After the brutal trial of life and death at the Juvenile Detention Center, Yuji Itadori's mindset had undergone an extraordinarily profound change without his realizing it.
The suffocating helplessness of watching lives slip away, along with his firsthand experience of a special grade cursed spirit's terrifying, despair-inducing pressure, had thoroughly tempered his youthful innocence and recklessness.
During his regular training sessions at Jujutsu High, he put away his usual carefree grin. His eyes held an almost unforgiving focus and ferocity.
The sun blazed overhead, and dull thuds of colliding bodies rang out across the training ground.
"Thud-!"
With a heavy impact, Megumi Fushiguro gritted his teeth and crossed his arms, taking the full force of Itadori's powerful sweeping kick.
The tremendous impact sent Megumi Fushiguro sliding backward several meters across the sandy ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
"Huff... huff..."
Megumi Fushiguro shook out his arms, which had gone numb from the impact. Fine beads of sweat already covered his forehead.
Without using the Ten Shadows Technique, even Megumi Fushiguro, who had followed you since childhood and endured your hellishly rigorous hand-to-hand training, was now struggling somewhat against Itadori's fierce assault.
To Megumi Fushiguro's senses, Itadori's control and circulation of cursed energy were still as rough as a rookie driving a heavy truck immediately after getting his license. There was even an obvious delay in his bursts of cursed energy much of the time.
But he had compensated for this flaw with the method you had taught him-New Shadow Style: Simple Domain.
Itadori had incorporated this opening stance for a sword-drawing technique, originally used to defend against Domain Expansion, into his close-quarters combat.
He deployed an extremely small Simple Domain centered on himself, not to neutralize cursed techniques, but to take advantage of its automatic counterattacks.
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