The situation in the ring reversed in an instant.
Wood chips brimming with cursed energy now covered almost the entire ring. Using those chips as a medium, Aoi Todo had all but unlocked unlimited position swaps in every direction, without a single blind spot.
One second, he threw a punch from the left; the next, he instantly swapped to the right and followed up with a kick.
"This move is... a secret technique-!!! Todo has unleashed the legendary secret technique, side-to-side jumping-!!!" Satoru Gojo gripped the microphone, his wildly impassioned voice ringing throughout the venue.
"Todo has turned the tables-Todo has begun his counterattack!!!"
Maki had never felt so stifled in a fight.
With her complete form of heavenly restriction, her dynamic vision was unrivaled. Every attack Aoi Todo made registered with perfect clarity in her eyes.
Yet she simply could not lay a finger on him.
The swaps of Boogie Woogie were spatial jumps in the truest sense, completely unhindered by any spatial restrictions. Moreover, the landing points were entirely random, making it impossible to predict where in the ring he would appear next.
Aoi Todo flickered among the wood chips, retreating after every hit and never getting greedy.
Maki stood in place, her arms crossed before her chest, her defense impregnable.
She blocked every incoming attack with precision. Thanks to the powerful body granted by heavenly restriction, even as Aoi Todo's attacks rained down on her like a violent storm, the damage they inflicted was less than a mosquito bite. Such was the power of heavenly restriction in its complete form.
No matter how Aoi Todo attacked, he could not breach Maki's physical defenses, let alone leave so much as a scratch.
But that was all.
Maki, too, was now trapped in a deadlock of passive defense with