[The Special Grade Cursed Spirit, pinned firmly in place by your command of "Don't move," laden with immense cursed energy and absolute compulsion, wore an unmistakable expression of utter bewilderment on its enormous, distorted face.]
[This life-form, which had only just metamorphosed from a cursed womb, seemed to possess an intelligence still lingering in a hazy stage akin to that of a human child.]
[Its first reaction to being restrained by a "puny human" like you was neither anger nor humiliation. Instead, its four marble-like eyes rolled as they studied you with an almost innocent curiosity that made one's hair stand on end.]
[It seemed to be considering what this strange phenomenon, which had prevented it from twitching even a fingertip for that instant, actually meant.]
[But a child's "innocence" often went hand in hand with the most primal cruelty.]
[Even if it behaved like a curious, oversized infant, the Special Grade cursed pressure radiating from its body-so dense it was almost tangible, and reeking powerfully of corpses-still bore down on Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro's shoulders like an invisible mountain, briefly locking the two boys' bodies rigid until they could barely even blink.]
[Yet you would give this monster, which had only just learned to breathe, no opportunity to "think" or "grow," during that absolute opening of less than half a second after your "Cursed Speech" took effect.]
[A cold glint flashed through your eyes behind your composed-looking glasses, like a precision instrument in operation.]
["Phantom Parade" switched at top speed.]
[The purple cursed patterns of the Inumaki Clan that had appeared on either side of your mouth receded like the tide in an instant. In their place, the absolute order of a twenty-four-frame world was reflected in your pupils.]
["Projection Sorcery" activated.]
["Extreme Overload Control" unleashed.]
[The muscles of