Arrogance

"I'm in a fucking hurry to collect my bounty."

Arrogance!

Utter arrogance!

Even facing the four Special Grades, he still didn't take them seriously!

Mahito, who hadn't said a word until now, slowly stepped forward.

An unnervingly strange smile spread across his stitch-covered face.

"What an exciting soul."

"No cursed energy, yet a body this powerful."

"If I could touch your soul and turn you into my toy..."

"It would surely be a perfect masterpiece!"

Mahito extended both hands, and countless eyes opened in his palms.

Idle Transfiguration!

One touch from him would instantly reshape a soul, causing the body to collapse along with it!

"You're welcome to try."

Yagami Jue's gaze was icy, utterly fearless.

His constitution of over twenty thousand points provided more than physical defense.

It also gave his soul absolute protection!

Wanted to alter his soul?

Then they'd have to see whether this body would allow it!

"Kill him!" Kenjaku ordered coldly from behind.

The four Special Grade Cursed Spirits unleashed terrifying cursed energy at once!

Flames, trees, torrents of water, and eerie soul attacks.

They poured down on Yagami Jue from four directions simultaneously!

Even Satoru Gojo would have needed to expand his domain to handle an attack like this!

But Yagami Jue had no domain.

All he had was absolute physical violence!

"System!"

"Activate it!"

"Eight Gates Formation-First Gate! Gate of Opening!"

BOOM!!!!!

A visible wave of white air erupted from Yagami Jue's body!

His strength and speed doubled once again in that instant!

His strength surpassed twenty thousand!

His speed surpassed twenty thousand!

He became a black reaper, cutting a frenzied swath across the battlefield!

Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!

Dull sounds of bodily impact resounded throughout Roppongi!

Yagami Jue drove Jogo's magma back with a punch!

He shattered Dagon's water dragon with a kick!

Amid the attacks flying everywhere, he strolled as though at leisure, every blow carrying world-shattering power!

This wasn't a fight at all.

It was a one-sided physical crushing!

"Is this guy... really human?!"

The more the four Special Grades fought, the more alarmed they became, their terror reaching its peak!

Just then.

Yagami Jue locked his gaze on Mahito, who was looking for an opening to ambush him.

"I'll butcher you first, you disgusting bastard."

Whoosh!

Yagami Jue appeared before Mahito in an instant.

Without any tricks, he drove a straight punch like a heavy cannon blast directly at Mahito's chest!

"Got you!"

Madness flashed in Mahito's eyes. Rather than dodge, he seized Yagami Jue's fist with both hands!

"Idle Transfiguration!"

He intended to reshape Yagami Jue's soul directly!

However.

The instant his cursed energy touched Yagami Jue's body.

The smile on Mahito's face froze completely.

"What... what is this?!"

He felt as though what he had touched wasn't a human soul at all.

It was a black hole of unimaginable mass, capable of devouring everything!

The instant his cursed energy entered Yagami Jue's body, the terrifying vitality of that flesh crushed it!

It didn't cause so much as a ripple!

"Want to play with souls?"

A cruel sneer curled Yagami Jue's lips.

"This body of mine could crush even the heavens!"

"Who the fuck do you think you are?!"

"Fucking die!!!"

Yagami Jue's right arm jolted violently!

BOOM!!!!!

A terrifying eruption of twenty thousand points of strength!

It traveled straight through Mahito's arms and into his entire body!

Bam!

An incredibly dull explosion rang out!

Mahito didn't even have time to scream.

Under Yagami Jue's world-shattering blow, his entire body.

Burst instantly like an overinflated balloon!

It became a shower of shredded flesh and bloody mist!

The Special Grade Cursed Spirit Mahito.

Killed in an instant!

Blood rained down.

The entire top floor in Roppongi fell deathly silent.

Mahito's shredded flesh scattered across the floor. He didn't even have a chance to reassemble himself-the terrifying physical shock had destroyed his cursed energy core outright!

[Ding! Special Grade Cursed Spirit (Calamity-class) killed!]

[Loot dropped: 100 million Japanese yen!]

Listening to the system notifications in his head, Yagami Jue's smile grew even more savage.

"That's a Calamity-class for you. One life is worth a hundred million!"

"Two hundred million to go. I'm wiping you all out today!"

Yagami Jue slowly turned his head. His pitch-black eyes were like an abyss as he fixed them on the three remaining Special Grade Cursed Spirits and Kenjaku, who stood behind them with a livid expression.

"Monster... this guy isn't human at all!"

Jogo stumbled two steps backward in terror, the crater atop his head spewing black smoke furiously.

He had just watched Mahito explode under a single punch!

That was Mahito, who possessed a soul-based cursed technique! Yet he had been physically destroyed the instant they made contact!

"Run! We can't fight this! His body has already surpassed everything we understand about cursed energy!"

Hanami finally felt that suffocating despair as well.

"Trying to run?"

Yagami Jue sneered, his figure becoming black lightning once more!

"None of you are leaving here alive today!"

Whoosh!

Yagami Jue appeared before Jogo in an instant. His right leg swept down like a battle-axe, smashing toward Jogo's volcano-like head with a shriek that tore through space!

"No!!!"

Jogo screamed in terror, frantically forming hand seals to expand his domain!

"Coffin of the Iron Mountain!"

However.

Too late!

Against Yagami Jue's extreme speed of over twenty thousand points, those hand seals looked like a slow-motion replay!

BAM!!!!!

Yagami Jue's right foot struck Jogo squarely on the head!

BOOM!!!

A tremendous crash!

That terrifying blow drove Jogo's iron-hard head straight into his chest!

Then the world-shattering force continued traveling downward!

Crack, crack, crack!

Jogo's body burst apart down the middle!

It became a shower of rubble and magma!

[Ding! Special Grade Cursed Spirit (Calamity-class) killed!]

[Loot dropped: 100 million Japanese yen!]

Another hundred million!

"This feels so fucking good!"

Yagami Jue threw back his head and laughed wildly. He felt like an invincible god of war mowing down enemies amid piles of gold coins!

"Two left."

He turned to Hanami and Dagon.

By now, the two Special Grade Cursed Spirits were utterly terrified, without even the courage to resist.

Thud!

Dagon was so frightened that he dropped straight to his knees, his octopus-like face filled with terror.

"Don't... don't kill me..."

"Too late."

Yagami Jue stepped forward and mercilessly stamped down.

Bam!

Dagon's head burst like a watermelon.

[Ding! Special Grade Cursed Spirit (Calamity-class) killed!]

[Loot dropped: 100 million Japanese yen!]

"You bastard!"

Watching his companions die horribly one after another, Hanami let out a desperate roar. Countless vines lashed toward Yagami Jue, trying to wrap around him!

"You think these lousy twigs can stop me?"

Yagami Jue wrenched both hands apart!

Riiip!

Those tough vines were instantly torn to shreds!

He took one stride, reached Hanami, and punched straight through his chest!

Squelch!

Hanami's massive body crashed to the ground.

[Ding! Special Grade Cursed Spirit (Calamity-class) killed!]

[Loot dropped: 100 million Japanese yen!]

In less than a minute.

All four Calamity-class Special Grade Cursed Spirits had been annihilated!

Yagami Jue stood amid the mountain of corpses and sea of blood, radiating a savage aura that chilled the heart.

He shook the blood from his hands, his gaze passing over the wreckage to settle on Kenjaku nearby.

"Now."

"It's your turn, you rat hiding behind a mask."

Kenjaku stared at the four Special Grades, utterly wiped out, his expression so dark it seemed ready to drip.

The plan he had so painstakingly devised, the Calamity-class cursed spirits he had poured endless effort into raising.

Before this brat who had no cursed energy, it had actually proven as flimsy as paper!

"Yagami Jue..."

Kenjaku's voice was ice-cold.

"You really are an unexpected variable."

"But do you think this is enough to kill me?"

Kenjaku slowly raised his hand. The stitches on his forehead began to writhe, as though something were about to burst out.

"Cut the fucking crap!"

Yagami Jue roared.

"I don't give a shit what trump cards you've got! Against absolute power, all your fancy tricks are bullshit!"

Boom!

The ground beneath Yagami Jue's feet exploded again!

He shot forward like a nuclear warhead fired from a barrel, bearing down on Kenjaku with the power to destroy everything!

"Maximum: Uzumaki!"

Kenjaku's gaze hardened, and he thrust both hands forward!

An enormous black vortex instantly formed in his palms, radiating terrifying waves of cursed energy that made hearts tremble!

This was his ultimate strike, formed by merging countless cursed spirits!

It was enough to destroy more than half of Tokyo!

"Die!"

Kenjaku roared, blasting the vortex straight at the charging Yagami Jue!

"That's all you've got?!"

Faced with an attack powerful enough to obliterate heaven and earth, Yagami Jue didn't slow down. Instead, he charged straight into the vortex!

"Eight Gates Formation, First Gate! Open to the limit!"

"BREAK!!!"

Yagami Jue clenched his right fist, unleashing every bit of his terrifying strength-over twenty thousand points!

BOOOOM!!!!!

His fist and the vortex collided violently in midair!

In that instant!

A small black sun seemed to rise over Roppongi!

Its blinding light was impossible to look at!

Then.

Before Yagami Jue's absolute physical might, that terrifying vortex capable of destroying a city...