The instant they collided, the reddish-brown sphere exploded.
Devastating spatial repulsion swept outward from the blast's epicenter, a tide of red energy tearing through space and crushing everything around it.
Akutagawa Shang's fist met the center of the explosion head-on, taking the full force of this maximum-output Reverse Cursed Technique.
Akutagawa Shang could feel a terrifying impact unlike anything he had ever experienced slam into his body.
Meanwhile, protected by the Limitless surrounding him, Satoru Gojo remained completely unharmed as that invincible defense blocked every bit of Red's explosive impact.
If the battle had ended right there, it would have been all but certain that Satoru Gojo, with his utterly broken abilities, had ultimately come out ahead in this spar.
But-
The instant Red's repulsive force erupted in full, Akutagawa Shang's fist, wreathed in black lightning, tore straight through the raging torrent of energy, pierced Red's repulsive core, and broke through Satoru Gojo's Limitless defense.
The next instant, his fist slammed hard into Satoru Gojo's pretty face.
BOOM!!!
Their collision set off a massive explosion in midair.
A mushroom cloud slowly rose over the spot.
Then two figures flew out of the center of the explosion in opposite directions, trailing two long plumes of dust and smoke.
They crashed heavily to the ground. The two were none other than Akutagawa Shang and Satoru Gojo, who had just fought that fierce battle.
Lying flat on the ground, Akutagawa Shang murmured,
"Full-output Red really does pack a punch... That one hit hurt worse than all the previous attacks combined..."
Akutagawa Shang slowly sat up.
He tilted his neck, producing a series of cracks like beans popping in a pan.
He slowly raised his right hand. That hand had just taken the full brunt of maximum-output Red head-on.
The impact had left a