormous pig eyes fixed on Yagami Jue.

His violent cursed energy fluctuations were more than ten times stronger than the Wheelchair Cursed Spirit's!

[Ding! Grade 1 cursed spirit fluctuations detected!]

[Black Market bounty: 10 million Japanese yen!]

"Prey worth ten million."

Yagami Jue felt no fear. Instead, excitement made every muscle in his body tremble!

This was a real fight!

This was the kind of deadly struggle that made his blood boil!

"You big, stupid pig."

Yagami Jue's lips curled into a crazed grin as he beckoned the Butcher Cursed Spirit with a finger.

"Come on. Let me see how much punishment all that fat can take!"

Roar!!!

The Butcher Cursed Spirit was thoroughly enraged by Yagami Jue's taunt!

He raised his enormous, two-meter-long boning knife, his massive body exploding forward with terrifying speed utterly at odds with his size!

He crossed more than ten meters and brought the blade straight down at Yagami Jue's head!

Whoosh!!!

The violent wind from the blade carved a deep furrow into the floor!

If that strike landed squarely, it could cleave even an armored vehicle in two!

"Yagami! Get out of the way!"

Asakura Yuki screamed from the corner, terrified, tears streaming down her face!

Dodge?

Yagami Jue sneered.

That word isn't in my fucking dictionary!

"That's more like it!"

Yagami Jue pushed off hard with both legs, blasting a large crater into the floor!

Rather than retreat, he surged forward and punched straight at the overwhelming blade descending upon him!

Pure physical power!

A staggering 360 points of strength!

Meeting a grade 1 cursed spirit's terrifying slash head-on!

Boom!!!

His fist and the massive blade collided violently in midair!

A visible white shock wave radiated outward in a ring from the two of them!

Even the slaughterhouse's load-bearing pillars creaked under the unbearable force of the blast!

Asakura Yuki was knocked flat by the gale and rolled several times before coming to a stop!

Crack... crack!

Then came a teeth-grating sound of shattering!

Before the Butcher Cursed Spirit's incredulous eyes.

Web-like cracks began spreading across his supposedly indestructible boning knife, formed from densely concentrated cursed energy!

"Fucking shatter!"

Yagami Jue roared. His arm muscles swelled again, unleashing a second burst of savage power!

Bang!

Yagami Jue's earth-shattering punch smashed the enormous boning knife into fragments that filled the air!

"Roar?!"

The Butcher Cursed Spirit let out a terrified howl. The recoil from that punch knocked its massive body back three or four steps!

Each step left a deep footprint in the ground!

"A monster... he's the real monster!"

Lying on the floor, Asakura Yuki stared at the lean back of the man who had stopped a four-meter beast with one arm, so stunned she forgot to breathe!

No cursed energy!

He had shattered a grade 1 cursed spirit's weapon with physical strength alone!

Was he a god descended to earth?!

"Too weak!"

Yagami Jue shook his slightly numb right hand, his eyes brimming with savagery and contempt.

"You're worth ten million with this pathetic strength?"

He gave the Butcher Cursed Spirit no chance to catch its breath.

Whoosh!

Yagami Jue became a bolt of black lightning and closed in instantly!

Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!

A storm of attacks rained down on the Butcher Cursed Spirit's enormous body!

A left hook! A knee strike! A whip kick! A downward chop!

Every blow cracked with a sonic boom!

Every blow carried enough terrifying force to pulverize reinforced concrete!

The Butcher Cursed Spirit's massive body shook wildly in midair like a gigantic punching bag under Yagami Jue's blows, spraying black blood!

He tried to fight back with the arms stitched onto his body.

But Yagami Jue was too fast!

With 152 points of speed, he became an untraceable phantom in the Butcher Cursed Spirit's eyes!

Rip!

With a knife-hand strike, Yagami Jue severed more than a dozen arms on the Butcher Cursed Spirit's left side at their roots!

"Aaaaargh!"

The Butcher Cursed Spirit squealed like a pig being slaughtered. It was utterly terrified!

The human before him had no cursed energy at all, yet his body was even more monstrous than the legendary Sukuna's!

"Trying to run?"

He noticed the Butcher Cursed Spirit trying to turn and flee back into the cold-storage room.

An icy glint flashed in Yagami Jue's eyes.

"System!"

"Put all ten million in my account into strength!"

[Ding!]

[Successfully deducted 10 million Japanese yen!]

[Strength +1,000! Current strength: 1,360!]

Boom!!!!!

At that very instant.

It was as though a one-megaton nuclear bomb had detonated inside Yagami Jue's body!