[You stared fixedly at the withered husk before you, as though an active volcano on the verge of erupting were churning violently inside your chest.]
[You abruptly stepped forward, your voice turning hoarse and shrill with extreme fury, every word like a poisoned blade stabbing viciously at that lofty, hypocritical deity.]
["You treated innocent lives as 'expendables' and 'lightning rods'?!"]
["If your barrier was only ever meant to sustain this grotesque system that runs on devouring people and constantly sacrificing the innocent, then what was the point of its existence?!"]
["Is this the protection you dressed up in all those fine words?!"]
[Faced with your questions, which all but tore space apart, Tengen still looked at you without any emotion.]
[There was not the slightest guilt or disturbance in those hollow eyes, sunk deep into a face like withered bark.]
[She slowly raised her fingers, as dry as dead branches, and gently traced a perfect circle in the empty space between you.]
[With her movement, a vast stream of pure-white cursed energy flowed and intertwined in midair, rapidly outlining the detailed topography of the entire Japanese archipelago.]
[Then a translucent, faintly glowing dome appeared out of thin air, like an enormous transparent glass cover placed over all of "Japan," enclosing it without a single gap.]
[Tengen's speech remained infuriatingly measured. Like an indifferent scholar explaining common knowledge to an ignorant child, she patiently laid out this vast operating mechanism that the Higher-Ups of Jujutsu Society had concealed for a thousand years.]
["Humans are fragile creatures."]
["Under natural conditions, the minute amounts of cursed energy that leak out through everyday fear, jealousy, resentment, and despair would, like steam evaporating from boiling water, disperse uncontrollably throughout the vast world, diluting until they became imperceptible."]
["My barrier, however, is like this impenetrable glass