Instant kill

Roppongi, an abandoned upscale office building.

This once-bustling office building had been sealed off after a string of mysterious deaths inside.

Now, thick darkness and an ominous aura shrouded the entire building.

"Drip... drip..."

The sound of a leaking pipe echoed through the empty lobby.

Yagami Jue strolled into the lobby with his hands in his pockets.

He didn't turn on the lights.

But his physique of over twenty thousand let him see in the darkness as clearly as in daylight.

"System, open my status panel."

[Host: Yagami Jue]

[Current realm: Heavenly Tyrant (initial stage)]

[Account balance: 0 yen]

[Physique: 20538]

[Strength: 10610]

[Speed: 11552]

The glaring "0" irritated Yagami Jue.

"Hopefully, this special grade will drop a little more cash."

He followed the stairs upward.

Along the way, he casually crushed a few grade 2 and grade 3 cursed spirits foolish enough to get in his way.

But that didn't even count as a warm-up for him.

At last, he reached the top floor.

The office building's top floor had originally housed a luxurious open-air swimming pool.

But now, there was no water in the pool.

Instead, it was filled with thick, scarlet blood!

In the center of the blood pool.

An enormous ball of flesh floated.

Countless baby faces covered the ball of flesh, constantly letting out bloodcurdling cries.

The special grade cursed spirit-Grudge Womb!

"Waaah-!"

At the sight of Yagami Jue, all the baby faces stopped crying at once.

They turned in unison, fixing their hollow eyes on Yagami Jue.

"Fresh... flesh..."

"So hungry... so hungry..."

Accompanied by those nauseating voices.

The blood in the pool began to churn violently.

Countless enormous tentacles formed from blood lashed at Yagami Jue in a wild, frenzied dance!

"Disgusting thing." Yagami Jue snorted.

Bang!

He stomped his right foot hard against the ground!

The solid concrete floor exploded instantly!

He became a bolt of black lightning, charging straight at the bloody tentacles instead of dodging!

"Break, damn you!"

All 10610 points of his terrifying strength erupted without restraint!

Yagami Jue unleashed his fists in a furious barrage!

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Those bloody tentacles could easily smash an armored vehicle to pieces.

But beneath Yagami Jue's devastating fists.

They were like fragile noodles, blasted apart one after another!

They scattered into a rain of blood!

"Waaaaaah!"

Grudge Womb let out an agonized shriek.

It had never imagined that the human before it, who possessed not a trace of cursed energy, could have such a terrifying body!

"Die!"

Yagami Jue broke through the tentacles and appeared above the blood pool in an instant.

He leaped high.

His right leg swung like a battle-axe, accompanied by a shrill sonic boom.

It cleaved down viciously toward the enormous ball of flesh in the center of the pool!

BOOOOM-!!!!!

A deafening crash shook the heavens!

The entire office building trembled violently under the blow!

His stomp punched an enormous hole straight through the top floor!

Under Yagami Jue's terrifying strength of over ten thousand, Grudge Womb's massive body.

Was cleaved in half before it could even attempt to defend itself!

Black cursed energy dispersed!

An instant kill!

Yet another special grade killed in a single blow!

[Ding! Special grade cursed spirit killed!]

[Loot dropped: 50 million yen!]

"Too weak." Yagami Jue landed amid the rubble, curling his lip in disdain.

Just as he was about to leave and collect the 150-million-yen bounty at the Black Market.

Something unexpected happened!

"Heh heh heh..."

A cold, raspy laugh suddenly drifted from the office building's shadows.

"As expected of prey worth a five-hundred-million bounty."

"You can even kill a special grade cursed spirit in a single blow."

Yagami Jue whipped his head around.

A man wearing a black robe and a ghastly white mask slowly emerged from the shadows.

Behind him.

Four others followed, each radiating an utterly terrifying aura.

Two men and two women.

Every one of them gave off fluctuations of cursed energy far beyond those of an ordinary special grade cursed spirit!

"Special grade curse users?" Yagami Jue narrowed his eyes.

"No, we're not those worthless curse users."

The masked man slowly removed his mask.

He revealed an unsettling face with stitches across its forehead!

Kenjaku!

"A pleasure to meet you, Yagami Jue." Kenjaku wore a gentle smile, but an exceedingly dangerous light glinted in his eyes.

"These four are a little 'gift' I prepared especially for you."

"The four great special grade cursed spirits-Jogo, Hanami, Dagon, and..."

Kenjaku's gaze settled on one of the long-haired men.

"Mahito."

Upon hearing those four names.

Yagami Jue's heart jolted!

The four disaster-level special grade cursed spirits from the original story!

Kenjaku had actually gathered all of them here at this point?!

How was that possible?!

The plot had only just begun!

Did crushing Sukuna's Finger send the plot completely off the rails?

Yagami Jue cursed inwardly.

But this sudden turn of events didn't frighten him.

On the contrary.

The battle-hungry blood in his veins began to boil!

"Hahahahaha!"

Yagami Jue threw back his head and laughed wildly, his laughter brimming with arrogance and brutality.

"Four special grades?"

"Perfect!"

"I was just worrying about how to make some money!"

"Since you four pieces of trash delivered yourselves to my doorstep, I'll slaughter every last one of you today!"

Jogo, the cursed spirit whose head resembled a volcano, flew into a rage at those words.

"Arrogant human brat!"

"You're a worthless wretch without cursed energy, yet you dare mouth off to us!"

"I'll burn you to ashes!"

A jet of scorching magma suddenly erupted from the crater atop Jogo's head!

He swept his hands, sending countless enormous fireballs hurtling toward Yagami Jue like a meteor shower!

"Meteor!"

The terrifying heat instantly warped the surrounding air.

Even reinforced concrete would melt into molten metal the instant it touched those flames!

"Playing with fire?"

Yagami Jue stood where he was, making no attempt to dodge.

He snorted coldly.

"With these 20538 points of physique."

"Even if you shoved that shitty volcano into my mouth, I could chew it up and swallow it!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Countless fireballs slammed into Yagami Jue!

Violent explosions erupted!

Flames instantly engulfed his entire body!

"Hmph. Just a worthless loudmouth." Jogo sneered smugly.

However.

The next second.

His smile froze on his face.

The flames gradually dispersed.

Yagami Jue stood there completely unharmed!

Even the ordinary black hoodie he wore hadn't been scorched in the slightest!

Against his terrifying physique of over twenty thousand.

Jogo's flames were like a gentle breeze against his face, incapable of even breaching his defenses!

"Th-this is impossible!"

Jogo's eyes widened as though he'd seen a ghost.

"How can you not have a single burn?!"

"My turn."

Yagami Jue's icy voice sounded like a death sentence.

Whoosh!

He stamped his foot, his speed instantly surging to its limit!

Bang!

A thunderous sonic boom!

Yagami Jue appeared before Jogo as though he had teleported.

His right fist hurtled toward Jogo's head with terrifying, overwhelming force!

"Watch out!"

Seeing this, Hanami slammed both hands against the ground.

"Deep Forest Emergence!"

Countless thick trees and vines burst from the ground like enormous pythons.

In an instant, they interwove into a wooden shield several meters thick in front of Jogo!

"Shatter, damn you!"

Yagami Jue roared, his punch losing none of its momentum!

BOOOOM!!!!!

His fist collided with the wooden shield.

That shield of trees could withstand a full-force strike from a Special Grade Sorcerer of Jujutsu High.

But against Yagami Jue's raw physical force, which exceeded ten thousand points.

It was no sturdier than brittle firewood, exploding into fragments in an instant!

Wood chips flew everywhere!

"What?!" Hanami was horrified!

Yagami Jue's fist punched through the wooden shield without losing momentum and viciously grazed Jogo's shoulder!

SPLURT!

The terrifying blast of wind from his punch shredded one of Jogo's arms into a mist of blood!

"AAAAAAAH!"

Jogo stumbled backward, screaming, his eyes filled with utter terror.

This human.

He was a monster they had no hope of standing against!

"Too weak."

Yagami Jue withdrew his fist and stared coldly at the four disaster-level Special Grades before him.

"All four of you, come at me together."