[You had just stepped out of the elevator when the blood-scented doors slowly closed behind you.]
[You stood alone in the twentieth-floor corridor, carpeted in thick red carpeting. Although your gaze rested calmly on the scene at the far end, your brain was reviewing events at high speed.]
[In truth, you had developed considerable interest in that middle-aged man's "Inversion" cursed technique.]
[You had to admit that, considered purely as a defensive measure, the technique's rules were exceptionally domineering and effective. Holding Asagirimaru earlier, you had personally experienced that uncanny sensation of your force being dissipated.]
[Deep within your consciousness, you quickly compared "Inversion" with "Limitless."]
[Although Limitless offered absolute defense, for an ordinary jujutsu sorcerer without the assistance of the "Six Eyes," maintaining that atomic-level spatial interference for extended periods placed a terrifying computational burden on the brain and consumed an equally terrifying amount of cursed energy.]
[By comparison, "Inversion" held an overwhelming advantage in both computational burden and basic cursed energy consumption.]
[You rapidly deconstructed the technique's essence in your mind. It could actually be considered an extremely unusual "cursed energy damage amplifier/reducer."]
[At the cost of accepting "minor injuries," it allowed each unit of cursed energy to produce an unimaginably powerful defensive effect against lethal blows.]
[Conversely, however, it was a genuine double-edged sword. When handling attacks of different strengths, the higher its defensive ceiling, the lower its floor against weak attacks became in equal measure.]
[An ingenious technique... too bad it belonged to a piece of trash.]
[You silently delivered that assessment. After all, you did not possess Satoru Gojo's cheat-like "Six Eyes," so you could not disregard cursed energy consumption and judge a technique's quality solely by the invincible effects it displayed.]
[For you, cost-effectiveness and practicality were the foremost standards for measuring combat strength.]