Chapter 99: Hijacking the Ritual, I Pray for Power!
Kai's ultimate attack erupted. He disappeared in a flash of afterimages, and [White Mask], still paralyzed, could only watch as Kai's Shoryuken (Rising Dragon Fist) slammed into her chin. She was defenseless against the immense force. The spiritual power shielding her shattered instantly, and her body was launched high into the air, still paralyzed.
Below, Kai landed and immediately began to rub his hands together, a massive wave of energy gathering between his palms. He roared, and stepping forward, he unleashed a [Hadoken] that contained nearly all of his remaining energy and spirit.
BOOM!
The Hadoken flew, tearing a trench in the very ground. The terrifying shockwave billowed outwards. Just being near it felt like annihilation.
Geto Suguru, watching from a distance, let out a sigh. He felt that his last vestiges of sorcerer's arrogance had been shattered. Can a mere non-sorcerer really master this kind of power…?
In the next instant, Geto's pupils contracted.
In his field of vision, Gojo Satoru—who now had four crimson wings of Cursed Energy fluttering behind him—had vanished.
Splat!
Kai vomited a mouthful of blood. His chest caved in. The reflected damage from [White Mask]'s fire-wall attack had finally registered. He looked up in despair, only to see Gojo Satoru, who had appeared silently in front of him.
Gojo's white hair hung beside his face, and his open eyes were filled with a crimson, bloody light, radiating an ominous aura. Most horrifying of all, his hands and feet were now covered in dozens of tiny, blinking eyes.
Pop, pop, pop.
A series of small explosions erupted from Kai's body as his anti-curse and negative-energy talismans all overloaded and broke. Just being near the new Gojo-Curse was enough to overwhelm them.
Gojo's crimson eyes were devoid of all emotion. He simply stood in front of [White Mask], and the terrifying Hadoken, which was moments from impact, froze in mid-air. The wave of destructive energy was less than five centimeters from his body, but that tiny distance was a gap it could never cross.
[White Mask] landed on the ground. She immediately summoned her [Fox-Fire] guardian spirit, which was now charred and blackened from Geto's Uzumaki blast, back to her side. Without its reality-warping properties, she had almost been instantly killed by that brute, Kai.
But, luckily…
"Ha… hahaha…"
"Well done, King of Cursed Spirits, Gojo Satoru!"
"You ruined my great ritual, but now you've saved me. Whatever am I to do with you?" [White Mask]'s eyes narrowed into crescent moons. Her sweet smile was filled with an unadulterated malice.
Kai roared, trying to force his Hadoken forward.
CRACK!
With the sound of shattering bone, his right arm exploded into a spray of blood. [White Mask] was overjoyed.
"Kai, you fool. It's time you recognized [Fate]. I am the one chosen by destiny! I am destined to…"
[White Mask] suddenly felt a rush of wind. She snapped her head to the side, just in time to see Gojo's fist slam into her.
FZZT!
A black spark ignited.
[Black Flash]!
The [Fox-Fire] spirit tried to turn ethereal, but the Black Flash pierced it and [White Mask]'s body all the same.
Splat!
[White Mask] reappeared several hundred meters away, her hand clutching a bloody, smoking hole in her abdomen, her heart pounding with fear.
"You…!"
She finally sensed that something was wrong. According to her plan, after she had completed the ritual and gained the recognition of the Lord of Taizan, the resurrected Gojo-Sprit, born from the underworld, should have been her puppet. It should not have attacked her. It should have killed all the other living beings in the area first, before returning to the underworld.
But…
[Imperial Style - Taizan Fukun Ritual: FAILED]
[Fate (Yakou): LOST]
[White Mask] whirled around. She was from the Shaman King world's sequence. She used spiritual power and could, to an extent, sense the thoughts of others. This ability wasn't true mind-reading, but was a gift from [Hao Asakura] himself. It was a form of [Reishi] (Spirit-Sight), a "sympathetic" ability that allowed him to feel the hearts of others. [White Mask] had used this as a form of mind-reading. But now, she realized it wasn't working.
There were two beings in the area whose minds she could not read. One was the King of Cursed Spirits, Gojo Satoru, whose emotions had become a dead, silent void.
The other…
[White Mask] turned, and finally saw him. The man in the pink robe, standing far from the center of the battlefield. He was holding a hand seal high in the air.
"Taizan Fukun, descend!"
The spectral image of [Tsuchimikado Yakou], which had been lost from her own body, now appeared in the sky, its face filled with joy. The great Onmyōji, who had fallen decades ago, had been longing to complete the ritual he had failed. It was his dying wish, his curse, and the shackle that had bound him to this entire series of events.
"Damn you!"
[White Mask] realized what had happened. She immediately formed her own hand seal, one from a different timeline, from the Heian period's greatest Onmyōji, the man who knew all sorcery—Hao Asakura.
"Taizan Fukun, descend!"
At the same time, Geto Suguru, realizing he'd been tricked, also clasped his hands and shouted, "Taizan Fukun, descend!"
The three of them, in three different corners, all tried to activate the Taizan Fukun Ritual, to pull the authority of the ceremony to themselves.
Splat!
Geto was the first to be thrown back, vomiting blood. A powerful will had swept over him, crushing him. He had only overwritten seven of the nodes, not nearly enough to call the god. He was punished for his hubris.
An immense, ancient will simultaneously focused on [White Mask] and Kaito Shirogane.
[You are being watched by a High-Order Existence. Your Spirit is too low to obtain Its information.]
[You have activated the Ritual: Taizan Fukun. Judgment in progress…]
Both Kaito and White Mask were frozen in place.
At the same time, Kai roared, his Hadoken aura flaring and becoming unstable.
BOOM! A massive explosion erupted. The Cursed Gojo's four crimson wings folded in front of him, and the space around him caved in.
Kai, however, was not looking at the Cursed King. His right arm was gone. He let out a final roar, and his crimson fighting aura burned. He became a phantom, pulling hundreds of after-images behind him as he crossed the several hundred meters to [White Mask] in an instant. His punches were a blur, but all the after-images converged into one. His left fist struck her squarely in the face.
BAM!
[White Mask]'s pupils contracted. I'm in the middle of the ritual! I can't turn ethereal… Am I going to die?!
An immense fear washed over her. But the blow that should have pulverized her head never came. The crimson aura and the wave of power suddenly vanished.
The Cursed King, Gojo Satoru, had extended a hand. Kai's punch had not been interrupted. His body had vanished, only to reappear an instant later, impaled on a fist that had punched him through the back.
Gojo Satoru impassively tossed the powerful martial artist's body to the ground.
[White Mask] felt, in that moment, that she truly was the Child of Destiny. The Gojo-Curse's attack was random, and it had saved her at the last possible second. She now truly understood what [Fate] meant.
VMMMM!
The great will descended. [White Mask] turned, only to see the ugly red face of "Mercenary Tao" smiling at her.
Oh, no!
Kai, bleeding out on the ground, also saw this. He, too, began to smile. "White Mask… you've lost…"
[Judgment: FAILED]
[Lord Taizan Fukun will now inflict punishment.]
CRACKLE!
A bolt of golden thunder fell from the sky, a power far purer and closer to the sun's positive energy than any Reverse Cursed Technique. It struck [White Mask] directly. Her [Fox-Fire] tried to block but was instantly shattered. All of her protective talismans and barriers exploded. She was left disheveled and in a near-death state. She immediately pulled out a straw-doll-like item.
"Abandon mission! Return!" she shrieked, all her previous calm and control gone.
CRACKLE!
Another bolt of golden thunder struck. Her body went rigid, and she began to disintegrate. But at the same time, a part of her body became ethereal and vanished in a stream of data.
Kai watched, unsure if she was truly dead, but he had done all he could. He coughed up a great mouthful of blood, his aura depleted. The light in his eyes began to fade. He looked at the last Reincarnator, the one who had out-schemed [White Mask], and his pink robe finally made him remember.
"Heh. So it was that guy…"
Not long ago, he had sold his [Hamon] scroll to that very man. And now, he realized, the one who had killed Jugo and Basha was almost certainly him as well. He had traded with him, then been hunted by him, only to end up here. Kaito, in turn, had used that trade to get stronger, and today, had destroyed [White Mask]'s entire plan.
One drink, one bite. It all seems to be... fate.
"So this… is destiny," Kai whispered, and the light in his eyes vanished.
Kaito, however, felt his surroundings change. Everything disappeared, and he was floating in a white, misty void. A magnificent, immense will descended upon him, so powerful he could barely breathe. But he was not one to be afraid.
"Lord Taizan Fukun!" he shouted into the void. "I offer this ritual, and the souls of all Tokyo, as a sacrifice! In exchange… I pray for POWER!"
Kaito's gaze was firm. He saw nothing wrong with his request.
The empty sky seemed to fall silent for a moment. Then, a low rumble of thunder began to echo, and the white sky instantly turned black. Kaito watched, wondering if the god had rejected his offer.
[The High-Order Existence, Lord Taizan Fukun, has responded to your sacrifice.]
CRACKLE!
A golden thunderbolt, like a serpent, fell from the heavens and struck Kaito.
Back in Tokyo, Geto Suguru watched as the "madman" Mercenary Tao was struck by the golden lightning. He failed?
But in the next instant, the River of the Underworld, which had been flooding the city, reversed its course. It began to flow backward, pouring into Kaito Shs body, who was now the epicenter of a massive, golden vortex.
Wooooo!
The Hundred Demons Night Parade was being reversed. Countless wraiths, spirits, and Cursed Spirits, all born from the opening of the gate, were now being sucked into Kaito's body.
[WARNING: Ex051, you are undergoing an unknown erosion.]
[WARNING: Ex051, Reincarnator's physique is being eroded by the Underworld.]
[WARNING: Ex051, Reincarnator's spirit is being eroded by wraiths.]
[WARNING: Ex051, Energy: Cursed Energy has been LOST.]
…
Countless notifications flooded his vision. Kaito's body had already turned a deathly pale, completely submerged in the River of the Underworld.
Finally, to Geto Suguru's absolute, horrified disbelief, the King of Cursed Spirits, Gojo Satoru, was also pulled down by the reversing river and vanished into Kaito Shirogane's body.
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