If an attack like that landed, never mind flesh and blood-even a solid concrete wall would have a large hole punched straight through it.
"Oh my, how scary. Not cute at all." "Wouldn't you agree, Getsu?"
Facing the charging Semi-Grade 1 Cursed Spirit, Satoru Gojo actually still had the leisure to joke with Chingetsu. Chingetsu gave him an indifferent glance and said nothing.
"Tch. Boring."
Satoru Gojo curled his lip and formed an odd sign with one hand. Jujutsu: Stopping Force!
As a member of the Gojo Clan, Chingetsu was naturally familiar with the jujutsu move Satoru Gojo was using. Jujutsu: Stopping Force, as its name suggested, was the neutral application of Limitless.
Stopping Force had no offensive properties of its own. Objects approaching Satoru Gojo, excluding poisonous substances, would slow down the closer they got.
Anything subjected to the jujutsu seemed to be frozen in time.
In this state, no attack could hit Satoru Gojo. Without special jujutsu to counter it, only deploying a domain could negate its effects.
Creak, creak.
The human-headed serpent twisted its body with difficulty.
The wretched human was right before it, but under the effects of Satoru Gojo's cursed technique, it was like a fish out of water. All its struggles were feeble and futile.
The human-headed serpent was held in midair, as though an invisible hand had clamped tightly around its body, preventing it from advancing an inch.
And the one responsible for all this was the very person it had suddenly attacked. Satoru Gojo!
At that moment, Satoru Gojo was like a curious child, examining the human-headed serpent from top to bottom and occasionally poking it with a finger.
"This is my first time seeing a curse formed from a jujutsu sorcerer, too. Getsu, do you think this thing still has its consciousness from when it was alive?" "You were right beside me, but it chose to attack me..."
"Or was this ugly thing jealous of my stunning good looks?"
Satoru Gojo removed his sunglasses, revealing the dreamlike, sky-blue eyes behind them, and stared fixedly at the human-headed serpent cursed spirit, which seemed to have given up struggling.
"Cursed spirit, cursed spirit, tell me, who is the most handsome man in the world?" Satoru Gojo, should I say that's just like you?
Chapter 9: The serpent's transformation
The corners of Chingetsu's mouth twitched involuntarily, but there was a trace of surprise in his eyes.
Satoru Gojo truly lived up to his position as the original story's pinnacle of strength. He was far stronger than Chingetsu had imagined. If he remembered correctly, Satoru Gojo was currently a first-year student at Jujutsu High.
Whether among the jujutsu sorcerer factions of the three great clans, Jujutsu High, or the curse users who kept a low profile in dark corners-
With this single display of jujutsu alone, the young Satoru Gojo outclassed the vast majority of them. Setting aside the somewhat narcissistic, chatty side he showed in front of Chingetsu.
Possessing the Six Eyes and Limitless, Satoru Gojo was an absolute monster in the eyes of outsiders. Only those of the same kind could appreciate one another, which was also why Satoru Gojo was always willing to seek Chingetsu out.
The world of a genius was always lonely and misunderstood.
In a sense, Gojo Chingetsu was also a monster in Satoru Gojo's eyes-or rather, one of his kind. At that moment, Satoru Gojo was feeling playful and was teasing the human-headed serpent restrained by his cursed technique with great interest. But no matter how he teased it, the serpent only repeated, "Fire, it hurts." "Looks like I won't be getting an answer today."
Satoru Gojo sighed in feigned regret and changed the hand sign for his cursed technique.
He had played enough. Next, it was time to send this cursed spirit where it belonged.
"By the way, I only came for a cup of coffee, and somehow I ended up as your hired muscle. Getsu, shouldn't you compensate me?"
"I heard a new cake shop opened in Yokohama Prefecture. How about..."
Satoru Gojo spoke leisurely and was about to continue when he suddenly frowned and vanished from where he stood. "There was more than one cursed spirit?"
Reappearing in midair, Satoru Gojo looked at the ground where he had just been standing.
A large patch of ground there had been corroded away, and two slightly smaller human-headed serpents were eyeing him menacingly.
Without a doubt, the corroded ground was the work of these two cursed spirits. These two Grade 2 Cursed Spirits had probably finished hatching before the pair arrived.
In this mansion thick with the aura of curses, these two Grade 2 Cursed Spirits had somehow managed to briefly fool Satoru Gojo's Six Eyes.
"Hey, Getsu, aren't you lucky? Just how much did these people hate you when they were alive for every one of them to turn into a curse?"
Satoru Gojo hovered in midair with the expression of someone watching a show.
He was not worried about Chingetsu at all. After all, the other boy was a monster even more frightening than he was. "Let me see your true strength, Getsu!"
A flicker of excitement and anticipation crossed Satoru Gojo's azure eyes.
With Satoru Gojo's cursed technique released, the Semi-Grade 1 Cursed Spirit regained its freedom.
After casting a resentful glance at Satoru Gojo in the air, the Semi-Grade 1 Cursed Spirit with a human head and a serpent's body turned its attention to Chingetsu on the ground.
For some reason, looking at the boy before it, the human-headed serpent felt a trace of fear rise from deep within, as though he had once inflicted indelible harm upon it.
A flicker of humanlike fear crossed the serpent's eyes, followed by a strange anger that gradually spread through its body. "Kill him. I have to kill him!"
A hint of scarlet stained the human-headed serpent's narrow eyes, and the scales on its body began falling off one by one.
As though summoned, the two smaller human-headed serpents turned into streaks of green light and disappeared into the largest serpent's mouth.
Almost instantly, the three cursed spirits completed their fusion. Or rather, they had been one entity to begin with.
Satoru Gojo rested his chin in both hands, studying the fused cursed spirit thoughtfully.
Did having the same cursed energy source cause my Six Eyes to misjudge them? What a crafty enemy.
Getsu, how will you handle this? "Fire... fire, it hurts!"
After completing its fusion, the human-headed serpent grew a size larger, its two-meter body swelling to over five meters long. At the original junction of its human head and serpent body, two fleshy growths writhed continuously before finally becoming two human heads.
The human-headed serpent-no, more precisely, the transformed three-headed serpent-now gave off an aura on the level of a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit.
"Fire... it hurts. It's you!"
The transformed three-headed serpent looked at Chingetsu as though it had recognized something, but in the next instant, a vicious gleam blazed in its cold, serpentine eyes.
Vast amounts of cursed energy gathered in the three-headed serpent cursed spirit's mouth, forming a cursed energy shell.
The three-headed serpent cursed spirit was almost done charging up. Finally, just as the cursed energy shell was about to shoot from its mouth, Chingetsu moved.
So fast!
Satoru Gojo, who had landed on the ground at some point, suddenly narrowed his pupils.
Had he not been watching Chingetsu the whole time, he would have lost track of him in that instant. That was rather outrageous-he was the wielder of the Six Eyes.
Yet Chingetsu moved as swiftly as a phantom. Even his Six Eyes had to operate at full power to keep up.
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Chapter 10: Are you a monster?
In Satoru Gojo's eyes, Chingetsu's movements were like those of a phantom.
Almost in the blink of an eye, Chingetsu appeared directly above the three-headed serpent cursed spirit.
Chingetsu had his hands casually tucked into his pockets, his silver hair whipping through the air. There was not a trace of warmth in his gaze as he looked at the three-headed serpent cursed spirit.
He clenched one hand into a fist, then opened it.
Chingetsu's entire body seemed to become a fully drawn bow. With lightning speed, he drove a powerful palm straight onto the crown of the three-headed serpent cursed spirit's main head.
Hiss-aaah!
The three-headed serpent cursed spirit let out an agonized howl.
Under the tremendous force, the three-headed serpent cursed spirit's jaw slammed straight into the hard ground.
To make matters worse, the cursed energy bomb the three-headed serpent cursed spirit had gathered in its mouth to attack Chingetsu detonated on the spot as a result.
The cursed energy bomb exploded, blasting the three-headed serpent's head into a bloody mess. Blood streamed from its thick body as well, with white bones faintly visible beneath.
"Tsk, tsk. What a miserable cursed spirit."
The three-headed serpent cursed spirit's wretched condition made Satoru Gojo click his tongue.
Then Satoru Gojo looked at the one responsible for it all, Gojo Chingetsu, who had floated down to the ground, and his brows twitched. This guy really is a monster. He took down a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit with physical combat alone.
Satoru Gojo privately made a comparison, and the conclusion left him in a cold sweat.
If he did not use jujutsu and let Chingetsu get close, his fate would probably be little better than that of the three-headed serpent cursed spirit before him.
Had he not known Chingetsu since childhood, Satoru Gojo would have suspected that he was some monstrously powerful creature in human form.
"This snake really had rotten luck, running into a monster like Chingetsu." Satoru Gojo could not help feeling sympathy for the three-headed serpent cursed spirit before him.
Against Chingetsu, the three-headed serpent cursed spirit had virtually no room to resist. It had been half-killed the moment they clashed. Now, faced with Chingetsu's steady approach, the three-headed serpent cursed spirit finally remembered who the boy before it was. Back when it was still human, this fellow had killed it with an extremely terrifying and bizarre cursed technique.
The three-headed serpent cursed spirit still wanted to resist, but Chingetsu had already reached it. He lifted its several-ton body with one hand as though picking up a chick.
"Killer Queen!" Chingetsu snapped his fingers.
Killer Queen stepped out from behind Chingetsu in response, staring expressionlessly at the dying three-headed serpent cursed spirit. In the next instant, the cursed spirit's enormous body was tossed high into the air.
A faint glimmer flashed through Killer Queen's vertical pupils, and high above, the three-headed serpent cursed spirit's body began swelling rapidly like a balloon being inflated.
Under Satoru Gojo's gaze, the three-headed serpent cursed spirit's body began to collapse and disintegrate, as though a bomb had exploded inside it.
The shattered serpent's body rained down like a meteor shower. Crimson blood splashed in every direction, spattering the scorched ground like blooming red roses, strikingly vivid.
"My instincts were right. Getsu, you really are something else!"
A trace of crimson rose in Gojo's azure eyes. With his Six Eyes operating at full power, he saw it clearly: that "humanoid cursed spirit" that had emerged from Chingetsu's body, radiating an air of elegance and brutality.
Sensing Satoru Gojo's gaze behind him, Chingetsu smiled unconcernedly.
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