Swish, swish, swish.
Cold sword light swept through the entire cave.
Maki began moving rapidly through the cave at astonishing speed.
Countless attacks enveloped the Special Grade Cursed Spirit's entire body.
In front of the awakened Maki, the Special Grade Cursed Spirit was quickly forced into exhaustion from constant defense, and its situation became increasingly perilous.
Splat.
Another tentacle was severed.
The octopus-like tentacles on the Cursed Spirit's lower body were all cut off by Maki in a very short time.
At this moment, those tentacles could only writhe uselessly on the ground, waiting for the moment they would dissipate.
"So strong, it's really not good to make Maki angry."
Panda stared dumbfounded at Maki, who was dissecting the Special Grade Cursed Spirit that had been beating them down earlier as if it were just an ordinary octopus.
He even stopped stuffing cotton back into himself.
"Salmon."
Toge nodded in agreement.
After a few throat lozenges, Toge's condition had recovered slightly.
Just now, in order to better support his companions, Toge had to carefully observe the Cursed Spirit's movements.
Because of that, there were already many pale marks on his body from the curse.
But fortunately, the result was good.
They had successfully held on until a turning point appeared.
Toge was not worried about the curse on his body.
Because they had discovered that this curse was not irreversible.
As long as they did not completely lose their minds like the villagers who had turned into Octopus People, as Jujutsu Sorcerers, they could gradually expel the curse.
So Toge only needed to be careful to protect himself with Cursed Energy and avoid being pulled into a dream by the Cursed Spirit's Technique, and the problem would not be too serious.
At this moment, Toge did not pull up his collar, but stood in front of Panda, ready to support Maki at any time.
Seeing this, Panda did not say much and quickly dealt with the damage to his body to stop more cotton from leaking out.
Suddenly, a huge amount of Cursed Energy erupted from the Special Grade Cursed Spirit's shattered body.
Panda and Toge were both alarmed.
The next second, the location of the three of them changed.
The dim cave disappeared, and they arrived in an ancient architectural complex.
This architectural complex was incomplete, clearly only part of some ancient city.
At the edge of the ancient complex, a pitch-black barrier could still be seen.
"Domain Expansion!"
The three immediately realized their situation.
Panda ignored repairing his body and immediately took out a cylindrical cursed tool.
"New Shadow Style: Simple Domain."
The Technique stored in the cursed tool was activated by Panda.
The Domain's sure-hit effect was immediately neutralized by the Simple Domain.
The inspiration for this cursed tool came from Mechamaru's battle involving Kokichi Muta and Tengen.
Eichi had asked Medea to create a cursed tool capable of storing New Shadow Style: Simple Domain, and reached a cooperation agreement with Ashiya Ayaka, the head of the Shinkage-ryu.
Currently, many major families and Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerers had already purchased and collected this type of anti-Domain cursed tool.
You could never have too many trump cards.
Through this cooperation, Shinkage-ryu gained a great deal of income and prestige.
Eichi also gained a way to protect his companions.
The Technique stored in the cylindrical cursed tool Panda was using at this moment had been personally infused by Kusakabe, the strongest practitioner of the contemporary Shinkage-ryu.
Even the Special Grade Cursed Spirit in front of them could not break it in a short time.
However, unlike Panda and Toge, who were protected by the Simple Domain, Maki currently had no protection.
Green tentacles formed from Cursed Energy continuously attacked the double-edged greatsword in Maki's hand, and roaring sounds came from Maki's location.
When the smoke and dust cleared, Maki's figure had disappeared, leaving only the double-edged greatsword that she had originally been holding.
"Maki!"
Seeing this, Panda could not help but cry out.
The next second, Panda seemed to realize something.
"Inumaki, it's time to go all out."
"Salmon."
Toge nodded in response.
Panda took out all the cursed tools on his body.
Then, holding a demon-slaying blade in one hand and the katana that Maki had left at the cave entrance in the other, he began blocking the Cursed Spirit's attacks.
Protected behind Panda, Toge picked up the rockets and firearms on the ground.
He began continuously attacking the Cursed Spirit in front of him.
The Cursed Spirit was so large that there was no need to aim. He only had to pull the trigger.
Hmph.
A large number of attacks landed on the Cursed Spirit's still-regenerating body.
The intense pain drew the Cursed Spirit's attention.
The Special Grade Cursed Spirit began attacking Panda with all its might.
Under the Special Grade Cursed Spirit's full-power assault, the Simple Domain used by Panda was quickly worn down by more than half.
The Cursed Spirit's massive body moved directly in front of Panda.
Clearly, this Special Grade Cursed Spirit wanted to end the battle as quickly as possible by using its size advantage.
"Take this!"
Panda suddenly threw the katana in his hand at the Cursed Spirit's octopus-like head.
The Cursed Spirit only tilted its head slightly and dodged the katana.
However, a figure the Special Grade Cursed Spirit had not expected suddenly appeared and caught the katana Panda had thrown.
"It's over."
A fierce light flashed in Maki's eyes, and before the Special Grade Cursed Spirit could react, she cut off its head. Then countless flashes of sword light followed.
The Cursed Spirit's octopus head, far larger than Maki herself, was instantly chopped into pieces.
The current Maki, like Toji, possessed a reverse Heavenly Restriction with completely zero Cursed Energy.
Therefore, the Domain could not recognize Maki.
In the Domain's judgment, Maki was like a stone lying on the ground.
But this Special Grade Cursed Spirit did not know that.
The source of Cursed Energy locked onto by the Domain was the Thousand Machine Umbrella in Maki's hand.
Not Maki herself.
So Maki went along with the situation, dropped the Thousand Machine Umbrella at the right moment, and left the Domain at extremely high speed.
That's right, Maki could ignore the Domain's confinement and leave it directly.
Because the Domain would not recognize Maki.
Unless it was like Megumi using a physical object as the shell of the Domain, or changing the Domain's conditions, or obtaining Maki's consent, otherwise, the Domain's barrier would only treat Maki as something like a building and ignore her.
Panda had also realized this when he found that there was no trace of blood on the ground.
After all, they were companions who spent every day together, and Panda had also guessed what Maki intended to do.
So he found an opportunity to cooperate with Maki, handing her the katana that had been pulled from the handle of the Thousand Machine Umbrella and left at the cave entrance.
Maki also lived up to their expectations and successfully exorcised the Cursed Spirit.
"Great job, Maki!"
Panda gave Maki a thumbs-up.
"Salmon."
Although Toge's throat still hurt, he happily echoed him.
"Isn't that obvious?"
Maki picked up the double-edged greatsword, inserted the katana into the slot at the bottom, and transformed the Thousand Machine Umbrella back into its original form.
During the battle just now, Maki's uniform had also suffered a lot of damage.
Her hair, which had been tied up high, had also come loose.
Beneath the pure white Thousand Machine Umbrella, Maki, smiling from the bottom of her heart, had completely shed the madness of a tyrant and a fighting god.
She was as dazzling as a goddess descending onto the battlefield.
"Hey, what's wrong with you two?"
Maki held the umbrella and looked strangely at the two people who had suddenly frozen in place.
"Maki."
"What is it?"
Maki looked at Panda strangely.
"Want to go clothes shopping this weekend?"
He had not thought much of it before, but at this moment, Panda truly felt that Maki was wasting her beauty.
What kind of nonsense was it for someone this beautiful to wear only tracksuits every day?
"Huh? Why are you suddenly talking about that?"
Just as the three of them were chatting and laughing in the cave, enjoying the joy of victory, a figure completely wrapped in a large cloak, with stitches on his forehead, arrived outside the village.
(To be continued.)
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