The Milk Dragon Cannon Unleashed, All Three Energies Restored!
Shiratori Gotsu smiled faintly as he witnessed the scene from the control room, not surprised in the slightest.
After all, Sukuna was no worse than Satoru Gojo at adapting on the fly.
It was only natural that he could quickly change tactics and respond to an unexpected situation.
Under these circumstances, it came down to which side had more tricks up its sleeve and could catch the other by surprise.
Shiratori Gotsu waved a hand and picked up the mysterious long, narrow black bag he had kept beside him since that morning. "Let's go. It's our turn to take the stage."
As his words fell, a cigarette butt was tossed into a corner, and Ryu Ishigori rose to his feet, excitement written all over his face. "Great! I can finally stretch my muscles!"
The barrier of Unlimited Void shattered completely, and Satoru Gojo and Sukuna reappeared on the battlefield in Shinjuku.
As Sukuna changed his domain's conditions once again, expanding the range of its slashes, attacks from every direction immediately engulfed Gojo's body.
Almost in an instant, the dense flurry of slashes turned Gojo into a bloody mess.
Surprisingly, even in such a predicament, he showed no intention of using Reverse Cursed Technique to heal his physical injuries.
He merely leaned forward slightly, then:
"New Shadow Style!"
"Simple Domain!"
The Simple Domain expanded, instantly shutting out Malevolent Shrine's slashes.
The next moment, a dazzling white beam descended from the sky, enveloping Gojo's entire body.
When the light faded, Gojo emerged completely unscathed, fresh from the factory!
"Woo~ All three energies restored!"
Atop a high-rise hundreds of meters away, Shiratori Gotsu watched through binoculars and immediately got hyped.
That was right. It was Frosting Blast: Ishigori using his own Cursed Technique, Cursed Energy Discharge, to output the positive energy of Reverse Cursed Technique at high power.
Ishigori stood beside Gotsu with his head held high and chest puffed out, looking thoroughly satisfied.
A black tube over seventy centimeters long was attached to his cannon-barrel cow-pat hairdo. The overall effect was... quite bizarre!
That was what Shiratori Gotsu had cobbled together during their subsequent special training, giving it his all while sleeping only four or five hours a day and throwing his sleep schedule into disarray:
Ryu Ishigori's signature character weapon, a Special Grade Cursed Tool-
The Rainbow Piercer!
The Cursed Technique engraved on it had the following effect: Cursed Energy discharged through it would remain concentrated for a long time without dispersing, while also firing farther and more accurately!
Faced with this unexpected development, even Sukuna couldn't help feeling surprised.
External output of Reverse Cursed Technique at such high power...
But he quickly recovered. While maintaining his slashes to wear down Gojo's Simple Domain, he taunted him:
"Heh... I didn't expect you to be shameless enough to arrange outside help, Satoru Gojo. Even so, I still can't see any possibility of you defeating me."
Gojo, on the other hand, strolled leisurely toward Sukuna as though he were out shopping.
"Oh, come now. There were even more shameless parts to the tactics Shiratori suggested that I didn't use."
"After all, if I'd used them, I might not have gotten to enjoy an exhilarating fight with you!"
As the words left his mouth, Gojo leaped up and wrapped his own body around Sukuna's torso at an astonishing speed.
Then he leaned his upper body back, hooked his legs around Sukuna's waist, and formed a gun with the fingers of his right hand.
"Cursed Technique Reversal: Red!"
A second before his Simple Domain was about to be destroyed, Gojo managed to restore his burned-out Cursed Technique first, catching Sukuna by surprise!
Red light exploded against Sukuna's face with tremendous repulsive force.
With a bang, Sukuna was sent flying backward, crashing into the shrine at the center of Malevolent Shrine.
Gojo used the momentum to retreat, leaving the range of the slashes from Sukuna's domain.
Having Ishigori fire Frosting Blast from a distance outside the battlefield to heal Gojo's body in place of his own Reverse Cursed Technique...
The purpose was to let Gojo devote all his energy to restoring his burned-out Cursed Technique.
"You're really on a roll, Sensei~" Shiratori Gotsu couldn't help exclaiming.
Meanwhile, everyone from Jujutsu High in the control room stared openmouthed at what they had just witnessed.
"He actually did it..." Okkotsu stared blankly at Gojo standing on the battlefield on the monitor.
"What a monster..." Kusakabe looked just as incredulous.
"When Shiratori first suggested this idea, we even made fun of him..."
During the special training days earlier, Shiratori Gotsu had proposed the idea of "using Reverse Cursed Technique to restore a burned-out Cursed Technique" at one of their nightly review meetings.
He had even said with complete confidence, "Gojo-sensei can do it, right?"
At the time, Gojo had merely smiled.
"Who knows? Maybe I really can~"
Now, it seemed...
"He really did it...!" Itadori's face was full of excitement.
"Cursed Technique burnout feels completely different from physical injury..."
Okkotsu murmured, "If I had to describe it, it's like an engine acting up not because of a malfunction, but because it's overheated. You can only wait for it to cool down on its own..."
"So," Maki pressed, "Reverse Cursed Technique can only repair a malfunction, but it can't cool the engine down?"
"That's what I thought before, but now it seems my understanding may have been too superficial..."
Despite saying that, Okkotsu looked plainly worried.
That was because there was another possibility in his hypothesis, one he hadn't voiced:
Perhaps Sensei didn't manage to use Reverse Cursed Technique to cool the engine down. Perhaps he did something very, very unreasonable, at the risk of blowing the engine...
By now, Sukuna, who had been blasted away by Red, had healed his injuries with Reverse Cursed Technique and was slowly walking out of the shrine.
Even after taking such a heavy blow, Malevolent Shrine was still standing.
"Not bad. Shall we continue, then?"
Gojo raised an eyebrow. "I hear your domain can cover a radius of 200 meters. I'd really love to see it."
"Was it that pest Shiratori Gotsu who gave you that information too...?"
Sukuna bared his teeth, but there was no trace of amusement in his eyes.
"No matter... Once I've dealt with you, he'll be the first one I tear apart!"
As Sukuna formed the King of Hell Mudra once more, Malevolent Shrine's range instantly expanded to its limit.
At the same time, Gojo raised his hand and formed the Indra Hand Sign:
"Domain Expansion: Unlimited Void!"
The familiar domain barrier enclosed them both, then rapidly compressed once again to the size of a basketball.
Inside the domain, Gojo wore a bold smile. "Let's start over, Sukuna!"
As the two clashed once more, the close-quarters fight felt somewhat different to him this time.
Seriously...?
A light known as "excitement" gradually kindled in Gojo's eyes.
Can Sukuna use Domain Amplification while his domain is expanded?
This really is...
Three minutes and nine seconds passed.
Crack.
Unlimited Void's domain barrier collapsed once more.
But this time, Sukuna was not so composed.
The shrine at the center of Malevolent Shrine had also begun to crumble beyond repair.
A bloody hole the size of a bowl had appeared in Sukuna's chest, and blood gushed continuously from his mouth.
Those injuries had clearly reached the point where he could no longer maintain his domain.
"Simultaneously! They fell simultaneously!"
Everyone in the control room shouted in unison.
At the same moment Unlimited Void's barrier was broken, Gojo had also inflicted enough damage on Sukuna inside it.
As a result, both domains collapsed simultaneously, and both fighters' Cursed Techniques burned out at the same time.
Shiratori Gotsu, who had been watching the battlefield intently through his binoculars, naturally didn't miss this chance to pile on.
He shouted:
"Fire!"
"OK!" Ishigori shouted back.
The next moment, Granite Blast crashed down on Sukuna from above, kicking up a huge cloud of dust.
And according to the law of no damage when there's smoke...