[Itadori's clear eyes swept between Satoru Gojo's face and yours. After confirming with utmost seriousness that the blindfolded, white-haired man before him was not joking and truly intended to conduct the "test" in this insane fashion, the boy took a deep breath.]
["All right... I understand."]
[Itadori closed his eyes, his taut body instantly relaxing. Following that same strange intuition from last night, he willingly stepped aside from the prison door holding the monster deep within his consciousness.]
["Humm-!"]
[At the very instant Itadori surrendered control, it was as though all the air pressure in the basement had abruptly been sucked away!]
[One second, he had still been a high school boy with a touch of innocent stupidity; the next, wild, sinister cursed patterns resembling black thorns instantly crawled across his flesh.]
[When he opened his eyes again, their original clarity had been completely replaced by blood-red irises and vertical pupils.]
[A savage killing intent that seemed ready to devour the entire room alive swept outward, almost tangible!]
[The King of Curses, Ryomen Sukuna, had awakened once more.]
[And the first thing this tyrant did upon being released came without even an opening remark.]
[Sukuna's scarlet eyes instantly locked onto you, standing to one side-the culprit who had made him suffer badly last night and even forcibly suppressed him.]
[An utterly cruel grin split his lips, and he gave the slightest flick of a finger.]
[Without any windup or incantation, an invisible, lethally deadly slash shot straight toward your face like a blade loosed from a bow, shrieking as it tore through the air!]
[This was nothing but vicious retaliation born of the purest refusal to let any slight go unpunished.]
[Yet this invisible slash, powerful enough to instantly cleave steel in two, failed to reach your body as intended.]