### Chapter 3: Is He Special Grade?!
*CRACK!*
Amidst the immense wind pressure, a crisp sound reached Iori Utahime's ears.
She couldn't help but look up.
Her eyes widened instantly, filled with shock and disbelief.
The Cursed Spirit's barrier, which had trapped her—a Grade 2 Sorcerer—and Mei Mei—a Grade 1 Sorcerer—was shattered in an instant under Ryota's punch, turning into specks of fluorescent light that dissipated into the air.
"How is this possible?!"
To destroy a barrier of this strength so overwhelmingly with sheer brute force...
In Utahime's memory, perhaps only that annoying junior, the contemporary "Strongest," Gojo Satoru, could do something like this.
Even their teacher, Yaga Masamichi, probably couldn't destroy a barrier reinforced with a "Binding Vow" so violently and directly!
Could this young man, who was about the same age as them... have reached the pinnacle of the Jujutsu world, Special Grade?!
Utahime, who had initially thought Ryota's words were too arrogant and conceited, felt a massive tremor in her heart.
"Truly... impressively powerful."
Recovering from the unexpected scene before her, Mei Mei also found it hard to hide the ripples in her heart.
She had anticipated that the young man before her would be strong.
She could sense from the constant pressure emanating from him that he was a powerhouse not to be ignored.
Even if he couldn't violently destroy the Cursed Spirit's barrier, he might have had a way to dismantle it.
But, even so!
She never expected Ryota's method to be so direct and so earth-shattering!
Was it a Cursed Technique?
No, impossible!
Using a Cursed Technique would be accompanied by the release of Cursed Energy, but she hadn't sensed any fluctuation of Cursed Energy just now!
This made Ryota even more of an enigma to Mei Mei.
He possessed those eyes filled with ominous and cursed aura, yet had no Cursed Energy in his body, making him no different from an ordinary person.
And yet, he could display such terrifying power...
"Does he have eyes similar to Gojo-kun's [Six Eyes], or a special technique that hides Cursed Energy?"
Mei Mei guessed in her heart.
Ryota was unaware of the multitude of thoughts running through Utahime and Mei Mei's minds in those few short seconds.
Even if he knew, Ryota wouldn't care.
Although he had gone through the tempering of the System's inheritance, Ryota was still Ryota; some of his preferences hadn't changed.
However, he wasn't the type to be unable to walk when seeing beautiful women or female characters from anime that he had a good impression of.
Feeling the crushing sensation he had just delivered, the joy and exhilaration in Ryota's heart were indescribable.
"This power... is simply fantastic!"
His own strength might be even greater than he anticipated!
He had only used Taijutsu enhanced with a certain amount of Chakra just now; he was far from his upper limit!
He still had numerous powerful Ninjutsu and Dōjutsu that he hadn't used!
Especially the most representative "Gundam"—Susanoo.
Ryota began to look forward to the kind of might it would display!
But not now.
At the very least, this weak, fly-like Cursed Spirit wasn't worthy of him using it.
Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut wasn't unacceptable.
But using a nuke to hit a mosquito would be a waste of resources.
Moreover, his current inheritance rate hadn't reached the level of the Eternal Mangekyou; excessive use of the Mangekyou would lead to vision deterioration.
"Since you let me experience the feeling of a Cursed Spirit's barrier just now, I can give you a quick death."
"Little bug, come out, or I'll help you come out..."
Ryota put his hands in his pockets, gazing at the ground beneath his feet. His deep, crimson Three-Tomoe Sharingan seemed capable of seeing through the earth to the Grade 2 Cursed Spirit hiding below.
Suddenly, his brow raised slightly.
**BOOM!**
"Giggle..."
The massive body of the Cursed Spirit suddenly burst out from underground, kicking up a large amount of dust and rubble.
The momentum seemed huge, but the Cursed Spirit didn't attack Ryota or the others.
Instead, it fled rapidly into the distance.
As a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit, although it couldn't speak, it had developed a bit of intelligence.
Earlier, because of Ryota's terrifying eyes, it had prepared to flee.
But then it saw that human voluntarily break through the barrier and enter the inside.
This made it screech with excitement.
Even Jujutsu Sorcerers stronger than it were trapped in the barrier; this terrifying human would definitely not be able to get out.
But before it could be excited for long, the barrier was blasted to smithereens by that terrifying human with brute force.
This made its fear reach a peak, and the shadow of death shrouded its heart.
It didn't even need to use its limited brain to think; its body reacted directly, using maximum power to flee into the distance without looking back.
The ground was stomped into large pits by its massive power!
"That Cursed Spirit is trying to escape?"
Seeing this, Utahime subconsciously moved to chase it.
Mei Mei reached out to stop her just in time, her gaze turning to Ryota on the other side.
"I could indeed deal with that Cursed Spirit, but right now, it seems to be this gentleman's prey."
"You know your stuff."
Ryota's lips curled up slightly.
"I'm flattered~"
Mei Mei placed one hand on her hip, her tall figure perfectly exhibited under her uniform.
She spoke with a smile on her beautiful face.
"It won't be easy to find if it escapes into the woods. Is that okay?"
At this point, the three-meter-tall Grade 2 Cursed Spirit had fled more than twenty meters away and plunged headfirst into the forest.
"It doesn't matter."
The figure of the Cursed Spirit was reflected in Ryota's Three-Tomoe Sharingan, his expression relaxed.
He slowly raised both hands.
This action attracted the gazes of Utahime and Mei Mei.
They both wanted to see what kind of means Ryota would use against a Cursed Spirit that had fled so far.