[What followed naturally held no further surprises that escaped your control.]
[As you smoothly switched the Cursed Technique core replicated by "Phantom Parade" within your body from the defensive "Inversion" to "Idle Transfiguration," which touched the very source of the soul, without the slightest hitch, this one-sided crushing in the mental world reached its final stage.]
[You slowly raised your hand, Cursed Energy capable of reshaping souls surging in your palm, and mercilessly pressed it over Sukuna's head, which was filled with defiance and terror.]
[At that moment, you had descended in your peak Cursed Spiritification state, with your Innate Domain, "Ālaya Consciousness," fully expanded.]
[To eliminate every last risk that might cause an unexpected defeat, you did not choose to immediately advance to the final step of soul fusion within the mental world.]
[Your utterly rational mind supplied a safer plan: leave the final Incarnation resulting from the soul fusion until after you voluntarily deactivated "Ālaya Consciousness" and your flesh returned to its normal human form.]
[You understood the underlying logic of your domain very well. If you completed the fusion in this state, the permanent gains and soul changes it brought were highly likely to be classified by the world's rules as belonging to "the Cursed Spiritified you summoned from this point in time."]
[Once you closed the domain, these hard-won results would be taken away along with that past point in time, vanishing without a trace.]
[Thus, the immediate priority was merely "cleanup."]
[Thanks to your extensive experience forcibly stripping away and exorcising the portion of Sukuna's soul inside Yuji Itadori yourself, handling this independently existing one-twentieth remnant of Sukuna's soul, already severely wounded by Mahoraga, was familiar work-as simple as crushing an insect that could no longer resist.]
["It's over, ghost of a bygone age."]
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