But one person was excited.
"Hahahaha!"
Kenjaku's mouth opened inside Suguru Geto's cranial cavity.
His Cursed Technique had burned out. He stood in the sea of lightning, looking at Wangchuan.
Then his mouth spread into a grin.
"Hahahahahahahahaha..."
Kenjaku was laughing.
He laughed until tears came out.
Tears welled from Suguru Geto's eyes, slid down his cheeks, and dripped onto the sea of lightning, instantly evaporating.
"So strong."
"So strong!"
"So strong!!"
"Wangchuan!"
He took a step forward, planting his foot on the lightning. Charred flesh spread upward from his sole, but he did not stop.
"Do you know what you are?!"
His voice echoed through the sea of lightning, hoarse and trembling with a manic excitement.
"You're not human, just as I thought! You're a demon! You're not any known existence!"
"You are..."
He spread his arms as though to embrace the entire sea of lightning.
"You're this world's answer!"
His voice was shrill and high, carrying an almost insane excitement.
"Nothing matters to you! You care about nothing! You hold everything in contempt!"
His brain turned inside the cranial cavity, its pink folds quivering in the lightning.
"Too perfect! Too perfect!"
"For a thousand years, I've been trying to assimilate all of humanity with Tengen!"
"I've been trying to bring forth an entirely new life-form beyond the existing Jujutsu system! I've been trying to evolve Cursed Energy to unprecedented heights!"
"But!"
His brain suddenly bounced inside the cranial cavity.
"Only after seeing you did I realize! That thousand years of mine, all my experiments, all my schemes, all my sacrifices over that thousand years, were nothing but children playing house!"
"You're the true endpoint of evolution!"
"You're true transcendence!"
Kenjaku's mouth gaped inside Suguru Geto's cranial cavity, stretched into the widest possible grin, his teeth blindingly white in