Over a dozen jujutsu sorcerers in matching uniforms surrounded Yagami Jue, powerful waves of cursed energy radiating from their bodies.
Their leader was a middle-aged man with a goatee.
An elite of the Zenin Clan, Ogi Zenin!
"You're that arrogant, conceited waste with zero cursed energy, Yagami Jue?"
Ogi Zenin gripped the katana at his waist and regarded Yagami Jue with contempt.
"You killed a few pathetic curse users and special envoys, and now you think you're invincible?"
"Today, I'll show you the true might of the Three Great Families!"
Ogi Zenin drew his katana with a sharp motion!
Blazing-hot cursed energy instantly engulfed the blade in flames!
"Blazing Flame Kill!"
He roared and slashed at Yagami Jue!
The strike came as fast as lightning, carrying terrifying heat capable of melting steel!
"Too slow."
Yagami Jue didn't even lift his eyelids.
He merely extended two fingers casually.
Clang!
A crisp metallic ring sounded!
Yagami Jue had caught the flaming katana firmly between two fingers!
"What?!"
Ogi Zenin's face drained of color!
That all-out strike could have instantly cleaved even a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit in two!
How could someone catch it between two fingers?!
And there wasn't even a trace of a burn on him!
"That's it?"
A mocking smile curled Yagami Jue's lips.
"That's all the so-called elites of the Three Great Families can do?"
Crack!
Yagami Jue applied a little pressure with his two fingers.
The supposedly indestructible Special Grade Cursed Tool katana instantly snapped in half!
Splurt!
Cursed energy backlash struck Ogi Zenin, and he coughed up a mouthful of blood.
Before he could react,
Yagami Jue had already kicked him in the abdomen!
Bam!
Ogi Zenin flew backward like a cannonball, slamming into one of Tokyo Tower's support pillars dozens of meters away!
Boom!
The impact gouged a huge crater into the pillar!
Ogi Zenin slid to the ground, his fate unknown.
An instant defeat!
In a single move, the Zenin Clan's elite had been utterly beaten!
The remaining dozen or so Zenin Clan jujutsu sorcerers were all stunned with terror.
They stared at Yagami Jue as though he were a demon straight out of hell!
"Run! Run!"
Someone shouted.
The remaining jujutsu sorcerers turned and fled.
"Trying to run?"
Yagami Jue sneered.
"I told you, if you want to kill me, you'll have to pay the toll!"
Whoosh!
Yagami Jue became a streak of black lightning and instantly caught up with the fleeing group.
Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!
A series of sickening bone cracks rang out.
Yagami Jue broke both legs of every one of the dozen or so Zenin Clan elites, leaving them on the ground howling in agony.
Yagami Jue walked up to them.
He looked down on these members of the Three Great Families who had once considered themselves so far above everyone else.
"Go back and tell your clan head."
"Tomorrow at noon."
"Have one billion yen ready."
"Otherwise,"
"I'll come to the Zenin Clan myself and tear down your gates!"
Below Tokyo Tower, screams rose one after another.
The dozen or so Zenin Clan elites writhed and howled on the ground like stray dogs with broken legs.
Passersby had already scattered in terror at the bloody scene. Some even hid behind distant trees, trembling as they secretly filmed with their phones.
"Is... is this a movie shoot?"
"This is horrifying! That guy's a monster! He crippled over a dozen people with his bare hands!"
"Call the police! Hurry, call the police!"
Yagami Jue ignored the gazes that regarded him as a monster.
He slowly approached a Zenin Clan jujutsu sorcerer whose face was covered in blood and who was trying to repair his broken legs with cursed energy.
"Don't waste your effort."
Yagami Jue planted a foot on his broken leg and ground down hard!
"AAAAAAAH!!!"
The sorcerer screamed like a pig being slaughtered, his eyes nearly bulging out of their sockets.
"My physical attacks crushed your cursed energy pathways too. Want to fix them? Try your next life."
Yagami Jue crouched down and patted his deathly pale face.
"Remember what I just said."
"One billion."
"One penny short, and I'll slaughter my way through the Zenin Clan."
"Get lost."
Yagami Jue rose and kicked the sorcerer over a dozen meters away as though he were a ball.
Then he tucked his hands into his pockets and swaggered away from the scene.
That night.
The Zenin Clan's main estate in Kyoto.
An oppressive atmosphere hung over the grand Japanese-style courtyard.
Naobito Zenin, the Zenin Clan's twenty-sixth head, sat in the seat of honor with a dark expression.
On the floor before him lay over a dozen clan elites with broken legs, along with the gravely wounded, unconscious Ogi Zenin.
"Useless! Every last one of you!"
Naobito Zenin slammed the table, instantly shattering the fine rosewood desk!
"Over a dozen Grade 1 and Grade 2 Jujutsu Sorcerers, with Ogi himself leading you!"
"And some brat without a shred of cursed energy beat you into this state?!"
"You've utterly disgraced the Zenin Clan!"
The other Zenin Clan elders in the hall looked equally livid.
As one of the Three Great Families, they had always regarded ordinary people without cursed energy as worthless.
Yet now, the clan elites they took such pride in had been instantly defeated by a "monkey"!
And he had even brazenly demanded one billion yen in compensation!
It was as though he had ground the Zenin Clan's dignity into the dirt!
"Please calm down, Father."
A young man with slicked-back hair and a sinister gaze stepped forward.
Naoya Zenin.
"I hear that brat, Yagami Jue, has a Heavenly Restriction similar to Toji Fushiguro's."
"His physical strength is certainly not to be underestimated."
Naoya Zenin sneered.
"But if he thinks brute force is enough to challenge our Zenin Clan, he's an utter fool."
"A mere monkey, daring to run his mouth."
A cruel killing intent flashed in Naoya Zenin's eyes.
"Tomorrow at noon, I'll go meet him myself."
"I'll show him that a monkey's brute strength is worthless before an absolute cursed technique!"
"I'll cut off all those limbs he's so proud of and hang them from Tokyo Tower for everyone to see!"
Looking at his supremely confident son, Naobito Zenin nodded slightly.
"Naoya, you've mastered Projection Sorcery."
"It's indeed the perfect counter to someone who relies on brute force alone."
"Go. Bring back that brat's head and wipe away the Zenin Clan's shame!"
The next day.
Twelve noon.
Below Tokyo Tower.
Yagami Jue appeared at the site of yesterday's battle right on time.
He had changed into black casual clothes today and looked like an ordinary college student. He had even bought a cup of cola with ice and was leisurely sipping it.
Within a hundred meters of him,
there wasn't a soul.
Word of yesterday's bloodbath had already spread, and the police had even cordoned off the area.
Whoosh!
A sudden sound sliced through the air!
Immediately afterward,
seven or eight figures landed around Yagami Jue like phantoms, surrounding him.
Their leader was none other than Naoya Zenin.
"Oh, so you Zenin Clan guys really aren't afraid to die."
Yagami Jue spoke indistinctly around the straw between his teeth.
"Did you bring the billion?"
"If not, I'll slaughter every last one of you today."
Rather than getting angry at Yagami Jue's arrogance, Naoya Zenin laughed.
He looked at Yagami Jue as though he were already dead.
"A monkey is a monkey. You might have a little brute strength, but your head is still full of shit."
Naoya Zenin straightened his collar, his tone dripping with superiority.
"Do you really think your pathetic little tricks can stand against the Zenin Clan's cursed techniques?"
"That useless Toji couldn't."
"And you certainly can't!"
At the mention of Toji, Yagami Jue's gaze instantly turned cold.
He casually crushed the cup of cola in his hand.
"I hate people acting like hot shit in front of me."
"Especially a bunch of broke bastards."
Yagami Jue fixed his gaze on Naoya Zenin.
"Since you don't want to pay in cash, pay with your lives."
Whoosh!
Before his words had even finished ringing out,
Yagami Jue had vanished from the spot!
Over twenty-six thousand points of sheer speed!
He instantly broke the sound barrier!
"So fast!"
Naoya Zenin's pupils abruptly contracted.
He felt a terrifying blast of air rushing toward his face. He hadn't even caught sight of Yagami Jue's afterimage!
But as the Zenin Clan's once-in-a-century genius, his reactions were swift as well.
"Projection Sorcery!"
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