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"Don't worry, I won't use Infinity," Gojo says. "Your Domain Amplification is too weak to push through it, and you would simply exhaust yourself in trying. That'd be no fun."
"Thanks, that just means my goal is to make you use Infinity," Taiyo says as he rushes forward, while Gojo still has his hands in his pockets.
Taiyo raises a hand as he closes in and fires a laser at Gojo's head, and the man closes his eyes while tilting his head slightly, avoiding it.
Getting in close, Taiyo strikes forward with a punch, untrained, but following his instincts after fighting Cursed Spirits last night.
Gojo easily leans left and right, casually sauntering around as each and every attack misses without Gojo even having to open his eyes.
Taiyo speeds up, pushing his Cursed Energy Enhancement one step further, and Gojo smiles as he senses this change.
"Already shifting into a higher gear?" Gojo casually avoids every hit while leading Taiyo around the battlefield. "I hope you don't mind if I play along."
Gojo then begins to gently parry Taiyo's attacks, still keeping his eyes closed and smiling the entire time.
'His Cursed Energy feels warm, so it has a built-in trait,' Gojo thinks as he's still playing around with the boy. 'No, his Cursed Energy isn't warm. It causes my body to become warm. If I used Cursed Energy Reinforcement, I wouldn't have noticed it…next time we spar I'll likely have to use that, but as he is right now, this feels like a pleasant summer day.'
After a few more seconds, Taiyo gets annoyed at being easily dodged and parried for over a minute, by a man who doesn't even have his eyes open. So he uses his Innate technique while throwing a punch.
As Gojo is about to gently parry the strike, Taiyo flares up his Cursed Energy, and with his fist less than one inch away, he fires a blood-red heat beam at Gojo's arm.
The beam is fired, but before it can close the distance, Gojo disappears.
"Huh?" Taiyo turns around in time to see Gojo gently poke him in the stomach with one finger. "GAH!"
Taiyo has the wind knocked out of him even through his Cursed Energy Reinforcement, leading to him tumbling through the dirt and grass before rolling to a stop.
"Satoru!" Principal Yaga yells.
But Gojo just shrugs, "What? I barely touched him."
"What the hell?" Taiyo asks as he struggles to stand up, holding his belly and looking up at Gojo. "You can warp?"
"Yes," Gojo says as he looks at the boy. "But that's not what I just did."
"It wasn't?"
"Nope, I'm just fast," Gojo says. "Dodging that attack from such close range would have been pretty tough, but because your Curse Energy control is so inefficient, I was able to sense the buildup of Cursed Energy and prepare to move before you fired."
"Damn, I really need to work on that," Taiyo says with a broad smile on his face.
"Oh, you're pretty happy after getting beaten so easily."
"How can I be anything but happy?" Taiyo asks. "I just entered a whole new realm, and you showed me how far I have to climb to become King. How can I not be excited after learning how much I need to learn?"
Gojo tilts his head slightly, confused for a moment, then laughs. "Damn, you're such a weirdo!"
Taiyo focuses his Cursed Energy and heals his bruises, raising his fists to continue the battle.
"That's good. That's exactly what it takes. You have to be a bit insane to survive as a Jujutsu Sorcerer, but you have to be a bit strange on top of that to challenge me."
"Then I'm probably overqualified," Taiyo says. "Now quit talking and show me what the top of this realm looks like," he says before charging forward.
As he's rushing forward, Gojo looks at him, looks through him with his Six Eyes.
He can see that Taiyo's cursed energy is barely at one-fifth of what it was moments ago, before he hit him.
The most simple attack with Cursed Energy Reinforcement almost entirely drained the boy, in addition to his self-healing moments ago.
'Defending himself from that much damage shouldn't have taken much, especially not that much, since he has more Cursed Energy than me. But he also burnt a lot with that trick earlier, too. This kid, his efficiency, is holding him back this much.
This means once he gets that under control, his talent will shine, and he'll be able to eclipse even the rank of 'Special Grade'. He's exactly the kind of person the future of Jujutsu Society needs. Someone willing to give the modern age a chance instead of just repeating the same thing the useless old men before them said.
Too bad he seems really damn selfish,' Gojo thinks as he uses Infinity to stop Taiyo from taking another step forward.
"Hey, you said you wouldn't use Infinity!" Taiyo says.
"This spar isn't doing you any more favors. You don't have enough Cursed Energy to do anything worth continuing," Gojo says. "So how about we skip to the part where I show you the absolute summit of Jujutsu?"
"The summit huh, what is it?"
In response, Gojo raises his right hand, and crosses his index and middle finger. "A Domain Expansion, it will give you something big to think about."
"Absolutely not!" Principal Yaga yells. "Satoru, are you insane?!"
"Yes," Gojo says. "And so is he, right?" he asks while extending his left hand for Taiyo to hold.
Taiyo takes his hand, "Show me what I aim to surpass."
"Domain Expansion: Unlimited void…"
Taiyo sees absolute darkness spread to envelop them, crawling over the sky and ground to completely surround them as only he and Gojo exist in this void.
Then, far in the distance, a bright light shines before collapsing into an event horizon.
"Wow, is this real?" Taiyo holds Gojo's hand even tighter as he looks around.
"This is the peak of Jujutsu," Gojo says. "Bringing your Innate Technique into reality by imbuing it into a barrier. In here, my targets are flooded with the infinite knowledge of the universe, but the knowledge is incomplete and infinitely looping. So you have knowledge, but can't ever use it because your brain doesn't have enough to form a thought, and you're stunned as your brain dies."
"That's…intense," Taiyo swallows nervously as he looks into the darkness.
"Most modern Domain Expansions have a sure hit effect like this, and since it is in a Domain, it can bypass things like Infinity, but there are ways to defend since Jujutsu is fair."
"So only the people with an Innate Technique can do this. Since you said we have to put that into the barrier to form a Domain Expansion."
"That's right. But it is a lot more complicated than that," Gojo says. "You'll understand when you wake up."
"When I wa—"
Gojo pulls his hand away from Taiyo, while instantly releasing his Domain Expansion.
This causes Taiyo to endure almost 0.01 seconds of Unlimited Void.
As the Domain's Barrier is released, Gojo and a stunned Taiyo are standing exactly where they were with the spectators looking on.
Principal Gakuganji appeared indifferent, Principal Yaga was fuming. The woman was looking on curiously, while the other man was clearly worried.
"What the hell is wrong with you!" Principal Yaga screams as he stomps over to Gojo. "Do you seriously expect him to trust us after you leave him like that?"
The man gestures to Taiyo, who is standing there, frozen, drooling slightly as he stares into the nothingness, his mind still trying to recover from Unlimited Void.
"He barely took one-hundredth of a second, in a few minutes he'll be fine," Gojo says. "Besides, he's the type to get excited after seeing how much growing he has to do."
"And what if you've done permanent damage on his—"
In the same instant, Principal Yaga and Satoru Gojo sense a soul resonance within Taiyo.
Principal Yaga was more intrigued from a professional standpoint, but Gojo, because he has the Six Eyes, could see the entire process.
He could see one soul shaking, as if asking for help, and the other began shaking as they both got closer, then bolts of energy began bouncing between them as they both shone brightly.
Gojo was so amazed by this that he didn't even register that the body he was looking into had moved.
Taiyo instantly snapped out of his stupor with a jolt of Cursed Energy resonating from his souls and threw a punch at Gojo.
Gojo's reflexive Cursed Energy Reinforcement was second to none, and this is one of the few times where he wished it didn't activate.
Taiyo's fist collides with Gojo's cheek, and every bone from his fingers to the shoulder of his right arm shatters.
Gojo barely feels the impact on his face before he leans away to ease the recoil Taiyo experienced.
Gojo takes a careful step away as the boy drops to the floor, lying in the grass, still drooling slightly.
His vision was blurry, and his mind was hazy. He could barely hear or see anything in front of him.
But he could tell that Gojo and Principal Yaga were standing in front of him, concerned.
A moment later he sees Gojo wave over to the side, then Principal Gakuganji saunters over and crouches beside him.
He then feels Cursed Energy flowing through him, healing his bones and relaxing his body.
Then his mind finally relaxes as the pain fades.
"Thanks," Taiyo says after almost a minute of laying on the floor. "That was…intense, I think. I can't really remember after it attacked my brain."
"That's because the information is incomplete, so your brain just throws it away," Gojo says as Taiyo gets up. "Now, how about you go pack what you need and we'll head over to Tokyo."
"Right, I'll be quick," Taiyo says.
As he leaves, Principal Yaga and Gojo share a knowing look, while Principal Gakuganji walks over to the woman of their group.
"Send me that video," he says.
"It will cost you. It may be the only time we ever see Gojo get hit, that's…priceless."
He sighs, "You really are a greedy woman, Mei Mei. How much?"
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