[You flicked your wrist deftly, the blade tracing a cold arc through the air. The crimson blood staining the tip of the Inverted Spear of Heaven flew off onto the ground, splashing into several glaring blossoms of blood.]
[You slowly ceased your attacks, calming the cursed energy surging within you.]
[With your deliberate restraint, this flurry of attacks had been swift and clean, but had not actually inflicted any particularly fatal wounds on Satoru Gojo.]
[For Satoru Gojo, who had already mastered reverse cursed technique, treating flesh wounds of this degree was still very easy.]
[With a faint ripple of cursed energy and rising white mist, the flesh around his wounds began knitting together and healing at a visible speed.]
[Yet your failure to inflict severe damage was not entirely due to your restraint. At this moment, the difference between the Inverted Spear of Heaven and the Soul Liberation Blade in actual combat was laid bare.]
[The Inverted Spear of Heaven could forcibly nullify activated cursed techniques. Breaking through the defense of Limitless was certainly an unfair privilege, but when it actually pierced Satoru Gojo's body, the physical damage it dealt still had to contend with his bodily defenses and cursed energy reinforcement; if it had instead been the Soul Liberation Blade, which could ignore all defenses and directly slash the soul, a successful hit would have breached his defenses to an entirely different effect.]
[However, the Soul Liberation Blade likewise had a fatal shortcoming. Its own properties alone could never overcome and penetrate the Limitless barrier that made a hair's breadth an insurmountable distance.]
[But that could not be helped either. Everything had its balance.]
[After all, if Satoru Gojo, hailed as the modern era's "strongest," could be utterly defeated once and for all with a single particular cursed