The moment Megumi Fushiguro rode Qu Fusion through the clouds and truly arrived above Sugisawa Third High School, he clearly sensed a terrifying chill, almost tangible and enough to stop a heart.
That aura was extraordinarily domineering and unrestrained, as though announcing the emergence of some supreme delicacy to the dark creatures of the entire city. Its intensity was nothing like the faint "cursed residue" he had sensed on Yuji Itadori that afternoon.
Without question, those club students who had no idea what they were getting into had completely removed the seal on that Special Grade Cursed Object.
Megumi stood on Qu Fusion's broad back, gazing down under cover of night.
Through his cursed energy vision, the formerly clean campus now resembled a hornet's nest that had been punctured. Fly Heads and low-level cursed spirits lurking in the surrounding darkness were frantically pouring over the school walls without end, like hyenas scenting blood, converging on the central classroom building in a tide.
"Roar!"
Qu Fusion's enormous body descended heavily onto the flat rooftop at the highest point of the classroom building, wreathed in violent blue-green lightning.
The hard concrete instantly cracked beneath its claws. As it landed, its enormous, fang-filled wolf muzzle thrust forward, precisely and brutally biting apart a Grade 3 Cursed Spirit attempting to climb onto the rooftop, scattering it into black ash.
But that was also Qu Fusion's last attack inside this building tonight. Frowning, Megumi immediately formed a hand seal and dismissed the astonishingly destructive chimeric shikigami.
He knew very well that with Qu Fusion's enormous size and the high-voltage current raging around its body, taking it into the cramped classroom building would accomplish nothing beyond the devastation of a heavy bulldozer forcibly demolishing the structure. Any delicate rescue operation would be impossible.
Having it operate